T-rav20 wrote:
davethecave wrote:
What scares me is when the person who is smarter, and has better training, is the street thug.
Thugs, as a general rule, aren't that smart, it's why they're thugs in the first place.
I thoroughly agree. In fact, I agree with an enormous amount of what T-rav20 says...
T-rav20 wrote:
davethecave wrote:
Whilst America may be the land of the free, I am very happy to live in the UK where I am not afraid to go out on the streets for fear of being shot.
Really?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gu ... crime+2007
... but then he spoils it by giving a Google search, which says nothing. Strangely enough, not
everything on the web is true, and some of it is is just a tad opinionated.
However, in the above quote, the "afraid to go out on the streets" bit is one I'm guilty of covering up. According to the statistical source I quoted earlier,
http://www.nationmaster.com, we in the UK are actually
more afraid to go out on the streets. (I could suggest that that just means that our US cousins are less sensitive to their vastly greater insecurity, but would I?) ( :-> ).
I'm sorry T-rav20, but I really have to believe that you have a blind spot when in comes to guns. In most other respects, you offer perfectly rational arguments. As soon as anything damning about guns is mentioned, you disregard whatever is said and offer nothing but completely specious reasoning.
E.g. in response to a comment about your "right to bear arms" waffle, you say "What that statement, does not say, speaks volumes", which is so trite and not at all what you then do. What you mean is "What that statement, does not say, I will, because I think they left it out."
Also, I find it odd that you switched threads just after I tried to bring the original thread away from the tub-thumping gun lobby to a genuine autistic concern. The original poster was showing their concern for the effect of mixing autistic traits with weapons. My (not so) little tale was an example of where I atypically managed to respond in a way that averted violence, which just might have involved a weapon - how would I have known - in fact, maybe he never intended to mug me at all. I know I felt threated and I was expecting at least a knife to appear.
.........
So... I may or may not continue watching this thread, as I think "Politics" is vaguely synonymous with "Lies" and ditto for "Religion", and such "Philosophy" as is sandwiched between those two bedfellows, to mix a metaphor, I might not want to handle. I've certainly not visited this forum before.