Carrying guns leads to confrontations....

[amused]

Yes, strap-on penises create a false sense of biggeness that will lead to confrontations. Men with adequate penises don't need guns to prove anything. Men with tiny penises buy guns and create confrontations. As a matter of public safety, men with tiny penises (or lots of guns, same thing) should automatically be identified as threats to society, and quarantined. It's the only way to be sure.

[Coito ergo sum]

Yes, strap-on penises create a false sense of biggeness that will lead to confrontations. Men with adequate penises don't need guns to prove anything. Men with tiny penises buy guns and create confrontations. As a matter of public safety, men with tiny penises (or lots of guns, same thing) should automatically be identified as threats to society, and quarantined. It's the only way to be sure.

Gun ownership is a male thing, then? What of women with guns? Are, they overcompensating for loose vaginas?

[Tero]

No, penis envy.

[Tero]

If 1% of gun owners are law breakers, they sure make a lot of trouble. And though not crimes, what percentage of stand your ground incidents are lethal? I would add those to the undesired confrontations.

[Coito ergo sum]

If 1% of gun owners are law breakers, they sure make a lot of trouble. And though not crimes, what percentage of stand your ground incidents are lethal? I would add those to the undesired confrontations.

Stand your ground is not really a big deal. Stand your ground is just slight modification of the standard defense of self defense. It says that if you have the right of self-defense, you do not have to run away where running away may be a viable option.

The reason this is good should be obvious. As a person being attacked (if you have a right to self defense, you can't be the aggressor) you should not be in a position of having to decide whether some dispassionate observer might assess your split second decision differently from an armchair. The jury is already going to be determining if your exercise of force was reasonable and if indeed you had a reasonable claim of self defense. To convict someone of a crime who had a right to self defense just because someone in a courtroom a year later thinks they should have run away instead makes no sense to me. It would be decidedly unjust to say -- "yeah, Tero was attacked and he certainly had a right to self-defense, but we think he could have run away, so his shooting of his attacker in self defense will put him in pound-me-in-the-ass prison for a while..."

What is wrong with just letting the jury determine if the shooting was in self-defense abd If it was, then exonerate the guy?

[amused]

Yes, strap-on penises create a false sense of biggeness that will lead to confrontations. Men with adequate penises don't need guns to prove anything. Men with tiny penises buy guns and create confrontations. As a matter of public safety, men with tiny penises (or lots of guns, same thing) should automatically be identified as threats to society, and quarantined. It's the only way to be sure.

Gun ownership is a male thing, then? What of women with guns? Are, they overcompensating for loose vaginas?

Fat asses?

[Coito ergo sum]

Yes, strap-on penises create a false sense of biggeness that will lead to confrontations. Men with adequate penises don't need guns to prove anything. Men with tiny penises buy guns and create confrontations. As a matter of public safety, men with tiny penises (or lots of guns, same thing) should automatically be identified as threats to society, and quarantined. It's the only way to be sure.

Gun ownership is a male thing, then? What of women with guns? Are, they overcompensating for loose vaginas?

Fat asses?

Overlarge clitorises?

[amused]

Yes, strap-on penises create a false sense of biggeness that will lead to confrontations. Men with adequate penises don't need guns to prove anything. Men with tiny penises buy guns and create confrontations. As a matter of public safety, men with tiny penises (or lots of guns, same thing) should automatically be identified as threats to society, and quarantined. It's the only way to be sure.

Gun ownership is a male thing, then? What of women with guns? Are, they overcompensating for loose vaginas?

Fat asses?

Overlarge clitorises?

Actually THAT would make things a lot easier in bed.

[Tero]

I don't really want to meet any of these people.
http://www.armedamerica.org/

Anthony: I own a gun because I'm a fuckin' American and a Marine. It's my God-given right.
Jessica: I'm just one little girl in the world.

A real intellectual. And a little girl.

I have better things to do with my time. Like avoid getting shot by duck hunters when I look for winter birds.

[JimC]

When I used to carry a .22 rifle, it lead to many confrontations with rabbits...

[Clinton Huxley]

Guns are a crutch for people whose lives are wanting of cake.

[JimC]

Let them eat cake!

[Clinton Huxley]

Let them eat cake!

If they eat my cake, I'll shoot them.

[FBM]

Remain calm. As it turns out, you can have your cake and shoot it, too.

[Seth]

You've obviously done some thinking and training.

The average gun carrier goes by gut feel and serotonin levels in their brain. We have these mechanisms so that we can make fast fight or flee decisions. Complex evaluation of cosequences is not done on the spot with gun in hand.

Serotonin levels
http://www.dana.org/news/brainwork/detail.aspx?id=13182

What do you know about the "average gun carrier?"

Absolutely nothing. You're just pulling this out of your ass.

And you are not? I see mug shots of gun owners on Fox News daily. A guy monopolizes the tv at the gym.

I don't see a lot of smart guys in the mug shots. Send us 100 million gun owner mug shots. We will guess the IQ. Or I'll just guess now: 90.

You look pretty stupid, so you must be stupid.