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Originally Posted by tw
Therefore every spectator in an NFL stadium must be required to carry a concealed weapon as you do. Anyone who does not have a gun will be provided one. Then no crimes would occur. Therefore no deaths would occur. Therefore no players on the field need fear for their life. That is what MaggieL and Urbane Guerrilla both claim. Who believes this and who has real serious doubts?
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Tw, I've seen for myself that an armed society is indeed a polite society. I think I know more about it than you ever will. If you are a genuine scientist, tw, rather than a poorly advised crank, undertake the ever-so-minimal research effort of spending six weekends at any shooting range you can get to, learning and doing the rather delicate business of getting your shots to fall within the ten-ring, among dozens of others likewise engaged.
The thing that has always struck me about the people shooting is how very nice, how unfailingly
courteous, they are to each other. What's more, it continues after they're done shooting, chatting at car tailgates, yakking over a refreshment (club members, invariably after shooting, might adjourn to the members-only room for a beer), perhaps inviting one another for dinner. And I act just that way on the firing line myself: it seems nearly instinctual that when you are disposing of genuine lethal force, without lethal intent, that your manners become sweet, not harsh; reassuring, rather than otherwise.