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[Gravdigr]

Originally Posted by morethanpretty

I need a transcript...all I understood was "motherfucker."
I don't see that as a reason to need a gun, but a better police force.

So, you would have been happy to hang out with that fine upstanding member of society until the police decided to show up?

Probably wasn't more than 15-30minutes...

[ZenGum]

0.16 ... "Djyou unastan wut ahm sayin?"

Err, not very well, but I get the impression you're a dick.

[classicman]

[Big Sarge]

the police can't be everywhere all the time!! budget cuts are causing reductions in many departments. i think the best response is a well armed populace who are not afraid to intervene when "evil rears"

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by Big Sarge

the police can't be everywhere all the time!! budget cuts are causing reductions in many departments.

Hence the need to increase taxes on the 1%. Thanks for coming around, big fella.

Originally Posted by Big Sarge

i think the best response is a well armed populace who are not afraid to intervene when "evil rears"

You'd be even busier, with people shooting each other.

[Big Sarge]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Hence the need to increase taxes on the 1%. Thanks for coming around, big fella.

You'd be even busier, with people shooting each other.

we'd be a lot better off if these illegals were paying taxes to help offset their abuse of federally funded programs.

Mississippi has the Castle Act (your home is your castle and you can defend it from reasonably perceived danger. it also allows you to carry a concealed weapon in your car). It is really helping with decreasing the number of home invasions, etc. We never had a bit of trouble at our farm. Any strange vehicle I met in the driveway with a gun in my hand. Word got out and we never had a break in!! Now nobody bothers us in town because they all know the crazy guy with a bunch guns lives in that house. Plus young men seem to be complete gentlemen when they take my daughters out

People shooting each other? Yep, it happens but it sure cuts down on repeat offenders!!

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Big Sarge

the police can't be everywhere all the time!! budget cuts are causing reductions in many departments. i think the best response is a well armed populace who are not afraid to intervene when "evil rears"

Oh yeah, that's what I want...
to have my local police proposing that all my neighbors be armed.

[Griff]

This urban vs rural perspective always surprises me. All my neighbors are armed and it seems important to everyone's security. If the State Police respond from the nearest barracks we're looking at 45? minutes of response time. A couple townships have gone in together on some dangerously unprofessional officers. We don't really want a police presence except for doing the paperwork after car accidents etc... It is the assumption that people are basically good that keeps us safe.

[footfootfoot]

Originally Posted by Big Sarge

the police can't be everywhere all the time!! budget cuts are causing reductions in many departments. i think the best response is a well armed populace who are not afraid to intervene when "evil rears"

The police can be everywhere some of the time, and somewhere all of the time, but they can't be everywhere all the time.



There just aren't enough donut shops

[Undertoad]

dude if yer wooing brits you can't talk like that

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Griff

This urban vs rural perspective always surprises me. All my neighbors are armed and it seems important to everyone's security. If the State Police respond from the nearest barracks we're looking at 45? minutes of response time.

Totally agree.
My friends in rural areas have totally different perspectives on these types of issues than those who live in suburban or city locales.

[zippyt]

I don't see that as a reason to need a gun, but a better police force.

ok its you in the car with your kids ( future kids)
Crack head starts this shit
Flattens a tire or disables you car some how so you cant run him over
he smashes a window and grabs one of your kids

Now you can comment on needing a better Police force and how Society has failed this poor man all you want ,

me , at the first swing i would have been trying to get away/ run him over ,
but he lays a hand on a kid ,
POW POW POW , one less crack head
end of disscussion

[bluecuracao]

Originally Posted by zippyt

ok its you in the car with your kids ( future kids)
Crack head starts this shit
Flattens a tire or disables you car some how so you cant run him over
he smashes a window and grabs one of your kids

Now you can comment on needing a better Police force and how Society has failed this poor man all you want ,

me , at the first swing i would have been trying to get away/ run him over ,
but he lays a hand on a kid ,
POW POW POW , one less crack head
end of disscussion

We have had a wide variety of crime in my neighborhood, but nothing like that!

The most similar incident, I think, was the woman who was yanked out of her car by a carjacker at 8:30 in the morning. Thankfully, she was OK and the police caught the perp after a few blocks.

I don't think a crackhead would ever want someone's kid (probably has plenty of his own). He would need something he could sell quickly for more crack, like your phone. You could shoot him for that, I guess...

[BigV]

Brooklyn mother dies shielding schoolchildren from gunfire

October 22, 2011 | 8:21 am

A Brooklyn neighborhood was in mourning Saturday for a mother who died trying to shield a group of children from gunfire just after they were dismissed from an elementary school, according to news reports.

An 11-year-old girl and another parent were also hit by bullets during the Friday after-school shootings, police said.

Zurana Horton, 34, “was seen moments before she was shot hovering over several children to protect them as shots were fired,” a police report said. She died Friday at the scene. Neighbors are saying that Horton had 13 of her own children and that she might have been pregnant, NY1 said.

Family members told the New York Post that Horton had been planning to move from the crime-ridden Brownsville area of Brooklyn. “She’s getting married, but now she can’t do any of that,” her cousin told the Post. Neighbors who had gathered at her home were expressing sadness and outrage, news reports said Saturday.

Good story zippy. I feel the same way. But there are other stories that don't have a happy ending written with a gun.

[classicman]

Would that story have ended differently if she had been armed?