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gun fantasies
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Saturday, January 15 2011, 14:59:08 (UTC)
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...Americans like make-believe. As far as I know there hasnīt been a single instance where a gun carrying civilian has fought off banditos...or saved him or herself by whipping out a gun and blasting away...this is the fantasy, not the reality.

Arizona, Texas and Nevada, I think, are states where you can carry a gun out in the open, legally. My only experience with an armed citizenry came years ago while I waited at a Safeway deli to get a couple of sandwiches...ahed of me in line were two people, blue-haired granny and a guy with a gun and holster strapped to his leg a-la Wyatt Earp. Youīd have thought granny, at 80 plus years old would have been the inseucre one...but she managed to go shopping without carrying heat...whereas the young buck, proud American hero as he no doubt was couldnīt face ordering a pastrami on rye without his six-shooter...for pretection.....from who, granny?

Then thereīs the recent shooting in Arizona and the oft-quoted nonsense about how, if only everyone was armed, there might have been less deaths that day...that someone would have squeezed off a round and killed Loughner before he killed so many people...except that isnīt true either...people who think like that watch too much teevee...they actually think they+re going to aim calmly and shoot judiciously...they think that because of movie fantasies where people make amazing shots routinely.....except that recently itīs become the fashion to show people with machine guys spraying bullets everywhere and hitting NO ONE....just because it looks cool to have hundreds of bullets spraying everywhere...our fantasies have progressed from a hero who can hit a flying bird with one shot to a hero who carries two machine guns and canīt hit anything, until the script says he should.

Saw on the news that there was a guy, carrying his own gun, at the Safeway when Laughner started shooting...this fellow dropped his grociers reached for his gun and went running to the scene, eager to affirm Americaīs favorite myth that more guns means more safety. He came on the scene to see someone holding the Glock...and he was ready to shoot until someone else shouted that the fellow holding the gun had just taken it away from Laughner...by the slightest of margins an extra murder was avoided that day, but only just.

Had our hero actually shot, he would have been charged with a crime himself...glad it didnīt happen but if it had, what a sad moment it would have been for the NRA...and American nut-jobs who actually think theyīre going to do battle against the combined military might of the United States some day when the government gets too overbearing.



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