Comments on: Toy Gun Control for the Nerf Herd

By: TNK

TNK — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:52:14 +0000

My son who is 11 years old was stopped by a police officer today because he was playing army outside. Apparently several people called because they thought he was carrying a “real gun”. I have restricted him from playing outside anymore with his fake guns because of fear that some trigger happy cop or other parnoid freak is going to shoot him.

Ridiculous.. this world has lost all common sense.

By: keith johnson

keith johnson — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:28:29 +0000

“How many people die every year because they DON’T have a rational fear of guns? ” Bob. Your rational fear isn’t my rational fear.
Bob, no one told you to carry a gun; in fact I’d prefer you didn’t. Folks like you take comfort in the false faith that the police wiil protect you 24/7.
Why not handguns on planes? If a legal CHL holder is boarding a flight that takes him to another state that has CHL reciprocity with Texas, what’s the big deal? What’s the difference between flying, driving or taking AmTrack?
Do you think stinky guys with boxcutters on 9 11 would have been so bold if they thought some of the passengers might be armed? You can’t measure a negative, you can’t articulate what didn’t happen, but how many post 9 11 hijackings may have been prevented because Abdul wasn’t sure he wouldn’t get his mellon splattered all over the salesman from Des Moines before he earned his 72 virgins from an Air Marshall?

“If the answer to crime is concealed handguns for all who want them, then we are truly lost as a culture.” Bob.
Yes the answer to crime is concealed handguns to all who want and QUALIFY to carry them, and yes we are truly lost as a culture, but not because of CHLs.

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:54:25 +0000

“Trey can certainly come on here and defend himself, but I gotta ask, where do you come off accusing him of being a “hothead”?”

You would think that Trey would defend himself, but Trey then seems to prefer to lob unsubstantiated grenades over the transom and then ignore the blowback. Hotheads rant about minimum wage TSA ‘thugs’ delaying them at the airport. Hotheads exhort others to go out and burn Priuses to show their love for imported oil.

But the problem with Trey – and you – is this willful obtuseness when it comes to guns. Sure it’s irrational to fear inanimate objects. It’s those quirky people holding those inanimate objects that we rationally fear. As you say, it’s not always irrational to fear a gun at an ATM. Why would anyone advocate concealed handguns, on planes, of all places, if they didn’t think the “evil doers” had a perfectly rational fear of people who carry things that look like guns? How many people die every year because they DON’T have a rational fear of guns? If the answer to crime is concealed handguns for all who want them, then we are truly lost as a culture.

By: keith johnson

keith johnson — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:28:28 +0000

“But it’s not irrational to fear someone who has something that looks like a gun.” Bob
So do you quake in your shoes when you see a cop? Do you freak when you see a guy lookiing at a shotgun at Sports Authority? Do you refuse to drive past indoor ranges?
It’s not irrational to fear something that looks like a gun if it’s shoved in your face in front of the ATM machine; it is irrational to fear an inanimate object.
Since the 1968 Gun Control Act Americans have indeed been programmed to fear guns, just as Americans are told repeatedly that the NRA is an evil lobbying firm that resists “sensible” gun control.
I can’t name a time when the Left has eased up on gun control issues. The “68 GCA wasn’t good enough, the ‘94 AWB was a mere “step” according to some. Put me in the paranoid column if you must, but I have no doubt the Left will never stop until we have total gun confiscation like the “enlightened” countries Europe.
Trey can certainly come on here and defend himself, but I gotta ask, where do you come off accusing him of being a “hothead”? Because he argues with you?

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:56:20 +0000

“I know a lot of folks that carry guns, and none carry it to instill fear in another; they carry to defend themselves and their loved ones if ever necessary.”

Didn’t Tony Soprano say the same thing? Trey says “people have been programmed to automatically and irrationally fear anyone who has something that looks like a gun.” We can argue about who’s programming whom ’till the cows come home. But it’s not irrational to fear someone who has something that looks like a gun. It’s as simple as that. Unless of course, you’re the Terminator or Dirty Harry. If Trey wants to play one-note gun libertarian, he should expect some grief for it. I for one would not feel safe around hotheads like Trey with concealed handguns, no matter how pure his alleged motives are. It’s still Law of the Jungle.

By: keith johnson

keith johnson — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:40:28 +0000

Bob, my man, why the hate brother? Why can’t you rationally argue your case without the vitrioil?
I know a lot of folks that carry guns, and none carry it to instill fear in another; they carry to defend themselves and their loved ones if ever necessary.
Trey’s very gracious here on his blog allowing respectful dissent, why don’t you show a little restraint while in some else’s “house?”
Trey’s a good man. Last winter I had an issue, and Trey with Amanda Tackett, were there for me and I’ve never forgotten it.

By: Phillip J Hubbell

Phillip J Hubbell — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:55:15 +0000

Bob’s kind of a douche isn’t he?

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:53:19 +0000

“why would YOU carry a gun if no one feared it?”

Oh, I get it alright, I’m just trying to see if you have any semblance of self-awareness. Answer my question – if guns are not feared by those who would cause cause mischief, why would you personally want to carry one?

Answer the question – why do you carry a gun? And don’t just say “because it’s my right.” Why do you choose to exercise that particular right? Given your juvenile macho posturing, my fear is that you’re just another garden variety sociopath masquerading as a “libertarian.” Stop cloaking your ignorance as self-evidence and answer the question.

By: Trey Garrison

Trey Garrison — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:48:42 +0000

“why would YOU carry a gun if no one feared it?”

Wow.

You really don’t get it at all, huh Bob?

Seriously — how old are you?

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:14:32 +0000

“…people have been programmed to automatically and irrationally fear anyone who has something that looks like a gun. …Irrational fear leads to irrational actions.”

It would appear that Trey and this little gaggle of “libertarians” are the attempting to spread as much “irrational fear” as possible. Burn a Prius, get off my lawn, don’t mess with me I’m a gun-totin’ badass. Why would anyone have a fear of something that looks like a gun? You’ve answered your own question a thousand times over – why would YOU carry a gun if no one feared it?