tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post261652942568911505..comments2024-03-15T01:11:32.832-07:00Comments on Bardiac: Another Shooting TodayBardiachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11846065504793800266noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-82788812804710490752015-10-23T11:55:33.155-07:002015-10-23T11:55:33.155-07:00Amen.
And by the way, the same (extended) weeke...Amen. <br /><br />And by the way, the same (extended) weekend brought another "thank goodness they didn't have guns" incident on a college campus: http://gawker.com/frat-bros-smile-pretty-after-allegedly-beating-man-wit-1738062751 . It sounds like they managed to do some quite-serious damage (for reasons/motive yet mysterious) even without a firearm, but there are still some major advantages to fists over guns when drinking and testosterone are in play, not least that beating someone to death takes longer than shooting them to death, and that allows more time for somebody to intervene (though I'm not sure how this episode was brought to a close). Contingent Cassandrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08161652083031423415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-11243982358008239372015-10-23T10:54:49.184-07:002015-10-23T10:54:49.184-07:00I'm pretty much an agnostic about this particu...I'm pretty much an agnostic about this particular issue, but this does strike me as the fundamental problem with the "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun" rhetoric -- it presupposes that people are <i>inherently</i> good or bad, forgetting that people who are basically good make impulsive, disastrous choices <i>all the damn time</i>, and those choices are very often the product of opportunity and circumstance.Fretful Porpentinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11165078003123517013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17974015.post-63936626949573247712015-10-23T07:49:38.108-07:002015-10-23T07:49:38.108-07:00I second this post 210%.
Duncan Black, I think it...I second this post 210%.<br /><br />Duncan Black, I think it is, who runs Atrios, tells a story of when he was in school, of a fellow classmate who came home drunk to his -- dorm? Frat house? can't remember the exact detail -- and found someone had eaten the sandwich he had left in the shared fridge.<br /><br />Angered, he picked up the gun he kept stored on top of the fridge and fired it at the dartboard on the wall. The bullet went through the wall and struck one of his friends in the belly. <br /><br />Filled with remorse, the student put the gun to his own head and killed himself. (His friend survived, btw.)<br /><br />Guns mixed with young men, even leaving out alcohol, are a terrible idea.<br />delagarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18197857250240640822noreply@blogger.com