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Gun or No Gun. Personal Choice Or Slave To Statistics?

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)5/30/2013 3:47:09 pm PDT

re: #21 Political Atheist

First things first. Was that a real retraction or not? T

Sure. What he did wasn’t technically vigilantism. I have no idea why you’d need that first before you retract your bullshit, but there you go.

And I still think that it is bad to send the message to people who have unregistered guns that if they use those guns in some useful fashion that they will benefit from that. It’s not ‘vigilantism’ technically, but it could lead to it.

The third of a million was by obvious clear extension of the concept as you laid it out.

It is so much not an obvious clear fucking extension for the love of god stop this bullshit.

Seriously, man, take a look at this. You just said that because I referred to forgiving the fine on a guy who had shot a dog as ‘rewarding vigilantism’, that I was calling three million people vigilantes.

For fuck’s sake.

What is so depressing about this is that I really do believe you’re a moderate gun owner. The experiences in talking to you and others over the past year have more and more convinced me that moderate gun owners are not going to step up. This is another fucked up, broken area where nothing will improve. Eventually probably we’ll get another 5-4 supreme court decision that’ll reverse the previous one and then probably that intractability will work out terribly for gun owners. But who knows. Maybe stuff will just continue in the same broken way.

Anyay, I’m done with it. I’ve been burned too many times.