re: #448 Targetpractice

MAD. When everybody’s armed, nobody will shoot for fear that everybody around them will blow their ass away.

A common truism in rightwingistan, espoused by certain talk show hosts:

An armed society is a polite society

Always said with a smug assurance that MAD is the prevailing factor that ensures when everybody has guns nobody will be victimized.

Because that worked in the Wild West and everywhere else there’s a proliferation of weapons.