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Keith Jarrett - Danny Boy (Londonderry Air)

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goddamnedfrank2/09/2013 4:55:42 pm PST

re: #61 Varek Raith

We’d have far better/more gun statistics if the damn gun advocates would stop opposing said research.
;)

This is second order stuff that’s going to be very difficult to ever get a grasp on. How many confrontations end without the police being notified at all, how many without the police writing down the involvement of a firearm. When I was being prepped as a witness by the prosecutor of the guy who assaulted that woman in Seattle he didn’t know I’d waved a rifle out the window to stop the attack, because the police left that out of their report in order to prevent someone from second guessing their discretion. The prosecutor didn’t care either, he was just surprised when I mentioned my account of what happened.

It’d be nice if this discussion could be had without gun owners characterized as largely made up of irresponsible idiots who think firearms provide super powers, especially after an elections where we were repeatedly told that gun grabbing wasn’t on the menu. How much of a big deal did we make about Scott Walker not running on an anti-union platform then turning around and busting unions with a passion. Now I see bills being readied in California that would ban expanding bullets, the only kind legal for the hunting of big game like deer.

Anyway, if it seems like this kind of thing is happening a lot it’s because the nature of internet media means most every incident is being spoon fed to the masses, and they’re slavering it up. If I worked in marketing for the oil companies, nothing could make me happier than this bumping global warming and attendant consequences off the front page again and again.

Great, the guy should have kept his distance, yes obviously, but the underlying message is that people shouldn’t have the right to be armed on their or with permission their friends property. Like it or not these are constitutional rights under discussion, ones that have been ruled by the Supremes to enumerate an individual right. If that’s a problem for people, then they should work to get the Constitution changed, that is assuming one thinks it matters.