tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post4857716355067492346..comments2024-03-23T06:43:45.246+10:00Comments on 1735099: Why I Don't Carry a HandgunUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-26663467318786519622014-10-01T17:52:06.717+10:002014-10-01T17:52:06.717+10:00You're an evil stirring man 1735099.
Oops, so...You're an evil stirring man 1735099.<br /><br />Oops, sorry, I left out ... and ugly as well!cavhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05338928424789193611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-85411924674146163592014-09-17T13:06:40.614+10:002014-09-17T13:06:40.614+10:00I have never been a soldier and have never carried...I have never been a soldier and have never carried or used a gun. <br /><br />I said at the start I did not come here to make a comment about gun laws.<br /><br />It is about expectations that others will apply standards that we don't apply to ourselves<br /><br />vis a vis<br /><br />six differences between Gaza and Vietnam<br /><br />http://geofffff.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/the-dirty-half-dozen.html<br /> geoffffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056725010151459750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-5841497952464027982014-09-16T06:06:24.180+10:002014-09-16T06:06:24.180+10:00The only time in my life I needed to carry a gun w...The only time in my life I needed to carry a gun was in Vietnam, where there were quite a few people trying very hard to kill me and my friends.<br />That is not a problem for me these days.<br />If Australian gun laws were relaxed, more lunatics would find it easier to arm themselves.<br />Our gun fatality rate would then begin to resemble that of the USA, about twenty times ours.<br />If that's what you want, head across the pacific.<br />You're bound to be much happier (if you survive - that is).1735099https://www.blogger.com/profile/17945140949290600423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-69166385083827912602014-09-16T01:57:46.266+10:002014-09-16T01:57:46.266+10:00Yeah. I meant to come back here to say something e...Yeah. I meant to come back here to say something else.<br /><br />Right at the start.<br /><br />The notion that you should give up your life to a murderous attacker rather than take the life of the killer. <br /><br />Bare your neck to the blade <br /><br />pop 2d morality of course but this is a real person in a different world. A more dangerous world where such thing are real.<br /><br />I know of a case of a young woman at home alone with her baby who was suddenly confronted by an armed intruder bent on murder.<br /><br />She had a weapon. It was enough to turn the tables long enough to give the alarm with shots and lock herself in the secure bathroom with the child and wait for armed response. <br /><br />Given that this was Israel it will not surprise that the armed response was about 14 seconds. Nor that the young mother had a gun at home with her baby and new how to use it.<br /><br />She had a gun that saved everybody's life including the terrorist. How long he lasted after response arrived I don't remember.<br /><br />I don't think it is appropriate for anyone anywhere to tell others in those circumstances that they should not arm and train themselves and that when the killers arrive they should just submit. <br /><br />. <br /><br />In fact it's a bloody chutzpuh and you need to be told. There is only one recorded case in all of history where a people attacked opted for pillage and death rather than defend themselves.<br /><br />It was a Canadian aboriginal tribe converted to Christianity by missionaries. They were massacred by neighbouring tribes and no longer exists.<br /><br />I reckon those Christian missionaries should have been tried in hell for genocide. What do you think?<br /><br />This is a conversation with adults and adults defending lives with guns is well within experience. We all do it if we have to. We know that we will kill because we know if we did not then the stock we came from would not exist. Which means we wouldn't.<br /><br /> None of us can escape this.<br /><br />So where do you get off suggesting to others that they should be the first in all of history since the emergence of the species from the slime to die rather than kill?<br /><br />Did you?<br /><br />If that's your personal plan for next time then good for you. But nothing in your experience gives you any authority, moral or otherwise, to suggest others should follow your lead.<br /><br />Indeed go first. <br /><br /><br /> geoffffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056725010151459750noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-32455283563416493552014-09-15T23:35:34.242+10:002014-09-15T23:35:34.242+10:00Haven't had one since 1971.Haven't had one since 1971.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-89156682296675189912014-09-15T12:06:13.841+10:002014-09-15T12:06:13.841+10:00Took about 5 minutes.
Where's your sense of hu...Took about 5 minutes.<br />Where's your sense of humour?1735099https://www.blogger.com/profile/17945140949290600423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-15842688484844154782014-09-15T11:35:09.840+10:002014-09-15T11:35:09.840+10:001735099.....you must have a lot of useless time on...1735099.....you must have a lot of useless time on your hands so that you can espouse your anti-gun views by childishly having a dig, in this fashion, at the opinions of another. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-51673410542846677552014-09-15T05:35:29.906+10:002014-09-15T05:35:29.906+10:00I've made a rule to respond only to comments t...I've made a rule to respond only to comments that make sense.1735099https://www.blogger.com/profile/17945140949290600423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4203110337754630589.post-54869453795393263802014-09-14T16:12:44.062+10:002014-09-14T16:12:44.062+10:00I stumbled across this by chance from a link at Ca...I stumbled across this by chance from a link at Catallaxy Files and didn't know where I was at first. I thought it must some back blog of the Socialist Alternative branch of the Methodist Church after someone had brought a knife to the weekly gun fight.<br /><br />Then I remembered. 1735099. The guy with the numbers. That's cool. Everybody who ever went near a war had a number and by no means were they all soldiers. I doubt few ever forget it. <br /><br />I would not ordinarily say anything hostile or disrespectful to you because you are a war veteran and I'm not and I have good and excellent reasons to be respectful of war veterans and I am. But there is something about this post that just forces something to be said. Its important because it just defines something about you that explains why you are just so wrong about so many things.<br /><br />Then I remembered something rude someone once said about people who had spent too long in the education industry.<br /><br />I should say I did not read the whole thing. I got down to Hitler Stalin Mao and a bit more out of macabre curiosity and that was it. I had seen enough.<br /><br />Let's the least of it out of the way first. The cultural arrogance. Worse really. The dripping superciliousness of someone living somewhere in suburban or regional Australia who would engage with someone who is living in another culture and not just when it comes to carrying weapons or the need to defend yourself. <br /><br />Americans live in a different legal and constitutional culture to you and me and that changes everything. The whole balance of the pivot of power between citizens and the state and one another is different. For most Americans that's the way they like it. No doubt you do too but that is irrelevant. You couldn't do anything about it anyway any more than them.<br /><br />Let's face it. The reason you don't carry a handgun is because it would take an awful lot of slick talking to get you out of jail and keep you there if you did even for a first offence. <br /><br />If you want a fair fight go and pick it with an Australian who would like the right to carry a hand gun.<br /><br />But I'm not your man. It's not I don't necessarily have a view. It's just that I'm a niche man as you know. <br /><br /><br />But that's not the worst of it. <br /><br />geoffffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10056725010151459750noreply@blogger.com