One of the sillier anti-gun comments I've read

[GSB]

Saw this at another forum:

To "plan for self defense" is allowing fear and paranoia to run your life. Bad things are going to happen and whether you have a gun or not isn't going to stop them.

I guess planning for a fire by having a fire extinguisher is allowing fear and paranoia to run my life. Ditto seatbelts and carrying a cell phone in my car in case the car breaks down. Sigh. There is no reasoning with such a person, I fear.

 

[Bill Hook]

Some folks won't be separated from their Darwinian destinies.


Who am I to insist otherwise?

 

[willyjixx]

well when was the last time a liberal was accused of common sense? or feinstein, or shwimmer (whatever) or rosie.........yada yada yada!

 

[Black Snowman]

It's them taking us with them that we have to worry about. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

 

[Mark Tyson]

And I thought the mantra of the blissninnies was "safety at all costs".

Seatbelts? We don't need no stinking seatbelts! Wearing a hardhat at a construction site . . . . ha! Why bother? You mean you've never known the thrill of running in and out of traffic or playing golf in a lightning storm? Loosen up, man, you can't be paranoid about dying!

"Oh the hell with the child seat, honey. It's a dangerous world. Kid's just gonna die, anyway."

Man, what a riot.

 

[jsalcedo]

Some folks have become adept at communicating from the nether orifice.

 

[GSB]

Seatbelts? We don't need no stinking seatbelts! Wearing a hardhat at a construction site . . . . ha! Why bother? You mean you've never known the thrill of running in and out of traffic or playing golf in a lightning storm? Loosen up, man, you can't be paranoid about dying!

I like to disable all the safeties on my 1911, put a 1 lb trigger on it, and carry it like that at full cock so that nobody will think I'm paranoid about an ND.

 

[ChickenHawk]

So, does that person not lock his doors at night?

Maybe doesn't even have locks on his doors?

Cheers,
ChickenHawk

 

[Tierhog]

Wow.

Thats all I can say.

 

[cool45auto]

Unbelievable.

 

[spacemanspiff]

i had one anti say that crimes occur to the people who fear such crimes. and without that *fear*, the world would be a safe place.

this woman blamed all violent crime upon the fears of the victims. i kid you not! she said rape victims became victims only because they feared being raped.
when i asked her how she anticipates an encounter with a rapist she says 'oh i'll see them and recognize them as such so i'll never be in that situation'.

anothe anti said 'i cant trust anyone to carry a concealed weapon, they could be a wacko!' she also advocated longer waiting periods to buy a gun, and said 'if a man has a fight with his wife, he could go buy a gun and come home and kill her with it!' i countered with 'well its far more likely that the woman would go buy the gun to defend herself with'.
that one anti asked me to stop talking to her about the 2nd amendment and firearms. think she knew she was on the losing end of an emotional debate. she said she could trust the statistics the VPC and brady campaign provided, but the ones the NRA provides are inaccurate.

 

[GSB]

spacemanspiff wins. I can't match that.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Yeah, that's why I traded my carry gun in on a lucky rabbit's foot.

 

[Moparmike]

she said she could trust the statistics the VPC and brady campaign provided, but the ones the NRA provides are inaccurate.

Oh, but of course. Only the statistics that you agree with are the ones that are reliable.

Someone hit me in my car because I was afraid it was going to happen? Riiiiigggghhhttt.

"To "plan for self defense" is allowing fear and paranoia to run your life. Bad things are going to happen and whether you have a gun or not isn't going to stop them."

She should be walking around nude and have no possessions. After all, if she wears clothes she is obviously paranoid about freezing or getting too hot, perverts leering at her, rapists, the weather, ad nauseam. Bad things happen anyway, and all those things she has wont prevent it according to her logic. Why does she have them? If she has possessions (ranging from food to a house to entertainment devices to a raincoat) she is obviously paranoid that she will starve to death, be endangered from the elements, not be entertained, have needs, what ever.

I have met some morons in my time, but Sweet Jesus she takes the cake.:banghead:

 

[jimbo]

How about:

To "purchase car insurance" is allowing fear and paranoia to run your life. Traffic accidents are going to happen and whether you have insurance or not isn't going to stop them."

Or substitute "health insurance" or "Life Insurance".

Liberals are Idiots.

 

[Bill Hook]

Could you encourage this dingy woman to take up bear watching?

 

[chaim]

Saw this at another forum:

"To "plan for self defense" is allowing fear and paranoia to run your life. Bad things are going to happen and whether you have a gun or not isn't going to stop them."

Brought to you by the same people who brought you mandatory seatbelt laws, mandatory motorcycle helmet laws and even mandatory bicycle helmet laws (for kids in most states, occasionally attempted, and rarely adopted, for adults in some areas) in the name of "if it saves just one life...".

 

[Chairman Meow]

Hah! I love this crap, really I do. I get such a kick out of watching people convince themselves that they are in control of their lives, because in a way they are. Right up till the moment someone kills them.

 

[Drjones]

"To "plan for self defense" is allowing fear and paranoia to run your life. Bad things are going to happen and whether you have a gun or not isn't going to stop them."

This quote reminded me of these:



"If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animated contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsel or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

- Samuel Adams


War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest thing. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war is worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing about which he cares more than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, who has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

- John Stuart Mill c. 1775

"That he which hath no stomach to this fight, Let him Depart...
We would not die in that man's company
that fears his fellowship to die with us."
- W. Shakespeare, Henry V



What a sad, sad being indeed....

 

[Drjones]

Chairman:

 

[GSB]

Brought to you by the same people who brought you mandatory seatbelt laws, mandatory motorcycle helmet laws and even mandatory bicycle helmet laws (for kids in most states, occasionally attempted, and rarely adopted, for adults in some areas) in the name of "if it saves just one life...".

Good point. Hadn't thought of it from that angle, but it is ironic.

 

[sm]

"To "plan for self defense" is allowing fear and paranoia to run your life. Bad things are going to happen and whether you have a gun or not isn't going to stop them."

Interesting, I had had a discussion with an instructor the previous semester from UK, she has been here about 14 years. We had gotton into it about gun laws and the problem the UK is having. She really believes and says things like the quote.

I was out with a lady friend and another couple, to a theatre showing, which didn't let out till around midnight, not a good part of town. Just as we are about to exit, this former instructor runs up to us (recognizing me and another from being in previous class) and asks if we would walk out with her. "I'm sorry, but our attitude of situational awareness might draw BGs our way...wouldn't want to place you in danger". We left her dumfounded at the door. I mean all 4 of us were CCW'ing, couldn't put her in "bad company" now could I ?

 

[Wanderer]

Yeah, if someone tries to kill ya, you might as well give up. You're gonna die sometime anyway...







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[Weimadog]

re1973,

Shouldn't there be some sort of award for what you did?

Maybe a "Best Situational Lesson for a Blissninny" award?

Weimadog

 

[XLMiguel]

A little OT, but that aattitude makes me realize I have under-estimated the diversity of Darwin candidates. I thought the call of the Darwinaire was, "Hold my beer and watch this!". Now I see that there is a subspecies that goes, "Fear not! You won't get hurt if your aren't afraid!"

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