"Self defense is a Myth"

[another okie]

I think what the guy means is that self-defense with a gun doesn't happen often enough to matter to him. In other words, no one he knows has defended themselves with a gun, therefore no one ever has.

If someone reads and listens only to national news there is a good chance they will never hear of a self-defense incident with a firearm. It's not big enough news for CNN or ABC. You have to read or listen to local news to get those stories. (Or read American Rifleman.)

 

[RDak]

I see Okie, he is so sheltered and naive that he equates what he sees in his circle of sheep as being applicable to society as a whole.

Makes sense, the guy's an idiot.

 

[Sato Ord]

Also, never forget that this guy has an agenda. You would have to prove that self defense using a fire arm is viable to his satisfaction. That's a loop hole you could drive a truck through. No matter what proof you come up with he will counter with statistics and his own evidence even if the statistics and evidence he has are stacked and obviously flawed.

I believe it's already been mentioned that wasting time on these left wing idiots isn't productive. It's better to try and educate a few folks who are truly ignorant and in need of the knowledge than wasting your time and energy arguing with someone who will refuse to admit he's wrong regardless of the preponderance of evidence with which he is presented.

 

[RDak]

Good points Sato.

 

[Deanimator]

I think what the guy means is that self-defense with a gun doesn't happen often enough to matter to him. In other words, no one he knows has defended themselves with a gun, therefore no one ever has.

Those kinds of smug assumptions are almost always embarrassing to those who make them.

It reminds me of the first time I met my best friend's now wife. We were in the officer's club in Seoul joking about the Village People and how in college we used to drive the farmers out of Pizza Hut by playing them over and over on the jukebox. She didn't get the joke, and it took us a while to delicately explain the Village People to her. A look of unalloyed horror came across her face and she solemnly declared, "I think there are NO people like THAT in Korea!"

 

[rainbowbob]

...wasting your time and energy arguing with someone who will refuse to admit he's wrong regardless of the preponderance of evidence with which he is presented...

And haven't we all found ourselves at some point spittin' into that wind?

 

[another okie]

If you have the temperment for it, I think it is worthwhile to go ahead and state your case even to the most hardened antis. At least you are showing them that not everyone agrees with them, which many of them honestly believe.