neadods | Nea, Nea, Nea, you know better

Note to self: There is yet to be a dick-swinging macho-man who is going to actually listen to a logical argument about the perils of the "let mah gun and mah bravery solve everything" mindset. Especially when the argument is coming from a woman.

On the other hand, I am learning more than I wanted to know about the number of times when some jerkwad has shot into crowds in America. Guess what: victims in the crowd HAVE shot back. Guess what else: it hasn't stopped the homicidal maniacs.

Not.

Once.

Hasn't even slowed 'em down.

And still, every time there's an atrocity, there's a whole bunch of people saying "well, if we had MORE guns, we could just solve it all by shooting back!" At least now after the initial shock, a huge chorus of people are finally chiming in re: how sane and safe it would [not] have been to shoot across a crowded, dark, smoky theater full of panicking, running people even if anyone in the audience had a weapon with them. Thankfully, some of these people are very, very pissed off gun owners who don't like being lumped in with the people who don't know the difference between a glock and their gonads.

And still, and STILL, the John Wayne wannabes are claiming that if they'd been there, and if they'd had their weapon with them, it all would have been so different... and when you call them on it, you're a coward and an idiot, and if you don't love the second amendment, get out of America.

The second amendment covered muzzle loading flintlocks and a home militia. What the fuck does a civilian need a semi-automatic for, to pre-grind the deer meat?

An armed society is not a polite society, it is merely armed.