Comments on: Republican Party Leader Used Pistol to Intimidate Old Man https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:40:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Captain Obvious https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542961 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 06:40:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542961 Good to see the hardworking men and women in law enforcement are busy arresting the dangerous thugs and violent gangleaders that roam the streets.

]]> By: Monado, FCD https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542960 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:14:19 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542960 …whose home he was photographing.

Cogito, ergo edito.

If you’re writing a book we should talk about editing.

]]> By: Lab Rat https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542959 Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:37:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542959 Well yes if your going to allow people in your country to carry around dangerous lethal weapons, you should probably expect them to occasionally point them at people, whether through anger, fear, or unthinkingness.

*pontificates britishly*

]]> By: D. C. Sessions https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542958 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 22:36:35 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542958

So, before you carry that gun, make sure you’ve insured up to the teeth. And do NOT pull that gun out unless you are prepared to pull the trigger because, thanks to your own advocacy of gun ownership, the person you pull the gun on may very well have his own.

Or for that matter, his brother or son or neighbor may have seen some dude packing heat hanging around, and just to be on the safe side may have opened up his gun save, taken out his hunting rifle, and chambered a round.

At which point you wave your piece in his brother’s/father’s/neighbor’s face and said hunting rifle blows your worthless brains out.

In fact, now that I think about it, wait until the guy turns around and then shoot him in the back and book the hell out of there.

Well, that does have the advantage of simplicity. On the other hand, the physical evidence (including entry wound in the back) might be a bit hard to overcome, especially when the gunshot causes neighbors to run out to look.

See above.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542957 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:27:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542957 There is a reason that when you get the weekend training session the NRA provides, laughingly, to train a gun owner to be able to do so safely, and you read the literature they provide you for support, one of the items is a guide to purchasing liability insurance. The NRA traditionally (I don’t know their current policy) has recommended that if you plan to carry you should have very heavy coverage. Just because the guy you shot deserved to be shot and the jury goes light on you and all you get is probation does not mean that the guys family can’t easily sue you for a zillion dollars, possibly win, but at the very least cost you a LOT of money in legal fees.

So, before you carry that gun, make sure you’ve insured up to the teeth. And do NOT pull that gun out unless you are prepared to pull the trigger because, thanks to your own advocacy of gun ownership, the person you pull the gun on may very well have his own.

In fact, now that I think about it, wait until the guy turns around and then shoot him in the back and book the hell out of there.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542956 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:06:22 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542956 @Virgil Samms: No, this is a clear case of “armed assault” and that’s how the DoJ folks working on gun crime statistics classify it. Think about it – if you went into a 7-11 and whipped out a pistol and walked off with some goodies, that’s an armed robbery even if you never pointed the weapon at anyone. Pointing guns at people is an armed assault even if you never physically injure them and think you can use a lame excuse like “I was just scaring ’em”. What sort of mentally deficient idiot thinks it’s OK to go around scaring people with their guns? They literally deserve to be shot.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542955 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:51:51 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542955 Obviously a moron who should not be allowed to possess weapons. That’s breaking Rule #1: don’t ever draw a weapon unless you intend to use it. That is a criminal offence because a gun was pointed at someone with no provocation; I hope the dumbshit goes to jail. I can’t stand those people who need huge compensatory cars and believe they can do whatever they want just because they have a gun.

]]> By: A guy https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542954 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:39:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542954 He has a right to carry that gun. That implies the right to pull it out if they guy felt threatened. The other guy had a right to carry a gun too, or have it in his hous, and if a guy comes by a guy’s house and point a gun at a guy, the guy has a right to blow the guy away. And if someone is going to try to blow a guy away a guy has a right to blow that guy away.

That would have been cool.

]]> By: NewEnglandBob https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542953 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:27:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542953 Throw him in jail.

]]> By: llewelly https://gregladen.com/blog/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542952 Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:26:04 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2009/08/23/republican-party-leader-used-p/#comment-542952 If that old man had had a gun of his own, he could have whipped it out and they could have settled things as Real Men are meant to settle things, like Our Founding Fathers did back in the days of John Wayne .

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