Comments on: “If I had a gun, I’d come after you, you SOB.” https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/25/if-i-had-a-gun-id-come-after-y/ Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:25:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/25/if-i-had-a-gun-id-come-after-y/#comment-525331 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:25:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/25/if-i-had-a-gun-id-come-after-y/#comment-525331 Virgil, you know as well as I do that the preponderance of death threats and other things is highly biased.

]]> By: Virgil Samms https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/25/if-i-had-a-gun-id-come-after-y/#comment-525330 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 13:49:56 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/25/if-i-had-a-gun-id-come-after-y/#comment-525330 Police: Man planned to kill Bush, Cheney

And that’s when they’ve been out of office for two years!

]]> By: Tuco https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/25/if-i-had-a-gun-id-come-after-y/#comment-525329 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:28:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/25/if-i-had-a-gun-id-come-after-y/#comment-525329 A couple other gems from this story:

Another said that if his son was killed during the war, “then Wellstone will die.”

Wait… What?

Let me see if I’ve got this straight:

The caller’s son was presumably in the military, and was at risk of being killed in a war not started – or even supported – by Wellstone.
Wellstone opposed U.S. involvement, a position consistent with reducing the risk of death to the caller’s son.
Therefore, if the caller’s son were killed in the war, Wellstone was to blame.

Regardless of one’s position on the first Gulf War, the caller’s (inferred) reasoning is convoluted, to say the least. The human mind is capable of some extraordinary mental gymnastics.

And:

“I would say as active as (Wellstone) was and as liberal as he was and as much as he was against the war, I’d say that’s a relatively small number” of threats, said Nick O’Hara, who headed the FBI’s Minneapolis office from 1991 to 1994.

Perhaps my logic is a bit suspect as well, or maybe I’m reading too much into this quote, but is it just me, or does this sound like a thinly-veiled “he-was-asking-for-it” remark?

]]> By: Victor https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/25/if-i-had-a-gun-id-come-after-y/#comment-525328 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 03:06:00 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/25/if-i-had-a-gun-id-come-after-y/#comment-525328 Sadly, death threats seem to be part of the business for anyone left of center. Or center, for that matter. I’m sure most of them are hollow threats by scared, insecure people, but nobody should have to get used to getting their life threatened.

]]> By: Athena https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/10/25/if-i-had-a-gun-id-come-after-y/#comment-525327 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 02:23:39 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/10/25/if-i-had-a-gun-id-come-after-y/#comment-525327 *sigh* I miss Paul. It’s been a long 8 years. Just think what might have been if that plane hadn’t crashed. He represented MN so well.

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