Comments on: Johnny Herndon for County Commissioner: Balance the Budget with Guns! https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/31/johnny-herndon-for-county-commissioner-balance-the-budget-with-guns/ Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:41:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Hairy Chris, blah blah blah etc https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/31/johnny-herndon-for-county-commissioner-balance-the-budget-with-guns/#comment-16355 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 15:41:49 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=3952#comment-16355 Drivebyposter

Actually it’s better then that, technically they are an upstanding citizen until they’re convicted. Remember: If no-one knows that you did it, you didn’t do it… 😉

]]> By: Ned Champlain https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/31/johnny-herndon-for-county-commissioner-balance-the-budget-with-guns/#comment-16354 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:09:53 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=3952#comment-16354 In reply to Aliasalpha.

LMAO

]]> By: Aliasalpha https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/31/johnny-herndon-for-county-commissioner-balance-the-budget-with-guns/#comment-16353 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:45:09 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=3952#comment-16353 Stevarious

Does that sign behind him REALLY say “Cling to our guns and bibles!”?

How the hell do you parody these people? How??

Develop a gun that has a camera, computer & laser etcher, the camera takes a shot of the person they’re planning to shoot, the computer rapidly analyses the scene for key points & selects an appropriate bible verse (to explain why they have to die) which the laser etcher burns onto the surface of the bullet before firing

2 men holding hands: Leviticus 20:13
Child with a slightly disrespectful look on his face: Deuteronomy 21:20-21
Crop-rotating farmer wearing a poly/cotton shirt: Deuteronomy 22:11

Sad thing is, I can see orders rolling in for that…

]]> By: Drivebyposter https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/31/johnny-herndon-for-county-commissioner-balance-the-budget-with-guns/#comment-16352 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:53:44 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=3952#comment-16352 The best thing about demanding gun rights for law abiding citizens, is that until a hardened criminal commits a crime, they are a law abiding citizen. Everyone is a law abiding citizen. Until they aren’t.

If you only arm the law abiders, then no criminals get guns! Except for those that switch teams and the police.

]]> By: M Groesbeck https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/31/johnny-herndon-for-county-commissioner-balance-the-budget-with-guns/#comment-16351 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 06:12:26 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=3952#comment-16351 Ned @ 15 —

I think that pretty much says it all about the NRA attitude. “The bad guys” are always practically a separate species (who can, y’know, be identified by sight…not that the NRA would ever suggest that anyone who doesn’t look like “us” is a likely criminal, of course!), and such threats always come from a completely separate evil underclass separate from “law-abiding” society. The PR tries to play down that attitude, but ask a few questions regarding threat identification and it comes bubbling back out.

]]> By: Ned Champlain https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/31/johnny-herndon-for-county-commissioner-balance-the-budget-with-guns/#comment-16350 Thu, 31 May 2012 22:44:07 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=3952#comment-16350 In reply to Alan(UK).

Alan there are examples of people defending themselves successfully, but they are rare. I have a relative who is a gun dealer, he quit shooting in matches after he shot himself in the leg. The round entered exited re entered and exited. I managed not to snicker, but the paranoia runs deep within the NRA.
There are posters out, showing “your daughter is here” and a few blocks away is “a police officer is here” in her path is “a rapist is here” then a picture of a cell phone, a gun, an automatic, with the question which of these will save your daughter. I answered the person who posted it with none, but at least my daughter would not have armed her rapist.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/31/johnny-herndon-for-county-commissioner-balance-the-budget-with-guns/#comment-16349 Thu, 31 May 2012 22:26:56 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=3952#comment-16349 Alan, there are one or two accidental shootings a day in the US, and a handful of cases a year of anything like defense, many of which are highly questionable. So, the more guns, the more accidental. Shootings and the more defense, but the first rises more quickly than the second.

]]> By: IraqiVet99 https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/31/johnny-herndon-for-county-commissioner-balance-the-budget-with-guns/#comment-16348 Thu, 31 May 2012 22:21:00 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=3952#comment-16348 Ummmmmmm………. I am pro gun and even carry but this dude is ridiculous. The cops still have to respond and investigate even a lawful shooting. Normally it still goes to some sort of trial ( at least here in MN.) So where is the tax savings??? Why do most of the outspoken ” Gun Nuts” have to be idiots?

]]> By: DaveL https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/31/johnny-herndon-for-county-commissioner-balance-the-budget-with-guns/#comment-16347 Thu, 31 May 2012 22:20:10 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=3952#comment-16347 Good gravy, one would hope the police wouldn’t just not bother to show up to the scene of a shooting of a human being just because the guy on the phone claims to be the homeowner.

]]> By: Yoritomo https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/31/johnny-herndon-for-county-commissioner-balance-the-budget-with-guns/#comment-16346 Thu, 31 May 2012 21:46:02 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=3952#comment-16346 Stevarious @5: It says “Clinging to our guns and bibles”. Yes.

A few years ago I read up on the “more guns, less crime” reasoning Herndon advocates, and the statistical basis was poor, to say the least.

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