tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18827721.post1715424071424904830..comments2023-09-29T05:33:35.867-04:00Comments on Superheroes, etc.: You are not Neo, You are not RamboMick Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06320185841491084888noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18827721.post-17642518367213523602011-01-11T15:26:44.834-05:002011-01-11T15:26:44.834-05:00Also, I believe that Arizona has some fairly liber...Also, I believe that Arizona has some fairly liberal handgun laws, so if there was any state to test this in, it would be Arizona. If the theory that more guns = a safer public were true, than there should have been someone else with a gun there who was able to use it as per the NRA Vigilant Citizen fantasy.<br /><br />But, either this happened on a weird day where no one in the crowd had a gun, or the people who were carrying did the predictably human thing and froze up as soon as gunshots sounded.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07947249152449641066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18827721.post-43153009792152112462011-01-11T14:05:25.487-05:002011-01-11T14:05:25.487-05:00I agree with what you're saying here. IR you&#...I agree with what you're saying here. IR you're going to fantasize that you can single-handedly stop a violent crime by an armed assailant just by being in the area with a gun, why not take your delusion even further and pretend that you have awesome kung fu skills and can dodge bullets? It doesn't try to impose fantasy on real-world policy, and if you try to pull it off, you're likely to win a Darwin Award.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17773416732192167277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18827721.post-80122939742876722122011-01-11T13:01:23.303-05:002011-01-11T13:01:23.303-05:00I'm kind of bothered by his owning of "Me...I'm kind of bothered by his owning of "Mein Kampf" or "The Communist Manifesto" as having any deep meaning about which way his politics lean. It could just mean that he took poli-sci 101. <br /><br />A conservative roommate at UT had a copy of Communist Manifesto on his shelf, which he used to store his money because he figured no one would look there.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04932394043306756943noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18827721.post-22134795134007513802011-01-11T12:19:25.585-05:002011-01-11T12:19:25.585-05:00Life is not an action movie.
More and more men (a...<i>Life is not an action movie.</i><br /><br />More and more men (and some women, sure) seem to buy into that fantasy. It's what made gangsta rap mainstream: suburban privileged kids who want to fantasize about "poppin' caps" and calling women "hos". There's a strain of machismo that's being sold because a bunch of whiny privileged men like to play with guns and think they look cool doing it. They should all have to look at the autopsy photos of all the kids who've been <a href="http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/news/News_Releases/2009/09/gun-possession-safety/" rel="nofollow">killed by guns bought for "protection"</a>. <br /><br />Having a gun is not the same thing as using a gun, especially in a emergency situation where most untrained people are staring and thinking "what the fuck?!"C. Margery Kempehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15910282257993793334noreply@blogger.com