Stop with all these idiotic "look at people defending themselves!" posts. Especially Miles, who ought to know better- it's one thing for krazen (a certified troll) and some newbie to do it, but it's beneath you.
One thousand Americans have died since Newtown at the hands of guns. One thousand. That number in and of itself is indefensible. Yet you people propose we do nothing. It's sickening. For what? Your right to overthrow the government? How about we cut crime by making it legal to be black for one thing (because it's practically illegal when one in three wind up in prison), and ending the insane "War" on Drugs?
In other words, never tell anyone when guns are used to defend innocent lives?
Well of course you're gonna sway people's opinions when you deliberately deceive them by distorting the news.
Here's a better analogy (or just an analogy):
It would be inane to constantly be posting articles along the lines of "Flight from Bakerfield to Seattle lands safely" or "Except for that one annoying baby, Toronto-Havana flight is without incident". Things working the way they should be is not news. However when things
don't work the way they should be working, as in "Flight from Sao Paulo to Paris crashes over Atlantic Ocean with all aboard killed" or "All Boeing 787s grounded due to mechanical problem", then that is news. Management by exception, you know. My father used to harp on about that when I got a B in one class and I tried to point out all the other As I got. Still does, actually. But he's right.
Only problem with my analogy is that guns are less airplanes and more so hydrogen-filled airships.
And we all know how those turned out.The point is that if guns all were always used they way they should and no undeserving people were ever shot, I'm pretty sure no one would have a problem with them. But anyone with more than an iota of intelligence should realize that's not how guns actually end up being used, and mass-posting news about guns being used in self-defense isn't going to change that.
