Here is a BIZARRE example of the logic of a Republican...REALLY weird

Here is the link to the whole article...a few excerpts below - it is about how it is legal to carry a concealed weapon on a Utah public college campus (read the whole thing, the beginning especially)...starts out talking about a recent shooting incident at a mall & then the Repukes comments on the entire subject:

Armed with a shotgun and a pistol, 18-year-old Sulejman Talovic randomly shot nine people at Trolley Square (a mall), killing five, on Feb. 12. He died in a shootout with police. An off-duty Ogden police officer carrying a concealed weapon — in violation of mall policy — pinned down Talovic with gunfire until other police arrived. (Poster's note: This man was a POLICE OFFICER - trained in handling this type of situation and skilled with the weapon!!!....read on, THIS is where it gets REALLY bizarre....)

"Thankfully that officer disobeyed the rule of Trolley Square of having no guns," GOP state Rep. Curt Oda said.

Oda said banning guns on campus might do more harm than good. He said people bent on violence might resort to other, perhaps bloodier methods, such as swords.

"A person that's got skill with a sword in a very big crowd could put a lot more people down with a sword than a gun," he said. "They're silent. You'll have people screaming, but nobody knows what's going on." (Poster's note: we should all be aware of the danger of mass Ninja attacks, if guns are banned. And, those swords would produce much more blood!)

Yeah. We all know how easy it is to conceal a SWORD to bring into a large crowd & how deadly swords are for long range targeting...
These people are INSANE. Really, really, really INSANE.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_on_re_us/campus_guns

...from those determined to deny the role of guns in violent crime. Every time a gun flamewar breaks out here, someone quickly jumps through the looking-glass and comes out with a variation of Archie Bunker's old line about the best way of preventing hijackings being to arm all the passengers.

land of the idiots

Oh. My. God. :rofl:

:rofl:

That was HILARIOUS

Surreal.

A truly good blade can be bent much much further than that (though I would NEVER put one in a vice like that) and the slices were a little ragged. I don't expect it to bifurcate a silk hankie, but what I saw was just tacky.

because he couldn't run 50 yards.

Queue monty python.... "RUN AWAY! RUN AWAY!"

and I'll keep my scutum in my kid's diaper bag, next to the diaper cream and cheddar goldfish. :eyes:


The problem here is that Trolley Square and Virginia Tech are mass murders by deranged people. There were warning signs that were ignored or missed, which is the only way to really prevent these kinds of attacks.

In Trolley Square, it was indeed fortunate that an off-duty police officer ignored the posted signs against weapons and carried a pistol into the building. But I'm not buying the sword theory. Bombs, maybe. This Korean guy at Virginia Tech had the time and drive to make a suicide vest, a la Iraq, and turn himself and a bunch of other people into chunky salsa.

Generally speaking, I'd rather be attacked by a deranged maniac with a gun than a bomb. At least with a gun, people start running when they hear gunshots. Nearby police or armed citizens have a chance to intervene, scared civilians have a chance to run and/or take cover. A bomb explodes far to fast for anybody to escape the blast and fragments.

The vast majority of killings in this country not mass shootings, they are a direct result of our failed war on drugs, chronic poverty, and social and economic injustice. They are gang members killing each other, they are career criminals killing innocent store clerks, murdering people in their homes, and leaving pedestrians dead on the sidewalks after a mugging. Some of them are crimes of passion or revenge. One or two people at a time, 40 per day.

Addressing the majority of our resources on daily murders instead of trying to stop relatively rare mass killings will save far more lives and help far more people. Better mental-health care just might help to, yanno?