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QuoteIf you rally want to whack your spouse the laws won't have any impact. But if you are drunk and pissed they might slow you down until you are a little more rational.
You realize you just contradicted yourself, right?
You just said that a law can't stop someone, then you say it can.
No contradiction. I said that if your intent is to kill your wife no law will stop you. But if you are drunk and get pissed and have to go to some level of effort to gather your gun you MIGHT take the time to think about the consequences.
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
OK I did the searches, see my response to Douva above.
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
JohnRich 4
QuoteI have not received any response from people who have used a gun in self-defense.
The NRA's "Armed Citizen" files:
http://www.nraila.org/ArmedCitizen/Default.aspx
The KABR web site's "Operation Self Defense" files:
http://www.keepandbeararms.com/opsd/
JohnRich 4
QuoteNot a trick question, when was the last time that "packing" protected you from crime?
When was the last time your car air bag protected you in a car wreck? Never? Is that proof that there is no point in bothering to have one?
When was the last time your Cypress activated your reserve and saved your life?
When was the last time you used a fire extinguisher to keep your house from burning down?
When was the last time you cashed-in a life insurance policy on yourself?
Just because it is a rare instance when one of these things actually proves beneficial, does not detract from the concept that it is a good idea to have all of these things to be prepared for the worst. You only have to use one of these things once in your lifetime, to make them invaluable. Having a gun for self defense is no different.
JohnRich 4
QuoteQuoteOh, bars...anyplace here that's a 51% (makes 51% or more of their money from alcohol) it is a felony to carry a firearm there, CHL or not.
So a liqour store counts. You can't drink in a liqour store but you can buy alcohol. Do the stores hang a placard outside stating they make > 51% from alcohol so a someone knows not to enter with their gun?
Yes, they do. The state law requires that any establishment that makes more than 50% of its income from alcohol, post a sign that warns people with concealed handguns that it is illegal for them to enter the establishment armed. The sign has to have specific language, be a specific size, and be conspicuously posted by the front door.
If there's no such sign, then you can enter the store armed, legally.
How about reading what others say before you leap in. Would have saved yourself some typing.
edited to fix a typo.
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
edited to fix a typo.
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
QuoteI will remain strongly in favor of background checks, waiting periods, no gun areas and the rest.
Anyone who is strongly in favor of "no gun areas" is strongly in favor of "victim disarmament areas" in which the victims have no guns for defense, but anyone strident enough to enter after not respecting the no-gun rules decides to shoot the place up.
It is certainly not the case that every "gun free zone" is screened with magnetometers to be sure that no one enters with a gun, so the only people without guns in such areas are those who wish to obey the rules. We typically don't expect that kind of rule-following behavior from our criminal element.
NOTHING good comes of "gun free zones" since by their very nature, only the good people voluntarily disarm themselves there.
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-Jeffrey
"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
"With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
Kennedy 0
So it's been said twice. Do you have any answer for it?
witty subliminal message
Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards.
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Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards.
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I remember the Luby's killings and they were clearly awful. Had she been able to stop them it would have been great, although considering the law at the time she probably would have been in a world of trouble too. I also suspect that hunting around would find a case of a licensed gun owner doing something very wrong that would provide a reason to ban the practice so one case is not really a solid reason to pass a law.
Clearly guns get used for defensive means regularly although it seems most often in the home where concealed carry would not apply. The results of the 1994 Florida State survey are questioned by many, some on the pro-gun ownership side, but do indicate that there is a certain level of valid DGU in the country.
Given the requirements here in the state of Texas and the history since the law was passed I would have to say that it isn't neccessarily a bad thing but I am not heading out to the store for a handgun, training, and licensing.
I will remain strongly in favor of background checks, waiting periods, no gun areas and the rest.
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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