I still for the life of me cannot understand why some people think that more concealed carriers is going to solve the postal problem.

Imagine if everyone carried. How in the world are you supposed to identify the shooter from everyone else who drew their gun at the sound of shots? Just imagine how that would play out. Hear shots, turn around, see some bodies and people with drawn guns. Is the shooter one of the bodies? Is he one of the people with drawn guns? You hear shots in your office and you round the corner to bump into someone with a drawn gun. Shooter or “responsible” concealed carry citizen? Quick! You only have half a second to make the call!

Can you just imagine what kind of OK Corral clusterfuck would happen with hundreds of itchy Travis Bickles in that situation? The reason you read stories about off duty cops taking the shooter out is because the shooter stood out like a sore thumb: he’s the only civilian garbed individual toting guns. If EVERYONE carried how would the cop tell them apart?

Just take a look at Fort Hood where everyone carried guns. Constantly fluctuating stories to cover up friendly fire incidents.

Also plenty of connections to “Made in Gaza” violence and massacres. But commentators’ political slant makes them emphasize one side over the other. Palestinian bomb culture is fucked up AND American gun culture is fucked up. You combine the two in one swirling pot and you get this guy. No one is innocent, idealist swine.

That was perhaps the stage where you should have let it go, instead of telling the world at large that while you can think of nothing .not.even.one.single.good.thing in that single area you are plenty creative in other respects and thereby not actually a moron but maybe striving too hard to become one, to better fit in amongst cultivated people.

Well, good luck with your project. I am sure you will succeed.

I know I scored a hot Iranian in Victorville back in the 90s.

Exactly. And nothing to be surprised about, leftists are hooking up with Islamism worldwide. Ames is just following the trend.

I’m certainly not apologizing for the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. But if you take loans from the godfather (in this case, a medical degree,) are you really going to be surprised when he comes a-callin’ for a favor in return?

If you really thought what Major Hasan did was right, you’d be doing something similar yourself, or at the very least asserting so under your real name. But then again I guess there is net access in jail these days. Maybe you have done it. Or you’ve convinced yourself that you’re in full solidarity with Hasan by defending him under a pseudonym on a blog.

Regardless of all of this, it’s not clear or likely that he was shooting at people actually carrying live rounds.

Being a dependent on the state for security when it’s the state whom disarmed you and created the need for security in the first place seems unnecessarily circuitous to me. I trust myself far more than a knuckle-dragging cop to save my ass if things get real.

@nosuchthingasshould: It takes a racist prejudice on your part to insist on this being about islam. Of Course. I think Islam is fundamentally evil because it always brings violence, misery and poverty wherever it manages to establish itself. This is an observable in every islamic country so, IMO, there is no need for the (pre) in the judgement. Second, since when did a belief system become a protected species a.k.a. a “race”?

@Meredith: Don’t forget the importance of discipline. Switzerland is the most heavily armed country on earth. The structure of the Swiss militia system stipulates that the soldiers keep their own personal equipment, including all personal weapons, at home! In return for getting real assault weapons every fit-for-military-service male between 20-34 must do mandatory service. And every year after boot camp they do a total of six weeks training per year.

My bet is that any interest in guns is effectively crushed by the perpetual training, discipline, humping them around, firing them, cleaning them – guns just becomes really boring, waste of time, because soon enough training week is here and you will be poking mud out of your Steyr AUG yet again.

Oh, sure!
Aussies are pussies, this isn’t the way true ‘murikans go:

http://powinca.blogspot.com/2009/11/bitter-irony-of-ft-hood.html

(happily confirming my statements at #3, LOL…)

When are your pro gun lobbiest going to look to the rest of the developed world and see that the US is the only place with the highest incidence of gun shootings and murders? Compare yourselves with anywhere in the UK or Europe or Australia. You carry guns and you shoot people… we don’t and we don’t…