hardcybermaster
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Hmmm... I saw that happening differently. Winnerman turns out to be an idiot who's assholism is bolstered by carrying a gun. Winnerman stereotypes Marvin, abuses his authority by harassing him while brandishing his firearm and Marvin shoots him dead. Result: one less idiot in the gene pool.
As I said before...
1. Give everyone a gun.
2. Take away everyone's clothes.
3. Peace on Earth.
All the assholes will be soon be dead and there will be nothing left to fight about because everyone can see who has the biggest dick.
ok, if we are painting Marvin as the good guy, or at least the better part of the two people, whose to say Winnerman doesn't kill him first, assholes 1, good guys 0
Much as we would like to we don't get to decide who is or isn't an asshole. Maybe Winnerman was having a really bad day, lost his job, got dumped, whatever and didn't deserve to die.
There are 4 possibilities
none dead
both dead
Winnerman dead
Marvin dead
Only in one of those is nobody dead.
But as I stated,if Winnerman had no gun,probably no controntation, probably no one dead. And even if he was drunk or stoned or just an asshole and went up to Marvin and gave him shit if Marvin had any sense he wouldn' t kill or try to kill Winnerman
I find it hard to picture a world where those in authority are the ones w/o weapons. Nonetheless, I agree that there are only 4 outcomes to any imaginary scenario like this and that if no one had guns, "none dead' has a slightly higher percentage as an outcome. However, if you replace guns with knives, the odds skew again. In fact, the gun factor equates to any weapon. So what do you do? After you take away all the guns, then take away our knives? After the knives, do you outlaw martial arts?
Personally, I'd rather remove the assholes than go on a never ending quest to remove all weapons to create an unfeasible scenario where it is safe to roam among the idiots without fearing for your life. I grew up in the Detroit area. I moved to the peaceful shores of Florida in in 1997. To this day, I still scan my environment for threats and check the shadows. I have scars on my cheek from a shotgun blast ricochet that was meant to take off my head in a robbery that I intervened because my slave was trapped in the store. I have heard machine gun bullets ripping through the air inches from my head during a gangster turf war. It has been my intellect and situational awareness that allowed me to survive the onslaught of assholes with guns, not my own firepower. A smart man with a knife is far more dangerous than a dunce with a gun.
I feel your thinking is errant. It is not the weapons you should fear or control. But wave your flags and have fun trying to remove the weapons instead of the idiots. If your type of thinking finds a way to prevail, I will look forward to the day you come to take granny's iron skillets away because they are dangerous weapons. Don't fuck with granny, she killed a burglar that was armed with a knife using that iron skillet back in 1985.
Focusing on the weapons is like cancer research centered on the tumors... the tumors are the symptom not the cause. Your fears and solution are misplaced.
I don't picture a world where those in authority are without weapons, I never said that and have said on numerous occasions that I am fine with cops carrying guns (not here but over your way, we have specialist gun cops but don't need all cops to be carrying) I don't view a neighbourhood watch scheme as an authority (not that you said that btw)
You think my thinking is errant, maybe it's just different. You seem to make the assumption that whatever happens between these two people they want to kill each other, why? My thinking is only that there is greater chance of one of them ending up dead if one of them or both has a gun.
You want to remove the idiots, so do I but we can't. Everyone can be killed easily with a gun, the good the bad and the stupid. We seem to be breeding idiots over here, 1000's of the fuckers, hence the UK's poor crime record, the problem with idiots over here, so I guess over there too is that they all know their rights, but few seem aware of their responsibilities. I don't want all those fuckers to have guns but over there they can get them way too easily
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