Over on TTAG’s faaast-growing Facebook page (thank you Celby Richoux) a commentator offered a “thought experiment” to counter Young Turks Host Cenk Ugur’s bizarre-o anti-gun “analogy.” “Let’s say HE is the one in this room,” Andy Gonzalez postulates. “There is nothing in this room but him, a telephone, a baseball bat, a loaded handgun and a piece of paper that reads “In 20 seconds a 6 foot 6 man the size of Mr. Universe wielding a machete shouting and screaming that he is going to kill you will break down that door and charge at you in an attempt to take your life. You may use the phone to call police, use the baseball bat to defend yourself or use the loaded handgun to defend yourself. Choose one of the three now. 3… 2… 1…” Genius or what?
I get feels…
There isn’t much funny about this situation, but I have to get this off my chest….
COME SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM!
No. If a game truly was too violent (i.e. tasteless and repugnant), it wouldn’t be a commercial success. Game companies are business like any other, they can’t sell a product that alienates their customers. The game industry has a voluntary rating system just like the Motion Picture industry that prevents minors from buying “violent” video games. Parents are still buy the latest “M” rating games in the millions for their children. GTA 5 made $1B in sales in three days last year.
I have used this example to convert a few Liberals who hate guns to at least understanding why they could be very, very useful.
I also used the example to show why the UK has a higher rate of death from violent crime: because I can more easily kill my rapist with a gun than with a baseball bat and in the UK, I am only allowed a baseball bat. Therefore there are more maimed rapists than dead rapists in the UK.
Well given the photo, the obvious answer is to use the phone and call Machete. The plot dictates that he has to kill the bad guy and that he’s always there in time.
Travis Haley actually proposed that same thought experiment in one of his videos last year. Very good argument.
When you run into a friend who now builds ARs and he agrees to build you one for only his cost, you wake up the next couple of mornings, smiling, saying to yourself…”I’m getting an AR for less than my Glock.”
I’d break that bat in half and stab the sonofabitch with it, then I’d paint my face with his blood and hunt down his closest living relatives. And if anyone calls me a liar or a coward I’ll break their fuggin BACK!
Man, that Tactical Response class last weekend was AWESOME!
Looks like a great AK…but for $1,300 is a for sure PASS!
I’d pay no more than $700 for an AK like that.
The problem with this new experiment is that it is logical. The Young Turks experiment was illogical. Ignorance is bliss for the Gun Grabber.
Nah, we the people just need to require each policing agency adopt the Barney Fife method. One revolver per agency. One bullet in a different officer’s shirt pocket.
Wonder if that wayward M-16 is at the bottom of a lake as the result of some boating accident…just sayin’?
5.45 is .214 diameter so it is not armor piercing according to the law. just the ATF screwing us over.
What’s a little-bitty missing rifle compared to all the dope that goes “missing” from police evidence storage every year?
The cops know where the dope went?
Notice not one liberal stood up anywhere after and demanded banning of knives or that they be registered. Nor did they ask for a ban on automobiles when a POS prior felon ran a car into a day care center killing a child and injurying others. And yet they say it has nothing to do with politics, just safety. Yeah, go figure.
Name just two people you know who could tell the difference between the before, and after, balance of that gun. Ya, I thought so. This is for people who have more money than A) brains, B) they know what to do with, or C) both A and B.
“The Loch Ness Monster ate it Sir!!” ” I seen it with my one good eye!!”
This video game looks like It sucks.
Maybe they need to have a gun buy back event.
Heh. Yeah.
I’m from Spokane and that warning shoot was into his own fence.guess he got tired of people breaking into his house for his medical weed
While there are some good points, most are conjecture and defeated by “you weren’t there.” Besides, I’ve never seen a news article that remotely resembled what I had seen with my own eyes.
You’ll be in trouble no matter what you do.
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