10-07-2009, 03:45 AM
One of the things I like about living in Hawaii is the sense of security I have without having a gun around. I certainly wouldn't support any movement to proliferate firearms here.
Besides the "right to bear arms"; the constitution also defends the right of Americans to be stupid idiots (although I can't site the exact paragraph in the constitution, I have seen first hand knowledge of this).
Now if I ask a hundred or so gun enthusiests if they are a stupid idiot, I'm sure I'd get a hundred negative responses, and I probably wouldn't argue the point too much....
I'm pretty sure though, that more than a few of these dudes and dudettes would qualify as being a couple of rounds short of a full magazine, and that's not even taking into consideration the undiagnosed paranoids out there.
So forget the criminals here, I take prudent, effective and non lethal security measures; It's the legitimate, yet deficient gun owning nutjobs like Randy Randrupp that scare me the most.
punatoons
Besides the "right to bear arms"; the constitution also defends the right of Americans to be stupid idiots (although I can't site the exact paragraph in the constitution, I have seen first hand knowledge of this).
Now if I ask a hundred or so gun enthusiests if they are a stupid idiot, I'm sure I'd get a hundred negative responses, and I probably wouldn't argue the point too much....
I'm pretty sure though, that more than a few of these dudes and dudettes would qualify as being a couple of rounds short of a full magazine, and that's not even taking into consideration the undiagnosed paranoids out there.
So forget the criminals here, I take prudent, effective and non lethal security measures; It's the legitimate, yet deficient gun owning nutjobs like Randy Randrupp that scare me the most.
punatoons