[mountainlion]

No reception in my neighborhood.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I guess the author had better luck than the "Dude"

[Ben Mugged]

They should re-title this to “A Convenient Way To Get Your Ass Killed”.

[seowulf]

“What kind of society do we live in when knocking on someone’s door to retrieve a lost iPhone becomes perceived as life-threatening?”

A diverse, multi-cultural society.

[RightGeek]

[kingu]

Ahh, yes, the typical liberal bovine excrement. ‘I was a fool because law abiding citizens have guns.’ Of course, his examples are utterly bogus - I defy you to find someone in the UK, no matter what the neighborhood, who could not point out at least three streets within a half hour's drive to NEVER GO TO. Where the police themselves probably will never go to either.

Things, of course, are just peachy in the UK - they've been unmanned, err, well, I guess it would be more polite to call it disarmed for quite some time. To the point where there are handy dandy knife turnin boxes all across the UK. Because that's the liberal mantra there - that knives are evil and must be turned in, lest someone gets hurt. Like, well, from a Muslim who attacks people with a knife in broad daylight and the stoic UK people turn to that one lone weapon they have left in their arsenal - the cell phone camera, so that they can film the attack.

Of course, many of those who filmed it were lambasted on social media for being racist. Racist for filming a black Muslim knifing people in the street.

So yes, accidental shootings do happen. 15 Japanese tourists were killed in the US last year, exactly none of them from accidental shootings. Most were killed in traffic accidents, so of course, we'd best ban cars. Or all drive on the other side of the road because that was where the tourists most expected the car to come from.

[Da Bilge Troll]

Well, I’m convinced.

[Larry Lucido]

My wife stayed in the car, cellphone in hand, ready to summon the cavalry

"9-1-1. Please hold."

[deoetdoctrinae]

From the article~ About one-third of American households have guns, according to a Pew survey (a bit more, Gallup says), and these firearms kill 32,000 Americans a year... (Emphasis mine)

Really Mr. Kristof? Then how many Americans do bathtubs kill each year? How many Americans are done in by murderous ladders, swimming pools, and those evil automobiles?

The stupid, it burns.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Comment section closed. I wonder why?

[Blue Collar Christian]

And people this stoopid get to vote. Is it any wonder that Obama is till in the White House, Nancy Pelosi is still in the House of Representatives and Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer are still in the Senate?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

According to DOJ crime statistics, guns are used by US citizens 2.5 million times per year to prevent violent crimes like rape, robbery, home-invasion and carjacking, 99% of the time without a shot being fired. (Source: GunFacts.info)

The statistics this guy quotes conveniently ignore that very important fact.

[Zhang Fei]

This guy’s got guts. He lacks common sense, but guts he’s got no shortage of.

[ozzymandus]

Being a leftie, Kristoff hates the cops, except when he loses his cellphone and craps his pants because somebody, somewhere, might own a gun. What in the hell does this fruit losing his phone have to do with gun control?? If some stranger pounded on my door for 5 minutes at night, I’d call the cops with a gun in my hand.

[Norm Lenhart]

How did everyone miss the blindingly obvious here?

What info does this jackass have on his cell that he did not want the police to have access to while it sat in the evidence locker?

Because elitist libs do not do this type of Rambo stuff unless the result of NOT doing it is more dire.

[twister881]

1. Variations of this urban myth have appeared several times, which means Kristof is a lying @-hole.

2. Kristof is an anti-American, anti-2A, anti-Israel, Christian-hating, Jew-hating leftist douchebag.

3. Anything Kristof writes or blogs is not worth the paper / bandwidth.

[Mr. K]

why didnt he take the police with him?

[Hugin]

Sure, there are cases where guns are successfully used for self-defense,

Yeah, a quarter million a year according to the US DOJ, the vast majority with nobody being shot.

[Navy Patriot]

If I had known Nick was gonna do this I woulda called the guy and told him the Slime gang was comin’ to get him and described Nick as their “hit” man.

[Brother Cracker]

Nick Kristof in red shirt