My biggest fears may be realized. (Vanity)

self | 12/6/2007 | self

[penowa]

"You’re confusing apples and oranges. Fights come to people who are looking for them."

No, I'm not confusing anything. You have a SERIOUS problem, much worse than confusion, if you believe that every law abiding gun owner with a concealed carry permit who refuses to be a victim is "looking for a fight."

[archy]

"After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it."

— William Burroughs, 1992

Great quote.

Another for you: Kaphar hunnu bhanda marnu ramro

[Mr. Jeeves]

You have a SERIOUS problem, much worse than confusion, if you believe that every law abiding gun owner with a concealed carry permit who refuses to be a victim is "looking for a fight."

Where did I say that? I have no problem with concealed carry at all - I support it. I have a problem with the attitude of the original poster, because his post sounds like the stereotypical young gunslinger who takes his shootin' irons to town looking for a fight. Well, with that "I'll never be a victim again, damn it!" attitude he's going to find one, and sooner than he thinks.

[JZelle]

“Robert Hawkins makes me think of Arthur Bremer, the 21-year-old guy who shot George Wallace...another loser who wanted to become famous. I don’t know if Bremer was suicidal.”

Bremer was just recently released from jail.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/23/AR2007082301140.html

[stevio]

Concerned here as well.

[umgud]

egad, what’s with all the optics?

I hunt a lot with handguns. I'm getting older and my eye sight ain't what it used to be.

[penowa]

"I'll never be a victim again, damn it!" attitude...

How you twist someone's taking responsibility for his own safety into "looking for a fight" is beyond me.

[penowa]

"The mall company should be made to pay millions in damages to the victims."

"I agree ... that would require the victims or estates thereof to sue the mall. I would love to be a juror in such a case."

What do they employ UNARMED mall guards to do? Chase pesky kids running up and down the escalators the wrong way?

[Pistolshot]

Since I am the original poster, and you didn't address me, maybe you should.

Like I said in a response to you, if you haven't been there, we don't have any common ground, and you don't know what you are talking about.

[woollyone]

>>>What will not happen is the look into the pharmaceuticals that have contributed to the problem of these troubled young men. Prozac , Paxil , and other Anti-Depressants have been incidental in these shootings since Columbine, yet NO ONE has called for more control over the dispensing of these drugs on our young. It’s the catch all of the psychiatric care of our children.<<<

Created a controversy and then control it using methods that move the laws closer to our ideology. These drugs serve exactly that purpose, therefore will not be mentioned as potential causes for tragedies like just happened or like happened too often.

[Dead Corpse]

Fights come to people who are looking for them.

Got a head full of peanut butter there don't ya...

Where the people at this mall looking for a fight? Looks like the fight came to them and they were completely unprepared for it.

Ask yourself, why didn't this kid go shoot up a shooting range or a police station?

[ArrogantBustard]

The unarmed guard is supposed to confront young Thuggus Maximus, and tell him “Cut it out with the thuggery, or .... or ..... or .... I’ll have to tell you to cut it out again!”

[Eagle of Liberty]

Welcome to FR!!!!

[penowa]

Wouldn’t you love to be small business person with a kiosk at that mall? You could ask one of the UNARMED mall guards to walk you to your car (parked at the outer edge of the lot so as not to take up shopper’s parking spaces in the busiest season) at 10pm with your bank deposit bag. I would certainly feel safe, wouldn’t you? Secure that an UNARMED mall guard could protect me and my hard earned $ from an ARMED “Thuggus Maximus” or 3.

[Pistolshot]

Unfortunately, there are a lot of the mall businesses that do just that. But without the guard.

The 'guards' in the mall are there to call the real police if something goes wrong. Some of the malls I have been in have police substations, but the owners of a lot of the malls don't like the 'intimidation' factor of having legitimate law-enforcement patrolling the corridors.

[looscnnn]

Or girlfriends/boyfriends from breaking up with their boyfriends/girlfriends (that happened a week before).

[Joe 6-pack]

Is that Hi-Power a 9 or a .40?

[red irish]

I don’t own a gun but have thought about it. My husband and I use to go target practice and I loved it. Believe it or not I do believe there are mature people who can carry a gun and be ok!

[umgud]

Is that Hi-Power a 9 or a .40?

9mm. According to the S/N # it was made in 1969. It's in 98% condition and a really great shooter.

[pelicandriver]

“Fights come to people who are looking for them.”

I think there’s something to that statement. BUT, being prepared to end a fight that somebody else starts is NOT the same as looking for a fight. I think the vast majority of people that carry weapons (probably even including most crooks) don’t want to be in a fight.