To: Mad-Margaret
Are malls now shooting galleries? Why not have metal detectors at mall entrances? Or (much as I hate it) someone to look in women’s purses and men’s pockets. I’m angry at the current practice, at certain stores, of only looking in women’s purses. Men’s pockets need to be looked in, too. A surprising number of men carry knives. How much could a metal detector, and a guard at each entrance, cost?
9 posted on
02/05/2008 11:18:42 AM PST by
my_pointy_head_is_sharp
(Liberals, at heart, are totalitarians - knocking down our freedoms right and left.)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Yeah, I caught the irony, with my tagline.
11 posted on
02/05/2008 11:21:45 AM PST by
my_pointy_head_is_sharp
(Liberals, at heart, are totalitarians - knocking down our freedoms right and left.)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
How about this... piss off, you ain’t looking in my pocket, and if I’m carrying a weapon, tough. Tough on the jackass that pulls his out to shoot innocent people.
I’m SICK of people thinking that metal detectors, or searching INNOCENT CITIZENS is the way to go.
13 posted on
02/05/2008 11:23:01 AM PST by
Rick.Donaldson
(http://www.transasianaxis.com - Visit for lastest on DPRK/Russia/China/Etc --Fred Thompson for Prez.)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
” Mens pockets need to be looked in, too. A surprising number of men carry knives.”
You want to make men not able to carry a knife?
17 posted on
02/05/2008 11:36:21 AM PST by
ansel12
(The conservative boat sailed long ago, it is every man for himself now.)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
A surprising number of men carry knives. How much could a metal detector, and a guard at each entrance, cost? The cost would be enough to eat up the profits of any store in a strip mall, and it would be ineffective.
The cost to the stores of allowing concealed carry is a big fat zero, and that would be more effective than anything else.
And before you say there wouldn't be anyone with a gun there, I live in an Oregon county. Shall issue is the law of the state, and in our county I am proud to tell you that just under 17% of the total population has permits. Now, subtract out all of those under legal age and I bet 25-30% of the adult population has carry permits.
This kind of stuff just plain doesn't happen around here. Who wants to face those kind of odds?
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Why not have metal detectors at mall entrances? Or (much as I hate it) someone to look in womens purses and mens pockets. Im angry at the current practice, at certain stores, of only looking in womens purses.I'm assuming you're not being sarcastic here. I've got an idea for you. HOW ABOUT LETTING THE LITTLE PEOPLE GO ARMED? The murderers are armed, and the victims are not. THIS IS HOW THE GOVERNMENT WANTS IT. Or did anyone think that the criminal came in and took a gun away from one of his victims and then killed them with it.
The government wants several things. First that the populace be reduced to helplessness. If you're totally helpless, then you can't oppose the government, and that is one hell of a lot more important than the safety of any number of citizens. Second it doesn't want citizens to be able to defend themselves from criminal attack, because if they did, then the citizens might get the idea that they might not need so many donut sucking police and so many taxes to support them.
Frankly I find your attitude more worthy of Sara Brady than of free republic, but that just might be me.
27 posted on
02/05/2008 12:03:58 PM PST by
from occupied ga
(Your most dangerous enemy is your own government, Benito Guilinni a short man in search of a balcony)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Read your own tagline. Until people accept responsibility for their own safety and prepare themselves accordingly, these killings will continue. If you live in a People’s Republic, move or get involved with changing CCW laws.
28 posted on
02/05/2008 12:04:27 PM PST by
AlaskaErik
(I served and protected my country for 31 years. Democrats spent that time trying to destroy it.)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
In other news a school bus careened off a bridge. killing 19.
I’m sick of school buses.
30 posted on
02/05/2008 12:09:15 PM PST by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
I have a solution. Level the playing field. Let people carry weapons to defend themselves. I have carried a pocket knife since I was in Junior High School in the 1950s. Yes,I did carry it in school. It fell out of my pocket one day in class. The teacher found it and returned it next day. I have a pocket knife on me as I type. Just in case you are wondering, The only person I have ever cut was myself(accident, finger). I carried a 22 rifle in a skit in High School. Several other boys were in that skit. They all carried rifles. No one got shot.
Women have been known to kill other people. They can and do carry weapons. A man can use a woman to carry a weapon in her purse. I sincerely hope you don’t get too offended if your purse is searched. If that offends you, I suggest you consider how a man might feel.
Stupidity cost a lot more than a Metal Detector and a cop.
;0)
47 posted on
02/05/2008 12:29:54 PM PST by
seemoAR
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Kindly keep your hands OUT of my pockets and away from my knife. That goes for my Belt and Boots too.
Not to shock you, but some of 'older guys' know what the pointy end is intended for (besides cleaning under your fingernails) /s. And we'd no more leave the house without a knife than we would underwear.
54 posted on
02/05/2008 1:11:35 PM PST by
Condor51
(I wouldn't vote for McInsane, ever -- even if Waterboarded!)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Why not have metal detectors at mall entrances? Because we live in America.
Why not, instead, quit interfering with folks exercising their God-given and Constitutionally protected right to protect themselves?
55 posted on
02/05/2008 1:14:35 PM PST by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
To: my_pointy_head_is_sharp
Oh, yes: I've been carrying a pocket knife of one sort or another since I was 10 years old. I used to carry them on commercial airliners, before insanity took over.
Don't mess with my knife.
56 posted on
02/05/2008 1:16:16 PM PST by
ArrogantBustard
(Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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