MSNBC Host: Why Should People Have Guns When We Have Cops

Townhall.com ^ | November 1, 2011 | Katie Pavlich

[paul51]

Why Should People Have Guns When We Have Cops

So you can protect your dog

[snowstorm12]

Melvin: If women are shooting potential attackers, aren’t they presuming guilt before innocence? What if a woman kills an attacker? Isn’t that opening another whole legal can of worms?
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What does he mean by “potential attackers”? You are either being attacked or not.

What if a woman fights off an attacker with her bare hands and he falls backwards and he hits his head on a rock and dies? It’s self defense. if the attacker dies, it’s his own fault. This guy seems bewildered by the fact that a person can’t rightfully defend themselves, gun or otherwise. it’s like this is the first time he’s ever heard of it.

I would be really mad if I were a rape victim and I heard this guy say these things on MSNBC. He makes it sound like women being attacked by rapists are in the wrong for defending themselves by any means necessary!

[Darren McCarty]

Cops don’t protect people from crime in 99% of circumstances. They investigate crimes after the fact.

[Westbrook]

> Liberals aren’t very smart, are they?

They think that cunning and intelligence are the same thing.

They are not.

Criminals can be very clever.

But they are not intelligent, or they would not be criminals.

Same goes for leftists.

[Clintonfatigued]

What about the Second Amendment don’t those people understand?

[FreeAtlanta]

Why? Because they are fun. My officer friends, not so much. :-)

[Still Thinking]

Why Should People Have Guns When We Have Cops My gun won't violate my civil rights and arrest me and try to get me to say something which will incriminate me in a violation of one of the 67 zillion mostly useless laws we now have on the books??

[Still Thinking]

Why Should People Have Guns When We Have Cops

Because my gun has mastered the urge to shoot at all my pets every time it enters my house?

[Soothesayer9]

I’d just settle for a nice machete and to hell with the cops.

[Still Thinking]

Why Should People Have Guns When We Have Cops

Because my civil rights aren't up for review due to other peoples' definition of my "need". I don't think they "need" any free speech; does that mean they can't have it now?

[Turbopilot]

I like your graphic. Mind if I steal it?

[magslinger]

Battle of Athens

[bvw]

(1) To protect themselves from cops and criminals.

[RipSawyer]

Why should people have home kitchens when there are restaurants to go to? Why should they have medicine cabinets when there are emergency rooms? Why should people have riding lawn mowers when there are landscape services? Why should they have privately owned cars when there are planes, trains, buses, etc.? Why should homeowners own hammers and saws when there are professional carpenters?

[JSteff]

LOL. When I first decided you were a threat I would bear spray you.
Eyes burning, choking and breathing hard, probably throwing up too, I would calmly walk away from you.

[RipSawyer]

“Liberals aren’t very smart, are they?”
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Rather like saying dwarfs are not very tall, if they were they wouldn’t be.

[GeronL]

Cops will get there AFTER the crime is done.

[GeronL]

Courts have already ruled that cops are not liable for not stopping a crime.

[marktwain]

I was able to obtain permits for 5 firearms when I was in Panama. It took a little less than a year, but I was employed by the U.S. Army at the time (mid to late 1980’s. I am sorry to hear that it takes so much time there now. Could a lawyer expedite matters for a “fee”?

[Straight Vermonter]

The most violent cities in the country, Chicago, Detroit, New York City, all have extremely strict gun laws.

While NYC does have strict gun laws it is a bad example since it is actually a very safe city.