tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post574655103876366996..comments2023-10-09T05:28:35.705-07:00Comments on Creekside: Gun-Binkies for everyone!Alisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-6253526990559641792007-06-24T05:48:00.000-07:002007-06-24T05:48:00.000-07:00Woohoo lets go back to the wild west where everyon...Woohoo lets go back to the wild west where everyone was armed and no one ever got shot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-72290243862182916792007-06-24T04:50:00.000-07:002007-06-24T04:50:00.000-07:00Scary. I'm a gun owner myself, but one of those u...Scary. I'm a gun owner myself, but one of those unusual ones who believes guns should be very very very hard to get. It blows my mind that anyone can talk about Virginia Tech in terms of "if the students had been armed". How about looking at why someone with a history of mental issues was able to get his hands on a gun in the first place?JJhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09458917081261136618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-90495795552267438142007-06-24T03:54:00.000-07:002007-06-24T03:54:00.000-07:00"There are never any mass killings at shooting ran..."There are never any mass killings at shooting ranges; only at schools and other so-called `gun-free zones."<BR/><BR/>sweet jeebus on a bike. where to begin with this massed stupidity...how about ol' doc ackerman load up his wife and kids into the winnebago of love and head east, far east for a tour of kabul and kandehar. by his logic, he couldn't be safer, after all with all those guns around, nobody could possibly get shot, because other people have guns too. not like all of those perilously dangerous 'gun-free' zones.Lindsay Stewarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13461043718147845594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-41639484585272429392007-06-24T01:33:00.000-07:002007-06-24T01:33:00.000-07:00No, your logic is faulty here.Even if I allow that...No, <I>your</I> logic is faulty here.<BR/>Even if I allow that armed students and staff at Virginia Tech might have been able to bring down the shooter without it turning into a random bloodbath with even more casualties, a very iffy proposition at best, what's happening with those guns the other 364 days of the year, huh?<BR/><BR/>I don't personally buy the freedom angle on gun ownership but at least it's coherent.<BR/>To advocate gun ownership as a form of social engineering is completely bonkers.Alisonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09811694143714068436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17909993.post-31669769284736406582007-06-24T01:02:00.000-07:002007-06-24T01:02:00.000-07:00Your logic is faulty here.Dr. Ackermann is right.I...Your logic is faulty here.<BR/>Dr. Ackermann is right.<BR/>If 1% of students and staff had been armed at Virginia Tech, it's very likely many lives could have been saved.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com