Reply #33: A one-on-one is different from a mob of armed people [View All]

Now about that church. How many people got shot before the woman decided to open fire? She froze for a while before acting, as most people would. It's fucking pathetic how many people think they would be calm and collected badasses in a shootout, because hey, did Charles Bronson ever piss himself in Death Wish? Did Clint Eastwood's hands ever shake? Has the pain of multiple bullet wounds ever stopped Bruce Willis? Naaaaaaah, and everyone knows that's exactly how THEY would react in a firefight, too. It's part of the fetishism of guns - if you have one, you automatically know how to use it and be a perfect hardass about it.

If everyone in the church were packing heat, what do you think would have happened? Rhetoric aside you have what was it, fifty nervous people, most of whom have probably never even thought of killing another human being, much less made the attempt, attempting to do so. The plain logistics of the situation would seem to have more people shot, don't you think?

My opinion of these people is largely formed by the people themselves, who as I have noted elsewhere, seem to flock to political message boards like Ron Paul supporters flock to David Icke books.