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Did anyone read some of the comments?

Stuff like this gives you a little introspective into the mind of an ignoramus:


"And did you have an extended magazine in your 9mm? If a gunman boarded the train and started shooting would you spray and pray that one of your rounds hit him? How many of your bullets would have added to the carnage? What if their were other passengers on the same train who started shooting at you thinking you were an additional terrorist? More guns, except in the hands of a policeman, would have simply added to the carnage."

parabelum wrote: "And did you have an extended magazine in your 9mm? If a gunman boarded the train and started shooting would you spray and pray that one of your rounds hit him? How many of your bullets would have added to the carnage? What if their were other passengers on the same train who started shooting at you thinking you were an additional terrorist? More guns, except in the hands of a policeman, would have simply added to the carnage."

So typical. Yes, much better to just sit there utterly helpless and be slaughtered.

be aware that a lot of these comments can be coming from....(funded) community organizations who've goal is to overwhelm the conversation in an effort to influence public opinion. There will not be rational discourse.

Tracker wrote:be aware that a lot of these comments can be coming from....(funded) community organizations who've goal is to overwhelm the conversation in an effort to influence public opinion. There will not be rational discourse.

and btw I first noticed this when O first ran for office. If there is someone talking sense, on any topic they oppose, and who can backup their argment with facts the organization members posting comments will gang up on the individual.

The base reasoning exhibited by the anti-gun commenters is that there is absolutely no possibility of improving the outcome by introducing a gun into a situation where someone with a gun is already in the process of endangering lives. The only possibilities introduced by the addition of another person with a gun are negative in this mindset -- unless that other person is a representative of the Authorities (police or perhaps Federal agent). It is amazing to me that folks can miss the realization that the Authorities cannot always (often) be there to interdict the bad guys, that the Authorities have NO DUTY to intervene even if they are there, and that therefore if action is to be taken to defend a life it must be taken by someone there and, better yet, someone with a force option equal to the task. The bitter gall of irony here is that Boston is arguably the birthplace of individual Liberty on these shores yet modern Bostonians (if the commenters are real individual Bostonians) seem almost universally complacent in the supposed safety afforded by the State and absolutely averse to exercises of Liberty even in defense of their own lives. The Kool-Aid must be plentiful and tasty up there.

This is the game that's being played in these comments. In the OP article start with the Oldest comment "Well Said" and then read the barrage of ridicule that follows. The following article argues conservatives need to be (unfortunately IMO but I agree) using the same tactics. Does the NRA have the equivalent? Not that I'm aware of.

http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawk ... /page/full
4A) Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon. Conservatives have a tendency to try to win every debate with logic and recitations of facts which, all too often, fail to get the job done because emotions and mockery are often just as effective as reason. The good news is that liberals almost never have logic on their side; so they're incapable of rationally making the case for their policies while conservatives can become considerably more effective debaters by simply adding some emotion-based arguments and sheer scorn to their discourse. This has certainly worked on Twitter, where conservatives keep making the Obama campaign look like buffoons by taking over its hashtags.

Rules for Radicals
By Saul Alinsky - 1971
http://www.crossroad.to/Quotes/communism/alinsky.htm

This was a great read. Shared.