1) My dad was a cop. I knew before 15 how to safely use every gun in the home, although I agreed with my dad that there was absolutely no need for a fifteen year old kid to own a gun. The trigger locks and gun cabinet were primarily to keep my 3 year old sister from doing something tragic.
2) Yes, yes, we know you're a veteran, as if that magically makes you the expert on why every man, woman, and child should be armed to the teeth at all times.
3) Funny how I have never once claimed that the government should take guns away, and have actually opposed that idea every time it actually comes up, and yet every time hidebound neo-fascist reactionaries like you and Blade start vomiting forth your crap you accuse me of wanting just that. Is actual discussion so difficult for you that you must resort to a strawman every single time?
No one but lunatic conservatives trying to score points off a straw man are making the argument that gun control would have prevented that man from killing his daughter. The only real arguments I've seen are on whether he's mentally ill or just a criminally evil asshole (or both), but why should right-wing neo-fascists like you let anything as minor as truth get in the way of a good liberal-bashing?
My, my, my, Frothy, is that pent up anger? Just asking
Now I may have mislead in my last post about having a gun at fifteen. I only used that as a starting point, as that was the age mention in the post that I was quoting. I actually had guns before that.
Your Dad thought that there were absolute no need for a fifteen year old kid to own a gun. That’s great for your Dad and you, but why would you want to impose your ways upon me and my Dad?
It is still amazing to me how not just you but even people close. to me (That included wife’s, er! no that particularly includes wife’s <G>) can get a very different meaning from something said. Yes, yes I am a veteran, and not ashamed of it. My point was not that military service made me an expert on anything, but that it was one more step in my culture. I am sure however, that I was the one that did not actuate that point accurately. Now, now, Frothy, show me one post where I accused you or anyone else by name of anything, let alone wanting to take away everybody’s gun. Now maybe Blade did, but I did not. If you find one post where I called you anything, I will send you, well, just show me the post. Of course, no one can deny that there are some people of that persuasion, they even want to take away my sugary drink. Can you believe that. You say potato, I say potahto, or is it the other way around <G>. I have never quite understood that straw man position. You say “Straw Man” I say “Analogy” It seems so very clear to me, that my analogy was a thinly disguised, slightly sarcastic reference that the problem is culture, culture, culture. But, once again I seen it wasn’t perceived as that. There are so many things in life I don’t understand. “Score Points” is one of them. Who is trying to score points? Who needs to score points. My point of view, take it or leave it, makes no difference to me. Your point of view is yours, it doesn’t make you my enemy. Especially on a forum like this, the odds of me meeting you is very slim. Unless, of course, you come to FL and then I will treat you to the best Chinese Buffet In the whole United States, by my taste, of course. btw. As I told Blade, stand by the mail box and wave a little white flag. <G> Alas, you prove my point. { he's mentally ill or just a criminally evil a***ole (or both)} What kind of Culture / Society focus on the weapon instead of the person.
