Starbucks and Guns

[Wind Song]

How would you feel going in for your latte and finding all the other patrons armed to the teeth?

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/02...can-gun-owners

[Gaffer]

Safe.

[fj1200]

How would you feel going in for your latte and finding all the other patrons armed to the teeth?

About as comfortable as reading a post loaded with hyperbole.

[Wind Song]

Safe.

I'd feel the exact opposite. I don't want to live in an 1800's wild west town.

[Wind Song]

About as comfortable as reading a post loaded with hyperbole.

I guess you're not a fan of creative writing. It's a quite descriptive term. I think it harkens back to when pirates carried knives in their teeth.

[DragonStryk72]

How would you feel going in for your latte and finding all the other patrons armed to the teeth?

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/02...can-gun-owners

"Did they switch out all the regular for decaf again?!

[fj1200]

I'd feel the exact opposite. I don't want to live in an 1800's wild west town.

You would have been quite safe in a "wild" west town.

http://www.unpopulartruth.com/2009/0...-old-west.html

I guess you're not a fan of creative writing. It's a quite descriptive term. I think it harkens back to when pirates carried knives in their teeth.

Save your creative writing for your journal, serious discussion does not start with irrational exclamations.

[DragonStryk72]

I'd feel the exact opposite. I don't want to live in an 1800's wild west town.

Why would it become the wild west? I love the sheer degree of prejudice inherent in this statement of yours, and even the article seems to assume that gun owners can't be "high brow".


Btw, there are no gun victims. The are victims of human beings who fired guns. Guns have no volition of their own, and can do nothing without someone operating them in some capacity. They are otherwise inert objects.

The real problem is human beings, we should ban them from every public place, cause let's face it, if you took the guns away, we'd stab each other, and if you take the knives and forks away, we'll just club each other to death. Better to blame the human than to blame the inanimate, unintelligent tool.

[Wind Song]

You would have been quite safe in a "wild" west town.

http://www.unpopulartruth.com/2009/0...-old-west.html



Save your creative writing for your journal, serious discussion does not start with irrational exclamations.

Armed to the teeth is a perfectly descriptive term of people who are overly armed.

[Wind Song]

Why would it become the wild west? I love the sheer degree of prejudice inherent in this statement of yours, and even the article seems to assume that gun owners can't be "high brow".


Btw, there are no gun victims. The are victims of human beings who fired guns. Guns have no volition of their own, and can do nothing without someone operating them in some capacity. They are otherwise inert objects.

The real problem is human beings, we should ban them from every public place, cause let's face it, if you took the guns away, we'd stab each other, and if you take the knives and forks away, we'll just club each other to death. Better to blame the human than to blame the inanimate, unintelligent tool.

Fine. I have no problem looking at a display of guns. It's the human beings who are armed and dangerous that bother me.

[tailfins]

Armed to the teeth is a perfectly descriptive term of people who are overly armed.

It has been a practice in suburban Atlanta as long as I can remember. I don't care one way or another. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them were carried without bullets as a fashion statement.

[fj1200]

Armed to the teeth is a perfectly descriptive term of people who are overly armed.

But not for those who are openly carrying a sidearm per their legal right when buying coffee. This would be about when dmp jumps in to point out your fallacy so I'll save him the trouble.

[Wind Song]

It has been a practice in suburban Atlanta as long as I can remember. I don't care one way or another. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them were carried without bullets as a fashion statement.

Fashion statement or fetish? A group of men wearing their guns into Starbucks, WTF is up with that? Impotence?

[ConHog]

Armed to the teeth is a perfectly descriptive term of people who are overly armed.

Fine my dear, but very few people go around overly armed. Even when I was working I carried two firearms. I would say 99.9% of those who carry carry ONE handgun. So are you saying that ONE handgun is over armed?

[fj1200]

^To her I'm sure one is overly armed.