Woman Shoots/kills knife-wielding intruder.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Same-same here. You point out the utter shit in the Bible and they say, "Nobody believes that anymore." Right. Cherry picking is fine when your god is purely in your head.

What's wrong with cherry-picking, pray tell? Is it not perfectly rational to pick through the cherries and pick the good, ripe ones and leave the hard, unripe ones behind?

Man, that's lame. You feeling okay? Need to see the doctor or something?

[Strontium Dog]

Trust an asshole to bring a knife to a gunfight.

I'm sure the next intruder will take heed and come prepared with his own gun.

Yay for arms races!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Trust an asshole to bring a knife to a gunfight.

I'm sure the next intruder will take heed and come prepared with his own gun.

Yay for arms races!

"The next intruder" might have heard what happened to the last intruder.

[FBM]

Everybody cherry-picks their way through life. There's no way a single human brain can encompass and process experience from every possible perspective. We get imprinted early on with a narrow perspective on how to interpret experience, then work from there. No matter where it takes us, there's always cherry-picking based on social conditioning. As far as I can tell, anyway.

[Gallstones]

I disagree. Being "around" guns is not inherently dangerous, just like being "extremely uncomfortable" around knives or baseball bats would be a tad unreasonable.

Have to disagree with that, I generally try to minimise the time I spend around sharp knives. I certainly do use them but the second the need for it is over I generally do put them away and out of sight if possible. I also will never go within stabbing (or slipping distance) of someone who has such a knife either. Thats just common sense to me, you minimise your exposure to something that has no use and is potentially fatal ( A meat cleaver with no meat around has no use).

I would also never go within swinging distance of a baseball/cricket bat either if someone is holding one, beyond that distance they are harmless

Poison, do you fear the proximity of poison?
Like cigarette smoke for instance.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Everybody cherry-picks their way through life. There's no way a single human brain can encompass and process experience from every possible perspective. We get imprinted early on with a narrow perspective on how to interpret experience, then work from there. No matter where it takes us, there's always cherry-picking based on social conditioning. As far as I can tell, anyway.

However, cherry-picking intended to mislead or just plain lie is not acceptable. To me, anyway. YMMV

[FBM]

Everybody cherry-picks their way through life. There's no way a single human brain can encompass and process experience from every possible perspective. We get imprinted early on with a narrow perspective on how to interpret experience, then work from there. No matter where it takes us, there's always cherry-picking based on social conditioning. As far as I can tell, anyway.

However, cherry-picking intended to mislead or just plain lie is not acceptable. To me, anyway. YMMV

I was waxing epistemological there for a sec.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Everybody cherry-picks their way through life. There's no way a single human brain can encompass and process experience from every possible perspective. We get imprinted early on with a narrow perspective on how to interpret experience, then work from there. No matter where it takes us, there's always cherry-picking based on social conditioning. As far as I can tell, anyway.

However, cherry-picking intended to mislead or just plain lie is not acceptable. To me, anyway. YMMV

I was waxing epistemological there for a sec.

Ah, a wax-job.

[MrJonno]

Poison, do you fear the proximity of poison?
Like cigarette smoke for instance.

Rare for me to ever me near cigarette smoke or for anyone else unless they absolutely want to. You arent even allow to smoke at a bus stop in the UK anymore as you are forcing people to breath it in

It ones of the reason smoking is so heavily restricted in public / work places now there is little difference between smoking near someone and stabbing them. Except one uses chemical weapons and takes longer to kill you

[Gallstones]

A certain lady around here wants a handgun. She has started a six-month minimum training course before she gets one.

Interesting. They opened a gun shop here in town, and I went in to look at them...I was thinking of doing the same thing. A long time ago I had a boyfriend who was really into guns and he took me to target practice which is pretty fun. We have a shooting range here in the Mountains that's pretty extensive and not too expensive.

Mishandling guns can lead to disaster, like the murder of wall heaters and such.

I wounded a ceiling once.

Got away with it too.
I sat there, burning with embarrassment waiting for the police who never came.


It has since been healed.
But it left a scar.

[FBM]

I hope I never have to live in a bubble. I'd rather drive, smoke, drink, fuck, fight and shoot so that when I do get to the inevitable end of my life, I will be able to look back and recall having lived. Briefly, of course.

[Hermit]

hoplophobes

Thanks for introducing me to this word, which is wankery of the highest order, suggesting that fear of deadly firearms is somehow fucking irrational. Brilliant.

You're welcome. Actually, the term was coined by the late Col. Jeff Cooper, one of America's most prominent advocates of armed self-defense and firearms training, and it means "those who have a paranoid phobic fear of an armed citizenry." And the fear of deadly firearms is fucking irrationality of the highest order, given the fact that they are inanimate objects that cannot harm anyone without being operated by a human being.

Now, a fear of human beings with the propensity to criminally attack others with deadly firearms is a rational fear, and the prudent solution to that threat is to carry a firearm for self defense, since at the moment that you are attacked, there will be no one else around to do it for you, and you really need to have equal or preferably superior firepower and skills to defend yourself or your children effectively, as the young woman in the OP very effectively demonstrates.

I'm getting flashbacks of watching Showdown at the OK Corral. Is it really true that US society has not advanced since the 1880s?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I'm getting flashbacks of watching Showdown at the OK Corral. Is it really true that US society has not advanced since the 1880s?

[Coito ergo sum]

Poison, do you fear the proximity of poison?
Like cigarette smoke for instance.

Rare for me to ever me near cigarette smoke or for anyone else unless they absolutely want to. You arent even allow to smoke at a bus stop in the UK anymore as you are forcing people to breath it in

You are allowed, of course, to idle a car nearby, and the fumes are fine.

It ones of the reason smoking is so heavily restricted in public / work places now there is little difference between smoking near someone and stabbing them. Except one uses chemical weapons and takes longer to kill you

Good thing pot is illegal, then. That would only increase the amount of smoke around.

[Gallstones]

hoplophobes

Thanks for introducing me to this word, which is wankery of the highest order, suggesting that fear of deadly firearms is somehow fucking irrational. Brilliant.

You're welcome. Actually, the term was coined by the late Col. Jeff Cooper, one of America's most prominent advocates of armed self-defense and firearms training, and it means "those who have a paranoid phobic fear of an armed citizenry." And the fear of deadly firearms is fucking irrationality of the highest order, given the fact that they are inanimate objects that cannot harm anyone without being operated by a human being.

Now, a fear of human beings with the propensity to criminally attack others with deadly firearms is a rational fear, and the prudent solution to that threat is to carry a firearm for self defense, since at the moment that you are attacked, there will be no one else around to do it for you, and you really need to have equal or preferably superior firepower and skills to defend yourself or your children effectively, as the young woman in the OP very effectively demonstrates.

I'm getting flashbacks of watching Showdown at the OK Corral. Is it really true that US society has not advanced since the 1880s?

Yes. It is called "The tourist Industry"