Comments by "Theodore Shulman" (@ColonelFredPuntridge) on "How America's left is preparing for escalating violence | DW News" video.

  1. And a third person said: "I am an American; votes are my weapons."
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  2. RE: "... it seemed, at that time, that regular, normal people would solve their disagreements with their fists or a set of gloves." Or, perhaps, by talking.
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  3. You're safer without the gun. Your family is, too.
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  4. I have been in several situations where the absence of a firearm averted a confrontation! And others in which the absence of a firearm prevented a confrontation from becoming a shoot-out.
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  5.  @kylethedarkness  Since 2008. Not before. We need justices who will correct Scalia's error.
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  6.  @MisSorryforthespam  But those are not the ones that matter. You are like someone who sells a vitamin supplement, saying "Sure, it won't do you any good, but it won't hurt you either, so take it!"
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  7.  @DennisMoore664  It can also literally cost someone's life, and/or someone's freedom. The people who make me laugh (not happily) are the people who fantasize about using their own, privately-owned gun to help the cops arrest someone. In real life, when a cop is arresting someone, the last thing in the world he wants is for a civilian to enter the scene and start participating. If you do, then the cop has to start worrying about your safety as well as the suspect's safety (yes, cops do have to worry about the safety of people they arrest; if you're a cop and you injure someone while arresting him, you're gonna answer for it). And if a bystander enters the situation AND starts waving his own gun around, now the cop faces the possibility that he might have to shoot the civilian in order to protect himself and other bystanders! Remember, the cop doesn't know whether you're a good guy or a bad guy. The odds are you are overwhelmingly more likely to make things more difficult for the cop than to help, if you try to get involved. When I was in grade school, we had a cop come in and instruct us on what to do if you see a cop arresting someone. He said in the strongest terms: if you see a cop arresting someone, DON'T interact with anyone, no matter what YOU THINK is happening. The cop DOESN'T want your help. Walk on by, or drive on by, ESPECIALLY if you are carrying (he forgot, when he said this, that he was talking to eighth-grade kids - back then, cops could afford to assume that eighth-graders were unarmed. Today they can't even make that assumption safely!) Unless you are a well-trained professional, and experienced, you shouldn't go armed in public. You probably shouldn't own a gun at all. This is one of the main reasons cops are leaving the force: there are so many guns, it's only a matter of time - when, not if - before they face deadly gunfire on the job, or, have to shoot a kid or an elderly person, only to find that he wasn't armed, only carrying a phone or a toy.
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  8.  @drakecarter1780  Too bad for now.
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  9.  @drakecarter1780  So I can live more safely. (Which, incidentally, would also feel better, but that's a side-benefit.)
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  10.  @drakecarter1780  We can and we will. (You're right that it won't be just to feel better. It'll be in order to live more safely.) You seem to think that our current gun-jurisprudence is final or universal. You're wrong. Until 2008, the idea that there should be an individual right to bear weapons of war without any connection to a state militia was a weird fringe theory. It will be again. You just keep watching. It'll happen ... what was Hemingway's phrase? ... gradually and then suddenly. There is ample precedent! Look at how rapidly public opinion and jurisprudence regarding impaired driving changed. Not too long ago drunk driving was regarded as a harmless peccadillo, not a big deal.
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  11. Don't count your weasels before they pop. The anti-gun backlash is just beginning. Go to your history books and review how quickly public attitudes about, for instance, drunk driving changed because of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving). One day drunk driving was considered a minor traffic infraction, punishable with a ten-dollar fine; a few months later it had become a prison offense. Because enough angry moms got together and shared the experience of losing their kids to drunk drivers. The moment is coming. And when it comes, the moms won't care what the Supreme Court majority - a bunch of bribed crooks appointed by presidents who were elected by the obsolete, antiquated Electoral College against the true will of the voters - have to say about the question.
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