Comments on: Enter, I Guess, Under News of the Day. http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/enter-i-guess-under-news-of-the-day/ Defending Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Mon, 20 May 2013 07:22:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lon Mead http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/enter-i-guess-under-news-of-the-day/#comment-16604 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:18:58 +0000 http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=31627#comment-16604 Yeah, I considered the source… what’s your point?

“Perhaps they should rethink that idea that only the police need guns.”

Perhaps you should think just a tiny bit more before you reply. The idea is some people think that only the police should have guns, because they have “training” and can “be responsible” with them in a way that us ordinary yokels can’t.

Or, as the story suggests, maybe not. Police personnel are human, too, and are just as capable of nervousness, overreaction, and error as anyone else.

This was not a suggestion that the ladies in truck should have tried to fire back, and you’re really reaching to try and make that case.

]]> By: Subsidy Eye http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/enter-i-guess-under-news-of-the-day/#comment-16602 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:02:27 +0000 http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=31627#comment-16602 And what do you think would have happened to the paper-delivery women if they had fired back? Think that the police officers would have treated them nicely? Methinks, had the ladies managed to get to their guns before the police wounded them, they would have invited a hailstorm of bullets even worse than they received.

As for Fox News recommending a story about a trial in Pennsylvania that was declared a mistrial when a man’s prosthetic eye popped out on the witness stand … well, consider the source!

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