Thursday, December 22, 2011

Seriously?

I cannot take seriously the people who believe that carrying concealed weapons will make all of us safer. [More]
So why should we take seriously someone a predator wouldn't take seriously--someone who would be utterly useless to himself and anyone unfortunate or foolish enough to depend on him for protection?

Sean Sorrentino has pretty good evidence the guy's taking his personal tragic circumstances out on the rest of us.  When they do that, my sympathy takes a back seat.

Seems he raised a cowardly, drug-addled predator who committed suicide--without a gun. 

So the solution is to make sure those like Sonny Boy can continue to victimize and threaten people's lives.

You know what? I just kicked my remaining sympathy out of the back seat and onto the road.

6 comments:

Sean D Sorrentino said...

Thanks for the link.

I wonder if he worries that more kids like his (at the time) 26 year old druggie son might get shot by people like me.

Wouldn't that be tragic.

Mark Roote said...

When will people start to recognize that any statement start with "I believe..." and not followed with any evidence to lead to this conclusion is nothing more than someone's emotional response to a tragedy.
I won't make comments as to why his son decided to kill himself, but he is obviously still not in control of his thought processes (how else could he come up with this conclusion other than not having full use of his mental faculties?)

friggin' idiots.

Mark Roote said...

we also have this gem:
"If the two police officers tragically killed, men who carried firearms and had recurrent training on their use, could not defend themselves, how is a lesser individual going to protect someone else?"

I've said this before and I'm sure I'll say it many more times. Knowing what I know about the local police departments here, I have more training on use of firearms than the vast majority of 'officers'. I have said as much to any of them when they confront me about my OC'ing if they ask me whether I've had training. I usually run through a list of training that I've had and who some of my instructors have been and then I ask them what kind of training they have. So far, only one of them compares with me.

Yet, somehow we are lesser individuals... why? Because we choose to control our own destiny as best we can? And we do it on our own dime rather than having taxpayers provide our arms and ammo?

These people make me sick. Come to my house for a little one on one, I'll show you a lesser individual... and I won't even use a firearm.

Robert Fowler said...

Just like Joan Peterson, he will beat gun owners with his sons corpse for years to come. These people make me sick.

W W Woodward said...

People commit suicide. The person who is set on that course will probably eventually manage to kill himself with or without a gun. I worked in a medium sized jail for 19 years where during that time several inmates committed suicide. None used a gun. A firearm may be a tool of choice in some instances for suicide, but in a gun free society such as a jail a gun isn’t necessary. Most accomplished their departure from this world by wrapping a sheet or an article of clothing around their necks and died by asphyxiation. Some used razor blades that were required to be furnished and bled out before they were discovered. Of course, jails and jailers receive a ration of adverse publicity and condemnation if an inmate commits suicide on their watch while psychologists and psychiatrists, who lose more people to suicide than do jailers, generally get a free ride.

Blame the jail. Blame the gun. Blame the sheet. Blame everything and everyone except the poor slob who actually made the final decision.

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Anonymous said...

Thankfully, my fellow North Carolina citizens are roasting the author in the comments for the article.

Russ