It's not guns that kill people, it's stoopid that does.
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So if I go out and kill 1 it's less reprehensible than killing 12? I'm sorry, but you are talking complete bollocks there and unfortunately this thread has gone completely off the track of saying how stupid it is to get that worked up over a piece of prime time schlock TV.
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No, this isn't an attempt to start a debate on gun control. A fan of The Walking Dead shot[^] his girlfriend for saying it was unrealistic. Honestly, if he didn't have a gun, he'd just have looked for some other weapon. Stupid is as stupid does - unfortunately, in this case, stupid watches TV.
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You can run away from a knife or a club. You can't run away from a bullet.
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But if he'd had to look for another weapon he'd have forgotten what he wanted it for by the time he found it. When Jerry Sadowitz got punched on stage at the Just For Laughs festival in Montreal (before he outed Jimmy Savile and was no longer allowed on TV) I remember the American comedians mocking the Canadians for their lack of guns and having to walk all the way to the stage just to punch someone. Said more people would get punched, but by the time the angry person had made their way to the stage they'd forgotten what they were angry about or calmed down. In the US all you'd have to do was stand up, shoot, sit down and wait for the next guy.
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ChrisElston wrote:
But if he'd had to look for another weapon he'd have forgotten what he wanted it for by the time he found it.
Or not since the story basically said otherwise... "...and became so heated that she returned to his house to check on him — and found him waiting for her with a gun."
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So if I go out and kill 1 it's less reprehensible than killing 12? I'm sorry, but you are talking complete bollocks there and unfortunately this thread has gone completely off the track of saying how stupid it is to get that worked up over a piece of prime time schlock TV.
*pre-emptive celebratory nipple tassle jiggle* - Sean Ewington
"Mind bleach! Send me mind bleach!" - Nagy Vilmos
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
So if I go out and kill 1 it's less reprehensible than killing 12?
Certainly that is true in most of the US based on the law. Multiple deaths are more likely to result in a death penalty or more severe penalty. Certainly true in the press. Single deaths are unlikely to lead to national coverage. Certainly true to some extent in the international community. I don't recall any calls for international war crime trials because someone killed a single person.
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You can run away from a knife or a club. You can't run away from a bullet.
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
In most cases the only difference between disappointment and depression is your level of commitment. -- Marc Maron
I am not a chatbot
