Someone named Amanda Gailey drones on and on and on about all sorts of unrelated anti-gun propaganda at Salon (does anyone really still read Salon?), and I became rather bored rather quickly with the profuse gushing. But something wonderful happened in the comments. This is the summary.
Xanthro:
So, if you have a firearm in your pocket, and 100 people decide to randomly attack you in the Kroger’s parking lot, you being scared in that situation is a sign of mental issue in your mind?
GrantS:
You effin moron. We call that a civilized society. If you are afraid of society, use your gun and take yourself out of it.
Some people!! Do you think up of fantastically unrealistic scenarios on a daily basis?
If one person had the gun, and nobody else did, the one with the gun will scare everyone else. They are usually the nutjob.
But this collectivist piling on commenter Xanthro wasn’t enough. There had to be another.
RationalGuy:
Thinking that it might happen is a sign of mental illness.
RationalGuy wasn’t being too rational at the time of his reply. Xanthro responded this way.
It didn’t might happen, it actually happened in early September.
You must feel pretty foolish right about now.
I’m sure they didn’t feel foolish at all. They just probably went on to the next shouting match. Of course, Xanthro was talking about the recent mob attack in the parking lot of a Kroger in Memphis.
I read the anti-gunners so you don’t have to. I read Salon so you don’t have to. But just occasionally this job ain’t so bad. Just occasionally something rich and wonderful happens. When collectivists humiliate themselves in front of others, it’s always nice to watch. Salon gives us plenty of opportunity to do so – which is the only reason to read Salon that I can find.
