Posted on 01/23/2016 12:36:37 PM PST by MtnClimber
A main problem with blaming a tool (firearms) for the willful actions of people (violence) is that you may then find yourself in the position where you need that tool to mitigate the actions of other people… and by then you're out of luck, and perhaps you may not live to learn from your mistake.
Sadly, I don’t think Andrea Koller will learn the right lessons even after surviving her ordeal, even though she and her daughter survived the experience only because the criminals allowed it.
An out-of-town teacher who publicly railed against gun violence was shot in the shoulder by a masked gunman as she tried to save her 20-year-old daughter from a pistol-whipping outside a hotel near JFK Airport, police sources said.
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Natural selection.
Liberals suddenly become gun believers after a personal robbery or assault when they are defenseless
The points about situational awareness are as important as the point about the advantage of being armed.
In the old days I used to hear that a new-born Conservative was a Liberal who had been mugged. My experience has taught me that many Liberals are too stupid to learn from just one mugging.
I thought the situational awareness points were good too. They showed multiple opportunities to have avoided the mugging.
The stupid is far too ingrained with some folks...
Funny sign! Is the snow storm affecting your area?
Liberals are too stupid to learn from just one mugging.
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They blindly call that mugging a Right-Wing Conspiracy.
I bet anything this one will use this experience as justification for more gun control.
Liberals aren’t liberals because they’re smart.
not a flake... 27 and overcast we're just far enough east we miss most of the lake effect snow and just far enough west to miss most of the coastal storms
Which is what the fun grabbers want for the rest of us.
it was William Bennett who said, “The definition of a Neocon is a liberal who has been mugged by reality...”
FR is a good place to keep grounded in our crazy society. Over the years I have picked up a lot of good tips.
That's just a little better than coming to the realization that you need a gun sometime between the muzzle flash and the bullet impact.
Her position is the wrong one, but I am not going to have venom for folks who get jumped by bad guys.
The truth is, since the site was a hotel near JFK airport, there would be a great number of people who normally carry but wouldn’t at that location due both tho NYC’s draconian anti-gun laws and the restrictions against guns in airports. The perp picked his target well.
Fool. Now a fool-with-a-hole-in-him.
I am sure she is more emphatic now in her conviction that guns must be all confiscated from law abiding citizens in order to prevent criminal citizens from shooting people.
She’ll probably see this as a vindication of her idiotic beliefs.
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