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The Nashville Tennessean ^ | 07/03/03 | Joe Biddle

[bourbon]

Guns don't kill people. People kill people.

Can we all agree that it's more difficult to kill someone if neither party has a gun?

A Baylor basketball player is missing and feared dead. No body. No murder weapon. No answers. Yet.

[bourbon]

Memo to Sportswriters:
Please keep your dumb@$$ political opinions off my sports page.

[zeromus]

McNair is the toughest man I know. Why would a 6-foot-2, 229-pound professional football player feel the need to carry a gun?

To protect himself against thugs with guns?

[tet68]

Ho, oh, I thought this was about PLAYAZ, NWA's, oH well.

[thoughtomator]

If the Left were really honest about this, instead of running a campaign of cynical emotional manipulation, they'd realize it's a lot harder to kill someone who also has a gun, but a lot easier to kill someone who is a lot weaker than you when they don't. Leftist motto - might makes right!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Why would a 6-foot-2, 229-pound professional football player feel the need to carry a gun?

Gee, could it be that being a 6'2" 229-lb. muscle guy doesn't mean a whole lot when some nut is coming at him with a baseball bat or pointing a gun at his head?

[bourbon]

Has the world we live in gotten that crazy?

Or has the world always been this crazy? Ty Cobb needed a police escort when playing away games in the early 1900s. And there were certainly plenty of guns around then. I bet many famous athletes from the past carried a piece from time to time.

[Washingtonian]

Possibly the columnist should read More Guns, Less Crime. The point is that guns make it easier for bad things to happen, but they also make it easier for people to protect themselves and prevent bad things from happening. The columnist does seem to understand the second point at all.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

I sometimes think when reading threads that I should just look up what you post and type in DITTO! :)

[Servant of the Nine]

We should be able to agree that we are dealing with a pair of vicious thugs who should never have been let near a college, much less given scholarships.

So9

[DraftAshcroft2004]

Anyone notice that this sportswriter isn't writing about the gals on the women's tennis and swim teams?

Does it surprise anyone that teams mainly recruited from slum culture keep acting it? O.J., anyone?

[jocon307]

This man is an idiot. First he makes it sound like the big, tall basketballer bought a gun, which somehow, magically, killed him. Then the gun hid the big, tall, body and also itself! Then, he wonders why a big, strong, footballer needs a gun.

I don't know Mr. Biddle, maybe the footballer has a death-wish and hopes his gun will magically kill him, too.

Then again, maybe not.

[boris]

"Patrick Dennehy"

What will they say if it turns out he was strangled?

A colleague of mine, the day after the O.J. murders, stopped by to talk about the event. "It just shows how we need to control guns," he said.

"But...those people were killed with a knife!" I replied.

"Yes, but think how much easier it would have been for the murderer if he'd used a gun!"

This passes for 'logic' among the anti-gun nuts; they can turn anything into an "argument" for gun control.

--Boris

[Capt. Tom]

They all need to realize it only takes an armed person losing his temper for a split second to take a life.

People do kill people. If they have a gun, it makes it that much easier.

Sounds like a reason to arm yourself for self defence. - Tom

[Tahoe3002]

Or how about that NYC bouncer who was fatally stabbed when he tried to enforce NY City's new no smoking ordinance? He was physically bigger than McNair. A knife killed the bouncer and the assailant was two "little" oriental guys. Size is important, but a lot less so when the other guy is armed, with anything, and all you have is your bare hands.

[basil]

So much ignorance--so little time....

[MeekOneGOP]

Memo to Sportswriters:
Please keep your dumb@$$ political opinions off my sports page.

Man. No kidding !!

[Shooter 2.5]

I don't watch spectator sports.

I do compete in the shooting sports such as IDPA and High Power Rifle. Every participant is expected to have, you guessed it, a gun.

No one has ever murdered or shot another participant on purpose in the entire history of the shooting sports.

[NewRomeTacitus]

We in Nashville have learned that the "Tennessean" newspaper has little interest in logic when an agenda must be put forth. Why is this sports writer editorializing? Because his editor told him to.
Can't wait for upcoming developments like leftist obituaries and politically correct yard sale announcements.

[bourbon]

Exactly. In the past, kids in many parts of America used to take their .22s to school where they would learn marksmanship. Rarely, if ever, did they go off the deep end and turn their guns on their fellow students.

The argument that the large number of guns in the country correlates to an elevated murder rate is positively ridiculous. America has always been saturated with guns.

What has changed? Why do people use them more often for nefarious purposes today? Wise folks look to the culture and other factors for the answer. Not to the guns themselves.

[Oztrich Boy]

This man is an idiot. First he makes it sound like the big, tall basketballer bought a gun, which somehow, magically, killed him.

You are wrong. (well, not about the idiot part) He admits we don't know how Dennehy died (if he is indeed dead)

When he says It has been reported that Dennehy was worried about his safety, having received unconfirmed threats from someone. He and his roommate, Carlton Dotson, reportedly purchased a shotgun and hoped to trade it in for a couple of handguns. he is just pointing out that Sarah Brady is correct, if you buy a gun that in some magical fashion makes you more liable to become a victim of crime.