If you think a lot more of this kind of thing is going to “take our country back” then you clearly misunderstand the way this plays to most Americans.
I’m not talking about Freepers. I know that Mr. Horn is very popular here. I’m talking about the vast majority of the rest of America, the ones that voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Dummies last election. We don’t win over anyone by shooting people in the back without sufficient warning. Mr. Horn’s case will be used by the left as a prime example of the need for stricter gun control, beyond handguns and “assault rifles” and now extending to shotguns and all other types of weapons.
On this board - clearly there is the opposite reaction, but sentiment on this board rarely reflects political reality as much as it does political idealism. If you don’t believe that, just look at how different the results of the last couple of elections have been than posters on this board claimed to be confident that they would be.
I’m not calling for a pragmatic approach to win votes, but this case just bothers me as a clear example of a man who, much like Officer Gardner of the Utah Highway Patrol, was much too eager to pull the trigger.
Question: Was the 15 year old drunk boy with the 4 girls toilet-papering?
Another question: What if the 15 year old boys actions inadvertantly caused another person to die?
Straw men can run wild.
And do you really believe “sentiment on this board rarely reflects political reality”? What is up with that?
And you appear to clearly misunderstand that most folks on here just don't give a rat's derriere HOW this "plays" to most Americans.
The issue being discussed is whether Joe Horn did the right thing, and the overwhelming concensus is "YES!"
"Most Americans" wouldn't know the "right thing" if it jumped up and bit them on the nose.
“I’m not talking about Freepers. I know that Mr. Horn is very popular here. I’m talking about the vast majority of the rest of America, the ones that voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Dummies last election.”
Vast majority? I don’t think it’s that bad. The utmost efforts of the left combined with the fecklessness of the Republicans and election fraud on an unbelievable scale to lose the pubbies the majority. I don’t think that adds up tgo a vast majority.
Besides, the way this plays to idiots has little to do with whether or not it’s the medicine we need.
“Mr. Horn’s case will be used by the left as a prime example of the need for stricter gun control, beyond handguns and “assault rifles” and now extending to shotguns and all other types of weapons.”
Yes, of course they will squeal, and it is up to us to show that the reason they’re so afraid is that the seeds of their defeat are seen in incidents such as this.
“I’m not calling for a pragmatic approach to win votes, but this case just bothers me as a clear example of a man who, much like Officer Gardner of the Utah Highway Patrol, was much too eager to pull the trigger.”
No comparison. In the one case, the man was an ordinary citizen quibbling over a traffic ticket, in the other it was two dangerous felons. The only way Horn could have been too quick on the trigger was if he had shot these two before they went in the house.