farkles
Regular Member
My post below is placed here for you all to read since I am worried N&R might pull it down because I called this guy out, although last article they were not too bad. I have posted the post I was responding to as well.
""Capt. Spaulding
August 17, 2010 - 12:01 pm EDT
I truly feel sorry for all the folks who are so afraid of evil befalling them that they actually feel the need to arm themselves.
“Paranoia is a thought process heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. Historically, this characterization was used to describe any delusional state. “
A pretty accurate definition of everybody who purchases a gun for “self defense”, you poor-poor people who live in fear, they make pills for that I think.
Try counseling before you accidentally kill a family member, which statistically you stand about a 1 in 20 chance of doing, where as you stand about a 1 in 10000 chance in being burglarized, 1 in 250000 of being burgled while at home. You better hurry up as well since the FBI combined criminal statistics for this year show that violent crime has again dropped for NC, if you don’t get your blue steel security blanket pretty soon you won’t be able to rationalize it.
I use my guns for bird hunting, but I have no delusions about protecting my home from some unseen unnamed evil person, in fact I don’t fear too much of anything other than drunk drivers and crazies shooting off their guns at shadows and killing the wrong people.
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Spaulding, do you have the slightest idea of what you are speaking? It appears not.
You actually claim that if you own a gun you have a 1 in 20 chance of accidentally killing a family member? Do you like spouting complete worthless lies to try to scare other people into paranoia...Pretty sure you should read your post above and focus on your problem with paranoia from us gun owners.
1 in 20 you say...somewhere around 300 million privately owned guns in the US (http://www.truthbehindpolitics.com/2010/07/22/top-9-causes-of-accidental-death/). Are you claiming that 15Million people per year kill a family member accidentally?
If you cared about facts at all you might have researched a little bit more before typing anything (count to 10 backwards).
43,000 people died of vehicle accidents in 2000
13,000 people died of falling
3,800 drowned
3,000 died in surgery
776 died of accidental firearm discharge....out of 300 Million guns
You want to re-think your insane data?
These same flaws relate to your entire post, so it should be nearly disregarded. About our ownership of guns because we are obsessively paranoid: I suppose that since your house is unlikely to be burgled, you have not installed locks on your doors right? I guess since you house is probably not going to burn down, there is no reason to install smoke detectors or keep a fire extinguisher on hand (in fact you should probably bring your propane tank inside the house to be safe). The average person isn't likely to be in a sever car crash, so there is not really a need for seatbelts or have airbags installed. Come to think of it, I guess it is a waste of our tax dollars to even have a police force or fire department since all these things are so rare. When someone dies or a house catches fire, oh well, it is rare, so we will just excuse it.
Obviously the rational reasonable people can follow me at this point and realize you lost your mind by telling us we are delusional and hyper paranoid. Our gun is simply a means of defending ourselves if we ever need it (hopefully we never will) at some point in our life.
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""Capt. Spaulding
August 17, 2010 - 12:01 pm EDT
I truly feel sorry for all the folks who are so afraid of evil befalling them that they actually feel the need to arm themselves.
“Paranoia is a thought process heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. Historically, this characterization was used to describe any delusional state. “
A pretty accurate definition of everybody who purchases a gun for “self defense”, you poor-poor people who live in fear, they make pills for that I think.
Try counseling before you accidentally kill a family member, which statistically you stand about a 1 in 20 chance of doing, where as you stand about a 1 in 10000 chance in being burglarized, 1 in 250000 of being burgled while at home. You better hurry up as well since the FBI combined criminal statistics for this year show that violent crime has again dropped for NC, if you don’t get your blue steel security blanket pretty soon you won’t be able to rationalize it.
I use my guns for bird hunting, but I have no delusions about protecting my home from some unseen unnamed evil person, in fact I don’t fear too much of anything other than drunk drivers and crazies shooting off their guns at shadows and killing the wrong people.
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Spaulding, do you have the slightest idea of what you are speaking? It appears not.
You actually claim that if you own a gun you have a 1 in 20 chance of accidentally killing a family member? Do you like spouting complete worthless lies to try to scare other people into paranoia...Pretty sure you should read your post above and focus on your problem with paranoia from us gun owners.
1 in 20 you say...somewhere around 300 million privately owned guns in the US (http://www.truthbehindpolitics.com/2010/07/22/top-9-causes-of-accidental-death/). Are you claiming that 15Million people per year kill a family member accidentally?
If you cared about facts at all you might have researched a little bit more before typing anything (count to 10 backwards).
43,000 people died of vehicle accidents in 2000
13,000 people died of falling
3,800 drowned
3,000 died in surgery
776 died of accidental firearm discharge....out of 300 Million guns
You want to re-think your insane data?
These same flaws relate to your entire post, so it should be nearly disregarded. About our ownership of guns because we are obsessively paranoid: I suppose that since your house is unlikely to be burgled, you have not installed locks on your doors right? I guess since you house is probably not going to burn down, there is no reason to install smoke detectors or keep a fire extinguisher on hand (in fact you should probably bring your propane tank inside the house to be safe). The average person isn't likely to be in a sever car crash, so there is not really a need for seatbelts or have airbags installed. Come to think of it, I guess it is a waste of our tax dollars to even have a police force or fire department since all these things are so rare. When someone dies or a house catches fire, oh well, it is rare, so we will just excuse it.
Obviously the rational reasonable people can follow me at this point and realize you lost your mind by telling us we are delusional and hyper paranoid. Our gun is simply a means of defending ourselves if we ever need it (hopefully we never will) at some point in our life.
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