@oralloy,
oralloy wrote:
Merry Andrew wrote:What I did say in the introduction to this thread was that the fact that four well-trained and well-armed police officers were gunned down in seconds kind of defeats your argument that going around heeled, packing serious heat, is the universal antidote to becoming a vic tim. Inasmuch as these officers obviously became victims I don't see how you can counter that.
Actually it is quite easy to counter. The fact that having a gun did not result in a successful defense
in this situation in no way means that guns will not be useful for self-defense in all situations.
I woud have thought that 's obvious.
Its like your car almost
always starts right up easily, when u turn the key.
If one day, u go out in the morning and it fails to start,
u don 't throw it in the garbage and try to convince everyone else in America
to throw
HIS car in the garbage, that we all now become dedicated pedestrians
because it did not start some morning. Our tools don 't always work 100%.
In
this particular case, there was nothing rong with their guns;
their owners were lost in (cyber)space, in their portable computers.
David
