@cicerone imposter,
Quote:No matter how much evidence is presented to show that women with guns are more likely than not to be in harms way, these yokels on this thread continue to believe they are safer.
They've got to deny reality, and facts, because reality and facts interfere with their argument about why they need those guns in their homes.
The truth is, BillRM has his own emotional need for the guns--he feels less fearful with them--the
fact that his domestic partner is not only not better protected with those guns, she's less safe with them in the home, is in direct conflict with BillRM's
emotional need to have the guns, so he just denies and ignores reality so he can justify his
emotional need for guns.
His need to have the guns in the home is not based on objective fact, it's all subjective, but he can't admit that.
His need to deny the reality of what George Zimmerman is like is similar--he ignores and denies the reality of Zimmerman's behavior patterns, including his aggressive behaviors, his anger management problems, his poor judgment, his impaired impulse control, and his inappropriate use of gun threats to intimidate and control others, because that interferes with the agenda he's trying to promote, which is that Zimmerman's killing of Martin, after an alleged "attack" is a good example of why people need guns--except Zimmerman
provoked that entire episode and caused a needless and avoidable and tragic death of an unarmed kid, because the asshole couldn't control himself and just remain in his vehicle.
Had Zimmerman just been walking around his housing complex, and a stranger came out of the bushes and jumped him, and tried to mug him, and a fight ensued which ended when Zimmerman shot the man, out of fear for his life, BillRM would have a much better argument for his cause, but that wasn't the situation that night in February 2012.
He's been assassinating the character of Martin, with all sorts of distortions and lies, in an attempt to have him seen as a criminal type, so people will think he might have been planning criminal activity, and that he would jump and attack Zimmerman, just like a mugger, all in order to rationalize and excuse Zimmerman's terrible judgment in profiling and stalking an innocent kid who was just meandering around on his way home, not threatening or bothering anyone. And all in order to destroy any shred of sympathy for this kid, or his parents, because sympathy would cast doubt on the appropriateness of Zimmerman's actions, sympathy would acknowledge this was a tragic, and needless, and avoidable, death, so BillRM has to do his version of a "pound and grind" on Martin's reputation.
Zimmerman didn't need to have a gun that night, for self-protection, he needed the judgment, and self control, to remain in his truck until the police arrived. And that's what BillRM will never acknowledge.
