And I'm also going to exhibit far more empathy to Uncle Harry's comic shop getting burned down than Walmart.

Could you please elaborate? Or at least tell me where I can get a D*ick Tracy Decoder Ring(TM) without having to buy a dozen boxes of Crackerjacks(TM) hoping to find one?

Happy Thanksgiving, RFlushDiamonds!

I mostly agree with this. I certainly have far more sympathy for the owner of the comic shop. On the other hand, a WalMart burning down would make far more people losing their jobs.

Of course, if Harry doesn't have fire insurance, then what happened to Harry is far worse than the WalMart burning down.

Looks like insurance companies might have to start offering Riot Insurance (at least in blue states).

Happy Thanksgiving, formula72!

Judges set bail against the charges prosecutors bring. I'll let you figure out the rest.

So you're a lawyer who doesn't argue using the basics of the law and the legal system.

Sounds about right.

Not Dick Tracy, Lee Atwater. All you have to do is google Southern Strategy.

Well then, as I said, you'd better build a fortified compound with a water tower to keep your family safe. I'm pretty sure a gun isn't going to do much against the angry mobs that are (for some reason known only to you) about to come down your street and burn you out of your house.

Thanks. I didn't realize how radical Krasner was.

No wonder all the Ditto Heads here are spewing their 'end of law and order' talking points.
Black people who can vote for their own best interests still scare the hell out of them after all these years. lol

I understand the Southern Strategy. But, I am asking specifically for the Rosetta Stone so I can decipher the FoxNewsSpeak.

Race-baiting politicians in both parties despise people who choose to think for themselves. Just like defense lawyers hate jurors who have IQ's over 100 (if they think they have a weak case).

Sure. I'm talking about some of the posters here though. People who would likely tell you they think for themselves.

I just think it's interesting how they all come out with the same shtick on the same day over and over.
So many independent thinkers coming up with the same thoughts at the same time. They must all be geniuses.

Well said!

Whose going to play Kyle in the inevitable Bio-pic? One of the kids from Stranger Things?

If KR was capable to play his cards to perfection post verdict, he could actually become one of the most powerful right wing figures for a good amount of time.

Forget the two tours in Iraq or the sands of Iwo Jima, he defended someone else's town when no one else would step up to the position and giveth calm in their neighborhood.

Oh, I can think of several things each person should and/or shouldn't have done that would have led to no one getting shot (or getting hit by a car intentionally). Somehow the, "I don't think everyone has the emotional stability to own a gun" needs to be reiterated.

I love the willful blindness in the wake of rioters attacking random homes just a year ago.

Also, if you're anti-gun, you really shouldn't make an argument for why the AR15 is one of the best self-defense weapons.

Which is a direct counter to the idea that the more 'Good Guys with Guns' in society we have the more they can protect themselves and prevent crimes.

Fact is that your Realtor example, or this Librarian, is in far more danger in a society where her daily interactions that have nothing to do with crime (family, friend, coworker, general populace interactions such as road rage, etc) then she is if she has no gun and is visited by random crime.

As you add guns to the 'Good Guys' society gets less and less safe.

Who said I was anti gun ? I'm anti vigilante.

Anyway, a few links would help. I keep trying find out about these home invasions but I don't have all day to look for articles you claim exist but I don't see.

CHAZ was actually a good example of vigilantism though. Although I can see why segments of society are sick of the status quo the long term solution isn't going to by anarchy.

Anyway, what am I ignoring ? A gun may help me in certain unlikely situations but if people are burning down my street I'm leaving.
I'd be much more likely to take a defensive position is some types of businesses if I thought I needed to prepare for a shoot out then in my house. Drywall burns well and doesn't stop live rounds at all.

Besides, I've been in fights and I've taken runs. Running hurts way less.

He should move to WV and primary Manchin.

This is a direct example of how what in most normal societies would end at harsh words or maybe a fist fight turns into an execution.


In spoilers for those who do not like to see someone murdered over nonsense.

Well, standing on your own property with a firearm not pointed at anyone is not being a vigilante - neither is protecting your family from a mob.

Literally all you have to type into youtube keywords about rioting and residential areas and you'll get plenty of evidence that riots were not just contained to businesses.





Idiots go at it so therefore guns are not useful for self-defense?

Why the strawman?

Looks like you know you are wrong and you trying to divert.

No one is saying a gun in the hands of a 'good guy' if and when they end up the unfortunate reverse lottery winner and and are face with violent crime, cannot be helpful in improving their chance of surviving.

What I am saying (and proving) is that those guns in the hands of more 'good guys' result in way, way, WAY more good guy deaths at the hands of their family, neighbours, friends, work colleagues or just general incidents like road rage, then would happen if they had no guns.

Have you heard the expression 'the cure is worse than the disease' and do you know what it means? It means more deaths result from that secondary action that would not occur if not for that first action (securing a gun) taken.

Here's an example from this morning's WSJ: "San Francisco officers made 131 arrests for felony domestic violence during the fourth quarter of 2020. Chesa Boudin's office dismissed 113, or 86 per cent of them."

Lol. All I merely did was show you an example of a gun being used in self-defense. We can go video-to-video of you posting idiots with a gun and myself posting a person rightfully defending his or her life with one.

Yeah, we get it - you think there is no such thing as a good guy with a gun, which is why you feel compelled to place good guy within quotes each time, because you feel said "good guy" will become a "bad guy" with a gun just by nature of owning one.

Unless your ass is in a sling and the police show up with guns to help you. Well, the reality is that lady and her family in the video I posted would very likely have been dead by the time police arrived.

Protecting your business is protecting your property and livelihood. I assume that you wouldn’t consider people you hired to protect your family as vigilantes but would consider people you hired to protect your business as vigilantes. Is that about right? Certainly you can contract to provide armed protection for your business and it is legal.

In WI there are regulations and of course Rittenhouse doesn’t qualify. Most people in this thread seem to be in agreement that Rittenhouse had no business as an armed protector of a business. Still there obviously is a demand at some level for armed protection by private interests.

Agreed.... and,, we don't need to go that route gentlemen.