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Published Letters: 1979
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OK when 400,000 people are murdered by guns in one calendar year in America I will hold you to your word. I'll make sure not to kill a busload of people with my second smoke and we'll call it a draw.
This is why I love this country. It's too insane to make fun of.
I understand 'Guns' are just a barometric issue in America. It's unfixable to anyone's satisfaction and it always will be. Like abortion and whatnot. It's not how it gets solved it's how it frames you personally. I'm fine with that. Soon we'll put 'global warming', 'evolution' and even 'science' in the same basket. And when instead of 10 or 20,000 people a year gunned down it's 3 or 4x that I will laugh and laugh and laugh. You bring the smores we'll watch America burn down together. Soon it will look like Sierre Leon or Angola in the US and the same rejects will be screaming for a few more guns to 'keep the situation under control'. All I can tell you from having lived in some pretty violent anarchic lawless places that guns neither harm nor fix anything after a certain point. Mass killings will just become part of the scenery. I've seen it, I'm fine with it, I hope you learn to adjust.
Call in a fucking air strike and kill everyone. I think I heard several hundred NRA members climax.
I betcha there were a whole bunch of people in Africa or somewhere in Asia who died yesterday & who weren't blessed with either your anger or your guilt. Not everything in the known universe is some asshole internet politcal screed.
When the US State Dept called it "The most dangerous nation not actually at war" we were regularly reminded by the local police to:
1 - Drive with the windows up and doors locked all the time
2 - Run every red light
3 - If anyone tries to stand in your way or flag you down, either avoid them, or if you have to, run them over
4 - When you get to where you're going, get off the street ASAP
The last thing you want is to get in a gunfight with someone who's already waiting for you. It's a dumb move every time. My car will beat your gun every time.
Similarly in Brazil in the '90's a friend of mine was rushed by a pursethief on a motorbike. Except the strap didn't break and she was dragged into the curb and killed by a skull fracture. I don't anyone who could have shot and killed the thief beyond 7 meters, moving away, in traffic.
And FWIW the 'average' mugging takes less than 20 seconds. Try outfoxing a guy who's already got his knife or gun on you in that amount of time with your concealed piece. You will be dead or injured and your gun will get stolen. If you're in arm's length you have a better chance with Krav Maga which was created specifically to disarm an opponent in close quarters.
Why? Because his peers and profesionals would probably have ability, contact or insight or let's face it, the interest in diagnosing and treating him. It's not about him, it's about us and the baggage we carry around with us about Asian stereotypes.
If we arm all the drunk frat boys they will protect us from the armed lunatics.
Ornette Coleman just won the Pulitzer Prize for music and he blows the wheels off Marsalis. Not even in the same league.
Just to see the looks on your dumb mugs. As discussed earlier there appears to be no upper limit in the number of gun deaths America is willing to tolerate before taking some action. I for one am fine with that. With 27 states having passed or trying to pass 'stand and deliver' laws that for the most part give free licence to shooting anyone in the street for about any reason I look forward to wading through blood puddles on my way to retarded ideological selfrighteousness.
70 million gun owners owning more guns than there are Americans. I say hand out weapons to everyone who can hold one and let nature take its course. There is zero downside to gun deaths in America. None at all.
In fact, I heard yesterday that one of the reasons Charles Whitman was able to kill and maim so many people was that, being Texass, people actually DROVE TO the site to see if they could see a good old fashioned Texas gunfight. Wow that is a special kind of redneck stupid and we can only be better off for a little chlorine in the gene pool.
So yeah - for every internet tough guy who would doubletap the bad guys I say Shit-Howdy, Pard. Let's fuck some shit up and with any luck you will have not reproduced successfully by then.
Sign that man up. In fact, make him a columnist. He and Gary Kamiya can fight over who's aluminum hat is cuter.
People criticized Jazz as Negro Devil Music makin all dem White Women sexually loose, maybe dope fiends too. So I figure current course and speed in about 30 years there will be a Snoop Dogg Chair for Urban Music at Juliard.
Shake your fist at God.
Which is where the Islamic world and the west veered off from one another. Everything since then has been some white guy/Jew/American's fault.
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The more guns and fewer laws you have eventually the fewer gun owners you have. So it's self correcting over time. Though that time my next door neighbor killed himself with a nail gun, I think he was just showing off.
Remember, everyone will eventually die. If it's at the hand of gun wielding maniac, so what? You're just cutting to the head of the line.
Media mogul ruling dermatologists.
We own your asses.