Jebldmm said a few pages back: 'I didn't understand how someone could have killed so many with only 2 handguns without anybody stopping him. Then I thought about the chaos, and the fact that nobody knew he only had two guns...'

IMO, when nobody else has a gun, and you have 2, that's a little beyond the 'only had 2 guns' formulation you used.

To me, it's like saying 'I had a stick of butter & he only had a battle ax & a sword, how could I lose?'.

Please remember, when he had to reload one gun, it doesn't mean the other one was empty. Plus, as others have mentioned, reloading a semi-auto handgun takes only a few seconds.

Anyone who would disparage the actions of unarmed, scared people in a life & death situations is a pathetic coward POS scumbag. Please feel free to disagree.

If Mr. Wade is healthy (& he looked pretty good to me when I watched one of their games last week) & if Shaq is motivated, then watch out everybody.

The real key is if Shaq is in shape or not (that game I watched, he didn't look particularily fat). He also gets more in shape as the rounds progress. If they make the conferance finals, I would be very surprised if they didn't make the finals.

Excerpt from Emily's ode to the misunderstood white boys: 'I think that adolescent white males often feel a huge amount of impotent rage explicitly BECAUSE they are shamed about the history of white male behavior. We presume that because they're white men they must have it easy, and they should feel personal guilt about the fate of the disenfranchised.'

Speaking as a white male (really, really white), I'd like to give my opinion that Emily's post is basically full of shit.

Any white male (unless they live in the most abject poverty or are being tortured by their parents/caregivers) has it waaaaayyy easier than just about any minority (unless said minority is very, very wealthy). Any white male who claims he is being discriminated against & society has it in for him, etc. etc. is by definition a whining pussy crybaby.

If the white male has directly caused or aided in the 'disenfranchisment' of others, then guilt is an appropriate emotion & those who don't feel some guilt are amoralistic twits (otherwise defined as current Republican types). If they haven't, then there is no guilt to feel.

Bottom line, this is the United States of White People. Has been since the beginning. Will probably be 100 years from now. IMO, any white person who doesn't understand that is either lying or is so naive they should be given a guardian to help them navigate the reality that is early 21st century America.

Emily responded by quoting one of my passages slamming white men who claim discrimination & then said that proved her point! WTF?!

I'm certainly not discriminated against. I've got it good, I'm a white male.

Why don't you reread my post before you make a further ass of yourself.

Emily, appreciate your post clarifying your prev post in response to mine. I better understand where you were coming from with what I first thought was a semi-incoherent comeback.

I now know it wasn't semi-incoherent at all. I do still disagree with your conjecture about all these poor downtrodden white boys. Whereas there are those who are bullied & picked on excessively (usually in their childhood years), I think in general those young men still have it easier in many ways than a minority youth, who might also be being picked on, but also lives in abject poverty or has to deal with language problems or having to work long hours in addition to attending school, etc.

In this huge country of ours I know there are many people who fit the profile you outlined. I have seen though, young white males try to take on the mantle of victimization for (IMO) inconsequential reasons and I guess it irks me.

Appreciate your well thought post. No problems with you disagreeing with my assertions. I made mistakes in wording them in absolutes. There are, of course, exceptions to my 'rules'. I'm sure there are young white males who are in serious trouble, not just those in the horrible circumstances that I excepted in my first post.

Most of those in that catagory are young & in school right now & I wish I could make them understand that school is only a small part of your life (hopefully) & that the bad experiences you might be living thru right now are transitory & the assholes makin you miserable wil soon be long gone.

I also hear from time to time adult white males complaining about how easy it is for the blacks, etc. & that the poor white male is the one who really has it hard (this from people who are living the American dream, IMO), and it really pisses me off. I thought I detected some echos of those comments in Emily's post & I responded. After reading another response of hers, I probably mentally mischaracterized her initial post.