Thoughts on Paris

[MechAg94]

http://monsterhunternation.com/2015/11/16/thoughts-on-paris/#comments

I thought I would drop this link here.  It is a good read IMO.  I have seen a lot of comments by people who seem to think concealed carry or any personal defense effort is completely useless against terrorism.  

Larry Correia wrote this down in the comments.  

This just illustrates another phenomena I see a lot on the internet. I like to call it the Dracula riding Godzilla effect. So you’ve got a violent encounter somewhere. Immediately the anti-gun jackasses launch with but Your gun is useless when there are ten terrorists with AK-47s! or Your gun is useless when you’re suddenly attacked by a dozen ninjas in a surprise attack! Oh yeah! What if the mall is attacked by Dracula riding Godzilla! What good is your CCW then, huh?!

Got me there. But you’re not normally fighting an entire fire team of dedicated bad guys, and if you are, then see above. Speed bump. This is reduction to the absurd, where they make up unlikely hypothetical situations doomed to absolute failure. The problem there is that these situations are so ridiculous that you could take the most highly trained special operator war heroes America has ever produced, and they’d also be stepped on by Godzilla, ergo no guns for anybody.

[MechAg94]

https://youtu.be/RqcL-y457Ds
Of course, CHL may have limited usefulness against terrierism.

[Perd Hapley]

https://youtu.be/RqcL-y457Ds

Pretty good Denzel Washington impression.

[Angel Eyes]

"An armed citizenry might be the answer to terrorism"

https://youtu.be/mezNb09KaIo

[Scout26]

https://youtu.be/RqcL-y457Ds
Of course, CHL may have limited usefulness against terrierism.

Turn on the Closed Captioning, Youtube is a might confuddled on the dialogue.

[brimic]

I saw a recent report about the kenya mall attack where it was a few security guards and idpa shooters armed with handfuns and wrecking balls for testicles that saved quite a few lives in a veey similar situation.

[vaskidmark]

But some law-abiding citizen with a handgun will only be protecting themself and their family.  They will not be protecting all the rest of those folks who are getting/going to get killed.

Selfish NRA!

stay safe.

[KD5NRH]

But some law-abiding citizen with a handgun will only be protecting themself and their family.  They will not be protecting all the rest of those folks who are getting/going to get killed.

Well, y'now, if the tango is facing away from me, a bullet to the base of the skull is a pretty damn effective way of making sure he doesn't turn around and become a threat.

[brimic]

Well, y'now, if the tango is facing away from me, a bullet to the base of the skull is a pretty damn effective way of making sure he doesn't turn around and become a threat.

I'm going to go out on a limb and make a prediction: In the near future, taking such action will make you a hero to 1/2 the country and a blood thirsty villain to the other half- you know, 'being white' and interfering with the 'victim's' right to religeon. Further, you'll fall under the mandatory minimum sentencing provision of the 2018 'Refugee and Black Lives Matter Protection Act' in which you will be thrown in prison filled with, you guessed it, ISIS gangs.

[TechMan]

I saw a recent report about the kenya mall attack where it was a few security guards and idpa shooters armed with handfuns and wrecking balls for testicles that saved quite a few lives in a veey similar situation.

You mean this one? http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/09/20/nairobi-kenya-westgate-mall-attack-al-shabab/

[Mannlicher]

and after all this, Paris, ISIS and the like, we still have folks that think it's a good thing to bring totally unvetted 'refugees' from Syria to America.   Damn.

[Boomhauer]

we still have folks that think it's a good thing to bring totally unvetted 'refugees' from Syria to America.

*expletive deleted*ing liberal/Christian "Hug A Haji" dipshits.