Reply #95: gee, I wonder [View All]

[iverglas]

During such 20 years, this fairy tale has neve<r> come true.

Could this perhaps be because the condition precedent, the sine qua non, for it to have come true is for someone to do something like start shooting at the band at a rock concert?

And precisely how many times has that particular fairy tale, the one that rkba-head dreams really do seem to be made of, come true?

Oh look. We have one. And apparently none of your white-knight concealed firearms carriers were armed and on hand to finish the tale for us. So what do we actually know about what would have happened had they been? Hmm. Looks to me like nothing.

So me, I'm seeing no more basis for calling the scenario that was presented a fairy tale than I see for calling the scenario of the ready, willing, able, responsible, trustworthy, perspicacious, licensed concealed firearm carrier cleanly taking out the bad guy ... and none of his/her ready, willing and able colleagues being somewhat less responsible or trustworthy or perspicacious and fucking up and someone else getting hurt/killed as a result.

It's all a matter of what one considers reasonable to predict on the basis of past experience and general knowledge and what risks one regards as worth taking. One person's fairy tale is another person's nightmare, and which it is will depend also on how honest everyone is being and what s/he might be concealing, like an agenda based on something other than the public interest.