Monday, August 15, 2011

An Armed Society is a Polite Society


Wendy Whisman practicing.

..or so opined Glenn "InstaCracker" Reynolds.

Of course, I'd argue otherwise.  And my post about guns and bars the other day illustrates that perfectly.

Doing a bit more research into the incident at "Da Bomb" or Bombadier Club as it is also known paints a vivid picture of the perils of gunloonery.  As the news accounts note, Ms. Whisman apparently got into an argument over a pool table inside the bar.  This argument escalated into a fistfight between Ms. Whisman's boyfriend and another man.


Whisman--no longer "Da Bomb"
This is where things should have ended.  A fat lip, a bloody nose..maybe a chipped tooth.

But it didn't.  Because Wendy Whisman pulled her gun.

She fired into the crowd, striking another woman (who had come to the club to celebrate a birthday) and a man.  Fortunately, both suffered wounds that weren't life-threatening.

What's revealing is that Whisman isn't some "gangbanger" (the term used by gunloons to describe those who misuse guns); she isn't some kid, she's 40 with kids.  Because Whisman elected to go drinking--with a gun--her life has changed forever.  She faces some pretty serious jail time and I'd imagine a couple of civil suits.

The moral is pretty clear; every gunloon believes he is going to be responsible and make the right decision appropriate to the situation.  Wendy Whisman probably thought so as well.

2 comments:

  1. Of course, the title quotation comes from Science Fiction writer Robert Heinlein's book Beyond This Horizon.

    But the gunloon position appears to be based upon fiction of various sorts:from pseudohistory and pseudoscholarship.

    To the outright scientific falsehoods of John Lott.

    I wonder why he still has a job but Michael Bellesisles doesn't?

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  2. Because Michael Belleisles admitted he lied?

    John Lott is a sack of shit and anyone who uses his "research" to support their stance on gunz knows this.

    How did that young gunzslingerezz get all banged up?

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