@shannonrwatts You simpering halfwit. Would you make murder more illegal? Criminals with ill intent walk past your silly signs.
Bob Owens
Tweeted on September 14, 2015
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The View From North Central Idaho
Ramblings on explosives, guns, politics, and sex by a redneck Idaho farm boy who became a software engineer living near Seattle.
I have this picture on my wall at work: http://debamboozled.com/others/gun-control-gun-free-zone-dang-now-what-do-we-do/
I have no idea who drew it, but it’s brilliant. I wonder if Oleg could do a high quality photo version of this. But the cartoonish drawing is certainly effective already.
The Half Hour New Hour did a good video on the subject.
I just looked closely at my printed copy of that picture. It’s marked “Brian Germain 2/16”. The person by that name I know is a skydiver and parachute designer… but this is a different guy, and I found his website: http://www.bgstudios.com Or here: http://www.cafepress.com/bgstudios.456249580
The signs are not for criminals.
They’re for you.
We could distill it down if need be;
The leaders of the anti rights movements aren’t so stupid as to believe a sign would deter a criminal, and they know we aren’t so stupid as to believe that either.
They also know that both he criminals and they in government will have their guns regardless of the laws.
They also know that a few of the law-abiding will actually be deterred by signs and laws.
Everything the criminal class (government and common criminals) does centers around gaining relative advantage, and so if they can manage to disarm a few of the honest, or reduce the number and effectiveness of our arms, or keep their opponents off balance with rules, distractions and frustrations, they’ll do it. Simple as that.
If we entertain them (such as arguing about the “effectiveness” of such laws when such was never the point) we’re bringing more of the same upon ourselves.
So to call them butt stupid for believing that a sign would stop a bank robber is to miss the point.
That sign is for you and me.
We’re the butt stupid ones– We fell for the rationalizations, we get all frustrated and incensed over the “stupidity” and we get intimidated and angry. In other words, the anti rights laws laws are having much of their intended effect. So why would they stop?