| which decries packing heat in church as it is an infinitesimally unlikely event to occur in your vicinity. here is the linkwww.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-nichols-mass-shooting-irrational-20171108-story.htmlHowever, in the midst of all of that, other people scorned and mocked such a ridiculous notion as this is what followed Tom Nichols reposting his argument against packing heat in church.This is because people who believe that low-probability events are more common than they are latch on to every example of a low-probability event as proof. It's called confirmation bias. It';s dumb, but very human. /2— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 30, 2019.For those of you who'd like to read the piece from the @latimes, it's here:t.co/FM2M0fcNF5/3x— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 30, 2019Protect your churches, your synagogues, your temples, and your mosques, and do not buy the bulls*** peddled here that wanting to defend your houses of worship is something you should be ashamed of. t.co/M3smdX6k0b— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) December 30, 2019No matter your faith, never let anyone shame you for wanting to be able to defend your house of worship. t.co/JudoBQhxw8— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) December 30, 2019Nichols’s arguments about insurance and guns in churches are just that kind of uneducated nonsense that Nichols has been generating for years. Of course you buy insurance against high cost, low probability events. That’s what insurance is for. That’s the reason you can buy major-medical insurance (or at least to be able to) and it takes the force of the federal government to let you get insurance for a pre-existing condition. If you own a gun, Nichols’s entire argument breaks down. Because you have a choice, in Texas, of either bringing it to church or not. If you don’t, you’re essentially engaging is a bet that nothing bad will happen. It is basically like choosing not to wear a seatbelt. The odds of you needing it are damned small, but you have it so why tempt the Fates?Gun nut conservatives: Liberals worry too much about guns, they want to ban them because they're just weenies who have a fear of guns.Also gun nut conservatives: People shooting it out in churches is so common that we should all be packing in the pews every Sunday morning.— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) December 30, 2019The dragging Nichols took did nothing to improve his temper and soon he was hiding behind his expertise of being an expert. That didn’t go well.Tom thinks people should lose the constitutional right to defend themselves because I corncobbed him t.co/cL3HvAU2px— JERRY DUNLEAVY (@JerryDunleavy) December 30, 2019The incident in Texas ended with the loss of three lives ONLY because Texas allows concealed carry in churches. Period. Otherwise the shooter would have had a field day racking up a body count if that was his intent. It ended as it did because the ‘good guy with a gun’ had the training, reflexes, and presence of mind to make it work. We don’t know how it would have played out if Wilson had not been there but we can surmise that the five people who pull pieces in the video of the shooting would have soon given the shooter something to be concerned about.To claim that this does not make a case for how concealed carry can reduce the impact of random shootings and to try to argue that a church full of unarmed worshipers would have fared better because of expert expertise experting is demeaning to anyone reading the argument and it should be demeaning to the idiot making it…well it was demeaning to him, he just doesn’t have the expertise to realize it.@RadioFreeTom a war was fought here in the U.S. to end slavery, but apparently it still exists, as Jerry is clearly your owner. |