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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 949635" data-attributes="member: 14668">TOS,Congrats on your daughters success in school, and I mean that sincerely.I also agree with you that the guy who shot up his daughters computer is a complete maroon.Would you have such a problem with his actions if he had used, say, a hammer to destroy the laptop? What if he had driven over it with a car, or set it on fire, or hacked it up with a chainsaw? Or are you fixated upon the fact that he used a gun?His stupidity was in destroying the laptop. The tool he used...in this case a gun...was irrelevant.Do you feel you are being objective and rational when you take the actions of a single idiot and ascribe them to an entire group...in this case 80 million plus...gun owners? Where I come from, we call that sort of thinking predjudice and bigotry. You assume that all gun owners act and behave the same way this idiot did, and that is not only incorrect but it is truly unfair.You hate guns. I get it. You have the right to your feelings. That doesnt mean you have the right to pre-judge 80 million responsible, law-abiding gun owners who didnt do anything illegal or stupid yesterday. To do that is no different than assuming that everybody who has a car is an <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/group1/censored2.gif"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":censored2:" title="Censored2&nbsp; &nbsp; :censored2:" data-shortname=":censored2:" /> just because of the one idiot driver who cut you off in traffic last night. Irrational idiots come in all shapes and sizes and colors...and they do stupid things with guns or cars or alcohol or motorcycles or chain saws or drugs or any other thing you can possibly imagine. Peace</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 949635, member: 14668"] TOS, Congrats on your daughters success in school, and I mean that sincerely. I also agree with you that the guy who shot up his daughters computer is a complete maroon. Would you have such a problem with his actions if he had used, say, a hammer to destroy the laptop? What if he had driven over it with a car, or set it on fire, or hacked it up with a chainsaw? Or are you fixated upon the fact that he used a gun? [B]His stupidity was in destroying the laptop[/B]. The [I]tool[/I] he used...in this case a gun...was [I]irrelevant[/I]. Do you feel you are being objective and rational when you take the actions of a [I]single idiot[/I] and ascribe them to an [I]entire group[/I]...in this case 80 million plus...gun owners? Where I come from, we call that sort of thinking [I]predjudice and bigotry[/I]. You [I]assume[/I] that all gun owners act and behave the same way this idiot did, and that is not only incorrect but it is truly unfair. You hate guns. I get it. You have the right to your feelings. That [I]doesnt [/I]mean you have the right to pre-judge 80 million responsible, law-abiding gun owners who [I]didnt[/I] do anything illegal or stupid yesterday. To do that is [I]no[/I] different than assuming that [I]everybody[/I] who has a car is an :censored: just because of the [I]one[/I] idiot driver who cut you off in traffic last night. Irrational idiots come in all shapes and sizes and colors...and they do stupid things with guns or cars or alcohol or motorcycles or chain saws or drugs or any other thing you can possibly imagine. Peace [/QUOTE]

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