[geeks] What desk toy or "tchotchke" says "geek" to you?

[Brian Dunbar]

Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Mar 2006, Brian Dunbar wrote:
> 
> 
>>The signs on stores saying 'no carry on the premises' confound me -
>>the kind of people who _can_ carry are the people you _want_ as
>>customers.
> 
> 
> But they have GUNS!  And guns KILL PEOPLE!  And some of those people
> might be CHILDREN!  Won't someone think of the CHILDREN?
> 
> The thing that's always confused me about gun-control laws and signs
> like that is that the people they're trying to defend against (ie:
> criminals), by definition, don't follow laws/rules.
> 
> 
>>They're sober, not felons, they have enough cash to at least go
>>through the CCW course which ain't cheap ...
> 
> 
> Precisely.
> 

There was a shooting in Seattle over the weekend.  Wacko walks into a
house party, kills seven and offs himself when the police show up.

I commented in a Seattle specific forum

"If anyone at the party had been carrying the guy could have been put
down before he killed so many.

And was told

"yeah, thast's the answer, brian! MORE GUNS!
Genius!"

Exactly.  Unless he was being sarcastic?

I am not an ideologue, I just like solutions that work.

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Brian Dunbar
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