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fantome profane

Anti-Woke = Anti-Justice
Premium Member
Here is an idea for consideration concerning the upcoming NRA convention.

Everyone attending should be required to carry a gun. No admission unless you can show that you have a loaded gun on your person, rifle or hand gun doesn’t matter, just as long as you can kill someone.

According to what I have been told that should make it the safest place on the planet. All these good people with guns, what could go wrong?


Do you think that would be a safe place to be?
 
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Ella S.

Dispassionate Goth
Any answer would be speculative, I think. This seems like something that would need to be tested.

I think we could quantitatively define "going wrong" for the sake of experiment, but doing this just once would give us too small of a sample size. Ideally, we would want to run the test on a number of randomly-selected convention centers in order to get decent data.
 

74x12

Well-Known Member
Here is an idea for consideration concerning the upcoming NRA convention.

Everyone attended should be required to carry a gun. No admission unless you can show that you have a loaded gun on your person, rifle or hand gun doesn’t matter, just as long as you can kill someone.

According to what I have been told that should make it the safest place on the planet. All these good people with guns, what could go wrong?


Do you think that would be a safe place to be?
It would likely be very safe, yes.
 

Wildswanderer

Veteran Member
Here is an idea for consideration concerning the upcoming NRA convention.

Everyone attended should be required to carry a gun. No admission unless you can show that you have a loaded gun on your person, rifle or hand gun doesn’t matter, just as long as you can kill someone.

According to what I have been told that should make it the safest place on the planet. All these good people with guns, what could go wrong?


Do you think that would be a safe place to be?
Is this some kind of " gotcha" ? Because you know there will probably be plenty of armed people there, correct? You can't carry during Trumps speech because of a rule by the secret service , not the NRA.
 

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Here is an idea for consideration concerning the upcoming NRA convention.

Everyone attended should be required to carry a gun. No admission unless you can show that you have a loaded gun on your person, rifle or hand gun doesn’t matter, just as long as you can kill someone.

According to what I have been told that should make it the safest place on the planet. All these good people with guns, what could go wrong?


Do you think that would be a safe place to be?
As safe as a police station I would think.
 

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member
Any answer would be speculative, I think. This seems like something that would need to be tested.

I think we could quantitatively define "going wrong" for the sake of experiment, but doing this just once would give us too small of a sample size. Ideally, we would want to run the test on a number of randomly-selected convention centers in order to get decent data.

Yes, we need to do studies which means we need government funding.
 

fantome profane

Anti-Woke = Anti-Justice
Premium Member
Is this some kind of " gotcha" ? Because you know there will probably be plenty of armed people there, correct? You can't carry during Trumps speech because of a rule by the secret service , not the NRA.
So apparently the secret service doesn’t think it would be safe.

But no, it was not intended as a “gotcha”, it was intended as a thought experiment, an “intuition pump” if you like.
 

Nakosis

Non-Binary Physicalist
Premium Member

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.

viole

Ontological Naturalist
Premium Member
Here is an idea for consideration concerning the upcoming NRA convention.

Everyone attending should be required to carry a gun. No admission unless you can show that you have a loaded gun on your person, rifle or hand gun doesn’t matter, just as long as you can kill someone.

According to what I have been told that should make it the safest place on the planet. All these good people with guns, what could go wrong?


Do you think that would be a safe place to be?
I would feel more comfortable in Europe. Where nobody carries guns, For obvious reasons.

Ciao

- viole
 

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
Here is an idea for consideration concerning the upcoming NRA convention.

Everyone attending should be required to carry a gun. No admission unless you can show that you have a loaded gun on your person, rifle or hand gun doesn’t matter, just as long as you can kill someone.

According to what I have been told that should make it the safest place on the planet. All these good people with guns, what could go wrong?


Do you think that would be a safe place to be?

I wouldn't expect any kind of shoot out to happen.

I mean, wherever I go at any given time, I expect a third of the people around me are likely armed. I don't worry so much about these things. Besides, I'm usually polite and well-mannered, so I don't give anyone any cause to shoot me.
 

74x12

Well-Known Member
So apparently the secret service doesn’t think it would be safe.

But no, it was not intended as a “gotcha”, it was intended as a thought experiment, an “intuition pump” if you like.
In the case of a political candidate or possible target of political assassination like Trump then yes it is unsafe to have people armed. Because there are plenty of people willing to die to take a shot at Trump. But in the case of ordinary people ... going to a fully armed convention is really safe.

Most mass shooters are looking for high kill counts even if they are suicidal. They want as many kills as possible because they want to be remembered and feared. It goes back to the man in ancient times who burned a temple down just to get notoriety. It's the same thing. The ancient Greeks were apalled to find out this man's motive. So they made sure that history didn't record his name so he wouldn't get what he wished.

So my point is that mass shooters aren't likely to get a high kill count in a place that is fully armed. They will pick soft targets like elementary schools which are "gun free zones".

So I think you are quite safe in a place where everyone is armed. More safe than ordinary actually.
 

fantome profane

Anti-Woke = Anti-Justice
Premium Member
I wouldn't expect any kind of shoot out to happen.

I mean, wherever I go at any given time, I expect a third of the people around me are likely armed. I don't worry so much about these things. Besides, I'm usually polite and well-mannered, so I don't give anyone any cause to shoot me.
I also try to behave myself in public, but not because I am afraid of getting shot.

I am glad to live somewhere where I have a he freedom to be an ***, whether or not I choose to exercise that freedom.
 

F1fan

Veteran Member
I'm pretty sure the convention with fully armed attendees would end up something like this when a gun sale goes bad and someone else admits they are with the federal government

 

Stonetree

Model Member
Premium Member
I wouldn't expect any kind of shoot out to happen.

I mean, wherever I go at any given time, I expect a third of the people around me are likely armed. I don't worry so much about these things. Besides, I'm usually polite and well-mannered, so I don't give anyone any cause to shoot me.
Okay Buster, hands against the wall and spread da legs. Not from around here,huh?
 

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Here is an idea for consideration concerning the upcoming NRA convention.

Everyone attending should be required to carry a gun. No admission unless you can show that you have a loaded gun on your person, rifle or hand gun doesn’t matter, just as long as you can kill someone.

According to what I have been told that should make it the safest place on the planet. All these good people with guns, what could go wrong?


Do you think that would be a safe place to be?
I've been to many gun shows
where everyone was armed.
Never saw any trouble.
BTW, they typically verify
that the chamber is empty.
 

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
I'm pretty sure the convention with fully armed attendees would end up something like this when a gun sale goes bad and someone else admits they are with the federal government


Or it might be like this scene from Repo Man.

 
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