Here's what I think about the argument over the Second Amendment...

[dickthegrouch]

56. Re-read what I wrote

"in a public place"

Everyone carrying in a public place who thinks they might want to defend themselves is inherently potentially a combatant, so yes, I stand by that.

The gun proponents think if a few others had been carrying in Aurora, they might have save people. I think it would have been a free-for-all with no-one able to identify the "good" guys or the bad guys (especially in the darkened theatre).

Even if there were only one bad guy and say 5 "good" guys in the theatre, they'd have no idea which of the 5 of them were "good" or bad, bullets would be flying in all directions and even the cops would have a hard time sorting out which side any of them were really on. I'd much rather have no guns in that public place in the first place. If I can't have that, I'll have all of them self-identified and I'll choose whether to ask for my money back when there's too many in any one place. Perhaps I'll soon ask for gun-free auditoriums just like I ask for smoke-free ones.

But as many other posters have suggested, the gun lovers don't feel it is necessary to advance any solutions whatsoever. Therefore I am thinking slightly out of the box to assist in the solution finding. I despise anyone who can't see that there is a problem and it MUST be solved.