"Cell phone with a predialed 911 at your bedside might be better protection than a gun" (statistics, Obama)

[Drover]

Originally Posted by All American NYC

"Cell phone with a predialed 911 at your bedside might be better protection than a gun"

When they make a .40 cal pre-dialed phone, I'll be all over it.

[BentBow]

With guns and all the firepower the government has, we are sovereign free citizens, without them we are only subjects.


The government has one up on us now. We may not be subjects yet, as we still have out rights to our personal guns, but we have been made servants, by preventing us to own what they own.

[claudhopper]

I think you have a better chance of survival with the gun, than calling the troops that will also view you as the criminal.

[Little-Acorn]

Originally Posted by Justice Stevens

Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, speaking at an event hosted by the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence’s Legal Action Project, said Monday said that having “some kind of constitutional right to a cell phone with a predialed 911 at your bedside might be better protection than a gun.”.....Instead of relying on the 2nd Amendment and dealing with gun laws, wouldn’t it be more rational to rely directly on the right we all have to self-defense. What are your thoughts on that?’

Somebody should have asked him:

"Justice Stevens, you have a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. And you cannot be removed from the bench due to the decisions you make. Suppose you developed a mental problem and started ruling in unconstitutional ways, taking away our property, interfering with our freedom, and even imposing death sentences where none were deserved, on us."

"Justice Stevens, which device would better protect us from YOU? A phone dialing 911, or a gun?"

[D. Scott]

I will take the firearm. An intruder with intent on rape, murder and dismemberment, Possibly not in that order is going to let me make a cell phone call! Give me the gun and a cigarette. I will call the authorities after.

[plwhit]

Which solves the problem quickest:

a. grab the cell, push 9 1 1 and talk to an operator, wait for the police to arrive

b. grab the cell, push *2 and talk to an operator, wait for the police to arrive

c. grab your .38, point and pull the trigger

[Frugality]

Originally Posted by All American NYC

Put him in a house alone with nothing but a cell phone and a gun by his bed, let and intruder in, and see which he grabs first.

It looks like the comment was a joke.

[OICU812]

Originally Posted by whogo

Shooting a scumbag is a lot more fun.

I know someone who moved to rural Tennessee, and the local judge told him, over a beer, that if he has an encounter with a violent intruder, shoot to kill, we don't like loose ends here.

[Little-Acorn]

Originally Posted by Frugality

It looks like the comment was a joke.

Sure does.

The question is, did Justice Stevens know that?

[dnvrsoul]

I'll call 911 after the intruder gets some lead poisoning-