Re: [OT] Rather Polite of Him, Wouldn't You Say?

In article <12m0mstdjc9ptd2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
HeyBub <heybubNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Pete Dashwood wrote:

Thanks for that, DOC.

You can see why we don't want the Police to have guns... :-)


We often suggest the cops have more training. There was a case in NY a
couple of years ago where four detectives shot at a goblin 42 times, from 15
feet, and only scored 19 hits.

In general, however, we Texans encourage most people - not just the
constabulary - to carry guns. "An armed society is a polite society" as the
saying goes.

That saying, of course, accounts for the *exquisite* politesse of the
Japanese... ummmm, the Chinese... ummmmm, the Swedes... oh well, it
accounts for the well-known politesse of Dodge City... ummmmmm,
Tombstone... ummmmm... hey, a lot of those 'sayings' are just old wives'
tales, anyhow.

(Before anyone trots out that fine, old chestnut about how the murder
rate in Dodge City during the height of the Wild West Daze was half that
in Washington, DC in the 1990s... remember, the assertion was about being
*polite*, not about committing murder; the phenomenon of politesse is, I
would say, an intricate social phenomenon having to do more with the
aspiring towards a reified ideal than a fear of unlawful death... as the
saying goes, 'Cowards die a thousand deaths, the valiant taste of death
but once'.)

DD

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