The Patent Pledge

Re:The Patent Pledge by doron on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @06:05PM (#2947789)

This line is repeated everywhere now, and it is hard to swallow. A deterrent is only useful if you employ it from time to time to demonstrate its power.

If you have offensive capacity you will be bound to use it.

Guns don't kill people, People kill people. Sure, but guns make it much easier, and by design, have the capacity for landing in the wrong hands.

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Re:The Patent Pledge by artursapek on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @10:19PM (#2948405)

A deterrent is only useful if you employ it from time to time to demonstrate its power.

Are you suggesting people who own guns should kill someone from time to time so nobody will fuck with them?

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Re:The Patent Pledge by doron on Wednesday August 31, 2011 @11:41PM (#2948571)

Are you suggesting that this is not how guns usually get used?

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Re:The Patent Pledge by randallsquared on Thursday September 01, 2011 @10:46AM (#2950208)

I'll suggest that.

Over 50 million households in the US own 200 million or more guns, collectively. If these guns were usually used this way, the US would be depopulated by gun violence in a decade or two.

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Re:The Patent Pledge by artursapek on Thursday September 01, 2011 @07:00PM (#2952157)

Thank you, I wasn't gonna bother

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