Reply #9: No longer divorced from context., (had to jump in lol) [View All]

[beevul]

"Mr. Mannard said the fact that it is being raffled off to help fund a memorial dedicated to officers killed in the line of duty is disturbing. "

"To raffle off a gun used, more often than not, to kill innocent people, and particularly law-enforcement officers, is pretty misguided,'' he said. ``To raise money for a memorial is wonderful, but you'd hate to see an officer's name go up on that memorial because they're killed by an AR-15 or a similar weapon."

"That's highly unlikely, said Det. Karzin. "

"Only one officer in the last 44 years has been killed by a weapon of this sort in the state of Illinois," he said. "

"It strikes me that someone is making a great big dumb ugly mountain out of a bit of a misspoken molehill. This was obviously a snippet of oral speech, in which people, more often than not, say things that are quite incoherent when divorced from context, inflection, etc."

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"It strikes me that what was meant by this statement was "a gun used more often than other types of firearms to kill innocent people" -- more often than not this kind of gun. Which might, itself, be a bit of hyperbole, but hyperbole is a fact of life."-Iverglass.

This:"To raffle off a gun used, more often than not, to kill innocent people, and particularly law-enforcement officers, is pretty misguided" is the person in question's exact words, context and all.

Does that clear things up any? I mean, in all honesty, if as the detective said, "Only one officer in the last 44 years has been killed by a weapon of this sort in the state of Illinois," is true, then what could this gun be used more than? A flintlock? A cheeseburger? A bearded lady?

I believe the fact of the matter to be that this was an anti, who got caught saying something untruthful to the media. Even the police disagree with his statement.

Staying civil :evilgrin: hehe