[ExI] Gunfight at the OK Convention

[William Flynn Wallace]

 I wonder if anyone would go to such lengths to sabotage the GOP
convention.  adrian

You mean they are not going to do it to themselves?  Like they are now?
It'a perfect cover for them to shoot Trump by 'accident'.

quote of the day - From Dilbert:  Dilbert "Do you want my opinion?"
 Dogbert  "What are the odds of that?"

bill w

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:09 AM, Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mar 28, 2016 1:21 AM, "Anders Sandberg" <anders at aleph.se> wrote:
> > I got the impression the petition was  actually started by a bunch of
> democrat gadflies. But the joke is a pretty good one. Whenever I encounter
> someone being irrationally optimistic about the politeness and peacemaking
> properties of guns I suggest that this is why we ought to arm prisoners.
>
> Taking it from Spike's posts that the topic is not banned...
>
> I'm trying to think through how this would actually work.  Even at their
> angriest, they would remember the guns are deadly force and so wouldn't
> fire on anyone they don't think is about to fire on them, right?  So to get
> something like a bar fight with guns going, it seems like first you would
> need to physically separate the groups (which may naturally happen) so they
> have clear targets instead of not knowing who near them is on what side,
> and then you would need to light fireworks or something to confuse the
> groups into thinking they're being shot at.  It doesn't seem that hard to
> do (and perhaps to get away with: putting tape-covered small objects here
> and there, walking a safe distance away once that's done and the groups gel
> out, detonating the fireworks via remote, and then escaping with everyone
> else fleeing the scene), but I wonder if anyone would go to such lengths to
> sabotage the GOP convention.
>
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