Nice comeback Potsie

Don't mind him. He's living in his own fantasyland where criminals run when an alarm goes off like In the ADT commercials. After all we all know commercials are And accurate representation of reality. And we all know a safe room will help you when you change a tire on the side of the road. But of course nobody has ever been mugged assaulted or raped while changing a tire.

First of all, great line about the Viagra. I'm gonna steal that and call it my own, okay?

Now.... Seriously, Larry, where do you live that there are a spate of vicious home invaders on every block? Doesn't a really good alarm system and safe room accomplish the same thing without the possibility of the homeowner getting killed?

I guess I just don't understand the need for a gun in today's society.

This is the kind of ridiculous nonsense that wingnuts believe about those of us on the opposite side. I don't live in a utopian society, but both of the above posters seem to have missed the fact that I posted that I had a very good home security system and a safe room. If intruders came in, there is zero chance I or my family would be harmed.

Seems much safer than everyone lurking around with a pistol. Someone, usually an innocent, always gets hurt. :thumbup:

I see your in hideing so I dont know where you live or care to. But if you see no need to own a gun you must not live in any of our major citys. I live in Bucks County PA. And we are starting to get a rash of home invations here in the country witch was very rare just a few years ago. But if you go into Philly just 50 miles south it ilke a shooting gallery. The same is happening in all major citys. So to each his own. If you dont want to own a gun to protect your familey it is ok with the rest of us. But never try to stop us from our duty of protecting ours. I will shoot to kill anyone that breaks into my home. Cheers.

Before you guys get your panties in a bunch and start beating each other with the flag you should get the facts straight:

While we do not like to admit it the Marine Corp is a branch of the Navy. The majority of the planes you see in the films of the Pacific theater were Navy and Marine Corp planes flown by Marine and Navy pilots. The Air Force was busy in Europe keeping the Army alive. However, it was the Air Force that flew the final mission into Tokyo that ended the whole mess.

The Japanese did try to invade the US on several occasions. They were successful on an island in the Aleutian chain off the coast of Alaska. I believe it was a unit of the US Army combined with a Canadian Army unit and the US Navy that retook the island. There have been pictures posted on UHH.

The story about the Japanese being afriad to invade because every American has a gun has been floating around for years. I do not beleive it is an "NRA wet dream" as someone stated. The story is just a piece of American folklore.

Marine Corp history has never attempted to place itself above any other service or to take credit for any action they did not deserve. For you to suggest otherwise is an insult.

The original post is an email making the rounds at this time. It is intended to show the results of the UKs effort to control guns in a bad way. I did not think much of it since it shows what can go wrong with guns in the hands of fools who don't understand the consequences of shooting someone and the illustrated problem is not unique to the UK. If anything the story demonstrates the need for more control, which I am not in favor of.

You know, I would be remiss if I didn't point out something obvious here... Gnslngr says that 'both of the above posters seem to have missed the fact that I posted that I had a very good home security system and a safe room." And he has the audacity to call others morons?

What a blubbering moron he is because he obviously can't read what he wrote. Specifically, he wrote:

"Doesn't a really good alarm system and safe room accomplish the same thing without the possibility of the homeowner getting killed?"

Can anyone help me out and show me where in that sentence this idiot said that he HAS an alarm and a safe room? He merely asked the question of whether an alarm and safe room would accomplish the same thing. I answered his question by discussing how they would not accomplish the same thing.

As a point of fact re WW2: The was no "Air Force" as a separate branch of service until 1951. Prior to that time we had the Army Air Corp, and the Marines had their own Air Corp, (remember Pappy Boyington and the Black Sheeps Corsairs?) and of course we had the Naval Air Arm. Re "slogging": it is an appropriate description and not a bit negative ( as in slogging through snow and mud) Our boys did plenty of that going through Europe as well as the jungles of the Pacific Islands etc.
Hope this info might help the conversation.