Gun rule
Jan 16, 2014 14:07:56 #
Joe,
Regarding police stopping you at the end of shift and having itchy trigger fingers, I doubt it was ever true. I worked with a few strange cops over the years but nobody that stressed out nor anybody eager to shoot anyone ever. Most of us spoke of how stressful and terrible it would be to actually have to take someone's life. It would never be an easy choice and one to live with for the rest of a lifetime.
Dennis
Regarding police stopping you at the end of shift and having itchy trigger fingers, I doubt it was ever true. I worked with a few strange cops over the years but nobody that stressed out nor anybody eager to shoot anyone ever. Most of us spoke of how stressful and terrible it would be to actually have to take someone's life. It would never be an easy choice and one to live with for the rest of a lifetime.
Dennis
Jan 16, 2014 14:09:15 #
dennis2146 wrote:
Dave, br br Great point. The reason cars aren't ... (show quote)
How many of your soldier drive Ford Mustang Semi automatics with sighting scopes?? in Afghanistan
Comparing a weapon designed to cause damage with an everyday object like a car designed for transportation is a no brainer... and in my opinion a desperate attempt to justify weapons
Using a car as a weapon is not what it was designed for..
The threat of serious crime against a person is a justification.
Jan 16, 2014 14:10:16 #
dennis2146 wrote:
Joe,
Regarding police stopping you at the end of shift and having itchy trigger fingers, I doubt it was ever true. I worked with a few strange cops over the years but nobody that stressed out nor anybody eager to shoot anyone ever. Most of us spoke of how stressful and terrible it would be to actually have to take someone's life. It would never be an easy choice and one to live with for the rest of a lifetime.
Dennis
Regarding police stopping you at the end of shift and having itchy trigger fingers, I doubt it was ever true. I worked with a few strange cops over the years but nobody that stressed out nor anybody eager to shoot anyone ever. Most of us spoke of how stressful and terrible it would be to actually have to take someone's life. It would never be an easy choice and one to live with for the rest of a lifetime.
Dennis
Thanks for clarifying that for me Dennis, it seemed worrying at the time..
Regards
Joe
Jan 16, 2014 14:12:42 #
Ka2azman wrote:
Quote: "Until the full facts come out at the ... (show quote)
Love that quote..... Wise woman,,, Must have had a teddy bear of a husband
Jan 16, 2014 14:17:14 #
Joe,
The Teddy Bear was a cousin. Franklin D. was the husband.
Eleanor loved the USMC too. Bless her heart.
Dennis
The Teddy Bear was a cousin. Franklin D. was the husband.
Eleanor loved the USMC too. Bless her heart.
Dennis
Jan 16, 2014 14:20:17 #
JoboX wrote:
Who wishes this on you ....
we use our laws as comparatives and as being an exact opposite in this case...
Your laws are your laws and set by you and your elective bodies..
We do have Gun crime but not in theatres where people go to escape the mundane life.. We have that over here to..
we use our laws as comparatives and as being an exact opposite in this case...
Your laws are your laws and set by you and your elective bodies..
We do have Gun crime but not in theatres where people go to escape the mundane life.. We have that over here to..
Quote:"Who wishes this on you .... " you do
Quote: "we use our laws as comparatives and as being an exact opposite in this case... " Why the need for comparison if you didn't have an hidden agenda. This is in relationship to the first quote.
Quote: "We do have Gun crime but not in theatres where people go to escape the mundane life.." Just where do these event take place. Where is it that shootings go on? Is it only at places designated as "violent crimes here"? Or is it real life, violent crimes happen where ever the criminal is at the time. Even in a movie theater. After all criminal also like to escape the mundane life and I'm positive that they like movies. Oh and I'm sure they didn't leave their gun at home just to enter such a shrine as a movie theater.
I was going to search for movie theater shooting in Britain when I came across this.
BRITAIN: THE WORLDS WORST MASS MURDERER...or The Charles Manson of Nation States http://worldsworstmassmurderer.blogspot.com/
You might think you have civility cornered on your island, but you seem to be not so shining in that area on the global level.
Jan 16, 2014 14:20:45 #
Joe,
Firearms are used for many things, not necessarily as a weapon. It is simply a tool to be used to accomplish a task. I have a lot of firearms but only 1 is ever thought of as a weapon and it has never been used as such. The others are used for hunting, target shooting, plinking, home protection from 4 legged as well as 2 legged predators, investments and as pieces of art.
Dennis
Firearms are used for many things, not necessarily as a weapon. It is simply a tool to be used to accomplish a task. I have a lot of firearms but only 1 is ever thought of as a weapon and it has never been used as such. The others are used for hunting, target shooting, plinking, home protection from 4 legged as well as 2 legged predators, investments and as pieces of art.
Dennis
JoboX wrote:
How many of your soldier drive Ford Mustang Semi automatics with sighting scopes?? in Afghanistan
Comparing a weapon designed to cause damage with an everyday object like a car designed for transportation is a no brainer... and in my opinion a desperate attempt to justify weapons
Using a car as a weapon is not what it was designed for..
The threat of serious crime against a person is a justification.
Comparing a weapon designed to cause damage with an everyday object like a car designed for transportation is a no brainer... and in my opinion a desperate attempt to justify weapons
Using a car as a weapon is not what it was designed for..
The threat of serious crime against a person is a justification.
Jan 16, 2014 14:31:25 #
When the dude saw my 1911, dropped the tire iron.
For those reading this and don't know a 1911, it is a one hundred year old design.
For those reading this and don't know a 1911, it is a one hundred year old design.
Jan 16, 2014 14:45:06 #
JoboX wrote:
Just doing a bit of research br br US 5 times the... (show quote)
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." Quote origin unknown, but frequently attributed to Mark Twain or British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.
The statistics you quoted are interesting, but so very incomplete. For example, what is the murder rate in each country by means other than guns? What geographic areas make up the bulk of the murders? What race is responsible for what percentage of gun deaths and what age group is responsible for what percentage?
What is the pertinence of the answers to these questions? If a certain ethnic group and/or a certain age group shows a significantly higher percentage of murders than the other groups, would you still say that guns are the problem, or would you say that there is something in the way that group has been raised, or how they think - for whatever reason - that makes them far more likely to kill or be killed with a gun?
I know it's not politically correct to bring this kind of thought to the forefront, but to not do so is the same as lying by omission. But if you are a politician who is trying to garner votes from a group, especially a group you've spent years gaining support from by giving handout after handout to them, the truth becomes an "inconvenient truth" and an expedient way of skirting the truth is by not telling all the facts.
Jan 16, 2014 14:54:07 #
Ka2azman wrote:
Quote:"Who wishes this on you .... " you... (show quote)
It seems a bit vague with no balance against other nations... As a colonising country bringing in new diseases that indigenous inhabitants didn't have immune systems is desperate to prove a point... Linking the slave trade to this is just admitting the US played its part in this slaughter ...supply and demand. no demand no supply.. also economically the US built its cotton trade on slavery by US plantation owners.. This would in essence implicate the US in all the African atrocities .... so should read US / UK mass murderers.. if we were fair in attributing blame
We could go on... but Concentration camps we are very guilty of...
Jan 16, 2014 16:34:39 #
TucsonCoyote wrote:
Looks to me you are saying the arsehole with
the phone is now the one laughing!
Hard to do when you are in a grave it would seem to me !
If that is not what you meant then I would suggest you
read what you write before posting !
the phone is now the one laughing!
Hard to do when you are in a grave it would seem to me !
If that is not what you meant then I would suggest you
read what you write before posting !
You obviously don't see the point of it all.
Jan 16, 2014 16:36:27 #
JoboX wrote:
Sorry its the only pic I've got that looks nearly threatening
I thought you had two ??
Just kidding.
Jan 16, 2014 16:37:39 #
Underwaterant wrote:
I thought you had two ??
Just kidding.
Just kidding.
I wish this thread would end.
Jan 16, 2014 18:26:39 #
Old Grey Beard wrote:
I wish this thread would end.
The thread will end when the subject matter has fully unraveled.
Jan 16, 2014 18:26:40 #
wuzfuzzab
Loc: Red Deer, Alberta
Ka2azman wrote:
Glad you were there to clarify things. Oh you gleaned this from what you heard; and are continuing the rumor. Instead of passing around misinformation, how about letting the judicial system in our country work first. After all the police and the prosecution and the defense team will have much more accurate and direct information, other than rumor mill to go on.
Hope your a fiction writer, because it is fictional story you wrote.
Hope your a fiction writer, because it is fictional story you wrote.
From what you write you are thinking of me I'd say you are the fiction writer pal. The popcorn facts are out there and I'm not dissing gun ownership--but what you need to realize is that some of us with guns really shouldn't have them. How do you tell who's who?---dammed if I know but I'm sure some lib will tell us.
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