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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Not at all. You said, "the rights and liberties handed down by our founding fathers". What rights? Right to own guns? I don't actually think the US constitution says you have a right to own guns. I believe it says militias have the right to bear arms.
Also, I find it rather amusing how the pro-gun people worship the constitution and the "founding fathers"like some kind of cult/religion. Times change and the things that served society back then don't necessarily apply now. It really does remind me of religion, people following rules that were set forth back when the world was a different place instead of thinking to update them a little, or just writing some new rules. I think a new amendment to the constitution is well overdue.
I predict America will just become more and more dangerous. The middle class will slowly disappear and the rich will live in well guarded communities while the rest of the populace will blindly play out the tragic roles of victim/victimizer. And, the only thing that will give the people any sense of social connectivity will be the many wars America gets itself into.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
What , is this a trick question?
I started using my ac several weeks ago.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Religion is not the root of the issue. It's colonialism.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
What rights would you be defending, and from whom? And you are going to defend them with guns? You are going to shoot someone in defense of your rights? Fascinating, please elaborate.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
If I lived in Portland, I would wait until they filled the reservoir back up and then go pee in it myself.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
I agree completely.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
I love how these internet surveys with really small, limited sample groups about totally trivial subjects are treated as news.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
The most charitable thing to do would be to not release any more albums.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Good thing the guy didn't have a gun. I don't think the man catcher would be long enough to stay out of range.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Guns don't equal liberty.
Rather, pro-gun is a polite term used to refer to people who live in fear, either of their own countrymen or of their government, and fantasize that having lots of guns around makes them safer.
This leads them to self-servingly misinterpret the U.S. consitution and try to convince everyone else that owning a gun is a basic human right.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Yes, I totally agree. Ridiculous and wasteful action.
Guess I didn't say that clearly.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
I'm sure there are plenty of ducks peeing in the river water that finds it's way into my faucet. It's still super clean. One of the many benefits of living in the countryside.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Puns are a medium rarely well done.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Alphaape, thanks for the example. It's the atypical example than pro-gun people always bring up and I was expecting it.
Doesn't change the fact that it's much easier to kill with a gun than with a knife, both physically and psychologically.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
*makes ...... This damn laptop.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
@Jimney
Fewer guns in circulation equals fewer guns to steal equals fewer guns stolen by bad guys equals a safer society, this is to be judged by degree obviously.
I think that might be an argument from adverse consequences, I can't remember. Sure, if someone might it his life goal to get a gun, he could probably get one in any country. But, how much effort and skill does and can the average criminal expend? The average criminal CANNOT get guns here. That's why combinis are robbed with knives, as I said. You are right about America and Japan being not very good comparisons. Japan is less violent, period, I think. Even if America had fewer guns, it would still be more dangerous and violent overall. But, despite that, guns do make it easier to kill. They facilitate the killing. I am definitely pro-hunting and target shooting, etc...but I think it's better if there are fewer firearms floating around.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
In any case, in any country, with any amount of denial, a "perp" with a knife = less dangerous than a "perp" with a gun.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
No, I read that one. So...?
No, it doesn't.
The United States Constitution is not a universal declaration of human rights. It is a document written by a very specific group of rebels in a very particular context who had no idea of the sheer idiocy of the people who would follow after them.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
Unless he can't. That's why combinis get robbed by people with knives in Japan.
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Stranger_in_a_Strange_Land
@SpidaPig
Wow, didn't think I needed to explain this one, but...
This site is not Japan and I don't think it really presents a balanced view of Japan. It favors sensational stories and reading them all the time can make people think Japan is a more sensational place than it really is, like kids are falling off balconies left and right, and every school teacher is a chikan trying to take pictures up girls' skirts on the train, and every cop is a lazy sub-moron, etc....ad nauseum.
My experience here doesn't bear out the view of Japan many people here express. It seems like a fairly normal place to me where people get up in the morning, go to work, get married, have kids, watch tv, etc... A fairly mundane place. Of course, there are some weirdos, and things do happen, but in a nation of 125 million, accidents are bound too happen. So, a kid falls off a balcony, suddenly everyone is criticizing the shameful height of the Japanese balcony railings and of course it's the Japanese's fault for not making higher railings. Rubbish. All the railings I've ever seen in this country were of a normal height and I would like to suggest that it isn't the height of railings in Japan that is the main force at work here, but rather some of the people on this site's zeal to lash out and criticize anything and everything Japanese.
I wasn't referring to the kid at all when I said "Reading the articles here everyday gives one a somewhat skewed view of Japan" as should be obvious since I didn't mention him/her. But, I will say this: I have a hard time imagining an 8 year old that doesn't have the sense to not climb over the balcony railing of a 13 story apartment. But, he did. He climbed over it, by himself. I don't see him as a victim and scapegoating the railing, or the mother, is just so much nonsense, imho.
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