-LuNcHbOx, Aka. Nathan...Give a man to fish, and that man knows where to come for more fish...Teach a man to fish and you have just destroyed your market base...
quote:I've worked my ASS off for the last few years. Lost tons of social life that I could have had. And I DO achieve that proper grade because of it.
Originally posted by Dom:
The American dream has led to a culture where anyone who isn't seen as attaining the proper grade is seen as lazy, inferior, worthless and disposable.
Some Jarhead last night: "this dumb a$$ thinks hes fireproof"
It was a day for screaming at inanimate objects.
What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...
Dance like it hurts; Love like you need money; Work like someone is watching.
Never criticize someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes. That way, when you DO criticize them, you are a mile away, and you have their shoes.
Some Jarhead last night: "this dumb a$$ thinks hes fireproof"
-LuNcHbOx, Aka. Nathan...Give a man to fish, and that man knows where to come for more fish...Teach a man to fish and you have just destroyed your market base...
No need to be void,...Or save up on life,...Got to spend it all,...
"If the human brain were simple enough for us to understand, we would be too simple to understand it"
-Emerson M Pugh
quote:
Originally posted by SterlingSpider:
Raymund Phule, why are you arguing with me so vehamently on this? I posted a statement of fact and a clearly stated speculation based on my education and experience and you cut into me like I just told you Norman Mailer is the Queen of France because my teacher said so.
I fail to understand how having specialized training in somthing somehow makes me even less able to speak on the subject for which I'm trained. But if this is what you wish to believe I will not argue with you.
Education does not make you unable to use instinct, it just helps when you're trying to chose the right instincts to follow.
Is that all life comes down to? To be lying face down with an overenthusiastic guy in pink pin-striped pants sitting on top of you and grunting? -- Random MusingsSex, Drugs and Psytrance.
quote:
Originally posted by MikeGinny:
quote:Aardy, you scare me. I taught you how to spin and I saw how you picked it up like nobody's business. And then contact juggling. And now swimming.
Originally posted by AardvarkOnAcid:
How long till the first copy cat?
.....
Also, I don't believe it has to be some ex-military type. There are a lot of people who are good enough shots to put a bullet in a human sized target at a couple hundred yards on a consistent basis. I think the psychology needed is more rare than the actual shooting skills.
-A.
So I get a feeling that if you started to get into shooting, you could turn yourself into a first-rate marksman in two weeks. With a flair.
Except I happen to *know* many of the names on your list of victims.
Is that all life comes down to? To be lying face down with an overenthusiastic guy in pink pin-striped pants sitting on top of you and grunting? -- Random MusingsSex, Drugs and Psytrance.
HOW TO FLY 101:
step 1. Throw your self at the ground.
step 2. Miss.
quote:I went to high school a ten minute drive north of Columbine high school. I knew people who died. I went to the memorial service. I laid flowers at the memorial. I comforted my friends who were terrified to go to school, and I comforted my friends who lost people too.
What was it, 5, 6 years ago that two kids walked into a Colorado school and shot up a bunch of people? They had no priors, save maybe skipping school. True I would imagine that they had very low self esteems. It is hard to be called shit every day of your life and no feel bad about yourself.
Jesus helps me trick people.
Jesus helps me trick people.
Jesus helps me trick people.
orangu-funking-tan
Some Jarhead last night: "this dumb a$$ thinks hes fireproof"
It was a day for screaming at inanimate objects.
What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...
quote:less arms = better!
Like, I was over in England. You ever been to England, anyone, been to England?
No one has handguns in England, not even the cops. True or false?
True.
Now - in England last year, they had fourteen deaths from handguns. FFFFFourteen?.
Now - the United States, and I think you know how we feel about handguns - woooo, I'm getting a warm tingly feeling just saying the fucking word, to be honest with you. I swear to you, I am hard. Twenty-three thousand deaths from handguns.
Now let's go through those numbers again, because they're a little baffling at first glance. England, where no one has guns, fffffffourteen deaths. United States, and I think you know how we feel about guns - woooo, I'm getting a stiffy - twenty-three thousand deaths from handguns. But there's no connection, and you'd be a fool and a Communist to make one.
There's no connection between having a gun and shooting someone with it, and not having a gun and not shooting someone. There have been studies made and there is no connection at all there. Yes. That's absolute proof. You know, fourteen deaths from handguns. Probably American tourists, too.
(Angry tourist voice) You call this a sandwich? BANG! BANG! You don't boil pizza! BANG! BANG!
(Scared English voice) That's the way we eat here, that's the way we eat here! BANG!
(Tourist voice) This food sucks! BANG!
And boy, does it suck. Okay, great. If I had a gun, I woulda been number fifteen on that fucking list.
Okay, though, admittedly, last year in England, they had fourteen thousand deaths per every soccer game, okay. I'm not saying every system is flawless, I'm just saying, if you're in England, don't go to a goddamn soccer game, and you're coming home.
It's weird - they don't have guns in England, but they have a very high crime rate, which tells you how polite the fucking English are.
(English voices)
Give me your wallet!
All right.
At least no one was hurt. How do you have a crime rate and no weapons, man? Does a guy walk into a bank:
(English voices) Give me all your money! I've got a soccer ball!
Shit, Ian, that's a Spalding, he's serious! Hand over the pounds!
I just don't understand this blood lust, 'cause, you know, I know the world seems really frightening at times, but I think we're gonna do okay.
Laugh Often, Smile Much, Post lolcats Always
Some Jarhead last night: "this dumb a$$ thinks hes fireproof"
Laugh Often, Smile Much, Post lolcats Always
Some Jarhead last night: "this dumb a$$ thinks hes fireproof"
quote:Yeah, this was all back before I realized I needed glasses, and that I was actually supposed to be able to make out the bulls eye from however many yards away. Its kind of funny to think back on it, I guess I just thought the world was that blurry for everyone.
Originally posted by Raymund Phule:
AA, I have a compound prisim and some jacked up other stuff with my eyes, I dont have bottle bottom glasses or nothing but still if I take off my glasses the screen is a bitch to read.
Basically you can shoot just gotta adjust.
Is that all life comes down to? To be lying face down with an overenthusiastic guy in pink pin-striped pants sitting on top of you and grunting? -- Random MusingsSex, Drugs and Psytrance.
Some Jarhead last night: "this dumb a$$ thinks hes fireproof"
quote:There is a link here to frequently asked questions which should outline what firearms are prohibited etc. As the reforms implemented also included a gun buy-back, they include stats on the cost of buying back weapons made illegal.
Firearms Reform - debated nationally for many years.
The issue of firearms reform has been on the agenda of the Australasian Police Ministers' Council many times in past years. Some of the measures agreed at the 10 May meeting had been raised in 1987 and again in 1990 and 1991. Previous Commonwealth governments were unsuccessful in their efforts to bring the States and Territories together to implement effective nationwide firearms controls.
The need to strictly control the availability of semi-automatic rifles and shotguns was reinforced by the tragic killings in Hoddle Street and Queen Street, Melbourne in 1987, Strathfield in Sydney in 1991 and at Port Arthur in 1996.
Figures prepared by the Australian Bureau of Statistics highlight the fact that in the 16 years from 1980 to 1995, more than 10,150 people were killed in firearm related deaths. *
The agreement on firearms law reform reached at the special meeting of Australasian Police Ministers on 10 May 1996 was the result of detailed preparation and extensive consultation over many years.
Working together
Governments are working with the community to remove the most dangerous firearms from circulation.
The Commonwealth is meeting the costs of establishing the firearm buyback schemes and of setting up the new licensing and registration systems. Part of the funding has gone to a 12-month firearm buyback ending 30 September 1997. In addition to the buyback, an amnesty is in place across Australia to allow for the hand-in of any firearm or ammunition without prosecution. State and Territory public education campaigns are in operation to explain the new measures. (In South Australia the buyback ended on 28 February 1997 and the amnesty ends on 30 June 1997.)
The costs of an upgrade to the central core component of the National Exchange of Police Information system, and the development of national core standards for firearms safety training for new firearms licence applicants, have also been met by the Commonwealth.
* Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Firearms Deaths in Australia 1980-95, ABS Catalogue No. 4397.0
quote:I am not trying to hold up Australia as some perfect scheme. However the country has proved that it is possible to bring about reform. And investigations have been done as to why it was necessary.
In a household where a firearm is kept, it is 48 times more likely that the firearm will be used to kill a member of the household than an intruder.
In the past decade 116 people have been killed in Australia and New Zealand in 14 massacres where four or more people have been shot.
Military style semi-automatic firearms were used by only six of these perpetrators, yet their victims accounted for 74% of the 116 people.
There were 84,000 firearms, excluding military firearms imported into Australia between January and December in 1995.
Research conducted for the Commonwealth in 1996 showed that 10 percent of Australians own a firearm. Sixteen percent of Australians live in a household where there is a firearm.
More information about firearm deaths and injuries in Australia is available in studies conducted by the Australian Institute of Criminology, the Institute of Health and Welfare and the Australian Bureau of Statistics
It was a day for screaming at inanimate objects.
What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...
quote:The report goes on to say that whilst there has been an overall decline in homicides committed involving firearms, the pattern of homicides has changed. The number of licensed legal firearms involved in homicides has been reduced, suggesting that irresponsible and unsuitable persons have had reduced access to legal guns (gun licensing becoming more effective). However these people are also likely to obtain firearms through illegal means.
Of the 117 offenders who used firearms to commit homicide, only 11 (9.4%) homicide offenders were licensed firearms owners with registered firearms
It was a day for screaming at inanimate objects.
What this calls for is a special mix of psychology and extreme violence...
"If the human brain were simple enough for us to understand, we would be too simple to understand it"
-Emerson M Pugh
Some Jarhead last night: "this dumb a$$ thinks hes fireproof"
quote:WTF?
Your gun laws that your so in favor of (why you give a rats ass what happens outside of your own country I have no idea)
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer-- they think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.-- Ken Kesey
Some Jarhead last night: "this dumb a$$ thinks hes fireproof"
Using the keywords [sniper] we found the following existing topics.