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If a tree falls in a forest with no one to witness it...do the other trees laugh?
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I know police officers who have never used their guns throughout their entire time on the force! If these are law enforcers-people fighting crime-and they are hardly using guns, then why does any old citizen need a gun? Are 5 out of 10 houses having home invasions?
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Hunting is an entirely different story. There is a thing called the super market where people can buy meat already prepared. Killing animals in the wild simply disgusts me (as does farming animals-but at least purchase the resources if they are already present). I don't see the sport or enjoyment out of hunting-maybe if you live in a remote environment where you need to hunt to survive... but not in suburbia.
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However - as said - I understand what you try to indicate: Hunting as a sports is disgusting as it is completely unnecessary and I am fully on your side on the aspect of the root causes regarding (gun) violence and crime. Society needs to look deeper into the reasons and find alternate solutions.
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What you can point is that I consider "guns to appeal to the darker side in man"...
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Every year, almost 30.000 people die from gun related accidents or violence in the US alone.
30.000 - this number might appear too big to get the whole picture, but I know you know how the loss of ONE dear person feels.... It's horror.
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Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
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Ex-cop linked to rogue group, Prosecutors suggest 'Punishers' rumors might be true. For years, rumors of a rogue group of Milwaukee police officers known for brutalizing suspects have been circulating around the city. The group reportedly called itself the Punishers, a name that came from "The Punisher," a vigilante comic book, video game and film character, and many of its members were supposedly on hand at the Bay View party where Frank Jude Jr. was attacked in 2004.
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
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Remember the Alamo! Shoot 'em!' he screamed to applause. 'To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em. Bypass those pesky things such as court cases and just kill the "bad guys" themselves (Ted Nugent).
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Men who are threatened by women’s decreased dependency and increased organization often adopt an individual strategy of “overconformity,” compulsively acquiring “masculine” accoutrements, be they giant automobiles, guns, or attack-breed dogs.
The rise of fascistic masculinity prefigures systemic fascism, often in the form of vigilantism. Gun culture is steeped in vigilantism, which is steeped in military lore. Guns in this milieu transcend their practical uses and take on a powerful symbolic significance.
In the last decade, the National Rifle Association (NRA), which has always had close ties with the military, has been taken over from what are considered within the organization as “moderates,” that is, those whose message emphasizes peaceful, law-abiding gun use, like hunting. The NRA Board of Directors has increasingly consisted of people with an explicit right-wing and vigilante orientation (Training the White Nation).
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
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Help! My personality got stuck in this signature machine and I cant get it out!
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
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According to the July 31 report, the military "cannot fully account for about 110,000 AK-47 assault rifles, 80,000 pistols, 135,000 items of body armour and 115,000 helmets reported as issued to Iraqi forces."
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I don’t support armed citizen vigilantes going around killing people because someone took their possessions, when they were too lazy to look after them properly, as Lurch has suggested.
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Stone: The 'twisted statistics' I was referring to goes both ways, do you not agree?
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The criminals have as much of a choice as anyone else, they choose crime because it's easier.
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
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Stone, Tom..why do you guys have such a problem with making people responsible for their own choices ?
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So you're saying we *should* protect ourselves? But we can only do so a little bit because if we use force we're now the bad guy again for hurting someone intent on hurting us?
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
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I'm not asking for it both ways stone, I'm trying to show how hypocritical you're being
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The fact remains though, that I should be able to leave my property in my front lawn without them getting stolen. I shouldn't have to 'secure' my property at night.
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Say I do take care of my property though. Say I lock my car, deadbolt and chain my front door, put my valuables in safes etc. And someone decides to break into my home regardless, and threaten me and my family. What then? Who's fault is that?
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*I* should be the one to take the initiative and protect my property, family, and my body, yet you want to deny me my last line of defense?
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You car gets stolen because you couldn’t be bothered locking it, so you pass the buck by blaming them pesky crims for your own mistake. "It’s all their fault, I forgot to lock my car. Lets get a posse together, and fill em full of lead". Takes the blame of you, and puts it onto them pesky crims.
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If guns are your last line of defense, then why do you make them out as your first line of defense. Like, don’t you turn into a sheep or sumthing if you ain’t packing heat?
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Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
the best smiles are the ones you lead to
Faith
Nay, whatever comes one hour was sunlit and the most high gods may not make boast of any better thing than to have watched that hour as it passed
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Have you actually read any of my posts or are you still stuck on the image of me as a cowboy gunslinger with six shooters dangling off my hips?
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if anything the weight on your hip is a constant reminder of the responsibility you carry around with you.
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Common sense for your area, or your country may dictate that if you don't lock your car it will be stolen. I drive two cars, one I lock, the other is a soft top jeep. It's never locked, and probably one of the easiest cars in the world to hotwire. Yet it's never been stolen, or even had anything stolen out of it. Odd....
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WHAT??
So if I were to walk up and hit you in the nose, it would be your fault because you weren't wearing a face mask? Please, come on, if someone steals my car, it's not my fault they took it. Believe it or not cars can get stolen even if the doors are locked. Who's fault is it then? The car makers? When does the blame go to the actual person comitting the crime?
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Certainly you do have to oppose scientific studies and statistics, call them "twisted". Instead you do favour studies and statistics that lack a scientific background. Obvious.
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You claim that crime is prevented (the gun benefits) and by that outweigh the (gun) hazards.
I claim this to be an outright lie. Not a myth - a lie.
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But such a study never be approached and presented, even though the NRA and other organisations could easily appeal to their members to record each and every incident. Why? Because bottom line is that it's not the truth.
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As for your claim that "criminals do have a choice" (another redneck approach)
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How many cars are on the streets/ how many ppl do use cars vs. how many ppl do get injured and killed/ how many cars do get abused in criminal intent/ how much suffering is caused by cars?
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you may also refer to my "stupidity" to choose riding a motorcycle (which has no seatbelt).
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Hence by owning and carrying a deadly firearm in public, you are a potential threat to society - far more than you eventually might become a benefit.
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You display the same level - if not greater - of crminal intent, if you favour to shoot someone dead over material possessions. I am not talking about self defence (where it's necessary), but to create unlikely scenarios (like having your family held hostage and to keep a loaded firearm in the house to meet this hypothetical scenario only), by that endangering your family is blatant stupidity and (to me) expresses the same (if not a greater level) of criminal intent and twisted views on morality.
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To put it in simple words: it's completely bigoted. Especially if you want to keep your possessions in your front yard and expect nobody to take it. I presume at some stage you will stand behind the curtain with a loaded rifle and wait to get that sucker who dares to enter your property...
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You obviously live in a low crime area, where you probably don’t need a gun to protect anything. So, your whole case for having a gun for protection is unfounded, and the possibility of a home invasion as you described is minute. Another possibility is no one thinks a Jeep is worth stealing
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Ok, another example. If your house gets robbed, and the insurance investigator determines you didn’t secure your house before the robbery. Then they would consider you negligent, and would not pay out on your claim. As far as the criminals go, it’s more than likely the person committing the crimes will be caught by the authorities and sentenced by a judge. That’s not your problem. There are courts to deal with criminals.
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Less trust, more care is a very good motto, but sometimes I find myself appreciating what i perceive to be an atmosphere of trust, and sometimes, against my better judgment, indulge in that trust with the hope I'm not underestimating the general decency of the human race. Other times I'm downright paranoid.
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh