mxleader on 1/6/2020 at 04:09
Just stopping by to say how much I like guns and all the mayhem that goes along with them.
SubJeff on 2/6/2020 at 19:45
I'd like a pistol like Ed Harris has in Westworld - a LeMat revolver. 9 shot revolver + 1 under barrel shotgun shot. It's just quirky. If I lived in the US I think I'd have a few around the house for indoor emergency use.
Not sure what I'd have as my long range. Something else quirky though I reckon, if legal. An SVT40 (extended mag of course) or a BAR M1918. Or maybe a Bren gun, but they are little heavy.
demagogue on 28/5/2022 at 03:42
The debate that never goes away...
Gun regulation is the hot topic again (in the US).
I'd say that's the main reason for me resurrecting this thread, but mostly it's just because I wanted to post this comic that seemed to sum the current state of the issue up for me.
Inline Image:
https://i.ibb.co/GHHyy4t/284280321-5128969587157515-5198869512693943838-n.jpg
Pyrian on 28/5/2022 at 04:50
"Let's do something about mental health!"
"No."
Starker on 28/5/2022 at 05:37
I haven't had much time to pay attention to US media lately, but from what I gather, the latest proposed solution is to have ex-military and ex-police stationed at every school. Presumably so that they can stand watch outside while the killing is going on and prevent anyone else from intervening.
mopgoblin on 28/5/2022 at 05:48
That's a bit unfair, they'll also use kids as bait by getting them to expose their position to the shooter.
Jason Moyer on 28/5/2022 at 06:43
I personally don't care if people love guns or not, but I continue to be annoyed by gun rights supporters who just parrot propaganda created by the gun lobby, most of which either makes no sense or is just outright lying.
Tocky on 28/5/2022 at 08:15
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
I personally don't care if people love guns or not, but I continue to be annoyed by gun rights supporters who just parrot propaganda created by the gun lobby, most of which either makes no sense or is just outright lying.
The NRA flooded facebook with these the moment the shooting happened. Nothing like a simple minded meme for guiding the simple minded.
This whole thing hurts me. I'm sure it does most folks. Because of the history of having to take this country from the natives and the need to eat instead of starve we are imbedded in guns. No easy way out now. Accepting that, we trust our police to deal with those who go astray with them. They fail miserably. I don't even have remorse for them this time. How could anyone obey orders while children are being killed? It's mind boggling. And you wonder if you would do the same. I don't see how though. I know those officers have families to support and maybe think of that but how? HOW do you listen to children die and NOT rush in? There is something I don't understand here. There has to be. HOW?
And the school resource officer once again failing as at Parkland. Where is the backbone? THIS is your whole job. Most of them are old even. At that point what is the fucking deal with wanting to stay alive so much that you don't at least attempt to kill the killer? A decade left and you don't give that for kids who have their whole lives ahead? WTF? How do you live with yourself after? The life you have left sure as hell isn't worth living then. Fuck the rules. Fuck indecision. Kill the motherfucker. From the first shot that is your sole mission. All you have to do is stay alive long enough to do that. What the fuck is ten or fifteen more years? It's the decaying years. They should not mean that much. How can anything mean so much as the lives of kids? I don't understand. I really don't. I have to work a few more years but my wife and I have discussed it. I'm going to volunteer. They likely won't hire me but they should. I'm a good shot and I'm not so concerned about living until I'm a drooling idiot. WTF is this obsession with your own life at the shitty end of it? I would love to go out that way instead of pissing myself in a hospital bed. Maybe my son in law will be principle by then and have some pull in getting me on.
lowenz on 28/5/2022 at 09:49
Quote Posted by Tocky
What the fuck is ten or fifteen more years? It's the decaying years. They should not mean that much. How can anything mean so much as the lives of kids? I don't understand. I really don't.
Let's say we need a more "spartan" society BUT with NO fascist spin. it's really difficult to achieve. You must be educated (not indoctrinate) to that kind and that level of selfless stoicism.
It's really
hard (it's why ideology is created, to act as a catalyst and enable the bypassing of the "self" limit.....actually
fooling you).
A "meritocracy+retirement+money savings" model really doesn't help in this case (it works against).