ivan

he had some sorta amusing exit a few months ago it seems and bade his adieu - for sure, i'd googlify the thread if only i truly gave less of a phuck - verily, i think he thought himself vilified and also too oft the object of vulgar abuse

just keep going, john!

NOLSE!

fire hoses could certainly be retro-fitted w/ coaxial kalashnikovs

schools, nay society in general i say gentlemen, would be far safer if everyone just had a heart-plug implanted in them by the benevolent and sacred state!

12/21/12 - if the mayan motherfuckers were gonna be my end, where better to make my final banal stand than the fabulous bacon-wand? dank, tepid, oppressive parking lot - a bad beacon BM, like so many i've been blessed w/ before a survey of the base complete, geoff n' i thought the corner might go - after the first pitch took more time to finish than an entire lap in summertime, the wind picked up, the rain came down, and off we rapped, but not before taking in a strange scene - a flock of seagulls out on the swollen columbia, swirling about a sea-lion, alternately landing and leaping back up as he lashed around at them - what could it mean? an aid session on wrong gull and w/ that our short first day of winter was done hopefully not my last visit of the year, but the best laid plans of mice n' 'mericans...

Fake Ivan says: Um...no. It really is the weapons. Too many of them, to be specific. An American has a 15x greater chance per capita of being shot than an Australian, despite very similar cultures. The difference is strict gun owernship policies in Australia. Merkins talk a big game but no one's going to do fuck all when the guvernment comes for their guns. People's balls tend to shrink a lot when staring down a felony weapons charge. Plus, SWAT teams know how to handle the bunker crowd, should such a suicide by cop situation occur. After one or two culling incidents (if they happen at all) that'll be the end of that fad. The gene pool needs a little cleaning up now and then. Americans are pretty fucking tired of watching kids die so a few undersexed overfed white males can play Red Dawn. It's all part of America's being fed up with its own retardation - Kristianity - declining. Anti-gay bigotry - declining. Anti tax lunacy - declining. Tolerance of gun nut culture and the violence it spawns - also declining. Americans are also pretty tired of the NRA's solution of more guns. In the past 30 years, not a single one of the 62 mass shootings was stopped by a good guy with a gun. A deputy missed the perp 4 times during Columbine - 11 more people died after he missed. During that same 30 years, highly trained police have accidentally shot thousands of other good guys. But the NRA isn't about public safety. No, not so much. They're about helping their corporate sponsors sell guns. Lots and lots of guns. They've crafted their message to resonate with the freaks and wannabes in Merka - a huge population, apparently. About once a century, somebody actually protects their family from flesh eaters with a gun. The rest of guns incidents involve kids shooting each other or themselves accidentally, people shooting family members or the dog they THOUGHT were intruders, angry boyfriends shooting that fucking ho, and depressed people shooting themselves. "I'd rather have a gun and not need one than not have one when I do" No, actually, you wouldn't.

the mountain and route that reinforced in my minimal mind the Deep Need to move substantially more westward

"the tumultuous sea of liberty is never w/o a wave"

Fake Ivan here. Hard to keep up with the lunacy, but regarding the idea floating around that government policies to curb behavior don't work - drunk driving is down by half since the early 80s. Drug prohibition is bad policy - it punishes private behavior. Anti drunk driving laws and public education is good policy - drunk driving is public, not private, behavior.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

that russian feller who was everyday training to be world's best climber, miloshk?

my razor-sharp wit is weapon enough...

my family's bidness for 3 generations has been armor (present cc.retard excepted, naturally) - little bro was a cav scout officer w/ the 7th cav in ought-three when we taught them iraqi fellers a lesson - he commanded 4 bradleys and reported inflicting far more carnage on the civil populace then the bulky, brooding bastards in the abhrams, alleging the cause to be the bradley's higher rate of fire (albeit w/ a relative pop-gun) n' general ability to squeeze down corridors too restrictive for an m1-'s hulk...

i'm shocked n' horrified you can't distinguish the geniune-deal from that ersatz-bastard - when, forsooth, has tvash ever been known to expostulate w/ a kenning!?! you seem to be confusing the fuck-taxes war w/ the war of northern aggression, but, uh...uh...i'm not really sure what you were saying there? i'd return you to the 1791 argument - how many Famous Founders would be kewl w/ the status quo pro bellum?

most of the power on the issue is of course supposed to be held by the congress the original bill of rights that emerged from the english civil war of the 17th century did also contain a right to own weapons, though in a predictably english fashion w/ lotza clauses n' what-have-you's regarding social classes n' sorts of weapons n' such bottom line, drag jefferson or washington out of their graves and ask them if a homeboy w/ no education/property/social-standing should be able to have a weapon giving him the firepower of an entire 18th century regiment, what do you think they'd say?

clearly you're forgeting cousin strawberry!?

cheech n' chong?

please name a successful revolution in which the people weren't initially completely out-matched in terms of firepower compared to the government?

if i have sprayed further than those before me, it is only because i have stood on the shoulders of imbeciles

it ain't hard to understand how, in ten years, i've yet to manage a winter rainier climb

not that i've ever needed help in that department... i'm all for reducing the world population - perhaps if we put vaccines in all the bullets? a free bushmaster w/ every anti-botulism shot?

The 'only outlaws' argument is bullshit. Where do the outlaws get their guns? Um...from the commercial market any time they damn well feel like it. If they weren't available at all, they wouldn't have them, or they'd have to smuggle them, which would greatly reduce the supply. The 'too many already in circulation' argument doesn't wash either - just a nonsensical excuse to continue to do nothing. Increase penalties for banned weapons ownership and you'll see all kinds of owners, criminal and law abiding, give them up right quick like.

Private citizens don't need access to the same weapons as the police, who do use lots and lots of military weapons these days. If you need a Glock for self defense, try hanging out with a better crowd instead. You don't have to cock a revolver to fire multiple rounds. Yup, plenty of responsible automatic owners who would need to give up their weapons. They can blame all those irresponsible ones should such a long needed ban come about. I'm sure if grenades were legal there would be lots of 'responsible owners'.