If Guns Are Outlawed...

[Fairweather]

...can we still use crossbows?

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11906256

[Phil K]

Only on bicyclists who refuse to stay on the sidewalk.

[billcoe]

First they'll come for your guns, then they'll come for your crossbows, finally, they'll come for your ice axes. Kid probably had the Trotsky model. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/4477156.stm

 

I shouldn't be making light of it. Sad stuff to read no matter the weapon of choice.

[ivan]

...only guns will evolve.

[olyclimber]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101201/sc_afp/usmilitaryweaponsafghanistan

[Fairweather]

I think that's too much money, Porter. Odysseus slaughtered 108 suitors in the great hall with nothing more than his crossbow and sword. We should learn the lessons of the past and apply them to the here and now.

[tvashtarkatena]

The ME 262 and V2 rockets were supposed to be 'game changers' too.

 

Looks like it'll take out a wedding party effectively, though.

[murraysovereign]

The ME 262 and V2 rockets were supposed to be 'game changers' too.

 

Probably would have been, too, if they'd come into play a little earlier. But by the time they were operational the wheels were already coming off the Third Reich.

 

I agree with FW - at $25-$30K a pop, these things are too expensive. It'd be cheaper to buy every Taliban and AlQueda fighter a $500 used car. The way those crazy bastards drive they'd all be dead by spring.

[Hugh Conway]

tina deary... those both were game changers.

[Fairweather]

The ME 262 and V2 rockets were supposed to be 'game changers' too.

 

Probably would have been, too, if they'd come into play a little earlier. But by the time they were operational the wheels were already coming off the Third Reich.

 

 

The V2 did turn out to be a game changer--after we gathered up spare parts and issued passports to a few unemployed (ex) nazi scientists. Hell, I'll bet half of the Apollo program was V2.

[Mal_Con]

No matter how sophisticated the weapon it can do no more than a temporary advantage in an insurgency. Unless you can exterminate the opposition you will fail. They may temporarily fade away but they will be back. It is an impossible task if you are supporting a corrupt puppet. The V-1 and V-2 became terror weapons because the guidance systems of the time were unable to target tactical targets, without nukes they could do no more than piss off the enemy. Afghanistan has been repelling foreigners for millenniums, it is what they do and love. There is no hope

[Fairweather]

Imagine the additional devastation Hitler could have brought down on London if he had set his evil scientists to work building a giant crossbow!

[tvashtarkatena]

Time is free, and that's what our foe-de-jour has an unlimited quantity of. Who are we supposed to be fighting this week again?

 

Money, desire, or time...we're tapped for all three.

 

Back to that age old game of Waiting for the Assholes to Leave - a game the Afghans are really, really good at.

Edited December 3, 2010 by tvashtarkatena

[Fairweather]

No matter how sophisticated the weapon it can do no more than a temporary advantage in an insurgency. Unless you can exterminate the opposition you will fail. They may temporarily fade away but they will be back. It is an impossible task if you are supporting a corrupt puppet. The V-1 and V-2 became terror weapons because the guidance systems of the time were unable to target tactical targets, without nukes they could do no more than piss off the enemy. Afghanistan has been repelling foreigners for millenniums, it is what they do and love. There is no hope

 

We have to usurp Islam. Secular logic will do. Lets begin dropping leaflets.

[tvashtarkatena]

When our currency finally collapses and hyperinflation takes over, we'll finally recognize the real enemy: each other.

 

 

[tvashtarkatena]

Of course, some of us have already taken that hint for quite some time now.

[Fairweather]

We can be, like, opposing post-apocalypse militia leaders roaming the vast wasteland in search of gasoline (lithium-polymer batteries, in your case) blaming the policies of the past for the misery of the new present. Of course, my side will have crossbows...

 

Edited December 3, 2010 by Fairweather

[billcoe]

Of course, some of us have already taken that hint for quite some time now.

Although you normally act like an egotistical prick online, I do appreciate that you work with the ACLU. So IF you are doing more than a normal fly on shit routine over there, thank you for YOUR service. Noticed that I tried not to say "thank you for YOUR service....ASSHOLE". LOL

 

BTW, anyone who has to go over there and get shot at, I say spend the money so that they can at least win the daily tactical battles and come back safe and alive. Anyone here ever price out one of the JDAMS or any of the munitions they toss off the Predators like so much candy at a parade?

 

Nice wrist crossbow below:

 

[ivan]

Imagine the additional devastation Hitler could have brought down on London if he had set his evil scientists to work building a giant crossbow!

he coulda got the plans from the eye-talians!

[Nitrox]

We can be, like, opposing post-apocalypse militia leaders roaming the vast wasteland in search of gasoline (lithium-polymer batteries, in your case) blaming the policies of the past for the misery of the new present. Of course, my side will have crossbows...

 

 

Break a deal, spin the wheel.

 

 

[ivan]

We can be, like, opposing post-apocalypse militia leaders roaming the vast wasteland in search of gasoline (lithium-polymer batteries, in your case) blaming the policies of the past for the misery of the new present. Of course, my side will have crossbows...

 

 

Break a deal, spin the wheel.

 

two man enter, one man leave!

[G-spotter]

turns out the killer was the son of the victim in the toronto crossbow killing

 

"NOW can I have the car, Dad?"

[murraysovereign]

...then only outlaws will have families.

[Choada_Boy]

...I'd pistol whip you with an illegal gun.

[pink]

i'd choke u with a parking ticket