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01-31-2007, 05:52 PM | #32 |
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lol...nice one Monster. Even more so because you've got the context exactly right.
My father has a fairly extensive gun collection, most of which are maintained and ready for use. I don't think it's the fact that he's got the guns that matters so much as that he looks like a freak. That's just my opinion though.
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01-31-2007, 05:58 PM | #33 |
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I wonder how many of those folks have shot someone to death. Certainly not Maggie. There's not a scenario I could think of that would cause her to shoot - at least not that she'd admit to in the Cellar. Cartainly are alot of guns for not killin'.
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Well I've shot things to death before, but not humans. Rabbits, snakes, Roos and foxes, oh and feril pigs.
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01-31-2007, 06:00 PM | #35 |
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I also killed a toad with a brick yesterday. It sucked because its guts came out of it's mouth and splattered my leg.
Very disgusting.
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01-31-2007, 06:07 PM | #36 |
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Is that guy really wearing a skirt with knee-high socks?
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01-31-2007, 06:08 PM | #37 |
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Oh look, it's another fucking weirdo!
(Could be UG though. Looks a lot like a black kilt lol)
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01-31-2007, 06:13 PM | #38 |
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Still lying about that? Amazing. The evidence is clear. Now go read the Justification law.
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The hoplophobes I referred to clearly are not in any of the pictures.
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01-31-2007, 09:45 PM | #40 |
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Hey, don't be ragging on my homey's kilt and hose. And before you start, no, it's not a purse it's a sporran. :p
Oh, and the cat needed killin'.
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I really don't get the whole gun culture. I don't know anyone who openly admits to owning a gun. I have over 200 regular customers, countless irregular customers and dozens of friends and acquaintances, and guns just don't get a mention. You can go around all day in Brisbane and you might see a cop with a sidearm if you looked for it.
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I also go for days on end and never see a gun. You have the wrong impression, Hagar. That doesn't mean they're not out there, just not as visible as you seem to assume.
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You could be right. The impression I have is that gun ownership is so exalted, almost a rite of passage, and that it it really is a "right" to own a gun, necessity doesn't enter into it. I get this from the web and TV - I've never been to the USA, so it is all second hand. I don't doubt that there are guns out there (over here), but our gun ownership laws are so different: if they're there, you don't see them. I can't ever imagine seeing a website like "Armed Australia" (sure 'nuf there probably is one). It's not that I want to come over all "Michael Moore" at you, it is that I see the attitude toward guns as the single biggest difference between Australian and United States cultures. And, as far as differences go, its a whopper. |
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Michael Moore? Not at all, I commented because I see foreigners on the net seem to have a distorted picture of the US from TV, Hollywood, and the rabidness? ... rabidinity? ..... conviction, many of us show on the subject.
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