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10-17-2003, 01:09 PM | #61 |
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As Syc noted in another thread, I'm a lazy fuck, so I was wondering if ya'll had noticed in the news anywhere that a St. Louis judge had blocked the implementation of concealed carry in Missouri? (probably one of Syc's more liberal relatives)
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10-17-2003, 01:56 PM | #62 | |
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I didn't know much about the whole dual citizenship thing before reading that...interesting. Though how did you get UK citizenship? By virtue of your father being a Brit? Or were you born there? Ep, I posted about that last weekend in the Manifestos. And why aren't you reading the Manifestos? Tsk, tsk. |
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10-17-2003, 01:59 PM | #63 |
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Another gun debate?
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10-17-2003, 03:01 PM | #64 | |
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I know you were just giving me shit, which is why I flung it rightbackatcha baby! And I'm a UK citizen by way of my father, yes. Although, any American who wants to become a Brit citizen does NOT have to renounce their US citizenship to do so, they simply have to meet the UK requirements. Strangely, to become a Croatian citizen, they require you to renounce citizenship from any other country.
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10-17-2003, 03:09 PM | #65 |
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[/quote]So, how to build a culture that doesn't want to use deadly violence? Obvious: create more hippiess [quote]
Or remove regulations surrounding Marijuana ownership, concealed and otherwise, and usage. More pot/Less crime. Now there's a study to fund. |
10-17-2003, 04:03 PM | #66 |
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I always thought that too, warch. We often speculated the reason there was so much great pot, cheap, in Viet Nam was the commies were subsidizing it.
But last night there was some show on the discovery channel or someplace. I had company,so I really wasn't paying attention to their investigation how Shaka Zulu beat the British Army, until they concluded the Zulus had pot with a thc content of something like 25%( ) and that gave them the stamina. Fight, if that's true, I want to know how they could walk???
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Pot to stop violence...shit! That would be great! "Mr. Brown, you are ordered to smoke 4 joints a day. You will be required to have the THC content of your marijuana checked once a week..." But then someone will want to corner the pot market, violence will be used to gain territory, and it will all go to...ummm...pot. As long as technology continues to grow, so will the guns...and everything else. Bigger, faster, more powerful, etc. Last edited by elSicomoro; 10-18-2003 at 12:19 AM. |
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10-17-2003, 11:46 PM | #68 | |
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And the argument that pot is a "gateway drug" is totally lost on me, I have never believed that. |
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10-18-2003, 08:05 AM | #69 |
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Guns, pot, alcohol, spray paint or ice cream. There's nothing you can name that somebody won't use irresponsibly. The focus on specific items being a threat to the general public is misdirected.
The threat to the general public is the attitude that I'm more important than you are. My pleasure is more important that your health and welfare. I bear no personal responsibity for insult or injury to anyone else while I'm pursuing happiness. Oh...and lawyers.
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For just one single if overwhelming example: genocide happens to unarmed populations, not to armed ones. With an armed population, a genocide recedes so far from practicability as to be something invisible. For arms as an expression of power: In a properly constituted republic, political power is sourced in the polity, the electorate. Arms are instruments of the power of life and death. Hence, power, period. If you go around impairing the electorate's power, in time you have something other than a republic -- generally a despotism, as loss of power by one group is generally being engineered by another group, rather than an anarchy. (Parenthetically, an anarchy is no more sustainable than an autarchy.) So in the end, a republic's electorate should retain, in fullest measure, the power of life and death. It dovetails with the power of the vote. It also guards the rights of anyone in a minority, should the power of the vote no longer suffice. If that should ever occur, ugly things follow. This philosophy is not unique to the United States. See Switzerland.
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In Rwanda, no one was really armed with much more than a machete, and both sides had those. It's just that the aggressors chose to use theirs.
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There you go, if they had guns that wouldn't have happened. With machetes, it's hand to hand, where the young, strong, and vicious prevail. But with guns, the old, weak, and frail, can defend themselves from a distance.
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