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10-14-2003, 11:23 AM | #1 | ||
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Gun does NOT equal cowboy!
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I was thinking this would be a great source to get wolf and slang a Christmas gift, then I saw they decided to go all "cowboyish" and said, well, never mind. Quote:
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10-14-2003, 11:46 AM | #2 |
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Bruce sent me a link to the catalog site ... I've ordered a copy because I still have a preference to paging through a catalog whilst sitting upon the throne to clicking through an online catlog. Much of the stuff seems kind of fru-fru faux cowboy. Don't get me wrong, BEAUTIFUL, but fru-fru. This little guy IS amazingly cute though.
A lot of folks have issues with S&W right now anyway, although things are getting better ... there was a period during the *ahem* Clinton years while S&W was owned by a British company and the company entered into what was perceived by many as a "deal with the devil", going along with some ideas and demands by the gun control crowd in an attempt to position themselves as continuing to have a market share as more restrictive bans and manufacturing controls got put into place. Once this became known, a lot of people stopped buying S&W handguns, a lot of dealers stopped stocking them except for special orders. Also, there were significant quality control problems with a lot of the handguns produced, including the Walthers, which S&W manufactures in America. I've read a few things indicating that the boycott is oficially over. I have an interest in the cowboy action shooting thing, and hope to get to some of the events or rendezvous I haven't managed to yet. I have a blackpowder revolver, which I found out last weekend is one heck of a lot of fun, although I do now better understand why Custer lost at Little Bighorn. If you have to load powder, ball, and percussion cap into the thing under pressure, and the enemy is whizzing arrows atcha as fast as he can pull the string back, you are DEAD.
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10-14-2003, 04:54 PM | #3 | |
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10-14-2003, 06:19 PM | #4 |
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Gun does not equal cowboy
Having read this post and tried to understand the humour ! It begs the question "Whats the thing you guys across the pond have about guns".
This is a serious question because there is a saying that what happens in the states happens in the UK within 5-10 years. Is it because you have the right to bear arms? or is it some macho frontier thing. The UK news now is full of drive by shootings,kids here are buying replica guns as a fashion accessory.Thank God most can't get real guns but an article in todays press give details of guns for drugs swaps by paramilitary's from Northern Ireland and black gangs in the cities of Manchester and London.No doubt Gangsta culture and rap shows guns=power. Educate me because I'm confused. |
12-01-2010, 10:16 PM | #5 | |
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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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12-01-2010, 10:20 PM | #6 |
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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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12-02-2010, 12:00 AM | #7 |
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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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10-14-2003, 06:59 PM | #9 |
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In a culture founded on individualism, the right to power goes all the way down to the individual. And at the same time, the individual recognizes his or her responsibility to defend his/her self, and the most responsible in some ways will not accept society's assistance in their own defense.
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10-14-2003, 07:06 PM | #10 |
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couldnt help it....you took away the small font trick
In a cltre fndd on indvdlsm, th rght to pwr gs all the wy dwn to th indvdl. nd at th sme tme, the indvdl rcgnzs hs or hr rspnsbty to dfnd hs/hr slf, nd th mst rspnsble in sme wys wll nt acpt scty's asstce in thr own dfns.
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10-14-2003, 07:07 PM | #11 |
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the last post
sorry...sorry everyone....very sorry
my fault wont happen again sorry
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When that asshole shot up all those school kids, you decided that the best way to prevent that was to disarm the people that don't commit crimes and you're surprised that the people that do commit crimes are having a field day. Well, doh. As soon as the people were disarmed the crime rate went through the roof. I read it was so bad in urban areas the police won't even respond to non life threating calls. I don't know if that's true or not, but it will be sooner or later. I wonder if the Aussies are having the same problem. Irish, druggies, gangstas, does it really matter to you who blows your head off? Quote:
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10-14-2003, 07:21 PM | #13 |
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bruce,
am i detecting some anti-limey sentiment?
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10-14-2003, 07:22 PM | #14 |
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Where the hell did you detect a trace of anti-limey sentiment?
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10-14-2003, 07:28 PM | #15 |
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just the tone cougar
im very perceptive.... ...for instance......i dont think you like me so much
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