Re: A question for the Americans
Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman
Drunks tend to hang around liquor stores. Gun buyers do not. It is also the parents choice not to put their kids in that school.
Gun buyers "do not" what?
Apparently the irony of the picture has escaped you.
Re: A question for the Americans
Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman
Drunks tend to hang around liquor stores. Gun buyers do not. It is also the parents choice not to put their kids in that school.
The request was for an insight into daily life in the USA that is different from the UK.
You appear to have missed the point completely which was about attitude to guns and yet at the same time highlighted that very attitude.
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidcc
this says a lot about how we view guns
timeline of school shootings
there is no argument you can make about responsible gun ownership that can split the direct link between guns and school shootings.
I have no objection to liquor stores, adult book stores or a "bookies" to be distanced from schools for whatever reason. Mostly it has to do with morals though. And if those stores are "too adult" and children need to be shielded from them why isn't a store that sells guns?
The fact that it is a Christian school is also revealing about the USA....Guns and God often go hand in hand. I will add I don't know which opened first.
BTW.
We have just one liquor store in the town limits and I have never seen a drunk or anyone "hanging around"
Re: A question for the Americans
Something else that we do all the time is have festivals for all kinds of events. There is always something going on somewhere this time of year.
For instance this weekend is the omelet festival. It’s a big outdoor celebration that lasts all weekend with food, music, arts and crafts, and a parade. On the last day of the festival they cook a giant omelet with 5,000 eggs and they add one more egg for every year of the festival. It has been taking place for 21 years so this year the omelet will have 5,021 eggs.
Here is a website on the history and some pictures http://www.giantomelette.org/
Re: A question for the Americans
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidcc
The request was for an insight into daily life in the USA that is different from the UK.
You
appear to have missed the point completely which was about attitude to guns and yet at the same time highlighted that very attitude.
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidcc
this says a lot about how we view guns
timeline of school shootings
there is no argument you can make about responsible gun ownership that can split the
direct link between guns and school shootings.
I have no objection to liquor stores, adult book stores or a "bookies" to be distanced from schools for whatever reason. Mostly it has to do with morals though. And if those stores are "too adult" and children need to be shielded from them why isn't a store that sells guns?
The fact that it is a Christian school is also revealing about the USA....Guns and God often go hand in hand. I will add I don't know which opened first.
BTW.
We have just one liquor store in the town limits and I have never seen a drunk or anyone "hanging around"
None of that has squat with a gun store being next to a school.
I would be more alarmed if violence would be more likely perpetrated around a gun store but not simply of it being there.
Re: A question for the Americans
Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman
None of that has squat with a gun store being next to a school.
I would be more alarmed if violence would be more likely perpetrated around a gun store but not simply of it being there.
Again you highlight my point about the attitude to guns brilliantly
Re: A question for the Americans
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidcc
Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman
None of that has squat with a gun store being next to a school.
I would be more alarmed if violence would be more likely perpetrated around a gun store but not simply of it being there.
Again you highlight my point about the attitude to guns brilliantly
You as well. You simply don't like them so it's mere appearance next to a school directly correlates to school shootings.:blink:
Had you made reference to children next door being in danger, I'd have been right with you.
I also wonder who was there first.
Re: A question for the Americans
Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidcc
Again you highlight my point about the attitude to guns brilliantly
You as well. You simply don't like them so it's mere appearance next to a school directly correlates to school shootings.:blink:
I only raised that in response to your post about drunks.
But to save you going further off target I shall put the original point again for you.
The picture is to show American attitudes towards guns and daily life. It shows that we are so comfortable with them that it's ok to have a gun store next to a school. We are so comfortable with them that even with their deadly nature they are considered less destructive to the moral fabric of our children than drink or pictures of naked women.
"the lambs to the slaughter"
Re: A question for the Americans
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidcc
Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman
You as well. You simply don't like them so it's mere appearance next to a school directly correlates to school shootings.:blink:
I only raised that in response to your post about drunks.
But to save you going further off target I shall put the original point again for you.
The picture is to show
American attitudes towards guns and daily life. It shows that we are so comfortable with them that it's ok to have a gun store next to a school. We are so comfortable with them that even with their deadly nature they are considered less destructive to the moral fabric of our children than drink or pictures of naked women.
"the lambs to the slaughter"
Excellent my original response was to this...
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidcc
It would not be allowed to have a liquor store next to a pre-school or an adult book store in town but a gun shop next to a pre-school is fine
It may be because of logistics and not one's feelings.
I disagree with your last sentence as does the law of this land. :dry:
Re: A question for the Americans
Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman
Excellent my original response was to this...
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidcc
It would not be allowed to have a liquor store next to a pre-school or an adult book store in town but a gun shop next to a pre-school is fine
And?
What part of it isn't about attitudes towards guns?
It may be because of logistics and not one's feelings.
I disagree with your last sentence as does the law of this land. :dry:
explain
Re: A question for the Americans
Quote:
Originally Posted by vidcc
Quote:
Originally Posted by Busyman
Excellent my original response was to this...
And?
What part of it isn't about attitudes towards guns?
It may be because of logistics and not one's feelings.
I disagree with your last sentence as does the law of this land. :dry:
explain
13 year-old boy found reading dirty mag
13 year-old boy found with loaded gun
13 year-old boy found drinking Jack Daniels
