Do you own a gun?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by vidcc

i didn't miss that, but i feel now that you may have missed mankers point.

---

No fucking shit, eh.

I seriously don't believe this :no:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MCHeshPants420

You keep going to the gun range to make sure you can use the six guns you own.

---

I don't go to range to better fill an intruder full-o-holes (it is a byproduct though).

Me and me mites are pretty competitive at teh accuracy.

One of my friends just collects guns. Not I said the rabbit.

I'm pretty practical.

If I hit the bottom post one more time on this thread I'm going to shoot someone.:glare:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by vidcc

i didn't miss that, but i feel now that you may have missed mankers point.

being...

you set up all these things because you had a fear of something.... he didn't say you have the same fear now after you have taken "preventative measures"

---

Ok now you are so Busy saying he's right that he isn't.

He said I am scared. That means now.

He has always maintained that.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by manker

You're such a dickhead sometimes.

I'm saying the reason why you purchased the guns is because you're scared. The reason you live in a fortress is because you're scared. You're scared of what would happen if you didn't have them.

Surely this hasn't escaped you. Please tell me it hasn't.



You've done all of this because you're scared of intruders.

---

No...
I'm not scared of intruders. I will fill him full-o-holes if fucks with me family. :lol: :lol:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Busyman

I don't go to range to better fill an intruder full-o-holes (it is a byproduct though).

Me and me mites are pretty competitive at teh accuracy.

One of friends just collects guns. Not I said the rabbit.

I'm pretty practical.

---

Whatever the type of practice you take isn't really the issue. It's still practice for a purpose.

Your worse than usual grammar is worrying me though. Long night?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MCHeshPants420

Whatever the type of practice you take isn't really the issue. It's still practice for a purpose.

Your worse than usual grammar is worrying me though. Long night?

---

What purpose? You actually think I constantly spend money on ammo to practice shooting people? :lol: :lol: :lol:

You're clearly the only person here who missed my point.

However, you're right and everyone else is wrong. How could the outcome have been any different.

:frusty:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by manker

You're clearly the only person here who missed my point.

However, you're right and everyone else is wrong. How could the outcome have been any different.

:frusty:

---

Well see that's the thing...I never did miss it.
You all are giving me a rare real lol moment on the internet. :lol: :lol:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Busyman

Hell yes but if someone had a pistol maybe the intruders would have had pause when they obviously did not.

---

and maybe they would've done a dancing baby imitation while playing a harmonica with their ass if someone baked a shortcake for them. :rolleyes:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Busyman

What purpose?

---

I can't answer that. Why do you practice shooting guns with your friends?

Fun?
To make you better at it?
What?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Busyman

Well see that's the thing...I never did miss it.
You all are giving me a rare real lol moment on the internet. :lol: :lol:

---

Sure ;)

My studio got broken into 4 times last year - during the neighbourhood junky invasion

Break in No.1 : A friend stayed over for a couple of weeks, he came to studio drunk, left door open, passed out, next morning he woke - tutti gone. Yeah i was pissed off. Went to cops - no point nothing located.

Break in No.2 : Slept in studio heard noise, looked down, saw junky with stuff, ran down naked, junky saw me, runs to door (he came in thru window) can't open door, i grab the bag, i open door and tell him to piss off. Yes Busyman i agree, after this type of wake up call you get very sensitive to any noise - it makes you nervous.

Break in No.3 : Slept in studio, heard noise, dressed (this time) , ran downstairs, he is caught in the kitchen window, i help him out and ask him if he knows about my stuff which got ripped, he says no, i ask him could you get me this & that, he says maybe. He pisses off.

A week later he comes back - with 2 of my items, plus other stuff i needed, i pay him ridiculous low price for tutti. Never saw him again. I regarded the "weak" payoff for these items as "sustainable payback".

Break in No.4 : During party in studio, somebody walked in, grabbed some stuff and left - somebody saw, ran after the guy, the thief dropped everything.

The junkies have since then left the neighborhood, I'm more cautious about having windows open if passing out (place glass bottles on them to trigger noise)
There where No Guns Involved -nor was there any need for them, Id hate to imagine what would happen if i had one, its too easy.
Even junkies are "civilized"

See God got it the wrong way round.

He should have legalized guns in Holland and cannibas in USA.



That way Yogi would have shot himself in the head. :01:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Busy

One of friends just collects guns. Not I said the rabbit.

---

I've just noticed this.

:blink: :lol:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Sparsely

and maybe they would've done a dancing baby imitation while playing a harmonica with their ass if someone baked a shortcake for them. :rolleyes:

---

Well then the intruders would have definitely shot them. :unsure:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MCHeshPants420

I can't answer that. Why do you practice shooting guns with your friends?

Fun?
To make you better at it?
What?

---

The same reason I play basketball.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Busyman

The same reason I play basketball.

---

to try to imitate black guys that you would otherwise fear?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by zedaxax

My studio got broken into 4 times last year - during the neighbourhood junky invasion

Break in No.1 : A friend stayed over for a couple of weeks, he came to studio drunk, left door open, passed out, next morning he woke - tutti gone. Yeah i was pissed off. Went to cops - no point nothing located.

Break in No.2 : Slept in studio heard noise, looked down, saw junky with stuff, ran down naked, junky saw me, runs to door (he came in thru window) can't open door, i grab the bag, i open door and tell him to piss off. Yes Busyman i agree, after this type of wake up call you get very sensitive to any noise - it makes you nervous.

Break in No.3 : Slept in studio, heard noise, dressed (this time) , ran downstairs, he is caught in the kitchen window, i help him out and ask him if he knows about my stuff which got ripped, he says no, i ask him could you get me this & that, he says maybe. He pisses off.

A week later he comes back - with 2 of my items, plus other stuff i needed, i pay him ridiculous low price for tutti. Never saw him again. I regarded the "weak" payoff for these items as "sustainable payback".

Break in No.4 : During party in studio, somebody walked in, grabbed some stuff and left - somebody saw, ran after the guy, the thief dropped everything.

The junkies have since then left the neighborhood, I'm more cautious about having windows open if passing out (place glass bottles on them to trigger noise)
There where No Guns Involved -nor was there any need for them, Id hate to imagine what would happen if i had one, its too easy.
Even junkies are "civilized"

---

Yeah in my old area we some high schoolers taking people's bikes out of their backyard. I would hate that one of them got shot. :(

Smart thing with getting some of your shit back. I might have beat the shit out of him and received nothing or better yet had him bring the shit back to sell to me and then beat the shit out of him.

Kinda hard to reward a thief but at the same time, he did come back. :unsure:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Busyman

The same reason I play basketball.

---

Which is? :huh:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Sparsely

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Busyman

The same reason I play basketball.

---

to try to imitate black guys that you would otherwise fear?

---

it got buried ;)

@J3P0 : umm...nope :D

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MCHeshPants420

See God got it the wrong way round.

He should have legalized guns in Holland and cannibas in USA.



That way Yogi would have shot himself in the head. :01:

---

:lol: :lol: :lol:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by MCHeshPants420

Which is? :huh:

---

recreation

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Sparsely

to try to imitate black guys that you would otherwise fear?

---

:blink:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by j2k4

Have you the slightest idea what my point was, Sparsely?

I wonder.

---

Can you repeat it. I missed your point as well.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Busyman

:lol: :lol: :lol:

---

Yeah well, given two bullets and a licence to kill...I'd shoot him twice. ;) :lol:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by zedaxax

My studio got broken into 4 times last year - during the neighbourhood junky invasion

Break in No.1 : A friend stayed over for a couple of weeks, he came to studio drunk, left door open, passed out, next morning he woke - tutti gone. Yeah i was pissed off. Went to cops - no point nothing located.

Break in No.2 : Slept in studio heard noise, looked down, saw junky with stuff, ran down naked, junky saw me, runs to door (he came in thru window) can't open door, i grab the bag, i open door and tell him to piss off. Yes Busyman i agree, after this type of wake up call you get very sensitive to any noise - it makes you nervous.

Break in No.3 : Slept in studio, heard noise, dressed (this time) , ran downstairs, he is caught in the kitchen window, i help him out and ask him if he knows about my stuff which got ripped, he says no, i ask him could you get me this & that, he says maybe. He pisses off.

A week later he comes back - with 2 of my items, plus other stuff i needed, i pay him ridiculous low price for tutti. Never saw him again. I regarded the "weak" payoff for these items as "sustainable payback".

Break in No.4 : During party in studio, somebody walked in, grabbed some stuff and left - somebody saw, ran after the guy, the thief dropped everything.

The junkies have since then left the neighborhood, I'm more cautious about having windows open if passing out (place glass bottles on them to trigger noise)
There where No Guns Involved -nor was there any need for them, Id hate to imagine what would happen if i had one, its too easy.
Even junkies are "civilized"

---

Must have been scary, I have to admit that I admire you for your restraint and tolerance.

SnnY theorised about this in his posts yesterday (or whenever) - you've shown that he's right in a culture in which guns aren't prevalent. At least in these instances.

This is infinitely more preferable to recreating a scene from Die Hard in your living room.

oh, quit stammering and spit it the hell out.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by manker

Must have been scary, I have to admit that I admire you for your restraint and tolerance.

SnnY theorised about this in his posts yesterday (or whenever) - you've shown that he's right in a culture in which guns aren't prevalent. At least in these instances.

This is infinitely more preferable to recreating a scene from Die Hard in your living room.

---

It sounds to me that no weapons were invloved at all. That's pretty nice. :rolleyes:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Busyman

It sounds to me that no weapons were invloved at all. That's pretty nice. :rolleyes:

---

Indeed.

At least you managed to get your head around Zed's point :dry:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by j2k4

You mean you want me to read and parse it for you, having failed to do so yourself?

---

No, I mean you're normally on my ignore list and I took you off just for tonight just in case you had something interesting to say. Be a dear and repost your point.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by j2k4

My point is that if the several of you who have chosen to argue any of the variety of anti-firearm stances you've tried to present had gathered your formative "data" from television or other native media, your understanding of our commensurate views is thereby skewed.

In light of this, you would do better to ask us how these things work in our country, and erase from your minds and memories that which you currently "think" you know.

After all, we have no obligation to entertain the views of members who dismiss our experiences or sourcing, or label same biased to some minority ideology, when you can't even muster the alacrity to question Auntie Beeb. ;) ;)

---

Actually, I think my points are mainly in congruence with vid, Sparsely and SnnY. I'm not sure of their accord with Auntie Beeb, what with them not being from the UK, but I am sure that I agree with them and that their opinions are as valid as your own.

Of course, you may not have been lumping me in with that but the language used seems to intimate at it.

Maybe in a thread such as this the choice of literary weapon should have been the sniper rifle rather than the scatter gun :dry:

well, debate on the internet is pretty useless anyway, none of us are going to change one another's mind's about it...so it basically just like, let's see who makes themselves look stupid, and ridicule whoever we can :D

as far as I'm concerned, as an american, no ordinary citizen can rationally justify the need for a firearm. I'd be content if only the police/military and criminals had them. They pretty much just use them to shoot each other anyway, and I'm neither...so I'm pretty safe.
I'd rather be protected from the regular, everyday dumbasses who need weaponry to feel safe.

edit : I don't even know who the fuck aunt beeb is. :cool2:

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by manker

Indeed.

At least you managed to get your head around Zed's point :dry:

---

I get what you all are getting at all along (including last night).

I still wouldn't be gunless, even over there (law permitting).

It just takes one hardcore junkie to possibly shank me, shoot me, whatever and I'll be holding on to ideal of DisneyWorld.

There are consequences to breaking laws and some of those consequences are dished out by ordinary citizens.

However, everything doesn't warrant a shot in the ass and everything over here doesn't really go that way.

edited thanks to manker ;)

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Busyman

I still wouldn't be gunless, even over there (law permitting).

It just takes one hardcore junkie to possibly shank me, shoot me, whatever and I'll holding on to ideal of DisneyWorld.

---

yes, you are paranoid.

[/thread]

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Sparsely

as far as I'm concerned, as an american, no ordinary citizen can rationally justify the need for a firearm. I'd be content if only the police/military and criminals had them. They pretty much just use them to shoot each other anyway, and I'm neither...so I'm pretty safe.
I'd rather be protected from the regular, everyday dumbasses who need weaponry to feel safe.

---

That's the dumbest shit I have ever heard.

Criminals don't just fight each other.

Sometimes, you know, every once and awhile they come for you.

They come for me and I've got something for them. They come for you and I'll call you the regular, everyday dumbass.

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by Sparsely

yes, you are paranoid.

[/thread]

---

Whatever it is it has kept me alive longer than I probably should be living.

yep, I'm just mad.
I don't lock my car or house either. I also pick up hitchhikers, talk to strangers, and eat candy from people I don't know.

I guess I just like living on the edge. :rolleyes:

Quote:

---

when you can't even muster the alacrity to question Auntie Beeb.

---

Who are we to question the inherent wisdom in an episode of Eastenders? :unsure:

And for those people ignorant of the ignore function (forgive my pun) I can only but recommend it:

http://www.filesharingtalk.com/vb3/p...ignore&u=91467

You'll never know what you're missing out on...