It never goes out of style...
No, I don't feel safe seeing that. YMMV.
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Cheers,
Scott.
No, I don't feel safe seeing that. YMMV.
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
Bors from 2012.
It never goes out of style... No, I don't feel safe seeing that. YMMV. :-/ Cheers, Scott. |
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of course you would be uncomfortable with open carry
you or your neighbors were not brought up that way. So It would be scary to introduce it to your neighborhood. In Alaska until 1980 or so open carry was common, the only restriction was you had to hanf the guns up in the bar until you left. Then the fucking califucks moved in and started shivering in fear. You can still open carry but the cops get excited now. you can kill people for America at age 18 but need to be 21 to buy a beer |
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'The World' will thank the mentioned Califucks for their prescience
..if there are enough left sans collateral-damage-Cha-Cha-Cha ... to give a round of applause. Instead of those Other "rounds" ..which so many hoard, preen selves by their reflected light and ... otherwise fondle [one can only say:] lasciviously. Gollum's My Precious |
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Too many wingers argue for "open carry everywhere".
There are nutjobs in power here in VA that say that guns should be allowed in bars, schools, churches, etc., etc., and if they're forbidden that somehow means that FEMA Camps are just around the corner. It's stupid. People don't think and act rationally when they're drunk or under stress. Open Pointing would not make anyone safer. Open Carry is a shibboleth that was recognized as ridiculous and dangerous in Dodge City in the 1870s. It's even more stupid and dangerous now. Part of my adolescence was spent in a home with a guy who had a pistol. It didn't make me, or my mother, feel safer. As you know, Kennesaw, GA passed a law in the early 1980s that required every household to own a gun. It hasn't eliminated crime there (the crime rate is lower in Fairfax City which has no such rule). More guns aren't the answer, and the Constitution doesn't say that every 'fraidy cat idiot and bully within the US has the right to brandish guns whenever and where-ever they feel like it. (sigh) DC v Heller was wrong in many respects, but there are sensible portions to it: The Supreme Court stated, however, that the Second Amendment should not be understood as conferring a “right to keep and carry any weapon whatsoever in any manner whatsoever and for whatever purpose.” The Court provided examples of laws it considered “presumptively lawful,” including those which: The way out of this, it seems to me, is to require a "tax stamp" for every firearm that isn't a muzzle-loader - the same type of regulations required for Tommy Guns and the like. You want an AR-15? Fine. Pay the $200 tax, get on the ATF list, have all the checks, accept the regulations on transfer, and so forth. A $20/bullet tax would be nice, too, and would obviously be Constitutional... Cheers, Scott. (Who wonders if the Supreme Court may actually draw back from the brink based on the refusal to take the case yesterday.) |
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Same as free speech: there are time/manner/place restrictions
Regards, -scott Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson. |
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Masterful.. Piet Hein would give a nod
In my little square-shaped copy of Runaway Runes (one of his 40 published, by '68 when I got this in København [btw it's Copenhagen-long-A as in "The Hague" ... not f'ing "-hog".) ..which I ran across this afternoon, there were some "compact reviews": The impact of Piet Hein ... on the English speaking world may be considerable ... he comes to its attention as a full-blown developed genius. Often proposed for the Nobel prize. LIFE (mag.) ... conciliation would be far easier if adversaries would only heed the aphoristic advice of the Danish Scientist-Poet Piet Hein: The Noble Art of Losing Face ... TIME (mag. too before it burned out) and from Norway: Critics find Piet Hein incomparable. On the contrary, he is comparable even with Goethe ... Goethe's masterly »knittelverse« or »Über allen Gipfeln«, don't you think? Herman Wildelvey also from there: The Nobel prize should be proud to be given to Piet Hein. Arvid Dahle The noble art of losing face And he had more coming. Mentioned In 1968. But just the ones in THIS teensy book-let, attended by other than the feeble-minded: could have obviated [most every foreign adventure of the ignorant-Shogunate]--for just One example. So homo-sap has had No Excuse.. for at least ... the last 47 years. :-/ |
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Heh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Pieterszoon_Hein Growing up, ^this^ is the Piet Hein the songs you learn in school are about, even in Belgium... You mean the Danish edition, I take? |
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Quite.. also,
Holy Shite! he/my guy ..had same birthday as Beethoven (et moi!) GMTA. Alas, your guy seems never to have created a single grook; pen mightier than the cutlass? A direct descendant of Hein was Piet Hein, a famous 20th century Danish mathematician, physicist and poet. |