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10-12-2010, 03:57 PM | #37 | |
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You live in my world, I am sure you would change your mind.... and if I lived in yours, I am sure I would as well.
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10-13-2010, 01:03 AM | #38 |
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Point taken. Education is the biggest factor in the American attitude, but how tax money is spent is a close second. Sure, we have unemployment here, and sometimes desperate people as well. But, we have a safety net (sometimes called communism in the US), where we don't allow anyone to starve. We make sure that seniors do not have to work past 65 for lack of pensions. It isn't all beer and skittles, but we all survive without ever having to turn to a life of crime. We do this instead of spending huge amounts of tax dollars running wars to preserve a supply of cheap oil. I know that sounds like a cheap political shot, but really, one must have a close look at how other countries spend their money, and on who. I do wish we followed the European models more closely, but for now we are stuck with a Prime Minister who thinks Bush was on the right track, and we are poorer for it.
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10-13-2010, 01:14 AM | #39 |
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I fully understand why you live where you do, and I would gladly give up all my firearms for the peace of mind you have.
Can I do anything about the shitty decisions that have been made by leaders in my country? Not really, all I can do is vote for the candidate I feel would do the best job. I just live in this world they have created the best that I can.
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10-13-2010, 02:01 AM | #40 | |
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The last thing I want is for some gimpy-legged criminal to come sneaking around again. Best to just end it right then and there.
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10-13-2010, 08:37 AM | #41 |
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I'm single and live alone and I have a 9 mm Glock ready for any intruder. In fact, a policeman recently told me that if I catch someone trying to break in, shoot him and then drag him right inside the doorway and I'll be ok. And then call 911.
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10-13-2010, 09:09 AM | #42 |
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America. The only country on Earth that other countries complain if it doesn't help them...and still complains if they do.
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I live my life a quarter pounder at a time. And for those 500 calories or more, I'm free. I need FRIES! Two of them. The big ones. Oh, and I need them tonight. You're lucky the double shot of BBQ sauce didn't blow the seam on your nugget box. There she is, 2 pounds of pure beef. My dad ate it in 9.0 seconds flat. Check it out, it's like this. If I lose, winner takes my happy meal. But if I win, I take the burger and the toy. To some people, that's more important. |
10-13-2010, 09:21 AM | #43 |
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actually, the reason they tell you to "shoot to kill" is... if you wound an intruder they can turn around and make you pay them for the rest of their life for the injury. That is what they teach in the CCW class atleast.
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10-13-2010, 10:20 AM | #44 |
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My instructor also told me to atleast put 5 shots in his torso to atleast know he is down and out. The rules that apply here are that, you need to fear for your life or anothers life around you in order to discharge your firearm. Like if there was a robbery somewhere and you beleived you or someone else would be harmed you can use it.
The main reason I got my license, like some, was that if ever the case someone came and tried to harm my family/friends I want to be able to defend them by any means possible though I never want to take another persons life, it was their doing to begin with. Last edited by Nexus1155; 10-13-2010 at 10:30 AM. |
10-13-2010, 10:41 AM | #45 |
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I always liked the idea of a sawed-off shotgun. You don't even have to be really accurate with that sucker. :) Just aim in the general direction.
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10-13-2010, 12:56 PM | #46 |
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I have the shortest legal shotty for home protection. Mossberg 500 w/ 18.5 inch barrel, pistol grip no stock, 12gauge loaded with 00 buck
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10-13-2010, 01:02 PM | #47 | |
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So it's OK for country's to use violence to protect their interests and "property" but that's not the right of the common man? If another country invaded Canada, it would respond with force, wouldn't it? Well, just consider Castle Doctrine to be a smaller version of that, I have the right to defend my interests and property from those who threaten it. Hell, even the Swiss understand this, and they are bigger pacifists than the Canadians!
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10-13-2010, 01:40 PM | #48 |
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Exactly, why buy jet fighters when you always have America to bail you out.
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I live my life a quarter pounder at a time. And for those 500 calories or more, I'm free. I need FRIES! Two of them. The big ones. Oh, and I need them tonight. You're lucky the double shot of BBQ sauce didn't blow the seam on your nugget box. There she is, 2 pounds of pure beef. My dad ate it in 9.0 seconds flat. Check it out, it's like this. If I lose, winner takes my happy meal. But if I win, I take the burger and the toy. To some people, that's more important. |
10-13-2010, 03:23 PM | #49 |
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After Pearl Harbor, Americans stopped being isolationists and started offering their services to anyone who was being bullied. This happened in Korea, Vietnam, Bosnia, the list goes on. I don't necessarily agree with it, but if we are going to help one country, we should also help another...when it's obvious what the "war" is really for, it makes a country in need wonder what they have to offer, and will America help. No oil? No gold? No something else we need? We're busy. LOL!
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10-13-2010, 05:03 PM | #50 | |
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The other problem is people are far too comfortable nowadays, a lot of people forget what it was like to take care of themselves.Everyone now assumes the police will come instantly or someone else will defend them if the need arises. Never mind if something happens and they need simple things like food or water. No one is prepared for anything anymore. In general, we are all soft compared to how people lived 100 years ago. And God forbid something happens that makes all this tech worthless. Until you can say there are zero deaths by crime anywhere on the planet, every citizen should own and be well trained on hand weapons, because what humans are best at is creating new, varied, and more horrible ways to kill each other.
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10-13-2010, 07:04 PM | #51 |
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My personal Gun Law is simple, and I think that many people with guns in their homes probably feel similarly. I have guns in my home for protection. I'm not rowdy and go outside and start shootin' (although some do here in South Jesus), but I do want to be prepared if some shit goes down.
The very last thing I want to be is some anti-gun person whose home gets broken into and his head shot off...all without even having anything to fight back with. If I go down, it will be with guns a' blazin'! :)
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10-13-2010, 07:19 PM | #52 | |
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10-13-2010, 07:21 PM | #53 | |
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the violence on the border has a lot more to do with our dumbass war on drugs than it does people's lack of arms. also how does being anti gun equate being helpless. would you also consider all the civilizations before the firearm was invented, helpless?
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10-13-2010, 08:08 PM | #54 |
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To tell ya'll the truth...... I am just preparing for the Zombie Apocalypse
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