Are you into tactical knives ,weaponry, swords, hunting etc? better buy your shit NOW
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and how do I feel about guns? that they shouldn't be used in analogy with condoms?
EDIT: That sounds smart ass. Really I'm kinda confused. You sound like I have an agenda and I made it clear in both statements that I just thought it was an inappropriate analogy.
EDIT again: I looked up pacisfism to see if my statement was applicable. Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes or gaining advantage. Interestingly enough, I really didn't think my argument against his choice of analogies had an agenda but perhaps subconsciously it did. Really, I thought you could be pacifistic by nature without having a cause, but according to wiki, that's not accurate. So yes, guerilla, I will go with non-lethal instead.
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Don't be confused. I didn't have an agenda. I was trying to better understand your position. You had a unique perspective that was neither strongly for guns, nor totally opposed to them.
Gray is interesting because it comes in so many shades, and the internet is loaded with black and white overreaction.
No hard feelings.
No that's not me, just some guy reviewing them on Youtube.
Yeah I know I don't need all these weapons, I'm buying them coz I collect them aswell, and I don't like steel cap boots, they weigh you down, and I'd trust a knife/tonfa over steel caps anyday, as I know how to use weaponry properly.
Not only that, I wouldn't use a weapon on an unarmed person trying to attack me, I'd go hand to hand, it's only if my attacker has a weapon also.
You're more likely to die from heart disease, infectous disease, cancer, stroke, respiratory infections/diseases, accidents (falling, etc), AIDS, digestive diseases, diarrheal diseases, tuberculosis, malaria, lung cancer, road and traffic accidents, childhood diseases, neuropsychiatric disorders, diabetes, suicide, cirrhosis of the liver, Nephritis/nephropathy or measles than from violence (and that includes ALL violence, not just knives and guns)
Yeah, be prepared but some things just aren't worth worrying about.
It is always better to be prepared to defend your life, than to be caught with your pants down. Just because you live in a country with domestic tranquility, doesn't mean it will always be so.
No one misses their rights until they need to exercise them and cannot. Then it is too late.
http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-n-z/NaziLawEnglish.htm
I'm actually pretty gray about most things (Some may find this hard to believe but just because I have a black or white decision that I've made, doesn't mean that it didn't take me YEARS to get there!!) It's a blessing and a curse. You should see me try to make a decision!! I'll argue with myself for hours (if there's no one around to do it for me) I also always get myself in trouble. Right in the middle of an argument with hubby, I'll say you know a better argument for you would be...and I'll do the whole devils advocate thing and argue myself. It's weird. Hubby says I would have made an awesome lawyer and a terrible judge.
Anyways about the gun thing here my drops of grey: The 2nd Amendment has been completely twisted to fit both sides of the argument. It was most likely meant to address the STATES right to bear arms and have a militia. However it was loosely stated and could have meant individual people gathering together in defense of the State. Therefore people that want to ban all fire arms would be would be wrong as it would impede on the peoples rights to be able to to form a Militia. However people that think they have a right to just go walking around with a handgun wtf? How is that protected by the 2nd amendment? So if you were to pin me down I would say I have no problem with gun control. Our forefathers certainly never intended to let uzi's out into the streets of America. But an all out ban? No way I am an American, after all
Sorry, for the temp derailment now back to the swords and knifes....
Edit: I just noticed I mixed the English and American spellings of gray/grey. Look! even my greys are gray!
Living in the UK (i know, i know..) I find it quite hilarious that the U.S government is trying to ban knives before guns? It seems like an incredibly pointless and futile effort. I know you guys like your guns and all that, anyone thought that this might be a law they're trying to pass in, to pre-empt a gun ban?
Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit Court in 2003 wrote in part:
"The Second Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances where all other rights have failed – where the government refuses to stand for reelection and silences those who protest; where courts have lost the courage to oppose, or can find no one to enforce their decrees. However improbable these contingencies may seem today, facing them unprepared is a mistake a free people get to make only once."
Source: Prescience by Tim Case
I've mentioned CIFTA before. There's very little momentum to push gun control through the legislative process at the moment. However, treaties trump the U.S. Constitution. CIFTA will do what the House and Senate cannot.
For both sides of the issue (Nation and Ron Paul's site)...
Ratify CIFTA
Campaign For Liberty — Obama CIFTA Treaty to Implement Back-door Gun Ban!
We have only to look at past rebellions in other countries in which the people lacked firearms to see how things will go if our own firearms are taken.