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Originally Posted by Skybird
Just darken your black sense of humour just a little bit more, and you can laugh yourself to death. Opportunities there are aplenty.
I agree, more laws will do nothing, and like I said before, I think it is a social, cultural, mass-psychological, mentality issue. If any changes short of just banning firearms shall have rewards, they must begin in reeducating a whole history, tradition, self-definition and culture. Adn that will cost time, probably generations, and holds its own risks, as we can see in Europe, where the home populations are increaisngly unable to consider force as a valid option to defend themselves. And thats makes them helpless against those who disagree on that taboo.
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Sky, you are so way off as to defy description. Using our members as an example, we are all armed and hardly a threat to anyone, unless someone attempts to invade our homes or hurts someone we care about, then all bets are off. Our members represent a cross section of society as a whole. Most people like our subsim members employ the science of physics and ballistics with regards to grain weights and other factors to increase their accuracy.
You apparently have this image that we are all lunatics. We are the same people who work 40 hours a week, attend church regularly not to mention soccer, football, baseball practices and other activities for our kids after working 8-12 hours on a given day. We do that because our kids are everything to us as they are to other parents in other countries. We look out for our neighbors kids too and our neighborhood. They are the same people who take time off to help people they don't even know, thousands of miles away, to recover from natural disasters like hurricans and tornado's.
These are the same people who take their freedoms seriously and wouldn't think twice about taking up arms to protect that.
In my mind, people who do that aren't lunatics, they are everyday hero's and if need be, patriots. That's what our society is all about.
By the way, our history was written in the blood of others who defined the term patriots who gave everything, including their sons to build a nation. They are as revered today as they were then as are their words, actions, honor and integrity that they held most sacred.