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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II
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First I didn't call you petty, the point was petty.
Second, if you think that's a petty difference, you don't get the whole point of my argument (that though I had figured out long ago..).
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Are we arguing about the way we're arguing here? You know exactly what I meant when I said handgun, you're just deflecting the argument again.
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yes, but they're the ones with the stick. Are you gonna wave your voting card when they decide for you once again?
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No, I just don't vote, they're all the same. I just get on with my life. I can't think of anything that I've wanted to do in my entire life that the govenrment stopped me from doing. They are so far removed from rel life that it's poinltess bothering with them.
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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II
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I really can't, but people like you make this place less pleasant than what it actually is. Mine was a dickish answer to a dickish statement.
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People like me? WTF? Who do you think you are?
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I can't think of a good reason to snort cocaine or smoke weed, still, other people enjoy doing it.
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Jeez, we're onto drugs now are we? Why? What are you going on about?
G U N S. Remember?
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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II
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instead of pondering the opinion of a foreigner, who might see things from a different perspective, all you can do is taking it personally like I'm talking to you, relax.
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Wher have I resorted to calling you ignorant, dickish, a sheep, questioned your intelligence? I haven't. I've stuck to my side of the argument, you meanwhile go from one random analogy to another. I'm not taking this personally AT ALL. You're the one getting personal. You're the one slagging off my country of birth, have I mentioned Italy? Not once.
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I haven't asked for less tough laws, just for laws that make sense. With stricter (or shall I say, more effective) gun laws and semiauto and pistols we all win.
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Except me? I don't want handguns to be legal in the UK. Or Semi Automatics.
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Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II
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sure, but what are they doing to stop or reduce it? Nothing.. let me think why, maybe cos too many people like it, or maybe cos the Government gets a lot of revenue off the selling of alcohol and tobacco..
Everything has a dangerous potential, even your kitchen knives, your car.. shall we forbid everything that is potentially dangerous?
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They put the price up.
No, forbiding potentially dangerous things would be stupid, I'm talking about lethal wepons, expilcitly - firearms - they are not the same thing - Another smokescreen.
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wrong again.
no, you're looking at the shallow end me thinks. It's beyond that, but if you're happy to think otherwise..
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Stop telling me how I'm thinking, I am a grown up, I can make my own mind up about things. I'll say it again - I don't think a hobby is a good enough reason to lobby for lifting the current bans. Time may well change this opinion, If in the future there becomes a real need for gun ownership, you know, when the oil runs out, or food, and you really would need to protect yourself then, absolutley, get me a gun. But not now, I like having an unarmed (in the main) police force, they aren't as cocky. You arm the population and the poilce arm themselves too and so do more of the criminals. Less than 40 people were killed by guns in the UK last year, that's pretty good for a nation of drunken benifit claimers. I want it to be the hardest thing you can apply for a licence for. Truth is the Brits like a good old fashioned drunken punch up more than a pussies with guns shootout. (I don't mean people with guns are pussies, I mean a pussy with a gun, someone you know you'd beat to a pulp if he wasn't armed)