SHOOTING at the OLYMPICS

[Bewolf]

Originally Posted by Sternjaeger II

This will never end. I think both sides have good reasons (and not so good ones), what it doesn't change though is that if given the choice, I'd rather be the one on the right side of the barrel, and a gun ban should be unilateral to be truly effective. Once again, good luck trying to police that, and not just in the US.

What scares me is the deluded individuals who really think that they live in a perfect society where things couldn't get out of hands and very fast too.. wake up fellas, history is but a wheel that turns and turns, and same things keep on happening on and on and on...

Sure, things can always move the DoDo way. The world may end tomorrow. We may have civil unrest, civil war, terrorist attacks en masse, all possible. And we all know that ppl are evil and just want to have a go at you anyways, so better be prepared to beat them back, it can happen any minute now.

Some more utopian postcards just for you, Stern. A society is what you make out of it, a melange of opinions and stances of all people within this society, influencing itself through all levels simply by interaction.
And the more people within that given society distrust each other, the more people will take over that view in return. That is the starting point where societies start moving to the bottom. Also a little reminder of history, when you look for actual root causes for the developments you warn about. It simply does not work out if you see bad people all around.

As I said, it is a self fullfilling prophecy.

That said, I just wished some people were as keen to prepare for other eventualities with just as much energy as they do for owning guns for the coming collaps.

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by Bewolf

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A society is what you make out of it, a melange of opinions and stances of all people within this society, influencing itself through all levels simply by interaction.
And the more people within that given society distrust each other, the more people will take over that view in return. That is the starting point where societies start moving to the bottom. Also a little reminder of history, when you look for actual root causes for the developments you warn about. It simply does not work out if you see bad people all around.
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Being on this forum the last few months has been a real eye-opener. I've been really shocked at the attitudes of so many of the Americans on here.

It seems that American society is very dangerously fragmented and volatile. Everyone seems to feel threatened. Seems to be a picture of a society losing cohesion and slowly disintegrating.

Maybe not surprising given that the U.S. right has been edging ever further into la-la land paranoia, fuelled by Fox news and a wide array of shock jocks.

God help us all.

[Oldschool61]

Dont worry not all americans are like these gun toting rednecks on these forums. Some of us are educated and not aggressive.