BigSqwert

Could Oliver Peck be a bigger douche on the finale of Ink Masters?

Now we have to blame Jon Stewart for shootings. *shakes head*

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Wooot! Just got tickets for Louis CK tomorrow night.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 10:20 AM) Okay, please give me some specific examples where schoolteachers have successfully shot and killed intruders in their homes with handguns (am not talking semi-automatic rifles here) without harming anyone else in the process...? I'm razzing you. However, the fine people of Tennessee feel that teachers would be perfectly capable of using guns in their classroom.

QUOTE (caulfield12 @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 10:17 AM) Or the example recently in the Empire State Building where police officers hit 9 civilians (not directly involved) in a shoot-out due to ricochets. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/24...ice-rounds?lite So the police, trained to kill someone in that situation in their everyday duty, had 9 out of 14 shots hit non-combatants. And yet somehow teachers are going to do better? C'mon, I've been a teacher for over a decade and that's just impossible to believe. Teacher, school administrator, counselor, whatever. More fear mongering.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 09:52 AM) Ah, the vigilante fantasy again. If only Liam Neeson were the hall monitor at the school.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 09:43 AM) You can kill someone with a BB gun if they're completely defenseless. The 5.56 round is not going to be fatal unless the target is hit in the chest, neck or head. 26 people were easily killed using this "wound-only" ammo. Your argument has failed.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 09:32 AM) Because the next largest projectile weapon in the building was a spitball shooter. He was uncontested even with his dumb tacticool AR that miraculously didn't jam after 2 magazines. But you stated that the ammo was designed to wound. They only wound when the shooter is being contested, otherwise they kill? I fail to see your logic.

Things Aren't Free Forever

QUOTE (Reddy @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 09:13 AM) so then why are there 20 dead kids and not 20 wounded kids? Stop fear mongering.

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 07:17 AM) Our society is unique so I don't really think that would apply like you think it would. Twenty 6 and 7 year olds get killed in a shooting spree and your response is basically "Oh well, s*** happens. No need to change anything."

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 19, 2012 -> 07:09 AM) My point was if you ban all of these weapons you want to ban - assault weapons and handguns - but still allow shotguns or rifles, the number might be 10, 15 20, whatever. It's still going to be more than a couple which would put in the same terrible massacre category you're trying to prevent. And yet you ignore the article from Australia where homicide and suicides plummeted significantly and there were no more mass shootings after the laws changed.

Video Games Are Not The Problem

QUOTE (Jenksismyb**** @ Dec 18, 2012 -> 03:16 PM) It's not our gun-toting nature that's causing these events, it's something that makes these people snap and w'ere not doing enough to prevent that from happening. 59% less homicides by firearms and 65% less suicides.

QUOTE (DukeNukeEm @ Dec 18, 2012 -> 03:27 PM) Because government's have never abused their power when granted a sole monopoly on the use of force, right? As for the technology disparity, that's fine. In the hypothetical SHTF scenario, having to break out Predator Drones and A-10's against American citizens means the government has already totally lost control. You're bringing phrases like "collateral damage" and "acceptable civilian casualties" we associate with Bosnia and Iraq to our homes. Nuclear weapons? I mean holy s*** if the Feds ever got so goddamn maniacal to use those against Americans wouldn't the entire argument that the government is to be trusted with those weapons moreso than private citizens go flying right out the damn door (I'm not advocating private ownership of nukes btw)? The truth is in order to keep order and maintain a facade of normalcy the government would be prohibited from using their full military capabilities, or else they'd have no country to rule. Even you guys would probably raise an eyebrow at THAT kind of response. I dont trust the government. I think that if they could they would've dissolved this whole democracy thing a long time ago and gone full fascism the instant the population became too weak to resist it. Ever heard of Operation Northwoods? I mean that isn't even crazy conspiracy s***, it got f***ing declassified. You can read the memo's online. The good news is that people in this country are armed, about 80,000,000 people here are firearm owners. I dont care what contraptions the military has, or even if they can somehow convince an army of volunteers to start occupying their own homes and bombing their own neighbors, they cannot suppress that many people with guns. Its not possible. Unless of course they can get them to give them all up willingly by telling them its "for their own safety and security" and that they "promise we wont do anything bad once were the only ones with weapons". Must be awful living life with such paranoia.

Dropped my Nexus 7 down a flight of uncarpeted stairs yesterday. The device was in two pieces on the floor. I walked down the stairs with a feeling of deep sadness. Picked up the two pieces, snapped them back together, and viola! The dang thing works flawlessly. Asus FTW!

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Dec 18, 2012 -> 05:11 AM) Greg, nobody here is saying that Obama being a religious man or that speech is offensive. Huckabee(and you) is saying that the removal of god from a public school is the reason that this happened. That is absolute bulls***. This isnt a matter of believing and non believing QUOTE (pittshoganerkoff @ Dec 18, 2012 -> 05:19 AM) I started to get into an argument with a friend on Facebook over that Huckabee video. But, I let it drop. I just don't see how anyone can think that if god hadn't been removed from public schools and we relied on the Thou Shall Not Kill comandment, this horrible event would not have happened. We may never know exactly why Lanza did what he did, but I think there's a very good chance he had severe mental/emotional issues. If that's the case, he obviously didn't get (or ask for) the help he needed. Prayer wouldn't have helped. Greg and Huckabee might have a point if they were advocating that Americans all converted to Buddhism or Jainism but otherwise their point is meaningless.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Dec 17, 2012 -> 07:43 PM) This calls for a steak dinner and firing a few rounds off of your semi-automatic! No doubt.

QUOTE (Chisoxfn @ Dec 17, 2012 -> 07:38 PM) Finally someone else who agrees with me. Movie was awful. The trailer didn't even elicit a chuckle out of me.

Gigabit speed internet coming to my neighborhood!

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ Dec 17, 2012 -> 05:51 PM) Bigsqwert, There is another pretty famous example, Dunblane, Scotland, 16 students, 6 adults. http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/17/world/europe/dunblane-lessons/ I'd love to see similar responses here in the states but that's likely a pipe dream.

After a 1996 Mass Shooting, Australia Enacted Strict Gun Laws. It Hasn't Had a Similar Massacre Since.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Dec 17, 2012 -> 02:00 PM) Or shooing at targets never having an intention of using it for any other purpose. People like this DO exist. If this purpose is the best one you can think of for having such lax gun control laws then what the hell is wrong with this country?