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ORIGINAL: painpup I'm sorry when i get excited there's always a lack of punctuations and capializations and yes I also lived in NY city But all i did was offer up a good book to read so read it or not for it does explain alot It explains a lot only if one accepts the authors point of view.There are alternative points of view.....you do realise that don't you? Yes Mike, there are alternative points of view....you do realise that don't you? Mike, you seem like you're in a very fowl mood, have you been into the cooking Sherry? Fowl Mood? Popeye...no not me I'm peach kean.Just get ticked off when people try to conduct a conversation while telling you to ignore the most relevant aspect of the fucking conversation. By the way ...the word is foul.No charge for the spelling lesson. You know mike, we have enough gun control debates running around. What is driving the killings over the past few years isn't the guns. It is rage. You can hide it under depression, suicidal tendencies, whatever wrapper makes you feel better, but the bottom line to it is rage. Someone wrote on this thread that mass killings have been consistent throughout history. Maybe so. I don't remember them though. Maybe I'm just more sensitized to news now than I used to be. Maybe it's a case of having recognized a problem, I pay more attention. I've used a gun once in life in defense of home. I was 13. I consider myself lucky to have been taught about them and raised around them. Otherwise you'd be flapping and flailing about this topic with someone else, because I'd most likely be dead. It wasn't an assault rifle, handgun or hunting rifle that served the purpose. It wasn't even a very powerful shotgun. It was a .410. So you can be condescending all you want to be about defense of home. For some of us, it is a real debate, not a bullshit one thrown up out of intangibles. I do not support any legislation that leads to a loss of liberty. Period. That goes for attempts to limit and ban abortions even though I don't agree with many of them. It goes for the right of the racists to air his or her views, just as it goes for the right of the oppressed to air his or her views. I don't denounce either. Freedom and liberty mean exactly that to me. And don't give me some shit about what freedom and liberty are worth. If my decisions leads to the end of my life, so be it. I fly many weeks of the year. I was on one of the first flights after 9/11 where the entire plane load of people consisted of myself and 3 others. Everytime I walk through those gates at an airport, I have the distinct feeling that terrorists won a major concession from the American public, not because they were successful, but beceause we, as a whole, are cowards. It irritates the fuck out of me. When it comes to guns, I have no problem with controlling them from the standpoint of criminals, or those with mental issues. I have absolutly no problem with targeting the offenders with stricter punishments. I have no problem executing offenders. That's all I'm going to say on that topic because this thread is not about that topic. It is about the rage that is driving the killings, and one aspect of that rage is the kind of behavior you are evidencing. You refuse to discuss anything about it without your pet peeve thrown in. I don't know you personally, and you seem intelligent enough, but the action is that of an infantile screaming fit because someone can't have whatever it is they want. This country has devolved into a nation of screaming fits, from Republican talk radio to all the fractious groups demanding their moment in the sun at the expense of other people. It has devolved into a country that glorifies frailty on one hand, while raising a nation of self-centered and indulgent people. I could go on and on, but unlike many, I have a job and need to work. You can return to railing against your favorite subject, ignoring all the reasons one would decide to end a shitload of lives, and wishing for blanket legislation that will mostly affect people who do none of the above.
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