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Post by Steve Marinucci on Mar 21, 2013 11:03:09 GMT -5
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Post by debjorgo on Mar 21, 2013 11:53:26 GMT -5
Isn't that the Season of Glass cover with the water glass photo-shopped out?
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Post by acebackwords on Mar 21, 2013 16:37:51 GMT -5
I always thought that "Season of Glass" album cover was a great piece of art. One of the most powerful things Yoko has done.
Don't have much opinion on the gun control issue. Never fired one myself. But I'm somewhat leary of the slippery-slope of banning guns. Connecticut has some of the strictest gun laws in the country and yet that didn't stop the New Town massacre.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2013 1:15:42 GMT -5
That picture is a somewhat stark reminder of a Very Violent death
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Post by Steve Marinucci on Mar 22, 2013 11:18:20 GMT -5
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Post by ReturnToPepperland on Mar 26, 2013 11:43:49 GMT -5
I'd rather Yoko not use John's memorobilia in that way. I don't think it will change any laws or save any lives.
The genie is out of the bottle with regard to guns. The horses are out of the barn. Use whatever metaphor you want to use. Like Pandora's box, once it is open it can't be closed. You can't uninvent the gun and you can't confiscate all the guns as many of these nuts on the left would like to do. You can't do it for two reasons: 1)the law abiding people would comply and the criminals would not and it would make this country less safe. 2) we have the secod ammendement which is there for a reason. Our founding fathers understood the potential tyranny of government when you have the wrong people in power. When a government thinks it is the source of all of our God given rights, it thinks it has the authority to take them away. That's why in all these Godless communist countries,the first thing they do is confiscate the guns. Hitler did it, Korea, China, USSR they all understood this. Those guns are what, one day, will stand in the way of our country being overtaken by such people.
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Post by andyb on Mar 26, 2013 13:13:40 GMT -5
That's got to be the biggest pile of steaming horse manure I've ever read.
I needed a laugh. Thanks.
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Post by ReturnToPepperland on Mar 26, 2013 14:02:36 GMT -5
That's got to be the biggest pile of steaming horse manure I've ever read. I needed a laugh. Thanks. Maybe you can be more specific.
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Post by ReturnToPepperland on Mar 26, 2013 14:47:59 GMT -5
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
--- Thomas Jefferson, quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria in "On Crimes and Punishment", 1764
. . . History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared their own fall.
--- Adolf Hitler, Edict of 18 March 1939
The maintenance of the right to bear arms is a most essential one to every free people and should not be whittled down by technical constructions.
--- North Carolina Supreme Court, State v. Kerner (1921)
Crisis is the rallying cry of the tyrant.
--- James Madison
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Post by andyb on Mar 26, 2013 15:29:23 GMT -5
That's got to be the biggest pile of steaming horse manure I've ever read. I needed a laugh. Thanks. Maybe you can be more specific. Maybe tomorrow. I'm tired now so I may have an early night. I'll ask a couple of question though. Do you believe in God? Do you like and own a gun or guns?
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Post by ReturnToPepperland on Mar 27, 2013 10:09:30 GMT -5
Maybe you can be more specific. Maybe tomorrow. I'm tired now so I may have an early night. I'll ask a couple of question though. Do you believe in God? Do you like and own a gun or guns? Yes I do believe in God. I do not own a gun, but I would like to retain the right to own a gun that would povide adequate protection should I or my family be threatened.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 1, 2013 16:57:57 GMT -5
The wild west thinking never went away....Everyone is a cowboy, armed so they don't get scalped by those dog gone apaches.....
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Post by debjorgo on Apr 1, 2013 17:15:39 GMT -5
The wild west thinking never went away....Everyone is a cowboy, armed so they don't get scalped by those dog gone apaches..... Didn't Marshall Dillion take everyone's guns if they came into town wearing them?
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Post by ReturnToPepperland on Apr 5, 2013 12:46:35 GMT -5
The wild west thinking never went away....Everyone is a cowboy, armed so they don't get scalped by those dog gone apaches..... What you say is true. Only now its not the Apaches, its our fellow citizens.
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Post by andyb on Jul 12, 2013 12:37:34 GMT -5
Maybe tomorrow. I'm tired now so I may have an early night. I'll ask a couple of question though. Do you believe in God? Do you like and own a gun or guns? Yes I do believe in God. I do not own a gun, but I would like to retain the right to own a gun that would povide adequate protection should I or my family be threatened. Forgot about this. I prefer the right for people not to be allowed guns in case a nutter gets hold of one and kills lots of people (or children) in one go. Going bonkers with a knife doesn't usually lead to fatalities in double figures. Brandishing an assault weapon usually does. It's called being pragmatic. I could never reconcile believing in God and thinking it's acceptable to own a gun. The two are incompatible and off the scale in my eyes and probably means I'm a "commy pinko leftie liberal faggot pro-death atheist evolutionist!". So be it.
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