When is this going to end, does anyone really care?

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  • brandon10brandon10 Posts: 1,114
    chadwick wrote:
    brandon10 wrote:
    Americans and their constitution. I don't understand the obsession with an article that was written 100's of years ago??

    Keep clinging to the past America. Meanwhile the rest of the world will bypass you. It really is the bible thumpers and Republicans that hold America back. It's such a beautiful country. It's really too bad.

    Edit: And doesn't the constitution have a bunch of amendments? If it was so great, why all the need for amendments?
    where are you?

    Canada
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    brandon10 wrote:
    Americans and their constitution. I don't understand the obsession with an article that was written 100's of years ago??

    Keep clinging to the past America. Meanwhile the rest of the world will bypass you. It really is the bible thumpers and Republicans that hold America back. It's such a beautiful country. It's really too bad.

    Edit: And doesn't the constitution have a bunch of amendments? If it was so great, why all the need for amendments?

    meanwhile the rest of the world is not bypassing America because we have guns. it's a person's very own choice to have a gun or not, in America we can own guns and not be bypassed by you or whoever else you got lined up to out do us ignorant folk just because your land is gunless.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • brandon10brandon10 Posts: 1,114
    chadwick wrote:
    brandon10 wrote:
    Americans and their constitution. I don't understand the obsession with an article that was written 100's of years ago??

    Keep clinging to the past America. Meanwhile the rest of the world will bypass you. It really is the bible thumpers and Republicans that hold America back. It's such a beautiful country. It's really too bad.

    Edit: And doesn't the constitution have a bunch of amendments? If it was so great, why all the need for amendments?

    meanwhile the rest of the world is not bypassing America because we have guns. it's a person's very own choice to have a gun or not, in America we can own guns and not be bypassed by you or whoever else you got lined up to out do us ignorant folk just because your land is gunless.

    The world is bypassing you for a bunch of reasons. Not just because you cling to your guns and freedoms. Not just because of your interventionist foreign policy. Not just because of your deregulation and corporate welfare. It's a combination of a lot of things. But I'd say mostly because of your crazy spending on needless wars overseas that only benefit corporations like Halliburton.

    But keep going down the road you are...I love that when i go to PJ20 in september that for every 100 dollars I bring, I'll get an extra 5 bucks ;)
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    chadwick wrote:
    brandon10 wrote:
    Americans and their constitution. I don't understand the obsession with an article that was written 100's of years ago??

    Keep clinging to the past America. Meanwhile the rest of the world will bypass you. It really is the bible thumpers and Republicans that hold America back. It's such a beautiful country. It's really too bad.

    Edit: And doesn't the constitution have a bunch of amendments? If it was so great, why all the need for amendments?

    meanwhile the rest of the world is not bypassing America because we have guns. it's a person's very own choice to have a gun or not, in America we can own guns and not be bypassed by you or whoever else you got lined up to out do us ignorant folk just because your land is gunless.
    Canada is hardly gunless.
    http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publicat ... Canada.htm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Canada
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • brandon10brandon10 Posts: 1,114
    chadwick wrote:
    brandon10 wrote:
    Americans and their constitution. I don't understand the obsession with an article that was written 100's of years ago??

    Keep clinging to the past America. Meanwhile the rest of the world will bypass you. It really is the bible thumpers and Republicans that hold America back. It's such a beautiful country. It's really too bad.

    Edit: And doesn't the constitution have a bunch of amendments? If it was so great, why all the need for amendments?

    meanwhile the rest of the world is not bypassing America because we have guns. it's a person's very own choice to have a gun or not, in America we can own guns and not be bypassed by you or whoever else you got lined up to out do us ignorant folk just because your land is gunless.
    Canada is hardly gunless.
    http://www.garrybreitkreuz.com/publicat ... Canada.htm

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Canada

    I said in an earlier post that we have our own gun problems. Just not nearly to the extent the U.S. does. We have way more regulation. And I'm pretty sure we have far fewer assault weapons. I'm also pretty sure it is illegal here to own those types of weapons. Either way, I know very few people who own guns here.
  • ParachuteParachute Posts: 409
    Wrong again Gimme...

    It doesn't change "as the people in our gov't see fit."

    It changes as the PEOPLE see fit. Why do see our gov't as something separate from the people?

    We the people...

    Government of the people, for the people, and by the people.

    If you feel like Im picking at you, I'm not- but I'd like to get to the heart of your post that I quoted earlier in this thread regarding "Who gets to decide when people as a whole are ready to have guns"...
  • ParachuteParachute Posts: 409
    Parachute wrote:
    until people as a whole are worthy of weilding the power of guns, then perhaps we should rethink our gun laws?

    don't flame me.... it is a serious question...

    if we don't ask serious questions, then there will be no contemplating the very root of the issues...


    Your first sentence is why people like you are so dangerous. You don't understand your own rights, or history.
    And you will consistently vote to undermine your own Constitution, and ultimately your own freedom- and probably don't even know you're doing it.

    WHO THE FUCK GETS TO DECIDE WHEN "PEOPLE AS A WHOLE ARE READY" FOR ANYTHING?

    The Constitution gives THE PEOPLE/ US the power, and to keep that power out of the hands of those you are suggesting we just hand it over to!!

    Think man!!


    This is what I would like you to explain.
  • brandon10 wrote:
    Americans and their constitution. I don't understand the obsession with an article that was written 100's of years ago??

    Keep clinging to the past America. Meanwhile the rest of the world will bypass you. It really is the bible thumpers and Republicans that hold America back. It's such a beautiful country. It's really too bad.

    Edit: And doesn't the constitution have a bunch of amendments? If it was so great, why all the need for amendments?

    Good point. Those republicans and Bible thumpers really got us into this debt crisis and the illegal Libyan war. Things would be so great if not for them.
    Bristow, VA (5/13/10)
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    brandon10 wrote:
    The world is bypassing you for a bunch of reasons. Not just because you cling to your guns and freedoms. Not just because of your interventionist foreign policy. Not just because of your deregulation and corporate welfare. It's a combination of a lot of things. But I'd say mostly because of your crazy spending on needless wars overseas that only benefit corporations like Halliburton.

    But keep going down the road you are...I love that when i go to PJ20 in september that for every 100 dollars I bring, I'll get an extra 5 bucks ;)
    or maybe you'll get stopped at the border for weed or something, you & your car may reek of grass.
    could be your car blows its motor leaving you carless a whole 133 miles south of Canada.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    Parachute wrote:
    Wrong again Gimme...

    It doesn't change "as the people in our gov't see fit."

    It changes as the PEOPLE see fit. Why do see our gov't as something separate from the people?

    We the people...

    Government of the people, for the people, and by the people.

    If you feel like Im picking at you, I'm not- but I'd like to get to the heart of your post that I quoted earlier in this thread regarding "Who gets to decide when people as a whole are ready to have guns"...
    i am not getting into anything deep with you, except to say that you are wrong. the people can not make an amendment, it can only occur in the ways in the link i posted. through the government. and you are also wrong about the "government of the people...." quote. that was not in any founding document, it was one man's vision. abraham lincoln wrote those words in the gettysburg address, which took place 87 years after the declaration of independance...

    and the question you are asking me is a rhetorical one. there is no definite answer right or wrong. but i suppose if you really want to settle it, have the people decide it in an election. those in government will never change anything because the gun lobby is too strong. i do believe that clearly, as a whole, human beings have not proven that they can handle the awesome power of possessing and operating firearms. in the scheme of things, guns do one thing. destroy things. whether it is a target, a clay pigeon, a real pigeon, or a human being. far too many people have died as a result of being on the wrong end of the barrel.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Lincoln still didn't take all guns away. he still wanted southern folk to have guns even after the war ended. America has guns, don't like it, leave. is that what it is coming down to?

    i think most people are scared of guns because of tv, movies, and the inability to pick one up and figure out how to shoot the thing.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • brandon10brandon10 Posts: 1,114
    brandon10 wrote:
    Americans and their constitution. I don't understand the obsession with an article that was written 100's of years ago??

    Keep clinging to the past America. Meanwhile the rest of the world will bypass you. It really is the bible thumpers and Republicans that hold America back. It's such a beautiful country. It's really too bad.

    Edit: And doesn't the constitution have a bunch of amendments? If it was so great, why all the need for amendments?

    Good point. Those republicans and Bible thumpers really got us into this debt crisis and the illegal Libyan war. Things would be so great if not for them.

    So what is the obsession with the constitution? You never answered that. Why focus on something form so long ago? My grandparents can barely work a remote control or figure out how to use a debit machine, let alone a cell phone. Why would I want to let people from so far back dictate what is right or wrong in todays society? Why are you so stuck clinging to the past?
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    it's common sense to protect yourself and loved ones, as well as others. guns are a tool used in this fashion.
    most guns in this country sit in closets collecting dust.
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • ParachuteParachute Posts: 409
    Parachute wrote:
    Wrong again Gimme...

    It doesn't change "as the people in our gov't see fit."

    It changes as the PEOPLE see fit. Why do see our gov't as something separate from the people?

    We the people...

    Government of the people, for the people, and by the people.

    If you feel like Im picking at you, I'm not- but I'd like to get to the heart of your post that I quoted earlier in this thread regarding "Who gets to decide when people as a whole are ready to have guns"...
    i am not getting into anything deep with you, except to say that you are wrong. the people can not make an amendment, it can only occur in the ways in the link i posted. through the government. and you are also wrong about the "government of the people...." quote. that was not in any founding document, it was one man's vision. abraham lincoln wrote those words in the gettysburg address, which took place 87 years after the declaration of independance...

    and the question you are asking me is a rhetorical one. there is no definite answer right or wrong. but i suppose if you really want to settle it, have the people decide it in an election. those in government will never change anything because the gun lobby is too strong. i do believe that clearly, as a whole, human beings have not proven that they can handle the awesome power of possessing and operating firearms. in the scheme of things, guns do one thing. destroy things. whether it is a target, a clay pigeon, a real pigeon, or a human being. far too many people have died as a result of being on the wrong end of the barrel.


    Point: MISSED.

    But, I give you props for your fact-checking, it's getting better.

    Pretty soon 10 Club will issue you "The Moving Train Google Scholar Equivalency Certificate".

    This is a proud moment for us both.... Let's celebrate with drinks!
  • So we need to penalize EVERYONE for their irresponsible actions? Why can't people be responsible?

    that's the definition of law making, my friend. they are there to protect the responsible from the irreponsible.

    see, there are laws against, say, driving too fast. why? because EVERYONE would drive too fast? nope, most people would drive a responsible speed. it's because we need to be protected from those that do.
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • Parachute wrote:

    Point: MISSED.

    But, I give you props for your fact-checking, it's getting better.

    Pretty soon 10 Club will issue you "The Moving Train Google Scholar Equivalency Certificate".

    This is a proud moment for us both.... Let's celebrate with drinks!

    typical response from you or blockhead. you can't handle someone who is respectfully disagreeing with you and actually presenting arguments and facts, so you have to resort to condesension and name calling. does it make you feel big?

    how about you can this garbage and actually try to have a meaningful discussion.
    Gimli 1993
    Fargo 2003
    Winnipeg 2005
    Winnipeg 2011
    St. Paul 2014
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    Parachute wrote:
    Parachute wrote:
    Wrong again Gimme...

    It doesn't change "as the people in our gov't see fit."

    It changes as the PEOPLE see fit. Why do see our gov't as something separate from the people?

    We the people...

    Government of the people, for the people, and by the people.

    If you feel like Im picking at you, I'm not- but I'd like to get to the heart of your post that I quoted earlier in this thread regarding "Who gets to decide when people as a whole are ready to have guns"...
    i am not getting into anything deep with you, except to say that you are wrong. the people can not make an amendment, it can only occur in the ways in the link i posted. through the government. and you are also wrong about the "government of the people...." quote. that was not in any founding document, it was one man's vision. abraham lincoln wrote those words in the gettysburg address, which took place 87 years after the declaration of independance...

    and the question you are asking me is a rhetorical one. there is no definite answer right or wrong. but i suppose if you really want to settle it, have the people decide it in an election. those in government will never change anything because the gun lobby is too strong. i do believe that clearly, as a whole, human beings have not proven that they can handle the awesome power of possessing and operating firearms. in the scheme of things, guns do one thing. destroy things. whether it is a target, a clay pigeon, a real pigeon, or a human being. far too many people have died as a result of being on the wrong end of the barrel.


    Point: MISSED.

    But, I give you props for your fact-checking, it's getting better.

    Pretty soon 10 Club will issue you "The Moving Train Google Scholar Equivalency Certificate".

    This is a proud moment for us both.... Let's celebrate with drinks!
    no thanks. i only drink with people that i respect. and i am not going to thank you for your back-handed passive aggressive "compliment"...
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • So we need to penalize EVERYONE for their irresponsible actions? Why can't people be responsible?

    that's the definition of law making, my friend. they are there to protect the responsible from the irreponsible.

    see, there are laws against, say, driving too fast. why? because EVERYONE would drive too fast? nope, most people would drive a responsible speed. it's because we need to be protected from those that do.

    Driving over the speed limit doesn't compromise the guaranteed freedoms of society. Not the same thing by a longshot.
    Bristow, VA (5/13/10)
  • ParachuteParachute Posts: 409
    Parachute wrote:

    Point: MISSED.

    But, I give you props for your fact-checking, it's getting better.

    Pretty soon 10 Club will issue you "The Moving Train Google Scholar Equivalency Certificate".

    This is a proud moment for us both.... Let's celebrate with drinks!

    typical response from you or blockhead. you can't handle someone who is respectfully disagreeing with you and actually presenting arguments and facts, so you have to resort to condesension and name calling. does it make you feel big?

    how about you can this garbage and actually try to have a meaningful discussion.


    You misundertood me. I was being sarcastic- like now.

    Gimme and I are old friends- we go shopping together, get our nails done....
  • ByrnzieByrnzie Posts: 21,037
    Parachute wrote:
    Gimme and I are old friends- we go shopping together, get our nails done....

    Except he's male, not female.

    Just one more thing to add to the tally of things you've been wrong about.
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Parachute wrote:
    Gimme and I are old friends- we go shopping together, get our nails done....

    Except he's male, not female.

    Just one more thing to add to the tally of things you've been wrong about.
    males can go and get their nails done
    maybe gimmie enjoys being pampered that way, i have no clue
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    nope, i'm a guy. i thought my avatar and my profile with details like me fighting MMA make that abundently clear.... :?

    so no, no manicures for me....
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    Parachute wrote:
    Parachute wrote:
    Wrong again Gimme...

    It doesn't change "as the people in our gov't see fit."

    It changes as the PEOPLE see fit. Why do see our gov't as something separate from the people?

    We the people...

    Government of the people, for the people, and by the people.

    If you feel like Im picking at you, I'm not- but I'd like to get to the heart of your post that I quoted earlier in this thread regarding "Who gets to decide when people as a whole are ready to have guns"...
    i am not getting into anything deep with you, except to say that you are wrong. the people can not make an amendment, it can only occur in the ways in the link i posted. through the government. and you are also wrong about the "government of the people...." quote. that was not in any founding document, it was one man's vision. abraham lincoln wrote those words in the gettysburg address, which took place 87 years after the declaration of independance...

    and the question you are asking me is a rhetorical one. there is no definite answer right or wrong. but i suppose if you really want to settle it, have the people decide it in an election. those in government will never change anything because the gun lobby is too strong. i do believe that clearly, as a whole, human beings have not proven that they can handle the awesome power of possessing and operating firearms. in the scheme of things, guns do one thing. destroy things. whether it is a target, a clay pigeon, a real pigeon, or a human being. far too many people have died as a result of being on the wrong end of the barrel.


    Point: MISSED.

    But, I give you props for your fact-checking, it's getting better.

    Pretty soon 10 Club will issue you "The Moving Train Google Scholar Equivalency Certificate".

    This is a proud moment for us both.... Let's celebrate with drinks!

    How did you so eloquently put it in another thread? oh yeah, "owned?" was it "owned"? ;)
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • JonnyPistachioJonnyPistachio Florida Posts: 10,219
    chadwick wrote:
    Lincoln still didn't take all guns away. he still wanted southern folk to have guns even after the war ended. America has guns, don't like it, leave. is that what it is coming down to?

    i think most people are scared of guns because of tv, movies, and the inability to pick one up and figure out how to shoot the thing.

    Actually, the majority of people (in here, at least), I feel don't like the laws that make it too easy to get high powered weapons with excessive magazine limits. Many of us see senseless accidents and/or crazy people who get guns legally and kill innocent people.

    Also, a shotgun blast missed my head by a very slight margin a few years back. THAT put things into perspective a bit for me and the two friends who were in the room at the time.

    But, yeah, i'd be willing to bet there are a lot of people who put on the news and see that the first 2-3 stories always have to do with a young person being shot dead, and maybe have an adverse attitude towards guns.
    Pick up my debut novel here on amazon: Jonny Bails Floatin (in paperback) (also available on Kindle for $2.99)
  • ParachuteParachute Posts: 409
    Byrnzie wrote:
    Parachute wrote:
    Gimme and I are old friends- we go shopping together, get our nails done....

    Except he's male, not female.

    Just one more thing to add to the tally of things you've been wrong about.


    Hooked ya! And I'm reelin you in!

    Oh damn! I caught a Brynzie... :cry: These are no good to eat: they taste bitter.

    Now I'm throwin ya back!

    ahhahhaahhaa. Dont listen to Brynzie- You always be a woman in my book, Gimme.
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    Parachute wrote:
    You always be a woman in my book, Gimme.
    and you will always be a TROLL in my book. nothing more, nothing less.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
  • ParachuteParachute Posts: 409
    Owned?

    I fail to see how Gimme learning that the most famous line of one of the most famous speeches of the most famous President ever was in fact, just that, is getting owned.

    But take it how ever you can get it man.
  • ParachuteParachute Posts: 409
    Parachute wrote:
    You always be a woman in my book, Gimme.
    and you will always be a TROLL in my book. nothing more, nothing less.


    I think that's a sexist remark....
  • chadwickchadwick up my ass Posts: 21,157
    chadwick wrote:
    Lincoln still didn't take all guns away. he still wanted southern folk to have guns even after the war ended. America has guns, don't like it, leave. is that what it is coming down to?

    i think most people are scared of guns because of tv, movies, and the inability to pick one up and figure out how to shoot the thing.

    Actually, the majority of people (in here, at least), I feel don't like the laws that make it too easy to get high powered weapons with excessive magazine limits. Many of us see senseless accidents and/or crazy people who get guns legally and kill innocent people.

    Also, a shotgun blast missed my head by a very slight margin a few years back. THAT put things into perspective a bit for me and the two friends who were in the room at the time.

    But, yeah, i'd be willing to bet there are a lot of people who put on the news and see that the first 2-3 stories always have to do with a young person being shot dead, and maybe have an adverse attitude towards guns.

    cold weather effects guns in a manner of uncoolness. never unloaded a shotgun in your home after hunting in extreme cold conditions. safety was on. i tried pumping the first shell out of the gun. it fucking blasted a hole up through the ceiling. yes, the safety was on and the gun was pointed away from people.

    those are the gun safety skills i was taught since i was a baby.

    like you, i never hurt or killed anyone when my gun went off by itself.
    again... extremely cold weather will fuck shit up
    for poetry through the ceiling. ISBN: 1 4241 8840 7

    "Hear me, my chiefs!
    I am tired; my heart is
    sick and sad. From where
    the sun stands I will fight
    no more forever."

    Chief Joseph - Nez Perce
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    Parachute wrote:
    Owned?

    I fail to see how Gimme learning that the most famous line of one of the most famous speeches of the most famous President ever was in fact, just that, is getting owned.

    But take it how ever you can get it man.
    considering i, like most americans already knew that...but whatever. keep condescending to me...

    leave me out of your posts and discuss the thread topic. thanks. or else all of these threads are going to start getting closed because you derailed them, and nobody wants that.
    "You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."  - Lincoln

    "Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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