Gutter ball for "Bowling for Columbine"! (long)

[1stdeadeye]

FOOL!

Originally posted by Collegeboy
We are talking about life and death situations here and you all bring in paintball. How immature can you be.

Not as much as you Rain Man!


And if he gets that close to you while holding a gun, do you think you will get off a swing of that bat? It is all about being prepared fool. My wife uses a shotgun, because the sound is comforting to her. She feels that sound alone will send them running, which it should. I use a Glock 17 loaded with Federal Hyrdoshock rounds. That has no external safety. It is built into the trigger. It is an extremely reliable gun. Also, I have two different alarms. An alarm system and a dog. If anyone is in my house, we will know! Thus if anyone is in our house after the noise and dog, they probably mean us no good, eh?

I am so glad that YOU are so fast that YOU could close the distance between yourself and an armed intruder and hit him with a bat before he gets a shot off into YOU.

My question to you all has been this from the beginning (the others were rhetorical questions, which should have been easy to catch) Why do Americans feel the need to protect their family with a gun, when most of the world feels that they need to protect their family by not owning a gun.

And no I am not making a point with this question, I am trying to get you all to think about the difference and different ways to think, which is getting impossible.

And your question has been answered many times over. You just aren't listening!

[bornl33t]

if I wanted to kill you, and I invaded your house, not you or anyone else for that matter will be able to close the distance. Trust me, an abit gamer I have a split second reaction to my trigger finger.

[1stdeadeye]

LOL

MEMO TO SELF

1) Catch flight to Alabama
2) Find out where CB lives
3) Wait til dark
4) Home Invasion Time baby!!!
5) Clean out the home
6) Shoot at any baseball bat I see
7) Go to pawnshop
8) Use proceeds to buy another gun!

You make it too easy CB.

[luke]

Originally posted by shartley

Just for fun?. When you quote me, do so in FULL context of what I was saying. I don?t recall where and in what context I said that, but I can assure you that knowing myself, it HAD to be sarcastic (or you put a ? in there when I didn?t have one? I will try to find where I posted that). And even more so since I am a HUGE supporter of the right to own guns, and am a former police officer.

As for your comments on Prohibition, illegal drug use, etc?? apples and oranges there my friend, and I will not get into it aside from saying that none of those things have EVER been protected by the Constitution? and for good reason.

(Added: I just skimmed through my posts in this thread.... I could not find where I said that. Please point it out to me and show it in fill context. Thanks.)

Shartly,

OOPS!You took it wrong, I was making a joke. I get the impression that CB thinks the answer to crime is to do away with guns. My point was, making booze and pot illegal did absolutely nothing to curb use or to stop the sales of the stuff, if anything it helps criminals that break the law to make a living.

Actually I AGREE with your point of view here.

[shartley]

[luke]

BTW, The quote came from the top of page 3.

[shartley]

Originally posted by luke
BTW, The quote came from the top of page 3.

LOL Yup, there it is! Well, sort of.

[1stdeadeye]

Hey CB,

I want to send you ah.....an NRA magazine, yeah that's the ticket. I just uh nead your address yeah that's it!

See you soon!

Bwahahahahaha

[Collegeboy]

Well if you can somehow manage your way through the cop stationed at the door, somehow manage to make it up the 15 flights of stairs, and still have the energy to kick my door down and get to me, then you can have my college furniture. I think it all cost me 25 dollars or so. So please come steal it all, it saves me from having to throw it in the dumpster.

[aaron_mag]

Re: Rain Man

Originally posted by 1stdeadeye
Aarron Mag-
WHy can't I use outrageous examples? CB does!

You can but I am going to call you on such things. I don't like the argument that if we it wasn't that we were all afraid of armed resistance we would be invading each others homes etc. Society is made from adherence to certain laws and for the most part Americans subscribe to these rules/ideals. Our society and way of life is not held together by fear.

Since someone brought it up a related question is has paintball given you more respect for the power of a gun? Many of us grew up watching Arnold movies, GI Joe cartoons, etc where having a gun was not a real advantage. I mean the bad guys could never hit anyone anyway. After playing paintball I just can't watch action heros running through a room while several bad guys are all opening up on him full auto. Almost everyone I have introduced to paintball thought that they were going to be able to pull off Matrix moves and instead found themselves huddled behind a bunker in fear.

My point is that we live in a society where many people have no education on fire arms (and Europe even more so). We watch movies and get very unrealistic expectations of them. I'm not saying we ban action movies but saying that a healthy education on guns (including recreational shooting) actually takes away some of the romantic notions about what fire arms are and what they aren't. Just an observation.

[bornl33t]

Originally posted by Collegeboy
Well if you can somehow manage your way through the cop stationed at the door, somehow manage to make it up the 15 flights of stairs, and still have the energy to kick my door down and get to me, then you can have my college furniture. I think it all cost me 25 dollars or so. So please come steal it all, it saves me from having to throw it in the dumpster.

rent a pig? just push then over they are unarmed

[shartley]

Originally posted by Collegeboy
Well if you can somehow manage your way through the cop stationed at the door, somehow manage to make it up the 15 flights of stairs, and still have the energy to kick my door down and get to me, then you can have my college furniture. I think it all cost me 25 dollars or so. So please come steal it all, it saves me from having to throw it in the dumpster.

[shartley]

Re: Re: Rain Man

Originally posted by aaron_mag
You can but I am going to call you on such things. I don't like the argument that if we it wasn't that we were all afraid of armed resistance we would be invading each others homes etc. Society is made from adherence to certain laws and for the most part Americans subscribe to these rules/ideals. Our society and way of life is not held together by fear.

Since someone brought it up a related question is has paintball given you more respect for the power of a gun? Many of us grew up watching Arnold movies, GI Joe cartoons, etc where having a gun was not a real advantage. I mean the bad guys could never hit anyone anyway. After playing paintball I just can't watch action heros running through a room while several bad guys are all opening up on him full auto. Almost everyone I have introduced to paintball thought that they were going to be able to pull off Matrix moves and instead found themselves huddled behind a bunker in fear.

My point is that we live in a society where many people have no education on fire arms (and Europe even more so). We watch movies and get very unrealistic expectations of them. I'm not saying we ban action movies but saying that a healthy education on guns (including recreational shooting) actually takes away some of the romantic notions about what fire arms are and what they aren't. Just an observation.

[aaron_mag]

Re: Re: Re: Rain Man

Originally posted by shartley

That is exactly my point! I think that people who are rabidly anti-gun are usually people who have never even held one. My brother and father are gun collectors while I was never really attracted to them. After actually going target shooting with them (in my adult years) it really blew me away how many myths I had built up about guns. The first being that you point the thing at a target and you hit it. In the movies the female lead picks up a pistol for the first time and suddenly she is hitting people at 100 yards. Within 5 minutes she knows how to switch clips like a pro etc. This, of course, is not the case as it takes expertise to shoot a gun well. My point is I was probably more anti-gun until I actually started seeing them for what they are and what they aren't.

[1stdeadeye]

Home, not dorm!

Originally posted by Collegeboy
Well if you can somehow manage your way through the cop stationed at the door, somehow manage to make it up the 15 flights of stairs, and still have the energy to kick my door down and get to me, then you can have my college furniture. I think it all cost me 25 dollars or so. So please come steal it all, it saves me from having to throw it in the dumpster.

Uhm, I was asking for your home address, not your dorm address. Don't worry, your family can hide with you! I figured your family might have a few nice things.

You can trust my good will. I won't hurt anyone!

Get my point!