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19 Jun 2010, 8:28 am

The guy requested the firing squad. As morbid as it is, I'd definitely choose firing squad over lethal injection if given the choice too. Just seems like a more dignified way to die rather than a slow death strapped to a table like an animal.

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19 Jun 2010, 9:32 am

Jacoby wrote:

Animals die by being whacked on the head with a mallet or having their necks wrung. Any kind of death is not dignified. You frequently crap in your pants.

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19 Jun 2010, 11:17 am

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iamnotaparakeet wrote:

What do you say to someone like pandabear though, who is arguing that Israel should allow insane enemies to have military hardware?

Don't feed the trolls.

Eh, I suppose that is best to do.

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19 Jun 2010, 1:41 pm

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If the shots are well aimed

IF they are well aimed?

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There is evidence that lethal injection can be quite painful and take a relatively long time.

Is there actually empirical evidence of this? I know there has been controversy about that, anyhow I think that probably a direct gunshot in the back of the head might be more humanly than lethal injection after all, if that's the case.

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The physical shock/impact of several 30 cal. bullets hitting withing milliseconds should render the victim unconscious very quickly. Death follows quickly also.

I thought the condemned got only one bullet.

Anyway, I come to think that the worse thing about getting shot is surviving.

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19 Jun 2010, 2:09 pm

Sand wrote:

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Sand wrote:

Jacoby wrote:

Cops and criminals have guns why can't i have a gun? I've lived in the city all my life and in some pretty sketchy neighborhoods, I can't blame someone for wanting protection for themselves and their families. Most people are lucky and will never have to use a gun for protection but it provides peace of mind. Gun crimes and crime in general has way more to do with poverty than it does the access to guns.

Anyone who considers getting into a face off with a gun is a guarantee of security is off his rocker.

It's not a guarantee and it should not be marketed as such. What carrying a gun does do is tip the odds more in your favor if you do find yourself confronted by a violent criminal. It's kind of like carrying a little insurance policy: you hope you never need it but boy are you glad to have it if you do!

Reaching for a gun when someone is expecting resistance or has the drop on you is pretty much guaranteed suicide.

Most criminals go find a softer target instead if they expect resistance unless there is potential for a massive payout. If you were a mugger in a dark parking lot would you go after the guy with the NRA or USMC sticker on his truck or the lady with the Obama 2008 sticker on her car?

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19 Jun 2010, 4:47 pm

John_Browning wrote:

Sand wrote:

John_Browning wrote:

Sand wrote:

Jacoby wrote:

Anyone who considers getting into a face off with a gun is a guarantee of security is off his rocker.

Reaching for a gun when someone is expecting resistance or has the drop on you is pretty much guaranteed suicide.

Heck, the guy with the USMC sticker might not even need a gun. He'd whoop the mugger either way.

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19 Jun 2010, 4:59 pm

Sand wrote:

John_Browning wrote:

Sand wrote:

Jacoby wrote:

Anyone who considers getting into a face off with a gun is a guarantee of security is off his rocker.

Reaching for a gun when someone is expecting resistance or has the drop on you is pretty much guaranteed suicide.

As opposed to being raped, tortured, and then stuffed in a trash can?

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19 Jun 2010, 5:13 pm

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Here's the way to do that:

Put the image url in between [img]and[/img]. Like so:

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19 Jun 2010, 5:29 pm

Handling these properly will not kill you,

But handling these consistently will, as they did my dad at age 45 after smoking a few daily for 32 years,

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19 Jun 2010, 9:06 pm

Remind me again of the purpose of guns, please.

Aside from somehow protecting yourself from other people with guns, of course.

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19 Jun 2010, 10:46 pm

iamnotaparakeet wrote:

Well, his collection is off to a good start!

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Remind me again of the purpose of guns, please.
Aside from somehow protecting yourself from other people with guns, of course.

They also protect you from deadly force or severe bodily harm from people using melee weapons or strongarm tactics against the disabled.
A lot of Europeans also overlook that target shooting can be a whole lot of fun!

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19 Jun 2010, 10:52 pm

They will go up in value when the government inevitably bans them.

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19 Jun 2010, 11:01 pm

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They will go up in value when the government inevitably bans them.

If the government banned them, they would be legal to keep but illegal to sell to another person so they would only be valuable on the black market.

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19 Jun 2010, 11:02 pm

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Remind me again of the purpose of guns, please.

Aside from somehow protecting yourself from other people with guns, of course.

Depends on the gun, some are designed for target shooting, some for hunting, others for self defense, the only common feature is that they all use expanding gas to propel a lump of lead down a long tube. The question is too general, that's sort of like asking for one purpose for all cars, some are for racing, others for hauling people around or off-roading, they share common design features but have radically different purposes.

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20 Jun 2010, 1:04 am

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I don't need to carry a gun around with me and I'm in the murder capital of the world.

Border towns in Mexico, Brazil, sub-saharan Africa (particularly South Africa), Iraq (non-combat related), and Russia are all worse than New Orleans. Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, and Russia all have stricter gun laws too! There are others but I can't list them all in a timely manner.

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20 Jun 2010, 3:02 am

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I don't need to carry a gun around with me and I'm in the murder capital of the world.

You live in Ciudad Juarez? At least you have the choice to protect yourself or not, citizens of that blighted city don't have any say in the matter.

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