BAN computer games or guns?

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Got my thumb caught in sis bolt closing once. Hurt a lot.

I really need to try calling colt again this week about my new 1911 issues.

As for old guns I have a Turkish Mauser. Next is the sks.

Well i can understand to some extent the beauty of the form in some gun designs.
Purely to do with the pure shapes, quality materials used (often metal) and the casting.
In some ways they are like pieces of art, a great deal of design has gone into them,
and in many ways i guess, in a similar way that musicians love their instruments.
I could understand why some would become attached or fond of having them.

I can also understand why people would want to own them if they live in a country where
their is a high amount of firearms, other weapons but also crime.

If i had a choice however, of living in a country that allows firearms or living in a country that
has no firearms.

I would always choose a country without firearms 100% of the time.

Now, i respect your opinions on this subject, as i have only been to the US once, and that was in the late 80s,
so i can't appreciate the US pop love for firearms. Perhaps it is something that comes from becoming attached to possessions as well as the need to defend oneself. I guess a firearm becomes your best friend in many cases.

I was wondering what other reasons why people are attracted to firearm ownership?

I'm all for a gun ban, American gun owners are so cocky about being entitled to hoard weapons that I don't imagine hardly anyone would surrender any guns. I'm getting pretty tired of the strawman argument that law-abiding gun owners have no ulterior motives. Fundamentally, gun owners reserve the right to kill people. In a state of nature, everyone has some defenses & offensive capability.

Do I appreciate what these things are? Sure, I know how to shoot quite effectively. If you all think my owning a gun would be so vitally important, just donate me one from your ridiculous collection! It can collect dust & shoot cans. IMO guns aren't much good for anything else unless you want to live on other mammals. Bullets are not a shield & they're also not reliable technology.

Just stay off my lawn, you never know what I might do with industrial lasers.

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That post seems a little bit emotional.

Just yesterday evening, very late, I ended up getting death threats & obscenities yelled at me by a cad in a pickup truck (after he very nearly ran my compact car off the road) so no, I think I shall, as you phrased it, "reserve the right to kill someone." For if someone threatens my own right to be alive, I shall do what it takes to preserve it. There's no way a tiny little man like myself is taking down a massive wannabe gangsta, unless, of course, I have a fire-arm. All I had was the tire jack from the old car. Not a lot of range.

(To the gun owners of WP, I'm thinking of getting the concealed carry permit as soon as I am able. This is not the first time people have attacked me. I want to learn how to recognize a threat, de-escalate it without even drawing a gun, and how to avoid the possibility of getting into these situations. Also, I want a backup plan if someone really does try to go after me. Around here people hate anything that seems "different.")

Where are you coming from with "bullets are not reliable technology?" Every time I've used them they did what they were supposed to, and the same goes with shotgun cartridges. The only unreliable things I have ever shot were the old percussion-cap shotguns of the Victorian era, and after we perfected the techniques with them, even those old relics could still be fired consistently.

Perhaps since they do not carry bullets, but rather three drams of small shot, they are inherently more reliable? As much as I would like to see a muzzle-loader comeback I don't think they are that reliable. They don't do well in the rain.

Industrial lasers sound cool though, but I do think you could put them to a more constructive use. They'd be pretty neat with a 3D printer--combination of traditional & additive manufacturings.

Im a big and tall guy but physically weak, non violent and never been in a fight nor do I know how to fight.
So I carry a gun, cause if a fight happens I can’t defend myself otherwise. Any fight can become deadly. More people are killed by hands and feet the. Rifles or shotguns.
People have been killed by once punch alone.
So when I’m on ground having someone kick or punch the crap out of me yeah I’ll shoot them until they stop.

I don’t start fights, im very submissive. People describe me as a big cuddly teddy bear.

If we're going to ban a computer game, can it be Facebook?

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

Can't believe this is even a question anyone thinks about with how obvious it is.