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![]() Cecil Chapman wrote: I go back to what I said before. The average citizen has NO need to have armor piercing bullets (or rounds that will effectively do the same). And they don't have any. The big problem is people like Boxer who label commonly used ammunition "armor piercing" and play people like you for suckers. Any cop-friend will tell you is to get a shotgun for home protection, you just point in the 'general direction' and you'll hit the intruder. Bull****! A shotgun hits where you point it, and you'd better make damn sure you're pointing it exactly where you want it to hit. The shot pattern from my 12 gauge will be about 2" wide at 20'. Point that "in the general direction" of somebody, you're just going to punch holes in the walls. I've just been saying that Joe Bob down the street doesn't need a shoulder fired missile, armor piercing bullets, automatic weapons to defend his/her home. And these are not available in the U.S. and have not been for many decades. But,,,, an AK-47??? The semi-automatic version of the AK-47 is a fine weapon for hunting an animal that weighs about 180 pounds, especially in brush. That's a deer, by the way. George Patterson If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have been looking for it. |
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The reason most intelligent people don't throw "homophobe" around is because
they actually know what it means, which you obviously don't. Homophobia refers to a fear of homosexuals or prejudice toward homosexual. Go back and take another look at my original post and tell me where I exhibited any homophobia. If you still see it, have some of your liberal dogma drained off and replaced with brains, and you should be able to get it. You mentioned a black man running for governor in Virginia, and people saying they wouldn't vote for "one of them". Well, the man's name was Doug Wilder, and I lived in Richmond when he was running. None of my friends had any problem voting for him, but the fact that a lot of my friends were black might have had something to do with it! But Governor Wilder won, so there must not have been too many people unwilling to vote for him. And when he was inaugurated, there was a large parade which passed right by my apartment. It was planned, but there just happened to be three naked lesbians sitting around my living room, and when we saw the parade the women thought it would be great fun to lean out of my window and flash the Governor. The Governor, the State Police, everybody was staring at my window and waving. A few days later I was in the bar next to my apartment where the state legislators hung out, and Governor Wilder came in. Someone introduced me to him, and I told him that the flashing was being done from my apartment. He was laughing big time, and he told me he was pretty excited about being elected, but he was trying to be somewhat restrained during the parade, and then he looked up and saw wall-to-wall titties and he was afraid of falling out of the car. He called one of his aides over and jokingly asked if there were any more Cabinet positions because they definitely needed me in the administration. He then told the aide to give me a business card, I gave him mine, and the Governor told me if I ever needed any assistance dealing with state government I should call his aide and he would get me taken care of. A couple of times I did call the aide about problems I was having with governmental agencies, and he got things cleared right up. I also used to spend a lot of time in a bar called "Babes", which was about the largest lesbian bar in Virginia outside of the DC metro area. They really liked having me in there and constantly comped me drinks. They liked me because I'm a fairly large guy, I didn't hit on the customers, and I could calmly explain things to the occasional group of straight guys who came in and thought they had died and gone to heaven when they saw a bunch of women shooting pool with their boobs hanging out. I live in Chicago now, and we have a neighborhood known as "Boy's Town", which is about the third or forth largest gay "district" in the US. I live in a high-rise about four blocks from there. We have 14 apartments on my floor: one apartment is occupied by a single straight woman, one is occupied by a lesbian couple, my girlfriend and I occupy one, and the other 11 are occupied by either single gay males or gay male couples. Additionally, about 25% of the rest of the building is occupied by gay males. I talk to a lot of gay people and a lot of black people every day. I was initially raised in an unprejudiced home, but when I started junior high in Arkansas I picked up on the bigotry that most of the kids around me possessed. But I got involved in some civil rights activities and gay rights activities and got rid of the bias. But I did it by thinking and talking to people, not by just sitting there and letting someone force-feed liberal dogma to me. "Peter Duniho" wrote in message ... "Bill Denton" wrote in message ... "Homophobe"; the last refuge of the village idiot. Ahh, yes. The ad hominem attack. The last refuge of the person without a legitimate argument. I've never heard an intelligent person use that term. Not my fault. Plenty of intelligent people do. |
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![]() Cecil Chapman wrote: Right,,, I got that joe-bob,,,, I was referring to the size of the ammunition it fires.... So, tell us, little man. What size is that? George Patterson If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have been looking for it. |
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![]() "Cecil Chapman" wrote in message om... Do you have any idea what you are talking about? Yeah,,, unlike you I'm not a fearful paranoid, crowding arms into his basement because he is SO sure he is going to 'liberate' the world should the government ever (however unlikely) turn against its' citizens.. With the weaponry our government has, it would squash you like an insignificant bug on the windshield before you could exhale. I am not a fearful paranoid... (redundant - just like the three commas you have there). I am not crowding arms into my basement. I exercise my right to bear arms. I would also like to defend myself if it ever comes to that. (most likely against some bad guys you liberals let out of jail and allowed to live for free on gubment dole, though he may come looking for extra money in my house and I would like to protect myself) Did you perhaps consider that people who own firearms might be rational, or do you believe all the hype and misinformation you see and hear? Your ill-advised logic and misunderstanding of firearms is baffling. Your point was that it is ok to have a shotgun or a hunting rifle, but not an AK47/"assault" rifle. What logic made you come to that conclusion? A typical hunting rifle is more firepower than the AKs available in gun stores. Wake up. The following is one of my favorites, though it is a paraphrase of the original... A vote for gun control is a vote for more women to get raped. -- -- =----- Good Flights! Cecil PP-ASEL-IA Student - CP-ASEL Check out my personal flying adventures from my first flight to the checkride AND the continuing adventures beyond! Complete with pictures and text at: www.bayareapilot.com "I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - "We who fly, do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet" - Cecil Day Lewis - |
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![]() "Cecil Chapman" wrote in message om... Sorry Cecil, I won't argue the amendment. I let it stand on it's own as interpreted by the SC. But when someone tries to misinterpret the meaning in order to further their agenda, I speak up. But Jeff,,, I have no agenda... There is no 'plot' against you,,,, no 'secret conspiracy' that I'm trying to pull on you. jeesh "paranoia WILL destroy ya" grin. I'm just trying to approach the issue, logically. Also, the Supreme Court upheld the right to bear arms but in their decision it was not stated that the reason for supporting the right was to assure that the citizens of the U.S. could overthrow the government. Goodness, Jeff! Change the Constitution if you can, but trying to alter the original views of Jefferson, Madison, Franklin, et al, by incorrectly using their words is a sure way to invalidate your argument and doom your cause to failure. I'm not trying to change the Constitution (unlike Bush and Ashcroft who have tried to strip away the most basic guarantees with the 'Patriot' Act). I haven't altered any original views, at all. But,,,, and I'm asking you to be rational here; do you REALLY think the reason for the second amendment was that the founding fathers wanted to assure that the citizenry would have the ability to overthrow the new government that they were working SO hard to put into place? Jeff? Really??? Isn't a more likely explanation that they recognized that their new country didn't have a lot of money to fund purchasing weapons for a formal army and that they wanted to insure that its' citizens had weaponry so that they could be called up to fight in the event the new country was attacked? .. "A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed" You need to get a clue. -- If their intent was just that citizens had the right to bear arms, they wouldn't have the line that comes before it. What is unreasonable about that? -- =----- Good Flights! Cecil PP-ASEL-IA Student - CP-ASEL Check out my personal flying adventures from my first flight to the checkride AND the continuing adventures beyond! Complete with pictures and text at: www.bayareapilot.com "I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery - "We who fly, do so for the love of flying. We are alive in the air with this miracle that lies in our hands and beneath our feet" - Cecil Day Lewis - |
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On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 07:30:05 +0100 (CET), Nomen Nescio wrote:
I often carry a concealed .40 cal. Is that legal where you live? -- Steve E-mail: steve at flyingtigerwebdesign dot com Hong Kong, 07/11/2004 15:21:05 |
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![]() "Matt Whiting" wrote in message ... Yes, absolutely. Fortunately, for all of its problems, we've enjoyed pretty good government ... even when the democrats were in control. :-) However, the possibility always exists that our government will move to a point where we must start again. A democracy (actually a Constitutional Republic) like ours only gets into situations like we have (and might encounter) if the people allow it. Don't blame the Representatives, or Senate, the executives or even the bureaucracy. NONE of them was put in place by a coup. Rather, blame your neighbors that vote to allow such practices that are contrary to the supreme law, or to your ancestors that started taking apart the law and demanding statist practices over 100 years ago. I'll admit that I have a hard time compehending that myself, but the writers of the Constitution were keenly aware of this issue! The put a lot more trustin "the people" than was evidently justified by today state of affairs. |
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"Bill Denton" wrote: The reason most intelligent people don't throw "homophobe" around is because they actually know what it means, which you obviously don't. Homophobia refers to a fear of homosexuals or prejudice toward homosexual. When did "homophobe" begin to mean "prejudice toward homosexual." Wouldn't it have originally meant merely (irrational?) fear of homosexuals? The prejudice part came through common (mis)use of the word. -- Bob Noel |
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On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 02:35:52 GMT, Cecil Chapman wrote:
Since Iraq didn't even have a missile delivery system, much less the 'WMD's, I don't even see how they could be viewed as a hostile threat to the U.S. aren't we a little bit unamerican and unpatriotic now? The hypocrisy I'm trying to point out is; Bush keeps telling us how we are there to free the Iraqi's from repression (there is NO doubt, that many dissidents were brutally treated),,, just like in Americanistan: those in Guantanamo Bay (hm, no US citizens, so no problem there ...) and those held after 9/11 (with no physical threat, I hope, but still ... and: not white but colored, a minority, also no problem there). And Patriot Act allows the government to remove your rights you enjoy as a US citizen without appeal. Hellloooo! Anybody home??!?? but what about the mass genocide that is going on RIGHT NOW (and has been going on for some time) in parts of Africa. This is only leftist UN propaganda! Why aren't we saving them? Could it be that there country has no economic benefits to offer us and that,,, after all,, it is "just" black skinned people dying over there? nah, they don't like the gen-manipulated seeds from the US ... *******s. they should be happy about what good we bring to the world. #m irony found? goooood. -- Buck Fush! |
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On Sun, 07 Nov 2004 03:11:44 GMT, "Richard Hertz" no one@no one.com
wrote: I have an "AK-47" or rather the semi auto version from Romania. It is no more lethal (in fact less so) than a decent hunting rifle. What people seem ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ to object to is the appearance of it. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ very true. we here tend to say: "the smaller the dick, the bigger the gun" *muahahaha* #m (and now you can start call me names *grin*) -- Buck Fush! |
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