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Guns, control and culture.

#1021 User is offline   Nicodimas 

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Posted 04 May 2019 - 10:02 PM

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View PostHoosierDaddy, on 01 May 2019 - 12:14 PM, said:

If I needed to break into a prepper bunker, what all would I need?


I think just 'Sweet Home Alabama' by Skynnard on a boombox. They'll open the door up themselves.



The easiest way to break in a bunker is drown the occupants ( unless they have a system to mitigate this— they won’t)
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Posted 04 May 2019 - 10:03 PM

Happy May 4 y’all

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Posted 04 May 2019 - 10:13 PM

View PostNicodimas, on 04 May 2019 - 10:03 PM, said:

Happy May 4 y’all



No, but it’s pretty fucking obvious from the movie they need a more rigorous checking system for who gets a lightsaber and who doesn’t.
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Posted 04 May 2019 - 10:13 PM

Parallels!!!
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Posted 04 May 2019 - 10:14 PM

I blame the sand. It's all rough and coarse and irritating.
Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....
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Posted 05 May 2019 - 06:53 AM

View PostSlow Ben, on 04 May 2019 - 10:13 PM, said:

View PostNicodimas, on 04 May 2019 - 10:03 PM, said:

Happy May 4 y’all



No, but it’s pretty fucking obvious from the movie they need a more rigorous checking system for who gets a lightsaber and who doesn’t.


it would have made for a better world to strip the lightsaber from the good guys! So the bad guys didn’t have one.

The good guys would be completely fine without lightsabers

/stares

“It will never happen here we are so “Civilized”....”

Maybe consider the sith are the ones telling you to ..you know disarm....it may seem friendly...but its not.

Civilians having the power...IS worth the sacrifice!!

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#1027 User is offline   Nicodimas 

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Posted 05 May 2019 - 07:00 AM

I sit here and wonder for the anti-freedom crowed...and wonder with how ridiculously violent our history really shows us to be.how they don’t factor and consider a single populist <a tyrant in the truest sense> movement that just tears through us as a society. Just one time.

What do we live in fairy tale land or something. Look at our history. observe consider the grander implications.

its about freedom.

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Posted 05 May 2019 - 07:06 AM

Maybe if you stopped voting Republican you wouldn't have fear totalitarian regimes popping up in the USA.
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Posted 05 May 2019 - 07:37 AM

View PostNicodimas, on 05 May 2019 - 06:53 AM, said:

it would have made for a better world to strip the lightsaber from the good guys! So the bad guys didn’t have one.

The good guys would be completely fine without lightsabers




Flawed analogy. In Star Wars both the good guys (Jedi) and the bad guys (Sith) have lightsabers. In the US both the good guys (police) and the bad guys (criminals) have guns. Your flawed analogy implies that in Star Wars, every person/alien should be carrying a lightsaber. Think about this for a second.
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Posted 05 May 2019 - 07:38 AM

You're asking a lot, Gore.
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Posted 05 May 2019 - 07:42 AM

View PostGorefest, on 05 May 2019 - 07:37 AM, said:

View PostNicodimas, on 05 May 2019 - 06:53 AM, said:

it would have made for a better world to strip the lightsaber from the good guys! So the bad guys didn't have one.

The good guys would be completely fine without lightsabers




Flawed analogy. In Star Wars both the good guys (Jedi) and the bad guys (Sith) have lightsabers. In the US both the good guys (police) and the bad guys (criminals) have guns. Your flawed analogy implies that in Star Wars, every person/alien should be carrying a lightsaber. Think about this for a second.


Imagine - Ewoks with lightsabers.

There would be a new empire born that day. An empire of fur and blood.
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Posted 05 May 2019 - 09:08 AM

View PostAndorion, on 05 May 2019 - 07:42 AM, said:

View PostGorefest, on 05 May 2019 - 07:37 AM, said:

View PostNicodimas, on 05 May 2019 - 06:53 AM, said:

it would have made for a better world to strip the lightsaber from the good guys! So the bad guys didn't have one.

The good guys would be completely fine without lightsabers




Flawed analogy. In Star Wars both the good guys (Jedi) and the bad guys (Sith) have lightsabers. In the US both the good guys (police) and the bad guys (criminals) have guns. Your flawed analogy implies that in Star Wars, every person/alien should be carrying a lightsaber. Think about this for a second.


Imagine - Ewoks with lightsabers.

There would be a new empire born that day. An empire of fur and blood.


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Posted 05 May 2019 - 01:41 PM

View PostNicodimas, on 05 May 2019 - 06:53 AM, said:

View PostSlow Ben, on 04 May 2019 - 10:13 PM, said:

View PostNicodimas, on 04 May 2019 - 10:03 PM, said:

Happy May 4 y’all



No, but it’s pretty fucking obvious from the movie they need a more rigorous checking system for who gets a lightsaber and who doesn’t.


it would have made for a better world to strip the lightsaber from the good guys! So the bad guys didn’t have one.

The good guys would be completely fine without lightsabers

/stares


Hey, you took the joke I made and completely warped it to make your own point. Congratulations!
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Posted 06 May 2019 - 08:16 AM

I see Nico again with his "anti-freedom" idiocy.

Nico - Listen to what we're saying: wanting gun control is not anti-freedom, our countries are arguably more free than yours, loving guns does not make you free, stop with this NRA parroting.



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Posted 06 May 2019 - 08:42 AM

Don't resort to personal attacks, Tiste.
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Posted 06 May 2019 - 12:59 PM

Eh. We've been over this so many times. MODGOD NOTICE OF TEXT DELETED BECAUSE YES WE HAVE, SO MOVING ON NOW.

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Posted 07 May 2019 - 09:40 PM

Capitalism's still killed more people, even if all those stats were accurate.
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Posted 09 May 2019 - 07:10 AM

View PostIlluyankas, on 07 May 2019 - 09:40 PM, said:

Capitalism's still killed more people, even if all those stats were accurate.


Capitalism also sells guns.
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Posted 09 May 2019 - 09:30 AM

View PostMaark Abbott, on 09 May 2019 - 07:10 AM, said:

View PostIlluyankas, on 07 May 2019 - 09:40 PM, said:

Capitalism's still killed more people, even if all those stats were accurate.


Capitalism also sells guns.


I think you will find that a brisk trade in weapons predates capitalism.
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Posted 09 May 2019 - 10:43 AM

View PostAndorion, on 09 May 2019 - 09:30 AM, said:

View PostMaark Abbott, on 09 May 2019 - 07:10 AM, said:

View PostIlluyankas, on 07 May 2019 - 09:40 PM, said:

Capitalism's still killed more people, even if all those stats were accurate.


Capitalism also sells guns.


I think you will find that a brisk trade in weapons predates capitalism.


Well, strictly speaking it was always capitalism. It just hadn't been labelled yet.
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