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  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!

    Are there "hunting licenses" in the U.S?



    Yes.



    If you just made guns much less available, though...



    I did support that in an earlier post.

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    well yeah you did but your comment seemed somewhat inconsistent with what you said before.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    How so?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    That's reasonable, though I have to wonder if armor's availability might make a crazy guy more likely to go on a shooting rampage.



    Maybe I just misread it but I assumed it that what you meant is that even if guns were made less available to citizens and you made armor more available, then you'd have more armed crime.

  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

    You compared the danger of body armor to the danger of firearms.

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    I don't think body armour is dangerous.


    It can, however, lead to a feeling of safety and self-assuredness from people wearing it. Which is, of course, the point; but still.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    I never meant to imply that the two were equally dangerous. If I could magically wave my arms and make all the guns in the US vanish, I'd do it. The difference is that banning armor is much more doable.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    edited 2012-07-25 03:02:29
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

    So can a gun, though. Culturally speaking, a gun will give someone more of a feeling of immortality than armor, especially when you watch movies like Die Hard. Hell, The Dark Knight is the only film I can think of that actually talks about body armor (then again, Malk and Batman)


    ^Yeah, but I don't think armor is the problem. 

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Armor isn't "the" problem, but it has the potential to exacerbate specific problems and since people don't wear it on a daily basis, very little potential to do good except for police and such.
  • NovaNova
    edited 2012-07-25 03:06:47
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    I never said a gun couldn't. Clockwork also never said that a gun couldn't.



    That's reasonable, though I have to wonder if armor's availability might make a crazy guy more likely to go on a shooting rampage.



    I read this as 'I have to wonder if armor's availability might make a crazy guy more likely to go on a shooting rampage than if he didn't have armor'. So I presume that's what he meant by it.


    Note: I actually like armour, and I wouldn't mind owning some, if only because it's heavy. I'm just trying to interpret what CU meant.

  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

    ^^Armor will exacerbate the problem far FAR less than any actual weapon.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Yes. But that's greater than zero, and it's the thing that can feasibly be banned.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!

    I have a far greater problem with banning protection than banning offense. 


    I mean fuck the problems cars create is 'greater than zero' but you wouldn't ban them because they have understandable uses beyond offense.


    Armor has that. Guns don't.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    That would be true...if there were people who just wore armor day-to-day. But there aren't, so the positive effect of its being legal for civilians is entirely theoretical.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    ... The negative effect of it being legal for civilians is also theoretical.

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Fair enough.
  • BastionBastion
    smote

    Downstairs neighbors playing some really bassy music and it's kind of messing with my eardrums.


    I wonder if I can set them on fire without burning down the entire building.

  • BastionBastion
    smote

    Wow, it's really amazing how much better I feel now that it's stopped. Got the local noise complaint number if it starts up again.


    #yntkt

  • vandrovandro
    He who laments and can't let go of the past is forever doomed to solitude.

    See ya guys, I'll send this laptop for repairs and I don't know when will I get it back.

  • IronweaverIronweaver
    if u do convins fashist akwaint hiz faec w pavment neway jus 2 b sur

    I guess I should consider myself lucky that most of my fridns/aquantiances on Facebook don't give a fuck about politics/society.


    Well, there's this one girl, a member of the youth wing of a certain political party, who was really obnoxious during the elections, but I guess that's about it.

  • ForzareForzare
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    Going to get my wisdom teeth out.



    yay
  • JHMJHM
    Here, There, Everywhere

    And I'm having a lymph node removed for a biopsy!


    :D

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    You know, I can perform both procedures for a fraction of the cost. 

  • JHMJHM
    Here, There, Everywhere

    *...*


    Oh dear.

  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    Most of the political shit that comes through my Facebook feed was in moonspeak safe for one Irish labour youth activist whose plugs are plagued with troll comments.

  • EelektrossEelektross
    Definitely not gay.

    Having said that, @Eelektross, we've told you a bunch of times not to do that, so if you do it again, it'll be a ban, k? (Assuming you aren't banned for this time)



    OK


    It was getting old anyways.

  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!

    You know, I can perform both procedures for a fraction of the cost.


    Alex, what have we told you about doing surgical procedures with swords?

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.

    Crimson is down to one lung thanks to you you australian....person!

  • fourteenwingsfourteenwings
    There is love everywhere, I already know

    ^^ shhh i can't afford medical aid and he's all i got


    I got a job today! With reasonable hours and everything!

  • BastionBastion
    smote

    Alex, what have we told you about doing surgical procedures with swords?



    "Cut it out!"?

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