JohnRich 4 #26 November 21, 2004 QuoteI prefer to have a nice supermarket just around the corner instead of a gun shop, where every screwed idiot on crack will buy a new "toy", go back home and kill is neighbour as soon as he's on turkey. I feel protected in my little clean country... I prefer that my lovely son is leaving his flat downstairs w/o locking the door... I am not scared a freak with a pump gun will enter our home. You seem to be implying that in America, because our laws don't require gun registration, that: - There is a gun store on every corner. - That all drug addicts can buy guns at those gun stores. - That druggies kill their neighbors every time they get high. - That Americans don't feel safe from crime. - That no-one can leave their door unlocked without fear of armed attack. Gosh, you just couldn't be more wrong. Every American reading this will recognize that your view of America is way off-base. And to blame all of that on the lack of gun registration, just adds to the lunacy. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
christelsabine 1 #27 November 21, 2004 Quote Gosh, you just couldn't be more wrong. Every American reading this will recognize that your view of America is way off-base. And to blame all of that on the lack of gun registration, just adds to the lunacy JohnRich, your opinion about our little country is based upon informations, you collected from somewhere. Media. That's normal, I am doing the same. I was in the US many many times. (You were in Germany once?) I am able to understand your language, even it's only a little bit. (You understand German?) I spent my very first years in Canada. Not too far from the US. But you, dear JohnRich, feel so sure when talking about a country, a culture, you never saw. You do not even understand their language. How can you understand their folks? How will you give a statement on our laws? Gun laws? They are rigid, that's what I tried to explain. That's what I accept. Your knowledge is based on what? Wikipeda? I did not imply anything, JohnRich! I just answered. In an proper way. Let me repeat your very last words, a little modified: Your "view of Germany is way-off base." We should try to meet somewhere in the middle. If it's not possible like that, let's try to avoid each other. It's a shame. How can policies work if people do not try to understand each other? Last 2 sentences are not adressed to you personally. Christel dudeist skydiver # 3105 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
billvon 3,114 #28 November 22, 2004 >Gosh, you just couldn't be more wrong. She listed the things she prefers. Having different preferences than you do does not make someone a lunatic. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kennedy 0 #29 November 22, 2004 Would you say she wasn't implying all the things she didn't prefer were the case here in the US of A?witty subliminal message Guard your honor, let your reputation fall where it will, and outlast the bastards. 1* Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
christelsabine 1 #30 November 22, 2004 Hi Kennedy, why don't you ask me straight-forwardly? I would answer you. Christel dudeist skydiver # 3105 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrewEckhardt 0 #31 November 22, 2004 Quote What I said! (legal) gun owners are registered, are controlled with every little bit of detail. I will repeat again what I said: Every detail is registered, kind of gun, calibre, date of purchase.... Boring to repeat all! And that - in my eyes - is fully OK. I prefer to live in a country where few records of gun owners are kept so that in the future a less benign government lacks the information necessary to efficiently disarm the populace prior to mass-murder. In 1928, the Weimar Republic enacted firearms registration laws. In 1933-1945, the next regime used the registration lists to collect firearms. With their victims disarmed, the government masacred 20,000,000. It'll take a thousand years of America's firearm homicide rate to equal the body count from our next modest genocide. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
christelsabine 1 #32 November 22, 2004 Hey, it sounds you lived these old days Thx God, there is Google and others available. "Massacre" : No need to leave your borders to look for dirt. Everybody should watch the mud just in front of his own house. There's always a lot to find. And your last sentence: "...our next modest genocide"? I have some problems to really understand its meaning. Would you mind to enlighten me? My poor English, you know dudeist skydiver # 3105 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peacefuljeffrey 0 #33 November 22, 2004 QuoteHi Kennedy, why don't you ask me straight-forwardly? I would answer you. Christel Why don't you recognize the validity of Kennedy's desire to find out what Billvon believes of you? Billvon was the person who made a supposition. Kennedy didn't want to know what you felt. He wanted to get an idea of what Billvon thought you felt. Two entirely different things. I'm sure that Kennedy knows he could ask you if he wished to. -Jeffrey-Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DrewEckhardt 0 #34 November 23, 2004 Quote And your last sentence: "...our next modest genocide"? I have some problems to really understand its meaning. Would you mind to enlighten me? My poor English, you know A modest genocide would be a small one. Beating our annual firearms murder rate by three orders of magnitude woulder require killing just 15,000,000 people, barely .25% of the world's current population. Historically despots have managed body counts in the .8% range killing almost one of every 100 humans in the world. That's a genocide to be proud of! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
