peacefuljeffrey

Not really... Napoleon Solo workes for The UN! He also had Ilya Kuryakin (a Russian played by an Englishman) along to "curb his excessive Americanism". It shows in the little things, like Solo's use of a Walther P-38 Kurz. So we're looking for an American, working for an American Intelligence agency, without a partner. It really HAS to be Maxwell Smart in "Get Smart".

You really need to be more mature than that, kallend. Do you realize how juvenile it is to put up a post that contains ONLY that juvenile "nyah nyah" bullshit? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Who cares whether John has "references for that data"? The data is useless. Big surprise, that a country that was always known to have far fewer guns has fewer suicides by gun. Whoa. Never saw that one coming. Now how about we get honest and have John dig up the data on suicide rates in general. Unless all John cares about is that the suicides are not committed using guns. And gun accidents not being as common is also a no-brainer. I have never had a crane topple on me in my living room as I sat and watched t.v. Makes my house MUCH safer from crane accidents than the typical construction site. I propose we ban cranes from construction sites to cut down on the number of crane accidents and bring it in line with how many occur in living rooms and libraries... The fact is that with each passing year, there are fewer and fewer gun-related accidents in the U.S. Not even Dick Cheney has been able to stem that decline. There will probably always be some, but just like there will always be some skydiving accidents, do you ban the activity or the tool because you want zero accidents? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Thanks for the additional misinformation. Florida in fact recently legislated to remove the duty to retreat IN PUBLIC. There was not, prior to 2005's legislation, a duty to retreat in the home. One tweak is that in the home, now, the forced entry itself is valid grounds to feel deadly force is justified to counter a deadly force attack. It would help if you apprised yourself of the truth before attempting to inform us of stuff. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Explain why estimates I've read claim there are over 3 million illegally-held guns in England. Do you suppose that with a population as small as yours, it's real difficult for a criminal who wants one to get a gun? I've also read that many of the guns flooding your black market are from former Soviet countries, mil-surp and stuff like that. So why did it make sense to take away guns from thousands upon thousands of people who were not committing crimes with them -- who were subject to random inspection of the manner in which they were stored -- when ONLY about 300 were trickling to the criminals each year, when there are already 3 million guns held by criminals? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Yeah, you just aren't allowed to carry or be in possession of any implement designed for self defense. Carry a knife for self defense, or even a kubotan, and you can and probably will be arrested. That leaves you with your bare hands if you're attacked, and then you might be able to improvise a weapon on the spur of the moment. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Oh, you'd prefer threads that have no point. I see. Gun-related accidents have gone down every single year since records have been kept, in the U.S. They are at an all-time low and getting lower every year. In addition, gun-related crimes have been decreasing for years in the U.S. as well -- even though every year brings MILLIONS more guns into the public's hands! Now, in England, how common was it for some drunken "nutter" to start "shooting everyone" at a barbeCue in the first place? You all are proud to tell us at every opportunity that England has such low gun crime rates. So if they were low and near non-existent, and the ban was known to be unable to affect "hard core" criminals, what need was there for the ban in the first place? I suggest you don't read my threads or posts if you don't like them. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

One person committing an individual murder -- you compare that to wild-eyed ethnic/religious violence on a society-wide scale? With dozens dead? Are there people out there preaching to others that they ought to go and murder romantic rivals? Something tells me that, gee, uh, muslim factions have been warring with each other for a fuck of a long time before we went into Iraq. Where the hell have you all been? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

The claim was that gun control in England -- a gun BAN, actually, with criminally-mandated surrender of formerly legally owned guns -- was going to make England safe from gun crime. Now, years later, it's pretty clear that the experiment is a failure, and that criminals continue to get guns, just as they always have and always will, regardless of whether good, dutiful, obedient, law-abiding honest citizens turn theirs in to be destroyed. This really just proves that not much will be accomplished vis a vis crime control until we start addressing criminal behavior, not objects criminals might possess. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Cool! What're ya gonna do first, Chris? - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

We're not the ones with a gun ban that we claimed would control crime. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I mean, with guns banned, and robbery illegal, I just don't see how this fiasco was able to happen... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Oh, well doesn't that just take the fuckin' cake. WHY?! Why the fuck do WE OWE them ANYTHING?! And will we rebuild it again when they blow it up again just to make us look like fuckin' suckers?! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Okay, how is it that the world expects to ever be able to live peacefully alongside islam when islam is really what's responsible for this shit?? (from CNN.com) What the fuck, people? Really. What the FUCK?! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Oooh, you reminded me. I don't know jack about Fat Boy Slim, but I would also like to use "Weapon of Choice." Why? I like weapons, and I love the video that has Christopher Walken dancing in it! Un-freakin'-real!! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Why? It sounds as thought getting laid is EXACTLY what that dude freaking needed! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Van Halen -- Atomic Punk.

Now I owe you for a good, hearty laugh! I was thinking of explaining to kallend that it makes sense to separate the different, unrelated thoughts even though they refer to the same post, in much the same way that individual thoughts belong in separate paragraphs in an essay... but then I thought, nah. - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Everything can be done better by some select people than by a lot of others. Should that make everything an olympic sport? How about building model airplanes? Now that would be some good t.v.! "He's...he's going for the left main landing gea-- NOoooo! He's made a fake and gone for the cockpit bubble! This boy can really make things happen in model-building!" - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

This could engender an "Is it a Sport, a Game, or a Pastime" debate... I certainly, for one, look forward to it.

Have you seen the legs, particularly the quadriceps, of the olympic speed skaters? OMFG they are weird lookin'! They remind me of the kangaroo-like alien woman in "Titan A.E."!! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Did this one for a while, too: "Oceans apart, day after day and I slowly go insane I hear your voice on the line but it doesn't stop the pain If I see you next to never, how can we say Forever? Wherever you go, whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you..." But who hasn't? edit: And along those lines, there's also Dire Straits: "I'm tired of being in love and being all alone 'cause you're so far away from me I'm tired of makin' out on the telephone 'cause you're so far away from me" - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

To start with (without thinking for an hour about it): "Little Bird what's troublin' you? You know what you have to do 'Cause what is yours you'll never lose and what's ahead may shiiiine..." (It's Sheryl Crow) - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I had them when I was in 5th grade, age 10, in 1981. I still have scars from it, kind of like the handle of the Big Dipper across my forehead. It's kinda like a Harry Potter scar... - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

No he isn't. Let's be honest... America's equivalent to James Bond; Maxwell Smart, was never afraid of guns. Mike. I thought ours was Napoleon Solo? Anyway, that mo-fo had a machine pistol! - -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"