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#141 Re: Dust N' Bones & Cyborg Slunks » ADLER: Debut Album Details Revealed » 652 weeks ago
Smoke CD? It's just a generic hard rock album. I will listen to it for a month or so and never bother with again.
The Aerosmith album lasted two weeks. I give this one perhaps three before I'm bored.
#142 Re: The Garden » I'm drunk.... » 653 weeks ago
Oh I dig those threads!!!
#143 Re: The Garden » Elementary School Shooting in US » 653 weeks ago
Q: How many NRA members does it take to change a light bulb?
A: More guns
#144 Re: The Garden » Elementary School Shooting in US » 653 weeks ago
But those kids could have just as easily died in a bus accident due to a drunk driver.
Yes, in the US. Our laws on drunk driving are so strict the problem are virtually non-existant.
So? What does that have to do with anything?
It's hilarious that you ban a fucking Kinder egg chocolate because it can be dangerous, but allow this nonsense to continue. Oh, dear lord where IS the freedom? Kinder egg doesn't kill kids, kids kill themselves by their actions...or something like that right? Stick that toy in your mouth and you suffocate. And you seem to ban that in a second. But gun sprees, naaah.
Everyone else seems to get it.
Except half of your population or so.
#146 Re: Guns N' Roses » www.paradisecity.com » 653 weeks ago
Great, 2000 Jarmos in a forum
#147 Re: The Garden » Elementary School Shooting in US » 653 weeks ago
PaSnow wrote:Horrific. I feel terrible for the families, their lives are ruined forever because of some asshole. I'm not a parent but I couldn't imagine sending my child off to school and then getting this horrific news, just tragic. Couldn't imagine ever really recovering from it much either.
Poor kids, to have gone in such a way by some pussy. Makes me realize they should just put the Batman killer in a prisonyard & let the inmates just have a field day with him, full on torture.
Not to sound like an old head guys, but shit like this didn't happen much a long time ago. A guy I work with said it well, & I concur. Like it or not, it's the video games. A bunch of picked on nerds in their own fantasy world, desensitized to human life, capable in their minds of controlling a situation.
This thinking drives me crazy. People paint such a rosey picture of the past, but don't take into a account the huge swell in our population and the media. We are a lot less violent nation now than we were in the past. We had some of the most heinous killings back in the good old days. People are acting like this just started happening. Go back to the civil war and trace the history of violence in the US from then to now. And it had nothing to do with video games or movies.
Agree with misterID. This thinking drives me crazy too.
In the 1900s we had two world wars, that's TWO world wars. On top of that we had Vietnam, Korea, Serbia, Iraq, Afghanistan (Russians) where we were involved.
What you gotta understand, is that there's been a paradigm shift in the ways we operate. We used to operate on large scale, mass battle field killings (5000 dead at Omaha 06.06.44 within hours). After WW2, people were tired of war, but we still have had an atomic war looming. We can't put the post WW2 era as the level of our expectations of human behaviour. Europe had been a continent of 1000 years of war, and 70 years of peace. 70 years people.
As for the US, the country is based on violence, it's been freed based on violence. Your whole country has a history of war, murders and so on.
After the cold war had ended, we had a shift in our society. It slowly started with Colombine, it hit us hard with 9/11 and it reached Norway only last year. Long gone is the large killing fields of history. Nations work together now for the most part, we are economically connected and cannot afford war. Europe has finally, for the first time ever, had 70 years of peace.
But what we got in return is this. Lone, hidden - silent killers with an agenda. Confused or bored teenagers with easy access to guns. Islamic jihad and right winger nuts capable of killing teenagers. London 2005, Madrid 2004, suicide bombings. On top of that the Iraq war, a direct result of this shift in our society. We met it the old fashioned way, against the new way, and we sort of lost both there and in Afghanistan.
There's been a shift in paradigm, this is the new reality now.
But, the world has never been a more peaceful place, even if that's hard to understand. With such an easy access to never-before-seen killing devices in the history of humanity, of course it will look bad.
The Offspring showed this nicely in their Conspiracy of One booklet.
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#148 Re: The Garden » Elementary School Shooting in US » 653 weeks ago
If they are gonna keep automatic weapons legal, the price should at least be high enough the avg psycho can't afford them or maybe pass a no buying weapons with a credit card rule. Affordability alone would prevent a lot. Swiping a credit card makes it easier. Saving up the necessary cash would be way more difficult
Price is a good start, credit card rule another.
Alcohol here is so costly, none of us really can go out and have a drink. Don't like it, but I admit that it actually works. Keeps DUI down to a bare minimum.
#149 Re: The Garden » Elementary School Shooting in US » 653 weeks ago
Did anyone ever slaughter school kids with a Machete?
Nope.
Is it just as easy?
Nope.
A guy just tried in China, and he didn't make a single kill.
#150 Re: The Garden » Elementary School Shooting in US » 654 weeks ago
One more note/question about the shooting, as I know NOTHING about guns. I heard he left the Bushmaster in the car, which I believe is a semi-automatic weapon but used the 2 handguns. Are those semi-automatic as well? Just wondering, with all the semi-automatic talk.
Know nothing about guns myself. Never touched one, never saw one, never thought of having one. What would I have a gun for? I have no desire to go hunting either.
