Sometimes I Despair
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Topic: Sometimes I Despair
Posted By: Clark Kent
Subject: Sometimes I Despair
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 5:34pm
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I was having a discussion about guns 'n stuff today. My co-discussor declared herself so anti-gun that she had a bumpersticker that read "if guns were outlawed, only outlaws would have guns". Me = stunned disbelief. |
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Posted By: battlefreak
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 5:37pm
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doesnt that stament kind of come back to kick its self in the ass? shes a real bright one.. ------------- 
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 5:40pm
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Clark, are you a supporter of retroactive abortion?
------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: oreomann33
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 5:49pm
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Golden.
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Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 5:56pm
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Posted By: ¤ Råp¡Ð F¡rè ¤
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 5:59pm
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Pistol-whip her
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Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 6:02pm
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Did you explain to her that she was a dooftard, and why?
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Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 6:07pm
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I tried. She disagreed with my interpretation of the bumpersticker, and clearly thought I was being an idiot. Only when I pointed out that the bumpersticker was an NRA favorite did make an impression, and even then she really thought her interpretation was correct. |
.Ryan wrote:Posted By: Kristofer
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 7:19pm
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Posted By: procarbinefreak
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 7:42pm
| heh... women... |
Posted By: ShortyBP
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 7:47pm
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Awesome.
I ponder her views on other issues, and the statements and rallying cries that she displays and supports in regards to them. |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 7:48pm
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Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 7:55pm
"Nuke the ghey baby whales for Christ!" ------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: Tolgak
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 8:10pm
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Tell her to replace "outlaws" with "bad people that want to harm innocent people who cannot protect themselves." If she has any intelligence at all, she should be able to make the connection within 15 minutes.
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Posted By: Tae Kwon Do
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 8:31pm
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Heh. It was persuasive speech night. Some kid did one anti-gun control. He had a chart that showed that in cities with more gun control (Las Angeles, D.C, New York) there were many more homicides as compared to the cities with lowest gun control, all of which were podunk towns in Idaho and North Dakota. He asked for any questions, and I asked if he realized that the higher homicide numbers were from a higher population, and had nothing to do with gun control. Silence, followed by "I guess so" I high-fived in my head. ------------- 
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Posted By: Gatyr
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 8:33pm
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/me sighs at the people made fun of in this thread.
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Posted By: Mack
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 8:39pm
 I am against gun control, but it doesn't make the above any less funny. ------------- 
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Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 8:39pm
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I did a whole speech on anti-gun control. I thought it was quite convincing. If I find it, I'll have to post it. Of course, that would be my stand, since I'm a gun nut. ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell" 
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Posted By: Trogdor2
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 9:28pm
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I don't care. If you want to get a gun, go take a test and get one. Have fun
and don't shoot me, thanks. ------------- Something unknown is doing we don't know what. That is what our knowledge amounts to. - Sir Arthur Eddington |
Posted By: Galm </\> Zero
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 9:31pm
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I could care less about gun control, IMHO if you take the guns away people will use knives, the people with the longer knives will win, you take the knifes away people will use bats, so on and so forth. -------------  |
Posted By: Kristofer
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 10:56pm
you think he'd be smart enough to get the ratios for it. such as for every certain a number of people in areas with strict gun control this many people are killed. and vice versa. EDIT: Clark. You should ask her if it was wrong of us to drop the A-Bomb in WW2. |
Posted By: Farcry0092
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 11:01pm
thats just what i was thinking. no matter what we do, the human race will just keep finding ways to kill eachother |
Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 11:27pm
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Please tell me this lady didn't graduate law school. ------------- 
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: brihard
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 11:46pm
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I'm thinking abortion in the 127th trimester?
------------- "Abortion is not "choice" in America. It is forced and the democrats are behind it, with the goal of eugenics at its foundation." -FreeEnterprise, 21 April 2011. Yup, he actually said that. |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 15 November 2006 at 11:50pm
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Black people. What? ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: Galm </\> Zero
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 9:39am
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Please that's a whole other can of worms. ------------- |
Posted By: White o Light
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 2:24pm
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Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 2:47pm
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Another fine example of emotion driving an agenda over information. This young lady just sees the world through the colored glasses she preferes and will accept no other opinion or even simple point of fact.
Gun Control, well there is an Admendment to the Constitution, and individuals here state that the constitution must be protected, but now feel it should be selective. We must protect the 1st Admendment, but must abolish the 2nd, open the door folks and the intent of the 2nd Admendment will become more evident. "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." The intent of this is not only to protect from foriegn invasion but oppression also from the government the founders were designing. Once the populace no longer has a means to revolt, means government no longer needs to fear the wrath of the people. ------------- 
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Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 3:00pm
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Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 3:49pm
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OS - I think you missed the point. Mbro - no law school (or college) for her. And on a separate note, I despair some more today. At the risk of seeming inaccurately arrogant - I was at BK (love Whoppers), and gave the cashier a crisp $100 bill for my $6.73 bill. The cashier incorrectly entered $20 into the cash register, so the register calculated my change ($13.27) based on that. The cashier realized his error, and proceeded to grab pen and paper to figure out how much more change I was owed for my $100. He knew how much change I was owed on a $20, but had to calculate how much extra for the $100. He eventually gave up and grabbed a calculator. *sigh* |
Posted By: DeTrevni
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 4:16pm
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Why did you give BK a c-note anyway? ------------- Evil Elvis: "Detrevni is definally like a hillbilly hippy from hell"
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Posted By: FlimFlam
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 4:18pm
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Love that "deer in the headlights" look you get when the cash register malfunctions, or you confuse them and give them $10.08 for a $5.58 bill... Definitely a sad state of affairs... ------------- 
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Posted By: Clark Kent
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 5:12pm
All I had. Totally out of cash, so I had to dig into the poker stash. |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 5:27pm
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A couple of serious comments, just to be a buzzkill..... 1. OS, I'm not a big gun control advocate. I think they are just about right as they are and any kind of ban would just be a waste since criminals don't really care if something is illegal to have. I will ask you though, do you not see how, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.", could be interpreted as the right to militias, as opposed to the right of each individual American to own a firearm? 2. Kris, the whole A-bomb thing is very debatable. I'm not really sure where I stand on the issue myself really. Saying that we shouldn't have nuked Japan in no way puts you on the same level as this idiot girl..... ------------- |
Posted By: BARREL BREAK
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 5:37pm
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Posted By: mbro
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 7:42pm
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The seeds of liberty must be replenished by the blood of patriots.
I think that was franklin, not certain though. -------------
Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos. |
Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 8:01pm
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That was kind of random.....
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Posted By: Cedric
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 8:31pm
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Women are allowed to have cars? What the hell?
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Posted By: Hairball!!!
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 8:35pm
Maybe it's just me, but when I'm running cash registers that do all the work for you, I tend do space out, shut my mind off, and just read the register and push some buttons. I'm so spaced out that if I mess up, I forget the concept of basic arithmetic. |
Posted By: rednekk98
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 8:42pm
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The problem with dumb people is that they vote. But to follow ryan's tangent: .Ryan, however you want to interpret "militia", how the founding father's felt about private ownership of firearms seems to speak for the intent of the ammendment. The supreme court allowed a ban on sawed-off shotguns saying they do not have "a militia application" but upholds the banning of fully automatic rifles. Go figure. banning felons from owning firearms certainly is constitutional, so I have no problem with background checks, but IMO any law-abiding citizen should be allowed to buy anything that doesn't fire an explosive round that's over 20mm. As much as I dislike Micheal Moore, I didn't hate bowling for columbine and didn't really think it came off as being really anti-gun. However, in his recent open letter to the GOP he stated that the democrats weren't gping to take away anybody's hunting guns, but there's no reason people should be able to own automatic rifles(he really means semi-automatic, which a layperson does not understand) or handguns and they should all be confiscated. I really hope another assault weapons ban isn't on the democratic agenda this session, but something tells me they never really learned from how hard that bit them in the ass in 2000. I'm also frustrated that the supreme court is too wussy to take any second ammendment cases. |
Posted By: You Wont See Me
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 8:49pm
Same here, If I'm ever running a register all im thinking about is getting the overflow of people out quickly so I can go back to stocking. And If I'm actually ever scheduled to run the register for any amount of time, I pay little attention to whats actually going on. ------------- A-5 E-Grip JCS Dual Trigger DOP X-CORE 8 stage x-chamber Lapco Bigshot 14" Beadblasted Optional setup: R/T Dead on Blade trigger |
Posted By: oldsoldier
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 9:39pm
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I didn't miss it Clark: "Another fine example of emotion driving an agenda over information. This young lady just sees the world through the colored glasses she preferes and will accept no other opinion or even simple point of fact."
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Posted By: Dye Playa
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 9:46pm
bubble wrap everything ftw!!1!!1111!!1!!
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Posted By: Apu
Date Posted: 16 November 2006 at 9:47pm
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Posted By: .Ryan
Date Posted: 17 November 2006 at 1:08am
On the founding fathers thing.....They just got done righting a rebellion, people back then used their guns regularly in order to survive, and they didn't have guns with near the level of lethality as we do now. While I look back to the founders on almost every issue, I'm not sure their decision is fit for our time......Again, I'm not anti-gun, don't eat my face, I'm just providing an argument.... Oh and I really doubt that the Dems will go after any kind of gun laws any time soon. Not only is the party full of moderates now, but that would be about the very most stupid thing they could possibly do when they have so much political capital to use/lose.....'Course, while I agree with most of their ideology, we all know how the Dems have a habit of pull defeat from the jaws of victory.... ------------- |