US right to to be tested by Supreme Court

[Anarkistsdream]

Guns should be, like banned. the kkk southern americans should hand them in right away.

And what about the other 50 million people who own guns?

[RadicalJerk]

Guns should be, like banned. the kkk southern americans should hand them in right away.

And what about the other 50 million people who own guns?

They should be forced to hand them in....so many poor, innocent people get shot by farmers and land owners...it's so like dangerous! someone who i know went to america, and saw a poor spanish person get shot, for stealing some bread or something.

[Dancing Mustard]

in a perfect world there would no atom bombs.

Yeah, that was sarcasm... I don't think that giving every nation atom-bombs would reduce the chances of atmoic warfare, I don't think that giving everyone knife-bats would cut the amount of knife-bat related violence, and I don't think that giving everyone a gun would reduce gun-crime. That was the point I was trying to make there.

[Anarkistsdream]

Guns should be, like banned. the kkk southern americans should hand them in right away.

And what about the other 50 million people who own guns?

They should be forced to hand them in....so many poor, innocent people get shot by farmers and land owners...it's so like dangerous! someone who i know went to america, and saw a poor spanish person get shot, for stealing some bread or something.

Hahahahaha...

[Dancing Mustard]

They should be forced to hand them in....so many poor, innocent people get shot by farmers and land owners...it's so like dangerous! someone who i know went to america, and saw a poor spanish person get shot, for stealing some bread or something.

Yeah, but the problem isn't really the killing though is it? It's the lost resources; it'd be fine if we just ground down the bodies and used them as food (maybe for animals if not humans) or something... it's the waste that's the true crime. People just need to learn to be efficient with their gun related waste, then they wouldn't be a problem.

[RadicalJerk]

lol

[Anarkistsdream]

They should be forced to hand them in....so many poor, innocent people get shot by farmers and land owners...it's so like dangerous! someone who i know went to america, and saw a poor spanish person get shot, for stealing some bread or something.

Yeah, but the problem isn't really the killing though is it? It's the lost resources; it'd be fine if we just ground down the bodies and used them as food (maybe for animals if not humans) or something... it's the waste that's the true crime. People just need to learn to be efficient with their gun related waste, then they wouldn't be a problem.

Soylent green?

[V.I.]

[heavycola]

They should be forced to hand them in....so many poor, innocent people get shot by farmers and land owners...it's so like dangerous! someone who i know went to america, and saw a poor spanish person get shot, for stealing some bread or something.

Yeah, but the problem isn't really the killing though is it? It's the lost resources; it'd be fine if we just ground down the bodies and used them as food (maybe for animals if not humans) or something... it's the waste that's the true crime. People just need to learn to be efficient with their gun related waste, then they wouldn't be a problem.

Soylent green?

I never got the end of that movie. Charlton heston screaming, 'Soylent green is purple! Soylent green is purple!' When it was clearly green. A metaphor too far for me i'm afraid.

RadicalJoke - nice monkey. (sorry jake )

[Anarkistsdream]

I never got the end of that movie. Charlton heston screaming, 'Soylent green is purple! Soylent green is purple!' When it was clearly green. A metaphor too far for me i'm afraid.

I hope you are joking.

[Dancing Mustard]

Soylent green?

Never heard of it I'm afraid...

Now I feel poorly read.

[suggs]

Ps I have decided that i win all arguments from now on.
As Anne would say:

[Anarkistsdream]

Soylent green?

Never heard of it I'm afraid...

Now I feel poorly read.

Never read the book or seen the movie?

I am terribly disappointed in you.

Go rent it... RIGHT NOW!

[suggs]

Is it a gardening programme?

[Anarkistsdream]

Is it a gardening programme?

Soylent Green is a 1973 dystopian science fiction movie depicting a bleak future in which overpopulation, global warming, and the resulting severe damage to the ecology have led to widespread unemployment and poverty. Real fruit, vegetables, and meat are rare, expensive commodities, and much of the population survives on processed food rations, including "soylent green" wafers (from soy(bean) + lent(il)).

The film overlays the genres of science fiction and the police procedural as it depicts the efforts of New York City police detective Robert Thorn (Charlton Heston) and elderly police researcher Sol Roth (Edward G. Robinson) to investigate the brutal murder of a wealthy businessman named William R. Simonson (Joseph Cotten). Thorn and Roth uncover clues which suggest that it is more than simply a bungled burglary. The film is loosely based upon the 1966 science fiction novel Make Room! Make Room!, by Harry Harrison.

[suggs]

Sounds cool. And Joseph Cotton is THE man.
Hmm, perhaps i should watch some movies. As opposed to obsessivlely playing mafia

VOTE ANARKISTS DREAM

Sorry, I'm trying to break it but i CANT STOP.

[khazalid]

vote lynch suggs

[heavycola]

Harry Harrison was da bomb. I'm off to start a thread RIGHT NOW.

[Anarkistsdream]

Harry Harrison was da bomb. I'm off to start a thread RIGHT NOW.

I have the whole "Bill, the Galactic Hero" series.

[Napoleon Ier]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/17/usa.usgunviolence

Fingers crossed they see sense.


Perhaps an american could explain something to me: Why is this amendment so sacred, when, for example, everyone was happy to see the amendment prohibiting alcohol be gotten rid of?

Bill of Rights, if I had to hazard a guess. I mean, self-defence has to be considered a fairly basic right (hell, even the UN recognises it), and the right to bear arms enshrines your right to use weapons to defend yourself, your family, and your community.

[heavycola]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/17/usa.usgunviolence

Fingers crossed they see sense.


Perhaps an american could explain something to me: Why is this amendment so sacred, when, for example, everyone was happy to see the amendment prohibiting alcohol be gotten rid of?

Bill of Rights, if I had to hazard a guess. I mean, self-defence has to be considered a fairly basic right (hell, even the UN recognises it), and the right to bear arms enshrines your right to use weapons to defend yourself, your family, and your community.

I would agree that self-defence is the only rational argument that pro-gun folks should be using. Because arguing that a civilian population needs to be armed in case its government gets too uppity is ludicrous. The US military, whose C-in-C is also the head of that same government, is the richest and most resourceful fighting machine the world has ever seen. A bunch of suburbanites with .45s aren’t going to get anywhere. And where were they when PATRIOT got passed? Seriously? And where is your faith in teh democracy that is so amazing we need to spread it to every other country in the world? What sort of message does that send to our goatherding brothers and sisters?
Also, just because something was written down does not make it an unalterable truth. I understand the respect that americans have for their constitution, and fair enough. But to point to a decontextualised sentence from three centuries ago as support for gun-ownership is also, frankly, ludicrous.

Self-defence – OK. Let’s argue

[Napoleon Ier]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/17/usa.usgunviolence

Fingers crossed they see sense.


Perhaps an american could explain something to me: Why is this amendment so sacred, when, for example, everyone was happy to see the amendment prohibiting alcohol be gotten rid of?

Bill of Rights, if I had to hazard a guess. I mean, self-defence has to be considered a fairly basic right (hell, even the UN recognises it), and the right to bear arms enshrines your right to use weapons to defend yourself, your family, and your community.

I would agree that self-defence is the only rational argument that pro-gun folks should be using. Because arguing that a civilian population needs to be armed in case its government gets too uppity is ludicrous. The US military, whose C-in-C is also the head of that same government, is the richest and most resourceful fighting machine the world has ever seen. A bunch of suburbanites with .45s aren’t going to get anywhere. And where were they when PATRIOT got passed? Seriously? And where is your faith in teh democracy that is so amazing we need to spread it to every other country in the world? What sort of message does that send to our goatherding brothers and sisters?
Also, just because something was written down does not make it an unalterable truth. I understand the respect that americans have for their constitution, and fair enough. But to point to a decontextualised sentence from three centuries ago as support for gun-ownership is also, frankly, ludicrous.

Self-defence – OK. Let’s argue

I do see an extent of soundness in the argument that guns provide a means of resisting oppressive authority, if things got really out of hand. History is rife with examples of successful counter-insurgency and overthrowing of apparently immutable, solid, invincible governments. PATRIOT though isn't quite enough for most to grab the 12 bore and head off to the town square to proclaim secession.

[MeDeFe]

It should have been enough to make people head to the town square though, preferably armed with righteous outrage and banners bearing slogans protesting against what their government was doing to their rights.

[Napoleon Ier]

It should have been enough to make people head to the town square though, preferably armed with righteous outrage and banners bearing slogans protesting against what their government was doing to their rights.

I entirely agree. What a sad place America is becoming, in which NeoCon authoritarians and Democrat Socialo-Fascists erode Civil Liberties and the American Spirit foreigners like me so admire your great nation for.

[DangerBoy]

The title of the article is a little misleading. It's not the individual right to own a gun that is threatened. If you read the story it's the District of Columbia's right to impose restrictions on gun ownership that's being tested.