The FAST Approaching Gun Ban

[AllanahStarrNYC]

From my FB...

So you can't drive until you're 16, smoke until 18, drink until 21 but you can FIRE AN UZI at 9 years old??? Something is SERIOUSLY wrong with those numbers.

[Ben]

From my FB...

So you can't drive until you're 16, smoke until 18, drink until 21 but you can FIRE AN UZI at 9 years old??? Something is SERIOUSLY wrong with those numbers.

Or watch a horror flick....
Kids can't watch, say, John Carpenter's Halloween but can pick up an Uzi....
I'm not saying kids should watch horror flicks. I'm simply pointing out laws are strange, nonsensical....
And, too, we're exposed to so much violence in this culture.
The culture -- especially our movies -- are violence saturated.
Do movies glorify guns? What explains the gun culture?
Anyway, all of this makes sense... in a gun culture, as it were.
I'm not opposed to guns. I, personally, don't own one. But a 9 year old girl shooting a gun, well, it's, I agree, there's something wrong....

[trish]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...903-story.html

[martin48]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/n...903-story.html

I've done that plenty of times in my lectures

[martin48]

I suppose there's some hope for America


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...his-porch.html

[trish]

I've done that plenty of times in my lectures

Yeah. Don't you just hate when that happens?

I suppose there's some hope for America


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...his-porch.html

What are they thinking in Detroit?! They should've bought that dude a box of ammunition to replace the shell he wasted on killing that girl. This is America after all. Get with the program people. I can't wait 'til I can buy some ten thousand dollar prison paintings signed by Theodore Wafer on eBay.

[Prospero]

The irony of the title of this thread always gets me. I wonder if this site is still going in 20 or 30 years time if it'll still be here. Record to a dashed hope from way back when....

[trish]

The irony of the title of this thread always gets me. I wonder if this site is still going in 20 or 30 years time if it'll still be here. Record to a dashed hope from way back when....

Two thousand years in the future, American cyber-archeologists will dig up this thread, the title will strike fear in the populace and there will be a rush on gun stores. The price of radioactive bullets will skyrocket and it will be impossible to produce blasters fast enough to satisfy the spike in demand.

[buttslinger]

That reminds me. I got to get to the gun store today and pick up a few AK-47s before the New Improved Cold War starts up again.

Is it me or does I.S.I.S. sound like some made up pulp novel name they give to a terrorist corporation that James Bond ultimately has to un-do?

[fred41]

Is it me or does I.S.I.S. sound like some made up pulp novel name they give to a terrorist corporation that James Bond ultimately has to un-do?

I remember Isis being a Saturday (or Sunday) morning T.V. show about a woman who has the power of the Goddess Isis...kinda like a female Capt. Marvel which was also on around then...