Is this guy serious?!

jeff hammond

i could be an evil SOB with no guns
you could be a nice guy with guns

who is more likely to shoot someone in their lifetime?

Box

As I said above, I have a salami and I'm prepared to use it.

jeff hammond

Sorry Solo, But my entire family and my reason for owning plenty of all of the above is for when the Govt comes to try and take our guns.
I was born and raised in the country and have grown up with and around all types of rifles, pistols, shotguns. They are in my blood and will have to be pulled from cold dead hands.

but let's get real here for a minute…
you do realize the govt you're stockpiling against owns thousands of nuclear weapons (and not to mention all that other crap/capabilities/personnel they have)..
your little pea shooters would have 0 (ZERO) effect on them if it came down to it..

the guns will definitely be pulled from your cold dead hands… and in a manner which carries little to no dignity.. that's straight up suicide (suicide by cop style)..

doing battle with the govt (and actually, it's beyond the govt where the battle needs to happen) is not a gun fight..
[but that's a different topic entirely]

solo

So the NRA finally said something on the matter, they blamed Video games, hurricanes, mental illness and probably would have cited zombies but got interrupted by a protester. Their solution is to put cops in all schools.

Okay so help me understand, they want the tax payers to pay for cops to protect children from their members?....makes sense.

They say video games encourage violence, again help me understand... Is America the only country with video games? I don't see other countries having a problem with angry males going on a shooting rampage after playing games, wait! maybe because they cannot get hold of guns as easy as we can.

Mental illness, they want everyone with a mental illness to be part of a national registery, how is that going to work? please define mental illness? ADD, ADHD, Asperger's (like the guy who killed the poor kids last week)? well this is America most kids are diagnosed with these as pharmaceutical companies have us duped into being customers for life.

What about Movie theaters, remember Aurora Colorado last month, what about every public place for that matter? where is it safe then? Do we need a cop on every corner?

Have we lost all sanity? is your right to own a military grade weapon with extended clips of armor piercing bullets more sacred than innocent lives?

solo

So, let me post something ridiculous, but before slapping it down, think it through.

solo

@box said:

These sorts of discussions are best left on other forums, ones related to guns or politics rather than 3D software.

The problem with discussing it here is someone might be tempted to say things like "you are a madman and shouldn't be allowed to own a slingshot let alone a gun" and that would only upset you and you would naturally be compelled to come back with some comment like "it's liberals like you we need our guns to defend against" and then the whole thing will just escalate from there.

And when things escalate people tend to grab the most offensive weapon they have to hand and use it, I have a rather nasty salami and am prepared to wield it.

Please talk about guns, politics and religion in an appropriate place.

I hear what you are saying and agree to a point, however the recent mass execution of small kids has sparked a huge debate in this country and something needs to be done and not have this swept under the carpet as it always ends up.

This is the corner bar, a place for every topic, we discuss religion, politics, rants and raves, so why not this?

I hope we are all mature enough to have an adult discussion, however I'm not the right person to be the poster-boy of maturity as I have lost my toys in the past.

I will restrain myself and keep insults veiled in sarcasm and wit.

Box

I couldn't agree more, this is indeed the corner bar and the place to discuss this, but look at the not so distant situation of the, shall we say, strong minded religious person, who posted a lot. Did it benefit the forum, did it help change government policy or did it just make members of a normal forum question whether they wanted to answer another's problem.
Not to be nasty about it but I'm pretty sure knowing too much and not enough affects how people post.

solo

@unknownuser said:

but look at the not so distant situation of the, shall we say, strong minded religious person, who posted a lot.

Ah, yes, it was fun. every now and again a good rant actually helps. Nothing takes away the monotony of waiting for a render to complete like a good heated debate.

Box

Unfortunately, while I agree with you about a good debate, it's fairly rare to see a good one. More often than not it's full of platitudes and godbothering or gunfondling, none of which make for harmonious exchanges of sketchutechniques.
You may be immune, but I believe the rest of us mayans are often unable to separate the architect from his particular temple.

jeff hammond

@box said:

but look at the not so distant situation of the, shall we say, strong minded religious person, who posted a lot. Did it benefit the forum, did it help change government policy or did it just make members of a normal forum question whether they wanted to answer another's problem.

ugh.. yeah..

i guess it's up to the individual as to wether or not they'd like to respond to a topic but after your reminder, i think i'll opt out of going much further with this one

solo

What's the fun in that? we cannot discuss/debate/rant about the 3G's (God, guns and government)?

It's not about changing minds as that will never happen, it's all about venting, think of it as mental therapy, I do.

Friday night, got a pack of beer, all machines are humming away rendering an animation, throw in a controversial topic....what can go wrong? (sarcasm is wasted in pixels)

Box

So if I say I think the entire U.S. should be walled in and flooded like a swimming pool it's ok.

I'm sure some people from the fisheries department might have something to say.

solo

@box said:

So if I say I think the entire U.S. should be walled in and flooded like a swimming pool it's ok.

I'm sure some people from the fisheries department might have something to say.

It would be your opinion and I may or may not disagree, I may think of you as a lunatic and maybe even say you are...wait I certainly will. But then I'd kinda agree by bringing up our terrible record of environmental concern which will probably lead to global climate change, rising of ocean levels causing floods and we are back to the US being flooded.

steved

@ccbiggs said:

I added a little more to my previous post.

"You still never answered why the need for assault rifles and armor piercing rounds, or is it to stage a coup as you hint towards?"
There is no hint about it, they start going door to door trying to take guns. They will have to kill me and my entire family more than half the state of PA and a lot of people all over the rest of the country to do it.
I have worked hard my whole life for everything I have. I am responsible and will be damned if they are going to take any of my guns of any make or model.

What can I say..........but I am so glad to live where I do. I wonder if the families of those children worked hard all there lives for what they have? or sadly.....had.

Box

A perfectly balanced argument, the only question left is which one of us is balanced.

solo

@box said:

A perfectly balanced argument, the only question left is which one of us is balanced.

I'm the one drinking beer...no fair.

Box

Ah.... now there in lies the rub......my whisky is more manly than your beer!

solo

@box said:

Ah.... now there in lies the rub......my whisky is more manly than your beer!

No, you just got more money than me.

steved

@box said:

A perfectly balanced argument, the only question left is which one of us is balanced.
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Maybe only half fill America......

EscapeArtist

Interesting that the subject came up about the government coming to take guns. I have to lay out the poorly thought out logic of that idea. I also must question why so many of these arguments in favor of the status quo are never examined in depth by the people who use them? It's almost always a "tough guy" attitude or simply a resistance to change that seems to be the base for the position. Easily toppled, but all too quickly replaced with the next piece of dogma from the extreme gun supporter belief system.

But to the point - If the government comes for your guns, it's too late. In all senses of the use of the word. The individual, and all like believers, have lost. If you elect to fight (the tough-guy cold dead hands argument), you will lose. You CANNOT win against the government. All you will have done is shot your fellow citizens who are the soldiers or law enforcement officers sent to take the guns.

Congratulations, you are the next mass killer.

You have killed fathers, brothers, sons, and maybe even wives and mothers along the way.

APC rounds also serve only one purpose - penetrate metal or body armor and kill the human behind it. Completely unnecessary. If you also believe in some sort of uprising against the government, well... That means civil war. And the government is the least of your worries at that point because it means everything has collapsed. You'll be lucky to have food, water, medicine, fuel or power as those will have disappeared with the supply lines destroyed by war. You say you have guns to take/defend what you need? So does every other starving fool out there. You'll shoot them? Guess what, see the statement about killing fathers and sons. They shoot back, too. In that situation there is no loyalty to fellow gun owners. Again, you lose.

I can hear the Second Amendment argument bubbling up already, but let me add to my previous post about the subject. When the Second Amendment was written, this country was incredibly rural. The nearest assistance to help repel attacks might have been days or even weeks away. There was no standing military to help you if you were in an out of the way area. Our new country was also perpetually under threat of attack from the English, Spanish, and native population. Therefore it behooved our citizenry to be armed and possibly belong to a militia to protect themselves, their families and property from what may come.

Those days are gone. Times change. The world changes. To insist otherwise is foolish.