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Originally posted by Alphatour:
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I was just wondering if anyone saw the movie "Bowling For Columbine " ? I just saw it and it was a true eye opener, i know there are a ton of gun toutin hoolangs ;-) on this board, just wanted to see if you saw it and cared to get some insight.....

I watched and was blowin away by America, i cant beleive it has come to this is this great land, its very true is saying we are being driven to be scard of everything by our media influences...by why buy a gun?????

Alpha


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Oh boy here we go...I own quite a few guns and you ask "why buy a gun?" I say " cause I can " I don't know what this movie is about as I haven't seen it but I think I can guess..."it's all the guns fault that those kids at columbine snapped" something to that affect judging by the first post.

Anyone else find it ironic that you have to register to have a gun but you can have all the kids you want without having to go through ANY kind of paperwork or qualifications? Guns, video games, tv, music blah blah blah all excuses for lack of proper parenting. More people die due to STUPIDTY (whether their own or someone else's) every year than anything else.





I did not really intend on responding, until Freakshow managed to bring together my morning so well.

This morning I was in the local sheriff's office getting fingerprinted to get a cocealed weapons permit. Why? Glad you asked....

I am a case worker working with those parents who have children with no thought to the responsibilities of parenting. Some will get it and change when confronted by the an investigator checking in on them. (BTW, when I was an investigator, I closed about 2/3 of my cases with "no indicators" of abuse. Usually just a pissed off neighbor/relative using the anonymity of the system to harrass their neighbor/relative.) Anyway, I have one case that I received when the father attempted to assault the previous case worker in front of about 20 people. He has made death threats against me and several other, recorded on my office answering machine. He has described in detail his plan to murder the previous caseworker. In the last month, he was arrested for resisiting arrest with violence (caught trafficking oxycontin), and then assaulted the police officer in booking. Three weeks later he was released on probation. The probation office shares a parking lot with my office.

The police cannot be everywhere. If this guys decides that I am his next target, the whole confrontation will be over in few seconds. Police response time to here is at best 5 minutes. I see it as my responsibility to protect myself. Certainly, if I can avoid the confrontation and let the police deal with it I will. But if that is unavoidable, and I am unwilling to protect myself, then the police are likely to be investigating my homicide. This is not an outcome I put high on my "good things" list.

Yes, there are some crazy yahoo's who make the whole gun ownership thing look bad. Just as I am sure that if you wanted to make contour owners look bad to the general public, all you would have to do is go to gatherings, start asking about high performance equipment, and then ask about all the times those owners have taken their cars in to triple digits on public roads. Does it happen? Absolutely. Is is the normative behavior for all contour owners? Not at all. Would is appall and disgust people who have no desire to go fast? Probably. Same principle applies to the BfC drivel.