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Again, do you see where the logic of criminals will not follow the law so we should not have the law fails? Do you see where making drugs illegal does restrict the supply and make them harder to get? You seem to have skipped past that.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 10:21 AM) And no, I don't myself have any experience buying drugs. But I went to high school and college. I also live in El Paso. The s*** isn't rare. Would you suggest that it is? Do you suggest that making them legal would not change the amount that is available?

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 09:55 AM) Geez, I've even been trying for several posts to tone down the rhetoric and have a civilized debate with you, and you come along with this. So keep judging me. Then ask yourself all self-righteously why we don't get along and I act like a jerk to you. Do you not see the hypocrisy? Then I will tone it down also. In the real world there are laws. They protect yours and my rights. To protect those rights we use attorneys. Have a dispute with a credit card company, we use lawyers. Get injured on the job\, we use lawyers. Get arrested by mistake, we hire lawyers. We live in a world here with lots of laws that protect our rights. To assure those laws are followed we have courts and yes, lawyers. How are you planning to protect your rights since you don't seem to have any use for lawyers and courts?

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 09:52 AM) Maybe this sounds cliche, but it's so true... Please explain to me how the same logic made drugs hard to get. Ah, the billions is enforcement we spend? Customs? Border Patrol? ATF? FBI busting smugglers? If they were legal people could produce Meth out in the open, grow marijuana in their gardens. Now I assume in your world drugs are easy to get, but over here, the laws have made it harder and cause prices to increase. Again, not having a law because criminals will not follow them is a silly argument that would eliminate all laws.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 09:25 AM) Is it absurd to not enjoy being lectured about bravery by a lawyer? I'm sorry, but to me, lawyers define gutlessness and cowardice. You and Balta have prejudices against gun owners, I have them against lawyers. So I told him what I thought about him talking about what makes a real man. Because that is something he knows nothing about. In the real world we have laws. When you buy a home, do you want your rights protected during the sale? Oh that's right, you'll just pull out a gun at the closing and solve any of those problems like a real man. You are so unequipped to live in a civilized society with laws.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 09:26 AM) That's the point. Criminals don't follow laws. Why are we trying to stop their actions with more laws? I don't see how you can run to the gun control side with this one. This concept goes one way. First of all, I own guns. Second of all, your point is since criminals will not follow the law, then we should not have the law. Criminals murder people, why have laws against it? Criminals steal things, why have a law against it? Criminals drive drunk, why have laws against it? See the flaw in the logic of only having laws that criminals will follow? By making high capacity magazines illegal we begin to restrict the number that are available. When there is more and more of something the chances of them getting into the wrong hands increases. I am in favor of a well regulated militia. I do not see much value in high capacity magazines outside of killing lots of people. In your world there, yes. In suburban Toledo, Ohio? No. How can a militia be well regulated if the government does not know who they are? But perhaps I love the Constitution too much to allow it to be circumvented.

Can you name one law that criminals follow? Isn't that why we call them criminals?

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 09:05 AM) I carry a gun all the time. Have I ever done anything illegal or harmful with it? Getting lectured over the internet makes me angry. I won't deny that. But there's a long way, for me, between getting angry and deciding to physically hurt someone. Your world back there, like everywhere else, has crime. I carry a gun so that when I encounter crime, I'll still have a means of dealing with it. And read how you handle getting angry. What jobs are you capable of handling in the real world?

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 09:01 AM) You criticize me for using insults and then drop this? Hilarious. By your own admission you don't live in a world where things are decided by rational arguments. You have spoken quite force-ably against people like lawyers who think for a living versus real men like yourself. Those are your words, not mine. I was just drawing the conclusion based on your words.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 08:49 AM) I'd like to live in a world where everything can be discussed with intellectual thoughts and ideas. That'd be nice. But we don't live in that world. And I am real tired of guys like that telling me that guns are for p*****s. It especially pisses me off while I'm in Afghanistan. So sorry, I have a nasty reaction to some pompous lawyer dude from Chicago telling me that my way of life, which doesn't affect him a damn bit, is for weak and cowardly people. Well, perhaps that is the problem. back here that is the world. We don't pull out weapons during a business meeting. You don't go into a car dealer and punch the guy out or call him a limp dick to get a better deal. Do you really think you will go into your kid's school and say "I'm tired of this p**** telling my kid he has to do his homework"? You can't control your anger on the internet, and you expect people to support your right to carry a gun? You are incapable of being elected to any office, you'd tell citizens to go f*** themselves. You can't even be trusted to attend a government meeting. That's the real world.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 08:41 AM) That's your choice. You having a gun isn't a bad thing in and of itself. If you don't want one, fine. If you want one, that's cool too. But I hate this idea that you should be scorned for hiking with a gun or I should be scorned for having one in the nightstand. Actually you are scorned for all the insults you toss out. If someone doesn't agree with you you start calling them things like a limp dick, pigs, etc. We understand that thinking and discussing just isn't your strong part. You are trained to see all problems as being solved with violence. I hope you never try to adjust to civilian life.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 08:04 AM) What the f*** does this post have to do with anything? He challenged me to put down the guns and be a real man. I'm tired of this argument, because it's pleading with me to gamble with my life so I can be enlightened like him. I hope I never have to draw my gun. I really do. It's there for situations when true danger arises. I'm a firm believer in the idea that it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need it and not have it. So I hope I never "need" it, but if I ever do, I'm not gonna be caught with my pants down because some lawyer jackass thinks real men operate based on mere intellectualism. Yeah. Tell your home invader that you're a real man because you make deep thoughts. See how that works. It's thoughts like that which make liberals seem like pompous elitists living in a fantasyland. It sarcastically showed that when you get tired of an intellectual battle you begin thinking of violence instead of walking away. You start tossing insults, calling people limp dicks, pompous, and jackasses and then say that is what being a real man is. Your concept of a real man shouts insults across the internet and rejects thinking in favor of violence. When people (gun owners and non owners) think about other people who should *not* have guns, they believe it is people like you who have a short temper and believe violence is better than thinking.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 08:16 AM) I would not be opposed to carrying a gun if I were backpacking in bear country. I'd rather have an extra can of bear spray. Ounce for ounce I believe bear spray is a better tool to keep you safe backpacking than a gun that you would want to have backpacking. Although the blood trail the bear leaves will make it easier to find where the pissed off bear took you.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 07:48 AM) More dumbassery. I don't carry a gun to be cool. I don't carry it because I'm a weak man who can't fight with his fists. I don't carry it because I want to be a real man (I'm in the army, you're a f***ing attorney, GTFO with this real man s***). And I don't carry it because I want to be brave (I'm in Afghanistan and you're still a lawyer, so GTFO again with this bravery s***). I carry a gun because my life and my family's lives are the most important things to me. I hope I never have to shoot anyone in self defense. That would be awful. But when the threat arises, I'm not going to pin our survival on a fistfight, no matter how strong I might be or how well I know how to fight. I'm not going to hope that he is unarmed so I can overpower him or so I can run away like a little girl. When that threat comes up, I'm going to know from the second it arises that I have the upper hand. I'm not gonna leave any doubts about that. And I'm not gonna put down the weapon so I can show some limp-dick like you what a "real man" I am. This isn't about bravado or machismo. This is about my life. This is about my wife's life. I'm getting tired of this "guns are for p*****s" argument from society's actual p*****s. Have you done a brave thing in your whole stupid life? You wanna talk about real men. YOU'RE A f***ING LAWYER. Repeat that to yourself. You wouldn't know a real man if he walked up and punched you in your damned face. Yeah, real men don't think! They don't have ideas! They kick ass, punch people and shoot guns. f***ing thinking is for women. We'll never catch you with ideas or thinking. No sir, you're a real man. And you can call someone a limp-dick because you carry a weapon, not like an attorney who would have to run away from you like a girl. It is funny that you hate a limp dick but presumably appreciate a nice hard dick. I appreciate the discipline that the Army has instilled in you. Is it officer's school where they teach you to yell insults and swear on the internet? At least after some commie country kicks our militarily's butt YASNY and his buddies will have their guns to save us. We do need citizens armed to fight back when you fail. To fight back shen you turn your weapons on ordinary citizens like at Kent State. YASNY did a great job of explaining it.

QUOTE (God Loves The Infantry @ Feb 4, 2013 -> 06:15 AM) Some quick comments against this: 1) I'm in the Army. Therefore, I know who's in the Army. And when the order comes out to shoot at American citizens on behalf of a tyrant, we're leaving. It'll be the last thing that "ruler" ever does. 2) Your attempts to be funny are overly simplistic. Ever heard of something called guerrilla warfare? Yeah, it happens all the time. Successfully, I might add. If the conditions ever fall into place, it will happen in America too. And any force trying to suppress that insurgency would have a hell of a time. So do we need guns to protect us from the military or not? How scared are you of American citizens with weapons kicking your Army ass in a battle?

Think he would wear a Sox hat in the HoF?

Two classes this semester, Literary Theories and Topics in Lit History (Women Writers of the English Renaissance). Pretty cool starts to both classes. I may finally be understanding what Plato and Aristotle were saying about literature, art, and science. I'm presenting on Dante next week.

Even worse than the Bulls bringing in Rodman.

Interesting that someone thought it would help the same market teams, I thought it would hurt the small market teams by increasing salaries. High payroll teams like the Yankees, Red Sox, Dodgers, and White Sox could spend a few million for that last spot, versus a couple hudnred thousand for a small market team.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-...,0,111554.story A quick primer on how the Boy Scouts operate. A local unit (church or non profit civic group) sponsors a unit and pledges to follow all national policies. The local unit is part of a district within a locally run Council. Councils are divided up into regions, the regions report to BSA National. BSA is part of the World Organization of Scouting Movements. Contrary to what many people think Scouting was started outside of the US and each country runs it's own way. For example Eagle Scout rank, the most enduring image, is really an American thing. Anyway, what the vote will be is to allow the local units to decide membership standards. Strictly speaking it would allow units sponsored by churches that have a well known anti-gay stance to continue to discriminate while also allowing those churches who accept gay members to allow them into the unit. Through a "Scouts for Equality" group I belong to I have met several Scouts of the highest moral and character who happen to be gay. I pray that national gets this right. I also pray that my friends within Scouting who are adamantly opposed will see the light and accept everyone who wishes to join out organization.

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Jan 28, 2013 -> 06:58 PM) Ive actually never hunted while using a tree stand. Are there any advantages to it besides having the high ground and better view? It really depends on the terrain and the obstacles. I find being on the ground much more exciting.

QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Jan 28, 2013 -> 05:27 PM) Rifle, and yes great eating wild boar sloppy joe! Tree stand or ground?

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 28, 2013 -> 04:16 PM) My wife bugs me to become a teacher so we can do this same sort of thing I'll admit, it is a nice life at this point in our lives. 50+, kids almost settled into their adult lives, we are great travelling companions, and enjoy seeing many of the same sites. A three hour side trip to see Jack Kerouac's boyhood home, a stop on the underground railroad, backpacking to a remote lake. She even is smart enough to check the Sox schedule to see if we are close enough for any games. But if you don't have a passion for kids and love the job, the work sucks.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Jan 28, 2013 -> 08:19 AM) Skiing in Lake Tahoe over Presidents' Day weekend, white water rafting in SW Pennsylvania in July and a week in Glacier in August. Is your SO a teacher, too, tex? Yes. Which makes summers really nice. QUOTE (flippedoutpunk @ Jan 28, 2013 -> 10:24 AM) Feral Hog hunting in Southern Illinois. Archery? Shotgun? Rifle? Bare hands? The first time I went after one was on a guided archery trip. Damn, staring at 1 500+ boar with tusks from a flimsy ground level blind was a bit unnerving. Thinking all I may do is piss him off if the shot ain't right. Made my already unsteady bow shake. lol Great eating.

Learning the scientific method, thinking logically from math classes, reasoning and interpreting from English classes, conflict resolution from history class. Other than that, not a damn thing.