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It's self-evident, and a clear correlate to your point that The point is, there have been criminals in the past, there are criminals now, and there will be criminals in the future. Some guns have been bought in the past and some are being bought now, but if we begin to enact sensible...

I asked this question a couple days ago, but nobody would answer: If banning things doesn't eliminate them entirely, then why ban them? For example, many ***** are *******, yet there are ***** on our streets. So why not legalize them? Explosives are *******, yet people make bombs anyway, so why...

An argument isn't the same thing thing as arguing. You stated a position (or "made an argument") in a thread devoted to discussing a certain issue, and as evidence of your position ("support" for your argument), you invoked a statistic. I think that statistic - if true - lends no support...

Once again,

Ladies & Gentlemen, We have them on the run. The *** nuts have given up all hope of making reasonable assertions and are now clinging to name-calling, vitriol and dodging of issues because they realize they can't justify their paranoid fantasies as genuine opinion. They believe in a right to...

Yes, by all means. Let's talk about something other than the issue. In fact, why not talk about several other things? It will save us from having to debate issues using, you know, actual thoughts.

This is a clear non sequitur. You skipped over the part where your evidence actually supports your conclusion, which it clearly does not. Less than .5% of 270 million guns used in homicides? I have no idea whether this is accurate, but let's just assume it is. One half of one percent of 270...

Wow, this is beyond gibberish. There isn't a single coherent thought present, and the entire mishmash of words is a deflection away from issues.

I bet Nikki does stop by to read this thread and laughs her ass off. Honestly, so many people here are like Charlie Brown. Every time Lucy sets up the football he thinks she's not going to pull it away this time. But she always does...Good Grief.

That's first class teasing right there.

True, but when parents fail, I'm sure we'd all prefer their **** don't have access to a *** so they can go on a spree. There is no one solution.

Yeah, I'm under no illusions that it isn't practical. I just want to know what things people on both sides would find objectionable about it in principle. On the one hand, it takes all guns away, which should satisfy the left, and on the other hand, it leaves guns intact for people who support...

Hey, people. Here's a thought: Instead of restricting guns, let's require that every citizen own one, but let's change guns themselves to be non-lethal. We'll make them so they only fire Tranquilizer Darts, or something. What do you think? This way, everybody who needs them for self-defense...

Re: Would you marry a pornstar that still works I wouldn't be opposed to it in principle. That is, I wouldn't dismiss the notion out of hand if I felt strongly enough about her. But in the end, I would never be able to get past the fact that my wife was fucking other guys. Wouldn't matter why...

1. So let me get this straight: The US ****** rate (not ***-related homicides, but homicides by any means) ranks 24th in the world behind Columbia, Mexico, numerous Central & South American nations, war-torn African nations, Russia, a spate of former Soviet Socialist Republics with more...

Pretty middle of the road, actually, but I don't mind being labelled that way because liberal isn't a bad word and hardly anyone on the right is a conservative either, at least not when it comes to this issue. I support a right to own guns. I don't say "bear arms" because that would mean you're...

**** is *******. ****** is *******. Stealing is *******. Arson is *******. Identity theft is *******. Cyber crimes are *******. Inside trading is *******. ***** ***** is *******. Racketeering is *******. Money laundering is *******. ********** is *******. Extortion is *******. Poisoning is...

This one used to bother me, but someone challenged me on it a while back so I looked it up. Turns out, saying "That smell makes me nauseous" (instead of "That smell is nauseating") is pretty much accepted now from a stylistic perspective. It seems to be largely a matter of preference at this...

"Brought to you with limited commercial interruption..." And just what the hell would UNlimited commercial interruption be?

Oh well, I tried. Add another one to the Ignore List. And yes, <expletive here> a life is a life. I would even try to save yours.

Most people? I would do everything in my power to defend any innocent life, whether they agreed with me or not. God only knows how I'd handle a true life & death situation if the need ever arose, but I'd like to think I wouldn't even take the life of a perpetrator unless I had to. I would be...

Do you do custom vids, Louise?

And they're following me...:suspicious:

I appreciate your position, but as you might have guessed, we're not going to see eye to eye on this. We curtail people's freedoms all the time. We don't let them drive without a license, we don't let them purchase narcotics without a ************, etc. We don't allow some things at all, e.g...

Actually, the UK is a Constitutional Monarchy. They have liberal democratic institutions, but they're not a democracy. Neither is the US. We have a Democratic Republic, or a Constitutional Democracy, if you will. But both the US and the UK are quite free. I'm not sure what your definition of...

I said I wouldn't post in this forum for a while because I've already said my fair share. And look, it's been almost a whole 24 hours! So here's a thought: In 2009 (or in some cases, 2008) the countries of Germany, France, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark...

Irony has numerous meanings, though. Are you sure his uses were always wrong? Hey, wouldn't it be ironic if you were wrong every time you corrected him?!

You're cute.

Using words like 'farther' and 'further', 'compose' and 'comprise' interchangeably.

What a coincidence! I have like 50 copies of Penthouse in my living room too. Wanna come over?

Not the masturbation itself, it's the other stuff. Looking for porn in the first place and then...ahem...acting upon it while in their homes. If I ever have ****, I'm going to have to lock some **** up and check the sheets when I get home.

Re: Penny Mathias / Jenny P I'm not saying she doesn't have big boobs, I'm saying that things that are impressive are either natural wonders or the result of significant effort. Since her boobs aren't real and it's not like she "earned" them (just paid for them), impressive just isn't the...

Here's something from another thread that's just packed full of goodies: "We cant change what comes into this country or what happens to people but have the right to defend it with are right to bear arms, you take these guns away from the people that abide by the law and use them to protect...

Pure sophistry. First of all, who here said anything about banning guns? That would be impossible, and everyone knows it, even the staunchest advocates of *** control. You're right that banning something creates a black market for it. It's why there's a black market for ******* *****, and why...

Attempting to qualify words but actually perverting their meaning, e.g., "he's a very unique person" or "this is a highly unique situation." The word 'unique' is actually stronger than 'very' and 'highly' because it means "one of a kind." In attempting to qualify it this way (which isn't...

For pretty obvious reasons, Fox News' use of the phrase "Fair & Balanced."

When I was a TA, I had a student who wrote in her final paper that something was "a whole nother thing in tirely." That one's stayed with me, I'm afraid.

It can also be written as two words: et cetera, meaning "and the others" or "and the rest." Since it's untranslated Latin (like German Angst, or French déjà vu), writing it as two words might be better, but in any case, the 't' comes before the 'c'. How in the world did people start reversing them?

I admit, I didn't fully state my thinking in that post. I was reacting rather than responding. I'm sorry about that. You were responding to Briana's post, which referenced assault weapons in general, not necessarily assault rifles. I could be wrong, but I think her point was that we really...

Why do I have the feeling that I'm being watched?

Talk about a welcome sight. Holy crap!

That makes more sense, although I agree with throttlebay that figures reported in any press are understandably suspect. So Rs 1 crore = ten million Rupees? The source I ready said it was one million, which is why I arrived at 18K instead of 180K.

Re: Penny Mathias / Jenny P Okay, but your initial statement that Jenny's Boob-to-Wast ratio is "impressive" suggests that you find her breasts to be very large for such a thin woman, not that her cup size is incorrectly reported. QED If I understand you correctly now, your initial statement...

Somebody who knows more about guns than I do should chime in, but I sincerely doubt that anybody hunts with MAC 10's, Mini Guns and Street Sweepers...

Forgive me. It may have seemed from the way I introduced my point that I was taking issue with what you said, when in fact I was only attempting to add to it.

That's really interesting. I honestly never would have thought girls did that.

Damn, she's pretty rockin. Don't know how it is that I haven't heard of her before...

As tragic as mass shootings are - and I sincerely appreciate your pointing out that they happen with alarming frequency - I actually think the debate over enacting sensible *** laws should focus on the approximately 30 homicides that occur every day in this country. That's a Sandy Hook-type...

Ron, it probably isn't good forum etiquette to say this openly, and even though I'm sure you won't care (despite the fact that I don't know a thing about you and have never read one of your posts before today), I'm going to go ahead post this: I'm adding you to my ignore list. Not because your...

(emphasis added) Um...I'm guessing that English isn't your first language and that this was just a slip of the tongue (or the hand), right? First of all, I'm pretty sure you meant to say 'every *** owner is a responsible citizen', not that every responsible citizen owns a ***, which is no more...