I did a report on it in sixth grade. Somehow, I missed the fact that women couldn’t vote at the time. They do have very artistic stamps, though.

You know, I used to have some respect for the gun-rights enthusiasts, being aware that defending individual rights against government overreach has been a problem throughout history.

But the craven, gutless silence, if not active enthusiasm, of the NRA crowd in the face of the Chimp Administration’s egregiously illegal power grabs and fearmongering security-state, reveals them for what they really are — authoritarian, selfish jerks happy to see people who aren’t like them bullied and abused.

They have no principles of indivudal rights for all or limiting government power, only selfish assertion of rights for themselves and their toys, and to hell with the rest of the world. If/when the neocons starting herding people into camps, many of them will be eager kapos rounding up their neighbors using their personal weapons.

Oh Bondage, Up Yours!

Wasn’t she in the X-Ray Spex?

Oh great, somebody got, Kaye Grog,an in our G,ary,b,ot.

Nor do the bitchez, either.

What’s the sense in that?

Now, now, you don’t have to be gay to be a hairdresser. You only have to be vain, superficial, effete, and overcompensating for deep personal insecurities. I’m sure straight Liechtensteiners do just fine.

(pours brandy into coffee)

- Gangster Fun

Frankly, I’m OK with making tax havens like Liechtenstein sweat a bit. You’ve got bosses trying to get governments to weaken European labor laws and then dodging said governments at tax time. Way to use the economy like a joy rag. Now that I live in a country that actually spends its tax dollars more or less wisely, tax dodgers piss me off more than they used to.

Well, that’s it. I’ve officially burned the last of my bridges with the L-5 Society. I guess I won’t be buying a condo on the Freedom Ship either.

Wonder who’s going to pay for these mandatory training, rifles, and ammunition for 60-70 million Americans. Can’t possibly be more the $50 billion.

I assume they mean M1A as in Garand rifle, which is pretty much short hand for “I don’t know much about reality, but I sure do play video games!” as the M1 is ill-suited for the city and close-quarters combat that would certainly be encountered. A far better choice would be something small and relatively low-powered, say an MP5, though preferably altered for a slightly slower rounds per second.

Does that mean married guys get excused? I think that’s probably wise, given the number of gun-related spousal incidents, but I imagine Buggered in Montana wasn’t thinking of the safety of married women.

Anne Laurie, I love your idea. “Two of the most dangerous objects most of us will ever be expected to handle” is a great way to put it. Some millennia ago, when I spent a year teaching at a catholic high school, I attended a course on teaching students about sex and drugs (they never mentioned rock ‘n roll, oddly enough). There was a rather twee video with a mountain metaphor, which was intended to suggest that since kids will do whatever the hell they like anyway, the only sensible course was to teach them the facts and let them get on with it.

The school actually did, to some extent. Teach the facts, I meant. A friend of mine had a humorous incident involving a chair leg and a condom: the answer to the question of why you don’t pull them off from the tip being “Because it’ll bloody hurt!” accompanied by a ripping sound and a ricochet of very stretched rubber sproinging across the room.

Ah, better days than this, friends. By the way, I’d be obliged if our Buggered In Montana friend could explain exactly why he and his ilk (no-one nice has an ilk) get so frothed up about guns. I mean, they get all breathless about ‘defending ourselves and our freedoms’ and ‘right to bear arms’ (or should that be ‘bare arms’? Go ahead, matey, bare your arms, bare your legs, run around in the nicky noo nar for all I care), but I never could see what they were so afraid of.

So what is it, Buggered? Why are you so pants-wettingly shitscared that you have to have a gun to ‘defend’ yourself? Normal people don’t care that much, you know. Normal people either aren’t afraid of the normal function of the government, or are well aware that a single gun won’t protect diddly.

Does it just make you feel like a manly man?

Ahhh, fuck it. It’s Wednesday night, not even half way through the week, and I’m expecting sensible answers from a complete knobhead. I need a drink.

Every single male American citizen between the ages of 18-50 should own and train with an M1A battle rifle.

Because there just aren’t enough angry young men killing each other — and all too many of the rest of us — already. The new troll seems to be a shill for NPG (Negative Population Growth).

Actually, I wouldn’t mind mandatory gun-handling classes in all high schools, as long as they’re paired with mandatory sex education classes. And on the grounds that the pro-sex-ed people get to vet the gun-handling curricula, and the pro-gun people get to vet the sex ed curricula. I think it would be… educational… to have an actual national discussion about what we want the next generation of voters to be learning about two of the most dangerous objects most of us will ever be expected to handle. (Well, yeah, there’s also automobiles, but most high schools teach drivers ed already.)

Holy crap, that’s fantastic.

Never has so much bollocks been spoken in a Sadly No posting:
There is some tough competition back in the archived threads.