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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2016 23:02:09 GMT -5
Right, I'm going to learn life-lessons from a fictional psychopath who puts under-aged boys in costumes and dangerous situations. Just modified the bat-signal for you.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 5, 2016 23:18:21 GMT -5
Right, I'm going to learn life-lessons from a fictional psychopath who puts under-aged boys in costumes and dangerous situations. Just modified the bat-signal for you. That's Alfred Hitchcock with a terrible toupee
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Post by spoon on Nov 6, 2016 0:36:04 GMT -5
And how does it actually make your life better? Hypothetical situation. Four armed guys (knives) are about break into your bedroom. Mrs Tin is there too. You have time to reach into your drawer. One has a gun. One has your...voice of reason. What would you reach for? They've just broken into your room and one has pulled down his zip. I know what my guy would do. PS Not to go off topic, but I love the way Hillary is so anti-gun and yet surrounds herself with armed security. It's good enough for her own personal safety, but not the average citizen. When has Hillary said that the average citizen is not allowed to have armed security? I'm pretty sure never. Maybe you actually know she's not being a hypocrite and are just trying to compare apples to oranges. Maybe you're saying that she is protected by trained law enforcement professionals but thinks the average citizenship shouldn't be allowed to have a gun. Well, in that case . . . you're still wrong. Hillary position is to "Keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers, other violent criminals, and the severely mentally ill" (https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/gun-violence-prevention/) And of course, this is just about Hillary about being some haughty elitist empress who doesn't face any threats that the average American doesn't also face. It's not as if she's on the verge of gaining a job in which almost 10% of the officeholders have been murdered. Or it's not like she's seeking a job where there have plots to kill the last 8 officeholders. Oh wait, those are both true. But having this security is her silly liberal whim. Oh wait, no, there's a federal agency specifically tasked with protecting people in her position precisely because of the threat level and importance to the nation.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Nov 6, 2016 1:09:22 GMT -5
Hypothetical situation. Four armed guys (knives) are about break into your bedroom. Mrs Tin is there too. You have time to reach into your drawer. One has a gun. One has your...voice of reason. What would you reach for? They've just broken into your room and one has pulled down his zip. I know what my guy would do. PS Not to go off topic, but I love the way Hillary is so anti-gun and yet surrounds herself with armed security. It's good enough for her own personal safety, but not the average citizen. When has Hillary said that the average citizen is not allowed to have armed security? I'm pretty sure never. Maybe you actually know she's not being a hypocrite and are just trying to compare apples to oranges. Maybe you're saying that she is protected by trained law enforcement professionals but thinks the average citizenship shouldn't be allowed to have a gun. Well, in that case . . . you're still wrong. Hillary position is to "Keep guns out of the hands of domestic abusers, other violent criminals, and the severely mentally ill" (https://www.hillaryclinton.com/issues/gun-violence-prevention/) And of course, this is just about Hillary about being some haughty elitist empress who doesn't face any threats that the average American doesn't also face. It's not as if she's on the verge of gaining a job in which almost 10% of the officeholders have been murdered. Or it's not like she's seeking a job where there have plots to kill the last 8 officeholders. Oh wait, those are both true. But having this security is her silly liberal whim. Oh wait, no, there's a federal agency specifically tasked with protecting people in her position precisely because of the threat level and importance to the nation. She never has. Just like in 8 years Obama has never come and taken anyone's guns. It's a scare tactic that has taken hold in an unfortunately large number of people because overall Americans are a superstitious and cowardly lot.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2016 1:11:35 GMT -5
When has Hillary said that the average citizen is not allowed to have armed security? I'm pretty sure never. Maybe you actually know she's not being a hypocrite and blah blah blah [snip] Uh, yeah dude, maybe you know the NRA disapproves of her because of what she says.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 6, 2016 2:04:01 GMT -5
If I had a home in an isolated area, I'd definitely have a cannon on my front lawn. Sends a nice, simple message and perfectly legal as well A nice ample supply of grey bowling balls on the side would do well
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 6, 2016 2:05:04 GMT -5
And how does it actually make your life better? Hypothetical situation. Four armed guys (knives) are about break into your bedroom. Mrs Tin is there too. You have time to reach into your drawer. One has a gun. One has your...voice of reason. What would you reach for? They've just broken into your room and one has pulled down his zip. I know what my guy would do. And what do you think the statistical likelihood is of such a situation ever arising? High enough to justify keeping a lethal weapon in our bedroom? I highly doubt it. And even if it were, a swinging cricket bat or Golf iron would have just as much chance of stopping them, without making me a murderer.
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 6, 2016 2:09:02 GMT -5
I like Batman but he is a pussy with guns. No, he isn't; he's just better than that. As I said earlier, it's an attitude genuinely shared by most British police officers, who'll more often than not spend twenty to thirty years on the streets without ever carrying a gun. I find it sad you don't seem to believe that attitude is realistic.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2016 2:20:43 GMT -5
No, he isn't; he's just better than that. As I said earlier, it's an attitude genuinely shared by most British police officers, who'll more often than not spend twenty to thirty years on the streets without ever carrying a gun. I find it sad you don't seem to believe that attitude is realistic. Of course it isn't. You are aware that support for unarmed British police is not unanimous. REVEALED: 80% of Britons want all police armed with guns to tackle ISIS threat, poll finds
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 6, 2016 2:24:35 GMT -5
Right, I'm going to learn life-lessons from a fictional psychopath who puts under-aged boys in costumes and dangerous situations. I don't think you can apply the term psychopath to someone who clearly has too much respect for life to risk endangering it by carrying a gun. It's a word that I would say is more appropriate to describe someone who would seriously consider keeping such a weapon around in order to end a human life in the highly unlikely event that a situation would arise in which they could halfway justify such an action.
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 6, 2016 2:28:21 GMT -5
No, he isn't; he's just better than that. As I said earlier, it's an attitude genuinely shared by most British police officers, who'll more often than not spend twenty to thirty years on the streets without ever carrying a gun. I find it sad you don't seem to believe that attitude is realistic. Of course it isn't. You are aware that support for unarmed British police is not unanimous. REVEALED: 80% of Britons want all police armed with guns to tackle ISIS threat, poll findsSorry, but I live here and that's total bollocks. You can skew a poll to give any result you want, and it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that something like the Express would claim such a thing, but please don't be so credulous as to believe it. I'm only surprised it was the Express and not the Daily Mail, though they'd more likely have claimed it was 95%... We never needed the police to be armed when the I.R.A were active, and they were a more real and immediate threat to most of us than ISIS.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Nov 6, 2016 2:29:53 GMT -5
Right, I'm going to learn life-lessons from a fictional psychopath who puts under-aged boys in costumes and dangerous situations. I don't think you can apply the term psychopath to someone who clearly has too much respect for life to risk endangering it by carrying a gun. It's a word that I would say is more appropriate to describe someone who would seriously consider keeping such a weapon around in order to end a human life in the highly unlikely event that a situation would arise in which they could halfway justify such an action. Explain that to Child Protection Services regarding the dead and injured kiddie assistants in shorty pants
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Post by Confessor on Nov 6, 2016 6:52:57 GMT -5
Right, I'm going to learn life-lessons from a fictional psychopath who puts under-aged boys in costumes and dangerous situations. Just modified the bat-signal for you. Look, up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's just a colossal d*ck!
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Post by Confessor on Nov 6, 2016 7:08:06 GMT -5
Sorry, but I live here and that's total bollocks. You can skew a poll to give any result you want, and it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that something like the Express would claim such a thing, but please don't be so credulous as to believe it. I'm only surprised it was the Express and not the Daily Mail, though they'd more likely have claimed it was 95%... We never needed the police to be armed when the I.R.A were active, and they were a more real and immediate threat to most of us than ISIS. Yeah, that is total b*****ks. I can honestly say that in all my years, I don't remember ever having met anyone over here who seriously thinks that arming all police is necessary, let alone a being a sensible idea. Two things to bear in mind though, is that, even if we don't just assume that the survey and those results have been pulled out of the air to create a story (which, given the source, I'd say is likely), is that the survey was conducted mere days after the Paris Bataclan attacks, which will obviously skew people's responses. Secondly, that survey wasn't conducted by some serious research and statistical body -- it was done by ITV's This Morning program, a lightweight, celeb gossip and general news magazine program. It's hardly the News at Ten!
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Post by tingramretro on Nov 6, 2016 7:55:31 GMT -5
Sorry, but I live here and that's total bollocks. You can skew a poll to give any result you want, and it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that something like the Express would claim such a thing, but please don't be so credulous as to believe it. I'm only surprised it was the Express and not the Daily Mail, though they'd more likely have claimed it was 95%... We never needed the police to be armed when the I.R.A were active, and they were a more real and immediate threat to most of us than ISIS. Yeah, that is total b*****ks. I can honestly say that in all my years, I don't remember ever having met anyone over here who seriously thinks that arming all police is necessary, let alone a being a sensible idea. Two things to bear in mind though, is that, even if we don't just assume that the survey and those results have been pulled out of the air to create a story (which, given the source, I'd say is likely), is that the survey was conducted mere days after the Paris Bataclan attacks, which will obviously skew people's responses. Secondly, that survey wasn't conducted by some serious research and statistical body -- it was done by ITV's This Morning program, a lightweight, celeb gossip and general news magazine program. It's hardly the News at Ten! Even the phrase "80% of Britons" is nonsense, since the actual number of respondents to the poll is minuscule. 80% of 13, 000 people who responded is not quite the same as 80% of a population of 64 million, and it's pretty much inevitable that the majority of the few who responded would be those in favour of the radical solution.
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