"Black Dog" wrote in message
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JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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Harry Krause wrote:

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America is truely a strange and scarey place.



Sometimes. But, I have a friend who's married to a nice lady who
absolutely hates guns. He wanted to go to one of those full-auto events
out in Nevada a few years back. He bet his wife that she'd love it, and
that if he was wrong, he'd wash all the dishes for a year AND sell some
of his guns, in which she thought he had too much money tied up. (She was
right). He won the bet. She loved shooting stuff. She had to stop
complaining FOREVER about guns in general. And, he still sold some of his
collector's pieces, about $30 grand worth.

I didn't say shooting stuff wasn't fun. I NEVER said shooting stuff isn't
fun. I own guns. Handguns, in fact. At the shooting range there are man
targets that I love. To take them down with the 22 requires a good
head-shot and I can do it 5 out of 5 times. The 9mm I can't hit the broad
side of a barn with.

BUT the sight of that sweet looking 6 year old girl goin' to town on the
machine gun - it's just bizarre. Video games are bad enough for
habituating children to senseless violence, let alone letting them play
with live ammo.



I don't see it as much different than demolishing old drywall with a
sledge hammer, which ends up being very relaxing.

It is VERY different, the fact that you don't see it proves my first
statement (ie, America is a strange and scarey place)

Well, here's another way of looking at it: Violence is part the the human
deal, and the energy involved in doing violent things is not TOTALLY
different than the energy or urges involved with other more peaceful
activities. The more evolved among us (even in Canada) learn to focus on
constructive things, which may involve playing loud music once a week,
sports (doing, not watching & drooling), doing insanely hard work in a
garden which has never had more than a 71% success rate, or blowing up old
cars at a friend's farm. Those who have NOT evolved in this way get involved
with crime, watching professional wrestling, and getting a sick sort of
thrill listening to other people talk about invading foreign countries.