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Quote (DragoonCav @ Oct. 26 2002,12:01) Just don't f*ck with the Russian police. They've got a long, proud history of stuff that would constitute the usage of excessive force in the extreme on this side of the lake. Of course, when the bad guys over there have AKs and RPGs instead of Glocks, it does make some sense. Quote To fight them we'll have to engage them - we must enter the minds of their supporters.
Yes - I'm talking wholesale corruption of their societies, changing their focus from resistance to desire, hate to lust, unity to division, independance to reliance.
What better way than with a Marshall plan for Afghanistan and Iraq, replete with all the corrupting TV, shopping, exercise programmes, McDonalds and gangsta-Rap they can jam in. The society will be so busy mauling itself over getting their share of the American pie it will forget it was ever at odds with the Great Capitalist Empire.I think we've tried this a few dozen times since then. Doesn't really work that well on non-Western European countries.
As for the gassing, the BATF does that every other week over here. It's normal.
Yeah, but there are not usually 500 hostages in the room being gassed.
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A fly in my Chardonnay?
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Quote (Bookwyrm @ Oct. 22 2002,19:55) Quote Strawberry-Cream writes: Quote Couldn't you talk about rapiers instead? They are at least elegant. Not to say sexy 
.Now how can that be possible? I mean, they WERE designed to KILL people weren't they? They couldn't possibly have any other legitimate use. We should probably outlaw ownership, shouldn't we?
Hypocrite.
- Mark C.
At last! Proof that Americans just don't get irony!
Irony: Like silvery or coppery, but made of iron.
Coincidence not Irony.
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Hey now! The point of this thread is to make fun of wimpy D&D gamers (not to say all D&D gamers are wimpy) so let's stick to it!
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He is a Gulf War vet, but he was not SF. He was not even combat arms. Ft Lewis has 1st SF Group and a Ranger Bat, but it also has most of I Corps support command. Of course the media just latched onto the SF bit. I heard Fox news say Ft Lewis was a major US Army sniper training center. The US Army Sniper School is 3,000 miles away at Ft Benning. There's sensationalism for ya!
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Only in the Bronx...
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Yeah, they are a lot of fun. That's why it's good to be tha Boss. You get to shoot up the excess ammo if'n you want.
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Anyone see that rediculous 3D movie called "Metalstorm" in the 1980s?
Dude! I just found out John Travolta's wife Kelly Preston (For Love of the Game, Jerry McGuire) was in that POS!
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Quote (malek77 @ Oct. 16 2002,03:28) **WARNING***
<rant>Quote The snipers a loser. Depends on his ideology. He may be winning. Big time.
There are theories he's a disgruntled Spec.Ops sort.
What if he's not a disgruntled Spec.Ops sort?
Quote The best part it the anti-gun lobby is coming out of the wood works over this. Oh no - not the Anti-gun lobby.
Let me just remind everybody of the efficacy of 'anti-gun lobbies'.
Remember the Port Arthur massacre?
A guy went off in Tasmania, killed 30+ people (IIRC) and because of the media coverage couldn't get a fair trial.
He now lives in a glass box.
Now - what was the response?
The government had a 'gun buy back.'
You can ignore the cost. You can kinda ignore the fact that a lot of the guns were crap. You can realise that many gun owners got rid of their perfectly legal and responsibly used firearm that they were quite attached to.
What you can't ignore is the fact that this reaction has not in the slightest prevented such a massacre occuring again.
There are most certainly still fully automatic guns around(I hear them up in our local bush occaisionally!), and who owns them? Even if they weren't before, they are now criminals.
Who are the ppl most likely to do stupid things with a gun?
Who still has the automatic rifles, again?
Ok, smartguy, what should they have done?
Well - the gun was stolen. Better registration, better tracking, better safe methods for storing the weapons. Just Like cars. Gun immobiliser anyone?
That might help - but the actual reaction didn't help in the slightest. (You can here whip out the stat that gun crime has risn 44% in Aus' since the buyback).
Now the lobby is going for those staples of EVIL™, the 9mm semi auto pistol. It won't help either.
But back to the sniper...I'm not normally given to paranoia such as this, but its awfully convenient for the sorts who reckon a Police state is a good idea.
It's too convenient that all those people got hit in Bali.
It's too convenient that Finnish guy had his go.
The whole 'undefined terrorist threat warning' is convenient.
Worldwide conspiracy? Even though I doubt it's an NSA plot or even a worldwide Jihad conspiracy - its going to get used to an end I don't like, dammit.
Welcome to the Police State, ladies and gents, please affix your tracking bracelets and smile for the cameras - you're safer when you're watched!
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Dude! WTF are you getting at? Or is it blinding flash of the obvious day downunder?
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Quote (markc @ Oct. 15 2002,12:41) I'm just saying there is a bit more to it than just what the feds require.[/quote]
Right, I was just posting the federal requirements. However, there are currently 41 states in the U.S. where civilian ownership of a full-auto firearm is legal. Those states are: MO,
- Mark C.Yay! I'm gonna buy me a full auto AK-47 with a 100 rd drum and go shoot up some Stag beer cans!
(Actaully, when I said federal reservation, I meant any federal property. Military posts, Indian reservations etc. Ineterestingly enough, the Brady bill did not effect US Installations over seas. I bought a bunch of high-cap mags and pistols w/ high-cap mags at US rod and gun clubs on US posts in Germany.)
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Quote Quote from my experience, any attempt in discussion is futile. There are virtually hundreds of political discussions with opinions like this in a good broodwar forum I know - often pages long, everyone argumenting against it, to no effect. Are they arguing (ie debating) or just shouting at each other without listening to what anyone else is saying? Are they being forced to back up their ideas, provide evidence, justify their beliefs with facts, defend their evidence?
Personally, I feel I have a duty to challenge people's ideas and beliefs, because it's the only way to promote understanding.
I agree totally! I will often argue intesley with someone who I may in fact be in total agreement with, but I just want to see if they can justify their belief.
I tried to make the point on there that intense discussions are where ideas and creativity come from, but I think a lot of those folks are gaming snobs who have decided that they have discovered the "True Essence" of role-playing and any other syle is inherently inferior. The irony is that is what they were essentially attacking me for. Saying that something should only be one way.
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Quote (Bookwyrm @ Oct. 16 2002,20:57) Isn't this a problem in the States as well? Does anyone have statistics for accidental gun deaths?
Also, comparing a percentage rise in armed crime in Britain to a decrease in America is flawed. Since the level of gun crime is so much lower in Britain, a small rise in the number of crimes can produce a big percentage increase. Do you have any figures for crimes per capita?Yeah, I assume more risk in my 47 mile drive to work on I-64 than I ever have handling a loaded firearm or being around folks with loaded firearms.
If you do find the numbers for accidental firearms deaths per year, compare that to the number of legally owned firearms in America. Or the number of rounds of ammo purchased. It's all just used for political angles.
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The best part it the anti-gun lobby is coming out of the wood works over this.
For all we know this guy is running around with a single-shot Ruger No 1 in .223. Politicians...
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Right, so if you live on a fderal reservation or in Washington D.C. those are the requirements. The majority of firearms laws are at the state and local levels.
I'm just saying there is a bit more to it than just what the feds require.
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Not really since he said there are only 3 legal requirements. Depending on where you live it may be legal, but there may be significantly more requirements.
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Quote (markc @ Oct. 10 2002,12:55) OK, here's the straight poop on full-auto ownership in the U.S.
There are only 3 legal requirements:
1) you have to be 21 years old or older.
2) you have to have no criminal record and no record of mental illness.
3) you have to live in a state where it is legal (federal law allows owneship nationwide.)Um, actually doesn't that vary significantly by State?
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Quote (markc @ Oct. 09 2002,19:18)
BTW, merely as a side note, the webmaster for www.hkpro.com is Tom Dresner, the SWAT team capt. for the city of St. Louis. He's also a personal friend of mine. Tom and I both own a large number of firearms, including full-auto types. (I own three full-auto HKs myself: an MP-5 submachine gun, a G3 battle rifle, and an HK-21 belt-fed machine gun.)
- Mark C.
NRA Instructor, Willamette Small Arms Academy
Full-Auto Director, Albany Rifle & Pistol ClubI live in St Louis, and am surrounded by city cops. Is he City or County?
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Which is why I only play D&D with my usual group. They don't wrapped around the axle about much at all.
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I read Mein Kampf in college. I felt like chucking my brain in the dishwasher afterwords. (Not to mention it reads terribly, even for a translation).
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Quote (Strawberry-Cream @ Oct. 13 2002,01:57) Murph, Wyrm,
may I keep some of them as pets after you're finisehd with them?
Sure, but they're liable to pee on the carpet at the sound of loud noises. And don't make any sudden movements around them.
(They'll probably want to sleep in your bed with the lights on too.)
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Oh c'mon, it's good for the soul. Builds character.
I'm betting a few of those folks would benefit from taking off the training wheels.
Heck, I'm willing to bet my next paycheck some thicker skin would make many of them better role-players!
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Quote (Chrysalis @ Oct. 11 2002,19:24) I think greandes are scary enough without adding thermite into the equation.
-Chrysalis
"Oh..." the exhalation preceded by the pop and whine of a trip flare illmunating the starlit night, revealing the V as they stood in the middle of a muddied field. Victory certainly was not near. Death was filling in the post.Yeah, but with thermite, or maybe WP, you can ensure that any wood, or other flamables catch fire, whereas with just plain ol TNT, C4 or Comp B, that may not happen. And this is CP so we are of course going for maximum damage!
Moscow theater hostages
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Yeah, you go have a good time with that! I'd also say that there are about 90 recent hostages that would disagree with the effectiveness of that tactic!
Of course you know that hostage situation was staged by the CIA to take the world's attention off of US law enforcement inability to capture the DC Sniper...