To upgrade, become part of the cycle of life, not be a bystander.
Msolga, teaching a kid how to hunt and fish is a great way to keep them out of trouble.
Remember, give a man a fish, and he won't be hungry for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll be able to feed himself for a lifetime.
cjhsa wrote:Msolga, teaching a kid how to hunt and fish is a great way to keep them out of trouble.
Remember, give a man a fish, and he won't be hungry for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll be able to feed himself for a lifetime.
Teach a child how to shoot!
Good grief!
I don't have a problem with (responsible) fishing.
You aussies all seem to be standing on your head with your arguments. Of course teach a child how to shoot - that's the most important time, even if they never own a gun in their lives. Teach them gun safety from the moment they are curious.
My 8-year old loves to shoot my old bow. You got a problem with that? Kids are natural hunters, you just have to hone their instincts.
I think we'll just agree to disagree, yes? You'll never change my mind & I'm certain I'll never change yours.
Young people, old people. Big kids, little kids. Athletic kids, disabled kids. They love it.
It it my belief that you have forgotten the natural heritage of mankind. Sure, technology is wonderful and makes our lives so much easier, but it also makes it so easy to forget how we got here.
Msolga, just curious, but do you have any kids (especially boys)?
Let's leave this now, OK? Gotta go get some food ... at the supermarket.
Bye!
My idea of gun control is consistent 3" groups at 25 yards, standing offhand rapid fire.
That is awe-inspiring. That is, unless your barrel length is 24 yards.
****...
Next they'll want our bloody laser guided boomerangs!
We already stole that idea.
msolga wrote:I think we'll just agree to disagree, yes? You'll never change my mind...
I had a friend make this statement to me about the gun issue a while back, and I couldn't help but wonder whether he really realized what he was saying... that he didn't actually care what factual data or arguments any one could bring to him, he had his opinion and it was proof against any new information.
Quote:he didn't actually care what factual data or arguments any one could bring to him, he had his opinion and it was proof against any new information.
What "factual data" are you talking about?
I was unaware that the premise "Guns 'R' Good!" had been proven.
Adrian, while guns may be put to criminal or other improper use, guns, being mere inanimate objects, are neither inherently good nor inherently evil. What has not been proven, despiter acres and acres of trees consumed in the publication of study after study, is that stringent gun control beneficially impacts gun crime, or even that it impacts crime itself. Consider Washington DC or New York City, two of the most stringently "Gun Controlled" cities in the nation, and both high on the statistivcal lists of both crime in general and guncrime in general. Contrast the rates of gun crime in those two cities to the rate of gun crime in less regulated political subdivisions, such as Vermont, which effectively has no gun control. A marvelous comparison exists between the contiguous Arlington Va and Washington DC; acquiring a firearm in Virginia is a simple matter. The incidence of gun crime in Virginia, and in Arlington in particular, is not merely substantially, but remarkably, lower than the incidence of gun crime in Washington DC. I doubt the Potomac or its bridges have anything to do with the phenomenon.
No, Timber, the river and the bridges don't make the difference--the 14th street bridge bus crosses on a regular basis, as i know from having lived there as an adolescent.
However, the demographics do matter--the property values, the rents, the proximity to the Pentagon and the consequent high proportion of military and civilian defense department employees who live there (like the Major General in our duplicate bridge club--you don't meet a lot of them in your average DC residential neighborhood). Most residents of the district, who don't live in Georgetown, couldn't afford a cup of coffee in Crystal City, much less to shop in any of the stores.
Apples to oranges, Timber . . . as Adrian pointed out, nothing is proven . . .
