Greeters are a thing at a burn. Get to know the process. They’re there to help you.
Again, looking for tattoo funds for birthday. See below! And speaking of giving me your money, perhaps you’d like a good book to read? The reviews so far have been overwhelmingly positive. You should probably check this out.
To clear up two questions from the comments:
– No, Mesquite Burn isn’t real. There are many regional burns in Texas, but this isn’t a real one.
– Yes, I am looking to get my wife’s bootprint tattooed on my ass. Yes, it’s going to be a big black tattoo that will make it hard to sit down for a week. But I promised her this years ago, and I am a man of my word.
I think this guy says it right. Even as a weird hybrid Liberal/Libertarian/I Don’t Even Know What The Fuck I Am Anymore.
One of the reasons that gun controllers tend to wind up on the left is that they think that the masses should be subjects. They won’t say it that way, but time and again, you’ll see on the left an attitude that most problems should be handled by way of people ceding control to the government.
For example, when ordinary people can go to anyone they want for medical services, they can choose quacks or other incompetents. Thus, to protect people from quacks, the government should forbid anyone from practicing medicine until they get a license (permission) from the government.
The same principle may also apply to child care, electricians, taxi drivers, barbers, hairdressers, lawyers, plumbers, or any of as many as a hundred or more professions. Or it may be a matter of prior restraint, as for truck drivers, pilots, and so forth.
And if somebody has any sort of trouble meeting basic needs, then it is incumbent upon the government to allocate resources to them. Examples include public housing, WIC, SNAP, and public schools, which have the additional benefit — cited by the likes of John Dewey and Horace Mann — of giving the government the opportunity to mold young people like plastic.
This also applies to gun ownership. The basic Leftist attitude towards gun ownership is that when ordinary people own guns, that causes problems, so they shouldn’t, and it’s up to the government to make sure that they don’t.
Tip to avoid Virgin Spankings(tm): Don’t let them know you’re a virgin, till too late. Also, make your first Burn a mellow one that doesn’t spank virgins. Frostburn in 15 days, and counting.
Or, just don’t go to the silly thing. Even easier!
I wasn’t spanked at Myschievia. It might be because I’m burly and look like trouble on wheels, but I didn’t see anyone else get spanked either.
Depends on the Burn, methinks. Playa Del Fuego, at least in theory, does.
Actually, it’s easier. Just say “No, thanks – not my thing.”
Hm, any weapon he can manufacture or buy?
Sorry, but the point where its easier to get a firearm than a car licence is a point where I think something is going wrong.
There is a reason why you don’t let anyone drive without proving they are capable of doing so and why you can withdraw the licence if someone poses as a serious threat behind a car wheel, and I think this counts even a bit more for guns.
I’ll be fine with the laws extending the same for cars and guns. I can purchase a race car without any license at all. Heck I can purchase ANY car without a license at all. I can transport that car without an operator’s license. I can drive that car without a license so long as I do not do it on public roads. I would never have to pass a background check to purchase a car, especially one intended for off road use. I would be able to have ANY car so long as I can pay for it. Even mentally ill can purchase a vehicle. Any felon can purchase a vehicle. I don’t have to have insurance for that car as long as it is not USED on public roads. My license allows me to drive ANY non-commercial vehicle on public roads at any time, in any state. How does this translate to firearms?
I would be able to purchase ANY and ALL types of firearms, including FULLY AUTOMATIC and/or EXPLOSIVE ROUND projectile weapons so long as the USE of that firearm is not on public roads. We would eliminate the background check. It would allow me to get my CCW Permit in my home state, and be allowed to carry said firearms in ANY state on ANY public roads.
Sure, Lets treat firearms like a car.
A gun has, at most, 3 or 4 On/Off switches and 4 rules required for safe operation. A car has a minimum of 3 constantly variable controls, 4 multi-position switches and dozens, if not hundreds of rules for safe operation. And when driving, you’re also having to judge the intents/reactions of many other people traveling around you.
So, yeah, driver licencing and training requirements make some sense. Now, if they were only severely enforced……
Driver licensing is not something specifically protected in the Bill of Rights. Tiny little difference there.
“There is a reason why you don’t let anyone drive without proving they are capable of doing so and why you can withdraw the licence if someone poses as a serious threat behind a car wheel, and I think this counts even a bit more for guns.”
Oooh boy. Another person who believes in this drivel.
Let me make this clear. When someone has the intent of causing harm or death to someone, whether it’s with cars or with guns, the solution to reduce the amount of people causing such harm isn’t by treating guns like cars and making a license, under the pretense that somehow, firearms are more dangerous than guns. Statistics prove it otherwise – people get killed far more often in/by cars than by guns, suicides included in both cases, and I’d argue a car is as much of a potential weapon as it is a potential death trap.
The solution is to catch the man responsible, and throw the fucker in jail till he is deemed ready to return to society. It’s called basic law enforcement. More laws don’t do shit. Withdrawing a license? Well I sure bet that’s going to stop someone who is determined to keep driving!
What’s that? He was caught driving without a license? Oh well, there goes your little argument. I guess more laws and more licenses and more restrictions will stop the bad guy; surely the one who breaks 10 laws will suddenly realize he should stop before an 11th, right? Right?
Fuck’s sake.
Brace yourself, shitstorm is coming.
“under the pretense that somehow, firearms are more dangerous than guns.”
well, that thought never crossed my mind before.
Let me get something straight:
I do not, in any way, want to cancel any american citizen out from owning a gun on american soil.
Actually, I do not really care, as I live in Germany, where gun laws are very tight (which i do find a bit sad as I would really like to get my hands on some soviet WW2 weapons), and if the USA have 50 guns per citizen or 5 or none has about no impact on my life.
Well, I wouldn’t see as many cool YT-Vids of people blowing shit up, so own as much guns as you like, you have my blessings.
Also, I do fully understand why people get upset when other people talk bullshit about their hobby and want to restrict them.
(I remember far to good when this %&§$% of a bavarian minister of interior Joachim Herrmann compared Videogames to childpornography)
My former post was based upon a missunderstanding, so please forgive me.
thanks for your attention.
And again… I don’t need a license to buy a car. I don’t need a license to drive a car(Drove a one ton dually with a trailer on a farm when I was nine). I don’t have to register a car. I can get ANY kind of car I want. I can even build and sell any car I want. The only issue comes from whether that car is allowed to be USED in the public roads. This would translate to me being able to own a Ma Deuce or any of a million other firearms that are now deemed illegal. I would love to have a minigun mounted to my truck. USING that firearm would be the only area where you’d have any licensing issues. And if we treat it like cars, we have the Department of Firearms that we take a test at 16 and we can use any firearm on the streets. And we get to carry any that are registered to any state so long as we have our license. People will all have Arizona addresses lol.
Karina, for the record, you made what is, at least for the US, an incorrect statement: “people get killed far more often in/by cars than by guns”. In the US, it’s about 30,000 people per year for each.
The difference is that almost all automobile deaths are accidents, and the gun deaths are overwhelmingly (around 20,000) suicides, with most of the remaining 1/3 being homicides; gun accidents are a drop in the bucket, relatively speaking (around 600). The gun-death rate has also been staying about constant, while the automobile-death rate has been dropping; the automotive industry has made great strides in decreasing the risk of a fatal accident. Stopping suicides is a much more difficult thing to do, and blaming guns is ignoring the root causes. (The US suicide rate is on-par with most European countries, but guns are more commonly the implement of choice in the US than in European countries.) Likewise, whether you can affect the homicide rate via gun bans is a debated issue, but it’s well-established that most murders are “I want to kill somebody, so let me use a gun” rather than “I have a gun, so I guess I should kill somebody”; guns are not the core of the problem there either.
Overall, I agree with your points (if, perhaps, not the way you worded them). However, I don’t like seeing incorrect statistics thrown around, even if they support my own viewpoint. It’s possible you were thinking of the gun and car accident rates, where people do get killed much more often by cars (around a 50x difference), but this does not include suicides as you had asserted.
There is a huge difference between OWNING and CARRYING some object (Like a gun), and driving a car on a public road. Your rights kinda end right at the trigger. There isn’t a right to shoot a gun in public, and even taking a gun out to show a buddy is a bad idea, legally speaking, in public.
I agree that: the law abiding are the least free, the criminals are the most free, and people with money and power are somewhere in between.
I cannot afford a CCW at the moment. Or ammo to practice, or a trip to Gunsite… But I own a handgun. I cannot however legally CCW it.
If illegally carry was a misdemeanor, and I had the money for a lawyer, and money for a replacement gun when mine gets taken away when I’m arrested. Then I would carry illegally. (It’s a felony)
If I was already a felon, I might consider illegally carrying, (and it is a felony here)
But I obey the law, and that makes me less free. I am literally more afraid of the cops, than the bad guys.
Ok, thanks for the explanation, I’m afraid I’m not too familiar with american gun laws 😛
Foreigners commenting on American gun laws.
SO RELEVANT.
*shrug* Merkins get all dandered up about other countries’ internal politics too.
I’d rather see somebody ask questions than assume they know the answer. AtheistIII made a common and naïve statement, and admitted his naïveté. Don’t jump all over him, just provide information and be available for a discussion. You don’t help anything when you jump on somebody’s nuts just because they said something you don’t agree with.
I have to agree with Omar. Light beer is just water, with preservatives.
Light beer is like having sex on the beach.
It’s fucking close to water.
One suspects he’ll being doing both.
I know how much you love your guns no matter what the cost to America. here you go
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/27/guns-children-hospitalizations/4796999/
Researchers found that 7,391 young people under age 20 were admitted to U.S. hospitals in 2009 because of firearm injuries – about 20 a day. More than 6% of them died from their injuries.
Is this enough blood for you? How many children must died to satisfy your gunlust?
ok… so how many of those are between 18, and 20 (aka. legally adults)? how many are gang related (felonious activity’s)? how many are suicide? can you answer ANY of these questions?
In 2003, approximately 291,000 children under the age of 15 were injured in car accidents. Of that group, 2,343 children between the ages of 0 and 14 died.
Is this enough blood for you? How many children must died to satisfy your laziness and desire for individual transportation?
http://www.schwebel.com/userfiles/files/Statistics%20on%20Traffic%20Accidents%20Involving%20Children%281049%29.pdf
Let’s not even talk about the child drownings. No one NEEDS a bathtub, they can just take showers. And all swimming pools should be filled in. Buckets should all be registered. Sinks should be licensed. Lakes and ponds should have serial numbers. How many children must die to satisfy our hydrophilia?
I posted to the brutal_honesty LJ comm about how apparently it’s only a TRAAAAGEDY when kids (by which I mean actual children, like pre-pubertal) are shot. Never when they’re stabbed, or beaten to death by shithead parents, or killed by a cell-phone-distracted or intoxicated driver, or forced into military service in third-world hellholes like Liberia and Sudan, and ONLY when the aforementioned kids are pretty and white. Nobody gives two tugs of a dead dog’s cock about black kids getting shot in Detroit, DC, and East LA (all of which, amazingly enough, have insanely strict gun laws).
I was called a troll.
Go figure.
Fuck it, I banned this idiot.
Aww, and I was going to piss off Obvious Troll by answering his “How many children must die” question with the panty-twisting “ALL OF THEM.”
Now give me the same statistics involving car accidents.