what should they do with him?

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Originally Posted by Major Kong

...Wrbby what happened in your neighborhood a few years ago was a nightmare, but can I ask you something? It was the police that killed this man if I read your thread right. What did he do to provoke such a lethal response?

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I wish I had an answer for you. All I can think of was that it happened in the wee hours of the morning and I'm sure the cops had limited vision and they probably didn't know exactly was going on. They probably felt a sense of danger, a cop shoots, then they all shot. That morning, I got home at around 4:30am from the bar with friends. I was trashed, hung out outside sitting on the curb to have a smoke and thought about how Christmas was coming up soon. Then I went inside to crash. An hour and a half later my roomies woke me up. I was majorly crashed out so I didn't hear it, but they said it sounded like a machine gun was shooting. I looked through the glass in the door, couldn't believe my eyes and grabbed my camera to take a pic. It was pretty bad. I'll never forget it. The most regretful part of the whole thing was that the guys kids had to see it.

When I was a little kid (maybe 7 or 8 years old) I was running around with a sheet tied around my neck pretending like I was Batman outside the house on the sidewalk. Some idiot was shooting his BB gun (prolly trying to take out a bird or squirrel or whatever these loons like to shoot). A BB richocheted and hit me in the sternum. No damage, but I'll never forget that too. It could've been a lot worse.

Guns suck. I'm sorry to hear about what your wife had to go through. Must've been very traumatic. I'm glad she and her son are ok from that.

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Originally Posted by WebHead

No I have not. Maybe I just don't understand the concept, but killing defenseless animals is not my idea of fun. A shooting range is about the ONLY acceptable place to shoot a gun imo. I'm sorry I'm not as big and tuff as you are.

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Again, you speak of things that you have no idea about. The proper way we were taught was to respect guns as if your life depended on it (and if you didn't respect guns, your father/uncle/grandpa/aunt would punish u until u learned). You have no idea what it is to carry, own or shoot a gun. Think about that the next time you decide to call people who have guns stupid.

(And to think that you call us Red Staters ignorant)

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When I was a little kid (maybe 7 or 8 years old) I was running around with a sheet tied around my neck pretending like I was Batman outside the house on the sidewalk. Some idiot was shooting his BB gun (prolly trying to take out a bird or squirrel or whatever these loons like to shoot). A BB richocheted and hit me in the sternum. No damage, but I'll never forget that too. It could've been a lot worse.

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Someone though you were a mental patient and shot you? Maybe they should outlaw people running around in Underoos. :drink:

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Originally Posted by Zil

Again, you speak of things that you have no idea about. The proper way we were taught was to respect guns as if your life depended on it (and if you didn't respect guns, your father/uncle/grandpa/aunt would punish u until u learned). You have no idea what it is to carry, own or shoot a gun. Think about that the next time you decide to call people who have guns stupid.

(And to think that you call us Red Staters ignorant)

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That must be quite frightening when that life threatening duck comes charging at you. Good thing you got your gun to protect you. But then again,.. what do I know. I've never carried a gun. But then again,.. I've never jumped off the golden gate bridge either so I don't know how that's relevant.

Imo,.. a soldier is the only type of person who should carry a gun. I can't think of one single reason why anyone else should need to have one.

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Originally Posted by Zil

Someone though you were a mental patient and shot you? Maybe they should outlaw people running around in Underoos. :drink:

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Hey now,.. I was being Batman and fighting crime and saving the world and stuff. Note: Batman did not carry a gun and still managed to effectively fight crime. :thumbs:

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Originally Posted by WebHead

Hey now,.. I was being Batman and fighting crime and saving the world and stuff. Note: Batman did not carry a gun and still managed to effectively fight crime. :thumbs:

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Batman was a drama queen, which is why carried all those nifty little tools in his utility belt, which by the way, totally clashed with his tights. If he carried a gun, he would not have gotten in near the trouble he got in.

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Originally Posted by Larommi

Batman was a drama queen, which is why carried all those nifty little tools in his utility belt, which by the way, totally clashed with his tights. If he carried a gun, he would not have gotten in near the trouble he got in.

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I don't think so. Batman was dark and mysterious and lept out from the shadows to defeat his enemy.

http://www.pmdesign.org/school/final/Images/shout.jpg

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Originally Posted by WebHead

That must be quite frightening when that life threatening duck comes charging at you. Good thing you got your gun to protect you. But then again,.. what do I know. I've never carried a gun. But then again,.. I've never jumped off the golden gate bridge either so I don't know how that's relevant.

Imo,.. a soldier is the only type of person who should carry a gun. I can't think of one single reason why anyone else should need to have one.

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Again, you shoot your mouth off (no pun intended), proclaiming that hunting has to do with killing someone. Its totally different, but you can't understand that, because all you think is: "Guns are bad. They are always evil. The BB that got me when I was a kid proves that all guns are bad."

Who is the blind one here? You can't even see the other side of this issue because you refuse to.

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Hey now,.. I was being Batman and fighting crime and saving the world and stuff. Note: Batman did not carry a gun and still managed to effectively fight crime. :thumbs:

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And a deadly BB stops Batman in his tracks.

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Again, you shoot your mouth off (no pun intended), proclaiming that hunting has to do with killing someone. Its totally different, but you can't understand that, because all you think is: "Guns are bad. They are always evil. The BB that got me when I was a kid proves that all guns are bad."

Who is the blind one here? You can't even see the other side of this issue because you refuse to.

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The first post in this thread talks about how a guy killed some innocent people at some kind of hunting place. I saw a father get killed by guns in front of his children years ago. I turn on the TV and look at the newspaper and see how man countless accidental deaths happening from guns. What other conclusion can I draw? Here's the thing,.. if YOU know that you are not stupid and that your gun is not bad, then my words should have zero impact on you. Right?

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And a deadly BB stops Batman in his tracks.

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Indeed. I cried and I ran away. :thumbs:

Aww y'all is so stoopid. Batman got Barry Bonds hooked on steroids. Geez the only real super hero is Captain America! :thumbs:

Don't let the bullets get me Moltar!

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Again, you speak of things that you have no idea about. The proper way we were taught was to respect guns as if your life depended on it (and if you didn't respect guns, your father/uncle/grandpa/aunt would punish u until u learned). You have no idea what it is to carry, own or shoot a gun. Think about that the next time you decide to call people who have guns stupid.

(And to think that you call us Red Staters ignorant)

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OK, I've done, and still do, vermin hunting. I have a fully licensed double-barrel 12-bore shotgun, and went through a lot of checks to get the relevant permits. I'm also a highly skilled marksman, and have won prizes for my shooting. I can justify my using a gun in terms of protection of crops, but that doesn't mean I like using it. The only time I use the shotgun is crop protection, and the only time my .22 air guns come out of the cabinet is for inanimate target shooting. I have guns, but do not like them.

I have trained Scouts (aged 10.5 - 14) to load and shoot the airguns at inanimate targets. But before I do this, I always give them a full understanding of what guns can do, and make sure they have a full respect of this before I let them handle the guns.

The thing that scares me is, by the sounds of it, Webhead as well, is that there are people who don't have this understanding and respect. There's a lot of IT workers on this forum, and a lot of those in some form of support who must routinely ask "how do these muppets dress themselves in the morning?". Would you trust these people with a loaded gun?

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Originally Posted by WebHead

What killed him? A gun, that's what.

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To quote a well known phrase:
Guns don't kill people, people kill people.


If you take away the guns, they'll just use some other means.