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ctk495 on 03 May 2008

How is a game suppose to teach kids how to kill.If that game is not suppose to be played by kids is suppose to be played by adults then if the kids played it I would be the parents fault not the game.



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LordTheNightKnight on 03 May 2008
luinil said:
So my fix to this? Give everyone a gun (those who aren't mentally impaired, have criminal backgrounds, etc.) and teach them the importance of saftey and the deadly consequences of the gun. This will stop people from risking being shot by the person they are robbing. I would say that if you lived in America that you should put in your front yard a sign that says "Gun Free Zone Inside" and see if you get robbed, attacked, raped, etc. by the people who would not do that if there were a gun in the house.

Yes people can do evil things but the chance of death will usually outweigh the benefits of a theft. There was a town in Florida that gave every head of house a gun and training and the gun crime is so low there that guns are a problem.

I don't believe in banning guns, but you cannot prevent risk of being shot simply by armind everyone. One would have to have a gun in one hadn at all times to get even near that close to a lack of risk. Any smart robber would just go for people with no free hands. If you went for your gun, the robber would shoot first.

I believe in the three R's with guns: Responsibility*, Respect**, and Reason***.

* I do know you want people to be more responsible with guns, so we agree there. 

** Based on this line from The Rock. "The second you don't respect this, it kills you." Of course that was nerve gas, but I know damn well that a gun is not a toy, and giving them away to everyone would be dangerous, unless we could teach that respect to all the people with guns, which may not be as easy as it sounds.

*** The thing is that getting involved in a situation where you may need a gun is rarer than you think. Not that you would never need it, but this isn't the wild west, where you were at such a risk. 



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ministaff on 03 May 2008

im not going to go imnto much detail. all i will say is i i think hes right. what he said just made sense, you can choose to agree or disagree but that wont change my opinion of him being right.



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windbane on 03 May 2008
Mummelmann said:
HappySqurriel said:
Aj_habfan said:
Glenn Beck lol, the guy who still denies Global Warming?

Being that there has been no measured warming since 1998, and recently it was announced that there will be a decade (or more) cooling trend in the near future, it may not be such a bad idea to question the histeria surrounding global warming.

For those wondering what I'm talking about, the Pacific Decadal Oscillation is a change in the currents in the ocean which occurs on 20 to 30 year intervals; with the inequal distribution of weather stations in the world it has the side effect of increasing the measured temperature of the world durring one phase, and cooling the measured temperature of the world durring the other phase. For the past 25 years we have been in the warming phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, and for the next 20 to 30 years we will be in the cooling phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation; it has been argued that the warming that is attributed towards global warming could actually be explaned by the PDO along with the long standing sunspot cycle, but this is largely ignored by people because Global Warming is a political issue not a scientific issue.


90% of Europe, the UN climate panel, a slew of scientists and weather experts and geologists disagree. I'm not surprised that North Americans see it as a myth though, same with China and India (ironically much of the research has been done by Indian personel). Here in Norway, the 7 warmest years in 200 years have been measure since 1998 and the aggricultural parts of out land is screwed up due to unexpected and unfamiliar temperatures and weather, the very seasons themselves don't function properly anymore here.

Grossly off topic perhaps, but there is no more science to support the claim that global warming is a myth than there is support that it is not. Which is why I treat the subject with respect. I can only go by my personal experience, and in my personal experience Norway is not the same as it was even 15-20 years back when I was a little boy playing in the snow (that we no longer have while areas that have not seen siginficant snowfall, Kristiansand and Oslo for instance, have been literally snowed down the last 3 years). 


Indeed, there is plenty of scientific evidence for globing warming. The most unfotunuate thing about the topic is that it has become a political issue. Most knowledgable people know it is a problem, but if you say that you are just being political...