12-08-2008, 01:19 PM
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Didn't people do this same thing when Clinton won?
I guess it's good for the economy? At least for anyone in the gun industry. Lord knows Wal Mart needs the money.
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12-08-2008, 01:25 PM
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Originally Posted by u2sarajevo
Didn't people do this same thing when Clinton won?
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Hell, I remember lefties buying guns for the first time in their lives when Bush won in 2004 (but for somewhat different reasons...)
The sky is ALWAYS falling, Chicken Little...
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Last edited by Underdog; 12-08-2008 at 01:27 PM.
Reason: clarity
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12-08-2008, 10:36 PM
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Originally Posted by Underdog
Hell, I remember lefties buying guns for the first time in their lives when Bush won in 2004 (but for somewhat different reasons...)
The sky is ALWAYS falling, Chicken Little...
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Paranoia is only a heightened sense of reality...
(funny one liner from an old college professor I knew who worked in the Manhantan Project with Einstein, Enrico Fermi, and company)
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -Thomas Jefferson
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12-08-2008, 11:11 PM
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Originally Posted by wmbwinn
Paranoia is only a heightened sense of reality...
(funny one liner from an old college professor I knew who worked in the Manhantan Project with Einstein, Enrico Fermi, and company)
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You're 100% full of shit, unless you studied under the originator of that quote, William S. Burroughs... Otherwise your "professor" lifted it from Naked Lunch...
Next time try reading a book before you spin a yarn...
[we now return you to your regularly scheduled fear-based circle jerk...]
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These days being a fan is a competition to see who can be the most upset when
your team loses. That proves you love winning more. That's how it works.
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12-09-2008, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Underdog
You're 100% full of shit, unless you studied under the originator of that quote, William S. Burroughs... Otherwise your "professor" lifted it from Naked Lunch...
Next time try reading a book before you spin a yarn...
[we now return you to your regularly scheduled fear-based circle jerk...]
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I don't care where the quote came from originally. I heard it from my old college professor as advertised.
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -Thomas Jefferson
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12-09-2008, 06:33 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Underdog
You're 100% full of shit, unless you studied under the originator of that quote, William S. Burroughs... Otherwise your "professor" lifted it from Naked Lunch...
Next time try reading a book before you spin a yarn...
[we now return you to your regularly scheduled fear-based circle jerk...]
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My professor may have lifted the quote from an earlier author. Who cares? The point is still the same.
Professor Delta Gier was the fourth of four sons. They were named Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta, being named by their father who was in the first generation of nuclear physicists. The elder Gier named his sons after the first four atomic "particles". Delta was a nuclear physicist like his father and was also a chemist of acclaim. He also was a great educator. And, he was involved in the Manhattan Project. I was among his last students. He died a couple of years after I finished his program in Kansas City.
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -Thomas Jefferson
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12-08-2008, 10:38 PM
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Originally Posted by u2sarajevo
Didn't people do this same thing when Clinton won?
I guess it's good for the economy? At least for anyone in the gun industry. Lord knows Wal Mart needs the money.
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Yes, and Clinton managed to get the Assault Weapons Ban of 1994 passed. That is the "assault weapons ban" that was allowed to expire.
again, I do not think I and others are over reacting.
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"Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man." -Thomas Jefferson
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