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    • oldshurst442
      Random Thoughts Thread

      By oldshurst442 · Posted

      I told you what YOU need to do. I preach what I pray about guns and its that what I do.  And MOST Canadians, and Greeks in Greece would just about have that same sentiment.  Most  societies also have that same Canadian sentiment.... You are FULL of questions but NEVER actually take in anything. You love your gotcha moments and putting others on the spot.  I answered you.  yet you are still not satisfied. But Ill ask you?   Dare I ask you?   You will not answer me anyway. You will come back with another deflection type of question for me to answer...  What are YOU going to do to change your fellow American mindset about gun violence? After all, you WERE and still ARE naive about the Charlie Kirks in your society...  
    • G. David Felt
      Random Thoughts Thread

      By G. David Felt · Posted

      Like have been instituted in other countries, I feel that the mental health review or check should be done before your allowed to buy a gun. So many other places around the world require this and that is it, once and done, yes I understand it does not cover what could happen down the road as one ages, but at least at the time before your approved to buy a gun, you have a mental health check to see where you are mentally. Gun Locks / Gun Safes should always be a requirement when being approved to buy a gun and if you are buying multiple guns, then you should have no problem providing proof of Gun Lock or Gun Safe ownership for the new gun you're buying. @oldshurst442 Wish we could ban AR15 ownership much like Europe has with the Cybertruck.  
    • oldshurst442
      Random Thoughts Thread

      By oldshurst442 · Posted

      In Greece though, Greek boys when they turn 18, they perform MANDATORY military service.  They serve 9-12 months in the Hellenic Armed Forces. Used to be 2 years.   After that, they are in the reserves just in case Greece needs to go to war.   Up to the age of 45, Greeks living abroad, such as myself despite if I was born in Canada and is a Canadian citizen and NOT a Greek citizen, if we visit Greece and stay LONGER than 3 months in a year, yup, we also have to mandatory military service. We could also pay to get out of that. But I digress.  What does that do? It teaches to respect the gun.  Guns kill.   Guns dont kill people is what the NRA says.  While true, that statement DESENTISIZES what guns are capable of doing.   Many pseudo-intellectuals say the US was born from violence and hence that is why violence is prevalent in US culture. While true, Greece was also born from violence.  We have a God of War.  We have Athena, Goddess of wisdom. But also a Goddess of military strategy...  We have both a man and a woman as Gods that we idolized for warfare.    Our stories are full of death, murder and even rape.  But you just dont see Greeks furiously and frivolously kill each other with gun violence. Or any kind of violence.  And I do not know how accurate that study is about Greece, but do not go to the Greek country side thinking that only 20% of the population have guns.  Greeks love to hunt. And they hunt. Trust me they hunt.  Like Canadians. We have rules that prohibit the 'scary' guns. The AR-15s that only shoot 1 bullet at a time as some NRA phoque-a-zoids call it.    Canadians are also well armed. Canadians also love to hunt. And hunt we do.  What kind of gun laws does Canada have? Very restrictive now as even hand guns are almost impossible to own in Canada.   But NOT entirely impossible as special cases are rewarded to some peoples.  But...truth be told, gun violence had an uptick. Not dangerously high. But... Again though, NRA or other Charlie Kirk types of phoques do not go around scaring us that the guvment is out to get us.  Well, we do not trust ANY guvment as much as any looney American, we also believe that a citizen NEEDS to be armed, not just from enemies beyond our border, but with enemies from within, we also understand that we cannot have guns run amuck either.  And a hunting rifle or shot gun is actually deadlier than a hand gun.  But now we are just going to go down a NRA level type of misguided argument as to why we need to have teachers arm themselves to protect students... 
    • Robert Hall
      Beautiful Cars Appreciation Thread

      By Robert Hall · Posted

      Long had a thing for older Benzes, esp. the W126 S-class and W124 E-class.  Drove my sister's '84 500SEL and '91 300CE often when I lived in Arizona. 
    • ccap41
      Random Thoughts Thread

      By ccap41 · Posted

      I'm fine with all of that, but you're saying the government should be allowed inside my house to check for my gun safe? Or if something bad happens they can then check and see if you had a safe or not(which would be too late)?  How do you go about a mental health check? Because, I think this is easily the most important aspect and issue here. Do you have continued checks yearly? every X years?  IL has concealed carry training(which I've gone through) but they do not have training to just buy a gun. I'm not opposed to some form of training prior to purchasing your first firearm.  It's wild in some states. So I obviously work in Missouri and live in Illinois (I've said this before) and therefore I've had coworkers live in MO. We've talked about this in the past and its insane how easy it is to buy a gun in Missouri. Anybody can just go buy a gun and walk out with it that day. In Illinois you must have a FOID card prior, 72hr (or a week - I think it's changed sometime in the last 10 years), and there's a background check prior to the waiting period.  I'm not asking what other countries do. I'm asking what YOU would do about the problem. You're very vocal about the problem but you don't state what you would do to fix it. It's easy to say there's a problem but offer no solution.  And yes, I am open to ideas. Why wouldn't I? 

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