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zebeckras ([info]zebeckras) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2005-11-15 16:15:00


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Current mood:Fan-Tabulous

ONLY guns kill children!!
This is both small and recent, so I'm assuming that no one else will report it as I'm writing it up, but if that happens, my apologies!

Perusing [info]customerssuck just now, [info]allalonenow has posted a second try on a potentially inflammatory topic: a woman who got her car's seat stuck on the loaded, cocked gun she kept underneath it. Apparently the first time he posted about it (in a different C_S community) he was flamed for denying this woman her rights to bear arms.

In any case, hoping that the CS community will not miss the point by quite so wide a radius, [info]allalonenow posts again and finds a much more sympathetic response, including [info]fourgotten, who carries a gun of his own but still agrees this woman was abusing gun laws. He ends with "Responsible gun ownership, people."

While [info]allalonenow is pleased by the polite conversation, [info]on_a_hill is not; and as a mod she decides to use her modly powers to put the smackdown on all gun owners! or... something.

You almost think nothing's going to happen at first, since her first comment was relatively mild, and [info]fourgotten continues to politely disagree, but... it kinda goes downhill. The entire thing is really almost only [info]on_a_hill answering rather rational arguments about how other things can harm children with increasingly angry abuse, including stating that no kid ever dies in schools from knife fights, only shootings.

It is really very small, but [info]on_a_hill goes from 0 to wank in two posts; always entertaining.



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(Anonymous)
2005-11-15 10:54 pm UTC (link)
*headdesk* A pool has uses other than drowning people, idiot! Guns don't do anything except kill!

*prays that I never have to move to the US for any reason*

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[info]zebeckras
2005-11-15 11:03 pm UTC (link)
That reminds me - I think I read somewhere that in some countries, such as Japan, the general perception of America is people walking around with guns strapped to their hips, occasionally shooting each other on the street *g*

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(no subject) - [info]sabinelagrande, 2005-11-15 11:09 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]wankismyfandom, 2005-11-17 05:12 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]sabinelagrande, 2005-11-17 05:13 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]kookaburra, 2005-11-16 02:07 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]zebeckras, 2005-11-16 04:40 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]platedlizard, 2005-11-16 07:35 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]zebeckras, 2005-11-16 08:00 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]v_digitalwytch, 2005-11-16 06:30 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2005-11-16 07:50 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]marumae, 2005-11-18 04:19 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2005-11-18 07:07 pm UTC
(no subject) - dodyskin, 2005-11-16 12:35 pm UTC
(no subject) - dodyskin, 2005-11-16 12:36 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]zebeckras, 2005-11-16 04:46 pm UTC
(no subject) - dodyskin, 2005-11-16 07:16 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]zebeckras, 2005-11-16 07:22 pm UTC
(no subject) - dodyskin, 2005-11-16 07:24 pm UTC

[info]narcissam
2005-11-15 11:31 pm UTC (link)
You do know that people own guns in other countries than the US?

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[info]gal_montag
2005-11-16 12:22 am UTC (link)
You realize that Canadians own more guns per capita than Americans, don't you?

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-11-16 03:51 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]chibikaijuu, 2005-11-16 04:42 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ecchaniz0r, 2005-11-16 06:59 am UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-11-16 10:21 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]gal_montag, 2005-11-16 08:20 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-11-16 04:06 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]gal_montag, 2005-11-16 08:24 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]zebeckras, 2005-11-16 03:35 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]gal_montag, 2005-11-16 08:36 pm UTC

[info]puipui
2005-11-16 12:43 am UTC (link)
Yes, because no other country in the world has problems ever. OMG AMERICANS R TEH EVIL EEEEEEK!!!!!1!

Fuck off.

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(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-11-16 03:50 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ravenscanary, 2005-11-16 04:22 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]bellona, 2005-11-16 04:15 pm UTC

[info]moonpigeon
2005-11-16 01:52 am UTC (link)
Good, we don't want you.

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[info]greenling
2005-11-16 01:59 am UTC (link)
They do too! They can be used to wound! Or shoot... trees or something. :P

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(no subject) - [info]the_wanlorn, 2005-11-16 04:15 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]annabelle_lee, 2005-11-16 12:33 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]zebeckras, 2005-11-16 03:37 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]crickets, 2005-11-17 12:26 am UTC

[info]xero_sky
2005-11-16 04:41 am UTC (link)
Should cruel fate ever force you to emigrate to our lovely country, please be aware that 9 out of 10 statistics on the internet conclusively prove all of the following to be true:

No one ever lives a normal life in the United States. No child ever manages to get through school alive. Old people are automatically murdered in their beds upon reaching retirement age + 10. There are no picnics, parades, or even shitty blind dates going on amidst the constant barrage of gunfire. Why, I myself can barely get through a week without a flesh wound. My dogs have barked themselves hoarse because of the nightly firefights, and I haven't seen my cat since the last artillery strike.

Please make certain that your last will and testament is up to date upon booking a flight to the US, and that arrangements for burial have been made in advance, because one of our free-range gunslingers will no doubt hunt you down and kill you immediately upon arrival.

In conclusion, please feel free to fuck off and die in whatever peaceful and violence-free manner is customary in your country.

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(no subject) - [info]squib, 2005-11-16 05:48 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]visp, 2005-11-16 08:01 am UTC
(no subject) - flightstothesea, 2005-11-16 09:29 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]marumae, 2005-11-18 04:22 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]visp, 2005-11-19 01:07 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]platedlizard, 2005-11-16 08:30 am UTC

[info]feloniousfeline
2005-11-16 06:40 am UTC (link)
A pool has uses other than drowning people, idiot!

Yeah. You could also use them as a dump site for a dead body, though it's more entertaining to put it in someone else's pool as they will spend days trying to figure out how it got there and how much chlorine they need to add to get the dead body yuck out of the water.

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(no subject) - [info]pokecheck, 2005-11-16 07:26 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]pokecheck, 2005-11-17 12:59 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]feloniousfeline, 2005-11-16 04:38 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]moonjaguar, 2005-11-16 11:12 pm UTC

hereforthewank
2005-11-16 08:14 am UTC (link)
Personally, I and mine make a regular practice of hunting immigrants for sport and we're thinking of purchasing a ranch in West Texas in order to coral them and charge a fee for it. So really, your fear is justified.

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[info]platedlizard
2005-11-16 08:23 am UTC (link)
Yeah, but a child at a house with a pool is a 100 times more likely to drown then a child at a house with a gun is likely to be shot.

I love Freakonomics.

Oh, and despite what you hear, our streets are hardly running in blood. Why, somedays I only see one or two murders, instead of the usual dozens!

*has really only seen ambulances called because of 2 diabetic attacks, a twisted ankle in the parking lot, and one drunk transient who was hit by a car crossing a dark street. Not one murder in sight*

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(no subject) - [info]zebeckras, 2005-11-16 03:50 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]narcissam, 2005-11-16 04:15 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]chibikaijuu, 2005-11-17 08:00 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]octopedingenue, 2005-11-20 05:59 pm UTC
(no subject) - (Anonymous), 2005-11-16 05:49 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]platedlizard, 2005-11-16 07:28 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]puipui, 2005-11-16 08:01 pm UTC

sceach
2005-12-15 12:42 am UTC (link)
that was the part that made me sporfle. She actually suggested that we should BAN pools for the welfare of baaaabees everywhere? Oh. my. god.

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[info]sabinelagrande
2005-11-15 11:03 pm UTC (link)
responsible gun ownership = having enough brains to realize that we DONT KNOW DAMN SHIT about what that is and need to give up our guns.

...So are gun locks, safety training, and waiting periods figments of my imagination?

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(Anonymous)
2005-11-16 10:22 am UTC (link)
Yes. She's a mod. She says so!

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re: the mod
sceach
2005-12-15 12:45 am UTC (link)
Methinks someone has some personal issues.

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[info]zaliesiren
2005-11-15 11:30 pm UTC (link)
And on the first day of deer season too. I'm a Yooper, so we take our gun-carrying rights seriously up here (and in many cases, too seriously). Wow, what timing...

*goes off to polish her... wait, I don't hunt. Never mind.*

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[info]gal_montag
2005-11-16 12:18 am UTC (link)
I'm the mod so your opinion is dumb!

I had no idea that it worked like that.

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[info]zebeckras
2005-11-16 03:53 pm UTC (link)
I know! All they really have to do to clarify the constitution, set these laws in stone, and get everyone to shut up and accept the rules is to bring in a few list mods.

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(no subject) - [info]mcity, 2005-11-17 05:28 am UTC

[info]moonjaguar
2005-11-16 02:57 am UTC (link)
There are lots of things that kill children besides guns. Shall we ban pools, cars, knives and candy, as well? How about small toys?

Thanks to some stupid moo whose kid managed to wrap a small toy around his neck, I can no longer legally own a water yoyo in my state.

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(Anonymous)
2005-11-16 03:48 am UTC (link)
Aw, that's too bad. Because nobody is more deserving of choking on a glorified water balloon than some childfree asshole who tosses around slurs like "moo".

Fuck OFF.

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(no subject) - [info]iczer6, 2005-11-16 04:19 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]zebeckras, 2005-11-16 03:50 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ravenscanary, 2005-11-16 04:20 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]xero_sky, 2005-11-16 04:43 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ravenscanary, 2005-11-16 05:06 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]xero_sky, 2005-11-16 05:12 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]ecchaniz0r, 2005-11-16 07:02 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]xero_sky, 2005-11-16 05:16 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]ravenscanary, 2005-11-17 04:45 am UTC
haha. - [info]moonjaguar, 2005-11-16 04:49 am UTC
Re: haha. - [info]pokecheck, 2005-11-16 07:28 am UTC
Re: haha. - [info]jaseroque, 2005-11-16 03:09 pm UTC
Re: haha. - [info]tao_tao, 2005-11-16 03:54 pm UTC

[info]zebeckras
2005-11-16 03:52 pm UTC (link)
ahhhhh... I hate the term "moo". I get that it's meant to refer to actual shitty parents, not moms in general [well - sometimes, anyway], but I still have a kneejerk reaction to it every time I see it. -_-

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And now, a Final Destination reference.
[info]mcity
2005-11-17 05:25 am UTC (link)
I don't agree with people havign to suffer for the idiocy of others, or the word "moo", but I am reminded of that scene in the dentist's office in Final Destination 2.

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[info]hellespont
2005-11-16 05:41 am UTC (link)
I don't see why The Simpsons can't be the final authority on gun policy, as they are on so many other important social matters:

Homer: A gun is not a weapon, Marge. It's a tool! Like a butcher's knife or a harpoon or...an alligator.

Krusty the Clown: Hey, yutz, guns aren't toys! They're for family protection, hunting dangerous or delicious animals, and keeping the King of England out of your face!

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[info]skewed_tartan
2005-11-16 09:05 am UTC (link)
No kniffings in school?

Ah ha ha ha! That was like the biggest fear at prom night at my school was knifings in the bathroom, the other local highschool had had knifings during the schoolyear THREE times. Its more common than you think, so common no one reports on it. Those gang kids are vicious fuckers.

I shoot guns regularily...at shooting ranges. I have yet to kill anyone, I'm sure one day I will though, its just inevitable!

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(no subject) - flightstothesea, 2005-11-16 09:31 am UTC

[info]pokecheck
2005-11-16 10:29 am UTC (link)
Guns don't kill children, martians kill children.

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(no subject) - dodyskin, 2005-11-16 12:38 pm UTC

 
   
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