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KGB influence was more effective in Britain, in the guise of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, than in the US as the airheaded Beyond War, which fell apart without its foreign funding.

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THEY got far, eh? We've always had crazy cults and hopeless dreamers. But a lot of serious people, including Reagan, have dreamed of and advocated an end to nuclear weapons. We fought two world wars to end all wars. There was a lot of hope going on then, too.

They serve a role. We need a few crazies and radicals, always, or we narrow our hopes and aspirations down to a sliver of human possibilities defined by the status quo -- an airless box that drains the energy out of any society that squashes or oppresses its radicals.

We wouldn't be a country without the radicals who started it all. Viva la revolucion! Then we shoot them and get on with it. d8-)

Gunner Asch on Sun, 03 Aug 2014 21:43:05 -0700 typed in alt.survival the following:

"If you shoot me, and I find out about it ..."

-- pyotr filipivich The fears of one class of men are not the measure of the rights of another.

-- George Bancroft

Lame sidestepping. Tsk tsk tsk.

"Based on the stupid shit you post and your apalling [sic] lack of education I'm sure your kids are dummer [sic] than sheep." -Professor Deep Dudu

Or, maybe you didn't see the TV show I did?

Or, maybe you didn't see the TV show I did?

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'Could be. Let's see: There was a story about a kid who shot himself with a .22 and it was somehow connected to a campaign for unilateral nuclear disarmament.

Yup, I missed that one.

They were both in the same TV show "Kids and Guns".

They were both in the same TV show "Kids and Guns".

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I just had to look this one up. It was produced by Channel 4, an independent TV producer in the UK.

The Telegraph called the show a "hillbilly freak show." The Independent called it "An impressively even-handed look at America's young guns." The Guardian called it "A Terrifying Look at the Heart of American Culture."

Nine-year-old Gia, who has her own military-style rifle, has Barbie dolls. But her dad, a triple-amputee veteran, ties them to fence posts for her to use as targets (I would have liked to see how he managed to tie them up). "I aim for the head a lot," says Gia.

I didn't read about nuclear disarmament in the reviews, but maybe they skipped it. They had enough material to work with.

I was expecting a snarky and disapproving show about private gun ownership. And that's pretty much what I saw, the bit I watched.

It's the political climate du jour, of course.

I was expecting a snarky and disapproving show about private gun ownership. And that's pretty much what I saw, the bit I watched.

It's the political climate du jour, of course.

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Well, it was produced in the UK. What did you expect? And a 9-year-old girl who aims for the heads of her Barbie dolls is pretty heady stuff. So is the

And from the UK, they are sure to find us bloody barmy, you think? They can't be too approving of all us colonists with RKBA privately owned rifles, after what we did to King George's troops a couple years ago. We should be unarmed, and civili(S)ed like the Queen's Subjects.

I attended a Noam Chomsky and a Beyond War lecture to hear their side.

Chomsky knew his facts about the Sandinistas and Central America's history of US intervention and made a very logical case, except where he jumped to Socialism-is-the-answer, an article of pseudo-religious faith no more susceptible to logical attack than other dogmas.

Some equally or better informed history buffs and I politely drove the Beyond War people to tears with numerous counter-examples to their wishful dream that thinking peaceful thoughts would somehow spread to solve all the world's problems. The wolf doesn't care what the sheep think. Their knowledge of the actual history of conflict was abysmally poor, and ignorance doesn't really lead to purity, only to faulty conclusions.

Personally I believe we won't see Peace until everyone has Justice, which isn't possible without resolving all the competing demands for land and water and envy of other people's wealth.

-jsw

And from the UK, they are sure to find us bloody barmy, you think? They can't be too approving of all us colonists with RKBA privately owned rifles, after what we did to King George's troops a couple years ago. We should be unarmed, and civili(S)ed like the Queen's Subjects.

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I'm sure they think we're barmy. They're not necessarily wrong. But I don't think they remember much about our Revolutionary War. They just think we're nutty about guns.

From my perspective, having been a gun owner and hunter for 55 years, it looks like we didn't used to be so nutty but we've certainly pushed the envelope over the past few decades.

I attended a Noam Chomsky and a Beyond War lecture to hear their side.

Chomsky knew his facts about the Sandinistas and Central America's history of US intervention and made a very logical case, except where he jumped to Socialism-is-the-answer, an article of pseudo-religious faith no more susceptible to logical attack than other dogmas.

Some equally or better informed history buffs and I politely drove the Beyond War people to tears with numerous counter-examples to their wishful dream that thinking peaceful thoughts would somehow spread to solve all the world's problems. The wolf doesn't care what the sheep think. Their knowledge of the actual history of conflict was abysmally poor, and ignorance doesn't really lead to purity, only to faulty conclusions.

Personally I believe we won't see Peace until everyone has Justice, which isn't possible without resolving all the competing demands for land and water and envy of other people's wealth.

-jsw

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Yeah, well, that's the different views of human nature confronting each other in the open. Personally, I don't believe we'll have peace, because we'll never reach a point where everyone has justice -- largely because we have very different ideas about what "justice" consists of.

And, IMO, it has very little to do with competing demands for wealth or resources. They're just pieces on the chessboard.

deep wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Then make them your claim, not bears.

I've always liked .357/.38 because there is such a wide

They are good for snakes and small real animals the sixe of cats.

Sent a

deep wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

I'm 75, old and frail. What I rely is one of my handguns or a shotgun. However, unlike Biden I don't stick it out the window and fire blindly.

deep wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Who did that? AFAIK, or you know, Zimmerman fired because he was afraid for his life.

rbowman wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@mid.individual.net:

There are bears who don't play nice and fall down when hit with .300 Magnums. Then there are the miracle bears who fold up their tents from a .22. It simply depends on what you wish to count on and I don't wish to count on a .357Mag against a bear. I have hunted with .357 for a rather number of years and if I was going to carry a handgun into bear country, I would be looking for a .44Mag at a minimum and more likely a .475 Linebaugh. Or I could just carry an '06.

I have had a situation like occur, and it was shitzenpants time. I was gathering firewood for camp and was carrying some of it down this trail. I got the feeling I was being watched. I slowly turned and there was a bear (that, in my memory, was about the size of a Peterbuilt) behind me about 40 feet away. I was carrying a .357 (this wasn't really bear country). I slowly placed the wood on the trail, pulled the gun out of the holster and turned to fully face the bear. It was gone. Apparently it was simply curious what I was doing there.

Yes, it was an "Oh, shit!!" moment.

I had also seen an occasional mountain lion while out in the desert but they are usually simply curious. Additionally, they don't walk off...they simply seem to melt into the landscape.

;)

Gunner Asch wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

With the possibility of losing it all on the first roll.

Bullshit.