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Wow
ThailandTom
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I just watched the documentary 'Bowling For Columbine', and yes wow. You can open a bank account in certain states and get a free gun for doing so. Buying bullets whilst getting your hair cut. This documentary is really well put together as well.
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People take their second amendment right very seriously around here.
They don't teach us too good in that...that...you know where they keep em heavy books.
I think that if you need to kill for your meal...then it must be done humanely...quick, you know.
Not clearing out a lake with a grenade.
I completely agree with you. I dont understand the "sport" in killing an innocent being. I do own a gun. For personal protection. I used to have a permit to carry. I let it expire because now Im not sure I would use it if I had to.
Now the gun just collects dust in my room.
They buy these huge hemi trucks and raise it about three feet from the tires..
they are suped up..then they go mudding until they are coated with a thick coat of brown mud.
That's it...they don't wash it off...but I guess it's suppose to impress someone.
Madness...
Not cool in a dress.
I was worried. I thoughtabout getting a security guard.
No way that was his truck.
Sure enough.
The problem is that that statement is true.
And we seem to have storage facilities in every corner...you know so that you have a place to keep your crap.
I am a Stoic minimalist...the only one for miles.
Its good to be a minimalist. Good quality. I hate having too much crap.
My buffer has the worst case of pack rat disease. She has a huge suv and today while I waited for her to run an errand while I waited in the car...
I actually cleaned it.
I think she was pissed.
Minimalist is a broad term but when I desire to buy something...say a new phone...I make sure it can multi task and do other functions...so I have an android.
My TV which is only one and never turned on really is already built with a DVD player.
Very little furniture.
The only thing I splurge on is knowledge.
No clocks, no art, no pier one imports, no frills.
Aside from that they are usually either very uncomfortable or pleasantly comfortable in my house.
And a truck stopped and rolled down the window. I said 'sup or whatever and ended up getting in and conversed about sales of some local produce.
He then pulls a gun on me because he thinks I am 21 jumpstreet.. I was very scared but outwardly calm.. Lucky he believed me!
So that's one of the few times I have seen a gun in a person's hands. I have never been hunting.
But the documentary did answer one question for me, why. Why does the US have such a high murder rate compared with every other developed country. Canada has 7 million guns over 10 million households, but there are something like 140 gun related murders a year. All of the other countries named like Germany, the UK, France etc had below 100, whereas the US had just above 11,000. Is it a history of violence? How can it be when Germany has had such a history of violence, the UK pillaged India and ruled the world in a horrific manner for 300 years. Amount of guns, no look to Canada. The answer is well depicted in documentary, it boils down to fear.
Also what struck me (something I already knew but not to the extent it existed), was how many innocent people have died over the recent years due to America invading countries. I think it was 50,000 innoncent children, women and men in Iraq alone. I revert back to my friend who now lives in London who had to flee her country because of this. When you see all of the numbers of innocent people killed over the past 50 or so years, the 3,000 people killed in 9/11 doesn't really seem all that much. Of course, it is tragic and deeply sad, but I can totally understand why terrorists do what they do. It is far from correct or the right answer, but I can see why they do it. There is always 2 sides to every tale.
(Girl moment)
@Alison LOL. I am quite fond of Jonny Depp for his acting ability. He manages to play a variety of roles very well. But of course, many people like him for other reasons as well :rolleyes: lol. As for your husband, I disagree, I would choose to run off with Penelopy Cruz Instead
They wear cowboy boots, jeans andgallon hats.
They drive trucks andhave athick accent.
I'm from Texas...I have dated them, lived with them, I own a pair of black leather cowboy boots.
I'm a suburban guy and we call rednecks most anyone. I think of it as people who post pictures on FB of every piece of meat they grill, every animal they kill, and every beer. I don't dislike rednecks they are fine family people.
I think a lot of people from the UK know more about the US than you guys think, we do not know all the ins and outs of course, but because of movies and TV shows, we know a fair bit. I can actually pull of a texan accent, well I think I can lol.