Quote of the day
Tam in the comments section at the aforementioned Aussies crapping their pants about guns in America:
I don’t really feel particularly threatened by anything; statistically speaking, I’ve pretty much experienced all the crime I’m ever going to experience if I stay away from bad neighborhoods after dark. So I don’t feel the need to own a gun for protection from baddies or terrorists or invading armies.
I feel the need to own guns because my doing so bugs the hell out of hippies halfway around the world so much that they write essays about it.
Cheers, mate!
Heh. And their beer sucks.
March 14th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Tam the Magnificent, Queen of Snark. May we all strive to be worthy of her.
March 14th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
All hail, Lady Tam!
March 14th, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Not all of their beer sucks. Sheaf’s Stout is pretty good.
March 14th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Indeed, Sheaf Stout rocks. Fosters, on the other hand….
March 14th, 2008 at 4:50 pm
The “if I stay out of bad neighborhoods” line bothers me. This is part and parcel of the “it can’t happen to me” mentality, and is why at one time I had a whole series of posts about neighbors being shocked that crime could exist in their little corner of Pleasantville.
Crime can – and does – happen anywhere. Where I lived in suburban Cincinnati was a “nice neighborhood.” There were homes for 750,000 dollars for sale down my street. The area suffered from a rash of very violent home-invasion robberies. When my uncle and cousin went hunting, they went where the hunting was good. Why do you think robbers will confine themselves to poor neighborhoods, when they only have to travel 15 or 30 minutes to get to what they consider “the wealthy suburbs?”
Crime doesn’t just happen to “other kinds of people” or “people who take chances.” It can and does happen to anyone, in any area.
March 14th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Zendo Deb wrote, “Crime doesn’t just happen to ‘other kinds of people’or ‘people who take chances’. It can and does happen to anyone, in any area.”
Right!
And trouble comes calling, it’s good to be ready to give’em what they need instead of giving ’em what they want.
March 14th, 2008 at 6:35 pm
It’s already happened to me, and in a “nice neighborhood” during daylight, to boot.
I’m just saying that going by raw probability and statistics, I’ve had mine.
Doesn’t mean I’m leaving my popper at home in the garage with my spare tire…
March 14th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Hear, hear! For Tam, and for the fact that Fosters just flat sucks.
March 14th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
Here is what I left over there
“In the eyes of Non-Americans, I own more than a few guns. I have only one gun that was I am sure was fired in anger at another human being – and that one was fired in the Battle of San Juan Hill by a Rough Rider in 1898! I have a few Mausers that may or may not be battle veterans, they could be parade props or training pieces for all I know, I do not have the psychic touch to descry such information.
I own guns because I can! I can do that since I am a free born human being, endowed by my Creator with the unalienable rights of Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness. Owning a Gun makes me happy.
I am a citizen of a country that (still) believes that the right of the people trumps the rights of the government. If I were a subject of a country that did not recognize that universal truth, then I would emigrate to America.
I AM different than the people in all of the other, countries that I have lived – (West) Germany, South Korea, Panama, Honduras, and of the many countries that I have visited. I am a Freeman, Born and Bred to be free and I bow to no master nor any Government. I am a Proud S.O.B. and apologize to no one for lack of respect for lesser forms of Governments.
My government represents me, it does not rule me.
My guns and the guns of my brother and sister Citizens ensures, insures, assures, and secures the right of self determination in this representative democracy. We do not fear the screaming hordes of any country, nor do we fear the possibility of Jackbooted thugs taking over our government and disobeying OUR wishes. America is a country Of the people, By the people, and For the people…. can you dig it? I dig it – and it feels great!
What is so hard to understand?
March 14th, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Her ‘popper.’ Heh.
I guess all the IPA stopped in India and the poor Australians were left without, and thus got accustomed to bad beer.
Glad we threw off that burdensome yoke on this continent and adopted decent malt beverage.
March 14th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
I started to write a tidy little rant to post over there. Then I realized — it’s pointless for someone who deeply values freedom to entertain a discussion of rights with someone who was raised as a subject.
FWIW, fans of cognitive dissonance may enjoy dropping this quote the next time some hippie accuses them of “paranoia”:
Over here, over there, everywhere.
Yesterday, today, always…
Bad people there are.
Hate you they do.
Kill you they will.
Watch out, you better.
Ancient Shoshone Proverb
(via Jeff Cooper)
March 15th, 2008 at 1:07 am
You might as well argue with Markadelphia…
March 15th, 2008 at 12:56 pm
Is he not accepting comments over there anymore? Hmmm. I didn’t think we were winning that argument on the internet so well that he’d resort to that. Crikey!
March 15th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
guess not. he says i don’t disclose ISP (charter.com, btw). Lying again it seems. and edited my comment that thrashed his point. I win.
March 15th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
His site seems to have accepted my comment… Unless it is just showing it to me because its and my IPs match…
March 16th, 2008 at 12:34 am
Fosters is what they export for stupid Americans. In Australia, nobody drinks Fosters.
March 16th, 2008 at 11:09 am
“Heh. And their beer sucks.”
Yes, but an honest Aussie will tell you that the general mpurpose of their beer is to flush the kidneys, not taste good on the pallette.
Actually, their pisswilly Foster’s is just as good as US Budweiser for that purpose.
March 17th, 2008 at 8:18 am
Yeh, right.
And I carry a Glock 17 on my right hip at all times…
…to counterbalance the two 33 round Glock 9mm magazines on my left hip.
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March 18th, 2008 at 10:21 pm
I have to agree with you on Fosters. No-one drinks that (in Australia, anyway).
But I have to relay a quote from a US Navy member who tasted the local product in Kinsella’s, Perth:
“Shit this Aussie beer is strong! I only had two jugs… (hurls again)”
His response is rather like mine, reading the ‘flying monkeys’ post at Verging on Random. What on earth psosessed you to engage a self-righteous prat who talks in cliches from the toilet walls of the Tasmanian University Trotskyist Club?