Guns are OK for some folks

“Happiness is a warm gun, bang bang shoot shoot …”

“I can hear a the noise of Missouri Christians scraping those 'Jesus fish' off their bumpers from here.”

“LOL @ violin! That's a great idea! A bullet hole through each jebus fish.”

“I just love you Americans.”

“We're completely insane.


Rats. I'm going to be late for basketweaving therapy!”

“I'm upgrading to a Glock 30 this weekend or next.”

“What a bunch of psychos!! =80”

“I always carry my gun and its always loaded. I'm quite shocked some of you don't carry your gun. reminds me of that King Missle song. I thought it was a myth but guess not.”

“Our anti-concealed carry attorney general got busted for OUI the other day. She's taking her lumps now. Luckily she didn't hit anyone with her 2-ton weapon, just the ditch.”

“OUI?

Ogling Under the Influence?

Guilty as charged!”

“I'm upgrading to a bullet proof vest to replace my shoulder strapes.”

“Kessler, along with researchers from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the WHO World Mental Health Survey Consortium, culled data from 60,643 personal interviews in 14 countries. The countries were: Colombia, Mexico, the United States, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Ukraine, Lebanon, Nigeria, Japan and separate surveys in Beijing and Shanghai, China.

Shanghai had the lowest prevalence of any mental disorder in the prior year (4.3 percent of the population), while the United States seemed to have the highest, with 26.4 percent.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/02/health/main620755.shtml


Moral: Guns, capitalism, and mental illness go hand in hand.

Just ask Bush, a psychopathic liar.”

“There's also a great deal of paranoia about secrecy in the Bush White House.”

“So you are advocating communism AND an unarmed populace as the answer to mental health problems?

But your data is inconclusive, you were unable to prove that either capitalism or guns were the cause or both together.

Your survey is statistcally flawed in that you included only 1 communist country and 13 capitalist.

The survey did not include other countries comparable to China such as India or Indonesia with large rural populations. Nigeria is valid but they along with Columbia have severe crime problems.

Interesting that the Chinese survey did not include Tibet, who if they had more guns may not be Chinese today.”

“I'd like to see the instrument they used to measure this. Could it be that people in some countries are more likely to bklame mental health when they can't function, while others are more likely to blame other factors?”

“what ped said.

i think in the US we diagnose mental disorders far more often then in lebanon.

i just don't see the average person in lebanon going to the doctor because they feel depressed and tired pretty often.

i'm not making light of depression - i'm just saying i'm pretty sure it's not diagnosed in most other countries nearly as often as here.”

“And anyway - mental illness is all in the mind.”

“i can just imagine someone in nigeria going to the doctors:


patient - hey doctor i'm not feeling to grat lately

doc - well lets have a look at you.
i see you have both arms and both legs... no obvious broken bones or gunshot wounds...
hmmm. i see you're not starving...
hmmm. you don't have malaria... have you been tested for aids?

patient - yes doc, it's not that. it's just that i've been kinda tired lately and i can't sleep to great at night.

doc - excuse me??? get the #&%!$ outta here so i can really try to help someone!

NEXT !”

“"Interesting that the Chinese survey did not include Tibet, who if they had more guns may not be Chinese today."

Yeah, they'd be dead!”

“Yep --- 26% sounds about right.

Look around! LOL”

“Better dead than red.”

“MarkO,

I guess your answer is a segue into the merits of life as a slave or no life.

A lot of Tibetans were dead anyway. When you are a subject people you do not get to make the decisions on your own life, or the lives of your family, they belong to the state.”

“You mean like decisions about whether a woman can or can't have an abortion? Laws like that could be made by the state? Count me out!”

“manuka, no, not at all.

I merely made an observation on your "what if".

I believe the Chinese would have had no trouble crushing armed resistance from a population so relatively small compared to thier own.”

“"manuka, no, not at all.

I merely made an observation on your "what if".

I believe the Chinese would have had no trouble crushing armed resistance from a population so relatively small compared to thier own."
MarkO
11:39:50 AM
06/03/04
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....and without the U.S.'s help.

(unlike afganistan [taliban] in the 80's)”

“MarkO, not sure about that result.

Tibet is very mountainous terrain with significant difficulties (height/AMS) for those not used to the environment.

Lots of precedence for a small force to defeat a larger force under those circumstances.

US against British c 1776's
Haitians against France c 1791
Vietnamese against US 1960's
Afghans against USSR 1980's”

“manuka, it's important to note that in almost every case of it happening, the small force didn't do it alone. they were supported by a superpower of the time.

the only one who might have supported tibet was us, and we didn't.”

“sacco,

I will dispute that, who supported Haiti?

In every other case the superpower support came later, the resistors always went it alone against a superpower of the day and hoped like heck that support did come.

Tibet was over in a very short time because they basically had no defence. The were warlike hundreds of years ago but basically disarmed with the adoption of Buddism.

Where was the UN during this overrun of a peaceful nation that did not even have a defence force? I do not know whether it was nowhere (Like Rwanda and Cambodia) or ineffectual (a toothless lion).”

“manuka -

as i said, in almost every case

haiti being the exception as far as i know.

in all the other cases the superpowers were the reason the "little guys won"

i agree with you that tibet was #&%!$ed up.
in order for them to have had a chance, a superpower or the UN would have had to jump in quick.”

“sacco, guess that leaves us on the same page :^))”

“ut oh. i guess we'll havta go find someone else to fight with.”

“There's also a great deal of paranoia about secrecy in the Bush White House."
USA
11:20:44 PM
06/02/04

I would say USA has cornered the market on paranoia.”

“http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2004/US/10/13/gun.photo.ap/story.gun.photo.ap.jpg

Have a good day. I'm outta here!”