Why are bombs OK, but guns bad?

[bobevenson]

One city has more gun death in one year than the UK has in a century.

And the day may come when you and your brethren wish you had guns to overthrow a despotic government (wait a minute, I guess that couldn't possibly happen under totalitarian socialism, could it).

[Hobbes' Choice]

One city has more gun death in one year than the UK has in a century.

And the day may come when you and your brethren wish you had guns to overthrow a despotic government (wait a minute, I guess that couldn't possibly happen under totalitarian socialism, could it).

Yeah wow. I can tell how effectively your people are overthrowing the gummint!!
It looks more like thay are overthrowing the leaders of the next neighbourhood.

The english were way ahead of you on the overthrowing the government stakes. We were doing that a century before the US existed.
But we grew up: we over throw our governments every five years, with words which are more powerful that guns.

[bobevenson]

Listen, we kicked King George's ass from clear across the ocean!

[Philosophy Explorer]

Listen, we kicked King George's ass from clear across the ocean!

Just barely as the Americans were having a hard time of it throughout the war, they had the help of the French plus they got lucky at trapping Cornwallis and his men on that peninsula as history describes.

PhilX

[FlashDangerpants]

Was that guy who shot all the cops at the BLM demo righteously fighting against a despotic regime in the spirit of the 2nd amendment?

[bobevenson]

You just can't get over the fact that your government is so afraid of the hoi polloi that it won't allow them to have any weapons. I don't think you weak-kneed bastards should even be allowed to buy steak knives.

[FlashDangerpants]

That isn't an answer to the question.

[Arising_uk]

Listen, we kicked King George's ass from clear across the ocean!

We? We? I thought you a first generation immigrant bob?

[bobevenson]

I'm talking about the American people, who if they didn't have guns would have been in the same predicament that you're in now.

[Arising_uk]

But we're not in a predicament bob?

Also, the American revolution was won by French, Spanish and Dutch money, French artillery and know-how, the French Navy and ex-English red-coats. If the American govt ever went fascist(the only likelyhood) your gun-owners would by and large be on their side as gun-toting sectarian militias bullying and killing the civilian population who opposed(a bit like the Minutemen) and if the US Army and infantryman was used against the populace your gun-toting yahoo's would be dead meat.

You really need to stop using Disney and Hollywood as your source of History bob.

[Hobbes' Choice]

Listen, we kicked King George's ass from clear across the ocean!

No we did that; Englishmen.
Americans did not do that but mostly English born, like Thomas Paine. And he was inspired by thinkers like Locke and Hobbes, and the achievements of the Civil War.

[Philosophy Explorer]

Listen, we kicked King George's ass from clear across the ocean!

No we did that; Englishmen.
Americans did not do that but mostly English born, like Thomas Paine. And he was inspired by thinkers like Locke and Hobbes, and the achievements of the Civil War.

Er um. How could Thomas Paine be inspired by the American Civil War which occurred after Paine died???

PhilX

[SpheresOfBalance]

Listen, we kicked King George's ass from clear across the ocean!

No we did that; Englishmen.
Americans did not do that but mostly English born, like Thomas Paine. And he was inspired by thinkers like Locke and Hobbes, and the achievements of the Civil War.

Er um. How could Thomas Paine be inspired by the American Civil War which occurred after Paine died???

PhilX

HC's brain has been bombarded with electromagnetic energy, so all we can do is pity him, especially when he displays with his temper tantrums. Of course I'm always pulling for him, always hopeful that his life shall continue, well into his 90's, but that he'll finally come to his senses. I know he can do it! I have faith in the animals ability to overcome adversity, if it tries hard enough.

[SpheresOfBalance]

Listen, we kicked King George's ass from clear across the ocean!

No we did that; Englishmen.
Americans did not do that but mostly English born, like Thomas Paine. And he was inspired by thinkers like Locke and Hobbes, and the achievements of the Civil War.

Don't you mean Africans? Africans did everything, because Africa is actually where humans originated, not the English Isles!!! Idiot!!!

[SpheresOfBalance]

You English with your self sucking, seriously have to get a clue! Humans originated in AFRICA, so AFRICANS are the ones that have done EVERYTHING!!! It's amazing how the mindless dispense with education when it serves their selfish needs to pump up their volume!

Apes beating your chests, ALL OF YOU!!! Seemingly too utterly stupid to pay attention to your History, Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology, and for that matter, Philosophy Lessons.

My Dog's bigger than your dog, my dog's bigger than yours...

Sheesh!!!!