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Oh you don't know how much that makes me laugh. I had a friend who liked to introduce me to his friends .... "This is Trash, he's the guy who shot me!"Originally Posted by nomeat
Now I have to say that I was not the first person to shoot him, and the details of "how" he claims I shot him are more funny than the looks I used to get from people who introduced me to.
My friend used to keep a loaded air rifle in a corner of his shack. There are videos of his shack on youtube, it wasn't a tidy place nor did he make any claim to its neatness.
The reason he kept a loaded air rifle handy was that he had a passionate hatred for filth birds (Indian Myna birds). Yeah, I don't try and validate that kind of stupid, but keeping the rifle loaded and cocked ... well you can't imagine what happened.
I was talking to him on the 2 way radio and he heard a filth bird outside in his back yard. He reached for his gun, but as he did I called him for something.
Holding the rifle by the barrel, pointing at himself, he reached in the other direction for the microphone on the radio, pulling the rifle who's trigger was caught on a cable and "pop".
The reply I hear on the radio was, "arrrrrggh ! Ya shot me ya c**t!"
Naturally, I laughed my arse off when he explained what had happened.
So for the record, his claim is that I shot him with his own air rifle from over 60 kilometres away.
I find it hard to refute this impressive claim to infamy
If somebody broke into my house, they would take my worthless shit as I would mess with their head. The cops would soon catch them and they would get some shared accommodation in the local clink.
On the other hand, if I decided to shoot the crim, I'd have to go and find my keys, then get to the gun safe and unlock several locks, assemble the gun, and load it and then chase the gronk before taking the pleasure of dropping him.
Of course at my trial, it would be pretty obvious how pre-meditated it was. "Your honour, Mr trash is known to be an excellent shot, so the first shot which was to the groin clearly indicates that he had a level of intent which has not been seen in this court until today."
Hehe. I wonder what parts of Australia you don't feel safe and which parts you would feel safer with a gun?Because we have such tough laws I feel quite safe in most parts of Australia and don't feel the need for a gun.
Now we have some big spiders, but I'm not sure that validates a .44 automag.
And I think about my trips to the USA over the years and I can't think of any place in the USA I would feel safer with a gun, ok, maybe the rocky mountains, but there are hungry creatures there. Fvcking squirrels !
I've walked around East LA, the Bronx, New Orleans, Maryland ... meh. No shortage of Muthas who might want to collect a local sight seeing fee upon my snowflake white arse.
But I still don't feel the need to shoot back even if the thought does entertain me. The problem is that I'm a bloody good shot and I don't really want to explain why the paramedics too so long to arrive and couldn't revive bubba because they couldn't find all of the skull fragments.
This is of course the heart of the problem and the very reason why the second amendment exists. To remove a government from power AND to give citizens protection from an authoritative government.Having guns to defend yourself against a rouge government? ...we know how well that works out for countries like Syria.
If you use a gun against the government that will always be seen as an act of Terror, no matter what country or what you consider rouge.
Of course your explanation is a bit of an over simplification and also not correct. It hasn't worked out for Syria, but it has worked out very well for France, The Baltic states, Yugoslavia, Libya, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq and even Iran and many others.
And really what it comes down to is that you want your politicians to be afraid of being removed forcibly from office. Either being dragged out by the police or by the undertaker.
This does not validate the action, but it does not invalidate it. You only have to look at the dictators of the world. Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Kim Jong Un. They are unable to step down because they are afraid that the moment they step back they will be called to account. Of course most people are not going to pop a cap in the glorious leader's arse because they stand to lose a lot if they do. If they didn't, the Don would have been stuffed and mounted in the Natural History museum by now. The tipping point is when you push that one person past the point where they have nothing left to lose and the guy at rock bottom takes out the guy at the top. When that happens you want to be able to facilitate that event and the universal karma rubber band snaps and the universe returns to equilibrium.
This of the point where I have made your life so miserable, worthless and hopeless that you no longer even value your life higher than the ability to enact justice upon me. That's why the second amendment exists.
The purpose is supposed to be political, but of course it is misused for lesser personal reasons.
This political reason does also exist in Australian politics. We have that ability to misuse firearms both politically and personally.
We don't use it politically because our politicians are reasonably well behaved and controlled. It's more likely that other politicians will hold them to account long before the need comes to assassinate them.
When it comes to civil examples, we don't see a high homicide rate because licensed gun owners have a reasonable standing in the community and they are not willing to trade their cushy lifestyle for politics or personal reasons.
They have too much to lose and nothing to gain. I think about the recent case of Ian Turnbull who shot an environmental inspector Glen turner.
Mr Turnbull is clearly the bad guy here. But a lot of local people have asked, How big of an arsehole did Glen turner for Turnbull to snap and murder him. Assuming that Turnbull was not already a bigger arsehole.
At the other end of the spectrum is the meth dealing grub who was pulled over by Highway Patrol officer David Rixon and he shot him.
Now some people don't have a lot of respect for highway patrol, but even your average gronk doesn't feel any of them deserve a bullet.
Australia has a lot more respect for it's police because they are much less likely to shoot citizens and are more likely to be held accountable if they do.
) once they come of age buy yet morrrrre guns to feel secure
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