Author Topic: we don't want your gun control... (Read 1706 times)

NUKE · « **Reply #30 on:** December 03, 2002, 09:32:28 PM »

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But seriously - all these guns going around... sounds like we're backsliding into the Wild West days

Who's "we" Beet1e

I thought you guys don't have guns?

Toad · « **Reply #31 on:** December 03, 2002, 09:43:07 PM »

BTW, Curval.. here's the old boy himself just two weeks ago.

As for golf, the only time I ever enjoyed it was playing "beer golf" on the Kadena AFB course. We did that every time we deployed.

Dune · « **Reply #32 on:** December 03, 2002, 10:58:57 PM »

What a beautiful lab! Obviously an old campaigner.

Toad · « **Reply #33 on:** December 03, 2002, 11:01:20 PM »

He's 10 and a half and a daily joy in my life. Never been around a happier Lab. The fact that he's great in the field is just an incredible bonus.

Thanks for the compliment, I'll pass it on.

Tumor · « **Reply #34 on:** December 04, 2002, 12:04:01 AM »

Break into my house when I'm home and IF you don't get your bellybutton shot it will be beaten to a pulp with a baseball bat, or carved up with a meat cleaver... whatever. Our Doby got to the last dumbshit that tried to break in hehe... he got away but he did leave a few chunks.

beet1e · « **Reply #35 on:** December 04, 2002, 01:40:43 AM »

Tumor - ooooh! You're so tough and manly.

NUKE - well, you know. I was wondering the same thing when I read the title of this thread - we don't want your gun control... Does that mean everyone in the USA?

Mr. Toad - is that a "chocolate lab"? Nice dog, very faithful looking, but what has he done to that back leg? Nice pheasant catch. Would you believe, Mr. Toad, that the woods in which I go walking, 12 miles from my house, have pheasants like that. And hunters out shooting them! And I could be one of them, if I wanted. I must come to dinner at your house some time.

Kanth · « **Reply #36 on:** December 04, 2002, 01:53:34 AM »

I've had two people that I know who have hondas get them stolen and damaged one was totalled the other left with crowbar marks on both doors and the ignition destroyed. (these thefts happened a week apart btw within the last 2 months)

Honda's certainly seem to be getting stolen alot around here as well...

Washington state.

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Originally posted by mauser
Hondas are the #1 stollen/broken into cars here. My wife's friend just had his car broken into last week (Honda Accord).

Saintaw · « **Reply #37 on:** December 04, 2002, 02:04:52 AM »

hehe Wlfgng

"If you ever need one of those and you don't own one... you look like a d*rk

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Tyro48 · « **Reply #38 on:** December 04, 2002, 02:37:20 AM »

289 million people in America, 1 example in this small group, unless ya have an animal to alert u in the dead of night u most likely will end up being awaken with your gun or theirs pointed at u or in your mouth, you may still get to see your wife raped its all a chance episode but the media has ya so scared ya got a vault of weapons, 357 fired in public or your home is likely to injure the robber, the situation is gonna make your aim real suspect add the dark for a little fun and the round will stop in your neigbors home or in them who know its all chance but the reality of it is there but ya have multiple chances of hurting someone other than the intruder.

Now as to taking your weapons? Where was that said your parinoid to boot everyones out to get my guns oh gosh oh golly I wont get to kill someone that chance says has little possibility of ever happening.

You want to protect your home get a shotgun 12 ga small pellets #7's or so that way you wont kill the rest of us with your zest to protect yourself from the boogie man.

Give that Doby an extra bone to the dog!! Now that what I'm talkin about, smart dude there!

Your or your wife fire that 357 or 380 in public you'll be gawd damn lucky if you dont end up bein the one in prison for murder and end up bein Bubbas butt buddy, dont be such a reactionary to something thats has slim chance of happening, you wanna target shot at a range great, wanna hunt great, like trap shootin fine I love it, but dont jump out your behind because the media is playin ya for a sap! Get the shot gun, and a big dog ! Prisoners interviewed that have been involved in home assaults/ robbery say they fear the dog most of all, it alerts you, then you might get to your vault.

But straight out of the bag there ya come he wants my guns he wants my guns, you are the one that needs a get real class I dont want a gawd damn thing you have I earn my own way. Bank jobs anyone of us could fall into, apparently the gaurd got caught off gaurd also. but those you mention werent concerned about his gun only yours! Yeah right !

Toad · « **Reply #39 on:** December 04, 2002, 06:24:13 AM »

Yes, it's a Chocolate Lab. It's a double recessive in the color genes. They're not common here but they're very uncommon (you might say rare) in England. Breeders used to destroy them when born; that American penchant for letting everyone do what they want to do led to some of them surviving and now some breed only for Chocolate. Still pretty frowned upon in the UK though.

5 years ago he went through a weedy junk pile after a downed, running pheasant. He cut a 4 inch slice of hide off that back leg on a piece of old metal. No extra hide to sew up on a lower leg, so it was a long, tedious healing process. He never did get hair back over the scar. The skin is pretty thin as well and it abrades after running through the weeds. So, I use VetWrap (self-sticking elastic bandage) and give him some extra protection over when we hunt. It doesn't bother him now.

You'd probably enjoy dinner at my house. The sacrifice the game makes to be the "guest of honor" is not wasted. Generally, they are treated with respect, served with fine wine, accompanied by carefully chosen and prepared side dishes, and followed by a round of very good Scotch with which to toast their contribution to our lives. In the field and in the kitchen, the pheasant is a worthy bird.

Toodle-pip, old chap!

Toad · « **Reply #40 on:** December 04, 2002, 06:24:55 AM »

Tyro48..... 'fess up now....... are you really Toed/Lord Dolph Vader?

Dowding (Work) · « **Reply #41 on:** December 04, 2002, 06:34:10 AM »

I'd like to go hunting one day. Definitely not for sport - that's very wasteful IMO. I'd definitely have to eat whatever I shot, even if it was the game-keeper.

Tyro48 · « **Reply #42 on:** December 04, 2002, 06:40:35 AM »

Toed/Lord Dolf Vader???? Que??? Earth to Toad put the pipe down son think you done had one toke to many!

Toad · « **Reply #43 on:** December 04, 2002, 06:43:32 AM »

Better hurry up, Dowding.

Seems some of you folks over there are making quite an industry of restricting things and minding other peoples' business.

This just in from the Countryside Alliance (yes, I have friends in the Lab/Shooting biz over there):

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Response to Hunting Bill Announcement

Alun Michael yesterday announced the Government's intention to ban stag hunting and competitive coursing and to subject all other forms of hunting (other than rabbits and rats) to a stringent licencing system....We have all seen from the Press that certain MPs will attempt to amend the Bill so as to provide for a complete ban.

As for killing what you eat, that was a rule my father's father set down in this family. My boys have taken it to heart and I'm sure it will pass on from them. The only exception is for other predators such as the coyote and then we use or sell the hides. For predators it's "live by the sword, die by the sword".

Nonetheless, hunting is still a GREAT sport if you hunt in a sporting manner. I don't think you can separate the sport from the use of the game, though; I agree. There has to be both.

I guess that's why I've never hunted anything larger than an elk.

Dowding (Work) · « **Reply #44 on:** December 04, 2002, 08:02:01 AM »

The Countryside Alliance is a joke. There are many issues do to with the countryside (and have my sympathy), but the upper class fox 'hunters' have hijacked the entire organisation. And there are plenty of people within the Alliance that think that. There are also plenty of people of people in the Alliance that tolerate the 'hunters' simply because of the higher PR value it gives the organisation (and their particular beef) as a whole.

Personally, I couldn't give a toss what they want to do in their spare time. Honestly, I don't. Dress up in stupid clothes and chase around the place on their horses after a small furry animal with their packs of hounds. Hardly sporting, at all. They used to go for wolves, but they killed them all off. I think when all the foxes are gone, they'll start hunting the shrew or maybe some kind of specially bred hamster. But anyway, I know a farmer or two (or rather the sons of), and they ain't too kean on the hunts when they cross their land. Broken fences, scaring livestock etc seem to annoy them. Can't think why.

Hunting purely for sport is something I wouldn't do. Like I said before, it's wasteful. The killing for food idea sounds like just what I had in mind.

BTW, the UK isn't like the US. It is densely populated, and what countryside there is (and there is a fair bit protected in certain areas) has to be managed. There aren't many wide open spaces or huge forests. It's of concern to us all, no matter where we live.

The upper classes are still living in some 19th century wonderland, where the lower classes must still avert their gaze in a respectful, subservient manner and have no opinion on what they chose to do with their 'property'.