This is cool

[Ashyra Nightwing]

just a warning - if you ate his heart then you may have gained his powers (democrat powers)

[Shores of Tripoli]

 Don't worry, I know a guy. He's got enough ant communism pills for the both of us.

[Peace Alliance]

If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?

lol, that's a very silly signature. Guns do kill people, and pencils do misspell words. If you took all the pencils away, we wouldn't use them to misspell words. If you took at the guns away, we wouldn't use them to kill each other.

[Ungatt Trunn II]

Actually criminals still would.

[Peace Alliance]

Criminals would use guns to kill each other if we took all the guns away?

[Ungatt Trunn II]

You can't "take guns away". It isn't candy. They are criminals because they do things illegally. They don't follow the law. Outlawing it would simply create a black market and take away a law abiding citizen's ability to defend themselves.

[Genevieve]

Well that's just not at all the reason why it's silly. Guns are designed to kill, that's their purpose.

Haha, I love messing with Europeans. Just this morning I ate 3 kittens for my prebreakfast, then for breakfast I had a Democrat! =)

It's pretty funny that you think eating kittens would be more offensive than talking about your dream to become an ultimate human killing machine.

[Shores of Tripoli]

 Ug is right

[Peace Alliance]

lol, Ungatt I never said that we could take all the guns away from criminals. But the argument as to whether we can or not is distinctly different then the one Trip's signature is addressing. Trip's sig is arguing against the "guns kill people" slogan that is used to argue against relaxed gun control. If his response was "ya but you can't disarm criminals" then that would be an OK answer (obviously then you have to start going into all the problems of the criminal justice system, economic problems, etc, suddently life is complicated) instead it belittles this argument by suggesting that "people kill people," just like how people are the one's who misspell words. It's simplistic; you wouldn't solve spelling errors by taking away pencils, right? So why should you solve gun-related murder by taking away the guns? It's a stupid argument.

(I am trying to finish my essay and don't have time to make the above paragraph coherent. anyone care to translate?)

[Ungatt Trunn II]

Better not be plotting to take my guns away...
grumble.
Or whatever you're going on about.

[Shadow Assassin]

Criminals would use pencils to kill each other

[Pippin]

we should have an illegal gun smuggling party at pa's house just cause

[Gen. Volkov]

@Volkov: he spent the first half of the topic talking about how the marines are dogs from hell unleashed to kill. I am asking him why he would want to join a group like that. i recognize the difference between that and the actual marines (who kill people all the time, btw, you just feel good about it because its been vaguely justified politically).

Nothing about politics, please. Regardless of what the justification is for the war, Marines only kill when given a lawful order to do so, and only according to the specified rules of engagement. I fully recognize the fact that Marines have to kill people in order to carry out their duty and orders, but they do so as disciplined soldiers, not as wild killing machines. A soldier or Marine who kills someone in the line of duty is no different from a police officer who has to kill in the line of their duty.

[Rakefur]

Actually Peace, that signature holds a ton of meaning. Guns are not evil. People can use them for evil things, but the gun itself is not evil. Also most people that own guns (at least in the US) don't own them for killing people, but for sporting, such as hunting and just shooting targets.

[Peace Alliance]

Then why do they sell live ammo for handguns, or machine guns?