America's obsession with guns

[Brian37]

Knock it off. So I suppose your PM on ANOTHER website didn't mean shit to you? 

It meant a lot to me. Just to bring this out in the open, I apologized to you for acting like a dick to you. I decided to act like an adult and try to be courteous to everyone. Nothing has changed on my part. If we met face to face I would act as nice as I possibly could to you.

No I would NOT say it to your face, because you are displaying immaturity. If you said "Mohammed married little girls" to Atlas, would that give him the right to beat the shit out of you?

If you wouldn't say it to my face then why say it here? And for the record, I would not harm you in any way regardless of what you said to me. I would simply turn my back to you and start walking away.

Taking trash? You mean like talking about my mom whom you didn't know personally because you didn't like her financially supporting me?

Exactly. That was some childish shit I said and I am deeply sorry for it. I decided to change. I apologized and I thought you accepted.

So all that burying the hatchet on the OTHER website was bullshit?

Nope. I want to have civilized conversations with you. Can you cut out the insults? We can joke around and challenge each other but the name calling should stop.

When you say "I know what I am doing" I am NOT disputing your intent. I am saying your gun training you have is NOT the same as having the same training as a cop or combat. YOUR EGO is my problem, not your desire to live.

And I don't have a problem with you feeling this way. I don't agree with you but I accept how you feel about it.

YES I am blunt about it. So? If we were face to face, could I trust you to leave it at a "fuck you Brian" and you walk away? If your desire to get physical with me over rides any realization that you'd be the one arrested not me, because I am NOT interested in a physical confrontation, then you are a FOOL. 

I don't know why you insist on implying that I want to harm you. I don't even insult you anymore. I would never hit you or do anything else to hurt you. Is there a reason why you can't accept that?

"You wouldn't say that to my face". Yep, so by your logic the Hebdo attackers were justified because someone picked on MO.

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I have NO interest in having power over you KUSA. I do have an interest in the totality of the society I live in and the government I live under. You not liking my word choice is your baggage. Didn't we BOTH agree that other people in other parts of the world have it worse than you and I do?

Just because other people have a harder life than us doesn't justify you calling me names.

I am not about to coddle your insecurities. I am NOT out to get you despite what you might think.

I am any but insecure. This is not about you getting me. This is about you acting like a civilized person.

I am NOT for an all out ban on all firearms. I am for PRAGMATISM without egos. I don't see that pragmatism in the way you respond. All I see is "me me me" "I have the right to" and you keep failing to see your attitude, NOT YOUR RIGHTS is what I am talking about.

I don't believe you quite frankly. And your version on pragmatism is different than mine.

Stop playing false martyr.

I guess this is you being hyperbolic because I wouldn't lay down my life to win an argument with you.

This is what you are not getting.

DON'T MISTAKE bluntness with you being a victim.

I don't think it meant a lot to you. I do think you are hiding from your own cognitive dissonance.

I am NOT out to get you. When you defend guns with "I know what I am doing" I hear the same blind loyalty as I do from religion. YOUR INTENT is not the issue. YOUR RIGHTS are not the issue. I DON'T HATE YOU, but when you talk like it is doomsday when someone objects to your line of reasoning YES it pisses me off.

You just argued a scenario of "what if" a knife were introduced, IN THIS THREAD. I didn't argue that YOU DID, you got pissed when I responded to why even in that case that is bad logic.

You react to my objections the same way a theists flips out when you point out that they are not the only religion on the face of the planet. 

You need to consider the problem is not me in the same way a theists needs to consider the problem isn't atheists, but bad use of logic.

I could give one fuck less about your good intent. I am sure you would NOT want to hurt yourself or accidentally shoot someone you didn't intend to. I am saying you respond as if nothing will ever go wrong and with guns, that is simply dangerous.