And here's where I lose the rest of you

[scarybaldguy]

As is usual following an incident involving guns, people are bewailing the US' alleged "gun fetish." And as usual, these people are wrong. Yes, including you on my flist

Comments

[nyxalinth]

Nope, haven't lost me. You'd have to unfriend me first :P

[rhiannon_ruby]

You aren't losing me. This guy wanted to harm people and I think he would have found any way that he could to do it.

Some people kill other people with their bare hands. Does this mean we should all chop our hands off?

[scarybaldguy]

But but but hands aren't designed for killing!

[cartimandua]

We had hands before we became a tool-using species...and we know that we weren't all vegetarians then.
My money's on hands being the Classic Ergonomic Killng Tool (TM).

[boozymatic]

Agreed 10,000,000% big guy!

I've always thought that the US as a whole needs, craves, and downright luvs it some violence. Kinda like Canucks luv hockey and Timmy's coffee. Sure, both are extreme generalizations, but, like those oh-so-terrible stereotypes, there's a reason why they exist in the first place.

Although, I must admit, I know several Amerikanz who do indeed have a gun fetish - it ain't pretty. Like "having a full set of Hello Kitty weaponry"-level fetish. *shudder*

Hell, my dad's 82 years old and he still makes his own ammo for when he goes down to the range or the yearly blackpowder turkey shoot. Personally, I prefer crossbows, but that's me.

[disgruntledgrrl]

In TrainSpotting, the director was horrified that the American version was allowing all the violence, but banned the orgasm scene at the beginning where you don't see any nudity, anyway.

[scarybaldguy]

That's a common reaction in Europe: it's perfectly OK to show people being eviscerated, but sex is censored? No wonder the US is so fucked in the head.

[ninetinytrees]

Quit talking sense and Pointing Out Truth. Nobody likes that! -- she said with a fat dose of sarcasm.

:: pulls chair over :: I'm stayin' put.