Big Bertha WWI German Cannon
http://www.onlinemba.com/blog/business-of-guns
From time to time we get unsolicited pieces offered to our august little pub.
This one comes from Michelle Cox – who would like to hear your comments.
Michelle was alerted to our interest when Gerard’s posts on guns flew in through the pub door.
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
She has 38 Special, too 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o2-REOQUsE#t=21
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That video was hard to watch all the way to the end bloody oath.
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Well, Sandshoe, …it is even harder when you meet these people and have conversation with them. I did.
Did you watch the part where the man behind the bench said that even a child as young as FIVE-year-old can go there and shoot at targets.
Some evolution for human species ! ..Ten-thousand years ago humans were killing each other with pointy sticks; today they are using state-of-the-art killing machines. There are millions of psychopathic morons out there who know nothing about Art. -The Art of Living- All they are concerned about in their lives is simply this (and my apologies for saying this crudely): Eat, Shit and Fuck
…then, Kill, of course!
…Nothing else matters.
My dog has more human dignity than these people..
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I watched it and I certainly did hear the man say that even a child as young as 5 years can go there and shoot targets. I watched it thus I heard it.
My interest was immense and more sickened as the vid progressed because my own introduction to an experience of an indoor target practice range for shooting was with a group of all women with a police crack shooter who knew what he was about and where never did I experience any of the group flapping their hands and carrying on the girlie ‘Ooo, I can’t’ and neither could I imagine anybody doing it or that it would be permitted.
Even the bloke in the vid purportedly supervising seemed nervous when she was waving the automatic around with her back to the firing range playing to the camera. The vulgarity of their lunatic behaviour so saddened and began to distress me, but I got to the end. I watched it. Thanks hph.
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We’re not comparing dogs and people. The context is guns and people.
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Be that as it may, but sometimes looking at life through the wrong end of the telescope helps my sanity. 🙂
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…says the Pigs’ in-house philosopher, hph 🙂
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Hph while we’re on our high horses…
Can I ask you about jokes about committing sexual violence and murdering one’s political opponents? Funny? Acceptable? Respectful of human dignity?
I’d love to hear your thoughts. Maybe you can lay out the circumstances in which they are acceptable.
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Hah hah haa…
I knew you were going to drop by. …My instinct was correct.
The Lord said to Simon, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” Matthew 4:18-19.
There are several types of fishing: Fishing line fishing, Hand fishing, Bow fishing, Kite fishing … I surely forget some. Since the bait is what the fisherman puts at the end of the fishhook to catch his fish, I put the fish in the water to catch a fisherman.
So, please bear in mind that you are the fisherman here so far, okay?
Now, going back to what HOO commented: “Actually, I wouldn’t mind laying on Sophie, just until respirations stop”, there is no sexual violence and murder here. I will diffuse your misconception by expanding his sentence. Since you wanted an explanation, and this is the only place where I can deliver it, I hope the resident ladies of the PA (and other ladies who may have stumbled in here by accident) who are going to read my words, will forgive me for being explicit.
Hph: I wouldn’t mind laying on Sophie, just until respirations stop, and then I would let her gasp for more and more until she passes out from a mind-blowing explosion.
See, …there is no sexual violence and murder here. (keep in mind that a pillow case has more than one use)
🙂
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http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/australia
Here are those statistics again.
Nevertheless we see a lot of guns on television picked up in drug hauls and they invariably are not registered. There remain some difficulties in assessing the statistics because we are focussed on deaths rather than the patterns and in domestic violence, registered and unregistered guns are used to threaten, wound and isolate victims. Our police walk the streets carrying guns. That is pretty scary when I experienced what was the opposite that living in New Zealand at that time, the police force had voted against carrying guns (that since repealed).
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Thanks Michelle;
Unbelievably, we have our own gun and death senator as well.
Cop this from ABC News.
The man elected to take one of six Senate seats in New South Wales says allowing the general public to carry weapons is one way of curbing gun crime in western Sydney.
Voters in New South Wales have chosen Liberal Democrat David Leyonhjelm for the Senate after the party appeared in the top left hand corner of ballot papers.
The seldom-mentioned party gained 8.89 per cent of the initial vote allocation, ahead of the Greens’ 7.77 per cent.
The party, which believes in social libertarianism, a free market economy and small government now joins a key group of minor party and independent senators set to hold the balance of power after July next year.
Mr Leyonhjelm is a former vet who runs an agribusiness consulting company in Sydney.
His biography says he has been a member of Young Labor, the Liberals and the Shooters Party since getting into politics in the early 1970s.
He left the Liberals because of John Howard’s crackdown on guns following the Port Arthur massacre, describing it as “a disgraceful attack on law-abiding citizens”.
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Nothing here is unsolicited I thought, Emm. Whoever runs this dive of a pub asks bar flies to send their stuff in. That might be an old policy. We ought to have an electron…I mean an election…and get to the bottom of this policy caper.
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I’m exhausted by the last electron, and it’s aftermath!
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Too many protons in the last electron, I’m afraid. Blue up all the atoms!
And then there were all these unsavoury cations and anions asserting themselves onto the molecules, so we ended up with monatomic cow dung running the joint!
I’m stuffed after all that, as well now.
BASTARDS!
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They’re not all finished even yet finding out who is running the chook raffle next electron. I bet a meson to an alpaca at roughly about a covalency of 10 to 1 that the drover’s dog’ll walk it in. BIG! You THERE! Gerrup, mou.
btw a blubber of a right fair dinkum fish these days can look like ‘an ugly old man with a big nose’ if you work for the ABC and get your stuff from whatever hack journalist is selling it cheap, maties. We’re in the era when all that clap trap about anything, everything (hic), appropriateness too is out. Bugger that rubbish. We’re showing the world big time we know what’s shit hot. Yep, think I’ll have another shot of the award winning Boom-Boom that Granny brewed as a speshil, thanks anyway if I’m too late and they’re sold out. Where ish everybody. It’s only 2.30 in the mornin’ glory…
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Thanks, Michelle, I’m not surprised. Most Americans seem to think it’s completely normal to have such access to arms. Here, in Australia, most of us wouldn’t know where to buy guns and ammunition. I live in a small city of about a quarter of a million, and I couldn’t direct you to a gun shop. We keep hearing about these American disasters where, some dozens of people have been shot. everyone weeps, everyone has memorials, but no-one gives up their weapons. This seems so strange. Good luck with it all!
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Yes, amazing more get shot by own guns than in wars. So, logic would then dictate that America has an internal and everlasting war with itself. How come they don’t blow the bugle and have muffled drum rolls with cannon firings when yet another one gets shot dead? (about forty a day)
Do they hand out medals for their own being shot locally?
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