Does America have a "gun culture"?

[noddy]

Reminds me of a piece of news I read once about a guy from the US. He had decided to drill holes in one of the walls of his house using his gun. Got his wife in the head on the first try.

that reminds me of the guy who made an unfortunate freudian slip at the dinner table, he meant to say "please pass the butter" but accidently said "f*ck you b*tch youve ruined my entire life"

[Ibrahim]

Rise of the Warrior Cop
Is it time to reconsider the militarization of American policing?

[ I was going to post the same article, but you beat me to it ]

How bizarre. A troubling trend.

In Japan, the police officer is the guy at the local koban [police booth] that you ask for directions.

Protip: the police can bust an entire illegal casino operation without a SWAT team.

The British police don't see the need to carry weapons, though they've gone for more armor.

Just 22% of police want guns

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... -guns.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_J ... de_Menezes

Did you even read the article? In fact did you read either article? This only reinforces the points made by myself, Col Sun, Ymix, and the Balko book.

[YMix]

that reminds me of the guy who made an unfortunate freudian slip at the dinner table, he meant to say "please pass the butter" but accidently said "f*ck you b*tch youve ruined my entire life"

That's quite a slip. At least he wasn't bitter about it.

[Simple Minded]

Reminds me of a piece of news I read once about a guy from the US. He had decided to drill holes in one of the walls of his house using his gun. Got his wife in the head on the first try.

that reminds me of the guy who made an unfortunate freudian slip at the dinner table, he meant to say "please pass the butter" but accidently said "f*ck you b*tch youve ruined my entire life"

a timeless classic.

For a while now, I have been assuming that a lot of the posts here contain Freudian typos.....

[Simple Minded]

Reminds me of a piece of news I read once about a guy from the US. He had decided to drill holes in one of the walls of his house using his gun. Got his wife in the head on the first try.

Power tools can be dangerous.

Paraphrasing the classic bumper sticker about Teddy Kennedy's car: "My neighbor cordless drill has killed more people than my guns!"

[Typhoon]

Reminds me of a piece of news I read once about a guy from the US. He had decided to drill holes in one of the walls of his house using his gun. Got his wife in the head on the first try.

that reminds me of the guy who made an unfortunate freudian slip at the dinner table, he meant to say "please pass the butter" but accidently said "f*ck you b*tch youve ruined my entire life"

a timeless classic.

For a while now, I have been assuming that a lot of the posts here contain Freudian typos.....

Reminds of the fellow who was listening to his buddies talk to their wives at a dinner party:

"Please pass the honey, Honey."

"Please pass the sugar, Sugar."

so he turned to his wife and said,

"Please pass the tea bag, Tea Bag."

[Simple Minded]

Reminds me of a piece of news I read once about a guy from the US. He had decided to drill holes in one of the walls of his house using his gun. Got his wife in the head on the first try.

that reminds me of the guy who made an unfortunate freudian slip at the dinner table, he meant to say "please pass the butter" but accidently said "f*ck you b*tch youve ruined my entire life"

a timeless classic.

For a while now, I have been assuming that a lot of the posts here contain Freudian typos.....

Reminds of the fellow who was listening to his buddies talk to their wives at a dinner party:

"Please pass the honey, Honey."

"Please pass the sugar, Sugar."

so he turned to his wife and said,

"Please pass the tea bag, Tea Bag."

Excellent!

So when poster X calls poster Y a Tea Bagger, X might not be insulting Y's political ideology, it might be either a term of endearment or X might be homophobic?

[Doc]

Reminds me of a piece of news I read once about a guy from the US. He had decided to drill holes in one of the walls of his house using his gun. Got his wife in the head on the first try.

that reminds me of the guy who made an unfortunate freudian slip at the dinner table, he meant to say "please pass the butter" but accidently said "f*ck you b*tch youve ruined my entire life"

a timeless classic.

For a while now, I have been assuming that a lot of the posts here contain Freudian typos.....

Reminds of the fellow who was listening to his buddies talk to their wives at a dinner party:

"Please pass the honey, Honey."

"Please pass the sugar, Sugar."

so he turned to his wife and said,

"Please pass the tea bag, Tea Bag."

Excellent!

So when poster X calls poster Y a Tea Bagger, X might not be insulting Y's political ideology, it might be either a term of endearment or X might be homophobic?

No just taking a play out of the play book

RULE 5: “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” There is no defense. It’s irrational. It’s infuriating. It also works as a key pressure point to force the enemy into concessions. (Pretty crude, rude and mean, huh? They want to create anger and fear.)

Though to your point:

* RULE 2: “Never go outside the expertise of your people.” It results in confusion, fear and retreat. Feeling secure adds to the backbone of anyone. (Organizations under attack wonder why radicals don’t address the “real” issues. This is why. They avoid things with which they have no knowledge.)
* RULE 3: “Whenever possible, go outside the expertise of the enemy.” Look for ways to increase insecurity, anxiety and uncertainty. (This happens all the time. Watch how many organizations under attack are blind-sided by seemingly irrelevant arguments that they are then forced to address.)

[noddy]

that reminds me of the guy who made an unfortunate freudian slip at the dinner table, he meant to say "please pass the butter" but accidently said "f*ck you b*tch youve ruined my entire life"

That's quite a slip. At least he wasn't bitter about it.

i do have a sneeky suspicion that your accidental shooting guy is simmilar to this fellow and in a world without guns might have accidentally sliced her head off swatting fly's with a meat cleaver.

[noddy]

Reminds me of a piece of news I read once about a guy from the US. He had decided to drill holes in one of the walls of his house using his gun. Got his wife in the head on the first try.

that reminds me of the guy who made an unfortunate freudian slip at the dinner table, he meant to say "please pass the butter" but accidently said "f*ck you b*tch youve ruined my entire life"

a timeless classic.

For a while now, I have been assuming that a lot of the posts here contain Freudian typos.....

Reminds of the fellow who was listening to his buddies talk to their wives at a dinner party:

"Please pass the honey, Honey."

"Please pass the sugar, Sugar."

so he turned to his wife and said,

"Please pass the tea bag, Tea Bag."

hah, ill try this one out on the missus and see if i end up with "hot water" aswell

[Simple Minded]

Reminds of the fellow who was listening to his buddies talk to their wives at a dinner party:

"Please pass the honey, Honey."

"Please pass the sugar, Sugar."

so he turned to his wife and said,

"Please pass the tea bag, Tea Bag."

Uma and Anthony at a hotdog stand somewhere in NYC:

Uma: "Pass me the weiner, Weiner! Hold the mayo...."