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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 09:16 AM Original message |
If the Egyptians all had guns like we do |
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razorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
1. If they had a right to guns like we do, they wouldn't have had a dictatorship for the past 30 years. |
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Indydem (866 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 09:26 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. +10000 |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 09:29 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. This is a civil war now |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 09:31 AM Response to Reply #1 |
6. I forget. When was that great armed uprising against Bush? |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 09:33 AM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Yea |
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razorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 09:45 AM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Exactly. In our system, armed uprising isn't necessary. However bad an administration |
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one-eyed fat man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 10:32 AM Response to Reply #6 |
17. silly question |
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PavePusher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 11:18 AM Response to Reply #6 |
23. You seem to have no understanding of how bad things have to get... |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 12:16 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. Two big factors in the Egyptian uprising is the income inequality and the price of food. |
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PavePusher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 10:15 PM Response to Reply #26 |
57. Sorry, they don't seem to be keeping to your expected time-table. |
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Statistical (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 12:34 PM Response to Reply #6 |
30. Exactly he didn't continue past his legal term did he? |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 02:34 PM Response to Reply #30 |
38. What do you mean "legal term"? |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 01:58 PM Response to Reply #6 |
36. Or thirty. nt |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 02:40 PM Response to Reply #6 |
39. Following over 30 years of increasing gun-control laws... |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 02:53 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. So the assault weapon ban |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 11:14 AM Response to Reply #41 |
62. The "assault weapon" non-ban |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 02:54 PM Response to Reply #1 |
42. So are you saying that if you don't like OUR president, you can overthrow him because YOU are armed? |
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shadowrider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 09:20 AM Response to Original message |
2. Yea. Only the government has guns so they can shoot the people with rocks. Good plan n/t |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 09:30 AM Response to Original message |
5. There is private ownership of guns in Egypt. |
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shadowrider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 09:37 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Tell you what. Go to a gunshow. Take an undercover camera with you |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 09:42 AM Response to Reply #8 |
9. ? |
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shadowrider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 09:56 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Uh uh. The assertion was made they just "hand them out" n/t |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 10:03 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. 'Hand them out" means guns are easy to acquire. Try not being so literal. |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 10:11 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. You don't know how to speak Gunese? |
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Glassunion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 12:30 PM Response to Reply #13 |
29. Would you like your doctor to refer to your liver as "that goopy thing"? |
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SlimJimmy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 10:20 AM Response to Reply #12 |
14. Actually that does bug me a bit. It really isn't a "clip", but that |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 10:24 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. Technical language |
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shadowrider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 10:29 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. I agree. Cars have 4 wheels. My trucks has 4 wheels, therefore my truck is a car n/t |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 10:38 AM Response to Reply #16 |
18. That's a classic. Do all toters think like that? |
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lawodevolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 10:52 AM Response to Reply #18 |
19. "toters" is that like the N word for gun owners. No lack of bigotry from you Hoyt |
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Hoyt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 11:09 AM Response to Reply #19 |
22. What's your preference for those who carry in public -- "fashionably acessorized with a gun"? |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 11:43 AM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Don't forget... |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 12:29 PM Response to Reply #25 |
28. Yet put IN the FINAL draft! |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 02:42 PM Response to Reply #28 |
40. It only took 78 years to get that one right. |
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cleanhippie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 05:33 PM Response to Reply #40 |
55. Seriously, Bro, that part is not gonna change |
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Glassunion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 12:55 PM Response to Reply #19 |
31. "toters" is not like the "N" word to me. As Larry King put it... I am an "N-Person"... |
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shadowrider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 12:58 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. The shorter the barrel the bigger the bang? |
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Glassunion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 01:22 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. It all boils down to suitability... |
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shadowrider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 03:08 PM Response to Reply #35 |
45. I gotta work on my delivery. There was a joke in there somewhere |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 12:10 AM Response to Reply #16 |
59. Trucks are cars. |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 01:10 PM Response to Reply #15 |
33. If you stood up in a meeting about your local airport... |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 03:03 PM Response to Reply #33 |
43. You may be a little too wrapped up |
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shadowrider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 03:07 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. No, you don't need to know every technical term to use one |
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benEzra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 07:45 PM Response to Reply #43 |
56. It doesn't matter to me one way or the other what term you use... |
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one-eyed fat man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 11:00 AM Response to Reply #9 |
20. Do you live in the same Philly? |
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shadowrider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 11:05 AM Response to Reply #20 |
21. I can't wait to see him rationalize new laws after that n/t |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 11:41 AM Response to Reply #20 |
24. Well |
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one-eyed fat man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 12:19 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Perhaps |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
34. Any Egyptian who has a clean background and wants a handgun can get one |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
37. What if angels sat on pinheads... |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 03:22 PM Response to Reply #37 |
46. Apparently though |
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shadowrider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 03:24 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. I have two. n/t |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 03:25 PM Response to Reply #46 |
48. What's your point? |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 03:35 PM Response to Reply #37 |
49. My point.... |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 03:45 PM Response to Reply #49 |
50. Thank you. |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 03:53 PM Response to Reply #50 |
51. No, no point. |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 04:29 PM Response to Reply #51 |
52. Life is hard |
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one-eyed fat man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 04:46 PM Response to Reply #51 |
53. Good thing you wear wool or Nomex. |
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PhillySane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 04:54 PM Response to Reply #53 |
54. Um |
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one-eyed fat man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 08:54 AM Response to Reply #54 |
61. You dismiss fire as a good way to kill? |
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lawodevolution (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Feb-02-11 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
58. if the egyptians had guns, they'd be like yemen, so far the yemeni protests, same results as egypt, |
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AtheistCrusader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Feb-03-11 01:28 AM Response to Reply #58 |
60. ka-blammo. |
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