Possibly. The most common type of crime is fraud, but you don't see me shooting executives in banks.

And many collectors do the proper thing like taking the firing pins out just in case they're stolen.

Yesterday Worcester had it's fourth homicide of the year when a 21 year old female was shot to death in her parked car. The perp just walked up to her open window and put a bullet in her head. She was a college student on her way to a Nursing degree....Just think for one second if Knox and the rest of us had our way she'd probably be alive today, finished off her degree and possibly saved someone's life down the road as a nurse.

Sway you better get some help pal anybody who could actually say Charles Manson had anything good and worthwhile to say and then go one step further and defend him needs to rethink his own ideas about life.

I think most who pay too much attention to books/media written by those w/ selfish intentions should examine the man himself...his writings, the things he says. I'm not saying I agree with every bit of it (I don't...he's often tooo much of an idealist, much like Knox) but some of it is border line genius. The guy isn't, and never was an idiot. He's 75 years old, + I don't think it's fair to judge an entire lifetime for some events that took place over a matter of weeks.

He's not Richard Ramirez for cryin' out loud. He's an artist, a thinker, a lover of love (despite popular belief) + hard work. He happens to love nature more than man....mother nature would be in far better shape if most thought this way.

He sometimes offers good points, that's all I ever said. There's more to the man than Sharon Tate. Just like there's more to you than the things you've mentioned doing in a past life. There's more to me than a drunk. There's more to Knox than being a supporter of a government that should control everything, there's more to Mr. Flynt than Hustler Magazine. People like to pinpoint single events/tastes on people and base that individual's entire existence on it. A sad thing, mes thinks.

If you choose to hate something, at least KNOW what yr hating. Not just a part of the story....

well, case closed.

You always say things like this when you don't know enough about a specific topic to offer something worthwhile.

to semi quote you:

"sometimes you should consider not posting"...

In cases like this, it's easy to say that if the trigger wasn't there to be pulled, then the victim would still be alive, but that doen't absolve the person whose finger pulled it of any blame. The question is why would someone feel driven to take another person's life without cause.

But still...sad as it is, even without a gun her killer would've found a way to murder her, because her time was up. If we can learn anything from history, it's that if you're meant to die at a particular moment, you will, no matter how tragic it may be for those left behind. Conversely, you can survive the most horrific accident if your time isn't up. Of course, this doesn't mean we should unnecessarily place ourselves in harm's way or not try and save lives...

I'm not saying it doesn't upset me to learn about things like this, but I don't think anyone can argue in favor of banning guns without sounding like a naive idealist. I'm not really sure how further regulation on the industry itself can help either...limiting the amount of ammo a gun can hold? That would put soldiers and law enforcement officers in danger because they'd have to waste more time reloading. If you made a civilian and a military/police grade version of the same weapon, criminals would just find a way to get their hands on the 20 bullet capacity military/police grade models, leaving honest citizens with the 5 bullet capacity civilian grade models vulernable. Strict limits on how many guns can be manufactured? Massive layoffs to cover the lost revenue and more unemployment. Sorry, but the answer to gun violence isn't gun restrictions, because those without the "burdens" of honesty and respect for the law will always find a way around them; we saw this when hollowpoint armor-piercing rounds found their way onto the street after cops started wearing bulletproof vests. No, you stop a gunfight the same way you stop a fistfight-diffusing the situation before it happens.

I say things like that when nothing else needs to be said. Now stop bugging me. That's a 100% quote btw.

That is some sort of religious approach????
In practical terms, a lot of death out of there should and could be avoided, and we're failing.

When were we not?

Why would I 'forget' Columbine

um, but doesn't this kinda contradict itself?

She does it all the time.

Not if you can analyse different contexts.

Yeah.. I've gotta say that the title of this is regrettable at best. You can't turn tragedy into a competiton.... well at least you shouldn't/

I think it was... irony.

How was it ironic?
I just didn't see it that way, but it might be. I just legitimately don't pick up on that.

i wouldnt put too much thought into it, he will post a picture of himself soon enough.

bzzt bzzt! Does not compute.

well, I didn't call you that.... WAIT, did you really just conclude your thoughts by insulting my punctuation / grammar? :eek:
oh dear, carry on

.... and it's sayings like this that will have me remind you, you are not a psychologists.

I can tell.

Again, that wasn't psychology. It was a quote by Nietzsche. If you want to attack my ego, the proper term is 'philosopher.' However, I don't confuse erudition and critical thinking or 'reading too many books' as being a philosopher so that won't really obtain your goal.

No, I concluded by insulting your argument while noting your lazy orthography.

Really, mortal kombat? It seems to me to be more like mortal whining. In my case, perhaps mortal vicarious embarrassment. Anyway, I'll let FreshThoughts finish himself off.

fair enough

Well I guess you forgot to include the "quotations" and reference to the author? I can't keep up.

...then, just when you thought I was done, "Whoooosh" you overlooked my epic flying side kick!

Gun massacres are a dime a dozen in the US, and to a lesser extent, the UK.

the last time we've had hollywood action broadcasted on tv was over a couple of years ago.
some brazilian guys failed to rob a bank and made hostages, the police came, shot them both with a single bullet and didn't even killed them.

things are pretty boring over here.

i'm always up for a good killing. especially of brazilian people and gypsies and the occasional eastern european.

shut up verme. brazilian people don't need any extra killing.

that's not up to you to decide.
ma gun, ma call.

and don't you try to take ma guns you fucking hippie.

the only way you'll be takin'em is one bullet at a time.

i think you could get them all in one place with free burek, the fancy greeks would turn their nose up and not come but you could realistically get the whole east out, maybe you could get the brazilians out too if you mention that there's queijo

you're gonna have to sleep sometime.

what kind of queijo

eu apostava mais em picanha e cachaça.

Sway, Manson was a punk pure and simple he was jail for robbery before he got tied up with his family. I too could say a lot of great things about the environment and life in general the thing is nobody is going to publish a book about my feelings cause I'm not as interesting as that nut case.