The only way to stop a bad boar is a good guy with a spear.
Spears! Now you’re talking my language.
Although those are pretty makeshift boarspears, I wouldn’t trust those lashed-on crossbars to do much stopping, usually they’re forged with the spearhead. Must have been an emergency.
When seconds count, @MrDibble is a dozen or more hours away.
How Europeans react when the boars break into their yard:
Eta: wow that meme is really full of typos
The Czech restriction applies to semi-automatic firearms, not manually operated (bolt/lever) guns.
Poland also refers to self-loading guns; six rounds is the max for a manually operated hunting firearm.
I’ve been very clear that I’m not talking about semi-auto guns. So my point stands; 5-10 rounds is internationally standard for purely hunting rifles.
In Australia (which is also “International”), the maximum varies by state but is generally 10 rounds for centrefire (in a couple of states it’s higher, and it can also depend if the magazine can be removed or not).
And on one of the other quotes you raised, I haven’t sworn at people directly ‘because I think I know better than them’ (or, that I can recall, at all, but it is late). I’ve told at least one person to chill out and told another they’re arguing in bad faith so I don’t give a flying fuck what they think about a discussion point, but what I haven’t done is made comments of the “You’re a piece of shit” or “Fuck you” or “The boards would be better off without you” variety. A courtesy which has not been extended to me, I might add.
I hate it when my gifs have bad grammar and misspellings. Shouldn’t they be hiring proofreaders?
It’s really the fault of the stalwart preposition opposition.
Is it possible that it’s just missing punctuation? “Go! The Breastplate Stretcher. Now!”
More like centuries 
I’ve looked up the law in the Netherlands.
In principle, possession of a firearm is prohibited for civilians, unless they have a license. There are very strict regulations for obtaining a license. Hunters and sport shooters may obtain one, but it expires and needs to be renewed yearly. Only police and army are exempt, and they have strict rules as well. I did psychiatric crisis work for a while, and cops needed to lock their firearms away before entering the cell block in the police station, for instance.
A couple of months ago we did have a shooting in my line of work, by a retired taxi driver who used to have a gun license, had license and weapon revoked for medical reasons a few weeks before, but obtained a gun via illegal channels. It left a security guard dead, a psychiatrist still recovering from being shot in the head, and the man shot himself before police were there. It made local and national news, because it’s very rare with us.
I remember having a conversation with an Israeli client after the shootings in Paris in 2015. She was shocked that we didn’t amp up security and police presence after that , it made her feel really unsafe. Given my experiences with travelling in Israel I get that, given the total omnipresence of IDF in the streets, which frankly stressed me out. And I think that is also the fundamental difference here. Apparently a lot of americans only feel safe when there are guns around, while also a lot of people are stressed out by them. For me, the latter response is the most logical one.
They really don’t. It’s more about feeling insecure than feeling safe. They don’t feel safe - otherwise, they wouldn’t feel the need to walk around with guns. Some consider that paradoxical but it’s true.
And the price for trying to ease that insecurity is a lot of dead people.
A lot of Americans don’t even realize this is, historically, a recent thing. The gunfight at the OK corral was ostensibly (but mostly not) about gun control - the official line being the Clantons refused to deposit their weapons upon entering town as required by law. And a lot of towns in the ‘Old West’ (also heavily romanticized these days) had similar measures so there wouldn’t be a bunch of people walking about with guns.
Well, we wouldn’t want to deprive your family and friends of having some extra goat. We as a society need to balance our desire to deprive terrorists of additional convenient rounds to kill children with the needs of hunters to get bonus meat.
So, let’s go with 10, with the understanding that it means 6-7 extra kids get gunned down sometime in the future, because their killer didn’t need to reload. Sound good to you?
That’s great. We now have an exchange rate for ‘goat’ vs ‘human lives’. I would have thought the convenience of goat now vs waiting for goat later would be considerably more than a few human lives, but I suppose I underestimated how valuable it was to be able to obtain goat meat instantly.
IIRC, you’re in Australia, right ?
In all sincerity, how resentful are you about, or adversely affected are you by, the gun control laws that your country enacted after the Port Arthur Massacre (LINK, for those unfamiliar) ?
Yes, at least, i hope so. I would certainly discourage anyone o know from playing it.
(checks forum)
Are you also an idiot?
Found this via Wikipedia. Article is more than 50 years old. Could have been written yesterday, except for the numbers. Employs most of the talking points entertained in the current debate. Including the incredulity on how little is being done.
Not really trying to make a point, more that it seems this conflict has frozen a long time ago.
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