Utah official state firearm

[Twoflower]

AMERICA!!! FUCK YEAH!!!!!

[Wumbologist]

If individual States are to have a "state firearm", should the USA have an official national firearm and should a black outline of it be added to the Stars and Stripes?
Gee, it would look so neat.

I vote for the M2 Browning.

[maiforpeace]

Fuckin a right they are. It's me and Clinton swapping endearments is all. He's playing the outraged liberal pacifist hoplophobe and I'm playing the gun-toting red-neck clinging to my guns and my bible. All in good fun, doncha know. Lurkers love it.

Yes, but CH didn't have to resort to name calling and insults, did he. Don't flatter yourself Seth...any lurker who is reading your content on a regular basis knows the reason why you start up with your insults and vitriol is because it's starting to hit you close to home.

If individual States are to have a "state firearm", should the USA have an official national firearm and should a black outline of it be added to the Stars and Stripes?
Gee, it would look so neat.

YES

Hurrah for the Unites States of Ammo-rica...

'bout time we had some puns in this thread.

Indeed CH! The new rally cry for us hoplophobes will be "Puns, not Guns!!"

[Clinton Huxley]

"Puns don't kill people, people do!"

[Sisifo]

I do not think it fair or reasonable or good logic to label a culture you aren't familiar with and don't fully understand as "sick" because one aspect of it contradicts one's idealism on that one aspect.

The US is not England, or Australia or France or Germany or any other western nation. We are what we are, we have our own history and our own cultural nuances and our own kinks to be worked out. One can not legitmately extrapolate what we should do or what we should want or what we should think based on one's culture separate from the US.

We should be just what we are--what else is there?

I have heard those very same words from Muslims defending the situation of women in their countries, or more aberrant practices. If some other societies regard unanimously barbaric a regular situation in your nation, the sane thing to do it's -at least- to reconsider it carefully and defend it with logic or change the practice if you find reasons in the arguments. If you are serious about maintaining the "traditional and cultural value" of a law, then you disallow yourself to comment, criticise or demand the abolition of ablation, stoning to death to adulterers, child marriage or any other medieval barbaric law.

[Clinton Huxley]

Well said, Sisifo.

[Clinton Huxley]

I like the word "hoplophobe." Excellent etymology.

It was sweet to see how proud Seth was of the word "hoplophobe". Like a child who's managed to succesfully use a potty...

[Svartalf]

I don't get it... "hoplo-" as an affix cannot designate weapons.
The term designates a shield, therefore the hoplophobe is afraid of armor

weapon haters should be referred to as doriophobes (from the Hoplite pike), or maybe gladiophobe.

[Clinton Huxley]

weapon haters should be referred to as doriophobes (from the Hoplite pike), or maybe gladiophobe.

Or "sane" for short...

[Svartalf]

You're the insane one, nothing a course of molybdotherapy won't cure.

[Clinton Huxley]

You're the insane one, nothing a course of molybdotherapy won't cure.

Don't make me start an "official state firearm of France" thread...

[Svartalf]

what? you mean the white flag?

Oh, and FYI, my habits here are not methodical enough, I'd likely miss that thread.

[Clinton Huxley]

what? you mean the white flag?

Oh, and FYI, my habits here are not methodical enough, I'd likely miss that thread.

I was going to say the Luger.

[Svartalf]

Uh? we never adopted the weapons of the invaders... we used stens.

[Seth]

no

it's because the cops own half the bars and brothels here

.... lol

and not a hypocrit

I live here so I don't need to own a car

Sure you are. You are leeching off the capitalist system by living among the bourgeoisie elite in the financial district rather than being down there in the trenches with the working-class proletariat. You are enjoying the benefits of capitalism and free markets, things like police protection and capitalist-funded infrastructure and amenities and you're avoiding the consequences of socialism and Marxism, and you're a traitor to the revolution and a faux-Marxist who is failing to stand in solidarity with her Marxist brothers and sisters of the oppressed working class.

Castro would have you shot, and Che would shoot you himself...probably after he raped you a couple of times.