why columbine still have taboo status among the community

Jesus, the statistical likelihood of living in an area where rioting occurs and actually having your home burglarized as a result has got to be infinitesimal. I'm not saying it never happens, I'm just saying that it doesn't make sense as a reason to arm yourself from the standpoint of numbers. There are countless potential causes of death or injury that are, no exaggeration, millions of times more likely to happen to you that you are not currently protecting yourself from. This is why I think there's definitely truth to the "guns as a security blanket" argument. (Here's the fixed link demonstrating that guns are hardly ever used in self-defense in gun related crimes by the way, damn link broke on the last page for some reason: www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/fv9311.pdf )

As Justince and I have briefly discussed earlier I think pointing to past revolutions as an argument for modern-day armed militia is silly since the technology is so much more advanced now the the point where comparison is moot. I know the Americans managed to beat the English in the revolutionary war despite the odds - that was some Mongol-tier shit, but what strategy will we have to overcome their more advanced weaponry? They can have us killed, remotely, and never even put themselves in sight. They could kill us remotely from hidden, protected bunkers if it came right down to it and they'd have plenty of sycophants on their side.

I love the David VS Goliath scenario as much as the next guy but this is more like Mouse VS Gorilla at this point. If you put 50 dudes armed with guns against a drone that fires a missile or even some sort of machine gun from hundreds of yards away, before anyone even detects it no less, the 50 dudes are going down unless Rambo happens to be in the mix.

Anyway, I agree with your conclusion that we could pretty safely put this whole discussion behind us if certain drugs were just made legal, treated the same way as alcohol is, and that's that. The thing is, that would be easy, make sense and save lives - as a species we tend to be good at doing things the hard, nonsensical and deadly way.. Unfortunately.


Honestly the two forums serve very different purposes at this point. Doomworld is pretty strictly Doom at this point, Doomerboards is more like a political forum that just happens to be populated by Doomers and sometimes WADs are made. If you're saying "It's as silly as Doomworld so we should pull out the censorship card" I'll have to give a hard pass on that idea, the whole point of this forum can be summed up as follows:

"Send us your dumb, your outspoken, your foolish masses yearning to breathe free - Send these, the morons, the /pol/ browsers and tumblrettes alike to me, I lift my lite-amp goggles beside the golden door!"

Let us not forget this important sonnet that gives this forum it's very reason for existence.

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I think the main problem with the eternal 'murica guns debate is this: All the pro-gun arguments make sense *if* you accept that America is a fucking shithole country eternally oscillating around the fucking drain.

The argument is that shithole countries need guns to either (a) stop the populace from spazzing out and raping each other to death. or (b) stop the government from going Full Metal Mugabe. Ergo, according to NRA logic, America is a shithole.

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