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marions ghost

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17. I think I understand your meaning

Fri Jan 18, 2013, 02:23 PM

Jan 2013

I would put it more like -- one day guns will be obsolete. They already are, in many ways, but people who want to manufacture and own them are still obviously legion.

Guns must and will, become obsolete. They are primitive tools, primitive solutions. One day they will no longer be needed or effective. They will certainly not be part of a civilized society, or a society no longer based on wars and killing. We will be fighting to survive, and that will take technology and ideas far more advanced than guns. Guns will come to be thought of like maat'a--the spears and daggers--of the early Easter Islanders. The solutions of primitive war-like peoples of a bygone era.

This too, shall pass. One day. But people have to have a lot of imagination to believe that there can be anything better than what they know.

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Some day we'll look back on gun ownership the same way we look back on slave ownership [View all] Hugabear Jan 2013 OP

This makes no sense to me. zappaman Jan 2013 #1

I see the point went sailing right over your head Hugabear Jan 2013 #3

Ahhhhh zappaman Jan 2013 #7

I can't go that far quinnox Jan 2013 #2

Humans are not objects, objects are objects. The comparison is odious. Bluenorthwest Jan 2013 #4

to me it's a safety issue n/t Enrique Jan 2013 #5

Exactly. I've been saying this all along. Gun apologists are already relegated to history's dustbin villager Jan 2013 #6

what exactly is a "gun apologist"? cali Jan 2013 #12

I'm not a gun owner and don't feel the need to be Puzzledtraveller Jan 2013 #20

A huge majority of them are, yes. villager Jan 2013 #27

I read, somewhere, ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2013 #31

I think that's exactly right. And there will of course be the usual resistance to history's flow villager Jan 2013 #37

I think you will see everyone packing. GreenStormCloud Jan 2013 #8

I don't see the comparison as being valid cali Jan 2013 #9

You don't think people can look at gun ownership with extreme disgust? Hugabear Jan 2013 #10

nope. I think you'll remain a small minority. cali Jan 2013 #11

A very tiny minority, at that derby378 Jan 2013 #15

Ugh. You should really rethink your OP. Matariki Jan 2013 #13

Not just an object. An object whose primary purpose is to kill. Hugabear Jan 2013 #14

Which is why I own one. Throd Jan 2013 #19

So your primary purpose is to kill? Hugabear Jan 2013 #21

No. But you know that. Throd Jan 2013 #25

yes, just an object. no matter how heinous one thinks guns are they are indisputably cali Jan 2013 #23

I'm not going to alert on your post. Matariki Jan 2013 #32

Not until/unless the human race becomes much, much more evolved. Bake Jan 2013 #16

I think I understand your meaning marions ghost Jan 2013 #17

No we won't. Throd Jan 2013 #18

lol closeupready Jan 2013 #22

Maybe someday we'll look back at Che Guevara that same way too. Dr. Strange Jan 2013 #24

Bravo Dr. Strange! Puzzledtraveller Jan 2013 #26

I found that avatar a bit puzzling myself. Throd Jan 2013 #30

Actually I'm going back to it. Hugabear Jan 2013 #38

lol. anyone who can't see the inherent and blatant hypocrisy that you're exhibiting cali Jan 2013 #40

you are giving me whiplash, my friend quinnox Jan 2013 #42

Apples and oranges, but I'm sure you know that Hugabear Jan 2013 #36

Awesome. Dr. Strange Jan 2013 #41

hit.nail.head Lizzie Poppet Jan 2013 #39

I think you mean well, and I get your point, but NO Demo_Chris Jan 2013 #28

this is disgusting WooWooWoo Jan 2013 #29

I never said 'black people' Hugabear Jan 2013 #34

oh I think people understand that you and others like you feel that way cali Jan 2013 #35

FREE THE GUNS! GIVE THEM THE RIGHT TO VOTE!!! slackmaster Jan 2013 #33