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I think, living in an urban center like I do, it colors one's perceptions as well. There is no real reason to own a gun within the confines of a city other than for self-defense, and if you need a gun to be safe, your problems are far larger than gun control. You also have the issue of young, largely ignorant and far from upwardly mobile males who treat guns as an extension of their manhood. The sad truth is that you can't legislate against stupid.

::nods:: And some of the most pitiless, emotionless people I've met have been female. I've known women who could turn off any emotional attachment like you would turnoff a running faucet. So, really, I try not to generalize myself.

Actually, not an anti-gun nut myself, but I've seen the same studies as DG, apparently. Look at Japan, for example.

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Reviving dead threads is perfectly normal around here. As new people join, we get new perspectives, and that's always good!

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Deeply, and for a very, very long time.

Honestly, we have never had a code for that, since unless it's interspecies/xeno/anthro, we've not much thought about it. I think a brief author's note at the beginning giving that as an additional code is fine, actually.

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My Teengirl still giggles about the effectiveness of a bow as wielded by a fairly cranky parent/Dungeonmaster.

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We can discuss those as well, pak, my love. The largest difference is that the left wing idiots are generally armed with the pro bono services of equally left wing lawyers, as opposed to guns.

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Exactly, and I heartily endorse both responsible gun ownership and hunting for food as opposed to sport. Well, mostly on the hunting. There are a few people I'd hunt for sport.

Ooohhh... Jamaica... I liked it there...

Bear in mind that the framers of the Constitution were not all adverse to the potential for future bloody revolution, and in fact, wrote the Constitution to allow for and encourage that scenario. With that in mind, I could well see that the Constitution doesn't specifically prohibit the right of the individual to bear arms. I would also keep in mind that the idea of carrying a firearm was not so foreign in a time when most people still routinely hunted. Does it hold true for today, that we should allow and indeed encourage our citizens to bear arms? I hesitate to endorse that if only because the young people of today by and large have shown themselves to be devoid of any notion of responsibility and consequences. Until we have managed to teach the "respawn" generation that they can't run around behaving however they want, it would be a Very Bad Thing to give them anything more lethal than a spork.

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Sake here!

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