tc399's Comments (162)

“I am. I think everyone should serve in the military and take their firearm home with them upon an honorable discharge. Like Switzerland. Crime in Switzerland? Almost none.”

“TERRORISTS don't use F-18s. TERRORISTS use what they can get. Josh was blaming a firearm for the action of a terrorist and he made a big deal about it being a MILITARY firearm...­which it was not..

I am trying to explain that logic goes nowhere. If he hadn't had a firearm, he could have used a bus or a can of gasoline or a civilian aircraft. The fact that the military flies Boeing aircraft has nothing to do with anything.

In point of fact, an F-18 has a limited ordinance load and would have caused NOTHING like the damage caused by the fuel in those commercial aircraft.

I won't be insulting, but there is some logic involved here that some of you are missing.”

“Josh, try this one on for size. BOEING aircraft, designed EXCLUSIVELY for the civilian market, were used in the terror attacks of 9/11.

I don't really mean to say that you are a propagandist, but see if you can explain that one in terms of military firearms or ANY firearms.

Propaganda is great as long as no one bothers to think about your statements. If they do, you fail on the merits of your case.

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The thing is that F”

“My Garand isn't an 'assault' weapon. It isn't automatic. It doesn't hold thirty rounds. It doesn't have a scope. Come into my home and try to take it from me. I am getting good and tired of gun grabbers.”

“An SKS ? I dunno. I only keep automatic weapons because the government says I can't. They are completely impractical.”

“Ya know, I have access to the restricted versions..­...but I don't shoot down unarmed people...o­r anyone else for that matter. What's the point, Josh? That nutloafs do nutty things?”

“Well, yes. But Scotty is dead and his remains crashed in the jungle. He never got on-orbit. If only he had a 5.7!”

“I carry a Benchmade switcher in my flight suit. If I dump in the water and need to cut parachute lines I want to be able to deploy the knife with one hand.

I can't recall the last time I was involved in a choreographed musical gangfight with a swithblade­...oh, wait! Yes I can: NEVER. That is, coincidentally, the very same number of times I have been involved in an illegal shooting incident.”

“I have been carrying a concealed firearm legally for over forty years and I have drawn it a couple of times to stop violent crimes. There are probably between 2.1 and 2.5 MILLION Defensive gun uses in the US annually.*

Every time some loony takes advantage of some 'No-gun-zone' to kill a bunch of people who aren't allowed to have guns the anti-gunners cite it as an example of the danger of firearms. They don't have much to say when someone pulls out a firearm and puts a stop to it and they NEVER blame the criminal. Somehow the firearm is always responsible. It occurs to me that no ancient wars could possibly have happened because there were no firearms.

Switzerland must have the highest drime rate in the world because when the Swiss get out of the military they take their automatic weapons home with them for life. Our Constitution SPECIFICALLY allows every person to keep and bear arms. Period. The Constitution doesn't change from administration to administration. EVERY elected official takes only one oath. To protect and defend the Constitution, to the best of his or her ability, from all enemies, foreign and domestic.

You lawmakers protect the Constitution. We The People will take care of the rest.

* (Kleck/Gertz -Armed resistance to crime: The prevalence and nature of self-defense with a gun. 1995 Journal of Criminal law and Criminology)”

“Between 600 and 900 people A DAY die in hospitals from simple, preventable medical mistakes or infections they acquired in the hospital. Too many good people have died for us to allow this to continue. Highway deaths? ~58,00 a year.

The PRIMARY weapon used in ALL homicides now and throughout history are edged weapons...­typically kitchen knives in the US.

But firearms are the root of all evil? I recall right after the musical "West side Story" came out in the 50s there was a hue and cry that switchblade knives, the worst POSSIBLE object to use as a weapon because the blade is supported on a weak pivot pin were going to cause the ruination of our youth and gang wars in the streets. It caused the US Congress to outlaw them but except for the movie, they were never any threat.

I slammed my fingers in a car door once. It was a Japanese car. I can make a good case for outlawing them.”

“Paranoia reigns. The 5.7 round is a .22 on steroids. The shooter could have done EXACTLY the same thing with a .22. The reason NO police department adopted the arm and that almost NO civilians have bothered buying it and that the military doesn't use it is that it is almost the worst choice possible for anything except shooting at unarmed, defenseless people....­.in which case ANY firearm is equally effective.

That's why there were 30 wounded and 12 dead instead of the reverse. If he had chosen a .45 automatic or 9mm, the most common handgun calibers in the US and probably the world, they were also designed to be military cartridges.

It's very difficult to rationalize how an inanimate object could be responsible for the actions of a madman. He could as easily have stolen a bus and driven it into a school cafeteria, even though the bus....and the cafeteria were originally designed for the military.”

“Paranoia reigns. The 5.7 round is a .22 on steroids. The shooter could have done EXACTLY the same thing with a .22. The reason NO police department adopted the arm and that almost NO civilians have bothered buying it and that the military doesn't use it is that it is almost the worst choice possible for anything except shooting at unarmed, defenseless people....­.in which case ANY firearm is equally effective.

That's why there were 30 wounded and 12 dead instead of the reverse. If he had chosen a .45 automatic or 9mm, the most common handgun calibers in the US and probably the world, they were also designed to be military cartridges.

It's very difficult to rationalize how an inanimate object could be responsible for the actions of a madman. He could as easily have stolen a bus and driven it into a school cafeteria, even though the bus....and the cafeteria were originally designed for the military. Then what would your argument have been?”

“Aloha Steve.

Well and good, but dropping the action before there is any case law on the books, Constitution notwithstanding, means the TSA can simply reverse course next week and continue to act like Nazis.

We are losing our rights and the Obama administration does not seem overly inclined to fight for them. Thank you for your efforts...­I hope everyone is willing to miss a flight to keep what few we have left.”

“Oops. The Mayans.”

“Let's see......w­e have all of this amazing alien technology but our space shuttles keep blowing up.

Aliens built the pyramids and thousands of Egyptians were there, living on-site and didn't think to mention it. Maybe their memories were all erased....­but they kept diaries and documents and there don't seem to be any major gaps in the construction history of the pyramids. We know they built them and we know how. No supernatural forces need to be invoked.

Distant objects seem to dance and move. I have seen them. Everyone probably has. They are external to the atmosphere. "Atmospherics" make them jump and move, but they never fly away. Professional telescopes correct for that anomaly.
The UFOs at groom Lake. Do they exist? Certainly. The Blackbird (The most beautiful spacecraft ever) was designed almost 60 years ago. It was retired because it was replaced. Probably by several things by now, each more advanced than the last. That is exactly what one would expect.

The world will not end in 2012 because the Incas stopped their calendar. Rabbits do not chew a cud, God told Adam that the day he ate from the tree of knowledge he would die. The serpent told Eve it wouldn't happen. It didn't happen. Martyrs won't get 72 virgins in Heaven. They are told that nonsense to get them to BE martyrs. President Obama isn't a Muslim. The recession is not over.

Did I miss anything?”

“"Some" scientists have hope. I do not. We do not have the global will to fix the problem; if we did it is ten years too late. An extinction even will fix it and we cannot stave one off much longer.”

“I'd say that the President can outlaw the private possession of gold AGAIN with a pen stroke and that the law of the land says that US gold currency is 'worth' it's face value in trade. If, however you assume a black market, then gold will probably be worth it's weight in food.”

“Amy is right. Think of how many moon-whales might be killed by this impact. Let us forget for a moment that the entire surface of the moon is covered by impact craters.”

“I'm OK with all of that except assault rifles. When was the last time an assault was really used in a crime? The LAPD shootout? Who got killed? The two suspects; no one else. I agree that Obama is powerless and reneged on all of his campaign promises so far. Some of that is that he simply can't get it done, but some of it is that he would rather be liked than be Lincoln. I do hope at some point he realizes that HE will be blamed for whatever happens on his watch even if it was thirty years in the making.

I don't line the pictures of people in camos snatching a protester off the street. Peaceful protest is protected under the Constitution. If it isn't, the Constitution is no longer in play. If that is the case we ALL need assault rifles because we will have to take it back.”

“You can clam anything you wish, but your initial clam that you have an engine which produces more energy than it requires using only water as a fuel isn't true. You call it 'proprietary'. I have a less diplomatic word for it. The qualifications of the Rowan board are meaningless because their conclusions were vague, ethereal and did not support the discovery of a 'Hydron" or a "Fracton' (my term...I claim the copyright.­) Since a Hydrogen atom consists of two fermions; a proton and an electron, which exists in s-wave or perfect symmetry in it's ground state, 'compressing' the electron into a lower state is not possible without some specialized equipment. Do not challenge me with nonsense. I am perfectly willing to discuss science, but I am not willing to listen to hyperbole without science to back it up.”

“Excuse me sir, but I don't have a limited perspective. I know that of which I speak and the physical laws of the universe do NOT change; what changes are the buzzwords people use to separate gullible people from their money.

In each and every reply I have specifically used the phrase 'net energy'. That means the energy required to produce and transport the fuel times the efficiency of the engine plus the energy required to actually produce the engine, lubricate it, convert power from it and get that power into a usable form.”

“Obama wants to be liked more than he wants to be Lincoln. He will lose the country to the nutters.”

“That is only because Fractional Hydrogen had not yet been discovered. Now that it has we must come to grips with the idea that all elements have fractional components and that the periodic table must be rewritten to include Fractons.”

“It is even remotely possible that my suggestion that Fractional Hydrogen was not so much a fuel as a lubricant for easing the flow of investment dollars bothered the moderation team.”

“The censors got me again. They must not appreciate a bit of spirited debate. Or possibly they did not actually READ the Rowan University experiment. I doubt their moderation team consists of physicists and chemists or people who do not realize that no engine of any kind has ever approached a net efficiency of 25% so your claims are rather interesting.”