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  • L L_u_r_k_e_r

    Nope most of us will have lock boxes in our vehcles or keep them in the safest place on our bodies.

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    Paul Watson
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    In? :omg: [edit] Ah, I see the original was changed. Good thing too. [/edit] regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN! -- modified at 7:26 Monday 3rd October, 2005

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      Look man, don't go messing with my lunchtime sport hunting. Just down the road is a nice park with some swings, a merry go-round and a petting zoo. You expect me to drive home, fetch my semi-auto, drive all the way back, pop some lamas and then drive all the way back home to drop off my semi-auto and then come back to work all in one lousy 45 minute lunch break? ... On a saner note we had a chap come into work with a revolver once. He put it in his desk drawer and then during lunch brought it out to show us all. He thought we all liked guns. Instead we took him into the conference room and gave him a warning letter. He made it worse when he tried to explain it away by saying it was not even his gun, that it was not licensed and that he was taking it to the gun shop across the street to sell. Actually, that guy was a bit crazy. Smart chap but nuts. A few weeks after firing him we saw his wife standing outside our building on the pavement with two rifles (thankfully in their leather cases) waiting for him to pick her up. She was pregnant, it was getting dark and he was late. regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!

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      ProffK
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      Although it's a bit different working for a bank, I have nothing against colleagues bringing their guns to work if they take care of them. At my last place, our DBA had his Glock on him at all times. The point is that he had it on him at all times. We are not a branch, but banks are obviously more sensitive about guns. I don't know if there is a clear policy on guns in cars (sounds like a movie name), and this is complicated by many employees not parking in the actual bank parking (but in a private parkade). Bringing a gun into the building without written permission is a dismissable offence. The building security provide a safe lockup where staff leave their guns when they enter the building. The DJ's took pills to stay awakwe and play for seven days. - Jim Morrison, Black Polished Chrome.

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      • L L_u_r_k_e_r

        It's not about the destination but the journey there. Would you like to be broken down on the road in Detroit (or Miami) at 4 or 5 AM on your way to work? Concealed weapon holders are the most law abiding segment of the population. They are not the ones you need to worry about but the ones who intend to do harm do not care about rules or laws. I mean come on if someone is going to come to work and shoot up the place are they goign to stop and think.... well this rule about not bringing a gun into work made me stop my homicidal rampage through the office?

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        It lets the guy who just got fired cool down instead of being able to walk outside to his car, get his gun and give his notice point blank to the boss. regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!

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        • L L_u_r_k_e_r

          It's not about the destination but the journey there. Would you like to be broken down on the road in Detroit (or Miami) at 4 or 5 AM on your way to work? Concealed weapon holders are the most law abiding segment of the population. They are not the ones you need to worry about but the ones who intend to do harm do not care about rules or laws. I mean come on if someone is going to come to work and shoot up the place are they goign to stop and think.... well this rule about not bringing a gun into work made me stop my homicidal rampage through the office?

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          Ted Ferenc
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          I live in the UK, so guns are an alien culture to most of us. In the UK to be broken down anywhere at 4 a.m. is unlikely to be a problem, anyone approching you would most likely only want to help you. As in all countries that is not 100% guaranteed but the chances of coming to any harm a miniscule.


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            It lets the guy who just got fired cool down instead of being able to walk outside to his car, get his gun and give his notice point blank to the boss. regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!

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            L_u_r_k_e_r
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            Again the type of person who would do thatt will have a gun regardless of permits or rules. With 36 states allowing this how many instaces have you heard about? How many concelaed weapon permit holders have done this at all? How many times have we heard the blood will flow in the streets? Yet it has not happened. but heck if I break in your house and you harm me my family can sue you and will win... What a backwards way of living.

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              In? :omg: [edit] Ah, I see the original was changed. Good thing too. [/edit] regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN! -- modified at 7:26 Monday 3rd October, 2005

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              Jorgen Sigvardsson
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              In, on. Semantics. ;) -- Keep talking! I'm the preacher, you're the fool!

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                I live in the UK, so guns are an alien culture to most of us. In the UK to be broken down anywhere at 4 a.m. is unlikely to be a problem, anyone approching you would most likely only want to help you. As in all countries that is not 100% guaranteed but the chances of coming to any harm a miniscule.


                "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." - Anatole France

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                But your crime rate (and gun crime) is rising. All this allows is a person the chance to protect themselves. Call 911 and wait for them to arrive. When they do arrive it is too late. It is a miniscule chance that a person with a peermit will ever have to use it but when they do it allows them to go home tot their family. If they do not have it their family will proably be without that person. given a chance to continue to provide for my family I will do so. Remember that office shooting in boston a few years ago? One of those killed was a CCW holder. he was not allowed to bring his gun to work. but that restriction did not stop thee shooter. Oh and he, the shooter, did not have a permit.

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                • L L_u_r_k_e_r

                  Again the type of person who would do thatt will have a gun regardless of permits or rules. With 36 states allowing this how many instaces have you heard about? How many concelaed weapon permit holders have done this at all? How many times have we heard the blood will flow in the streets? Yet it has not happened. but heck if I break in your house and you harm me my family can sue you and will win... What a backwards way of living.

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                  I am OK with you having a gun so long as you keep it the hell away from me and don't have easy access to it when we have a yelling match over using Visual Basic at work. How about the company tax those who bring guns to work so that an office gun safe can be bought. Anyone who wants to protect themselves on their daily comute* can then hand their gun in on the way into the office. Someone everyone trusts can then hold the keys/code to the safe and be the judge of whether the person checking their gun out is in a rational frame of mind (i.e. not drunk, not enraged.) That person should be called when a gun owner is fired too. * I understand that need. Here in South Africa having your car break down on the side of the road at night is not a good thing. Lot more dangerous than the States. regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!

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                  • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                    In, on. Semantics. ;) -- Keep talking! I'm the preacher, you're the fool!

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                    Paul Watson
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                    Is that what you tell your bondage partners? regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!

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                    • L L_u_r_k_e_r

                      Again the type of person who would do thatt will have a gun regardless of permits or rules. With 36 states allowing this how many instaces have you heard about? How many concelaed weapon permit holders have done this at all? How many times have we heard the blood will flow in the streets? Yet it has not happened. but heck if I break in your house and you harm me my family can sue you and will win... What a backwards way of living.

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                      L_u_r_k_e_r wrote: Again the type of person who would do thatt will have a gun regardless of permits or rules. wrong


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                        Is that what you tell your bondage partners? regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!

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                        Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                        I don't speak with my bondage partners. We don't use words. ;) -- Keep talking! I'm the preacher, you're the fool!

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                        • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                          I don't speak with my bondage partners. We don't use words. ;) -- Keep talking! I'm the preacher, you're the fool!

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                          Paul Watson
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                          Sign language? Man, you are freaky. I have never heard of a "deaf bondage partner" fetish before... regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!

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                          • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                            I don't speak with my bondage partners. We don't use words. ;) -- Keep talking! I'm the preacher, you're the fool!

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                            You guys must have really kinky kid sisters, huh?


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                              Sign language? Man, you are freaky. I have never heard of a "deaf bondage partner" fetish before... regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!

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                              Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                              Sign language, yes. I have this plack latex and leather paddle, which has this sign on one side: "Slap this side on ass". :rolleyes: --

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                                You guys must have really kinky kid sisters, huh?


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                                Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                                • T Ted Ferenc

                                  "Florida businesses could soon face criminal charges if they try to stop employees from bringing guns to work in their cars" http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-guns1002,0,4768146.story?coll=sfla-news-florida From a UK perspective, it is unbelievable that there could be a lobby to allow employees to bring guns into work and leave them in their locked vehicles!


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                                  Ted Ferenc wrote: From a UK perspective, it is unbelievable that there could be a lobby to allow employees to bring guns into work and leave them in their locked vehicles! Is it? Personaly I find it unbelievable that owning a BB gun in this Nanny State paradise can carry a 6 year mandatory prison sentence. But I'm wierd. Ryan

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                                    L_u_r_k_e_r wrote: Again the type of person who would do thatt will have a gun regardless of permits or rules. wrong


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                                    L_u_r_k_e_r
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                                    Really. Post instances of conncealed weapon permit holders who have done that? Here is a link to the Michigan concealed weapon annual report. Look at the "crimes" permit holders commit. http://www.michigan.gov/msp/0,1607,7-123-1591_3503_4654-77621--,00.html[^] Comapre those to the FBI stats. If you live in one of thee 35+ states that allow CCW I am sure someone around you has a gun on them. You just do not know it.

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                                    • L L_u_r_k_e_r

                                      But your crime rate (and gun crime) is rising. All this allows is a person the chance to protect themselves. Call 911 and wait for them to arrive. When they do arrive it is too late. It is a miniscule chance that a person with a peermit will ever have to use it but when they do it allows them to go home tot their family. If they do not have it their family will proably be without that person. given a chance to continue to provide for my family I will do so. Remember that office shooting in boston a few years ago? One of those killed was a CCW holder. he was not allowed to bring his gun to work. but that restriction did not stop thee shooter. Oh and he, the shooter, did not have a permit.

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                                      L_u_r_k_e_r wrote: But your crime rate (and gun crime) is rising. Yes, but gun crime in the UK is about 1/10000 th per capita (yes one ten thousandth) of that in the US. Does it look like we have a gun problem now? As an example having a quick look at the stats, in 2001 there was about 3,000 crimes nation wide that "involed a gun". i.e. someone was stopped and searched and found to have a gun - which is illegal in the UK. Owning a gun is illegal, and being caught with one counts as gun crime. This is not even murders (never mind just gun merders), which compared to the US is practically zero. Last year there were 97 gun related murders for the whole nation of 60 million people. You get that in one bad city in the US over the weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So before you start talking about gun crime, it could be just that the UK police are getting better at catching people with guns, and the majority of these are in inner cites where the majority of gun crime takes place. The past two years the police have been focusing on gun crime deaths, for which about 99% are black on black shootings between drug gangs. -- modified at 8:32 Monday 3rd October, 2005

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                                        L_u_r_k_e_r wrote: But your crime rate (and gun crime) is rising. Yes, but gun crime in the UK is about 1/10000 th per capita (yes one ten thousandth) of that in the US. Does it look like we have a gun problem now? As an example having a quick look at the stats, in 2001 there was about 3,000 crimes nation wide that "involed a gun". i.e. someone was stopped and searched and found to have a gun - which is illegal in the UK. Owning a gun is illegal, and being caught with one counts as gun crime. This is not even murders (never mind just gun merders), which compared to the US is practically zero. Last year there were 97 gun related murders for the whole nation of 60 million people. You get that in one bad city in the US over the weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So before you start talking about gun crime, it could be just that the UK police are getting better at catching people with guns, and the majority of these are in inner cites where the majority of gun crime takes place. The past two years the police have been focusing on gun crime deaths, for which about 99% are black on black shootings between drug gangs. -- modified at 8:32 Monday 3rd October, 2005

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                                        L_u_r_k_e_r
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                                        Ahh but you have fallen into the lil trap.. Owning a gun is illeagal in the UK but you still have gun crime. And that crime is rising. So making it illeagal to own a gun only hurts those who follwed the law. Criminals don't care if they break 3 loaws or 10 at a time but you think it is ok to stop me from protecting myself from them. Giles wrote: The past two years the police have been focusing on gun crime deaths, for which about 99% are black on black shootings between drug gangs. Yes and if they are under 20 they will be counted as Kid crimes as well. Giles wrote: This is not even murders (never mind just gun merders), which compared to the US is practically zero. Last year there were 97 gun related murders for the whole nation of 60 million people. You get that in one bad city in the US over the weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now talk about blowing smoke stats. Maybe in a quarter in the worst city. But them again we have 400 mil people. And I happen to work in one of the top 3. Sso why do I have to wait for the po-po to show up? Oh and they are 5 calls behind when they get in a car for the shift, plus many many layoffs this year in their force.

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                                          Beg. On your knees. Now! :~ So uh, that paddle, I've got a ping pong table here we can use. regards, Paul Watson South Africa Colib and ilikecameras. K(arl) wrote: oh, and BTW, CHRISTIAN ISN'T A PARADOX, HE IS A TASMANIAN!

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