Right to bear arms

[Ilion]

You children! :laugh:

[Ilion]

So, instead of calling you "73DipStick" we should all use the proper taxonomy: "73DipShít?"

[Oakman]

Paul Watson wrote:

And you can do all the target practice you want with a gun, I very much doubt it prepares you for the fear and panic of a situation in which you have to defend your life.

You're not wrong, but it helps.

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

[Ilion]

Of course, you use the mental equivalent of duct tape for the paste step of your copy-and-paste-ratiocination, don't you?

[Ilion]

Oakman wrote:

You're not wrong, but it helps.

Which is to say, since target practice *does* help to prepare you for such a situation of having to use a gun to defend your life, he was not right.

[Paul Watson]

Ilíon wrote:

ratiocination

You are better than Dictionary.com's Word Of The Day.

regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:

At least he achieved immortality for a few years.

[Oakman]

Paul Watson wrote:

Apparently he found them at his uncle's house and thought they were toys. I'm pretty sure there are laws that make it the responsibility of the gun owner to keep them in a safe place, out of the reach of the innocent.

Assuming that there were laws that he broke - is the solution to pass more laws? And if he breaks them?

Jon Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface

[Ilion]

Amazing, isn't it? And I even manage to use the words correctly.

[73Zeppelin]

:zzz: You are vacuous, apostate.

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Only memories, fading memories, blending into dull tableaux. I want them back.

[Paul Watson]

Ilíon wrote:

And I even manage to use the words correctly. Quote Selected Text

How else could one use them?

regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:

At least he achieved immortality for a few years.

[Paul Watson]

Oakman wrote:

is the solution to pass more laws?

I very much doubt that is the solution.

regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:

At least he achieved immortality for a few years.

[Ilion]

The question was: should we refer to you by the proper taxonomy: "73DipShít," which is not, after all, an insult?

[Ilion]

Paul Watson wrote:

How else could one use them?

Are all persons incapable of using words incorrectly? If so, how could we ever have thought of the concepts of 'corect' and 'incorrect' word usage? You did, after all, assert that I am an idiot. And yet, now you seem to be saying that one naturally expects me to use words correctly. Is there not some mismatch here?

[Paul Watson]

One can be well versed yet still an idiot. ;)

regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:

At least he achieved immortality for a few years.

[Ilion]

Paul Watson wrote:

One can be well versed yet still an idiot. ;)

One can be "educated" (i.e. credentialed) and yet be an idiot, certainly. The universities specialize in churning out those. But does not to be "well versed" imply that one is not merely (or even, for that matter) credentialed, but actually educated? Is it even possible to actually educate idiots?

[Paul Watson]

Ilíon wrote:

Is it even possible to actually educate idiots?

As you stated, universities churn them out.

regards, Paul Watson Ireland & South Africa

Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:

At least he achieved immortality for a few years.