| Posted: 15 July 2010 at 11:04pm | IP Logged | 4
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Brad, I was purposely going about this out of character, seriously, for two reasons.
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Praise Jeebus! I gotta say I thought you were having a nervous breakdown or something! I was like "where did Ted go, and who is this guy using his computer?"
I was honestly worried there. For a second I thought I was arguing with Paulo about the 9/11 conspiracy or something, which I expect from him, but not from you.
Glad to hear this is a bit of a game, and you haven't snapped.
Still, I think the point stands that a gun in a home is more of a threat to everyone that a couple of blokes who just wanna have the man love with each-other. Other than the fact that both are polarizing though, try not to compare two (or more!) people having fun and possibly being in love with an object built to end lives, unless you're doing it as an analogy about how love hurts or something.
Shotguns and hunting rifles I'm oddly okay with, because those are for hunting. I know some hunters, and I used to lump that form of gun ownership in with all gun ownership until a fellow bleeding heart liberal who happened to be a vegetarian explained to me that he respected hunters.
Amazed, I asked him why. He said at least they take responsibility for the meat they're eating. They know where it comes from, they kill only what they can use within legal limits, and they aren't part of the system where people disassociate what they buy at the grocery store with a real living animal. It's not just a commodity, it's a life, and they recognize that they're taking it to feed themselves.
He said he'd rather have someone realize what it means to eat meat, and be okay with eating it, than someone who just assumes it's food and nothing more.
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