It's you goldanged Southerners causin' the gun problem ...

The author of the article couches his argument in terms that sound scientific and lofty, a practice that to me has always sounded an alarm bell. As George Orwell once said, "Some ideas are so outrageous that they can only be embraced by intellectuals."

But, even though I'm not a Southerner, I own guns. And now I have to herd some goats into downtown Milwaukee.

Dick
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Since I live in North Carolina I just have one thing to say about this article..............YeeeeeeeeeeeeeHaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Bring-em-on! Bruce remember.... long layover in Charlotte! Thanks for pointing us to the site. Maybe I'll get bored and need some fun later.
 
"Mr Reporter, suh, I have read the lying piece of claptrap that you sneeringly call a story. I find you to be an ignorant poltroon, whose mother obviously dallied with a goat. *smack* My seconds will call upon you in the morning, suh."

A couple of things here. If the "culture of honour" is so prevalant, then wouldn't this 'reporter' keep his trap shut lest some Colonel offer to shut it for him with a knuckle sandwich, blade or bullet?

He/She/It makes a hefty point about the South and 'herding cultures'. Need I mention that the South is primarily agarian? Cotton, taht sort of 'farming' thing. It's only when you get out towards Texas that 'herding' takes over from farming. But we have plenty of farmers, too.

I seem to remember from some bit of investigation that the various combat arms portions of the military have a greater than normal compostition of Southern boys. If this is true, then this idiot should get down on his knees and thank the 'Southern phenomenon' for providing the blood, pain and tears that lets him publish his trash in the first place.

Jackass.

LawDog
 
What an interesting article.
Us Southerners are the problem huh?
Well you can G**Damn sure bet we'll be the solution!

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>I don't know about wanting somebody to shoot me when I was drunk, but there's been more than one morning after that I'd have welcomed it..[/quote]

That's a whole nother issue :)

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You're all wrong. It was a young Oriental man who was intoxicated after leaving a party. Finding himself lost, which happens to drunks in unfamiliar areas, he started to bang on the guy's door. He was apparently so hammered that he figured everybody in Texas understood Japanese or whatever his language was. That particular homeowner didn't, and since the young man didn't know any English the phrase "Get off my property or I'll shoot" meant nothing to him. He was struck and killed by one or two large caliber handgun rounds fired through the door. The young man had absolutely no idea that he was about to be shot and therefor couldn't have been pleading for anything except maybe directions. It got a lot of press all over the world at the time when the shooting was found justified because Texas is, or was at the time, one of several states that does not require a homeowner to retreat before using deadly force to protect his family. Entry into the domicile proper by the intruder is not even required before such force may be utilized. Shooting the kid was a boneheaded thing to do since the door wasn't being battered in or anything. The incident made gunowners, and Americans in general, look pretty uncivilized.
 
Bullshot,
In the incident of which you speak, the Japanese man was dressed in costume, and entered the attached garage of the house, whereupon the wife screamed for her husband. The husband pursued the man into the yard and shot the intruder after he turned and headed back towards the homeowner and would not obey commands to stop advancing.
This happened in Louisiana, so maybe it is different than the incident of which you speak.
AR

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[This message has been edited by Allen_Raiford (edited August 01, 2000).]
 
Guys, you're talking about two very different incidents. Both occurred, they are definitely not the same incident with mistakes.

I just got my password and username for the forum this idiot posts on. Apparently he's the head cook and bottle washer--he wrote the only commentary article and he seems to be one of two or three people posting on the board. Hmmm.
 
who'n wrote that crap? why dadblasted, if i have to put down this beer and git up outa this rockin' chair i'll come off this here porch and blow a smokin' hole through his yankee ass.
sons-a-biches, git off'n my yard.
 
Thanks Don and Allan. I must have somehow missed the Texas incident, which is amazing considering the NY media eats such things up.
 
America is still a youngster among the nations. There's still hope we'll evolve into the type of peaceful people that Europe is peopled with. OF course we can overlook the inquisition, the 600 year blood bath in the balkans, the constant warfare between Britain and France, the plundering of the American continent by the Spanish, The bolshevik revolution, Stalin's purge, and of course, who could forget the Holocaust?
Oh, and did I mention the constant feudal wars that plagued Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, poland, and the other germanic people for so long that it drove my ancestors to America just so ONE (just one out of seven) of their sons could grow to be a man and not be killed in a war started because some German aristocrat was personally offended by another?

Yeah, I wanna be just like them folks in Europe!

Snooty bastard.
 
Well said kjm.

We're not perfect, but our problems are our own. Not Europe's not Japan's, nor anyone else's.

Lawdog, I don't remember the exact number, but IIRC about 50% of our armed forces come from the 11 former Confederate states.
Guam has the highest enlistment ratio, several times higher than the next closest state.
 
Don, Lonestar

Still have to finish reading the book got sidetracked with Borks Slouching Towards Gomorrah "modern liberalism and american decline"

Funny thing is that when the book first came out Pres Klinton was reading it on one of his many adventures, I remember thinking he's reading the same thing I am, and still blaming guns. I saw this on TV or in a magazine it had his picture and the book was next to him, maybe he was on Air force one. Not sure.

TEXAS is sure a crazy place to live. You got drunk scotts dressing up like japanese and pissing on lawn decorations :) I might shoot too.
 
Does the original text "Shall not infringed" not mean anything to these people?

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What a monumental load of bull ****. They probably used Federal funds to pay for this load of horse crap research paper.

7th

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This "culture of honor" problem? Is that the same thing that results in all those horrible "Yes, sirs" and "No, Ma'ams" that pervade any Southern conversation?

Steve
 
The "Texas incident" referred to here are two seperate cases. (Keep in mind that this is all from my memory, and is subject to MFS) With the drunk Scot- he was in the US on business, and went out and got hammered one night. Apprently, in Scotland you can walk up to any house and ask to stay the night, and they'll let you in and give you a place to "sleep it off". This Scot came wandering up to the guy's house, banging on the door, demanding to be let in, and attempted to force entry. It ended with the homeowner shooting the Scot in self defense. [This is solely from what I have read about the incident].

The case with the Japanese teen- a foreign exchange student and the friend he was staying with were on their way to a Hollween costume party (the Japanese boy was dressed as John Travolta from 'Saturday Night Fever). They had the wrong house when they knocked on the door, and when the resident answered (I belive this was approaching midnight), the foreign student did not understand what the man was saying, and thought the gun the homeowner had in his hand was part of a costume. The Japanese boy apparently was carrying a camera, and made gestures with it that gave the homeowner reason to believe the Japanese was pointing a gun at him, so the homeowner fired. Where I believe he went wrong, is that when the two boys tried to run away, the homeowner continued to pursue the Japanese boy, firing at him. As you should already know, the Japanese boy died from his wounds.

Hope this clears it up a bit (rather than muddying the waters further! :D).

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If it isna Scottish, it's CRAP! RKBA!
 
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