(08-11-2022, 11:02 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Well, Ricky Shiffer fought the law -- and the law (Ohio State Police) won.

He was a Trump supporter and a loony.

(08-11-2022, 06:16 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: A Story on how gun companies advertize to young men was broadcast today on PBS Newshour with Paul Solmon. Opinions on both sides were interviewed. Is getting an AR-15 "getting your man card" and boosting your machismo if you are a young man, as the ads say?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/firearms-industry-scrutinized-for-how-it-markets-to-consumers





But it brings up the issue for folks like Jason Black and Classic Xer to consider.

What does it mean to be a man? Is manhood really increased by owning and using a military weapon?

What is it to be a man? To be aggressive, and a good fighter? To be strong physically? To be brave?

To be able to defend your family or yourself against criminals? If you need a gun to do that, what does that say about the USA that has ten or a hundred times more guns than other societies? Does the USA have more crime? Do rural red states have more crime? Is that why they have more guns and oppose gun control so obsessively? Or vice-versa? Do we have more guns because we have more crime? Or vice versa? Do we have more crime because we have more mental illness (which we don't)? Or do we have more guns because we have a second amendment? Or more gun advertising? Or because conservatives (or liberals) are making guns a political issue? Can we minimize the number, the horror and the deaths caused by mass shootings? (in fact there are now thousands of them every year now, and even one is too many) "How many deaths does it take 'till he knows, that too many people have died?" -- Bob Dylan

Are ammosexuals concerned about their manhood? Is this because they are homosexual? Or are they anti-homosexual or homophobic? Afraid they may be gay? And is there really anything wrong with that?

Do insecure men feel the need to identify with a larger group and its success, to substitute for ones own manhood? A sports team? A nation and its army?

Are there better ways to develop manhood than owning weapons? What about taking testosterone pills? Exercize? Martial arts or other training? Viewing porno or otherwise arousing libido?

What is it to be a man? Is it really so different from being a woman? To have integrity, and willingness to stand and defend your ideas? To be considerate about more than yourself and your own needs and desires? To be able to defend yourself? How is all of that any different from being a woman? Or non-binary?

(08-11-2022, 06:16 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: A Story on how gun companies advertize to young men was broadcast today on PBS Newshour with Paul Solmon. Opinions on both sides were interviewed. Is getting an AR-15 "getting your man card" and boosting your machismo if you are a young man, as the ads say?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/firearms-industry-scrutinized-for-how-it-markets-to-consumers





But it brings up the issue for folks like Jason Black and Classic Xer to consider.

What does it mean to be a man? Is manhood really increased by owning and using a military weapon?

What is it to be a man? To be aggressive, and a good fighter? To be strong physically? To be brave?

To be able to defend your family or yourself against criminals? If you need a gun to do that, what does that say about the USA that has ten or a hundred times more guns than other societies? Does the USA have more crime? Do rural red states have more crime? Is that why they have more guns and oppose gun control so obsessively? Or vice-versa? Do we have more guns because we have more crime? Or vice versa? Do we have more crime because we have more mental illness (which we don't)? Or do we have more guns because we have a second amendment? Or more gun advertising? Or because conservatives (or liberals) are making guns a political issue? Can we minimize the number, the horror and the deaths caused by mass shootings? (in fact there are now thousands of them every year now, and even one is too many) "How many deaths does it take 'till he knows, that too many people have died?" -- Bob Dylan

Are ammosexuals concerned about their manhood? Is this because they are homosexual? Or are they anti-homosexual or homophobic? Afraid they may be gay? And is there really anything wrong with that?

Do insecure men feel the need to identify with a larger group and its success, to substitute for ones own manhood? A sports team? A nation and its army?

Are there better ways to develop manhood than owning weapons? What about taking testosterone pills? Exercize? Martial arts or other training? Viewing porno or otherwise arousing libido?

What is it to be a man? Is it really so different from being a woman? To have integrity, and willingness to stand and defend your ideas? To be considerate about more than yourself and your own needs and desires? To be able to defend yourself? How is all of that any different from being a woman? Or non-binary?

(11-21-2022, 10:19 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(08-11-2022, 06:16 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: A Story on how gun companies advertize to young men was broadcast today on PBS Newshour with Paul Solmon. Opinions on both sides were interviewed. Is getting an AR-15 "getting your man card" and boosting your machismo if you are a young man, as the ads say?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/firearms-industry-scrutinized-for-how-it-markets-to-consumers





But it brings up the issue for folks like Jason Black and Classic Xer to consider.

What does it mean to be a man? Is manhood really increased by owning and using a military weapon?

What is it to be a man? To be aggressive, and a good fighter? To be strong physically? To be brave?

To be able to defend your family or yourself against criminals? If you need a gun to do that, what does that say about the USA that has ten or a hundred times more guns than other societies? Does the USA have more crime? Do rural red states have more crime? Is that why they have more guns and oppose gun control so obsessively? Or vice-versa? Do we have more guns because we have more crime? Or vice versa? Do we have more crime because we have more mental illness (which we don't)? Or do we have more guns because we have a second amendment? Or more gun advertising? Or because conservatives (or liberals) are making guns a political issue? Can we minimize the number, the horror and the deaths caused by mass shootings? (in fact there are now thousands of them every year now, and even one is too many) "How many deaths does it take 'till he knows, that too many people have died?" -- Bob Dylan

Are ammosexuals concerned about their manhood? Is this because they are homosexual? Or are they anti-homosexual or homophobic? Afraid they may be gay? And is there really anything wrong with that?

Do insecure men feel the need to identify with a larger group and its success, to substitute for ones own manhood? A sports team? A nation and its army?

Are there better ways to develop manhood than owning weapons? What about taking testosterone pills? Exercize? Martial arts or other training? Viewing porno or otherwise arousing libido?

What is it to be a man? Is it really so different from being a woman? To have integrity, and willingness to stand and defend your ideas? To be considerate about more than yourself and your own needs and desires? To be able to defend yourself? How is all of that any different from being a woman? Or non-binary?

Lots of women own guns. Lots of them are familiar with guns and lots of them have been trained  how to use or know how to use  them too. Oh, lots of them even hunt with them too these days. BTW, a Left Wing pussy like yourself can own a gun too. I'm sure there lots of them living in this country today. Oh, I'm sure there are lots of men and women of all races own them these days  too. Oh, I'm even sure lots of minorities of all kinds including LGTBQ's own them too. I assume that you are aware of these facts being true right. The question you had is why so many now? Why are lot of Americans (the highest amount in our history) of all kinds buying guns now?  If I have to answer that question for you then you must either be deaf, dumb and blind and incapable of knowing what's been going on since Biden won the Democratic primary or someone incapable of understanding much of anything these days or you must have your head stuck in the sand or stuck up your ass or most likely stuck up someone else's ass in layman's terms term. Last but not least, you must a Left Wing partisan hack who is into spreading Left Wing propaganda or someone who's making money via political affiliation aka a Crony Capitalist aka true fascist of sorts living off the Democratic system that's in place. I assume that you know what I'm talking about since you've been doing it and making money off your political affiliation with it for quite a while ( at least as long as I've known you) now via non profits.

Quote:As far as being a man and what separates the men from the boys (young males in development so to speak)  and the blue childults and girly men aka the bulk of the Left Wing males aka highly insecure males on the Democratic side so to speak.

Quote:In case you are wondering, men don't over react to much of anything that seems to upset so many these days.

1. Smart people have other means of getting what they want, whether sex, pleasure, or economic rewards
   
2. Smart people generally find legal sanctions such as fines and imprisonment adequate deterrents to crime
   
3. Stupid people overestimate their chances of success (Dunning-Kruger) at almost anything, including crime and escape from detection.
   

Quote:Men don't back down to much of anything or anyone either. Men don't rollover or run away from trouble a lot or very much either. And men don't give up the fight and/or quit as easily as the males on today's Left either.

Quote:Men aren't afraid to actually fight/die for those they love or what they believe in, they're not afraid to possibly get hurt or possibly die either.

Quote:You already know/ should have learned that with with me and the bulk of the Republican base you've grown to despise/hate over the years. You haven't seen Us get violent and don't want to ever see Us become violent either.

Quote:We will turn your world upside down  You see, we currently outnumber/outgun the Left Wings  criminal factions by a significant amount.

Quote:The way I see it, the moderate Democrats will find themselves with a few choices, stay with the do nothing  Democrats and meet their political demise  or resign with honor and distinction before 2024 or switch parties and join with Us (the growing Purple majority that exists in the country that continues to grow and give the Left Wingers fits).

Quote:You say that you're up against Reds but in reality you are up against a growing number of younger Purples. A relatively  large group of younger Americans who could give two shits about who is what, what skin tone, gender and so forth  that's largely character driven and merit based who aren't deaf dumb and blind who are aware that it's their future and the future of their children that are now at stake.

Quote:BTW, I wonder where that woman lives and how dangerous it is to live where she lives? I got the impression she lives in a blue community of their own making so to speak. Also, she doesn't seem to know much about Us as usual.

Quote: Also, she and the host don't seem to know the obvious difference between the LEGAL semi-automatic rifles that look like weapons of war and the real weapons of war depicted in the snip it video of real soldiers using their real weapons of war. Once again, no one in their right mind wants the real weapons to become the norm so to peak. Also, no one in their right mind wants some sicko to get their hands on a legal firearm that may look like a real weapon of war and then use it to kill a bunch of children inside their school classroom or use it to kill a bunch of adults in a bar or a bunch of people at some concert or some military base either. You're right about mental health and it's role in most of the mass killings that we've seen in recent years.

(11-21-2022, 10:19 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(08-11-2022, 06:16 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: A Story on how gun companies advertize to young men was broadcast today on PBS Newshour with Paul Solmon. Opinions on both sides were interviewed. Is getting an AR-15 "getting your man card" and boosting your machismo if you are a young man, as the ads say?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/firearms-industry-scrutinized-for-how-it-markets-to-consumers





But it brings up the issue for folks like Jason Black and Classic Xer to consider.

What does it mean to be a man? Is manhood really increased by owning and using a military weapon?

What is it to be a man? To be aggressive, and a good fighter? To be strong physically? To be brave?

To be able to defend your family or yourself against criminals? If you need a gun to do that, what does that say about the USA that has ten or a hundred times more guns than other societies? Does the USA have more crime? Do rural red states have more crime? Is that why they have more guns and oppose gun control so obsessively? Or vice-versa? Do we have more guns because we have more crime? Or vice versa? Do we have more crime because we have more mental illness (which we don't)? Or do we have more guns because we have a second amendment? Or more gun advertising? Or because conservatives (or liberals) are making guns a political issue? Can we minimize the number, the horror and the deaths caused by mass shootings? (in fact there are now thousands of them every year now, and even one is too many) "How many deaths does it take 'till he knows, that too many people have died?" -- Bob Dylan

Are ammosexuals concerned about their manhood? Is this because they are homosexual? Or are they anti-homosexual or homophobic? Afraid they may be gay? And is there really anything wrong with that?

Do insecure men feel the need to identify with a larger group and its success, to substitute for ones own manhood? A sports team? A nation and its army?

Are there better ways to develop manhood than owning weapons? What about taking testosterone pills? Exercize? Martial arts or other training? Viewing porno or otherwise arousing libido?

What is it to be a man? Is it really so different from being a woman? To have integrity, and willingness to stand and defend your ideas? To be considerate about more than yourself and your own needs and desires? To be able to defend yourself? How is all of that any different from being a woman? Or non-binary?

Lots of women own guns. Lots of them are familiar with guns and lots of them have been trained  how to use or know how to use  them too. Oh, lots of them even hunt with them too these days. BTW, a Left Wing pussy like yourself can own a gun too. I'm sure there lots of them living in this country today. Oh, I'm sure there are lots of men and women of all races own them these days  too. Oh, I'm even sure lots of minorities of all kinds including LGTBQ's own them too. I assume that you are aware of these facts being true right. The question you had is why so many now? Why are lot of Americans (the highest amount in our history) of all kinds buying guns now?  If I have to answer that question for you then you must either be deaf, dumb and blind and incapable of knowing what's been going on since Biden won the Democratic primary or someone incapable of understanding much of anything these days or you must have your head stuck in the sand or stuck up your ass or most likely stuck up someone else's ass in layman's terms term. Last but not least, you must a Left Wing partisan hack who is into spreading Left Wing propaganda or someone who's making money via political affiliation aka a Crony Capitalist aka true fascist of sorts living off the Democratic system that's in place. I assume that you know what I'm talking about since you've been doing it and making money off your political affiliation with it for quite a while ( at least as long as I've known you) now via non profits.

Quote:As far as being a man and what separates the men from the boys (young males in development so to speak)  and the blue childults and girly men aka the bulk of the Left Wing males aka highly insecure males on the Democratic side so to speak.

Quote:In case you are wondering, men don't over react to much of anything that seems to upset so many these days.

1. Smart people have other means of getting what they want, whether sex, pleasure, or economic rewards
   
2. Smart people generally find legal sanctions such as fines and imprisonment adequate deterrents to crime
   
3. Stupid people overestimate their chances of success (Dunning-Kruger) at almost anything, including crime and escape from detection.
   

Quote:Men don't back down to much of anything or anyone either. Men don't rollover or run away from trouble a lot or very much either. And men don't give up the fight and/or quit as easily as the males on today's Left either.

Quote:Men aren't afraid to actually fight/die for those they love or what they believe in, they're not afraid to possibly get hurt or possibly die either.

Quote:You already know/ should have learned that with with me and the bulk of the Republican base you've grown to despise/hate over the years. You haven't seen Us get violent and don't want to ever see Us become violent either.

Quote:We will turn your world upside down  You see, we currently outnumber/outgun the Left Wings  criminal factions by a significant amount.

Quote:The way I see it, the moderate Democrats will find themselves with a few choices, stay with the do nothing  Democrats and meet their political demise  or resign with honor and distinction before 2024 or switch parties and join with Us (the growing Purple majority that exists in the country that continues to grow and give the Left Wingers fits).

Quote:You say that you're up against Reds but in reality you are up against a growing number of younger Purples. A relatively  large group of younger Americans who could give two shits about who is what, what skin tone, gender and so forth  that's largely character driven and merit based who aren't deaf dumb and blind who are aware that it's their future and the future of their children that are now at stake.

Quote:BTW, I wonder where that woman lives and how dangerous it is to live where she lives? I got the impression she lives in a blue community of their own making so to speak. Also, she doesn't seem to know much about Us as usual.

Quote: Also, she and the host don't seem to know the obvious difference between the LEGAL semi-automatic rifles that look like weapons of war and the real weapons of war depicted in the snip it video of real soldiers using their real weapons of war. Once again, no one in their right mind wants the real weapons to become the norm so to peak. Also, no one in their right mind wants some sicko to get their hands on a legal firearm that may look like a real weapon of war and then use it to kill a bunch of children inside their school classroom or use it to kill a bunch of adults in a bar or a bunch of people at some concert or some military base either. You're right about mental health and it's role in most of the mass killings that we've seen in recent years. Most gun-control advocates don't know much about guns except that they maek murder incredibly easy. Then  again, most of the discussion on the appropriateness of a crackdown on drunk driving came from people not experts in the harmacological effects of alcohol, either.

Quote:Most gun-control advocates don't know much about guns except that they maek murder incredibly easy. Then  again, most of the discussion on the appropriateness of a crackdown on drunk driving came from people not experts in the harmacological effects of alcohol, either.

Quote:The Red's scare/concern me less than the Blues these days. Unlike the Blues, the Reds are constitutionally limited and seem to be able to accept that as being the Law of the Land. On the other hand, the Blues seem to be unable to accept that and seem to be hell bent on changing it and establishing themselves as the Law of Land. You're seem pretty dumb for a so-called college boy aka so called smart person. I say that because you missing obvious signs relating to fascism aka social (socialist) Democrats of the industrial era. Unlike the Reds, the Blues actually have the power and a system in place to change things for the worse and destroy the entire country during the process in my opinion. Dude, if you had broke your finger while punching a bully instead of breaking it in gym class or whatever, you would have gained some respect at the bully's expense. I defeated my first bully in third grade by doing it dad's way. My second in fifth grade with a combination of mom's way and dad's way. The bully couldn't handle the sight of his own blood which ended the fight and his reign. He could handle mine coming out of me but could not handle his coming out of himself. BTW, the third grade bully is one of my better friends today.