Debate about Gun Control

[Copperfield]

(09-07-2016, 07:47 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Safe to say you're not a hippie now.

I'm an Xer. I'm a pragmatist, so I take bits and pieces of things that work and put them together with other things that also work to come up with new things that work. In some ways I am a hippy, in others I'm not. It was not my time or my movement.

Now one of my aunts on the other hand was the grand champion arch-hippy (at least until her death). She was a professional thief, flower-child, fierce feminist, militant lesbian, hunter/gatherer, mechanic, DIYer and world adventurer, all wrapped up in a genius-level IQ. Among her life achievements were (and these are just a few samples) never paying her taxes or college loans (while collecting SSI benefits - always cracks me up thinking about it), caring for abused women, sneaking into the Soviet Union and having her finger ripped off by a wild horse. When 5 year old me was fascinated with the Mt. Saint Helens eruption, she went out to the fucking still-active volcano and brought me back a vial full of ash (I still have it somewhere). To this day I still don't really know if she was crazy or just that much smarter than everyone else (or both). She was however more hippy than most of the rest of the hippy movement combined. There are few people that have lived a life as free as she did.

(09-07-2016, 07:47 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Hippies are NOT gun-toters, and they don't shoot animals. Or so I claim.

They do when they are hungry. But then my dad grew up poor and learned to live off the land.

(09-07-2016, 07:47 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: You know my point of view by now. Without politics of a liberal progressive kind, the people are left at the mercy of the greedy and powerful. There's no doubt about that, whatever anarchist or libertarian arguments you might try to muster. The facts are clear that we need to state to protect us from outlaws, brigands and big business. They are the ones who derive power from the many for the few. The alternative is always barbarism, unless we all become like Jesus and his early communes. Even then, organization of some kind is needed and inevitable.

It's your mantra. Keep repeating it and maybe Beetlejuice will appear. For my part, I'm still waiting for you to demonstrate any knowledge of your bullet points or even a basic ability to define the croutons in your salad. Until then by all means, please continue to try to terrify the children with those scary bedtime stories.