Out of Pod Experience

Well it's looking like the treaty fell apart, but based on the account of how it fell apart, with a lack of attempts at coercion from the US State Department, it might be a NDAA Hail Mary play where they say it's dead, and then next day you hear it's signed.


Not like it matters. It's the UN, after all.


Long ago we had a chart for much UN biosphere land you would be awarded for the ranks on the UN tags you turned in. What, did you think CCP came up with that idea?

Its in there because the USA feared a British invasion in 1776.

Flahs news: nobody cares of how many guns American owe. As far as I am concerned, personally, you should make mandatory to owe a weapon in every household and subsidize the poorer chaps if they can't afford one.

Then once achieved, you should make mandatory that everyone over 16 had a gun and learned to use it.

And then lower the mandatory possession age to 10 and build a shooting range in every primary school.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jObsyBo31uLAlu6uB3DJF09yTV6g?docId=765f4e3bc5fa48c3bc79622b2990820b

"....well-enshrined legal principle that says no treaty can override the Constitution or U.S. laws."


The whole goal of the treaty is to get a handle on international gun trafficking. The idea that the treaty would allow foreign boots on US soil to take privately owned weapons is stupid. Personally, I would be more worried about whether the treaty would impact the profits/jobs of US gun companies selling weapons internationally.

Anyway, IMO, the level of FUD and outright lies that have the US conservative party and its related interests have been spouting over the last few years has reached new lows. My greatest concern is that a large number of US citizens believe this stuff even when a few minutes of research shows such claims/fears to be completely false or baseless.

Florida was one of the first states to be a "shall issue" status CCW issuer. "Shall issue" means that if you are not a criminal or nut, lacking felony convictions and domestic violence misdemeanors/restraining orders, you could get a permit. No having to be a politician or go begging to one.

This was back in the 1980s, when there was serious crime in Florida.

As was expected then, there was the usual arm waving and claims of "people are going to have shootouts over parking spaces!!!".


Instead homicide dropped around 30 percent.

In Florida, you can keep a loaded gun in your car without a permit provided that it's in "three layers of retention". Yes you read that right.


Florida lacks a certain feature that the north end of the eastern seaboard has: demographic seperation by real estate. In New York for example, if you live away from the cities, you live in a house that costs probably at least a quarter million dollars (two bedroom, no garage likely) but someone just out of jail cannot afford to "live out there" and if they say, got on a bus, and tried to get out there to victimize your unarmed butt, the cops would stop them because they would stick out like a sore thumb.

In Florida, you can live in an upscale town, and get in your expensive car, and at the first intersection you are in, waiting for the light, the person next to you just got out of jail, the person on the other side is probably going to jail,. and the person who just ran the red light probably has a warrant out for his arrest.

So you see the difference. If you live out in the suburbs in the north, you have to go out of your way to cross paths with criminals. But in the south, you will have one living next door.


Now the question is, how do you like it? in order to have some security in your life (you know, find your car the way you left it, not have to have a friend live in your house when you are away,even for a day, etc) would you prefer to:

1. live in a state where everybody has a gun and criminals have to think twice or
2. live in a state where nobody is armed and if you want to be safer, work three jobs so you can afford that expensive small house with the 10000 per year property tax.


Of course, you are not always safe in the latter case. In 1993, Collin Ferguson, a black guy who did not like whiteys, and also a bit off his rocker, decided he was going to kill a bunch of white people. So he..... got a a train to Long Island because, and he admitted this, he knew that the Whitey McWhitebreads are nice law-abiding people who are not likely to be armed - obeying all those gun laws of New York they were. They were his target. So you see, buying the expensive house on Long Island didn't work for the 20+ people he shot. Nor did the strict laws of New York.


In the end, most of America does not consider New York a part of America anyway.

Actually schools used to have shooting teams before the emo kids went nuts

Is there no end to the fun things they destroy?

^ Those are usefull programs. Guns are useful to cure boredom as well as to impress friends. They are useful for shooting locks open. And useful for pistol whipping.

Stealing from Churchill in regards to the political scene: "Never have so few caused so much trouble for so many and lived so long at the patience of so many more".


We just haven't done it yet. But need I go into 4th Generation Warfare and the need to beat the tyrants peacefully first, then they start the violence, and then we use them as meat puppets until they start to stink.

that would be fun to learn. as to the militarization of schools, if done in a manner that teaches control and the mentality before anything, it might work. also, turn it into a military training system for children. this would also help fight the obesity problem.