I've often thought of starting a sword collection. My older sister has about six or seven vintage swords, most of Japanese make, but a couple of excalibur models. Unfortunatley, I live in an area that has few weapon shows or stores, and the one vendor that did have swords contained swords that were cheap slabs of steel with sharp edges, nothing fancy at all.
I like to shoot guns for the sole purpose of the rewarding feeling you get with hitting a target. I'm talking like a bottle or a can, or a piece of paper with the current president on it, not people or animals. I like challenges, which is why I like to use guns with a bad recoil when I fire. Although sometimes I wimp out and decide to use a lightweight .22 rifle. Same thing when I used to fire arrows. That same basic rule applies to Golf, I believe, something that I have taken interest in learning how to play. Also why I like to play very realistic computer games, such as American Conquest, and Battlefield 1942, instead of such games as Starcraft and Counterstrike.
I do not think this is the clever comment that you intended it to be.
I'm about to the point where I think there needs to be a kissing cousin to Godwin's Law, stating that as a gun thread goes along, there will always be somebody who will resort to the "gun = penis compensation LOL".
Back to the flamethrower issue, whatever happened to doing something for the sheer sake of seeing if it can be done?
I'm terribly sorry I didn't amuse you. But I wasn't trying to be clever.
I didn't call guns anything; my father owns several and I was thinking of getting one myself, although I would make sure I knew how to use one first. I was referring to the flamethrower.
This is the same kind of irresponsible lack of gun safety that I've already said responsible gun owners abhor. You're not bringing anything new to the table.
1. He's drunk with a firearm.
2. His firearm is illegal.
3. His illegal firearm is further illegally modified.
Ahnk, I don't quite understand what you're trying to prove with that article? I've already said many times over that there are going to be some idiots in the bunch. Every society has them. It's just that responsible gun-owners on the whole seem to get the brunt of things when the minority (made up of the not-quite-intelligent) do something incredibly stupid by mixing say, alcohol and firearms.
Most gun owners who are serious about what they do and know what they're doing, do not own illegal firearms. Once again, it's the minority of idiots and thugs who think they're being cool by having an illegal gun in their possession.
Here's a question. I once knew a guy a few years back who took martial arts. He took it to learn self defense and also because he enjoyed the excercise and challenge it offered him. One afternoon he was hanging at the house of another friend of mine, and offered to illustrate/demonstrate a new move he learned recently. Ended up accidentally breaking the other guy's arm. Now, because he really hurt someone, should martial arts on the whole be banned in any way? As much as one could consider it to be a form of expression and art, it is also used to kill and defend.
People don't seem to take into consideration other hobbies that utilize weapons and/or moves that have the potential to hurt, maim, and kill. Instead, they decide to go on a witch hunt for guns and gun owners regardless of what said firearm is used for.
