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Posted: 1/5/2006 11:09:05 AM EDT
Get this! Semi-lengthy but a very worthy read!
(caught it over at Fark.com) |
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Seen it before, but not for a while. I work with somebody like that. He's utterly terrified by guns, even though he's never seen one or handled one. Intellectually he agrees that he needs to confront his phobia, but emotionally he's a mess, and just aghast at the idea of handling a gun. Grew up in NYC/NJ area. Just the way he was raised, I guess...
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it always seems that people who immigrate here from around the world, who carry with them the understanding of other [less free] systems of government, who jump through beaurocratic hoop after hoop, who take tests and study and eventuall become US citizens; those people always "get" things like the 2nd. whereas many of our homegrowns just don't have a fucking clue anymore. maybe we should start deporting liberals to places like bosnia, serbia, iraq, etc. and require them to go through the whole immigration and naturalization process before they can come back. i bet they'd "get it" by they time they got back to the states. |
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The Pink Pistols would take exception to that You know, in all honesty, I could probably make a case for STRAIGHT males being more likely to be anti-gun than I could gay males. Many straight males feel the need to impress the ladies. "I don't need no gun to be Billy Badass"... Well, I could paraphrase more of this Julia Gorin's article but she put it way better than I could have. Julia Gorin: Another person who's hand I would like to shake. |
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Is this your way of coming out ? Not that there's anything wrong with that. |
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There is a similar sort of guy, who often seems to be a newspaper columnist. This guy is proud of the fact that he is totally unable to fix anything,and does not own any tools at all-and he is proud of the fact! My (ex) brother-in-law was like this-I remember him saying "I work with my head,not with my hands" after I had graciously fixed some problem with his car. He was a newspaper writer,too.
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Nope, I'm a straight dude. Go hawk your wares somewhere else. |
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Good read. Thanks.
Sigmund Freud was right, "A fear of weapons is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity." |
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I've got a friend who has a phobia of knives and similar sharp objects. He doesn't like people using them around him because he's afraid they'll slip, drop it, whatever and he'll get hurt on accident. Took him hunting for the first time about a month ago and he got himself a pig on his first time in the blind. He was really into the gutting process but kept himself away from it when we pulled out these huge (to him) knives to use. Since he didn't know what to do at first, we had him hold things for us while we worked ("pull back that flap of skin, hold it still, rotate it," etc.) but he kept squirming when a blade got near him. Finally I said, "Fine, if my having a knife this close to you makes you uncomfortable, you do it", handed him the knife, and put him to work. That really helped him get over it because once he had the knife he knew he was in control and it wouldn't get him.
"I work with my head" means "I get other people to do it for me because I'm a lazy parasite" when dealing with that sort of person. |
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Absolutely on the mark! My brother fits the mold to a "T".
When I joined up and went to Vietnam, he prepared to flee to Canada. When he was working in a gas station about 1970, a BG held a gun to his head in a robbery. Since he was unarmed, he had no recourse. When he was present and witnessed a woman being attacked by a large dog, he did absolutely nothing, fearing for his safety. The woman was badly chewed up. When I bugged him about it, his answer was that he wasn't getting chewed up for anybody else. When I posed the ultimate gun argument to him, "Well, would you use a firearm if your wife was being raped and murdered in front of you?", his answer was a resounding NO. When he saw the baby on the bed one day playing next to my holstered and hammer-secured .45LC revolver, he about had a cow! When I 'splained how even though the gun was loaded (Aren't they ALL?), he nearly had a coronary. There were other adults in the room, and I was merely waiting to secure the holster rig. When faced with a confrontation as a kid, he would run away...even though I as his older bro was in the thick of the fight defending his ass! And oh...he HATES guns...and FEARS gun. He wants them all GONE even if it means that the JBTs have to go door to door to confiscate; even if the Constitution has to be amended or overturned to rid the country of guns, even if we have to spend 1/2 the national treasury to prevent "illegal" guns from coming across the border in the backs of big rigs like dope...once the good laws are in place; even if we have to sanction with whatever it takes to prevent foreign guns from entering the US. In other words ALL guns, ALL ammo, ALL extra "stuff" must be banned forthwith in his mind. Crazy isn't it? Oh...he finally got his wish: He's retiring in a couple of years and moving to Vancouver. Good...he always liked being a socialist weenie anyway. |
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Disown him. |
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We had a huge falling out when I returned from 'Nam in 1969. He was about to flee to Canada because of the impending draft lottery. He got lucky and drew a high number. We've not been close at all since then. He epitomizes the typical DU'er socialist liberal ass hat. I epitomize the Ayn Rand conservative. One day, he REALLY got under my skin at Christmas one year at their place in Kali (before we moved out) by stating that I, a Navy Mustang (Former enlisted) must remember that the rungs on the ladder of my "success" were populated by the people who had worked for ME! I nearly went nuts. I started out as an E-1 and through a mix of hard work, dumb luck and minimal intellect, was able to make E-7 then get a commission. I WAS that "rung" on his socialist ladder. I was SO pissed. I think we've traded maybe ten words in the last five years. Since he is a socialist, he considers me to be a trog...despite the fact that I'm the one who ended up on a university faculty. I mean...how can ANY conservative do that??? |
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Of course I'm "compensating for something." ........if I could kill things from 25 yrds away with my dick I wouldn't need a gun.
I know this is a old line but I like it |
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LOL |
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Not confined to news guys. It's a misguided form of self esteem. "My time is so valuable, or I make so much money that I can;t be troubled to know how to do that." It's funny, because the one example I am thinking of probably makes about what I do. I value my time, I don't wash my car, for example, because I can do other things while I pay a nominal amount to have someone else wash it. But one time, he bragged that he didn't know anything about plumbing, and revealed that he was paralyzed by ignorance after a hose bib broke off and flooded out the planters in front of his house. He paid a guy $50 to turn off the frigging water. Not to fix the problem, but to simply turn off the main. I don't take on huge home projects, but I can reset a fuse, do basic emergency plumbing, I once sweated in a tankless water heater. But I'm with you, there's something confusing to me about guys who brag they can;t change a light buld. Heinlen or somebody had a list of things every person should be able to do. |
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That's sigline material! |
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Depends on who's saying it. A buddy of mine at work and I were discussing this, and decided in some cases it was better to have a pro do it, that to take it on ourselves simply because it gets done faster. 'course, we travel and work weekends, so that does factor in. |
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Here ya go,
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for some reason every time it mentions something about equality or feelings I get mad. Strange...
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