Dave Milne wrote:
> "Frank_v7.0" <none@no.net> wrote in message
> news:ZdcJi.17195$B25.16215@news01.roc.ny...
>> Jeff DeWitt wrote:
>>> Dave Milne wrote:
>>>> I've met plenty of people I'd trust with a gun, and plenty of people
> who
>>>> should never be allowed out by themselves.
>>>>
>>>> Just for an OT discussion, are the following statements true, scaled
>>>> up to
>>>> country level ?
>>>>
>>>> "an armed North Korea is a polite North Korea"
>>> No, you have to keep things in context. An armed society is a polite
>>> society because you never know who might be armed so it's best to assume
>>> everyone is. On a nation to nation level that doesn't work so well
>>> because it's hardly ever the leaders that get hurt if the shooting
> starts.
>>>> "Its not WMDs that kill people, its people that kill people".
>>> WMD's DON'T kill people, someone has to set off the WMD and it's that
>>> someone that is doing the killing.
>>>
>>> The US and the old Soviet Union had insane amounts of nuclear weapons
>>> pointed at each other and those weapons never hurt a soul because no one
>>> used them (thank God), indeed it could be argued that WMD SAVE people
>>> because all those weapons may have kept the cold war from becoming hot.
>>>
>>> Jeff DeWitt
>> Yup! That was M.A.D. Mutually Assured Destruction. You'd have to be nuts
>> to start a nuclear war. The problem today is people who are nuts getting
>> their hands on nukes. And I apologize in advance for getting so far O.T.
>> in a Jeep Group :-)
>>
>> --
>> FRH
>
> oh well, since I agree with you both in the main, no point in arguing
> further :-)
>
> I not totally convinced an armed society is a polite society, as it depends
> on how many nutters you have. Equally, nuclear societies like the US,
> Britain and Russia are polite societies (for the MAD point you made).
> However as you said "you'd have to be nuts..", and I'm sure Iran and N Korea
> are nuts.
>
> Dave. Milne, Scotland
>
> Dave
>
>
In an armed society the nutters either learn to control themselves or
they are quickly taken care of. One thing they DON'T do is show up on a
collage campus and start blasting away, because if they do they quickly
get dealt with.

Jeff DeWitt

 

Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

> Bill Putney <bptn@kinez.net> writes:
>
>>Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>>
>>>"Spdloader" <askforit@nospam.triad.rr.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>"Joe Pfeiffer" <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote in message
>>>>news:1bwsuihdiy.fsf@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily .net...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Bill Putney <bptn@kinez.net> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>LOL! Any time you see young white guys wearing their hats backwards
>>>>>>(for many, it's all the time), you can always bet on something stupid
>>>>>>happening.
>>>>>
>>>>>Oh, don't be racist and ageist. Don't have to be white, don't have to
>>>>>be young.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Making an accurate observation is neither.
>>>>It is merely a statement of the truth.
>>>
>>>
>>>My point was that it was unnecessarily narrow. When you see guys of
>>>other colors, and old guys, with their hats on backwards you can still
>>>bet on something stupid happening (it's arguable whether something
>>>stupid has *already* happened when he put his hat on).
>>
>>You're reading *way* too much into it, Joe.
>
>
> I tried to extend the joke a notch and found myself labelled PC....

Reading back over your posts, I get it now. Very good.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with the letter 'x')

 

Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

> Bill Putney <bptn@kinez.net> writes:
>
>>Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>>
>>>"Spdloader" <askforit@nospam.triad.rr.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>"Joe Pfeiffer" <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote in message
>>>>news:1bwsuihdiy.fsf@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily .net...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Bill Putney <bptn@kinez.net> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>LOL! Any time you see young white guys wearing their hats backwards
>>>>>>(for many, it's all the time), you can always bet on something stupid
>>>>>>happening.
>>>>>
>>>>>Oh, don't be racist and ageist. Don't have to be white, don't have to
>>>>>be young.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Making an accurate observation is neither.
>>>>It is merely a statement of the truth.
>>>
>>>
>>>My point was that it was unnecessarily narrow. When you see guys of
>>>other colors, and old guys, with their hats on backwards you can still
>>>bet on something stupid happening (it's arguable whether something
>>>stupid has *already* happened when he put his hat on).
>>
>>You're reading *way* too much into it, Joe.
>
>
> I tried to extend the joke a notch and found myself labelled PC....

Reading back over your posts, I get it now. Very good.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with the letter 'x')

 

Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

> Bill Putney <bptn@kinez.net> writes:
>
>>Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>>
>>>"Spdloader" <askforit@nospam.triad.rr.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>"Joe Pfeiffer" <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote in message
>>>>news:1bwsuihdiy.fsf@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily .net...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Bill Putney <bptn@kinez.net> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>LOL! Any time you see young white guys wearing their hats backwards
>>>>>>(for many, it's all the time), you can always bet on something stupid
>>>>>>happening.
>>>>>
>>>>>Oh, don't be racist and ageist. Don't have to be white, don't have to
>>>>>be young.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Making an accurate observation is neither.
>>>>It is merely a statement of the truth.
>>>
>>>
>>>My point was that it was unnecessarily narrow. When you see guys of
>>>other colors, and old guys, with their hats on backwards you can still
>>>bet on something stupid happening (it's arguable whether something
>>>stupid has *already* happened when he put his hat on).
>>
>>You're reading *way* too much into it, Joe.
>
>
> I tried to extend the joke a notch and found myself labelled PC....

Reading back over your posts, I get it now. Very good.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with the letter 'x')

 

Joe Pfeiffer wrote:

> Bill Putney <bptn@kinez.net> writes:
>
>>Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>>
>>>"Spdloader" <askforit@nospam.triad.rr.com> writes:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>"Joe Pfeiffer" <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> wrote in message
>>>>news:1bwsuihdiy.fsf@snowball.wb.pfeifferfamily .net...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>Bill Putney <bptn@kinez.net> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>LOL! Any time you see young white guys wearing their hats backwards
>>>>>>(for many, it's all the time), you can always bet on something stupid
>>>>>>happening.
>>>>>
>>>>>Oh, don't be racist and ageist. Don't have to be white, don't have to
>>>>>be young.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Making an accurate observation is neither.
>>>>It is merely a statement of the truth.
>>>
>>>
>>>My point was that it was unnecessarily narrow. When you see guys of
>>>other colors, and old guys, with their hats on backwards you can still
>>>bet on something stupid happening (it's arguable whether something
>>>stupid has *already* happened when he put his hat on).
>>
>>You're reading *way* too much into it, Joe.
>
>
> I tried to extend the joke a notch and found myself labelled PC....

Reading back over your posts, I get it now. Very good.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
address with the letter 'x')

 

Ok ok... thank you.
Whenever Hubs turns his around in the Jeep, he always laughs and does or
says something silly..
Letting me know that he feels a little goofy.

In the case of my hubby... he is a bald headed guy. If he goes without a
cap, he's burnt.

Kate

"Steve" <no@spam.thanks> wrote in message
news:8--dnVKNlL3NP2jbnZ2dnUVZ_gudnZ2d@texas.net...
Kate wrote:


>
> Ya'll are out of your f-ing minds if you think some is going to do
> something
> stupid simply because they turn their hat around.

Then let us rephrase: Something stupid is about to happen when someone
wears their cap (not hat) backwards when they're NOT welding or trying
to keep their neck from sunburning (although a hat, not a cap, would be
a better solution in that case, but I'll adit that sometimes all I have
is a cap when I need sun protection). I wouldn't even turn mine around
to keep it from blowing off in my convertible- I wouldn't want to be
mistaken for a damnfool urban punk.

 

Ok ok... thank you.
Whenever Hubs turns his around in the Jeep, he always laughs and does or
says something silly..
Letting me know that he feels a little goofy.

In the case of my hubby... he is a bald headed guy. If he goes without a
cap, he's burnt.

Kate

"Steve" <no@spam.thanks> wrote in message
news:8--dnVKNlL3NP2jbnZ2dnUVZ_gudnZ2d@texas.net...
Kate wrote:


>
> Ya'll are out of your f-ing minds if you think some is going to do
> something
> stupid simply because they turn their hat around.

Then let us rephrase: Something stupid is about to happen when someone
wears their cap (not hat) backwards when they're NOT welding or trying
to keep their neck from sunburning (although a hat, not a cap, would be
a better solution in that case, but I'll adit that sometimes all I have
is a cap when I need sun protection). I wouldn't even turn mine around
to keep it from blowing off in my convertible- I wouldn't want to be
mistaken for a damnfool urban punk.

 

Ok ok... thank you.
Whenever Hubs turns his around in the Jeep, he always laughs and does or
says something silly..
Letting me know that he feels a little goofy.

In the case of my hubby... he is a bald headed guy. If he goes without a
cap, he's burnt.

Kate

"Steve" <no@spam.thanks> wrote in message
news:8--dnVKNlL3NP2jbnZ2dnUVZ_gudnZ2d@texas.net...
Kate wrote:


>
> Ya'll are out of your f-ing minds if you think some is going to do
> something
> stupid simply because they turn their hat around.

Then let us rephrase: Something stupid is about to happen when someone
wears their cap (not hat) backwards when they're NOT welding or trying
to keep their neck from sunburning (although a hat, not a cap, would be
a better solution in that case, but I'll adit that sometimes all I have
is a cap when I need sun protection). I wouldn't even turn mine around
to keep it from blowing off in my convertible- I wouldn't want to be
mistaken for a damnfool urban punk.

 

Ok ok... thank you.
Whenever Hubs turns his around in the Jeep, he always laughs and does or
says something silly..
Letting me know that he feels a little goofy.

In the case of my hubby... he is a bald headed guy. If he goes without a
cap, he's burnt.

Kate

"Steve" <no@spam.thanks> wrote in message
news:8--dnVKNlL3NP2jbnZ2dnUVZ_gudnZ2d@texas.net...
Kate wrote:


>
> Ya'll are out of your f-ing minds if you think some is going to do
> something
> stupid simply because they turn their hat around.

Then let us rephrase: Something stupid is about to happen when someone
wears their cap (not hat) backwards when they're NOT welding or trying
to keep their neck from sunburning (although a hat, not a cap, would be
a better solution in that case, but I'll adit that sometimes all I have
is a cap when I need sun protection). I wouldn't even turn mine around
to keep it from blowing off in my convertible- I wouldn't want to be
mistaken for a damnfool urban punk.

 

Kate wrote:
> Ok ok... thank you.
> Whenever Hubs turns his around in the Jeep, he always laughs and does
> or says something silly..
> Letting me know that he feels a little goofy.
>
> In the case of my hubby... he is a bald headed guy. If he goes
> without a cap, he's burnt.

be afraid, be very very afraid.
http://www.villagehatshop.com/im_the_leader.html

--
DougW