Many Injured in Explosions at Boston Marathon

Sorry but guns are designed to shoot bullets primarily everything else is secondary.. I suppose I have shot between 25000 and 50000 rounds in my life. Killed a few squirrels, rabbits birds. Never have I shot anyone. Stopped a couple crimes simply by brandishing the weapon.

Shooting guns is no different than golf. Focus, concentration skill. Same idea as in learning to become expert with a katana. How many living so called katana experts have killed people with their swords? I can guarantee that if I was a cold blooded I was good enough with that Katana that I could have killed as many young school children almost as quickly with it as that psyco did with his gun in Connecticut.

As I have said before you Brits are a strange lot regarding firearms, 2nd amendment rights etc to is trying to describe color to a blind man. This is a human right to long ago and foreign to your culture for you to comprehend. I know your ancestors, the Gaels, the anglosaxons, the northmen etc would have understood this conversation much better than most of you now do.Read the Havamal if you don't understand what you have lost


Many of you claim to be warriors but are afraid of common weapons. Weapons are one of the tools of a warrior and should be respected not overly feared.A warrior is ready,willing and able to make life and death decisions, not just fantasizing about doing so. If I was unable to make those decisions on a daily basis, I would be useless in my job. If I ever said those decisions don't cause me to feel fear etc then I would be a fool.

A scalpel, a syringe of potent medicine and a loaded gun are very similar. They can save a life or end a life. It's the skill and character of the man (woman) that creates the outcome, not the tool. Don't fear the tool and try to ban it. Learn what it can do and become friends with it.
 
Connovar, do you claim to be a warrior?

Also, the fact that you think of firearms as "old" shows your historical short-sightedness. You guys are babies at this nation game, and comments like yours make us in the old world think you act your age as a country.
 
I was a Marine, I am not one those new age peaceful warriors that runs around in gold silk robes you prefer.

You Brits USED to be a great people but comments such as yours make me think you are losing your way.
 
Who are these new-age peaceful warriors, running around in gold silk robes you speak of?

They sound awesome.

What's your favourite part of the "Sayings of the High One?"
 
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I think this thread needs some David Tennant.

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Brits are great people. They may be cruddy shots, but as a people? No complaints from my trip there.
 
Paraphrase - one should always take a spear when you travel as you never know what you will run into.

In my neck of the woods besides 2 legged critters, we have lots of wolf, mountain lion, black bear and rarely up north more the occ grizzly.
Bow hunters in my part of the world are advised by fish and game department to also carry handguns because risk of attack by predators above which has sadly occurred.

Probably a very different world than what you come from. More primal, more free.
 
Sounds amazing. I've been just a few feet from bears 3 times now, they're amazing creatures.

So, what's this got to do with the tragic events in Boston again?
 
They're just going through that puberty phase where you think you are 'da man'. Not coincidentally, they have the attention span to match
Btw, I do agree with you. To measure the worth of a nation by their approch to private gun ownership is slightly silly.
 
If we measured a nation's worth on that basis, then Afghanistan would probably be the best!

I think it's a pity that one or two individuals seem to be trying to turn a thread about the tragic events in Boston into a gun-control debate. Personally, I don't think this is the thread to do it in.
 
You folks reckon this is related:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22195495

It could well be an industrial accident, but the location is a bit suspicious.
 
Hmm... yes and no. Nutbars and tinfoil hat brigade aside... Waco did make me wonder a tad. Then again - Waco is a perfect place for a fertilizer plant. So maybe not as strange as it sounds.
 
The timing and location are a bit suspect, but otoh it's a fertilizer plant. Plants such as those are accidents waiting to happen. Many countries have had plants like that go up with a big bang, including one near where I live. It's a small wonder this doesn't happen more often.
 
There's a very simple way to try and help understand this - and it's a psychological phenomena you can see replicated across the world where similar circumstances have occurred.

If one of the tribe (i.e. one of us) turns on their own, it is a tragedy and a time for grief and sorrow.

If the other (i.e. a terrorist, or an unknown perpetrator) turns on us, it is an attack and must be avenged.

Basically it's as simple as that.



How about we find out who carried it out as a first step?



I understand, really, I do. My family have lived in and around London for most of their lives - including through the years of IRA attacks - so yes, I get this sort of emotional response. I have family who were walking down high streets when bombs went off, an uncle who stepped off a bus which blew up fifty metres later, and many others.

But blind, emotional campaigns for vengeance are not the answer. Something like this cannot be rushed through - as yet we don't even know why it happened.



Any Brits here claim to be warriors (excepting, obviously, those in the military)? Personally I claim to be an IT consultant with a martial arts hobby rather than making such a stereotypically macho (and somewhat disturbing) claim of being some kind of ultimate killer/warrior.



They're really not. Maybe you should visit SpecSavers?

A scalpel is a tool designed to make surgery possible. It can be used to kill, but that is not it's primary intent and purpose.

A syringe is a tool designed to deliver drugs. It can be used to kill, but that is not it's primary intent and purpose.

A gun is a tool designed to put pieces of metal in living things. But there have been many debates on gun control, and this isn't the place.
 
I agree.



Interesting that you mentioned the IRA. Because as you say: blind emotional manhunts did not bring peace. Then again, I don't see the UK solution becoming popular in the US.



I'm a ninjer so by default I am 'teh deadly'...
Not really, no. I'm an IT guy with a martial arts hobby and a passion for blacksmithing. My sensei's a warrior though. Not because of the martial art but because he actually is one (the kind with a machine gun, a funny hat and some bling on his shoulders). Anyone confusing a martial artist with a warrior needs a reality check.
 
One is afterschool Japanese pajama party and one is something you're hardwired for. Two different things IMO. QFT.
 
You're right... it's not. And if it keeps up I'll hand bans out so fast that it will have people clammering like fools for ban control at MAP.
 
Hmm, your profile says your in health care. Doesn't that make you the guy warriors get sent back to when they get wounded on the field of battle? Then again it just says health care not doctor or nurse so maybe your the guy packing gauze into boxes and shipping them to field medics?
 
The FBI has released photographs of individuals they are seeking regarding the incident. If you recognize anyone, please contact the FBI immediately.
 
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