tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post2381450599892808952..comments2023-11-03T11:32:01.540+00:00Comments on Thought Experiments : The Blog: Virginia TechBryan Appleyardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-67412536591482183142008-11-13T18:35:00.000+00:002008-11-13T18:35:00.000+00:00Mr.Bush have spoken with Governor Tim Kaine and Vi...Mr.Bush have spoken with Governor Tim Kaine and Virginia Tech President Charles Steger. I told them that Laura and I and many across our nation are praying for the victims and their families and all the members of the university community who have been devastated by this terrible tragedy.He told them that my administration would do everything possible to assist with the investigation and that I Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12341369324937631052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-43540754056485612402008-11-03T04:57:00.000+00:002008-11-03T04:57:00.000+00:00asus w3v batteryasus w3000a batteryasus w3000 batt...<A HREF="http://www.batterygoshop.co.uk/asus/w3v-battery.htm" REL="nofollow">asus w3v battery</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.batterygoshop.co.uk/asus/w3000a-battery.htm" REL="nofollow">asus w3000a battery</A><BR/><A HREF="http://www.batterygoshop.co.uk/asus/w3000-battery.htm" REL="nofollow">asus w3000 battery</A>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-42560168618015881422008-08-21T13:08:00.000+00:002008-08-21T13:08:00.000+00:00There should be common law in every city of a coun...There should be common law in every city of a country,in America if we want get a gun its take too much time because the govt law should not allow you to get that one easily.Most of the gun lovers are trying to get gun from different cities where laws are little bit familiar towards those people.<BR/>=================================<BR/>jammywatson <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-27591267785639731582007-05-03T20:28:00.000+00:002007-05-03T20:28:00.000+00:00Bryan: your showstopping line in this post (and Du...Bryan: your showstopping line in this post (and Duck's riposte) have made to the world-famous <A HREF="http://thinkofengland.blogspot.com/2007/05/book-of-blog-quotations.html" REL="nofollow">Blog Book of Quotations.</A>Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-3345533570505683982007-04-18T22:16:00.000+00:002007-04-18T22:16:00.000+00:00Lee, I agree with you here. I think it should be m...Lee, I agree with you here. I think it should be much, much more difficult to obtain a gun than it is. In my fair city of Philadelphia (one of the murder capitals of the U.S.), one of our paper's reporters managed to buy two handguns -- one of them a truly scary weapon capable of taking someone's head off at close range -- in a matter of hours. They checked his driver's license, saw he wasn't a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-41393492844434820152007-04-18T19:51:00.000+00:002007-04-18T19:51:00.000+00:00Ok, we can go on and on here. But, Susan (although...Ok, we can go on and on here. But, Susan (although i actually agree with much of what you have to say), do you not find it troubling that many find the answer to such an horrific event not by wanting guns banned altoghter, but for 'everyone' to be armed?<BR/><BR/>I just find buying a high-firepower weapon legally from a shop, without proper background checks pretty terrifying.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-73125981817173101272007-04-18T08:40:00.000+00:002007-04-18T08:40:00.000+00:00Andrew:As far as I'm aware, mass murder occured be...Andrew:<BR/><BR/>As far as I'm aware, mass murder occured before George W Bush became President. He can't do all the evil in the world - he's only one man.<BR/><BR/>A nut did this. I do believe it's a sensible question to ask: "Can the US do something to make it more difficult for nuts to get hold of firearms?" <BR/><BR/>I have argued long and hard with Americans gun-lovers about this, and what IBrithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-53765018465285464252007-04-18T06:13:00.000+00:002007-04-18T06:13:00.000+00:00Thanks to all of you for a gripping discussion, th...Thanks to all of you for a gripping discussion, the best this blog has seen, I think. I couldn't for the moment, attempt to respond, primarily because you have made me realise how little I know. It's a common feeling with advancing age. But I shall try in due course.Bryan Appleyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-26197480815624044252007-04-18T01:49:00.000+00:002007-04-18T01:49:00.000+00:00In a few short years, the regime has destroyed the...<I>In a few short years, the regime has destroyed the Bill of Rights, the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions, and the remains of America?s moral reputation along with the infrastructures of two Muslim countries and countless thousands of Islamic civilians."</I><BR/><BR/>Now that's what I call power!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-6477908810117683862007-04-18T01:48:00.000+00:002007-04-18T01:48:00.000+00:00The state has less power in my opinion. Even over ...The state has less power in my opinion. Even over here. The marketplace has a monopoly on nukes and god knows what other shit.<BR/>Alot of the gun nuts believe it's everyones right, if they so choose, to build and own nuclear weapons.<BR/>Yet people believe, despite the internet, television, globalisation etc that we're approaching an orwellian nightmare.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-46435786966358518402007-04-17T23:24:00.000+00:002007-04-17T23:24:00.000+00:00Andrew and Duck: Not 'who's' government, but 'whos...Andrew and Duck: Not 'who's' government, but 'whose' government. 'Who's' means 'who is.'<BR/><BR/>The English language is going to hell in a handbasket.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-77939880880673221102007-04-17T21:33:00.000+00:002007-04-17T21:33:00.000+00:00Andrew, are you a white nationalist yourself or do...Andrew, are you a white nationalist yourself or do you just like to link to white nationalist websites?Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03071928294799081845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-51437370133769689252007-04-17T20:48:00.000+00:002007-04-17T20:48:00.000+00:00And finally, Duck, you might be interested in this...And finally, Duck, you might be interested in this excellent article by Paul Craig Roberts, who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration, which offers a brief overview of the last few political years in America.<BR/>Called Americans Have Lost Their Country, it begins, "The Bush-Cheney regime is America’s first neoconservative regime. In a few short years, the regime Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-69119948245793748772007-04-17T20:34:00.000+00:002007-04-17T20:34:00.000+00:00You dislike conversation moving away from matters ...You dislike conversation moving away from matters other than the particular and nothing but the particular, Brit? It seems a shame to have the capacity for thought and to instead insist its use is an irrelevant luxury item. Perhaps a few years further down the brave new globalising idiot culture and all abstract thought can be discouraged and termed Conspiracy Theorising.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-83502155424495110942007-04-17T20:19:00.000+00:002007-04-17T20:19:00.000+00:00I've no great respect for my own government, Duck,...I've no great respect for my own government, Duck, and your tit for tat idea regarding who's government is more corrupt would seem to affirm the obsequious point I made. I don't understand the notion of a patriotic connection to the elites who hold power. Every one of the things I mentioned have happened/ are happening... Guantanamo Bay exists, torture is legitimised, people are being kidnapped Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-12896039661854201872007-04-17T20:15:00.000+00:002007-04-17T20:15:00.000+00:00Lee, you saw a guy from a pro-gun group that tried...Lee, you saw a guy from a pro-gun group that tried to get a bill passed last year to permit students to carry concealed weapons on campus. The Va. legislature would not pass it -- which tells you a great deal about "many Americans." Now he's getting a chance to say "I told you so," but a bill like that still won't get passed -- many, in fact *most* Americans don't want students carrying guns on Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-1336730039410871652007-04-17T18:16:00.000+00:002007-04-17T18:16:00.000+00:00I've got a theory about who is the real villain be...I've got a theory about who is the real villain behind this shooting. It's a little 'out there', but bear with me...<BR/><BR/>...I blame it on a nut called Cho Seung-hui.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-68934317794217093602007-04-17T17:28:00.000+00:002007-04-17T17:28:00.000+00:00I don't dispute this, Susan, but in this case I wa...I don't dispute this, Susan, but in this case I wasn't actually referring to the gunman, rather the attitudes of many Americans. As was also stated in the blog:<BR/><BR/>"Many Americans value guns in ways that, occasionally, I have begun to understand, but, on the whole, I don't. Last night I saw a man say that, if the students at Virginia Tech had been armed, then the slaughter there would have Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-43671744184226829032007-04-17T16:59:00.000+00:002007-04-17T16:59:00.000+00:00Peter, frightening photos and illustrations? I li...Peter, frightening photos and illustrations? I linked to the Daily Duck. Don't tell me your afraid to go there now!<BR/><BR/>Andrew, we could get into a whole tit for tat discussion about who's government is trammeling civil rights and freedoms, because there's plenty of ammunition to use against your government. But you've been reading too many heavy breathers from the extreme libertarian Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08852569465893563139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-42288563594393534562007-04-17T16:32:00.000+00:002007-04-17T16:32:00.000+00:00Cutting, David, very.Cutting, David, very.Bryan Appleyardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08276787058430388582noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-4964503228841834462007-04-17T16:29:00.000+00:002007-04-17T16:29:00.000+00:00I wonder how far he would have got in England. Eve...I wonder how far he would have got in England. Everyone has knives over here as far as I can make out in the press.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-88657417052624004002007-04-17T16:25:00.000+00:002007-04-17T16:25:00.000+00:00Could one argue that all these guns are a bit poin...Could one argue that all these guns are a bit pointless if people aren't going to use them in a practical way ie killing other living beings? Could one mention the alchemist phrase, "As above, so below?" If one's government applies the philosophy of might is right, and one's economy is immensely balanced towards the production of machines for extinguishing life, and the films and games of one's "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-79569153368150137292007-04-17T15:04:00.000+00:002007-04-17T15:04:00.000+00:00Perhaps the news that the killer was a student fro...Perhaps the news that the killer was a student from South Korea will slow down the somewhat predicatble efforts to blame that 'ole cowboy gun culture.<BR/><BR/>Yes, this issue does separate the Americans from the rest, but the differences are overblown, sometimes with discernible <I>schadenfreude</I>. The whole question looks very different through rural eyes and the States has a vibrant, large Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-12297625876005352492007-04-17T14:40:00.000+00:002007-04-17T14:40:00.000+00:00I'll take up the challenge and defend American gun...I'll take up the challenge and defend American gun culture. Brit and I have debated this topic quite thoroughly both on TofE and the <A HREF="http://dailyduck.blogspot.com/2007/02/castle-doctrine-and-its-detractors.html#comments" REL="nofollow">Daily Duck</A>. <BR/><BR/>First off Bryan, your self-contained wilderness is no such thing, it is a manicured garden devoid of predators. You feel no Duckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08852569465893563139noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23400750.post-84908986214368169502007-04-17T14:30:00.000+00:002007-04-17T14:30:00.000+00:00'People decide things with their heart and then us...'People decide things with their heart and then use their mind to justify it'... a quote that often springs to my mind - as it did last night as I listened to the same 'arm the good people' fool. I think he's in love, and as Jeremy Clarkson said the previous night, who can explain that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com