I think that's right. Just calling random people out of the blue probably wouldn't work anywhere.
Most of us (Americans) are decent, friendly people, but we have far more than our share of jerks too....people who's only pleasure is ruining other people's good time. They would sign up for this in droves, and just like chat roulette you would have to sift through all the dicks to find a decent participant I think.
Of course, I could just be jaded.

*backup=[...snipped...] for US/American trailer.

For all of us Americans: 500kg = 1102.31lbs

And such as US Americans don't have that and such as. And they should such as the future and marijuana.

Interesting that she 'sings' with a US American accent.

>> ^colt45:

So those 82% are all owning guns for murder or war, then? Let's just take this absurd myopic view one step further: Rocks are dangerous weapons that need to be banned! They are readily available to children and highly dangerous!
>> ^L0cky:
Around 6% of US Americans hunt, yet around 34% own a gun; therefore around 82% of gun owners own a gun for something other than hunting. Bringing up hunting is just avoiding the issue.
Besides, I don't think that guy's UZI is for hunting rabbits.
Also, you don't need to teach children how to safely use firearms if they don't have access to firearms. Kinda like how you don't need to teach them how to safely use a particle accelerator, even though they too are dangerous.


Wow. That definitely made my top 10 list of "Really stupid things that I actually read on the internet".

Seriously, when was the last time a kid accidently threw a rock and blew his friends brains out? Accidently put a hole through their own foot / hand / leg?

Sure, they can be used as a close up blunt damage weapon. However, in order to actually kill someone with a rock, it would generally have to be pre-meditated (i.e. kill them when they're asleep, because if you try to kill someone with a rock when they're concious and healthy, it probably wont go well.)

I can think of countless stories over the years involving some idiot irrational gun owner going out and killing someone they knew nothing about, because they felt threatened. Lately, the one I remember is of Trayvon Martin. You know, the kid shot for eating skittles on a street he didn't live on.

But let's go ahead and get back to the point @spoco2 was making earlier. Rocks have existed since the beginning of time. They serve no purpose, they have no design, or goal. They're simply there.

Guns, on the other hand, were designed as an instrument of death. In no part of the gun design was someone thinking "AND it'll function as a paperweight!". It was just another step further in the direction of long ranged combat, specifically for ending the life of another human being.

That's not to say that everybody who does own a gun has it for the sole reason of killing someone, after all, people still collect swords, axes, fascinating weapons from throughout the ages.

But I can't honestly see the amount of collectors being too high.

So those 82% are all owning guns for murder or war, then? Let's just take this absurd myopic view one step further: Rocks are dangerous weapons that need to be banned! They are readily available to children and highly dangerous!
>> ^L0cky:

Around 6% of US Americans hunt, yet around 34% own a gun; therefore around 82% of gun owners own a gun for something other than hunting. Bringing up hunting is just avoiding the issue.
Besides, I don't think that guy's UZI is for hunting rabbits.
Also, you don't need to teach children how to safely use firearms if they don't have access to firearms. Kinda like how you don't need to teach them how to safely use a particle accelerator, even though they too are dangerous.

Around 6% of US Americans hunt, yet around 34% own a gun; therefore around 82% of gun owners own a gun for something other than hunting. Bringing up hunting is just avoiding the issue.

Besides, I don't think that guy's UZI is for hunting rabbits.

Also, you don't need to teach children how to safely use firearms if they don't have access to firearms. Kinda like how you don't need to teach them how to safely use a particle accelerator, even though they too are dangerous.
>> ^colt45:

>> ^L0cky:
So you're offering free classes? And you want to live in a country where every child is taught how to use a firearm?
I'd prefer a society where my kids play too much video games, so I tell them enough already go outside and play!
I'd rather that than feel like I live in a society where I have to teach a seven year old how to kill people (sorry, defend oneself with a deadly weapon).
You know, like Liberia or Mozambique.

I don't know enough about firearms, and own none. I'm hardly qualified. Also, please stop putting words in my mouth. I want to live in a civilized country, where people understand PROPER use of, and care for, firearms, including safety, control, and discipline.
Your obsession with murder is a bit concerning. Firearms are very effective at hunting. They are great at providing food from that use. Why you are so obsessed with war and murder, I really don't know. Should you be on a watch list?

>> ^oritteropo:

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Boo for us, Americans.

>> ^alien_concept:

>> ^Yogi:
I think us Americans should start Hating Belgium too.

Don't think they have enough oil for that


Nah nah it's ok Stewbeef handled those Belgium bastards for the good old USofA. Which is funny because the only thing I could think of that Americans hate a lot is New Jersey, and Stewarts from there.

>> ^Yogi:

I think us Americans should start Hating Belgium too.


Don't think they have enough oil for that

I think us Americans should start Hating Belgium too.

But from the perspective of thinking globally and acting locally, strangely enough this is a local community to me. And you did a good thing here today @dag. >> ^dag:

If there's one positive about this - it's that the Internet is coming together as an entity - not a state, but something else. National borders are on the decline - we're all citizens of the Internet. Proud to live in the city of VideoSift. >> ^geo321:
This is an interesting interview. About how US censorship bills can become precedent setting internationally, as well as for US Americans..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLdMacOguIQ

Cheers. That is my hope as well. It would be interesting if a movement took hold that is indifferent towards national patriotism. Citizens seeing each other equally. The truth is there's an empire that needs an ideology of exceptionalism to support itself and it's actions.>> ^dag:

If there's one positive about this - it's that the Internet is coming together as an entity - not a state, but something else. National borders are on the decline - we're all citizens of the Internet. Proud to live in the city of VideoSift. >> ^geo321:
This is an interesting interview. About how US censorship bills can become precedent setting internationally, as well as for US Americans..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLdMacOguIQ