This was one of my 8 albums for $.01 from Columbia house, the rest were Kiss albums and a 2 album Star Wars...I still have all the Kiss and Star Wars, but Wild and Crazy Guy was played to death in a few short years.

Cars drive and kill. True. And all the regulations he mentioned didn't stop one crazy guy hopping in a truck and saying "fuck you" and mowing down a hundred people. This is an important point because he's talking about firearm regulation in the context of mass shootings, and that firearm regulation will lessen or prevent these mass shootings - which he then compares to mass murder by vehicle, and vehicle regulation - regulation which clearly failed to stop any sort of purposeful mass murder by vehicle. Vehicle regulation is to lessen the impact of accidents and provide the government with a revenue stream through taxes. If vehicle regulation was to stop mass murder by vehicle, and you were to use Australia's firearm laws as a blueprint, you wouldn't be driving to work tomorrow.

The scary thing is, cars have killed more people by accident over the last 50 years in the USA than firearms have on purpose. That's how truly dangerous they are. If people woke up and realised they are a fantastic killing machine, then you'd start to see an increase in the incidence of mass vehicle killings... oh wait.

The reality is, from a public health discourse, there are plenty of things that kill at higher rates than firearms. The difference is that firearms are sometimes used to murder people and as far as we know most medical malpractice, car crashes, etc. are accidental. They are emotively tackled very differently.

PS: I'm not arguing against some firearm regulations being introduced in America. I'd use a modified version of New Zealand legislation (which allows for semi-auto long arms, high capacity magazines, etc.). I'd add self defense as a reason to own, and add concealed carry permits for those willing to do a course (with the catch that they would become a form of quasi-deputy of the state - so there would be hurdles to jump to get this permit).

Wild and crazy guy!

Tl;dr - Rational guy debates bat-shit crazy guy and tries to unpick his nuttiness.

And he brought Klaus Nomi along for the ride. Crazy guy.

Actually in this case, the vertical video was because of his stupid phone. He actually had it oriented correctly there at least at the end.

Crazy guy for standing so close after the explosions.

Crazy Guy Runs Into Outback Tornado To Take Selfie has been added as a related post - related requested by oritteropo on that post.

Crazy guys!!

*promote some things that never change ... two wild and crazy guys!

Hell YEA ! I thought I would never see those couple of crazy guys ever again ! ! ! !

*promote

I'm not really a weapon expert, so I dont know anything about the AT4, but I have used M72's (or M66 as we called it), and yea, I know you can put in and reload practice shots, but then they just become a really, really crappy rifle. You could probably do 10 times the damage with a standard issue glock or a cheap hunting rifle.

But give a crazy guy an AK47 or similar assault rifle... those are just plain murder machines. The name really gives it away, they are ASSAULT rifles, and thats the only thing they are good for: Assaulting and killing several people, the kind of thing you do in a WAR.

You do know what an assumption is right?

The CCW person was not lucky - he was unlucky he was near a crazy guy with a firearm intent on killing people. What he was was well prepared, and all the other people were lucky that a CCW person was near them and simultaneously unlucky they were near a bat shit crazy guy.

According to the anecdotal story the CCW person did not fire a shot. If they did fire a shot then it isn't luck if they didn't fuck up it is training. If they accidentally hit a bystander then it would be no different than a police officer accidentally hitting a bystander and it would still be better than a slaughter.

I've done a lot of handgun shooting (including full police officer firearms training) and looking at the hundreds of other regular shooters I've been with, almost all of them are better than a regular police officer at shooting (and some of them are police officers).

What do movies have to do with real life encounters? Unlike the movies, most CCW people realise the cops will not turn up in time like in the movies and they've taken it upon themselves to accept reality and defend themselves.

>> ^SpaceGirlSpiff:

What he was actually doing was marking crosses on various parts of his body... with saliva.
It really pains me that this religious tard is representing America in the Olympics. Granted there are plenty of religious tards in America, so this guy is actually representing America... just the ignorant superstitious part of it.
This is a perfect example of reducing religion to its core principle... control. This guy is crossing himself in the hopes (deluded and baseless as they are) that it will prevent any accidents and/or help him perform better. He is seeking to remove himself from the seemingly chaotic nature of the universe where events may/will occur beyond his illusory control by giving himself a ritual that he believes will protect him. It's no different then people who have OCD and have to do things a certain way or certain number of times. Heck, all sorts of athletes have things like this... his is just religious. It's all about control. "If I do this, I can exert a form of control that will prevent bad things from happening."
But... you can't. Control is an illusion. Bad things will happen. You deal with them. You learn from them. You move on. Unless you're a religious tard who does the same thing over and over, thinking that, "I must have missed crossing myself somewhere.", or "Last time it was because I didn't use enough saliva when I crossed my leg.", or "Maybe God doesn't like the sports drink I had before crossing myself and he would prefer Orange over Grape... yeah, I'll drink Orange next time!". Yes, I'm aiming for a laugh or a chuckle... but the reality is that this practice... is just as absurd.
Look at you... you came in here looking to laugh at the oddity of a guy appearing to rub his own saliva on himself and you got all this. Sorry bout that.
Crazy guy licking himself! omg! Ewwww! ; p


Well he's representing his country...and there's tons of religious people in the country sooo it makes sense.

What he was actually doing was marking crosses on various parts of his body... with saliva.

It really pains me that this religious tard is representing America in the Olympics. Granted there are plenty of religious tards in America, so this guy is actually representing America... just the ignorant superstitious part of it.

This is a perfect example of reducing religion to its core principle... control. This guy is crossing himself in the hopes (deluded and baseless as they are) that it will prevent any accidents and/or help him perform better. He is seeking to remove himself from the seemingly chaotic nature of the universe where events may/will occur beyond his illusory control by giving himself a ritual that he believes will protect him. It's no different then people who have OCD and have to do things a certain way or certain number of times. Heck, all sorts of athletes have things like this... his is just religious. It's all about control. "If I do this, I can exert a form of control that will prevent bad things from happening."

But... you can't. Control is an illusion. Bad things will happen. You deal with them. You learn from them. You move on. Unless you're a religious tard who does the same thing over and over, thinking that, "I must have missed crossing myself somewhere.", or "Last time it was because I didn't use enough saliva when I crossed my leg.", or "Maybe God doesn't like the sports drink I had before crossing myself and he would prefer Orange over Grape... yeah, I'll drink Orange next time!". Yes, I'm aiming for a laugh or a chuckle... but the reality is that this practice... is just as absurd.

Look at you... you came in here looking to laugh at the oddity of a guy appearing to rub his own saliva on himself and you got all this. Sorry bout that.

Crazy guy licking himself! omg! Ewwww! ; p

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Very interesting, *quality video and discussion. I would say there is probably some under-reported aggression and violence in Japan- but in general a whole hell of a lot less than anywhere else I have lived. In 3.5 years there- never saw a fight, never saw any violence that I remember - there was one crazy guy who was running around yelling at people - but that's it. Violence by Yakuza does happen, but it seems aggrandised from films. I think Yakuza are mainly loan sharks, brothel owners and black marketeers.

For whatever reason, violence is baked into the US culture - tied in maybe with a rugged frontier individualist spirit. Americans love their guns. My family too. My dad always carried a nickel-plated '38 under his car seat, which he called his "merging assistance device".

>> ^legacy0100:

I would have to partly disagree on this one. I believe high density does attribute to more aggression. Dr. Frans de Waal points out that high density alone does not always lead to aggression, and that there are other factors that attribute to reconciliation and peaceful coexistence. This much I agree with. However, this should not be used to throw away the immense impact over population has on human aggression.
He gives several different examples, one including about the chimpanzees in tight confined space. I find his claims very hard to believe. Chimps get very frustrated and show abnormal, anti-social behavior when they are in a tight confined space for a long period of time. Their hairs fall out, they bite their own knuckles or even each other. They show aggression to inexperienced moms and to their babies. It could be that Dr. de Waal may be omitting some factors in here. The chimps he is referring to may be from a zoo where they are put in small confined space when it's time to goto sleep, but then are let out to a bigger enclosure where they can run and play. This may be a bad example, but we don't really know because he doesn't reveal the source of his data. Perhaps his research did confine the chimps to a tight space all throughout the experiment. If so, then the duration of dwelling in tight enclosure is a big factor, but he didn't cite anything about that either.
I also would like to point out that there's generally a lot less food intake and physical activity in urban Japanese society. Your typical Japanese sushi portions can testify for that, as well as various hikikomori symptoms people suffer in overly populated Japanese cities.
Dr. de Waal says there's less crime in Japan, but this simply isn't true. He is overly reliant on only the statistics reported by the government, and he isn't are of the deep rooted cultural practices that mask these aggressions to the outside world. Dr. De Waal never mentions about the various odd symptoms and personal sacrifice everyone must make in order to maintain the order there. Violence is everyday life in Japanese society, including the fairly well known presence of Yakuza. Japanese people often get bullied by the Yakuza, but they do not report these events because for one, they are afraid of retaliation, and two, Yakuza has deep rooted connections with the government. Yakuza usually do not engage anyone foreign simply because it would get the embassies involved, and they do cannot exert any influence in foreign lands. So they only stick to bullying Japanese people, and stay clear of foreigners. Even in high school physical violence is rampant. Students fight or bully each other all the time, but it is not seen as a crime, but merely 'part of growing up'. Nobody reports anything, so the crime data remains low.
Compare this with cities in Netherlands. It is highly populated, but enjoys abundance of resources thanks to laxed attitude toward drugs and sex, which are themselves ways to alleviate aggression. People in Netherlands are also very mobile because of their well developed transportation infrastructure including extensive bike lanes, roads and trains. They are also in close proximity to larger open areas in Germany or France where they regularly escape to thanks to their abundance in resource, while in Japan people are very much confined to their own living quarters and their workplace, who usually cannot afford to take frequent vacations due to high expectation from bosses as well as fierce competition towards promotion. Imagine regular US/UK office space antics times ten.
Overall I find Dr. de Waal's argument only partially credible and would like to look into his experiments and his citations before acknowledging this as fact.
I remember Dag and his wife saying they used to live in Japan. I would like to hear their opinion about this issue and Japanese society being used as proof to this theory.