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Philosoraptor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 05:29 AM Original message |
Can we call a Glock 9 a Weapon of Mass Destruction? |
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hang a left (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 05:30 AM Response to Original message |
1. I. Am. Trying. to. Stay. Calm. nt |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 06:09 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Deleted sub-thread |
Little Wing (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 11:06 AM Response to Reply #1 |
29. Good thing you don't own a gun.. No, wait a minute |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 05:32 AM Response to Original message |
2. No. |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 05:35 AM Response to Original message |
3. Yep. A ticking time bomb tucked away in clothes and ankle holsters, nt |
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ET Awful (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 05:40 AM Response to Original message |
4. Sure, why not, after all, we don't want the smoking gun to be a smoking gun. |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 05:46 AM Response to Original message |
5. No, the Glock is just a weapon. |
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BushOut06 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 06:09 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Um, sure - and a nuke is just a little bit of radioactive material |
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MadHound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 06:24 AM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Look, you can take away all the guns you want, and you know what? |
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EstimatedProphet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 06:49 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Absolutely! |
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hang a left (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 07:00 AM Response to Reply #8 |
18. So now you are trying to compare a handgun to a nuke????? |
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BushOut06 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 11:05 AM Response to Reply #18 |
28. A weapon is a weapon |
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hang a left (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 12:26 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. hmmmmm |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 12:29 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. Yeah but not all weapons are WMD... There is a HUGE difference. |
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kiki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 08:08 AM Response to Reply #8 |
24. LOL - "Nukes don't kill people, Einstein did." |
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durrrty libby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 06:05 AM Response to Original message |
6. Well of course they are all WMDs. Only someone living in denial |
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Irreverend IX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 06:11 AM Response to Reply #6 |
9. A .35 inch hole punched in something does not constitute "mass destruction." nt |
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durrrty libby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 06:18 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. If you are the "something" it is, but you go right ahead and live |
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Irreverend IX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 06:25 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Mass destruction kind of implies destroying many things at the same time. |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 06:32 AM Response to Original message |
13. nope. |
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zbdent (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 06:35 AM Response to Original message |
14. Funny how it seems that nobody called him a "homicidal" whatever ... |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 06:35 AM Response to Original message |
15. No, come on. |
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Philosoraptor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 06:47 AM Response to Reply #15 |
16. But there are millions of them. |
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hang a left (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 07:06 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. OK Philosoraptor |
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Philosoraptor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 07:10 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. I have a 44. special. |
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hang a left (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 07:58 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. Those are hand guns....are they not? |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 12:32 PM Response to Reply #21 |
35. So a gun can destroy an entire city in one shot? Wow! |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 12:36 PM Response to Reply #35 |
39. Now that is an interesting concept for sci fi though |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 12:37 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. They did have nuclear tipped RPG's in Germany pointed at the front lines. |
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MrSlayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 07:08 AM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Bah, that's no argument to consider a single Glock a WMD. |
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soothsayer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 09:29 AM Response to Reply #16 |
26. then call them 'mass weapons of destruction' but not the other |
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kiki (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 08:05 AM Response to Original message |
23. Good point. |
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Ezlivin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
25. War is Peace |
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Hangingon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 09:59 AM Response to Original message |
27. From Wiki - doesn't sound like a Glock fits |
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karlrschneider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
32. You can call it a coffee pot if you want. |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 12:31 PM Response to Original message |
33. Sounds like Truthiness to me. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
34. no, a WMD needs certain things to qualify |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 12:32 PM Response to Original message |
36. No, let's leave that term for nukes and such |
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aikoaiko (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
37. Only if you wish to seen as someone prone to hyperbole. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 12:35 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Writers who abuse hyperbole should be taken out and shot |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 12:36 PM Response to Original message |
40. Another point. This is the same logic the right wing uses trying to justify Iraq. |
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cgrindley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
41. No. You can't. |
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NI4NI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 12:45 PM Response to Original message |
43. What's the difference between mass murder and mass destruction? |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Apr-18-07 12:49 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. Ask some of the people still suffering radiation sickness in Hiroshima or Nagasaki.... |
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