Freedom versus Absolute Monarchism

[Shaggy Hiker]

Hopefully it would put some pressure on ending all of the silly knife wielding, mace spraying, semi automatic packing behaviour that the U.S is so fond of.

When have we been known for either knives or mace? It would be rather nice if we would ever stop at such half measures.

Did you know the voice of Darth Vader is actually James Earl Jones?

Did you know that responses to a quote from somebody else generally have something to do with the quote itself?

[Witis]

When have we been known for either knives or mace? It would be rather nice if we would ever stop at such half measures.

I was watching a show just yesterday that had a 21 year old U.S woman who had a license to carry a gun which in her case was a 22. She also had a knife with a really ugly cut out section from the rear edge of the blade so that "it tears the flesh just as much on the way out as on the way in", and then to cap it all off she had a bottle of mace, "just press the button".

The thing is that carrying any sort of offensive weapon be it mace, knives, guns, and even loud personal alarm devices are usually against the law in most Commonwealth countries. I agree that offensive weapons are a bad idea in peace time even when used or licensed for defensive purposes only, as they turn naturally unarmed and civilised humans into fully armed and hostile wild animals, so much for sitting up and talking the problem through. Although I have a lot of sympathy for purely defensive items, i.e those items that can only be used for defense and can not be used offensively to harm anyone else, e.g bullet proof vests. Sadly I saw a new range of bullet proof vests in primary school kids sizes just about to be released in the U.S after the recent spate of firearm murders in schools.

Did you know that responses to a quote from somebody else generally have something to do with the quote itself?

You didn't like Darth Vader as the rumours that he soiled his pants while on set were probably true, although you are now looking forward to officially rejoining the now deVadered and much more friendly Commonwealth and trading in all of your guns for batons and doing it baseball style instead?

[Shaggy Hiker]

You didn't like Darth Vader as the rumours that he soiled his pants while on set were probably true, although you are now looking forward to officially rejoining the now deVadered and much more friendly Commonwealth and trading in all of your guns for batons and doing it baseball style instead?

This is about as strange a sentence as I have ever seen in Chit-Chat. Good job with that. I have no idea who you are talking to, or what you are talking about. The more times I read it, the more rich confusion I find in it. It took me some time to realize that there was a question mark at the end, but that's in keeping with the flavor of the rest of the sentence, as it makes no more sense as a question than it does as a statement. A true monument to randomness that even the Golden Chair can rarely match.