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Originally posted by Oldtimer2
LOL Sublime must of had a bad incident with a BB gun,good question why a Brit would be wearing a shirt of an American Presidential candidate,sounds like might be some rednecks in the UK
Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
reply to post by azzllin
Most of out pellet and BB guns are garbage and would only result in a fatality if fired point blank through the eyeball. I know a couple of kids who have had that happened and even made it without any blindness or permanent damage. If you had the money to waste you could get a specialty BB or pellet gun with an fps comparable to a rimfire cartridge but those cost hundreds and arent owned usually except by those who compete in air rifle sports or who use them for small game hunting.
I've only known one "ferocious" dog in my life and it was that way because its owner trained him to be that way. I have known plenty of staff's, rotties and misc. "pitbull" types and they've all been slobbering goofballs who love kids.
Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
"ball-bearing" gun = BB gun?
Sure, technically he was "shot" but *edit*, sensationalize much? (not you the "journalists")
If he got hit with a rubber band in the back of the head would they still have said he was "shot?"
Originally posted by johnsky
There are ball baring guns that fire BB's close to 3/4 inch in diameter.
They are typically intended for hunting purposes. I used to own one, until the CO2 pressure line burst inside of it.
You certainly do NOT want to get hit by one of these. I was warned by some that the hunting class BB gun I had could break clean through the bone of your skull... so I tested it out various animal bones. They were right... some of the bones it clean passed indicated to me that a shot to the head from this thing is indeed a fatal blow.
So the term BB gun can imply lots of things. The ones your parents let you use as a child were those tiny brass or plastic BB's. Typically you would have had a pump action BB gun, or a small CO2 canister version. These can't do anything more than give you a small welt... or blind you.
But there are BB guns out there that are indeed purpose built to kill.
So don't get misled by the term Ball Baring gun, we don't know what gauge or pressure level it was.
Originally posted by born²
Ball bearing gun or rubber band. Point is that this kind of behavior is completely unacceptable.
Point is that these candidates for 'change' have made the public their own little henchmen. They have civilians gaurd dogging eachother rather than their own governments.
Bush has railroaded detention camps all over the US,
flown US military forces in for 'crowd control',
and allocated billions of dollars with no oversight for his own personal disposal.
The President has his own army, his own jails, and enough money to run his own war with none of the mentioned having to answer to even the smallest resemblance of congress.
It's 1933 all over again. You need not worry about the election because there won't be one.
Point is we have to stop fighting eachother and start shaming this kind of behavior if we are going to ever survive the future.
Originally posted by Sublime620
If McCain or Obama broke wind it would make the news, and most of the partisan hacks on this board would eat it up. Someone gets shot in the face with a BB gun and people cry that it's sensationalized.
Originally posted by thisguyrighthere
reply to post by Sublime620
Stupid people have always existed. Certain modern ideas have increased the number of stupid people within society but Obama didnt make them stupid and McCain didnt make them stupid and this election didnt make them stupid.
This idiot with the BB gun was obviously up to no good. He would have "shot" just about anyone that remotely gave his stupid mind reason to do so.