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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 09:28 PM
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Guns, cars, and penises.
Disclaimer: I don't want to take your guns away from you, unless of course I can sell them for zombie movies, video games, animated pornography, and weed.

I often see the comparison of guns and cars in gun debates.

Guns and cars are both extremely dangerous tools when misused, but lets be honest, people who wish to kill a bunch of other people use guns instead of cars because guns are significantly better killing tools. Guns are designed for killing, cars are not. I understand there may be some modified car, filled with explosives or covered with swords and saw blades, but I don't see these cars at my local dealership, and I live in Montana where one can buy shotguns and beer at the same store.

Our military gives all of our soldiers guns, not cars, for battle. A squad of soldiers driving around trying to run over the enemy seems silly, because the comparison of cars to guns is silly.


I often see the comparison of guns and penis size in gun debates.

Guns and penises are both long, round, and shoot stuff out one end when working properly. The connection between the two is funny, but false. There is no evidence gun lovers have more penis issues than non-gun lovers. If a woman purchases a gun to defend herself from rapists, it means she is concerned about rapists, as opposed to having some gun/penis issue. If a man buys a gun because he likes to hunt, then he likes to hunt, as opposed to having some gun/penis issue. If a man, woman, or intersexed person buys a gun and turns it into a prosthetic penis, then s/he probably has some gun/penis issues.

Penises and cars are both great, but they are not guns. Guns, cars, and penises are three very different things with some minor similarities.


:rant:
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Lagomorph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 09:44 PM
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1. Entirely different disciplines...
...and they may all be necessary.

You may not have to drive, shoot, or have sex, but it should be by choice, not mandate.

There are plenty of laws that already define the abuse of those choices.
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johnnypneumatic Donating Member (461 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 09:45 PM
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2. actually, more people die from car accidents than guns in the USA
death by penis statistics are unavailable
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 11:26 PM
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7. Good thing we don't have penis guns on our cars.
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 02:19 PM
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16. Yes, but this is because people use cars significantly more than they use guns.
People in the U.S. generally spend more time in a vehicle than they spend holding a firearm.

As for death by penis, there may be some STD stats one could review.
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dmallind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 09:47 PM
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3. Everything you say is accurate, and if I may say so, mundane.
However the rather more interesting part of it is that it is also valid and even, quite remarkably, necessary that you did say it.

Won't stop the small-brained from jumping to the nearest cliché in every gun thread of course, but nice effort nonetheless.
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 09:56 PM
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4. Yes, but . . .
The ones with the penises, who also possess guns and cars, each one of them is all the same thing. The one who uses the penis, or uses a gun, or uses a car is not different depending upon what he is using.

Objects in the world do not have attitudes other than that with which they are imbued by their users: same user equals same attitude brought to all objects, no matter their uses, so those "minor similarities" can be less "minor" than you think.

And there are no walls inside the body that perceives and uses a penis, or a gun, or a car. It's all one body; all of its systems are connected in a whole to all of its other systems. Even "self control" has consequences beyond that which is controlled.
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Euromutt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 11:35 PM
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8. What *are* you on about?
I possess a penis, a car and a number of firearms; I'm pretty certain I know the difference between them. I haven't tried to insert my Honda Civic into my wife, for example, tried to hit a target on the 25-yard line with my ejaculate, or attempted to drive to the store in a pump-action shotgun.
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AtheistCrusader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 11:40 PM
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9. Imagine the blisters if you tried to ride to the store on your penis N/t
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PavePusher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 11:03 AM
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14. I was thinking road rash, myself...
Besides, I can't even get my legs around it!

:rofl:
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patrice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 01:52 AM
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10. Just a little semantic experiment.
Could it be that you regard the the functions of these items rather narrowly?

The biological events that we call various emotions are similar or the same events that have acquired different labels. Those events are evoked by a variety experiences associated with a variety of objects. Though not 100% mutable, all of the associations can be re-programmed under the right circumstances. Though people are used to talking about these things in all or nothing terms, there isn't much of it that exists in discrete "on" or "off" states. There are, rather, potentiations in different levels of organization that can reach threshold by various means.
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Euromutt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 05:17 AM
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11. No, sorry, you're still not making sense.
I don't excrete urine through my guns or my car either. Nor do my car or my guns provide me with pleasure of an orgasm-inducing nature, if that's what you're getting at. To illustrate, the "thin is sexy" ad campaign for Kahr Arms handguns (http://www.kahr.com/) mostly annoys the piss out of me (not least because I like women with a bit more heft to them).

I enjoy cleaning my guns (when they need it), but I don't particularly enjoy cleaning my car, and cleaning my todger is just something I do in the shower without thinking very much about, and I certainly don't stand back to admire the result. Yes, I do occasionally call to mind the phrase on my drill sergeants in basic training used--translated from Dutch, "I want to see that bore gleaming like a wet dog's dick in the moonlight"--but I'm not one who came up with that phrase. Not that dog's penes turn me on either, frankly.
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AtheistCrusader Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 01:10 PM
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15. You point firearms at things you wish to destroy.
I point my car in a direction I wish to travel.

Why would anyone conflate the two?
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slackmaster Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 09:07 AM
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13. Thanks for my first taste of nonsense for the week
:rofl:
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pipoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 10:04 PM
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5. Prime example would be Sex Machine on 'From Dusk Till Dawn'
If a man, woman, or intersexed person buys a gun and turns it into a prosthetic penis, then s/he probably has some gun/penis issues.

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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-11-09 11:07 PM
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6. Yes, thank you for the excellent example. nt
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oneshooter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 08:51 AM
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12.  Well..........
I will have to say that some people seem have a short barreled pump with an automatic ejaculater.

Oneshooter
Livin in Texas
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 05:00 PM
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17. Soldiers in Vietnam said walking around with an M-16 was like walking with a big hard-on. nt
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 06:22 PM
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18. The few Vietnam soldiers who may have made the hard-on comment may have gun/penis issues. nt
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Captain Hilts Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 06:35 PM
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19. Very true. nt
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 08:07 PM
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20. All that may be true
But less intelligent people will still use cars or guns as a substitute for their penis.
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Euromutt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 11:38 PM
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23. Or dogs (n/t)
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duckduckgoose Donating Member (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 09:43 PM
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21. The recoil wouldn't feel great
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ZombieHorde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-12-09 11:29 PM
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22. That video is pretty funny. nt
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BR_Parkway Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-13-09 06:50 AM
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24. Tanks = guns, cars & penises
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