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16:40 / 12.03.07

I didn't see a thread for introductions so I will just make a new thread. I have tried to join this group a few times in the past and never had any luck with it, but finally with the help of my friend Nalyd23 was able to register. Yay!

I am a woman in my 40s and live in rural Eastern Colorado. I have many interests and hobbies; in no particular order these are guns, blowing things up, setting things on fire, being a drunkard and wastrel, riding my motorcycle, bothering people, reading, writing, the internet (what a wonderful thing the internet is!), my pets (I have four dogs, a cat, 14 doves, and a parrot), being outdoors, camping/hiking, magic/occultism, cooking, and sleeping. I play the bass in a punk rock band-- please feel free to PM me if you want our CD-- and recently started working for an excellent online literary magazine "The Deepening" (www.thedeepening.com. I'm hoping to become a published writer of fiction this year. I've written novels and stories since I was a kid, but to date the only things I have had published were journalistic pieces, i.e., show, record, and book reviews.

For a living I do medical transcription. I work at home and am always at the computer, so anyone who wants to chat via instant message program is welcome to start a conversation. (PLEASE however no "ASL?" and "R U horny?" and stuff like that. That gets an automatic block from me. You have been warned!)

Here is a recent picture of me:

And that's about it. I am not going to be doing a lot of posting at first because I want to read others' posts and see what's goin on.

16:43 / 12.03.07

Hello.

I didn't see a thread for introductions so I will just make a new thread.

I think you should perhaps have another look. We have lots!

...these are guns

For shooting things? Or creatures? Or people? Or what?

16:45 / 12.03.07

Guns. Guns are machines that shoot projectiles, usually lead or steel bullets.

16:46 / 12.03.07

I'm clear on what guns are. It's what they're for that I was enquiring about.

ONLY NICE THINGS

16:47 / 12.03.07

I feel profoundly disappointed that the answers to A, S and L have already been answered. That leaves only one question, really.

17:24 / 12.03.07

"What are the guns for?"?

17:25 / 12.03.07

You guys are funny.

17:31 / 12.03.07

In the UK, we are generally scared of guns and don't encounter them. No UK board members are involved in organised crime as far as I know so will have had no cause to see or use one.

ONLY NICE THINGS

17:36 / 12.03.07

Well, the reason we don't tend to encounter them in urban environments is that after the most recent firearms amendment (1997) the private possession of handguns was made illegal, and the possession of long guns largely controlled unless there was a convincing sporting or vocational reason why a gun had to be owned.

Which remains a very good idea, speaking purely personally.

17:38 / 12.03.07

Where do .22s fall into that?

ONLY NICE THINGS

17:42 / 12.03.07

They were the only standard cartridge handguns that remained legal after the first amendment. The second amendment, which was, fact fans, the Blair government's first serious bill, also outlawed .22 pistols. Air pistols are currently legal, but the influx of skilled professionals able to chamber them to take standard ammunition has led to a new Violent Crimes Bill, which will if it passes make private possession of them illegal also, I believe.

17:59 / 12.03.07

What is "medical transcription"?

18:08 / 12.03.07

Taking down the records of people who have been injured? For example, with guns?

I mainly don't like guns because they were invented so that people could kill other people more easily. That makes me uncomfortable, so 'having fun with guns' is not a position I can possibly imagine myself being in.

18:12 / 12.03.07

You could be shooting decorative rossettes out of some jigsawed MDF.

That wouldn't be scary. That would be decorating.

18:14 / 12.03.07

Wriring, shooting guns, setting things on fire and blowing stuff up? Rural Colorado? You're Hunter S. Thompson!! (You don't happen to own a peacock or two, do you?). You got kicked out of Rock & Roll Heaven for shooting at birds of paradise?

In other words, welcome (back)!

18:15 / 12.03.07

Well, the poster mentions that she lives in rural Colorado. Owning a gun there is, I think, substantially different from owning a gun in Hackney. It's legal for one thing.

I've read a little about firearms as an extention of reading about martial arts and self-defence. If I lived in the 'states, I could imagine taking up shooting, just because I could.

18:16 / 12.03.07

The last to Olulabelle, obviously.

18:22 / 12.03.07

Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone. What a friendly and well-informed group this is. :\

18:28 / 12.03.07

Welcome to Barbelith! You should find the password to the Armoury in your private message box.

18:29 / 12.03.07

If you've got plenty of open space and few worries of needing to actually use a gun (or, worse, worry about it being stolen), then why not? Blazing away at stuff rather than people is a lot of fun (and/or decorative).

Disclosure: I don't own a gun, never have and most likely never will; too much risk and responsibility for too little protection, for my situation.

18:30 / 12.03.07

There's an Armoury?

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

18:34 / 12.03.07

As a fellow firearms enthusiast in the States welcome aboard Scarlett. I find having a small arsenal very comforting when I watch anything on TV about my government or zombies, to answer the 'why do YOU have guns' question before it gets asked.

I have always found it odd that fencing has never been protested against, being a far more accurate 'murder simulation' then target shooting.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

18:35 / 12.03.07

Wow Llama, I nearly mentioned the Armory in my post, I wasn't sure if we were still advertising.

18:36 / 12.03.07

Because fencing doesn't look scary. It looks like dancing.
Guns are on TV and they scare me with scary TV programs.

And I suppose their haven't been any major increases in rapier crime recently, so they are less frightening than guns in that way too.

Our Lady Has Left the Building

18:36 / 12.03.07

bjacques, the Armoury is where we keep the thread with the rules for Mornington Crescent. Please try to keep up.

18:40 / 12.03.07

Do we have a guns thread (outside of the Armoury) on here? Because I know absolutely nil about them.

Also, if we do ever get the relationship/sex/bodies forum, can we call it The Amourey?

18:42 / 12.03.07

Air pistols are currently legal, but the [...] Violent Crimes Bill, which [...] will make private possession [...] illegal also, I believe.

Really?!

Does anybody want to buy an air pistol?

Quickly.

Um. I hope you don't feel too bothered by people's reactions, Scarlet, it's just that, as Apophenia says, us Brits don't really have much contact with guns.

The times we hear about them getting used here (or elsewhere) are nearly always in relation to somebody getting shot. Often a child.

While this may give an unbalanced view of guns, it is the one we are kinda stuck with, as we are pretty unlikely to experience gun usage well... at all, really.

It's kind of like when parents are horrified to learn that their kids have taken drugs, because their only input on the issue of drugs is new reports of people dying from drug usage.

But i'm sure you're a nice person. Blowing stuff up is definitely fun, as long as it isn't people stuff.

... It isn't people stuff, is it?

18:44 / 12.03.07

Thanks for the warm welcome, everyone. What a friendly and well-informed group this is. :\

I'm not clear where we are being ill-informed and actually, most of the time we're exceptionally friendly and unfeasibly clever. Isn't that why you joined?

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

18:45 / 12.03.07

And I suppose their haven't been any major increases in rapier crime recently, so they are less frightening than guns in that way too.

There sure are a lot of stabbings though

I can accept that guns are scary to people who did not grow up around them though. What scares me though is George Bush being in charge of the only guns in America, so I keep buying them.

18:48 / 12.03.07

we're exceptionally friendly and unfeasibly clever.

And we're modest too.

18:55 / 12.03.07

It's kind of like when parents are horrified to learn that their kids have taken drugs, because their only input on the issue of drugs is new reports of people dying from drug usage.

No it isn't. Guns are specifically designed for killing people and if you believe that alive people have the right to stay alive, as I do, then guns are something to be feared. They give another person the power to take someone elses life away.

Drugs are not specifically designed to kill people. They're mostly specifically designed so that you can become one with Mother Earth and experience what it it is to be a cosmic Universal being. So there.

18:59 / 12.03.07

Hell, this metaprolol I've been taking isn't working, then....

19:04 / 12.03.07

Oh ha ha... Drugs as in the English version of drugs, i.e. illegal substances.

19:23 / 12.03.07

Like Heroin.

Maybe slightly overstating your case there Lula

19:25 / 12.03.07

Yes, heroin is such a scary bad thing, oh my GOD.

Slight Daily Mail there Boboss.

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