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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
it's not cynical defeatism to admit that we live in an imperfect world
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Right, but is it becomes defeatism if you think that it cannot be improved.
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it's also bad strategy to be the sole lamb in a room full of wolves. however, if you choose that route as a matter of principle, that's very admirable. not my path, however.
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Well, I entered this thread without any normative claims, merely asserting that I don't have any need for owning a gun and thus couldn't identify with gun ownership. I'm not in a room full of wolves, even when I was back in the states. I've never once been mugged nor have known anyone who has and, remember, I'm not living in some well-to-do bubble. An old friend of mine is a self-proclaimed 'survivalist' and is obsessed with guns and knives but all I ever hear about him is on Steam playing Counter-Strike and Borderlands. Even my friend who lives in East LA doesn't own a gun, just a rather adorable puppy.
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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
the tec 9 (not tech 9) is illegal, and no longer manufactured. it's also highly impractical unless you're a drug dealer. i'd recommend a glock 17 instead.
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But I'm afraid of drug dealers.
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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
phronesis by the way is also a character in one of my favorite novels-- come to think of it, his father was an artillery officer.
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Terrible name for a person, I have to say.