So I'm walking outside to get a coffee...

**Reenk Roink** · 04-30-2006, 00:56

Originally Posted by BigTex

This is why we need the 2nd ammendment, so we can clear the street infront of our houses more easily.

Why does this kind of rhetoric always come from the same people over and over again?

**scooter_the_shooter** · 04-30-2006, 01:03

Hay not to go OT but we DO need guns.

An armed person is a citizen, an unarmed person is a subject

I do not want to go ot so that is all I will say about it. But if you start a gun control thread I will be there thats an issue I actually know a lot about

**BigTex** · 04-30-2006, 01:06

Originally Posted by Reenk Roink

Why does this kind of rhetoric always come from the same people over and over again?

I think you missed the sarcasm.

**Xiahou** · 04-30-2006, 01:10

Wow, what a sideshow- looks like all the stereotypes made it.

**solypsist** · 04-30-2006, 01:26

i agree - i hate these sorts of protests. they're impotent and all they do is affirm that those in power are safe to remain in power because that's as much resistence from citizens as they're going to get. these silly little american demonstrations wrap up by mid afternoon and then everybody goes back to shopping and forgets all about it.

now france knows how to have protests.

Originally Posted by Xiahou

Wow, what a sideshow- looks like all the stereotypes made it.

**doc_bean** · 04-30-2006, 12:37

Originally Posted by solypsist

now france knows how to have protests.

With US gun culture, a France-style protest would probably result in a civil war...

That said, despite all your guns, the French government probably fears the people more than the US government, and isn't that kind of the point ?

**Evil_Maniac From Mars** · 04-30-2006, 18:32

Originally Posted by solypsist

now france knows how to have protests.

**Duke Malcolm** · 04-30-2006, 18:48

Originally Posted by solypsist

now france knows how to have protests.

Yes, but they have them over silly things...
I remember that there wasone in July back in '89, all because some woman told them to eat more cake...

They really do protest over the silliest things in France... "ooh, I dropped my croissant and the evil capitalist bourgeoisie cafe owner won't give me a replacement. Let us all march down the Champs Elysee and storm the Luxembourg Palace, or the Louvre Palace, or wherever we mighty French place our aristocratic Prime Ministers these days!"

**Alexanderofmacedon** · 04-30-2006, 19:19

Originally Posted by Duke Malcolm

Yes, but they have them over silly things...
I remember that there wasone in July back in '89, all because some woman told them to eat more cake...

They really do protest over the silliest things in France... "ooh, I dropped my croissant and the evil capitalist bourgeoisie cafe owner won't give me a replacement. Let us all march down the Champs Elysee and storm the Luxembourg Palace, or the Louvre Palace, or wherever we mighty French place our aristocratic Prime Ministers these days!"

That means nothing coming from an enlishman like yourself.