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Police Swarm Bungie Office Over Halo Replica Rifle
sv_libertarian writes 'A panicked person in Kirkland, WA called local police on Wednesday, claiming they saw someone walking down the street with an AK-47. It was actually a Bungie employee carrying an overgrown model of a Halo sniper rifle, which resembles an AK-47 as much as a Volkswagen resembles a Formula 1 racer.'
Halo 3: ODST is set to launch on September 22nd, and fans got some new details and early looks at the game during PAX.
The Kirkland police chiefs son was just walking down the street with a bazooka and went running into his garage when I saw him!!!!!
CALL SWAT! CALL 911!
RAID HIS HOME WITH NO WARRANT!!! Hurry!!
I'm a totally reliable witness!! Really I am.
Said the guy who obviously gets his information from Glenn Beck or some other nut-job.
One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces. - PF
Well, what do you do, when someone runs around the street with a huge gun that looks real to you? Wait until he shoots somebody, in case it actually is real?
"It's legal" or "it's illegal" is the excuse of those without an own set of values. I think it freakin' doesn't matter if it's legal! It's a freakin' huge gun?
What do you think he will need it for? Fixing a car? Baking a cake? No! There is only one reason somebody has a gun like this: He will kill somebody!
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Holy shit, can you say troll?!?!
Disarming America means burning the Constitution. Period! The entire basis of the US Constitution is built on the assumption the government fears a popular uprising. Those same guns are the only reason you didn't see Japan/Germany landing troops on US soil during WWII; ignoring Alaska. There is a reason why owning military weapons is the second clause of the US Constitution. They understood well, all humans are corruptible and therefore all governments are corruptible. In order to keep this in check, our forefathers decided the government must ALWAYS fear a popular uprising. The Constitution even makes allowances for the understanding that despite their best wisdom, an uprising, or the empowered threat to do so, is likely to be required at some point in our future.
I'm constantly dumbfounded just how ignorant some Americans are while at the same time ensuring everyone around them knows it. Did you even go to school or did you just decide something as silly as American History and the US Constitution didn't deserve your attention.
In the US, those that scream get ride of the guns, are really only screaming, "look how unintelligent and uneducated I am. I'm ruled by fear rather than freedom. Everyone, let's ensure the government becomes tyrannical and corrupt as quickly as possible." Bluntly, there are exceedingly few gun laws in the US which are not unconstitutional and in direct violation of our forefather's wishes and desires. And when you get to states like New York and California, its like they completely forgot how to read, reason, or comprehend.
Obama's anti-gun tendencies, eh? Go ahead and post your bullshit links to conspiracy fantasies on right wing blogs about that tired line. He's letting people bring guns into national parks but I guess thats anti-gun if you're a brainwashed ditto head. Not to mention the people who are bringing guns to protests outside his speaking venues with absolutely no retaliation, something Bush would have never allowed (hell, he wouldn't even allow protesters to be within sight of his travel routes, putting them in "free speech zones" as far away as he could manage). Hyperventilating right wing hypocrites sicken me.
The world you experience is only a close approximation of reality.
Lol.. And you are claiming they are brain washed. All you need to do is read Obama's own words about the Supreme court decision in the DC gun control case to get an idea of where he stands. As for the free speech zones, they were originally implemented by the democrats and historically used by them until your selective memory singled out Bush.
History isn't a hard subject. I suggest you try it a little. It's even easier with the advent of recorded history and the internet in which you can easily look things up with.
Somehow, a lot of the rest of the world manages without having many guns in public. We laugh at the american devotion to gun ownership.
Criminals get their guns most often by stealing those of your legal owners, so yes, less legal guns = less guns in the hand of criminals.
Trotting out the usual gun nut excuses there I see.
When will you guys realise guns never made anyone safer?
Never, I expect. How else can you compensate for your inadequcies?
19 mass shootings in Q1 2009 with 91 dead. If more guns on the street equalled more safety then places with high gun ownership/possession like South Africa or Thailand would be the safest places in the world. This is clearly not the case.
Calling someone a "hater" only means you can not rationally rebut their argument.