Right on. I mean this idiot from texas is trying to pass everything under the rug as "homeland/national security matter". Good for MIT to walk away from stupid restrictions that have nothing to do with homeland/national security matter.
I mean the notion that all these students at MIT or any other high ranked research universities are toiling thier time and sometimes their money for 4-5 years so they can help Osama better understand the fluid dynamics is just stupid. And as for the people who are saying "why should foreign student take my spot on these universities", it's like there's a quota system or some kind of foreign student affirmative action program running at these places. Prof's who are doing researches are picking these foreign students b/c despite their bad/no english they feel that the foreign students have better chance of coming up with stuff that prof's can then publish and get tenure.
We register our cars. If it was possible to register them and control them, I'm sure we should/will advocate registering floods, lightings, and lunatics in airplane too.
As for your arg about american revolution, it was more than 200 years ago. Back then americans and those who were on the other side both only had muskets. That was a fair fight. Now, you would have a M16, grenade launcher, or shoulder fire missile launcher at most, the big bad federal gov't has cruise missiles with thermonuclear warheads. You are gonna lose, so wake up.
And let me ask you, what did happen for Y2K? Nothing. and since you say you haven't killed anyone I'm guessing you haven't used the gun to defend yourself? So, if you have't used it, why not give it up, or let's at least register it.
If it moves, looks, and sounds like a duck, it's a duck. You do sound alot like a NRA member.
And as you point out it's an amendment i.e. subject to change. I've been always amazed by the fact that a small minority ( 4 million member which include Micheal Moore who certainly does not second the "extream" position the leaders of NRA support and I hope there are more Moores in NRA) can hold the whole country a hostige.
Never mind the fact that there's no reason for anyone to have a M16. You certainly are NOT hunting anything legit with a M16, and forget the fairy tail, you are not defending against the big bad federal gov't with a puny M16 when the other side has a cruise missile with a mutiple thermonuclear warheards.
I,as a person against guns in general, can agree that some people can have shooting rifles for hunting and recreational shooting. but anything more than that, I don't see a legit use.
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Right on. I mean this idiot from texas is trying to pass everything under the rug as "homeland/national security matter". Good for MIT to walk away from stupid restrictions that have nothing to do with homeland/national security matter. I mean the notion that all these students at MIT or any other high ranked research universities are toiling thier time and sometimes their money for 4-5 years so they can help Osama better understand the fluid dynamics is just stupid. And as for the people who are saying "why should foreign student take my spot on these universities", it's like there's a quota system or some kind of foreign student affirmative action program running at these places. Prof's who are doing researches are picking these foreign students b/c despite their bad/no english they feel that the foreign students have better chance of coming up with stuff that prof's can then publish and get tenure.
We register our cars. If it was possible to register them and control them, I'm sure we should/will advocate registering floods, lightings, and lunatics in airplane too.
As for your arg about american revolution, it was more than 200 years ago. Back then americans and those who were on the other side both only had muskets. That was a fair fight. Now, you would have a M16, grenade launcher, or shoulder fire missile launcher at most, the big bad federal gov't has cruise missiles with thermonuclear warheads. You are gonna lose, so wake up.
And let me ask you, what did happen for Y2K? Nothing. and since you say you haven't killed anyone I'm guessing you haven't used the gun to defend yourself? So, if you have't used it, why not give it up, or let's at least register it.
If it moves, looks, and sounds like a duck, it's a duck. You do sound alot like a NRA member. And as you point out it's an amendment i.e. subject to change. I've been always amazed by the fact that a small minority ( 4 million member which include Micheal Moore who certainly does not second the "extream" position the leaders of NRA support and I hope there are more Moores in NRA) can hold the whole country a hostige. Never mind the fact that there's no reason for anyone to have a M16. You certainly are NOT hunting anything legit with a M16, and forget the fairy tail, you are not defending against the big bad federal gov't with a puny M16 when the other side has a cruise missile with a mutiple thermonuclear warheards. I ,as a person against guns in general, can agree that some people can have shooting rifles for hunting and recreational shooting. but anything more than that, I don't see a legit use.