Ditto, I only new cd that I have bought in the last few months was the NEw 50 Cent "Get Rich or Die Trying". I used to buy all my cds, until I realized that I was getting price screwed and by and large, most of the music was crap. I have downloaded a couple of songs here and there, but I can live without music by and large. Most of it is crap, and I can hear the best songs off of the cd on the radio in the first place. That's a grand idea, give the finger to the RIAA and don't buy a damn thing from them. Just listen to the radio, or go without. Talk about a crippling blow. Serves them right. They are trying to protect their ancient medium that made them a boatload of money, the cd. CD's as a medium are dead, unless thye drastically drop the price, and there goes their easy money. It's a recession, and companies are getting lean to survive, in part by making personnell cuts, cutting expenses etc. The RIAA tried to keep prices the same, and keep their wasteful company standards intact, and they are paying the price. Now they are trying to pass their costs to the consumer by suing the crap out of people. I can't stand these money grubbing, cocksuckers. Honestly, I hope they go bankrupt, or get to such a sorry state of affairs financially that they are FORCED to lay people off and drastically cut expenses. Serves them right for the crap they pulled with the price fixing other clandestine, underhanded practices they have done. Here's my promise "I HEREBY PROMISE TO GIVE THE RIAA THE FINGER, TO NEVER BUY ANOTHER CD AGAIN, AND TO BEND OVER SO THE RIAA AND THE REST OF THEIR COCKSUCKING CRONIES CAN KISS MY ASS".
I'm not a gun owner, nor do I have a ton of statistical data to present to you (people have already done that, not need for me to follow suit). I'm just a person who has a logical mindset, and is not going to march in line with anyones opinion. In the United States, we have more gun laws than any country in the world, we don't need anymore. We need to enforce that laws tha we have, and do it vigoriously. You seem to have the misguided notion that more laws = lower gun crime. That is not the case. We have more gun laws now than ever, and we still have relatively high levels of gun crime. What you fail to understand, is that a lot of crimes done with guns are done with guns that are ILLEGAL anyway. "Street Bought Guns", guns that have been stolen, had serial numbers etched off, etc are doing are responsible for a LOT of the crimes. I don't need a stat website to tell me that, it just makes sense. If you're a criminal, and you want to committ a gun crime, why in the hell would you go through the rigorous gun registration process??!!! Makes no damn sense. Easier to get a gun off the street and do it, almost impossible to trace, verses if you actually had the gun registered. My point is tha criminals will ALWAYS have guns, not matter how stringent that laws are. All more laws will do is make it harder than it already is for good, law abiding citizens to get guns. More laws do nothing to hinder criminals, just normal people trying to defend themselves as best they can. What I have learned from living 29 years is that relying 100% on the police and that "laws" to protect me 100% of the time from crime is folley, fallacy and fiction. It makes for great reading, and looks good on paper, but does not really apply in real life. I'm not saying go out and get an arsenal to make the army jealous, but nothing wrong with getting a gun to defend yourself. Most gun owners are responsible people, and don't need any more restrictions on them than they already have. We have hamstrung them enough as it is. No system is perfect or idiot proof, but laws can't stop people from being idiots and ignorant. Like I said, I'm not going to jump down your throat, no need to, you have an opinion, and you have the right to it. All I'm trying to do is to present a logical argument against more gun laws to you and to the other readers out there. Why is that lethal piece of fucking metal important to me, well my answer is that it's really not personally, but it is to some people, and most of these people are good, responsible people, and don't deserve to have their rights to own the fucking piece of fucking metal eroded away because of a few idiots. (Sorry about the double posting, but I'm a new member of slashdot, and the first post went under anonymous coward, sorry about that)
My name is Robzilla06. I make the above post about why we don't need more gun laws at 3:35am eastern standard time in the us. Anonymous coward didn't make that post, so you can direct any flame or praise at me, not anonymous coward.
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Ditto, I only new cd that I have bought in the last few months was the NEw 50 Cent "Get Rich or Die Trying". I used to buy all my cds, until I realized that I was getting price screwed and by and large, most of the music was crap. I have downloaded a couple of songs here and there, but I can live without music by and large. Most of it is crap, and I can hear the best songs off of the cd on the radio in the first place. That's a grand idea, give the finger to the RIAA and don't buy a damn thing from them. Just listen to the radio, or go without. Talk about a crippling blow. Serves them right. They are trying to protect their ancient medium that made them a boatload of money, the cd. CD's as a medium are dead, unless thye drastically drop the price, and there goes their easy money. It's a recession, and companies are getting lean to survive, in part by making personnell cuts, cutting expenses etc. The RIAA tried to keep prices the same, and keep their wasteful company standards intact, and they are paying the price. Now they are trying to pass their costs to the consumer by suing the crap out of people. I can't stand these money grubbing, cocksuckers. Honestly, I hope they go bankrupt, or get to such a sorry state of affairs financially that they are FORCED to lay people off and drastically cut expenses. Serves them right for the crap they pulled with the price fixing other clandestine, underhanded practices they have done. Here's my promise "I HEREBY PROMISE TO GIVE THE RIAA THE FINGER, TO NEVER BUY ANOTHER CD AGAIN, AND TO BEND OVER SO THE RIAA AND THE REST OF THEIR COCKSUCKING CRONIES CAN KISS MY ASS".
I'm not a gun owner, nor do I have a ton of statistical data to present to you (people have already done that, not need for me to follow suit). I'm just a person who has a logical mindset, and is not going to march in line with anyones opinion. In the United States, we have more gun laws than any country in the world, we don't need anymore. We need to enforce that laws tha we have, and do it vigoriously. You seem to have the misguided notion that more laws = lower gun crime. That is not the case. We have more gun laws now than ever, and we still have relatively high levels of gun crime. What you fail to understand, is that a lot of crimes done with guns are done with guns that are ILLEGAL anyway. "Street Bought Guns", guns that have been stolen, had serial numbers etched off, etc are doing are responsible for a LOT of the crimes. I don't need a stat website to tell me that, it just makes sense. If you're a criminal, and you want to committ a gun crime, why in the hell would you go through the rigorous gun registration process??!!! Makes no damn sense. Easier to get a gun off the street and do it, almost impossible to trace, verses if you actually had the gun registered. My point is tha criminals will ALWAYS have guns, not matter how stringent that laws are. All more laws will do is make it harder than it already is for good, law abiding citizens to get guns. More laws do nothing to hinder criminals, just normal people trying to defend themselves as best they can. What I have learned from living 29 years is that relying 100% on the police and that "laws" to protect me 100% of the time from crime is folley, fallacy and fiction. It makes for great reading, and looks good on paper, but does not really apply in real life. I'm not saying go out and get an arsenal to make the army jealous, but nothing wrong with getting a gun to defend yourself. Most gun owners are responsible people, and don't need any more restrictions on them than they already have. We have hamstrung them enough as it is. No system is perfect or idiot proof, but laws can't stop people from being idiots and ignorant. Like I said, I'm not going to jump down your throat, no need to, you have an opinion, and you have the right to it. All I'm trying to do is to present a logical argument against more gun laws to you and to the other readers out there. Why is that lethal piece of fucking metal important to me, well my answer is that it's really not personally, but it is to some people, and most of these people are good, responsible people, and don't deserve to have their rights to own the fucking piece of fucking metal eroded away because of a few idiots. (Sorry about the double posting, but I'm a new member of slashdot, and the first post went under anonymous coward, sorry about that)
My name is Robzilla06. I make the above post about why we don't need more gun laws at 3:35am eastern standard time in the us. Anonymous coward didn't make that post, so you can direct any flame or praise at me, not anonymous coward.