Ага, еше бы мог переехать тудаos2 wrote:WV wild and wonderful

Ага, еше бы мог переехать тудаos2 wrote:WV wild and wonderful
I don't really have toAlbert_al wrote:Ага, еше бы мог переехать тудаos2 wrote:WV wild and wonderful
Далековато от Калиos2 wrote: Loudoun County, VA. в чем проблема?
так давайте к намAlbert_al wrote:Далековато от Калиos2 wrote: Loudoun County, VA. в чем проблема?
Ну, если придираться, то филиал Силиконовки все-таки в Fairfax Countyos2 wrote:так давайте к намAlbert_al wrote:Далековато от Калиos2 wrote: Loudoun County, VA. в чем проблема?
у нас тут миррор Silicone Valley на востоке
те же работы и rates/зряплаты но порядки другие
я сам люблю СанФран но репатриировался давно
Техас ближе.Albert_al wrote:Далековато от Калиos2 wrote: Loudoun County, VA. в чем проблема?
Papa Hotel Whisky wrote:ненароком не заехать со стволом в Мэриленд. Ничто так не повышает культуру вождения, как езда пьяным с нелегальным стволом
"Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals," says the report, which was completed in June and ignored in the mainstream press.
The study, which was farmed out by the CDC to the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council, also revealed that while there were "about 300,000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008," the estimated number of defensive uses of guns ranges "from about 500,000 to more than 3 million per year."
Here are a few more salient points from the study:
- "Whether gun restrictions reduce firearm-related violence is an unresolved issue."
- "Studies that directly assessed the effect of actual defensive uses of guns have found consistently lower injury rates among gun-using crime victims compared with victims who used other self-protective strategies."
- One "body of research" (Kleck and Gertz, 1995) cited by the study found "estimated annual gun use for self-defense" to be "up to 2.5 million incidents, suggesting that self-defense can be an important crime deterrent."
- "There is empirical evidence that gun turn-in programs are ineffective."
Он прав, но проблема в принципе шире. Дело не только в отношении к оружию, но и вообще к жизни. Я помню интервью с Клинтом Иствудом в Эсквайре несколько лет назад, он сказал, что современные молодые люди - это "pussy generation".xKing wrote:Хорошая заметка http://www.thebangswitch.com/winning-ba ... g-the-war/
We live in more of a pussy generation now, where everybody's become used to saying, "Well, how do we handle it psychologically?" In those days, you just punched the bully back and duked it out. Even if the guy was older and could push you around, at least you were respected for fighting back, and you'd be left alone from then on.
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I remember going to a huge waterfall on a glacier in Iceland. People were there on a rock-platform overlook to see it. They had their kids. There was a place that wasn't sealed off, but it had a cable that stopped anybody from going past a certain point. I said to myself, You know, in the States they'd have that hurricane-fenced off, because they're afraid somebody's gonna fall and some lawyer's going to appear. There, the mentality was like it was in America in the old days: If you fall, you're stupid.
You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good.
Так и есть, причем независимо от партийной принадлежности. В полном соответствии с многократно обруганным либералами романом Айн Рэнд. Вот только Джона Галта пока не видно.texan wrote:Вообще сама идея что человека/бизнес можно нагнуть за то, что его слова, действия или установки не укладываются в чье-то мировоззрение порочна и губительна для общества. Мне иногда кажется что в современном американском обществе сосуществуют две политические системы, два мировоззрения. Причем одна из них субсидирует другую.
Да все тут просто: "cultural acceptance" изменилась и обратного пути к золотым временам для оруженосцев уже не будет. В конечном счете "cultural acceptance" это право людей, не хотящих иметь оружие быть равным с теми, кто его имеет в одинаковых условиях: в школе например или в другом публичном месте. Так сказать выйти на ринг, если придется, с голыми кулаками.xKing wrote:Хорошая заметка http://www.thebangswitch.com/winning-ba ... g-the-war/