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(going to date myself here) I think it was Electric Company, actually
Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss.
Lazarus Long, "Time Enough For Love" by Robert A. Heinlein
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Idiot and his family
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I don't see anything wrong with the photo. Everyone is practising proper trigger and muzzle discipline.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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That's missing the point John, this was posted a few days after four people were killed in Michigan
"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I didn't miss the point at all. I'm simply ignoring the woke bullsh*t we get from across the pond and from twanker users all the time. This is a first amendment issue (which still matters here), which is generally intended to protect speech, and more specifically, *unpopular* speech.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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pkfox wrote: a few days after four people were killed in Michigan
Ummm... without taking one side or the other in regards to the silly Christmas card... dozens of people are killed with guns in Chicago every single week - sometimes it's dozens killed in a single weekend.
Somehow our illustrious media mostly ignores these killings. It obviously doesn't support their narrative.
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And this ultimately saves vaccine 
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Given that there are 330 million people in the USA, someone will find almost any photo that you can name insensitive. Are we to require ritual abasement and apologies for each of those, too?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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#realJSOP wrote: Everyone is practising proper trigger and muzzle discipline.
True. But that woman could easily shoot the head of the man.
jhaga
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jhaga wrote: easily shoot the head of the man.
Now that would make for a much more interesting greeting card.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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I bet that would wipe the smile off his face
jhaga
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In more ways than one. 
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Why the heck would you pose with guns anyway?
Apart from the whole gun debate, let's for the moment say guns are your hobby and you love guns.
I love games, movies and music, but you don't see me posing with any of those on a Christmas picture.
And quite frankly, I never see anyone doing any of that.
Posing with a football (soccer for Americans) for the football team Christmas card, sure.
Posing with guns for the shooting range Christmas card, sure.
Posing with footballs or guns for your Christmas family picture, just why?
And then they say vegetarians are in your face about their diet.
Hah, we could learn a thing or two from gun owners
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Likewise, I don't make xmas pics of me with my car (or my guns). However, I'm not gonna criticize anyone else for doing that. It is, after all, theoretically a free country. Maybe not in practice, but theoretically.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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#realJSOP wrote: I'm not gonna criticize anyone else for doing that. It is, after all, theoretically a free country.
I thought the freedom includes the freedom to criticize. Or pointing out the bad taste of someone who makes Christmas cards with guns. You know, this was supposed to be celebrating the birthday of someone who had little to do with guns and violence.
Mircea
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Mircea Neacsu wrote: this was supposed to be celebrating the birthday of someone who had little to do with guns and violence.
Maybe they didn't have guns back then, but he sure lived in violent times. Downright barbaric in fact.
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I never once said he couldn't criticize. However, foreigners opinions with regards to our Constitutional rights or how they're infringed carry no weight here (in the U.S.).
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Amen! I would even go one more step and say that anything we write in this forum (except for programming stuff) carries very little weight. In my case, it's just a pastime for an old fart
Mircea
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I just don't get it, not just because they're tools of war (while Christmas is about peace), but just because.
Especially a country's representative could just make a nice neutral Christmas picture, no?
It's holiday, not hobby-day, after all 
Anyway, you're right in that people should just do it if they want to (and face the consequences), but as a Dutchman I'm still entitled to my opinion on an American gun-holiday-picture on a Canadian programming website.
#realJSOP wrote: Maybe not in practice, but theoretically.
We're all equal, it's just that some people are more equal than others
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Sander Rossel wrote: I just don't get it, not just because they're tools of war (while Christmas is about peace),
No one ever gets peace without being willing to fight for it.
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I did.
And never been capable of fighting either. The reason for our prosperity is cooperation.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Unless, you know, people wouldn't fight
Our forefathers did a lot of fighting and as a result I never had to fight in my life.
I was born into peace and still know it today, same for my parents.
Their parents lived during WWII, but of the four, only one is still alive.
So tell me, who are you fighting that you need all those guns?
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Our second amendment was written specifically to allow us to overthrow our government if needed. Our freedoms are laid out in our Declaration of Independence (yes, the forgotten document) where it spells out that a free people have the fundamental right to replace their government at any time they feel they're being trampled on by said government. The second amendment is there to enforce that right.
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Yes, two and a half centuries ago, in which time you've never used it other than to defend gun ownership, so that makes it totally relevant today
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