12-34hom
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This guy wins the B.E.M. award of the month.
Others are forthcoming..
12-34hom.
Others are forthcoming..
12-34hom.
Whoever came up with the saying "An armed society is a polite society" probably failed to take road rage into account.
Quote: "Whoever came up with the saying "An armed society is a polite society" probably failed to take road rage into account."
That was Robert Heinlein, in his novel _Beyond this Horizon_. The novel takes place in a society a century or three from now that's undergone a considerable ammount of Darwinian filtering.
Whoever came up with the saying "An armed society is a polite society" probably failed to take road rage into account.
These guys are the ones you hear about later in life who have had the hair transplants and buy the Vette after the second divorce.
What a profound sentiment! KNOWING that you have the means to defend your safety means you have less need to bolster your ego. You know you can calmly deal with the situation, so . . . you don't escalate it. Quite often, when a situation spirals out of control, it's because both parties escalated."Isn't it a calming influence to know you have the firepower to defend yourself when you run into these nut cases?"
He said that I did the right thing and name some laws that were in the elderly favor when it comes to getting into fight with young men.