The American Gun Law

[londonblue]

Remember Charlton Heston used to be President of the NRA.What does that tell you?

I didn't realise he was actually president. Blimey.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I didn't realise he was actually president. Blimey.

You haven't seen Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine? :unsure:

("Heston was the president (a largely ceremonial position) and spokesman of the NRA from 1998 until he resigned in 2003.)"

wiki.

 

[Bluesmanager]

Hate that film. Can't actually watch the thing. First time I've ever walked out of a film because I didn't want to watch it.

 

[MK Shrimper]

Hate that film. Can't actually watch the thing. First time I've ever walked out of a film because I didn't want to watch it.

How odd. Like all MM films wildly factually inaccurate but an entertaining watch.

 

[Bluesmanager]

Mind you, I always get that muddled with another Columbine flick, think it's Elephant or something. Wasn't a doumentary.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Hate that film. Can't actually watch the thing. First time I've ever walked out of a film because I didn't want to watch it.

Mind you, I always get that muddled with another Columbine flick, think it's Elephant or something. Wasn't a doumentary.

You're clearly thinking of Gus Van Sant's Elephant,which was a fictionalised account of the Columbine killings.While nowhere near as good as BFC, it has its moments(IMO).

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0363589/

 

[Bluesmanager]

That's the *******. Gah.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Just received my NRA Visa card, 0% interest for the first year (for NRA members), and a percentage of every purchase made with the card goes to defending second amendment rights. I might put my new assault rifle on it, seems wrong not to.

 

[Firestorm]

Just received my NRA Visa card, 0% interest for the first year (for NRA members), and a percentage of every purchase made with the card goes to defending second amendment rights. I might put my new assault rifle on it, seems wrong not to.

Second amend rights need defending considerably, I would imagine that trying to establish a well regulated Militia would meet with quite a bit of opposition.

 

[Smudger]

Just received my NRA Visa card, 0% interest for the first year (for NRA members), and a percentage of every purchase made with the card goes to defending second amendment rights. I might put my new assault rifle on it, seems wrong not to.

Why stop there? Surely you need a bazooka under your bed in case of alien attack?

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Why stop there? Surely you need a bazooka under your bed in case of alien attack?

Good point, there are quite a lot of illegal aliens round our way.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

Good point, there are quite a lot of illegal aliens round our way.

I trust your own Green card is up to date? :winking:

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

I trust your own Green card is up to date? :winking:

I don't have one.

 

[Massimo Giovanni]

I don't have one.

ONE what? the list of possible things you don't have must be endless.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

ONE what? the list of possible things you don't have must be endless.

I obviously don't have your shining wit. But I do have spoonerismitis.

 

[Tangled up in Blue]

I trust your own Green card is up to date? :winking:

I don't have one.

In my time I had a J1 (temporary immigration) visa -valid to work for 3 months in the summer.
I'm reliably informed by a recent student of mine,who's gone back to work in SF for a year, that she needed a visa before she could take up full time employment in the US too.I believe her non-working boyfriend was granted a J1 visa for study purposes.

 

[Mad Cyril]

Before the law changed I occasionally went pistol shooting at a gun club in Dartford.

On one occasion I was approached by a bloke with a shaved head and dressed head to toe in full disruptive pattern camouflage who complemented me on my shooting, looked both ways to check the coast was clear before un-holstering a gun, passing it to me and whispering "try this, its what the SAS use".

 

[londonblue]

Good point, there are quite a lot of illegal aliens round our way.

I know. I've seen Men In Black.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

In my time I had a J1 (temporary immigration) visa -valid to work for 3 months in the summer.
I'm reliably informed by a recent student of mine,who's gone back to work in SF for a year, that she needed a visa before she could take up full time employment in the US too.I believe her non-working boyfriend was granted a J1 visa for study purposes.

Good for you. I have a US passport.

 

[C C Csiders]

Mind you, I always get that muddled with another Columbine flick, think it's Elephant or something. Wasn't a doumentary.

Peter Falk RIP