Bought a new shotgun

[kozak6]

Yeah, the other day, I picked up a 12 gauge Ithaca Model 37.

It's quite a good shotgun. It fits me well, and it's light for a shotgun (which can make it difficult to shoot heavier loads, though).

I would've bought a video card instead, but since I have a difficult semester, I don't really think I'll find myself playing computer games as often as I would care for.

[PHREAK]

*sigh*

I still believe a graphics card would have been a tad better investment.

On a sidenote:
With all the current shit going on in the world, you really are not helping the worlds view in regards to Americans.

You know me from this forum and you know that I'm not the insulting type, so please don't take this as an insult but rather a friendly advice from a guy who went thru a lot of shit during his quarter century on this world.

Think before you speak,
Think before you write,
THINK before you think.

[Ed]

With all the current shit going on in the world, you really are not helping the worlds view in regards to Americans.

Not changing it, that's certainly true. After so many school shootings, why haven't you got tighter gun controls? After Dunblane, gun laws became much stricter here and a similar thing happen in Australia around the same time.

Guns aren't the only thing: the environment, religion, units of measure, seatbelts, your cars, paper sizes, immigration, why does the US have to do things so differently?

[divVerent]

Guns aren't the only thing: the environment,

Which environment?

religion,

What are the US doing differently there?

units of measure,

Hehe... well, historical reasons. The British brought them the inch... and look what they've made of it. I never understood why some "imperial" units of measure differ between US and UK.

seatbelts,

How so?

your cars,

Is THAT really weird in the US? I think the Germans must be really weird with respect to cars (well, not all, but many)... but the US?

paper sizes,

Natural conclusion from having those units of measure. Note that DIN A4 is a METRIC format in spite of the weird length and width... DIN formats are defined by "DIN A0 is one square METER in a certain aspect ratio, DIN A(n+1) = half of DIN A(n) (like folding), same aspect ratio". Starting from that, it follows that the aspect ratio must be the square root of two and the sizes of DIN A4 for example are 100/sqrt(sqrt(2))^7 x 100/sqrt(sqrt(2))^9 centimeters.

why does the US have to do things so differently?

Because?

[divVerent]

Yeah, the other day, I picked up a 12 gauge Ithaca Model 37.

It's quite a good shotgun. It fits me well, and it's light for a shotgun (which can make it difficult to shoot heavier loads, though).

I really don't want to know what you're gonna do with it. Especially since it's a shot gun - I can't imagine a shot gun being useful for self defense. A pistol, maybe. If you can use it, you won't hit innocents most of the time. But a shot gun?

The video card might have been the better choice...

[esteel]

Collect? A friend of mine has lots of DVDs and has not watched all of them and probably never will.. buy a shotgun, hang it on a wall and never use it? Not that i really like guns, the only three i would like to hang on a wall are a lightsaber, a BFG and a railgun.. Oh and maybe a rocketlauncher that can actually be used for rocketjumping

[C.Brutail]

Ithaca Model 37
Caliber: 12, 16, 20 gauge
Shots: 4
Action: Pump
Country of Origin: USA

Year first made: 1937



Btw if I've read correctly, this sg is for hunting.

[tChr]

Gun-related killings and attempted kills include around a total of 100 persons each year in Norway, thats less than 100 incidents and swe are almost 5.000.000 people.

These are, btw the stats for the countries with most killings pr capita pr year:

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Brasil: 29
South-africa: 26
Jamaica: 18
USA: 9
Australia:2,4
Canada: 2
Great Britain: 1,4
Switserland: 1
Japan: 0,6
Austria: 0,5
Germany: 0,2


The real interesting thing to ask, would be, why are som many people killed by guns in the US. Norway has more liberal gun laws than the US, we also have a higher density of hand guns, and we have a much much higer density of hunting weapons (pr capita that is), still gun-related killings in norway are so rare that every case makes it to the national news. GUn in norway are primaliy used for hunting. The density of hunting weapons are much higher than the one of handguns.

It might have something to do with the ovearll and historicly teached respect of life.

Is it true than in texas you can shoot anyone traspassing on your property after dark and claim self defense? If you did that here, you would be charged with, and convicted of murder in the first degree.

And for the record,I'm not agains gun in general.

My guns:

Stevens Model 311 S/S double barreled shotgun (used for hunting rodents and birds)
Winchester Model 270 .22 pump (yeah, really ) (used for extermintaiong small critters)

And my personal favourute:
A Mauser mod 98 karabin made in 1942 (first made in 1898)
caliber 7.92/75 (now thats an elephant rifle for you) (Original caliber, most are rebored)
With its original bajonette intact
(kept for historical reasons)

[obi_wan]

The real interesting thing to ask, would be, why are som many people killed by guns in the US.

Well i would say most of people who get killed by a gun are killed by their OWN gun while trying to defend themselves becoz the aggressor takes it and hesitate less to shoot than the agressed person.

I think i live in one of the country where [hand]guns are the more hated in the world, and from a french point of view, someone who has a gun at home is a bit 'strange'. I mean apart the hunters, nobody has a gun at home here...

What's also representative is that there are no gun-shops in my country (perhaps there are a few in the big cities but that's all...). If you want to buy a gun it is in a sport shop and there are many (many) verifications... you'll never see big guns shops with a huge amount of different models like the US shops i've seen on tv.

All that to come to one idea : if there are more people killed by guns in the USA, its imho only because guns are more usual in this country.

I'm 25 years old, and like the big majority of people of my age in my country, i did never touched a true weapon in my whole life, and didn't even have a lotta possibilities to do it.

[obi_wan]

With its original bajonette intact

muahaha french words written in other languages are hilarious