So its acceptable now to argue on a tit for tat basis now? The Israeli atrocities are inhumane and needs to be condemned and stopped and so are these. And regardless of what happened in Palestine, such extremist acts should be condemned. Circular arguments of I will stop only when you stop will truly destroy the world even more (which is what you think will happen anyway).
It’s called sarcasm. Pity it doesn’t come across in text.
It doesn’t indeed. But ok understood now.
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shocked that it took them so long to arrest him. Police were actually not able to find him until the killer gave up by himself.
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crazy to think that an Islamist sleeper was able to live here for over two years.
A lot happened in the last few years with the pandemic and Ukraine/ Russia + Israel/Gaza but maybe time again to invest more energy in the safety at home.
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And at a “Festival of Diversity”, too… 
The guy should be locked up for life.
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Japan does get more than its fair share of natural disasters. Another one is on the way in the form of a very strong and slow-moving typhoon that is probably hitting the island of Kyushu right now. Residents of Miyazaki City have been told to relocate to evacuation centers or to somewhere safe. That’s the same place that had a 7.1 earthquake a few weeks back.
The typhoon will make it’s way here and should arrive over the weekend, but it’s expected be a lot weaker by then.
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Sorry to hear about this my friend. Luckily here in US and my state, we can carry n conceal. Say whatever you want about our gun laws but I like carrying. Especially when I’m with my 2 kids and wife. Having a fighting chance versus someone with a dangerous weapon is very nice.
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In my state we can carry and conceal, too. I do not own a gun. Fortunately I’ve managed quite fine the last 53 years without ever needing one, and don’t anticipate ever needing to buy one*
Far too many people are jittery, and full of fear. There is no need to carry a gun to defend yourself. The presence of more and more guns necessarily leads to the use of more and more guns.
- It’s not my thing, but I do know several sportsmen/hunters. The culture is different to what I grew up with, but I can understand this aspect of gun ownership.
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Well, we actually have constitution carry, where you don’t need a CNC license. Sure, you can say you gone 53 years without needing to carry but all it takes is being in the wrong spot/situation/etc and needing it. Like I said, it’s nice having it for an emergency situation only. Been raised that you don’t ever pull it out unless you plan on using it. Hopefully I’ll never have to use it to defend myself or my family.
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massive cultural differences over here in Australia, where my first thoughts after reading your posts are ‘im glad no ones allowed to walk around with a gun under their Jacket’
not here to judge, i definately hope the last sentence in your post holds true.
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Agree with the first part and not the second
Is it really sport and is hunting still necessary?? That is just me. Also, more guns mean (even w/o the crazies), more chances of accidents…
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Apologies - I couldn’t resist.
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There is a fairly large shooting club where I live and the hunting is necessary. Wild boar and deer can devastate crops and there are no big predators to keep the numbers down. (There are a couple of wolf packs but they don’t have that much of an impact.) The meat from the boar/deer is sold at a local restaurant.
Is it a sport? I wouldn’t say no to the hunting, it’s a passtime but the target shooting is a competitive sport in it’s own right. There is an annual Schützenfest where the local shooters compete for a cup (also combined with excessive consumption of beer, which frankly alarms me!)
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I’m pretty certain numbers could be managed in other ways - the world (and particularly Germany) is full of clever people after all.
I’m not a fan of guns and I stopped eating meat in 1993 - so maybe it is easy for me to say.
ps many things are considered as sport, now and historically, but maybe they shouldn’t be
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The usual way is to have predators. Otherwise the animals will eat their way through all the available food. I heard a figure quoted that a family of boars accessing a field of maize will cause €1500 of damage. (no, I didn’t see their workings!)
What I object to are things like grouse shooting estates. These pretty much wipe out any flora and fauna that isn’t grouse and render the land useless for cross purpose use. At the same time, in Scotland, there is huge amounts of environmental damaged caused by deer. It has been suggested that this could be controlled by reintroducing wolves, but they would likely cause a huge amount of loss to livestock given the amount of open grazing that goes on.
The simple solution would be to encourage people to take up deer stalking, but the rich idiots who go to Scotland shooting would rather shoot stupid birds that have been presented to them on a plate rather than anything that involved some serious hunting skill.
I’d agree as to things considered a sport. Hunting can be a necessary activity. Killing animals for the fun of it isn’t.
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I see one of these in the Summer of 2010. Crazy the way each of them dresses. 
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Many years back, saw a guy with a deer carcass he had obviously just shot on the back of his pick-up… Talking with him and asked, did he not feel any guilt towards shooting the animal like that, out in the wild - well being raised in the big City, made me ignorant to some of the minor details in these things - Yes, I knew, just like rabbits and other animals, that overpopulate, deer will destroy trees, crops etc, but when he gave me the reason, that he culls part of the herd, was something I had never given thought to.
He said, after a certain age, because of their diet, teeth in a deer grind down to stumps, then virtually nothing at all - this makes it impossible to eat and fend for themselves, creating a slow agonising death through starvation - shooting the elders in the pack, he reckoned, was his humane way of completing the cycle of life… Now he could have been bullshitting completely, but for many years, it has given me reason to accept certain things do continue, for reasons that are not completely obvious.
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I can see certain people putting 2 and 2 to make 21 here. For example, is this a solution that can be applied to society in general?? Is the herd a metaphor for Florida?
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If I was a vegetarian I would be against it, but since I eat meat, I’m not morally against someone going to hunt a deer, like they do here in Indiana.
It’s not a sport (I misspoke in using that word) but it is more of a pastime or tradition, as I see fathers and sons going out to do it, or friends from many years getting together to go hunting, that sort of thing.
They spend a weekend in the woods, camping, getting in touch with nature and all that good stuff, with the added purpose of killing a deer and filling the freezer with meat. It’s not that they have to do it, as of course they could just go to the shops, but most of the things we do we don’t have to do… it’s more, we like to do.
Again, not my thing, and I doubt I would ever do it. But I can sort of understand the tradition, culture, and setting that sees it happen. It is licensed and regulated, so it isn’t a free for all either.
Oh, and one more thing. Back home in the UK, hunting very much had connotations of upper class, old money, and so on. From what I have seen here, it is just normal everyday people - surprisingly to me at least, many of them professional people and not rural types, at least the ones I know - who are getting in touch with something important, or even primal, by breaking from their usual hectic life to go on a hunting trip.
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What’s the situation now? Hope you are safe and well.
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