The "controversial opinions" thread!

James Murphy said:
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- silly little boys that don't realize that homophobia isn't very "christian" (oh wait... yes it is!), or very "atheist" for that matter, and that it has even less to do with audio engineering and mixing than age, are wasting far too much of our perfectly good oxygen... which should be re-allocated to those who think before they type.
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See my thoughts on public executions ;)
 
Notuern said:
Im not going to argue with you, but i want a reliable source on that claim(That i can read on my own.).
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i've seen these statistics over and over with very little variation.. here's one of the places you can easily find a discussion of the stubject that quotes very similar statistics (it is the source of the quotes i put below for those too lazy to ready the full pages: http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0210e.asp

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some relevant quotes from the above linked report:

• "Gun-control advocates look at guns only as a means to harm others even though they are more often used to prevent injury. According to a 1995 study entitled “Armed Resistance to Crime: The Prevalence and Nature of Self-Defense with a Gun” by Gary Kleck and Marc Gertz, published by the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology at Northwestern University School of Law, law-abiding citizens use guns to defend themselves against criminals as many as 2.5 million times every year.

That means that firearms are used 60 times more often to protect the lives of honest citizens than to shoot with criminal intent. Of these defensive shootings, more than 200,000 are by women defending themselves against sexual abuse. About half a million times a year, a citizen carrying a gun away from home uses it in self-defense. Again, according to Kleck amd Gertz, “Citizens shoot and kill more criminals than police do every year [2,819 times versus 303].” Moreover, as George Will pointed out in an article entitled “Are We a Nation of Cowards?” in the November 15, 1993, issue of Newsweek, while police have an error rate of 11 percent when it comes to the accidental shooting of innocent civilians, the armed citizens’ error rate is only 2 percent, making them five times safer than police."

• "Those studies and others indicate that often the mere sight of a firearm discourages an attacker. Criminologist John Lott from the University of Florida found that 98 percent of the time when people use guns defensively, simply brandishing a firearm is sufficient to cause a criminal to break off an attack. Lott also found that in less than 2 percent of the cases is the gun fired, and three-fourths of those are warning shots."

• "Gun control advocates argue that the police are there to protect us from criminals and the military from invaders. But in 1992, the National Guard and police refused to engage hoodlums during the Los Angeles riots, effectively abandoning people to their fate. Nevertheless many Korean merchants successfully used firearms with high-capacity magazines, which Congress has since banned, to fend off rioters. Their stores still stood after the riots."

• "Vermont has the least restrictive gun-control law. It recognizes the right of any Vermonter who has not otherwise been prohibited from owning a firearm to carry concealed weapons without a permit or license. Yet Vermont has one of the lowest crime rates in America, ranking 49 out of 50 in all crimes and 47th in murders."

• "Texas is a good example. In the early 1990s, Texas’s serious crime rate was 38 percent above the national average. Since then, serious crime in Texas has dropped 50 percent faster than for the nation as a whole. All this happened after passage of a concealed-carry law in 1994."

• "What about the experience of other countries? In 1997, just 12 months after a new [restrictive] gun law went into effect in Australia, homicides jumped 3.2 percent, armed robberies 44 percent, and assaults 8.6 percent. In the state of Victoria, homicides went up 300 percent. Before the law was passed, statistics showed a steady decrease in armed robberies with firearms. In 1998, in the state of South Australia, robbery with a firearm increased nearly 60 percent. In 1999, the assault rate in New South Wales rose almost 20 percent.

In England, which has the strictest gun-control laws of the developed nations and which had outlawed all handguns and most firearms, the Sunday Express of June 20, 1999, reported,

“In recent months there have been a frightening number of shootings in Britain’s major cities, despite new laws [Firearms Act of 1997] banning gun ownership after the Dunblane tragedy. Our investigation established that guns are available through means open to any criminally minded individual.”

The Manchester Guardian of January 14, 1999, lamented that their city was being called “Gunchester.” Police sources were quoted as saying that guns had become “almost a fashion accessory” among young criminals. Some gangs are armed with fully automatic weapons. The police risk confronting teenagers on mountain bikes brandishing machine guns. A 1971 Cambridge University study showed that in heavily gun-controlled Great Britain, “the use of firearms in crime was very much less before 1920 when Britain had no controls of any sort.”

In fact, crime has increased so much in Australia, Canada, and Britain, all of which have strict gun-control laws, that the Wall Street Journal has since reported that the crime rate for burglary in America is now substantially lower than in those three countries."

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there are many more noteworthy sections in that report, and it quotes several other relevant reports as well.

one of the best, and most relevant sections to this forum is in part 2 (linked at the bottom of part 1) and is entitled "Gun Control Abroad"... in fact, read the whole report if this issue has ever been part of your discourse on this forum.

this will... and SHOULD... challenge a lot of assumptions many of your seem to have regarding firearms.

i wish there weren't any guns in the world, but there are. i can't change that and neither can you. all you can do is protect yourself and your loved ones, same as when you buy health insurance or car insurance.
 
Well mine got deleted, so here I go again.

Religion is a disease.

Religion is separation.

The character known as Jesus in the Bible is thought to be a wise all loving teacher by believers and a lot of nonbelievers alike. The truth is he is an asshole. He condones atrocities and committed animal abuse among other things. (if he ever existed)

It takes a nation of Christians to constantly be at war.

The same is true for other religions.

Wars can't be had without sheep.

The only good reason to fight is to protect yourself and your loved ones. (or professionally, sports)

Football/Soccer is boring to watch. It's almost a religion.

Sports in general are boring to watch. Except if it's a good fight.


1. Imagine how many men masturbate every day.
2. According to what the pope says, sperm is sacred, because it contains human life (unborn babies).
3. Unborn babies are not affected by original sin, and go directly to heaven.
Conclusion: heaven is full of semen. Enjoy your afterlife christians.
 
Thanks for the link, will read.
And im not against guns at all(Although i personally think gun-control generally is a good idea.).. just wanted to see the facts behind it. :)
 
Bekanor said:
People talking about "feel" is more wanky than anything Malmsteen can dish up.
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Comments like this make me want to punch a baby and the dick that says it.

The difference between WANK which is the current YingYang Fatsteen and the 1984 Yngwie Malmsteen is that in 84 he had BOTH speed and feel. Now its just re-hashed regurgitated bullshit. Guy deserves credit for bringing the classical influence to metal for sure, but there were plenty of guys doing it 10 years plus before he was.

Al DiMeola for one. Just as fast, probably cleaner, and with a better tone imho.

This was 1977


1978
 
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Ya great version :)

Paying ode to the true king of neo-classical imho.

Dont get me wrong I loved YngYang in the 80s, but when I heard Dimeola for the first time in 91' I was instantly hooked

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You know I just noticed the killer bass tone on that version too!!
 
Jason Momoa looks more like how Conan was supposed to than Arnold did

He's also gonna be a great Conan in the movie ... don't know how good the movie itself will be but so far it sounds like they've got the right idea
 
guitarguru777 said:
Comments like this make me want to punch a baby and the dick that says it.

The difference between WANK which is the current YingYang Fatsteen and the 1984 Yngwie Malmsteen is that in 84 he had BOTH speed and feel. Now its just re-hashed regurgitated bullshit. Guy deserves credit for bringing the classical influence to metal for sure, but there were plenty of guys doing it 10 years plus before he was.
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Err I'm well aware of how awesome Yngwie was back in the day (Fire and Ice is fucking win, in particular, Leviathan), I just used him to make an easily understandable point. I'm also a big fan of Meola and classical guitar and jazz in general.

The point I was making is that I'd rather listen to Malmsteen's current wanky go-nowhere stuff than listen to washed up old cover band warriors pleasuring themselves over some dude playing e minor pentatonic, for about the 400 trillionth time in history.

I'll piggyback off your post for this next one if you don't mind.


Speed and feel are not mutually exclusive. The guitar players that have both are better than those who only have one or the other.
 
-People who think effects pedals=creativity deserve to be shot by firing squad. If you have a board with like more than five effects on it you are a cunt.
-99% of "music fans" deserve to be starved to death.
-The average college age musician does NOT know how to play "the blues". I don't care if you went through "SRV phase" (I've heard this phrase an absurd amount of times). Also, you fucking suck at guitar.
-99% of 7 string players don't need the extra range. They need a bullet to the head.
 
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