What is the point of owning guns?

[Elok]

I'm not accountable for your weak Google-Fu.

[Kidlicious]

No, you need to catch up on the latest genetic research. What we call "Semites" are actually an ethnic mix of African groups and Turkic migrants from central Asia. Skalgaard and Topper found a small Aryan component as well. The Assyrians were an unusually pure Turkic strain, and one of the first.

The origin of semetic people dates back to Sumeria, 5000 BC. What is the origin of turkic people?

[Docfeelgood]

On the surface, guns are actually a step towards equality. Guns give the physically weak a way to defend against the strong, as neuroscientist and pop intellectual Sam Harris has described. A world without guns is not a more peaceful world, but a more savage one, where brute strength allows bullies to exploit people incapable of fighting back.

[regexcellent]

Turkic people come from the Kazakhstan and Western China area, in Central Asia.

[giblets]

The origin of semetic people dates back to Sumeria, 5000 BC. What is the origin of turkic people?

You know the Bible implies the world didn't even exist then, right? Burn in hell, heretic.

[MRT144]

I found the answer to the OP:

To attempt to murder bulgarian presidents.

[Al B. Sure!]

I found the answer to the OP:

To attempt to murder bulgarian presidents.

He wasn't the president. He was the leader of a political party.

I'm not accountable for your weak Google-Fu.

You're a liar. You made that up. Citations, please, then?

[Dinner]

Heh. When my wife visited Vietnam, everybody called her dep (beautiful) purely on account of her paleness. Interestingly, they thought she was very fat, since she has a normal white-woman figure, but that didn't make her any less dep. They were constantly squealing at her to stay out of the sun or drown in her sweat under a hat, gloves, long sleeves, etc.--otherwise she would turn black and never find a husband! This was before she married me, naturally.

I noticed that in Thailand too. People constantly complimented both men and women for having a light complication as if we hadn't been born with it or there was something we could do about it. Even the poor people were constantly putting on hats and long sleeves even in warm tropical weather because they were afraid their skin would darken. It seemed kind of strange to me.

[BlackCat]

Yeah, such behaviour could never happen in US of A

[Dinner]

For the last century the USA has been the exact opposite. Prior to the industrial revolution just about everyone in western Europe prized "fairness of skin" as evidence that the person in question never had to work in the fields and thus they were upper class people who never had to do manual labor. When the industrial revolution happened most people started working indoors in factories all day so everyone had very fair skin as most people worked all the light hours of the day indoors. Suddenly, the upper classes had to find a new way to show off their social position thus being tanned suddenly became en vogue as it showed the person in question had enough money and leisure time to go on expensive foreign vacations where they had nothing better to do than lay on beaches perfecting their tan.

So, as you can see, in the US the ideal of fairness got turned on its head.

[BlackCat]

Naw, haw din't I come to thunk bout dat ? Viet Nam and Thailand are after all high industrialized countries with barely a pesant or other kind of unskilled poor laborers araound

[DaShi]

I noticed that in Thailand too. People constantly complimented both men and women for having a light complication as if we hadn't been born with it or there was something we could do about it. Even the poor people were constantly putting on hats and long sleeves even in warm tropical weather because they were afraid their skin would darken. It seemed kind of strange to me.

People make fortunes on whitening cream in China because the preference for paleness still exists. Interestingly, they are now trying to market hair removing cream for women, there as well. However, that is more about creating new demand by playing on physical insecurities.

[regexcellent]

I just shot four boxes (100 rounds) of birdshot at the range. Now I'm out. Time to go buy some more. Fortunately it's mostly rifle and pistol ammo that have hit panic prices. With luck I'll still be able to get a good deal on 20 ga #8 shells.

In better news, I've gotten a lot better at trap.

[DaShi]

[Dinner]

Yeah, but it got annoying having random people walk up to me and telling me my light skin was so nice. They did that to all the white people in my Army unit. We were like "thank you, but there isn't really much I can do about that. I am white after all." It would seem better to compliment someone on something they can control (like the quality of their work or because they did a good job on something) than to constantly bring up something they can't control even as a compliment. Yeah, I know I have blue eyes, thanks.