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See, when the shooting takes place somewhere CCW is allowed, and somebody has a gun to defend themselves, the shooting is far less successful than in the blissful "gun free" zones. That one lady with a concealed handgun probably saved the lives of everyone else there.

Terry Pratchett has alzheimers, in a related story.

I was a woman for a while. But, then they put me back on my medication. Interesting fact: I have a johnson but two X chromosomes due to mad scientists.

Wouldn't that be like naming a teddy bear Jim here?

The original Deus Ex had a magic to it far beyond a name and a concept. No game designer since has ever quite managed to equal it, and that's not because they haven't tried. If this is a different team running simply on a name, I don't see myself looking forward to this any more than an original game by the same people.

I thought it was one of the better shooters I've played, until about the last half hour or so when it became pretty generic and lame. The AC-130 simulation bit was incredibly cool.

I'm not sure what you're trying to tell us. It's good that he's not Muslim, or...? Nothing in that article actually gives anyone a reason to vote for him. And how are you going to vote for him if you live in Indonesia?

I paid $40 for it and was glad I did.

I think the concept of a mass shooting at a school or business may come from a very badly perverted ideal celebrated by western culture, the image of John Wayne standing alone in front of the town clock tower at high noon to take on a dozen or more bad guys and come out on top, going out with guns blazing when logic and the whole town tells him to surrender. It is a very western concept, increasingly popular and used as an inspirational plot device in just about every medium, and while there's nothing wrong with the idea as culture depicts it, a good guy standing up against a crowd, the crazies twist it like they twist every other rational thought--the oppressors become the classmates and coworkers. Surrender or suicide should be the sane path out, but violence is the ideal way. But I happen to like John Wayne and I wouldn't like to see the real idea removed from our culture. I would of course like to see a world without the mentally ill who twist it around to something bad, but they're always going to be around, no matter what culture you live in.

No, really?

Guess we're not cool enough to play cricket.

I'm kind of wondering if this game will start exactly where the last one left off, as in, we'll actually play as one of the two guys that performed the hit on the player character at the end of the first Mafia.

That's totally what I named my bard character in NWN2.

So you're comparing a weapon to a kitchen tool..? No wonder you're all for everyone having their own war arsenal; you're totally out there. I'm not saying that a .22 target pistol is less lethal than a knife, just that in creating the model, Sig intended it purely as a target pistol and for anything else it's quite inadequate. At the same time they manufacture hundreds of thousands of weapons that are intended to be used against human targets, and they're some of the best for doing this in the world. But yes, I do believe people have every right to own these as well.

Well, that would depend on the brand, the model, and the maintainer.

Technically, his Sig Mosquito wasn't built to kill people any more than a kitchen knife. It's a target pistol at best.

I think I'd be for education, but only if actually done properly. The way I see it, if the government is allowed to create mandatory training or licensing, it's pretty much guarenteed that they'll use it as a way to discourage gun ownership. They'll make it a grueling, lengthy, and expensive process. We'll see instances of racism with minorities being turned away because they look like gangbangers. They'd keep making the system harder and more painful in the hopes that people will eventually decide it's just not worth the trouble to own a firearm--this has happened in many European countries. If they actually got some people who wanted their students to have firearms, like the NRA, to do the training, it might be different. If the process was used specifically to educate instead of hinder, with a lecture on proper handling, a simple written exam detailing the rules of safe handling, followed by a brief range demonstration judged by their safe handling instead of their accuracy, and the license registry couldn't be used by the government to know which houses to raid when they come up with their latest, useless ban, I might accept it. Of course, I think Findland may well have already been like this. I'm pretty sure Switzerland is. And obviously it did not help in this case. For all we know, the Nihilist may have kept his gun pointed in a safe direction and kept his finger off the trigger in between shooting his classmates. No matter how much training you offer, the responsible will just stay responsible, and the crazies will just stay crazy. I'm totally against psychological tests being a part of gun ownership, because I know fully well that the government would make it a ridiculous and extremely expensive process, and they wouldn't hesitate to label every citizen in America crazy simply for wanting a firearm. If they told me I had to take an anger management class, that'd probably be the only time in my life I might need a class to manage my anger. I'd be especially for training if completion doubled as a CCW permit and they did away with the NFA and '86 bans as a compromise.

You're wrong, sir. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong!

And it's not like they didn't have anywhere to go if they stuck to the 30s. There are a lot more guns and a whole lot more cars they could add to keep things new. I could name twenty or thirty off the top of my head I would have loved to see in Mafia. The whole time I played Mafia I thought of things missing; Delta blues music, the BAR, Bugattis, Bentleys, BMWs, motorcycles, Nazis. Firing a BAR out of a Bugatti window while listening to Blind Willie Johnson is my idea of a sequel.

I like the late thirties if only for the more defined weapon selection and more unique automobiles--honestly, how many games have you played that let you do Tommy gun drive bys in a Duesenberg while listening to Django Reinhardt? The 50s means sports cars, stamped metal submachineguns, and Elvis. I don't have anything against any of these things, but they lack that touch of class we got in Mafia.

I'm excited. I would also prefer it stays in the 30s, but there's some pretty damn decent cars to drive in the 50s too.

Though ideally you should've started with one of the earlier quotes from that exchange and let someone else finish. Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man.

I liked the period music in Mafia. I think most of it was Django Reinhardt.

Nihilists! **** me. I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, but at least it's an ethos.

Then he is my hero.