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So you're ex green beret now?



Not just now, but every since 1982 I have been ex-Special Forces. I even have the dd214 that says so. I went and looked to make sure I wasn't delusional.
Weather you believe it or not is of no consequence to me. I just put the picture in so you could understand I am not a rube. I have been around the block more than once.
What have you done in your lifetime? Anything remotely putting you in harms way to protect others. If you have not, been in that position, your sarcasm speaks volumes of your integrity.

Also I' an ex-cop. I couldn’t put up with the liberal (read hold the criminals hand and don’t hurt him) new cop routine. I lean to a more old school approach.

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I'm sorry, but pretty much every American I've ever met used to be in the military, and there are seemingly more special ops in the US military than actual US military.



Don't be sorry. I run into my fair share of these type people at a fair rate. It amuses me to no end. But it does seem strange that you have met enough Americans to make the statement “but pretty much every American I've ever met used to be in the military,”
Of course that statement could also be construed to mean you have only met one American, but the implication is you have met many. Either way what you are implying is I am a liar. If that is your implication, I feel sorry for the people around you as you are indeed small minded. If that is not what you were implying, I apologize and have no idea why you wrote that statement and the one below. Or where you are trying to go in this discussion about gun control.
But you drift from there often.

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Is there anyone in America who wasn't in the military? Is there anyone in the military who wasn't special ops? Isn't there a special ops for laundry staff? You know, for dangerous missions to the back of the clothes dryer to pacify and neutralize insurgent lint build-up? The horror, the horror.



Sarcasm is not your strong suit.
But, have you ever served you country in any military capacity? Or is the laundry reference your way of telling, in what capacity, you are fit to serve? I have tried not to sink to a level of sarcasm, but you seem to keep going there.
Personal attacks are always the path people follow when they don’t have the intelligence or maybe facts to bolster their argument. You are walking down a well-worn path; this surprises me as I thought (my mistake) that this could actually be an intelligent discussion of opposing viewpoints between people of differing backgrounds.

I also notice you have given no explanation of you background. I included some background information, just to let you know that I am not a child sitting in my mothers
basement starting arguments on the Internet because I don’t have a life.



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I had a feeling it would come out sooner or later.



Come to what? You, coming to the realization that a poster on an Internet porn message board would not change my convictions? I would have hoped you had that realization in my first post. Again I always give the benefit of doubt to the other party. It is also sad that my initial impressions turn out to be the correct ones.

http://redwing.hutman.net/%7Emreed/warriorshtm/centurion.htm

I may have to read some of that. Thanks for the URL. It looks entertaining.



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Sometimes it really irks me how often ppl fail to suprise me. I'm suprised you managed to hold on for that long. So that's something I guess.



Liberals never surprise me, and I have no idea what you mean by my holding on for so long. And yes surprise is spelled that way.

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If you actually look like that now that would just about finish me off.



Look like what? The cartoon in the opening page of the URL you posted? No I am not an armchair camo wearing keyboard commando. But I do suspect, that you think that I am. Which is a mistake that you are making; that I have no control over.

But I also noticed you had no comment on the police/government protection points I made. I can only glean from this that you, deep down, know I’m right about the protection of those close to us. You need not comment on it now. If it didn’t warrant it on the first pass, it shouldn’t now.

I was mistaken in my belief you would differ from the norm on the subject of gun control. When most people can’t change someone’s believes, they resort to calling the others integrity into question with juvenile, thinly veiled personal attacks. It saddens me that you fit so neatly into that mold. This conversation could have been much, much better than that.

So, with that I am finished with, what I hoped would have been, intelligent social intercourse. Please feel free to flame on and on. I think, at this point, I would be disappointed if you didn’t.

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