A Few More Gun Thoughts

Guns are one of those great American topics like Abortion, Evolution, and Global Warming, where what we believe is the absolute truth and everyone else is just flat WRONG.  This, of course, makes it a lot of fun to talk about. Real munitions, like Metal Storm million-round-a-minute machine guns and A-Bombs, are not easily available to the average citizen. Fully automatic machine guns can’t be found at Wal-Mart.  Tanks and Aircraft Carriers aren’t for sale on eBay.  No private citizen owns a fully functional Black Bird or a Stealth Bomber.  What kind of panty waist Militia are we Americans putting…

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Battle Royale

Following the recent obsession with The Hunger Games and the talk that it’s just a ripoff of Battle Royale, I thought I’d take a look at it.  There are a few similarities in the story and feel of the Hunger Games and Battle Royale. Both have an evil government putting kids in a battle to the death through random selection.  Both follow the Survivor model of a running tally as the little group gets smaller and smaller.  Both reward the sole survivor of the contest.  And both have too many characters that are, for all intents and purposes, identical and…

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