Guns and vaccines

[Tero]

There is a similarity in the politics.

Libertarians, liberals and conservatives.

Do the old college effort: compare and contrast.

I'm going on an errand and a walk if rain stops.

[NineBerry]

No.

[Cunt]

How do you attenuate?

[Tero]

Contrast: if everybody has guns at all times we will be safer. (Yes/no)

If everybody gets vaccinated, the survivors will be safer. It's your duty to fellow man!(yes/no)

[Cunt]

Contrast: if everybody has guns at all times we will be safer. (Yes/no)

Yes, once all those who don't have proper gun etiquette are shot dead.

[NineBerry]

What about alcohol?

[Cunt]

...I sell opium, fireworks and lead

[Brian Peacock]

If you could put vaccines in bullets you could shoot it into anti-vaxxers from a safe distance.

[Cunt]

If you could put vaccines in bullets you could shoot it into anti-vaxxers from a safe distance.

Reminds me of Niven's 'needlegun' (from the Ringworld series)

Still waiting for them to invent the 'TASP', especially interesting weapon when able to be used as a ranged 'attack'.

[JimC]

As more and more pandemics sweep over the world, anti-vaxers will become a dying breed...

[pErvinalia]

There is a similarity in the politics.

Libertarians, liberals and conservatives.

Do the old college effort: compare and contrast.

I'm going on an errand and a walk if rain stops.

Is this some form of poetry?

[JimC]

It is very zen...

[Tero]

There is a similarity in the politics.

Libertarians, liberals and conservatives.

Do the old college effort: compare and contrast.

I'm going on an errand and a walk if rain stops.

Is this some form of poetry?

Cuidance document. Plus I didn't have ti

[Tero]

[Cunt]

I still think you should invent us a 'tasp', Tero. Could make you a few bucks for retirement...a humane weapon if a weapon can ever be humane.


http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=59

The puppeteer addressed himself to Speaker-to-Animals.
"You understand that I will use the tasp every time you force me to. I will use it if attempt to use violence too often, or if you startle me too much; you will soon become dependent upon the tasp; if you kill me, you will still be ignobly bound by the tasp itself."

"Very astute," said Speaker. "Brilliantly unorthodox tactics. I will trouble you no more."

"The puppeteer is right," said Speaker. "I would not risk the tasp again. Too many jolts of pleasure would leave me his willing slave. I, a kzin, enslaved to a herbivore!"

From Ringworld, by Larry Niven.
Published by Ballantine in 1970
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Usually a tasp is just small enough to aim with one hand."
"Have you ever been hit by a tasp? None of my business, of course."

Teela grinned derision for his delicacy. "Yes, I know what it feels like. A moment of - well, there's no describing it. But you don't use a tasp on yourself. You use it on someone who isn't expecting it. That's where the fun comes in. Police are always picking up taspers in parks."