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Old 07-12-2012, 06:02 PM   #31
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You can't actually buy a gun online. The shopping results direct you to a store that sells the gun. If you want to buy it from them, they ship it to a licensed dealer near you and you go through all the rigmarole there.
Ah, well. Google is just playing PR games then, I retract my comments. Amazon already sells dildos, maybe they'll take up the slack in this newly opened market as well.
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Old 07-13-2012, 09:46 AM   #32
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Next time I buy a dildo from amazon, I'll be sure to purchase it through your blog.
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Old 07-13-2012, 10:02 AM   #33
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Old 07-13-2012, 11:30 AM   #34
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Imagine the uproar.

Dude shoots up a shopping mall. Turns out he was mentally ill, wasn't supposed to be able to get a gun. How did he get one? Oh, he just bought it online. He bought it online?!

Guns are one of those things that simply must have in-person oversight, IMHO. A real person to look you up and down, make sure you at least superficially appear to be who you say you are, make sure that you are not the same dude who came in a week ago pretending to be someone else.
Online gun purchases do have in-person oversight. You can't buy a gun by mail anymore, thanks to Lee Harvey Oswald.

When you buy a gun online, you are paying money to the owner, who then takes the weapon to his friendly local gun dealer, who does the front half of the transfer paperwork and ships, via an approved carrier, to a gun store near you, where that gun store does the necessary background checks and paperwork, which involves much showing of ID.

They charge a LOT for the shipping and inter-state paperwork.
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Old 07-13-2012, 11:41 AM   #35
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Next time I buy a dildo from amazon, I'll be sure to purchase it through your blog.
You wouldn't be the first. Seriously. I can't see who buys what, but I can see what was purchased.



The scary thing is I'm pretty sure it was my mom.
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Old 07-13-2012, 11:56 AM   #36
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The scary thing is I'm pretty sure it was my mom.
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Old 07-13-2012, 01:23 PM   #37
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Hey, you know, she's been single for almost ten years now, I ain't judging...
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Old 07-13-2012, 01:59 PM   #38
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Hey, you know, she's been single for almost ten years now, I ain't judging...
Moms have needs, too.
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Old 07-13-2012, 04:37 PM   #39
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which involves much showing of ID.
I'll add that to the list.
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Old 07-13-2012, 06:36 PM   #40
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You wouldn't be the first. Seriously. I can't see who buys what, but I can see what was purchased.
Yabbut, they weren't for me.
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Old 07-13-2012, 07:06 PM   #41
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Next time I buy a dildo from amazon, I'll be sure to purchase it through your blog.
If I ever heard a better invitation for a cash mob, I can't remember it. Dildos for every body!
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Old 07-13-2012, 07:20 PM   #42
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Ultimately, as long as the shareholders are happy, google can do as it pleases. It's not a government entity. No one but the owners get a say.

Sure don't use google in protest...

...but I'll bet you do anyway.
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Old 07-13-2012, 09:53 PM   #43
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Yeah, but who says I have to use google to search? I've already switched search engines and home pages.
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Old 07-13-2012, 11:12 PM   #44
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You don't have to, but you still could...and might, and eventually, whether you like it or not, you'll probably end up on google one way or another. Maybe even via another search engine!
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Old 07-14-2012, 09:48 AM   #45
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Why do discussions of firearms quickly devolve into fantasies about weapons and protecting my turf?

What about competitive and recreational target shooting? What about hunting?

When I took the hunter's safety course, the instructor was very clear that we were not talking about "weapons" but about "firearms."

There is a huge difference between the two, it's a matter of intent and of how you think of them.

A Japanese friend told me that in Japan, if someone had been drinking the thought of getting behind the wheel of a car wouldn't even cross their mind. I suppose the same could be true for firearms, if you considered them for hunting or target shooting only.

A heavy brass table lamp could be used as a weapon, so can a sock full of pennies.

I think a big part of the bad PR that firearms get is due to verbalized fantasies about people protecting their turf from imaginary intruders. I've never met a combat vet who liked to blab about the action they saw. I've met a lot of vets who never saw action who love to talk about blowing up the enemy.

I'm too sleep deprived and distracted now to pull all this together into a coherent argument, but I guess I'm saying some of us like firearms for wholesome enjoyment and resent being marginalized and made to sit on the Group W bench with all the mother rapers and father stabbers and father rapers.
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