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Hoi Polloi wrote:

AndyC wrote:Culture is as relevant to the subject of self-defense as vegetarianism.

New poll: Can vegetarians ethically shoot animals in self-defense?


I'm teasing!

Can animals ethically eat vegetarians to give the rest of us a break?

When my dad died, my brother and I inherited two weapons from him. One was the Ithaca 1911A1 which was his sidearm in WW2. The other was an old single shot .22 bolt action rifle that had been his since he was a boy in the 1920s. Unlike most of those dilletantes and their "art" show, my dad actually had killed human beings with weapons, in combat.

Oh, and my dad had TWO Ph.Ds, one in American Literature, the other in English Literature. He was friends with John Steinbeck, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemmingway......and he owned guns. He also spoke fluent French, by the way, AND, before he met my mom (in Paris), he was a painter, living in a garret in the Latin Quarter, upstairs from a jazz club, where he used to hang out and listen to Charlie "The Bird" Parker and Thelonius Monk.

I'll match his "culture" credentials against any of these boojwah wannabe culture creatures.

PappaGun wrote:The Dallas Museum of Art is posted?

Ooops....

It wasn't posted any of the times I've been there. At least not with a compliant 30.06 sign.

Hoi Polloi wrote:UT Dallas is hosting an art exhibit that seeks to educate the cultured people about the existence of barbaric weapons owners, claiming that the people of culture are not likely to come into contact with weapons owners because weapons owners aren't likely to be in the same geographic areas, social circles, work environments, or to attend any cultural events where the enlightened go.

That's such an absolute crock. I was raised by two humanities professors, and I own what I would call a lot of guns. In the 5 years I've lived in the DFW metroplex, I've made nearly as many trips to the Kimbell Art Museum as I have to the nearby Fort Worth Gun Show. In that same time span, I've visited the Dallas Museum of Art 3 times, and the Dallas Market Hall Gun Show exactly 0 times. My musical tastes are eclectic—more so than my cultured mother's. I speak more than one language. I am well traveled. I read voraciously, and I write. In fact, my love of writing is partly why I have such a high post count here. I just get a kick out of it.....and this isn't the only place I post.

Academics love to study conservatives like we are some kind of insect pinned to a board for their leisurely perusal, and then they put on these faintly mocking displays of "art" because the condescension makes them feel better about their own dried up puny souls. It's really such weak cheese because it requires no real thought on their part; no real intellectually rigorous challenge. By being dismissive, they excuse themselves from having to actually use their vaunted brains for anything more difficult than investigating which wine would best compliment a soufflé and a truffle salad.

Other than that, I have no problem with them.