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by jcwaters
Mon Mar 02, 2009 4:01 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Pakistan Gun Market
Replies: 10
Views: 1527

Re: Pakistan Gun Market

.... Maybe I am still stinging from a year in the Arabian peninsula and feeling particularly patriotic, but I can't think of a single place other than the US that I would want to live... Give BoBo & Pelosi a few more years... The whole area (Khyber) looks a lot like where I grew up in Wyoming. ...
by jcwaters
Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Pakistan Gun Market
Replies: 10
Views: 1527

Re: Pakistan Gun Market

.... Maybe I am still stinging from a year in the Arabian peninsula and feeling particularly patriotic, but I can't think of a single place other than the US that I would want to live... Give BoBo & Pelosi a few more years... The whole area (Khyber) looks a lot like where I grew up in Wyoming. ...
by jcwaters
Mon Mar 02, 2009 3:23 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Pakistan Gun Market
Replies: 10
Views: 1527

Re: Pakistan Gun Market

Other than the essential requirement to be a muzzie... doesn't look like too bad a place to live IMO... Actually being muslim is not a requirement. Most non-muslims did relocate after partition, but there is still an open Christian community in Karachi. This is reflected in the white stripe on the ...
by jcwaters
Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:45 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Newbie!
Replies: 18
Views: 1889

Newbie!

Hi Gang, I am a "black gun" type that has found an unusual path to lever guns: I own a big bore AR15 which fires a cartridge with ballistics very close to the 45/70, this naturally made me curious about the 45/70 so I am thinking of buying a lever gun in 45/70. Professionally I have been a...
by jcwaters
Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:37 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Pakistan Gun Market
Replies: 10
Views: 1527

Re: Pakistan Gun Market

I actually plan on visiting Darra sometime in the next few years. I have always gotten on with most Pathan (pashtun) men and found most of them (I have met several dozen) to be very American friendly. They are the good ole boys of Asia, they like BBQ, pickup trucks, guns, and generally substitute be...
by jcwaters
Mon Mar 02, 2009 9:24 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Way off topic. A philosophical question.
Replies: 42
Views: 4400

Re: Way off topic. A philosophical question.

There are some issues with the generalization. For example an unemployed 400lb guy from the plains is probably going to be more miserable than a fit and active 28 year old poetry professor from an all girls school (Bryn Mawr, Moore, etc.). But generally, yes, I agree. There's a number of reasons: 1)...