Personally I'd hope that the mere sight of a 12 gauge bore being pointed at them would be persuasion enough. I don't want to take a life from anyone. But I would do what had to be done if need be.
I would much rather punch holes in paper.

Thanks @ilikemoderation. It's sad that people like harperfan7 have this kneejerk reaction to a gun owners. He/she/them/helicopter just blankets a whole group of good folks for wanting to have the option of defending themselves or their family as blood thirsty killers.
And yes firearms have been used in countless instances of self defense but hey, that doesn't fit the media's portrayal of gun owners...so it is rarely reported.

Fotomat!

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I like the story of the octopus escaping it's enclosure, opening another enclosure, eating all the food fish (clams or crabs or something) and going back to it's own enclosure again

Ever see Queens, New York? It seems like someone threw spaghetti and called it a map. Then for extra laughs they name the 146th St, 146th Rd, 146th Terr, 146th Ave...and some regular names sprinkled in.

Ah...I wanted to see those movies too. Never got around to it and forgot. Now I have to see it.

Lousy Smarch weather ..

How bout I do...anyway!

It's not that we don't want to be told we are overweight, it's the way we are treated. We know we are overweight, we know it's not healthy. Fat acceptance is not accepting unhealthy, it is accepting the fact that there is a real live person there.
By your standard of respecting those who take care of their bodies...do you hold the anorexic or bulemic with the same disdain? Are they gross? Should we all poke fun at them...you know, so they can see the error of their ways.... it's for their own good...
Of course not. That is just a shitty thing to do.
But if you're fat, fuck you slob. Go to a gym fatty.

The difference is that many people don't look at the overweight as real people. We are a joke. We are less than human. We don't have feelings and we are not worthy of any kind of positive thoughts.