The City Watch books

[poohcarrot]

The only thing I'm worried about with Men at Arms is if it's too preachy. You know, because that's the one about gun control.

If you think guns are good, I wouldn't advise you to read it.
**SPOILER ALERT**
There is a gun. It kills people. Guns are bad.

 

[deldaisy]

The only thing I'm worried about with Men at Arms is if it's too preachy. You know, because that's the one about gun control.

Read it and enjoy it. Even the books that are a tiny bit preachy are still GOOD books Beyond. I can't be too off-hand though. My favourite is Nightwatch and I loved Guards! Guards! I wish I still had the watch books to read. Oh well I can reread them.

 

[DaveC]

I'd say the theme of racial tolerance is more prevailient than gun control, with the addition of Detritus, Cuddy and Angua and their relationships.

 

[deldaisy]

The only thing I'm worried about with Men at Arms is if it's too preachy. You know, because that's the one about gun control.

If you think guns are good, I wouldn't advise you to read it.
**SPOILER ALERT**
There is a gun. It kills people. Guns are bad.

Ohhhhhhh is that why I liked it. I don't think guns are good. I was about 9 when I went to stay on a property out west with a friend. We were playing with her brothers shotguns and I got my finger caught in the mechanism; it almost broken my finger. On hindsight... perhaps that was a GOOD thing.

 

[DaveC]

The only thing I'm worried about with Men at Arms is if it's too preachy. You know, because that's the one about gun control.

If you think guns are good, I wouldn't advise you to read it.
**SPOILER ALERT**
There is a gun. It kills people. Guns are bad.

Ohhhhhhh is that why I liked it. I don't think guns are good. I was about 9 when I went to stay on a property out west with a friend. We were playing with her brothers shotguns and I got my finger caught in the mechanism; it almost broken my finger. On hindsight... perhaps that was a GOOD thing.

Gonnes aren't toys.

 

[poohcarrot]

YOU HELD A GUN!!!!!!

They are a bit more complicated than razors and more dangerous.

 

[DaveC]

Every dangerous weapon you hold backfires on you...

 

[deldaisy]

YOU HELD A GUN!!!!!!

They are a bit more complicated than razors and more dangerous.

Well DUH! I was a kid! And her brothers and Dad would have whapped us for a week if they had known we had the guns. It was a huge cattle property. They had to have guns. I am very ANTI guns Pooh. We have amazingly strict gun laws here and I love that. It took the Port Arthur massacre to do it but I love the gun laws.

 

[Beyond Birthday]

I don't have much of an opinion on them. While they have stopped bad things from happening they've also caused bad things, too. They have existed for so long it's hard to imagine how the world would have turned out without em'. Night Watch seems to lean a little towards the pro-side. ie "the 'bad guys' already have the weapons so the 'good(er) guys' need them, too.

Men at Arms is a little different in that this is the CREATION of a weapon, not a continuation of one. No other people own this weapon so if the message is 'these are bad' then it's a little weakened by this. I mean, we can't exactly go back in time and stop the creation of a weapn. Maybe, and this is a big maybe, this story is just a "what if we COULD stop this from being made. If we COULD, maybe we SHOULD" type of thing.

It might be a while before I even get to this one, though. I've been meaning to read this other non-Pratchett book for a while.

 

[deldaisy]

Man WILL evolve.

I'm sure if you are on the receiving end of a poke in the eye with a sharp stick you wouldn't be too happy either.

Then again, you don't often see "News at Nine" covering a city shutdown as some guy goes on a rampage with a sharp stick....

 

[Tonyblack]

Part of the point of the Gonne in Men At Arms is that there is just one. It's better not to have any than to give everyone one. Like nuclear weapons - would the world be a safer place if every country had some? Was the world a safer place when just one country had some?

 

[raisindot]

We have amazingly strict gun laws here and I love that. It took the Port Arthur massacre to do it but I love the gun laws.

Holy shattered misconceptions!

Downunda is the last place I thought would have tough gun laws. I'd always thought of Australia as the land of tough, rugged, good-looking, hard-drinking individualists and liberatarians who went around shooting and beating the tar out of helpless animals and each other with carefree impunity. Kind of like Texas but with kangaroos.

I stand corrected.



J-I-B

 

[Beyond Birthday]

@ Tonyblack

Ah, I see.

 

[Tonyblack]

Well, that's just my interpretation. Terry might think differently.

 

[Bouncy Castle]

Texas with kangaroos!!