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Great editorial aleskie, fucking awesome man. He would be proud.

Brent

Nice one. Couldn't have said it better myself.

I'm not even a fan of Pantera, and I was moved. Great job Aleskie!

Hails Aleksie; great editorial!

Yeah great editorial! Talking about editorials, it would be nice if we could be able to comment the old editorials, because some of them are awesome as well.

If you can point out which ones you want brought back, I’ll work on that. Unfortunately, we haven’t figured out a way to bring back the old forum messages, but at least I can generate a new post in this forum to open up discussion. E-mail me or reply here with the editorials you’re interested in commenting on…

Most excellent editorial, Aleksie. Most excellent.

"The American metal question" and "What makes someone a metalhead" would be nice

what is the american metal question ?

It's a editorial written by Jay about metal's current situation in the US. It covers other topics aswell, like the price and availiability (spelling?) of metal in other countries. It's quite long so I don't remember everything but it's a great editorial.

indeed ! I've just catch up to it & it made me so happy i'm an european !

I'll get flamed for saying this, but it's eating away at me.

Dimebag was just a guy. I suppose he was a pretty cool guy, but he was no Mother Teresa. He was a good guitarist who player in a couple mediocre bands. He died, and it's sad, but come on. Look at the Tsunami, wiping out hundreds of thousands of people. I think that's a little more important than Dimebag. I mean, who actually listens Damage Plan? It sucks when someone dies (unless they deserved it, which he did not), but this whole thing was blown out of preportion, and I think we can drop it already. I just get annoyed when tragic events get blown out of preportion (like 9/11; the media dragged that on for like two years).

Agreed !

though, the death by firearms of a metal musician on stage in the USA is somewhat of a sympton of the illness of american society as described in Michael Moore's Bowling For Columbine...

Guns should be banned (excluding police, military, government, etc).

agreed again... but the problem goes beyond gun control imo...

There are many things that need to be changed. I don't feel like listing them all, but here's one:

Anyone caught drinking and driving should lose their licence indefinitally. Sounds extreme, but hear me out.

If that was the punishment for drinking and driving, the problem goes down like 95%. The 5% who are still retarded enough to drink and drive will probably lose their licence, and I say good. In 2002, more than 17,000 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes on America's highways. Just America.

A few idiots (who shouldn't be driving anyway) lose their licence, and we save tens of thousands of lives a year. How the fuck do you argue with that?

Jaden, you'll love the Netherlands: You can drink as much as you want from 16 on, but don't dare to drive (one could get a licence when is 18, and It's far from easy to get one), becuase when you are caught with more that a single bear in your bloodstream, you can end even losing more than a licence...
Guns are not allowed either, weed is though, and it works perfect! no one cares for drugs, since it's legal 8)

Remember, criminals have no problem with breaking the law. If some asshole wants to shoot their neighbor, rob a bank, or whatever else, he'll get his gun one way or another. Banning guns only means that law abiding citizens (good people) will not have guns. Evil people (criminals) will not be affected; they have no regard for the law anyway.

This would be like expecting a carload of gangsters to obey the speed limit while on the way to a drive by shooting... Ain't gonna happen, my friend.

In response to Mike and Gast:

Look at the shooting of Theo van Gogh in The Netherlands. Guns are banned and it doesn't prevent muslim extremists from getting them from eastern Europe and using them in western Europe. If a criminal wants a gun badly enough, he'll get one. Granted the number of muggers carrying guns will be less but they can still have other sanctioned means of inflicting harm. Will we ban kitchen knives next?

The Netherlands legalized cannibis in the thinking that if it's legal, there will be fewer problems with regulation. The same thinking can be applied to guns as well (however idiotic politicians here keep blocking gun regulation legislation).