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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20158 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Gun Control Sun Dec 03, 2017 9:57 am | |
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richard09
Posts : 4227 Join date : 2013-01-16
| Subject: Re: Gun Control Sun Dec 03, 2017 4:57 pm | |
| Yep. "We talked briefly about the constitutional issue, the cultural divide, and other facets of the debate, but he scoffed at the idea that it was complex. To him, the reason to have a gun was to kill someone."
I always knew that if we ever had a gun in the apartment, one or both of us was going to finish up dead. As long as the worst we threw at each other was harsh words, we were good to go for 30+ years. Bring in a gun, and we wouldn't have lasted 10. |
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20158 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Gun Control Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:00 pm | |
| I thought the turn to suicide was kinda shocking. |
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richard09
Posts : 4227 Join date : 2013-01-16
| Subject: Re: Gun Control Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:43 pm | |
| Slightly, in the sense that he hadn't given any prior warning of his own inclination. But in general, about the gun "debate"? No, not shocking at all. If you buy a gun and it kills someone, statistically that someone is you. The NRA doesn't like to publicize that. |
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20158 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Gun Control Sun Dec 03, 2017 5:47 pm | |
| Well if gun owners gotta kill somebody, I guess themselves is the best option. |
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20158 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Gun Control Thu Nov 18, 2021 1:43 pm | |
| The misunderstanding and misrepresentation of the Second Amendment continues to shock me. |
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20158 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Gun Control Fri Nov 19, 2021 8:38 pm | |
| With the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict today, and SCOTUS scheduled next week to deliver a major defeat to gun control in the New York concealed carry law, the next several years will be a Wild West of gun-totin' self-appointed "new sheriffs in town". They are being not only legally allowed to shoot up anybody that doesn't look like them, but are being encouraged to do so. These are dangerous times for lawful protest. These are dangerous times for anybody who wants to heal the increasingly-polarized politics. These are particularly dangerous times for Black folk. The first catalyst for change won't come until the first national lawmaker is assassinated in cold blood in public. How soon will that happen? May You Live In Interesting Times. |
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20158 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Gun Control Sat Nov 20, 2021 11:17 am | |
| TV is playing the disaster movie "2012" today. It struck me that a whole generation now has been raised with end-of-the-world movies and video games and TV shows. No wonder they're arming themselves and roaming the streets. They're expecting the zombie apocalypse.White men will not go quietly into minority status. |
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20158 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Gun Control Mon Nov 22, 2021 8:04 pm | |
| One of the commentators tonite in one of the cable TV news programs -- I slept through most of them so I couldn't tell you who -- made the startlingly-obvious but shockingly-neglected comment, "Why are all these gun nuts ignoring the "well regulated militia" part of the 2nd Amendment?"
It's obvious, from even a casual reading of the Bill of Rights, that the founders did not intend ordinary citizens to be roaming the streets with muskets. They had to belong to an official militia such as those set up to repel Indian attacks, and they had to train regularly in gun safety and proper handling ("well-regulated").
That part has been sadly discarded from the discussion. |
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NoCoPilot
Posts : 20158 Join date : 2013-01-16 Age : 69 Location : Seattle
| Subject: Re: Gun Control Mon Nov 22, 2021 8:12 pm | |
| - NoCoPilot wrote:
- the next several years will be a Wild West of gun-totin' self-appointed "new sheriffs in town". They are being not only legally allowed to shoot up anybody that doesn't look like them, but are being encouraged to do so.
Only if you're white, though -- as one of the black commentators noted. A black carrying an AK-47 down Main Street would be instantly arrested or worse. |
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