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  1. 4 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    Meh. I wasn't responding to you, cunt. I quoted you by accident. Fixed.

    200w.webp

     

    This new board is tough. Especially for technologicals. 

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  2. Just now, bad_teammate said:

    Cops shouldn't be armed above the citizens. At most there should be highly-trained and highly-regulated and HIGHLY-transparent (like triple backup body cams uploaded for public viewing after every action) special intervention teams with ARs, but beat cops shouldn't have anything stronger or more deadly than Law-Abiding Joe Sixpack should have.

     

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  3. Just now, Bat Guano said:

    Jared Loughner was taken down when his gun jammed. Similar situation.

    High capacity magazines are more likely to jam. High capacity magazines for everyone!

  4. Just now, Brian Fantana said:

     

     

    Protect you from what? The US military? Good luck.

    Same thing that a LEO apparently needs it to protect them from, maybe?

    Reading comprehension is not that hard, nor is refraining from building a strawmen into that quote. 

  5. 2 minutes ago, Brian Fantana said:

    That doesn't make sense to me. Who besides a soldier or LEA needs something like that?

    Soldiers don't use ARs, perhaps with some rare exception.

    If an LEO needs an AR to protect me, I need an AR to protect me. 

    I am willing to talk gun and mag restrictions when we applying them equally to all civilians, including our domestic LEOs. 

  6. I could deal with raising the limit to 21.  But let's not kid ourselves about the impact on gun violence.  The vast majority of gun violence involves handguns. Age limit on handguns is already 21. 

  7. 9 minutes ago, Hugo Stiglitz said:

    I already laid out what I'd like to see done but I'll fine tune it:

    Prohibit the sale of magazines over 15 rounds for handguns and rifles (15 so standard mags for some handguns are not affected.) Would be open to 10 rounds for rifles as well. 

    Expand background checks to apply to gun shows.  (I'm not sure on how to best approach the P2P sale issue but I'm open)

    I'd even be open to a nominal waiting period. 

     

    Gun shows arent the issue. Background checks apply to all sale between FFLs and public, whether it takes place at gun show or not.  P2P transaction between individuals requires no NICS check, whether they take place at a gun show or not. 

    I would not be opposed to requiring NICS checks on personal tranfers, as long as those transfers are provided by FFLs at no charge and/or private individuals are given access to teh NICS system. 

  8. Just now, Aqua Buddha said:

    Does PP take foreign money and use it for domestic lobbying like the NRA does?  Why is the NRA taking money from Russia in the first place?

    If NRA-PAC took money from Russia, I am pretty sure that is illegal, and they should be prosecuted. 

    We do know that the International Planned Parenthood Foundation takes both international and US funding (or has in the past based on EO, which have are not influenced by lobbying at all amiright); and we know that domestically planned parenthood receives public funding. Likewise, if their is evidence that PP-PAC received foreign funding they should be investigated and prosecuted. 

     

    /derail over.  this is a total tangent. 

  9. I can really only speak for myself, but I 

    Just now, Aqua Buddha said:

    The NRA also takes in more foreign money than PP so there's that.

    Is that right?  Planned Parenthood has an international presence.

    I wonder which organization gets more US public funding?

  10. 5 minutes ago, Hank Kingsley said:

    Lol.  A million instances of people talking about gun control, but if a gun nut hears one person say "get rid of the 2nd amendment" they use that as the official liberal stance.

    I mean, where would we get those kind of nutty ideas?

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/27/opinion/john-paul-stevens-repeal-second-amendment.html

    John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment

    John Paul Stevens: Repeal the Second Amendment

    By JOHN PAUL STEVENSMARCH 27, 2018

     
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    A musket from the 18th century, when the Second Amendment was written, and an assault rifle of today.CreditTop, MPI, via Getty Images, bottom, Joe Raedle/Getty Images .

    Rarely in my lifetime have I seen the type of civic engagement schoolchildren and their supporters demonstrated in Washington and other major cities throughout the country this past Saturday. These demonstrations demand our respect. They reveal the broad public support for legislation to minimize the risk of mass killings of schoolchildren and others in our society.

    That support is a clear sign to lawmakers to enact legislation prohibiting civilian ownership of semiautomatic weapons, increasing the minimum age to buy a gun from 18 to 21 years old, and establishing more comprehensive background checks on all purchasers of firearms. But the demonstrators should seek more effective and more lasting reform. They should demand a repeal of the Second Amendment.

    Concern that a national standing army might pose a threat to the security of the separate states led to the adoption of that amendment, which provides that “a well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.” Today that concern is a relic of the 18th century.

    [For more on the gun legislation debate and other issues, subscribe to our Opinion Today newsletter.]

    For over 200 years after the adoption of the Second Amendment, it was uniformly understood as not placing any limit on either federal or state authority to enact gun control legislation. In 1939 the Supreme Court unanimously held that Congress could prohibit the possession of a sawed-off shotgun because that weapon had no reasonable relation to the preservation or efficiency of a “well regulated militia.”

    During the years when Warren Burger was our chief justice, from 1969 to 1986, no judge, federal or state, as far as I am aware, expressed any doubt as to the limited coverage of that amendment. When organizations like the National Rifle Association disagreed with that position and began their campaign claiming that federal regulation of firearms curtailed Second Amendment rights, Chief Justice Burger publicly characterized the N.R.A. as perpetrating “one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American public by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime.”

     

    In 2008, the Supreme Court overturned Chief Justice Burger’s and others’ long-settled understanding of the Second Amendment’s limited reach by ruling, in District of Columbia v. Heller, that there was an individual right to bear arms. I was among the four dissenters.

    That decision — which I remain convinced was wrong and certainly was debatable — has provided the N.R.A. with a propaganda weapon of immense power. Overturning that decision via a constitutional amendment to get rid of the Second Amendment would be simple and would do more to weaken the N.R.A.’s ability to stymie legislative debate and block constructive gun control legislation than any other available option.

    That simple but dramatic action would move Saturday’s marchers closer to their objective than any other possible reform. It would eliminate the only legal rule that protects sellers of firearms in the United States — unlike every other market in the world. It would make our schoolchildren safer than they have been since 2008 and honor the memories of the many, indeed far too many, victims of recent gun violence.

    Correction: March 27, 2018 

    An earlier version of a picture caption with this article misidentified the 18th-century firearm depicted. It is a musket, not a rifle.

    John Paul Stevens is a retired associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.

  11. 36 minutes ago, chikin23 said:

    Speaking of sports...
    Daughter had a volleyball tournament a few weekends ago and they lost in the championship game. Little brother says "you're a loser, why do you even play volleyball?" This happened right after the game in front of all the other parents and kids.

     

    sounds like shit my little shag asshole would say.  I would have probably beat him on spot. 

  12. 14 minutes ago, softlynow said:

    The American Society of Civil Engineers’ Report Card currently has us at a D+. Build/repair what we need to get to at least a B-.

    Kinda like quoting PhRMA on the state of drug development for orphan diseases. 

    I mean, I agree that we got some shit that needs to be addressed, but its probably not as bad as sky is falling reports from trade industry folks would suggest. 

  13. Welcome to the party sweet nips.

    I have been known on occasion to make an "old fashioned"or a "manhattan" with treaty oak barrel aged antique gin.  I am not sure that I would call it either, but Im gonna drink it to mix things up. Rums an interesting idea that hasnt occurred. 

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