Bluer White
New Yorker
I'd like to take his guns away but I still have to formulate a plan for stealing them. Pac Mule, what is your vacation schedule?
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You hafta to respect a straight theft LOL
I'd like to take his guns away but I still have to formulate a plan for stealing them. Pac Mule, what is your vacation schedule?
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Bluer White is right. Chicago and Baltimore are descending into daily black on black violence not seen in decades. And we don't get the same outcry from the gun-control merchants and #blacklivesmatter.
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I do wonder if the murder of the two TV folks by a troubled black homosexual while shooting live video and live tweeting it should be considered a hate crime.
But the issue is still one of guns, guns, guns. Too many guns. Small beefs become deadly simply because someone has a gun.
Bluer White is right. Chicago and Baltimore are descending into daily black on black violence not seen in decades. And we don't get the same outcry from the gun-control merchants and #blacklivesmatter.
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I do wonder if the murder of the two TV folks by a troubled black homosexual while shooting live video and live tweeting it should be considered a hate crime.
Do you know what a hate crime is?
Well, I'm nominally familiar with Mr. Flanagan's employment record, and very familiar with the manifesto fax he sent out explaining his act.
You hafta to respect a straight theft LOL
what terms would you describe the steps the UK and Australia took in the wake of Dunblane and Port Arthur?
i have some intellectual issues with hate crimes in general, but there's a pretty clear standard when it comes to their definition.
Mandatory buybacks or the equivalent for semi-automatics and banning their bullets would be a tough sell in America.
Not anything close to incremental change.
Mandatory buybacks or the equivalent for semi-automatics and banning their bullets would be a tough sell in America.
Not anything close to incremental change.
Obviously I have a few issues with the concept as well, and just disagree with your take on this particular incident.
Where does it specifically state that you get free range to what weapons you can purchase? It just says 'Bear arms". You can buy a weapon, you can bear an arm. A buyback for semi-automatics really shouldn't be that difficult. But of course, theNRAWashington will dig its heels in and prevent what it seems a great many people of this "Republic" want.
Where does it specifically state that you get free range to what weapons you can purchase? It just says 'Bear arms". You can buy a weapon, you can bear an arm. A buyback for semi-automatics really shouldn't be that difficult. But of course, theNRAWashington will dig its heels in and prevent what it seems a great many people of this "Republic" want.
I think it would be a tough sell as well. We're talking about a country where 85% of the country wants more gun control, but politicians are too fearful of the NRA to do much of anything. If a classroom full of first graders mangled by semi-automatic weapons doesn't move our politicians to action, what will?
That said, it was clearly successful in two relatively culturally similar countries they have a fraction of our gun violence. Might it be a good idea?
85% in the United States? Bull crap. You're off by over 30%. Heck, not even 80% of democrats support more gun control.
I'd like to see your source on that polling data.
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It's not just my take, it's the legal definition. But what causes you to view this as a hate crime?
It's commonly understood that post Sandy Hook, around 80% of the country wanted stricter gun control. A bill was ready to go, and it didn't pass Congress. It would have, if I understand right, strengthened background check enforcement online and at gun shows, the one form of gun control enforcement overwhelmingly supported on both sides.
I think it would be a tough sell as well. We're talking about a country where 85% of the country wants more gun control, but politicians are too fearful of the NRA to do much of anything. If a classroom full of first graders mangled by semi-automatic weapons doesn't move our politicians to action, what will?
I'm part of the percentage of the country looking for a little more gun common sense, and/or more spirited enforcement of existing laws. Don't really care about manufactured polling percentages.
85%, 52%. Whatever. I see a lot of non-starters in the thread here.
No wonder there's a stalemate in Congress.
The recent polls I've checked from this month are around 52% of the nation. 77% of democrats, 48% of independents, and 31% of republicans. In fact, since January of 2013, it's been pretty consistently around 50%.
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