Ongoing Mass Shootings Thread pt 2

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The issues mentioned were same sex marriage, same sex adoption, abortion, sexuality on television, and rap music. Tell me which of those issues the Right won on.


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Fair enough, I was sticking to the subject and not that particular context.


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You're kind of all over the place and not making sense.

Your analogy doesn't work because I don't hear anyone saying, if one more person defends Michael Jackson it almost makes me want to be a Jarrod fan.

And what exactly does fairness have to do with this? If you want to be fair point out both sides, but don't point out one and say it makes you want to go against all logic while you sweep the other side under the rug.


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I say it's annoying when the Left does X. You say "well the Right does X too!!!" Congratulations? Fuck the Right for doing that too? I'm not defending the Right, and your insistence on defending bad positions by trying to say that, since both sides are doing it, it's not a bad position, is silliness.

I have no idea what you're talking about when you say I'm sweeping the other side under the rug. Since no one had mentioned anything to do with the Right saying "think of the children," when I made my original remark, why would I randomly bring it up?

Finally, i said it makes me not want to make common cause. I did not say it made me want to join the other side on this. Words -- they mean things.
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I have canned goods to last years, Reba McEntire and Michael Gross's arsenal from Tremors, and I just kidnapped Mary Elizabeth Winstead to live as my girlfriend in my doomsday bunker when that day comes.


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And after all of you have locked your time capsules, you realize Obama is just going to say "just kidding. The crazies have now locked themselves away, let's party!"

In a way, Trump will make America great again.


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And we've collectively mocked the Right each time. And they've lost. Each time. I'm not really playing team sports, here.

Didn't mean to imply you specifically were, sorry, was just speaking in a general sense.

And I'm glad that you and some other conservatives out there have tried to speak out against the right using tactics like that. I don't really see or hear that sort of call out much in the media, though. And if the right's lost on those issues, then someone needs to remind them of that fact, 'cause conservative politicians and pundits keep trying to bring those sorts of arguments up to this day regardless, and still keep trying to pass restrictive anti-abortion or anti-LGBT related legislation.

I will never understand the "they did it first!" defense. However, I suppose it makes sense that it would be used in defense of these current gun control measures, as the measures themselves are basically saying the same thing, with "it" being the Patriot Act.

I didn't mean to make that sound like a a "They did it first!" argument, 'cause you're right, I don't want to play that sort of game, either. I was more just pointing out the fact that children are always going to be brought up whenever a political/cultural issue is discussed throughout the country. And with the gun violence debate especially, it really shouldn't be a surprise that some people will use them as part of their argument.
 
This really isn't difficult to follow. I say it's annoying when the Left does X. You say "well the Right does X too!!!" Congratulations? Fuck the Right for doing that too? I'm not defending the Right, and your insistence on defending bad positions by trying to say that, since both sides are doing it, it's not a bad position, is silliness.

I have no idea what you're talking about when you say I'm sweeping the other side under the rug. Since no one had mentioned anything to do with the Right saying "think of the children," when I made my original remark, why would I randomly bring it up?

Finally, i said it makes me not want to make common cause. I did not say it made me want to join the other side on this. Words -- they mean things.
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My whole point is that its ridiculous to ever say, no matter what side, "this side saying X" makes me not want to find common cause.

And now that you've admitted both sides do so, can you understand how silly it is to single out one side and say their "virtue signaling" basically wants to make you go against your own conscience?


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My whole point is that its ridiculous to ever say, no matter what side, "this side saying X" makes me not want to find common cause.

And now that you've admitted both sides do so, can you understand how silly it is to single out one side and say their "virtue signaling" basically wants to make you go against your own conscience?


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No, not really. On this particular issue, the Right has logical objection to the terror watchlist restrictions. I'm not gonna play CNN and insult both sides when - on this particular issue - only one is appealing directly to emotion.

Now, I could insult the Right all day. But in this particular forum, I wouldn't get much entertainment from simply piling on.

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And after all of you have locked your time capsules, you realize Obama is just going to say "just kidding. The crazies have now locked themselves away, let's party!"

In a way, Trump will make America great again.


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Haha. I'll stay hunkered down with MEW till death do us part.


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I just stumbled across this, which I don't recall seeing in the last thread: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...-defense-six-more-are-used-to-commit-a-crime/

But the latest research on the prevalence of firearm use in self-defense finds that these incidents are much less common that many gun rights advocates believe. Eor every person who uses a gun in self-defense, the research finds, nearly six people use a gun to commit a crime.

Those figures come from a Harvard University analysis of data from the federal National Crime Victimization Survey. David Hemenway, director of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, examined five years of data from the survey covering the period between 2007 and 2011, with responses from nearly 160,000 individuals.

Hemenway found that not only are self-defense gun uses rare -- people defended themselves with a gun in roughly 0.9 percent of crimes committed over this period -- but in many cases they don't lead to better outcomes for crime victims.

"The likelihood of injury when there was a self-defense gun use (10.9%) was basically identical to the likelihood of injury when the victim took no action at all (11.0%)," Hemenway and co-author Sara J. Solnik found.
 
But if it weren't for all the good people with guns, the crime rates would soar by an estimated 900% and we'd have even more murders. It's a tricky situation. Oh, and freedom.
 
For every person who uses a gun in self-defense, the research finds, nearly six people use a gun to commit a crime.

I don't doubt that. Setting aside the people who collect antique guns purely for decoration/historian's sake, people don't buy a gun if they don't honestly believe there's a possibility they'll have to actually use it at some point in their life, be it on an animal or another human. It doesn't exactly take a large leap for some people to go from that line of thought to thinking of committing an intentionally violent act against somebody.

And the self-defense argument is especially ridiculous when you think about the fact that many people who buy guns for that reason often wind up being injured or killed by their very own guns. And they're usually shot by somebody they know, who has equally easy access to their guns. With the mass shootings that have occurred thus far, the shooter was NOT stopped by a civilian with a gun. The shooters were either taken down by trained law enforcement officials, or they killed themselves.

And the stories I have heard of civilians getting involved in some shooting incidents, more often than not, they managed to talk the shooter down, or tackled them without having a weapon of their own on hand. So where people are getting this grandiose idea that they're going to be the big action hero who comes in with their own arsenal of guns to save the day, I don't exactly know.
 
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So can someone explain me why the latest restriction bill wasn't passed? You'd have thought especially after this tragedy that it would have helped passing, seeing the FBI links there..
 
So can someone explain me why the latest restriction bill wasn't passed? You'd have thought especially after this tragedy that it would have helped passing, seeing the FBI links there..

Why? $$$
I saw one list which stated that, apart from one Republican senator who also voted against the four bills, all others were recipients of money from the NRA. So they're more concerned about the possibility of losing their seat to someone else who gets paid by the NRA than about ~32,000 people in the US losing their lives to guns each year.
 
You realize that this is a non sequitur.

Here, let me give you an example of why this doesn't make sense.

If I were to say, "Fuck Michael Jackson for having child porn," saying, "Hey now! Jared from subway had it too!" is not a good rebuttal.

The Right's has historically done their fair share of virtue signaling. That's why they saw a mass exodus of younger voters. But by all means, follow suit in the name of fairness.

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I don't disagree with you.

Learning more about guns -- the differences between semi-automatics and automatics, or what defines an assault rifle -- would help us make better arguments. And better persuade "responsible gun owners" that their weaponry options may have to be regulated and limited in the interest of public safety. Guns pump hot slugs of metal through human flesh, but some achieve human death in ways different from others, and in a less lethal manner. Let's focus on public safet and harm reduction like we did with automobiles in the 1960s.

I get as blindly emotional on this topic as anyone, and that's important to harness to effect change as the NRA will continue to want to sell as many guns as possible 3 weeks from now as they did 3 weeks before Orlando.

Let's be better. By being better informed and making the argument. That's how same-sex marriage won -- we had better arguments. The "bigot" argument, while true, is just one small part of an argument, and it's limited. Gay people won by coming out and explaining their lives and concentrating on equality under the law. "Marriage Equality" was a deliberate framing of the issue, I think "Gun Safety" could be the same.
 
Why? $$$

I saw one list which stated that, apart from one Republican senator who also voted against the four bills, all others were recipients of money from the NRA. So they're more concerned about the possibility of losing their seat to someone else who gets paid by the NRA than about ~32,000 people in the US losing their lives to guns each year.



And we should emphasize that all of the 4 measures proposed are supported by the vast majority of the country. Like, 80+% in some cases.
 
No, not really. On this particular issue, the Right has logical objection to the terror watchlist restrictions.
I disagree. Although I do agree our watchlists aren't perfect and if our politicians weren't such children I believe they could have come up with a compromise based on the two watchlist bills and allow challenge to the watchlist.

only one is appealing directly to emotion.

And we will have to agree to disagree, both sides are playing on emotion, let's not kid ourselves.
 
Hardly any Americans owned assault rifles during World War II and over 400,000 of them ended up dying because of the actions of Germany, Japan and Italy.

Now? None of those countries can do shit to us. :up:


Americans were in World War II for about four years, so that's 100,000 lives lost per year, meaning that assault rifles are saving that many lives a year now. Wow!

I agree. If we had more assault rifles, 9/11 would have never taken place. All the people in the World Trace Center could have shot the planes down before reaching the building!
 
I agree. If we had more assault rifles, 9/11 would have never taken place. All the people in the World Trace Center could have shot the planes down before reaching the building!



If people had been armed on those airplanes they could totally have taken those mofos out.
 
Why? $$$
I saw one list which stated that, apart from one Republican senator who also voted against the four bills, all others were recipients of money from the NRA. So they're more concerned about the possibility of losing their seat to someone else who gets paid by the NRA than about ~32,000 people in the US losing their lives to guns each year.

:( bloody ridiculous.
 
If people had been armed on those airplanes they could totally have taken those mofos out.


The only thing that can stop a bad guy with an airplane is a good guy with an airplane.


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I don't disagree with you.

Learning more about guns -- the differences between semi-automatics and automatics, or what defines an assault rifle -- would help us make better arguments. And better persuade "responsible gun owners" that their weaponry options may have to be regulated and limited in the interest of public safety. Guns pump hot slugs of metal through human flesh, but some achieve human death in ways different from others, and in a less lethal manner. Let's focus on public safet and harm reduction like we did with automobiles in the 1960s.

I get as blindly emotional on this topic as anyone, and that's important to harness to effect change as the NRA will continue to want to sell as many guns as possible 3 weeks from now as they did 3 weeks before Orlando.

Let's be better. By being better informed and making the argument. That's how same-sex marriage won -- we had better arguments. The "bigot" argument, while true, is just one small part of an argument, and it's limited. Gay people won by coming out and explaining their lives and concentrating on equality under the law. "Marriage Equality" was a deliberate framing of the issue, I think "Gun Safety" could be the same.


I couldn't have said it better.


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I don't disagree with you.

Learning more about guns -- the differences between semi-automatics and automatics, or what defines an assault rifle -- would help us make better arguments. And better persuade "responsible gun owners" that their weaponry options may have to be regulated and limited in the interest of public safety. Guns pump hot slugs of metal through human flesh, but some achieve human death in ways different from others, and in a less lethal manner. Let's focus on public safet and harm reduction like we did with automobiles in the 1960s.

I get as blindly emotional on this topic as anyone, and that's important to harness to effect change as the NRA will continue to want to sell as many guns as possible 3 weeks from now as they did 3 weeks before Orlando.

Let's be better. By being better informed and making the argument. That's how same-sex marriage won -- we had better arguments. The "bigot" argument, while true, is just one small part of an argument, and it's limited. Gay people won by coming out and explaining their lives and concentrating on equality under the law. "Marriage Equality" was a deliberate framing of the issue, I think "Gun Safety" could be the same.

I'll wholeheartedly agree with this, too :up:. Some really good, informative, powerful campaigning could do wonders.
 
Apparently Paul Ryan forced C Span to cut off its cameras during the Dem's sit in today.


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