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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: School employee accidentally shoots student |
| John_Browning |
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Posted: 14 May 2013, 2:10 pm
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Replies: 68
Views: 8,168
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| The employee works a second job as an armed security officer, and was giving the student a ride home. While moving his gun to the glove box in his car, the firearm accidentally went off and shot the student, who suffered an injury to his leg but will survive, according to police. His handling is in... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Turn the other cheek, is it really work (Self defense)? |
| John_Browning |
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Posted: 12 May 2013, 9:20 pm
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Replies: 33
Views: 3,933
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| "Turn the other cheek" had a much different meaning in the ancient middle east.There is a lot of symbolic gestures involved, and it amount to giving someone the opportunity to go away before you fight them. Remember, the disciples owned swords and Peter was known to carry one around Jesus. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: PPR GIFs, cartoons, jokes, funny pictures, etc. |
| John_Browning |
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Posted: 12 May 2013, 9:15 pm
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Replies: 6,922
Views: 402,511
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: CO2 reach 400 ppm! |
| John_Browning |
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Posted: 12 May 2013, 12:19 am
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Replies: 31
Views: 3,294
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| It's fine. The earth can handle massive fluctuations of all kinds of things. CO2 has been higher than that and everything worked out fine, and the earth regulates it's temperature through the oceans so that there is no runaway warming or freezing. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Atheists - how do you survive in the US? |
| John_Browning |
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Posted: 09 May 2013, 2:44 pm
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,815
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| I live in California and Atheism is common. You shouldn't have a problem. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Westboro Batpist is coming right up the road! |
| John_Browning |
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Posted: 07 May 2013, 1:59 am
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Replies: 48
Views: 7,118
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| I shop at JCPenny, and I'd eat at Chick-fil-a if it didn't [literally] give me a gag reflex. I can't recall if there's a Hobby Lobby around here. The whole issue has spiraled out of control. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Westboro Batpist is coming right up the road! |
| John_Browning |
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Posted: 06 May 2013, 7:32 pm
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Replies: 48
Views: 7,118
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| It's best to ignore them. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Help me defend myself |
| John_Browning |
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Posted: 02 May 2013, 1:30 pm
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Replies: 46
Views: 6,202
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| I'm now the bad guy with the Teachers/tutors and was then told that no laws in the word allow violence, or words to that matter. CALIFORNIA PENAL CODE: 692. Lawful resistance to the commission of a public offense may be made: 1. By the party about to be injured; 2. By other parties. 693. Resistance... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: are you afraid? |
| John_Browning |
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Posted: 02 May 2013, 1:04 pm
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Replies: 16
Views: 2,691
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I would. The handling of the manhunt was total b******t!! !  |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Has your autism influenced your politics? |
| John_Browning |
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Posted: 01 May 2013, 4:54 am
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Replies: 60
Views: 6,047
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| I'm very constitutionalist conservative (not quite in line with the tea party) so I guess autism didn't affect my political orientation, but it may have a role in the intensity of my views. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Mark Steel on NRA reaction to Boston bomb. Genius |
| John_Browning |
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Posted: 01 May 2013, 4:42 am
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Replies: 177
Views: 21,950
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I'll catch this debate again next time around. My IRL social life got busy!  |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Mark Steel on NRA reaction to Boston bomb. Genius |
| John_Browning |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2013, 4:49 am
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Replies: 177
Views: 21,950
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| it is virtualy impossable to get a gun permit in boston.boston has its own set of gun statutes as separate from massachusetts as a whole.a standard mass fid card is semi meaningless in boston.by boston i mean only the proper city itself,in the suburbs regular mass gun laws apply. it no wonder a ter... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Many German Christians now quit church to avoid paying tax |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2013, 4:47 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 2,325
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| That doesn't sound like sound doctrine. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Mark Steel on NRA reaction to Boston bomb. Genius |
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Posted: 28 Apr 2013, 2:52 am
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Replies: 177
Views: 21,950
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| People seem to forget that attempting to reduce the murder rate by taking away guns and the fundamental right to self defense in general tends to cause a massive increase in other crimes such as robberies, sex crimes, assaults, and property crimes. This can already be seen in New York just as it has... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Creationist "Science" quiz |
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Posted: 28 Apr 2013, 2:17 am
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Replies: 30
Views: 2,737
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| Supposedly from a private South Carolina school, but its authenticity is unknown. It's totally believable. I grew up that way and was supplied with similar literature by my parents. I was out of private school by the time I got to doing any serious science because 25 years ago Christian schools wer... |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Five dead in Illinois shooting, but it's not front page news |
| John_Browning |
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Posted: 28 Apr 2013, 1:39 am
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,579
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| The two most reputable sources I could find: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0424/Mayor-of-Illinois-town-says-five-dead-in-shooting-suspect-in-custody http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/04/24/178790589/5-people-dead-after-shooting-in-small-illinois-town I guess people dyin... |
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