i am legitimately scared about trump becoming president
While the left does the same to remove and alter any mention of the 2nd amendment and other bill of rights.
While the left does the same to remove and alter any mention of the 2nd amendment and other bill of rights.
None of which were as important for day-to-day life as cars are now (most people didn't need a horse to get to work, and therefore to survive).
We can tap-dance around this all we want but it still gets back to licensed privilege as opposed to enumerated constitutional right. If you think our constriction is archaic, non-relevant, or just icky, then move to where they don’t have one and whoever’s in power rules by decree.
The internet is about as far of a leap from the presses of that era as modern armaments are from the weapons of that era, and we're in the midst of a rash of legislation about how much the internet can and should be regulated; we're not even allowed to have the same discussion about guns at a legislative level.
What things about the internet do you think need to be regulated?
But your right; gunz were meant to kill so someone dying by the ball peen hammer method isn't as dead...I guess.
Don't pretend to be stupid....
If hammers, knives, swords, etc. were as good at killing people as guns are, we could save a hell of a lot of money by arming our military with them instead of guns. You can buy a pretty decent modern-steel, production katana for $15K.
Yeah, right. No one’s ever been killed by anything other than a gun.
Again, don't pretend to be stupid. I never said that people aren't killed by things other than guns. I said that guns are better tools for killing things than are knives, hammers, etc. If guns were not better tools for killing people in specific, the military would not spend so much money on them.
Depends on who’s using them and for what purpose. Shooting a gun is really not like playing COD and there is some skill involved. In some cases a hammer can be a more desirable killing weapon.
1. Quieter
2. Much cheaper
3. Easier to obtain
4. The satisfaction and sheer joy of personally and up close stoving someone’s skull in that just can’t be experienced by using any gun.
BTW, I sense a lot of arger here with all these accusations of stupidity.
Hmm....
I'll wait.
all the gunshows that allow private sellers as well as dealers.
re. Craigslist, I stand corrected... not that it really changes my point.
Most all of gun show sales are from FFL (Federal Firearms License) dealers and they go through ALL the steps for each sale. Trust me.
Private sales are a much smaller part of gun show sales. The ATF is not going to issue an FFL to an individual just so they can sell their granddaddy’s old Fox Sterlingworth shotgun for the money to buy a new TV. That’s pretty much what you are proposing.
A red tape nightmare and for what, just so you can “feel” better? Not.
You and yours here to this day have not provided any rationale for the additional gun laws you want. “I want” or “this is how they do it in Northern Slobovia” or “I think gunz are icky” are not rationale.
The fact that there have been all the guns sales there have been since your boy Barack took office and no subsequent rises in gun crime speak volumes.
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^There's enough right there to write pages on explaining the fallacy of with examples, many of which can be drawn from this forum as one source.
How about liberals wanting to limit free speech?
Need lots of examples or will that statement stand on its own merit?
You can cherry pick from any group to prove your point. Sure, there are some dipsh*t liberals who go berserk for political correctness, to the point of limiting free speech, but mostly on college campuses. But you also have conservative crackers who have been working to censor public school books, removing anything besmirching the reputations of their godlike founding fathers, or who remove anything connected to racism, Jim Crow, segregation, and even soft sell slavery(!).
^There's enough right there to write pages on explaining the fallacy of with examples, many of which can be drawn from this forum as one source.
How about liberals wanting to limit free speech?
Need lots of examples or will that statement stand on its own merit?
You can cherry pick from any group to prove your point. Sure, there are some dipsh*t liberals who go berserk for political correctness, to the point of limiting free speech, but mostly on college campuses.
My “cherry picked” examples clearly contradict your “liberals are not anti-freedom” statement. And I can find more examples (if I feel like it) that have nothing to do with campuses. I chose them to demonstrate how liberals are poisoning education to shape (or eliminate) free thought.
Well no $hit Sherlock.
Conservatives don’t preach about freedom every time they open their pie holes, either, so there’s not nearly the hypocrisy as when liberals screech about it.
Here’s the definition of Liberal.
Lib·er·al (lĭb′ər-əl, lĭb′rəl)
adj.
1.
a. Favoring reform, open to new ideas, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; not bound by traditionalthinking; broad-minded. See Synonyms at broad-minded.
I find nothing in new ideas, tolerance, or broadminded that supports censorship.
That’s the whole point.
As expected, I see you tossed segregation and slavery in there for affect. I guess your next response will be that to defend free speech is to defend racism or whatever…
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http://www.salon.com/2012/10/12/ten_con ... d_slavery/
I do not know.
What I do know is, Louisiana is more than half Black, they suffer most of the results of Black on Black crime, have a very high murder rate, live in the most dangerous neighborhoods, and this law change applies to them, giving them the legal ability to take back their neighborhoods.
Highest national murder rate in the City and State. The half white system cannot protect them.
For a long time young Black men had a gunshot death rate equal to Vietnam Soldiers.
Until Juarez Mexico and San Pedro Sula Honduras grabbed the record, we were highest in the Western Hemisphere.
A well regulated militia being necessary for the defense of a free people, Government shall make no law infringing on The People's Right to keep and bear arms.
This is A Civil Rights Act. It recognizes the right of our fellow citizens to self and group defense.
Nothing we have done has worked, it is up to the Black Community to change things.
All of our Juries are half Black.
80% of Black people are just fine folks, very southern in their culture. While America had conflict over color, in New Orleans it was resolved by letting White People into Black Restaurants, through the front door.
We trust our fellow Citizens to be carrying a Concealed firearm in all public places.
I do not know.
What I do know is, Louisiana is more than half Black, they suffer most of the results of Black on Black crime, have a very high murder rate, live in the most dangerous neighborhoods, and this law change applies to them, giving them the legal ability to take back their neighborhoods.
It was intended that way. Are you a punctuation nazi or just grasping at straws?
neither actually. are we a bit sensitive about being called on our claims? perhaps you shouldn't make any if being asked to back them up is upsetting to you.
Sensitive, me? You're the one that keeps calling me a troll. Accusations of being a troll or a bully typically come from the one that is all sensitive and butthurt.
Did I call you a troll?
Heaven knows why you'd be soliciting a "concern troll" (your words) for examples.
you're making the claim, you get to be the one solicited for examples backing up said claim
this is how arguments work, do try to keep up.
Sorry, I’m not used to arguing with fish.
And I'm not even going to take the time to verify it.
when have you ever taken the time to verify anything?
I sense more anger.
Please keep it up.
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Look, unless you are in the military, police, security et cetera (i.e. unless you need one to do your job), you don't need a gun! Got it? The gun-fetishists here at WP are nothing but trolls who hate President Obama because he's black, but are too afraid to say so, so they make up this crap about him "takin' away our God-given right to bear arms, hot dang! Yeee-ha!"
Go on, admit it - you want someone in the White House who is actually white. Don't deny it. I've never come across such vitriol directed at any President before, not even the other Democratic ones like Clinton and Carter. It obviously has to do with race.
Are you REALLY that dumb???
There are many situations where the police cannot protect you from being robbed, raped, beaten up, or killed. Particularly if the aggressor is bigger and stronger than you, not to mentioned armed with a gun themselves! But the real modern purpose of the 2nd amendment is to protect ourselves against each other, not the *big bad gubbermint*. It infuriates me how the right has turned to anarchism the way the left did in the 60s and 70s("death to the state! power to the people!" and other idealistic piffle
Many black people own guns who are *not* gangstas or thugz because they live in areas where violent criminals are right next door and cannot rely on the protection of the law. You think only white guys like guns?
I dislike Obama because he's a WEAK president who capitulates to the opposing side far too easily and really hasn't done much at all for Afro-Americans whose situation has gotten much worse under his watch. And a good example is how he punked out and refused to uphold the law when the Bundy boys instigated an armed confrontation with the government in Nevada and now in Oregon! Clinton dealt with this and put a stop to it. Not to mention Slick Willy standing his ground with a republican controlled congress.
You know, for a group of people (i.e. 'Aspies') who are supposed to be rational and able to keep their emotions in check when debating whatever it is that interests them, there sure are a lot of people here who allow their emotions to overwhelm them.
PRESIDENT Obama is not 'weak'. During his time in office he was constantly frustrated in his attempts to introduce reforms, by the Republicans. They would oppose whatever he supported, and for no other reason than the fact that they didn't like him and could block him. They always were, and always will be, obstructionists.
Do you know who is really weak? That neo-Nazi rabble-rouser Donald Trump. He has no clue, no brains, but a mouth that just will not close. He doesn't care about the sheeple who support him and, in all likelihood, holds them in complete contempt.
Yes, it's really awful isnt it.
Tisk, tisk, tisk...
Next.
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AR15000, the problems you have in your country are caused by those who seem to still be living in the Old West, who have the mentality that force and violence can actually solve problems. I see it all the time in the horrendously violent shows that your country exports to us, where every four seconds someone is being shot or blown away. When the adverts for these shows come on, they almost always show someone pointing a gun (usually just off to the side of the cameraman). Since WW2 your country has been involved in more mayhem and destruction than all other nations put together.
Look, do us all a favour, and keep your moronic 'right to bear arms' to yourselves. You can go on killing each other as much as you like if you want to (and as long as the 2nd Amendment remains, this will continue to happen), but don't expect the rest of the world to either understand or accept your corrupt 'values'. The rest of the world has moved on since the 19th century.
I haven't seen much from you that could fall under the definition of rational. By your opening volley in this thread I'd say you were posting just to trigger an emotional response. Might have worked on some but not on me.
He is weak in two ways
Weak because the s**t he wants to put through has no chance with any congress.
Weak because he lacks the charisma needed to be a team player and win support.
Agreed, but he still might end up being the next guy your PM will have to suck up to in order to stay in our good graces.
Gee, I love being a citizen of the most powerful nation on the face of the earth.
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Yes, it's really awful isnt it.
Tisk, tisk, tisk...
Next.
I do not know.
What I do know is, Louisiana is more than half Black, they suffer most of the results of Black on Black crime, have a very high murder rate, live in the most dangerous neighborhoods, and this law change applies to them, giving them the legal ability to take back their neighborhoods.
We do not have any control over the Federal Government. They are the ones militarizing the police. Institutional prejudice would seem to be having laws that do not give equal treatment to all.
It is not the police killing 400 Black men a year in New Orleans, it is Black men.
Fairly recent history for us, been here since 1500, the White on White murder rate was just as high until recently.
A lot of it seems to do with economic condition, poor people kill each other, rich people sue.
According to The Constitution, as amended, Blacks and Women are also The People mentioned therein.
We cannot make everyone economically equal, culturally, 250 years ago Whites were murdering each other, less than a quarter could even read their name, and many Black people were still in Africa.
Blacks are now about as literate as Whites were during WWII. Like everyone else their incomes have declined since 1970. Young Black women are over represented in University Degrees, and Government jobs.
The Rights of Citizenship are what make the Obligations bearable.
This aint addressed to me but I'm gonna give it a twirl anyhoo. Sue me.
When the adverts for these shows come on, they almost always show someone pointing a gun (usually just off to the side of the cameraman).
1. You actually believe what all you see in any movie?

2. If we're exporting those movies to Australia it can only be due to a demand for them by your fellow aussies.
3. Why do you actually watch those horrendously violent movies?!?! I guess this is kind of like American liberals listening to Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck just so they'll have an outlet for all the hate they harbor.
Since WW2 Australia has had a hand in some of that mayhem right along side the evil USA.
We do keep it to ourselves but people like you that don't even live here keep pinging on it in this forum as if bullets are capable of transoceanic flight. I have no desire to come to Australia and try to convert you or yours. Do yourself a favour and don't worry about what we do over here because we are going to keep on doing it anyway.
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