The UCSB shooters parents blame 2nd amendment.
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typos don't mean shit. My posts have more than anybody elses more than likely.
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I have no problem keeping guns away from those who shouldn't have them.
The NRA is fine with that.
But telling millions of good, decent, law abiding citizens who have guns,
that they are guilty of something, then penalize them, then fine them and fee them,
force them to register all guns, then publish the lists of those who registered,
then start dickering with definitions of what kind of gun they are allowed to own, etc etc etc....
with the "idea" that it will stop nutjobs and crooks from having guns....
is bogus.
So, I call it "anti-gunners" because of the apparent ulterior motives. There, I'm giving anti gunners
the benefit of the doubt for being intelligent and well meaning.
Like Feinstein - she has a gun, has used it to defend herself, yet she said that if she could have gotten the votes,
she'd ban them.
I'm fine with background checks. But those aren't going to stop crooks from getting guns on the black market,
and reselling them to violent nutjobs.
The more obvious explanation for the conflicting "intent", and dubious actions behind the words -
is political antagonism, posturing for liberal dominance over conservatives.
I have no problem keeping guns away from those who shouldn't have them.
The NRA is fine with that.
But telling millions of good, decent, law abiding citizens who have guns,
that they are guilty of something, then penalize them, then fine them and fee them,
force them to register all guns, then publish the lists of those who registered,
then start dickering with definitions of what kind of gun they are allowed to own, etc etc etc....
with the "idea" that it will stop nutjobs and crooks from having guns....
is bogus.
So, I call it "anti-gunners" because of the apparent ulterior motives. There, I'm giving anti gunners
the benefit of the doubt for being intelligent and well meaning.
Like Feinstein - she has a gun, has used it to defend herself, yet she said that if she could have gotten the votes,
she'd ban them.
I'm fine with background checks. But those aren't going to stop crooks from getting guns on the black market,
and reselling them to violent nutjobs.
The more obvious explanation for the conflicting "intent", and dubious actions behind the words -
is political antagonism, posturing for liberal dominance over conservatives.
At least this is an argument even if I don't agree that the ominous they is out to get your guns for, you know, fun or whatever.
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By the way my feelings about guns have not the first thing to do with "liberal dominance over conservatives" and the fact that that thought even enters your mind is interesting. Follow the party line at all costs cal. The liberals are gonna getcha.
Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind... -
Of course different issues are, well, different. I would say that the elimination of guns in the public hands, similar to England, would be an issue favored by those on the left and the eventual goal.
WSS
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Of course different issues are, well, different. I would say that the elimination of guns in the public hands, similar to England, would be an issue favored by those on the left and the eventual goal.
WSS
Of course different issues are, well, different. I would say that the elimination of guns in the public hands, similar to England, would be an issue favored by those on the left and the eventual goal.
WSS
I'd say that a country where you don't need a gun should be the objective. Work on fixing that, then less people will carry guns, and eventually guns will just be used recreationally - ie, at a shooting range, where they can be locked up when not in use for example.
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Of course different issues are, well, different. I would say that the elimination of guns in the public hands, similar to England, would be an issue favored by those on the left and the eventual goal.
WSS
I'd say that a country where you don't need a gun should be the objective. Work on fixing that, then less people will carry guns, and eventually guns will just be used recreationally - ie, at a shooting range, where they can be locked up when not in use for example.
I'd say that a country where you don't need a gun should be the objective. Work on fixing that, then less people will carry guns, and eventually guns will just be used recreationally - ie, at a shooting range, where they can be locked up when not in use for example.
Chris I'm not weighing in on what should or shouldn't be done. You guys can worry about that. I'm just pointing out that when someone says nobody wants to take your guns, well it isn't correct. There are plenty of people who would like to see guns banned altogether.
But sure, a society where everyone loves one another is certainly a lofty, if unattainable, goal.
WSS
www.westsidesteve.com www.myspace.com/westsidestevemusic www.cdbaby.com/artist/westsidestevesimmons -
I'd say that a country where you don't need a gun should be the objective. Work on fixing that, then less people will carry guns, and eventually guns will just be used recreationally - ie, at a shooting range, where they can be locked up when not in use for example.
Chris I'm not weighing in on what should or shouldn't be done. You guys can worry about that. I'm just pointing out that when someone says nobody wants to take your guns, well it isn't correct. There are plenty of people who would like to see guns banned altogether.
But sure, a society where everyone loves one another is certainly a lofty, if unattainable, goal.
WSS
Chris I'm not weighing in on what should or shouldn't be done. You guys can worry about that. I'm just pointing out that when someone says nobody wants to take your guns, well it isn't correct. There are plenty of people who would like to see guns banned altogether.
But sure, a society where everyone loves one another is certainly a lofty, if unattainable, goal.
WSS
Of course, there's still going to be violent crime. But if you have a guy with a baseball (or cricket) bat, it's a bit harder for him to go on a rampage than if he's got a gun.
I agree, plenty of people want to see guns banned - myself included, at least partially, and not immediately obviously, but as soon as feasibly possible.
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I'd say that a country where you don't need a gun should be the objective. Work on fixing that, then less people will carry guns, and eventually guns will just be used recreationally - ie, at a shooting range, where they can be locked up when not in use for example.
Chris I'm not weighing in on what should or shouldn't be done. You guys can worry about that. I'm just pointing out that when someone says nobody wants to take your guns, well it isn't correct. There are plenty of people who would like to see guns banned altogether.
But sure, a society where everyone loves one another is certainly a lofty, if unattainable, goal.
WSS
Chris I'm not weighing in on what should or shouldn't be done. You guys can worry about that. I'm just pointing out that when someone says nobody wants to take your guns, well it isn't correct. There are plenty of people who would like to see guns banned altogether.
But sure, a society where everyone loves one another is certainly a lofty, if unattainable, goal.
WSS
I meant nobody on this Internet forum. You know, where we're all posting.
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Chris I'm not weighing in on what should or shouldn't be done. You guys can worry about that. I'm just pointing out that when someone says nobody wants to take your guns, well it isn't correct. There are plenty of people who would like to see guns banned altogether.
But sure, a society where everyone loves one another is certainly a lofty, if unattainable, goal.
WSS
I meant nobody on this Internet forum. You know, where we're all posting.
Read the previous post.I meant nobody on this Internet forum. You know, where we're all posting.
I don't even think it's an outrageous proposition. Just that I doubt it would work
WSS
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typos don't mean shit. My posts have more than anybody elses more than likely.
WSS
typos don't mean shit. My posts have more than anybody elses more than likely.
WSS
Calling out typos from me posting on my phone is much easier than actual trying to respond for Cal. It is an easy cop out.
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By the way my feelings about guns have not the first thing to do with "liberal dominance over conservatives" and the fact that that thought even enters your mind is interesting. Follow the party line at all costs cal. The liberals are gonna getcha.
By the way my feelings about guns have not the first thing to do with "liberal dominance over conservatives" and the fact that that thought even enters your mind is interesting. Follow the party line at all costs cal. The liberals are gonna getcha.
Pretty much this.
Any original thought or belief is squashed. Following the party no matter what and agreeing with them on everything, brilliant.
Political parties suck...
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Chris I'm not weighing in on what should or shouldn't be done. You guys can worry about that. I'm just pointing out that when someone says nobody wants to take your guns, well it isn't correct. There are plenty of people who would like to see guns banned altogether.
But sure, a society where everyone loves one another is certainly a lofty, if unattainable, goal.
WSS
Of course, there's still going to be violent crime. But if you have a guy with a baseball (or cricket) bat, it's a bit harder for him to go on a rampage than if he's got a gun.
I agree, plenty of people want to see guns banned - myself included, at least partially, and not immediately obviously, but as soon as feasibly possible.
Of course, there's still going to be violent crime. But if you have a guy with a baseball (or cricket) bat, it's a bit harder for him to go on a rampage than if he's got a gun.
I agree, plenty of people want to see guns banned - myself included, at least partially, and not immediately obviously, but as soon as feasibly possible.
People will commit crime, even mass murders using all sorts of means. Look at the Boston Marathon Bombings. No guns used. 9/11, no guns used. People will find a way to assault, commit crimes and murder with our without guns.
But I also believe that there should be a way, where we can legislate gun ownership to those who meet certain criteria. Background checks are the first step, but it's not the solution, just a part of it. And maybe there isn't an absolute solution. You can legislate morality. There will be evil and those who commit atrocities. Each time we try and prevent the smallest incidents, even in the playgrounds at school, we are taking our freedoms.
This country was founded on certain rights. And we are seeing our government ever slowly creep up on many of those rights. Government was to be small and serve the people. Each thing we give them, the more power and control they have.
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typos don't mean shit. My posts have more than anybody elses more than likely.
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Yes, and I hate it when I make them. I just don't point them out because I'm biased,
and woody brags on himself like a weirdly programmed android in a cartoon. @@
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Its also much easier than trying to come up with any facts or evidence to support your idea or refute mine.
Why bother... just point out the typo, pat yourself on the back, throw in some 3rd grade insults, and walk away.
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Re: Mental Health
Therapy is only going to help those who want to help themselves. I read that this kid was cleared by a therapist a few weeks/months prior because he was able to game the system. The kid was intelligent, but so deluded that he was practically untreatable. The kid needed to be committed to a hospital, but if there's no prior criminal history, and he's unwilling to commit himself, there wasn't much evidence that would convince a judge to order him help. As a country, we've decided that the right to own firearms is covered by the 2nd amendment. Unfortunately, that means that people with a clean background who go off the deep end will occasionally do something like this.
That would be nice.
As for the rest of your post, I agree with it except that questions regarding the nature of the youtube videos (that sparked the initial phone call) should have been pursued. This would have ultimately led to somebody with some common sense (hopefully) in the police dept. viewing said videos and getting a warrant to search the apt. This combined with the police report of the kid trying to shove some frat bros off a porch the previous summer (no charges filed, but a police report on the matter still exists) would have been enough for a warrant demonstrating that the kid had some real, violent tendencies.
That would be nice.
As for the rest of your post, I agree with it except that questions regarding the nature of the youtube videos (that sparked the initial phone call) should have been pursued. This would have ultimately led to somebody with some common sense (hopefully) in the police dept. viewing said videos and getting a warrant to search the apt. This combined with the police report of the kid trying to shove some frat bros off a porch the previous summer (no charges filed, but a police report on the matter still exists) would have been enough for a warrant demonstrating that the kid had some real, violent tendencies.
Ha. That's putting an awful lot of faith into a bureaucracy.
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Best Ive heard yet!
So there's a "mass shooting" that would have been a page three wet fire cracker in Compton but do it to some cracker kids from the burbs serving their four years at the Special Snowflake Warehouse & Indoc Center and the nation just loses its collective shit.
Apparently busting caps in three people's asses is a lot bigger deal if you do it out the window of a '08 Beamer instead of a '94 Caprice.
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Woody, I gave you facts. Legit graphs about Australia and gun control and crime.
Naturally, you dissed it, because it doesn't fit your sissy, ignorant, pouty-puss, neurotic narratives.
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Of course, there's still going to be violent crime. But if you have a guy with a baseball (or cricket) bat, it's a bit harder for him to go on a rampage than if he's got a gun.
I agree, plenty of people want to see guns banned - myself included, at least partially, and not immediately obviously, but as soon as feasibly possible.
People will commit crime, even mass murders using all sorts of means. Look at the Boston Marathon Bombings. No guns used. 9/11, no guns used. People will find a way to assault, commit crimes and murder with our without guns.
But I also believe that there should be a way, where we can legislate gun ownership to those who meet certain criteria. Background checks are the first step, but it's not the solution, just a part of it. And maybe there isn't an absolute solution. You can legislate morality. There will be evil and those who commit atrocities. Each time we try and prevent the smallest incidents, even in the playgrounds at school, we are taking our freedoms.
This country was founded on certain rights. And we are seeing our government ever slowly creep up on many of those rights. Government was to be small and serve the people. Each thing we give them, the more power and control they have.
People will commit crime, even mass murders using all sorts of means. Look at the Boston Marathon Bombings. No guns used. 9/11, no guns used. People will find a way to assault, commit crimes and murder with our without guns.
But I also believe that there should be a way, where we can legislate gun ownership to those who meet certain criteria. Background checks are the first step, but it's not the solution, just a part of it. And maybe there isn't an absolute solution. You can legislate morality. There will be evil and those who commit atrocities. Each time we try and prevent the smallest incidents, even in the playgrounds at school, we are taking our freedoms.
This country was founded on certain rights. And we are seeing our government ever slowly creep up on many of those rights. Government was to be small and serve the people. Each thing we give them, the more power and control they have.
I agree, there's plenty of ways to kill people without guns - so should we just not bother? I'm pretty sure North Korea and Iran have the traditional firepower to wipe out any nation they feel like outside of USA, Russia, China, and maybe a few of us europeans, but that doesn't stop us from trying to prevent them from having nuclear capabilities. I hope that parallel comes across like it does in my head!
The country was founded on a set of rules, the constitution. But guess what, over time people realised that these were not sufficient or correct, and it got amended - hence, the amendments. Now, the tricky part, do you hold the amendments as unequivocally right, without the possibility of changing them? I say no, if the constitution was amended what, 2 years after the constitution, does that not imply that an amendment itself may be out of date a few hundred years after it was put in to law?
Some say yes, these amendments should be held sacrosanct - if you start playing with on of the bill of rights, you have precedent to start playing with others, so if you take away the right to bear arms, for example, there's legal precedent for the government to take away the right to free speech.
However, being the utopian dreamer that I am, I can't see a country where freedom of speech is as widely allowed as America - more so than pretty much any country in the world, I reckon, probably for the worse sometimes but what can you do? - taking those rights away without there being some kind of political/economic/military intervention. Perhaps it's that scenario that people cling so to their right to defend themselves. But I can't ever imagine any president being able to pull that off. I mean, the amount of time it would take to put that bill through, there'd be another election and a different president would be elected in a landslide if someone tried.
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That would be nice.
As for the rest of your post, I agree with it except that questions regarding the nature of the youtube videos (that sparked the initial phone call) should have been pursued. This would have ultimately led to somebody with some common sense (hopefully) in the police dept. viewing said videos and getting a warrant to search the apt. This combined with the police report of the kid trying to shove some frat bros off a porch the previous summer (no charges filed, but a police report on the matter still exists) would have been enough for a warrant demonstrating that the kid had some real, violent tendencies.
Ha. That's putting an awful lot of faith into a bureaucracy.
Ha. That's putting an awful lot of faith into a bureaucracy.
Indeed. Now you have an idea of why I typically choose not to.
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Chris I'm not weighing in on what should or shouldn't be done. You guys can worry about that. I'm just pointing out that when someone says nobody wants to take your guns, well it isn't correct. There are plenty of people who would like to see guns banned altogether.
But sure, a society where everyone loves one another is certainly a lofty, if unattainable, goal.
WSS
Of course, there's still going to be violent crime. But if you have a guy with a baseball (or cricket) bat, it's a bit harder for him to go on a rampage than if he's got a gun.
I agree, plenty of people want to see guns banned - myself included, at least partially, and not immediately obviously, but as soon as feasibly possible.
Of course, there's still going to be violent crime. But if you have a guy with a baseball (or cricket) bat, it's a bit harder for him to go on a rampage than if he's got a gun.
I agree, plenty of people want to see guns banned - myself included, at least partially, and not immediately obviously, but as soon as feasibly possible.
classic lib thinking....People will commit crime, even mass murders using all sorts of means. Look at the Boston Marathon Bombings. No guns used. 9/11, no guns used. People will find a way to assault, commit crimes and murder with our without guns.
But I also believe that there should be a way, where we can legislate gun ownership to those who meet certain criteria. Background checks are the first step, but it's not the solution, just a part of it. And maybe there isn't an absolute solution. You can legislate morality. There will be evil and those who commit atrocities. Each time we try and prevent the smallest incidents, even in the playgrounds at school, we are taking our freedoms.
you mean can't right?
This country was founded on certain rights. And we are seeing our government ever slowly creep up on many of those rights. Government was to be small and serve the people. Each thing we give them, the more power and control they have.
and common sense thinking - careful you will be outed as a tea party patriot! and this board cant have that....
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