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America's Gun Violence

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    mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 28,678
    Oh, please can we arm all the teachers? They never snap or put our kids at risk. Ever.

    Georgia teacher arrested after firing gunshot in school classroom - Reuters https://apple.news/AZVFnm15tSBSldcXH7VPJkw

    That didn’t take long, now did it?
    Lets not skip right over this.  I don't trust a random teacher with a firearm around my children. This is precisely why my kids will end up being home schooled if this plays out. 
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    Halifax2TheMaxHalifax2TheMax Posts: 36,665
    mrussel1 said:
    Oh, please can we arm all the teachers? They never snap or put our kids at risk. Ever.

    Georgia teacher arrested after firing gunshot in school classroom - Reuters https://apple.news/AZVFnm15tSBSldcXH7VPJkw

    That didn’t take long, now did it?
    Lets not skip right over this.  I don't trust a random teacher with a firearm around my children. This is precisely why my kids will end up being home schooled if this plays out. 
    And from the reporting, “great teacher,” “well liked.” Just another “responsible” gun owner until they’re not.
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    Hi!Hi! Posts: 3,095
    The exchange when Trump told Toomey he was afraid of the nra was  fun to watch. lol

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    RYMERYME Wisconsin Posts: 1,904
    edited March 2018
    my2hands said:
    I would put in an express lane for abortions... AND take away all of your guns

    I'm you're libtard snowflake nightmare 

    60 million babies aborted in the United States since 1973 you're cool with that?
    I'd say the express lane has been open for a long time.  So don't pretend that you care about life, and children and all that jazz.
    No you don't.
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    mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 28,678
    Might I suggest thread integrity and end the abortion talk?
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    unsungunsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    unsung said:
    unsung said:
    Wait a minute....the "libertarian" is also pro life? Dude, you are a walking contradiction. 
    In one breath you say that children are the future, in the next you support ending that potential before birth.

    You are holding that hypocrisy,  I will defend life.

    The NRA hasn't ended any life, the NRA is supported with zero taxpayer dollars.

    Planned Parenthood (irony there) ends life every day, and it is funded to the tune of $500M annually by taxpayers.

    I know which is a greater threat to life.

    ***it angers me that I have to defend the NRA***

    A true libertarian wouldn't give two shits what some woman does with her body.

    Plain and simple: you're a fraud.

    I'm not a true libertarian.

    I also don't care what anyone does to their body.  But that body inside her body isn't hers.
    Wow

    Because women are just pods for globs of goo that given time will develop into a fetus?
    That's a bit far fetched and dramatic, don't you think?

    Shall I rephrase...people can do what they want with their bodies as long as they aren't harming others.
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    unsungunsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    mrussel1 said:
    Might I suggest thread integrity and end the abortion talk?
    I find it a bit hypocritical to be for the defense of children and also pro abortion.

    We should be for the defense of life.
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    OnWis97OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 4,829
    mrussel1 said:
    rgambs said:
    I've found in my experience that libertarians oppose abortion more often then not.
    I believe it's because the dominant trait of libertarian ideology is a blanket form of anti-left fervor.
    The more the divide in this country grows, the more I see that the right stands for very little of its own ideology, and spends 99% of it's time standing against the left, or more accurately, the boogeyman they've created to represent the left. 
    Not Libertarians who have actually thought about the philosophy.  I'm not an expert in it but I don't see how you can be a libertarian and not be pro choice.  I know a few and they could care less if someone has an abortion or not.  They see it as one less drag on society. 
    I always thought libertarians were anti-choice because they needed to be to get some support from mainstream Republicans.
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    mrussel1mrussel1 Posts: 28,678
    unsung said:
    mrussel1 said:
    Might I suggest thread integrity and end the abortion talk?
    I find it a bit hypocritical to be for the defense of children and also pro abortion.

    We should be for the defense of life.
    And the death penalty.  The Holy See is the only one that is consistent on this issue. 

    Are you saying you see zero difference between a terminated pregnancy at 14 weeks and the shooting death of a Sandy Hook kindergartener?
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    SmellymanSmellyman Asia Posts: 4,520
    Republicans love the unborn, hate the born
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    RYMERYME Wisconsin Posts: 1,904
    Smellyman said:
    Republicans love the unborn, hate the born
    Wtf?
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    unsung said:
    unsung said:
    unsung said:
    Wait a minute....the "libertarian" is also pro life? Dude, you are a walking contradiction. 
    In one breath you say that children are the future, in the next you support ending that potential before birth.

    You are holding that hypocrisy,  I will defend life.

    The NRA hasn't ended any life, the NRA is supported with zero taxpayer dollars.

    Planned Parenthood (irony there) ends life every day, and it is funded to the tune of $500M annually by taxpayers.

    I know which is a greater threat to life.

    ***it angers me that I have to defend the NRA***

    A true libertarian wouldn't give two shits what some woman does with her body.

    Plain and simple: you're a fraud.

    I'm not a true libertarian.

    I also don't care what anyone does to their body.  But that body inside her body isn't hers.
    Wow

    Because women are just pods for globs of goo that given time will develop into a fetus?
    That's a bit far fetched and dramatic, don't you think?

    Shall I rephrase...people can do what they want with their bodies as long as they aren't harming others.
    We agree.

    Goo isn't 'others' in my mind... so pro choice is cool and allows women to do what they want with their bodies given they aren't harming others!
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    benjsbenjs Toronto, ON Posts: 8,941
    unsung said:
    unsung said:
    Wait a minute....the "libertarian" is also pro life? Dude, you are a walking contradiction. 
    In one breath you say that children are the future, in the next you support ending that potential before birth.

    You are holding that hypocrisy,  I will defend life.

    The NRA hasn't ended any life, the NRA is supported with zero taxpayer dollars.

    Planned Parenthood (irony there) ends life every day, and it is funded to the tune of $500M annually by taxpayers.

    I know which is a greater threat to life.

    ***it angers me that I have to defend the NRA***

    A true libertarian wouldn't give two shits what some woman does with her body.

    Plain and simple: you're a fraud.

    I'm not a true libertarian.

    I also don't care what anyone does to their body.  But that body inside her body isn't hers.
    I can appreciate that perspective, while it’s in her, a woman has an obligation to nourish it for nine months. Once it’s out of her, she has to nourish it until it is self-sufficient. To me, when a woman recognizes her family/self’s inability to nourish a child (either now or when it is out of the womb), it seems she is doing it as a pain preventative. I understand the child doesn’t have an ability to object, but parents ignore a child’s objection stating that they know best on a regular basis. The stakes certainly aren’t as high, but the logic is the same.
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    cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,135
    Oh man - on to the abortion debate huh?  For a few years before, I was a 1 issue voter on this issue.  But it didn't help.  Hoping my new 1 issue voter stance has any sort of an impact.  I do find a lot of hypocrisy around people's views on abortion and their views on other things...but this is a gun thread. And guns don't kill people, people will much too easy access to high powered guns with high capacity magazines kill lots of people at once and as most have pointed out people with easy access to handguns kill the most people.
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    josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 28,315
    Pennsylvania couples clutching AR-15 rifles renew wedding vows - CNN https://apple.news/A2NlTa-VyS_qlbmM8rJuiGQ
    Great couple ha ..
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    Halifax2TheMaxHalifax2TheMax Posts: 36,665
    Pennsylvania couples clutching AR-15 rifles renew wedding vows - CNN https://apple.news/A2NlTa-VyS_qlbmM8rJuiGQ
    Great couple ha ..
    There’s a couple of murder/suicides in that congregation’s future.
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    josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 28,315
    Pennsylvania couples clutching AR-15 rifles renew wedding vows - CNN https://apple.news/A2NlTa-VyS_qlbmM8rJuiGQ
    Great couple ha ..
    There’s a couple of murder/suicides in that congregation’s future.
    No doubt these are the morons we should be worried about..
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    rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    Pennsylvania couples clutching AR-15 rifles renew wedding vows - CNN https://apple.news/A2NlTa-VyS_qlbmM8rJuiGQ
    Great couple ha ..
    There’s a couple of murder/suicides in that congregation’s future.
    No doubt these are the morons we should be worried about..
    Eh, they aren't the mass shooter type.
    They are the family spat turned murder/suicide type though.
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    The JugglerThe Juggler Behind that bush over there. Posts: 47,315
    edited March 2018

    "TAKE THE GUNS FIRST...GO THROUGH DUE PROCESS SECOND."

    -Republican President, Donald J. Trump.

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    rgambsrgambs Posts: 13,576
    Weird to agree with Trump for a change.
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    josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 28,315
    rgambs said:
    Weird to agree with Trump for a change.
    You know just as well that was him yesterday that won’t be his message today ..
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    josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 28,315
    rgambs said:
    Pennsylvania couples clutching AR-15 rifles renew wedding vows - CNN https://apple.news/A2NlTa-VyS_qlbmM8rJuiGQ
    Great couple ha ..
    There’s a couple of murder/suicides in that congregation’s future.
    No doubt these are the morons we should be worried about..
    Eh, they aren't the mass shooter type.
    They are the family spat turned murder/suicide type though.
    Yeah or one of them could just as well say fuck my marriage is over I’m taking everyone with me type 
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    The JugglerThe Juggler Behind that bush over there. Posts: 47,315
    rgambs said:
    Weird to agree with Trump for a change.
    You know just as well that was him yesterday that won’t be his message today ..


    He has no positions. That's the problem. Whatever he thinks works for him in the short term, is always the way he will lean.


    REALLY wish someone would have asked him, if he really believes this way now, why he rolled back Obama's EO that discouraged mentally ill folks from obtaining guns in the first place. Why didn't anyone bring that up?

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    cincybearcatcincybearcat Posts: 16,135
    rgambs said:
    Weird to agree with Trump for a change.
    You know just as well that was him yesterday that won’t be his message today ..
    Yeah that's what sucks...cause he is giving a glimmer of hope....but it'll be gone soon.
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    HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,420
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    unsung said:
    unsung said:
    Wait a minute....the "libertarian" is also pro life? Dude, you are a walking contradiction. 
    In one breath you say that children are the future, in the next you support ending that potential before birth.

    You are holding that hypocrisy,  I will defend life.

    The NRA hasn't ended any life, the NRA is supported with zero taxpayer dollars.

    Planned Parenthood (irony there) ends life every day, and it is funded to the tune of $500M annually by taxpayers.

    I know which is a greater threat to life.

    ***it angers me that I have to defend the NRA***

    A true libertarian wouldn't give two shits what some woman does with her body.

    Plain and simple: you're a fraud.

    I'm not a true libertarian.

    I also don't care what anyone does to their body.  But that body inside her body isn't hers.
    Yes it is. For all technical purposes it's a parasite, cannot survive without a host.
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    ponytdponytd Nashville Posts: 653

    "TAKE THE GUNS FIRST...GO THROUGH DUE PROCESS SECOND."

    -Republican President, Donald J. Trump.

    this is basically a step in the GVRO (Gun Violence Restraining Order). I'd never heard of this until last week when I read this article, but as gun owner, I wouldn't mind something like this being enacted federally
    https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/gun-control-republicans-consider-grvo/

    would it solve all problems? No. But we need to take steps to keep guns out of the wrong hands and protect people, especially children. There needs to be a standard national background check that is comprehensive and have it include any private gun sales/gun shows. You want to sell a gun to your neighbor, fine. But you have to go to a licensed FFL dealer to do so and buyer should pay a fee for that test. We also need medical professionals to actually update a registry for people who have been seen or diagnosed with a mental illness. Perhaps even instituting a "no gun" list, like the no fly list. If you've been convicted of assault, especially domestic violence, you can't buy a gun ever or at least for a certain time frame. These are some of my other suggestions:
    Raise the age restriction to purchase all guns and ammo to 21.
    Revolvers, shotguns and non-semi auto rifles/guns are ok to buy for anyone who can pass a background check but ONLY after you pass a basic safety course.
    Any semi-auto handgun you must obtain a license/permit to purchase those weapons with stipulations above.
    Possible ban on AR or AK style or any semi-auto rifle. If not a ban, add an additional license/permit fee for these on top of everything above.
    Ban large capacity magazines and bump stocks. You don't need them.
    Create a standard Concealed Carry curriculum that includes both shooting and written tests for those that wish to get one.(my CC class included both written and shooting test, along with gun safety and laws pertaining to carrying).

    these are just some of my thoughts on the subject. I don't really see any of the above infringing on the 2nd Amendment, but does make it tougher to buy a gun. While I own several semi-auto handguns, I don't really need them. I like them better than my revolvers, and enjoy shooting them more at the range, but I would be willing to pay a fee for a license/permit to have one. AR/AK's are fun to shoot, but do we really need them? I don't see the purpose for them other than they look cool. Agree or disagree. I'm interested to hear your thoughts.

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    PJPOWERPJPOWER In Yo Face Posts: 6,499
    edited March 2018
    Damn double post
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    PJPOWERPJPOWER In Yo Face Posts: 6,499
    edited March 2018

    unsung said:
    unsung said:
    Wait a minute....the "libertarian" is also pro life? Dude, you are a walking contradiction. 
    In one breath you say that children are the future, in the next you support ending that potential before birth.

    You are holding that hypocrisy,  I will defend life.

    The NRA hasn't ended any life, the NRA is supported with zero taxpayer dollars.

    Planned Parenthood (irony there) ends life every day, and it is funded to the tune of $500M annually by taxpayers.

    I know which is a greater threat to life.

    ***it angers me that I have to defend the NRA***

    A true libertarian wouldn't give two shits what some woman does with her body.

    Plain and simple: you're a fraud.

    I'm not a true libertarian.

    I also don't care what anyone does to their body.  But that body inside her body isn't hers.
    Yes it is. For all technical purposes it's a parasite, cannot survive without a host.
    Actually, no, embryos do not meet the technical scientific definition of a parasite.  Might want to do some research there...But there is another thread on this topic that is more relevant than this one.

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