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  • Cropduster-80
    Cropduster-80 Posts: 2,034
    Merkin Baller said:
    bootlegger10 said:
    Guns are the tool.  Nobody uses a hammer unless they intend to build a house.  I'm not going to use a car unless I intend to go somewhere.

    I'm for tighter gun control and generally anti-gun.  But people are out there wanting to kill a lot of people.   What is different today than 50 years ago when guns were still out there easy to get?  
    Besides Fox News? And a dramatically more rabid gun culture? 
    The political climate even if a shooting isn’t necessarily politically motivated.

    People are just angry and confrontational generally.  
  • given2fly23
    given2fly23 Evanston, IL Posts: 6,042
    cblock4life said:
    given2fly23 said:
    cblock4life said:
    given2fly23 said:
    jimjam1982 said:
    pjhawks said:
    elvistheking44 said:
    pjhawks said:
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    That couldn’t be more false. Not every republican voted for trump or carries a gun. 
    If you support the republicans you support guns, banning abortion,  limiting voting rights and much more bs.  
    I support Republican border security, national defense, and fiscal policy, and some of their other philosophies while abhorring them for those 3 things you mentioned.  Most Americans are in the middle.  This hardline stance on either side has to end.  Both sides have shitter agendas to promote the extremes.  

    If I do one thing before I leave Texas it will be voting against Abbot and Cruz, it doesn't even matter who the blue vote is.  This place is the pits. This gun shit has to end. Can't wait until I leave TX but I will make sure to get that ballot in against those two assholes before I do.
    I used to be a Republican when they pretended to be about small government.  Now, this is their fiscal policy, which has pitted Americans against each other so the few can take more and more.  I left the party when Palin was chosen as McCain's VP because their chosen path was clear.  I will never vote Republican again in my life.


    I agree about Palin and it was disappointing because I really didn’t think McCain was a snake but you’re right it was a turning point for many borderline republicans.  And in fairness I have to say Hillary not leaving William showed no spine AND she continued to support him….if I hadn’t despised FF so much I wouldn’t have voted for her.  
    How is Hillary standing by a cheating, lying husband equivalent to the destruction the GOP has wrought upon our country?  Honest question.  So many of my friends (not the lazy ones, ones who actually follow politics) find fault on both sides as if it's equal.  The GOP doesn't even believe in democracy, let alone capitalism or our Constitution.  They are 100% ready to destroy our country in order to retain power.  How is that (R) even an option any more?

    Oh I totally get what you’re saying and I’ll explain, reword,  I wasn’t trying to compare Palin or Hillary to the shit going on today, I was trying to say that even then you could see that McCain caved and as someone who thought he was a decent republican even he turned out to be a POS.  Does that make sense? The petty politics of years ago is gone, I totally agree with that, nowadays it’s more about people wanting a blood bath.  
    Yeah, it does. I long for the days of petty politics/policy discussions. Now I just wonder if our country can be saved. I’m not so sure. 
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  • cincybearcat
    cincybearcat Posts: 16,836
    This makes me sick. 
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  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,405
    Fucking disgusting. And another angry 18 year old. The active shooter suspect seems to be evolving to our youth more often than not these days.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,594
    given2fly23 said:
    jimjam1982 said:
    pjhawks said:
    elvistheking44 said:
    pjhawks said:
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    That couldn’t be more false. Not every republican voted for trump or carries a gun. 
    If you support the republicans you support guns, banning abortion,  limiting voting rights and much more bs.  
    I support Republican border security, national defense, and fiscal policy, and some of their other philosophies while abhorring them for those 3 things you mentioned.  Most Americans are in the middle.  This hardline stance on either side has to end.  Both sides have shitter agendas to promote the extremes.  

    If I do one thing before I leave Texas it will be voting against Abbot and Cruz, it doesn't even matter who the blue vote is.  This place is the pits. This gun shit has to end. Can't wait until I leave TX but I will make sure to get that ballot in against those two assholes before I do.
    I used to be a Republican when they pretended to be about small government.  Now, this is their fiscal policy, which has pitted Americans against each other so the few can take more and more.  I left the party when Palin was chosen as McCain's VP because their chosen path was clear.  I will never vote Republican again in my life.

    Pretty much described my situation, though I left shortly before Palin. Modern day Republican party is a fucking cult. 
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  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,780

    What kind of country and citizenry allows this to continue to happen? 
  • Cropduster-80
    Cropduster-80 Posts: 2,034
    edited May 2022
    Merkin Baller said:

    What kind of country and citizenry allows this to continue to happen? 
    a country in which the supreme court didn’t even rule on an individuals right to own a gun until 2008

    Yep, that’s true.if you actually read the second amendment it makes more sense as to why an individual right had never been recognised. I suspect a lot of pro gun people don’t actually read it though 

    the old west had more gun control than today. Blanket bans inside cities was common 

    an individual right to own a gun has been recognised for less time than a right to an abortion. Saying it’s set in stone or not open to revision isn’t true 
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,078
    given2fly23 said:
    cblock4life said:
    given2fly23 said:
    cblock4life said:
    given2fly23 said:
    jimjam1982 said:
    pjhawks said:
    elvistheking44 said:
    pjhawks said:
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    That couldn’t be more false. Not every republican voted for trump or carries a gun. 
    If you support the republicans you support guns, banning abortion,  limiting voting rights and much more bs.  
    I support Republican border security, national defense, and fiscal policy, and some of their other philosophies while abhorring them for those 3 things you mentioned.  Most Americans are in the middle.  This hardline stance on either side has to end.  Both sides have shitter agendas to promote the extremes.  

    If I do one thing before I leave Texas it will be voting against Abbot and Cruz, it doesn't even matter who the blue vote is.  This place is the pits. This gun shit has to end. Can't wait until I leave TX but I will make sure to get that ballot in against those two assholes before I do.
    I used to be a Republican when they pretended to be about small government.  Now, this is their fiscal policy, which has pitted Americans against each other so the few can take more and more.  I left the party when Palin was chosen as McCain's VP because their chosen path was clear.  I will never vote Republican again in my life.


    I agree about Palin and it was disappointing because I really didn’t think McCain was a snake but you’re right it was a turning point for many borderline republicans.  And in fairness I have to say Hillary not leaving William showed no spine AND she continued to support him….if I hadn’t despised FF so much I wouldn’t have voted for her.  
    How is Hillary standing by a cheating, lying husband equivalent to the destruction the GOP has wrought upon our country?  Honest question.  So many of my friends (not the lazy ones, ones who actually follow politics) find fault on both sides as if it's equal.  The GOP doesn't even believe in democracy, let alone capitalism or our Constitution.  They are 100% ready to destroy our country in order to retain power.  How is that (R) even an option any more?

    Oh I totally get what you’re saying and I’ll explain, reword,  I wasn’t trying to compare Palin or Hillary to the shit going on today, I was trying to say that even then you could see that McCain caved and as someone who thought he was a decent republican even he turned out to be a POS.  Does that make sense? The petty politics of years ago is gone, I totally agree with that, nowadays it’s more about people wanting a blood bath.  
    Yeah, it does. I long for the days of petty politics/policy discussions. Now I just wonder if our country can be saved. I’m not so sure. 
    it cannot be saved. you have one party who's entire platform is white grievance and they refuse to do even the basics to try to protect their own constituents.

    with the discourse and division as it is, this country will fail in 10 years.

    we are not the united states of america. we are the divided tribes of america.

    texas has been talking about seceding from the union in recent years. i propose that blue states secede from the red ones. let the red states try to thrive without the blue ones. 
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  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,078
    Merkin Baller said:

    What kind of country and citizenry allows this to continue to happen? 
    us. we allow it.
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  • Halifax2TheMax
    Halifax2TheMax Posts: 42,189
    edited May 2022
    19 dead kids and 2 adults. Nothing can be done. Thoughts and prayers. Oh, and now is not the time for knee jerk reactionary political discourse. Oh no, not while the families grieve. Fuck you kelly Ann CONway and your stupid book too.
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  • pjhawks
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    Merkin Baller said:

    What kind of country and citizenry allows this to continue to happen? 

    Merkin Baller said:

    What kind of country and citizenry allows this to continue to happen? 
    One run by republicans 
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 24,078
    pjhawks said:
    Merkin Baller said:

    What kind of country and citizenry allows this to continue to happen? 

    Merkin Baller said:

    What kind of country and citizenry allows this to continue to happen? 
    One run by republicans 
    which is, us.

    minority party will not allow anything to come up for a vote in the senate.
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  • mickeyrat
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    did the framers know what a blood thirsty bitch Liberty was?
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  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,405
    Well the Texas AG thinks the solution is more guns, aka arming teachers. Of course, what else.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • mace1229
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    Cropduster-80 said:
    Merkin Baller said:

    What kind of country and citizenry allows this to continue to happen? 
    a country in which the supreme court didn’t even rule on an individuals right to own a gun until 2008

    Yep, that’s true.if you actually read the second amendment it makes more sense as to why an individual right had never been recognised. I suspect a lot of pro gun people don’t actually read it though 

    the old west had more gun control than today. Blanket bans inside cities was common 

    an individual right to own a gun has been recognised for less time than a right to an abortion. Saying it’s set in stone or not open to revision isn’t true 
    That depends on how you define gun control. The gun laws back then more often applied to open or concealed carrying in public. But purchasing and tracking firearms was much more free. Today you don’t have to register a gun made before 1898, and pretty much any other laws that apply like a wait period. I always assumed that’s because that’s when they started keeping records, but I could be wrong.
  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,416
    edited May 2022
    Peter Frampton gets it...


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  • Bentleyspop
    Bentleyspop Craft Beer Brewery, Colorado Posts: 11,416
    edited May 2022
    Steve Kerr gets it...

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  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,912
    Bentleyspop said:
    Steve Kerr gets it...

    if you don't know the story Steve's father was assassinated when serving as President of the American University of Beirut in 1984. Steve was a freshman at Arizona at the time.   I liked that he called out McConnell and that there are 50 Senators holding gun legislation hostage.  I get his outrage. When I heard the news today I had the same reaction.  and yet people will continue to vote these bastards in.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    Ah, the GOP: the party of child massacres. 
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    What is it with places like Texas wanting more guns and fewer firearm restrictions?  Some kind of death wish?  It appears so.  (And it's not, of course, just about Texas).  This whole thing literally makes me sick to my stomach. 
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