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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Tue Jun 07, 2022 1:31 am

“It’d be so lame to shoot up your former high school as a 21-year-old.”

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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Tue Jun 07, 2022 7:22 pm

Republicans: Let's do nothing and say we solved it. Move back to blaming Biden for inflation.
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CNN)The two leading GOP senators involved in gun talks on Capitol Hill signaled Monday evening that it's unlikely Congress will raise the age requirement for purchasing semiautomatic firearms to 21, instead saying they are looking at changing the criminal background check system to access juvenile records before a sale is complete.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Sean Hayden » Tue Jun 07, 2022 7:50 pm

They only respond to disorder, and even then it has to be significant eg to get the 'new deal' took some 3 million starving Americans, because they were dangerous. But take it down to 1.5 and it's suddenly manageable, fuck more progress....now consider the gun problem in that context, it's hopeless.

We make the laws, one way or the other, and we want our guns.

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Re: Only in America

Post by Sean Hayden » Tue Jun 07, 2022 7:51 pm

--almost forgot, shithole

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Re: Only in America

Post by Brian Peacock » Wed Jun 08, 2022 8:35 am

Scotland is very welcoming to immigrants Sean.

Just saying. :)
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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Wed Jun 08, 2022 12:21 pm

Mass shootings have nothing to do with AR-15s, only with suicidal thoughts.
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Americans should therefore have the right to shoot illegal migrant caravans pounding on their door.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Joe » Wed Jun 08, 2022 1:36 pm

Brian Peacock wrote:
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Scotland is very welcoming to immigrants Sean.

Just saying. :)
We visited in mid 2017 and found it quite welcoming, although we may have been more asylum seekers than immigrants had we tried to stay. ;)
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Re: Only in America

Post by Sean Hayden » Thu Jun 09, 2022 8:24 am

I'm angry at the US. But I prefer the company of Americans to Europeans. It's my opinion that much of the world has engaged in projection on a massive scale regarding the average US citizen.

You're loud, obnoxious, and entitled.

Of course, I'm not just an American, but a southern one at that. :biggrin:

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Post by Brian Peacock » Sun Jun 12, 2022 1:48 am

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Re: Only in America

Post by Svartalf » Thu Jun 16, 2022 10:35 am

laklak wrote:
Sat May 28, 2022 1:46 pm
One thing is to stop treating 18 year olds like adults. They're not. The frontal lobes aren't mature until the mid-20s. Stop selling them weapons. Stop letting them sign exploitive student loan contracts. And for god's sake stop letting them fucking vote.

I'm sure everyone knows my stance on assault weapons, that horse is out of the barn, There are 10s of millions of them out there, and that's just the legal ones.

Where did this kid get the money to buy somewhere around 5Gs worth of weapons and ammo? From all reports he didn't work, and was (according to some other kids) bullied for being poor, yet he had a late model pick up and expensive weapons. Somebody bankrolled this kid and they need to be held responsible too.

Better background checks, better police response, better school security, these are probably the best we're going to do.

As for home schooling, public school enrollments are in free fall. Private school enrollments is exploding, as is home schooling. I think there are a lot of reasons for that, but safety is a primary one.
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Re: Only in America

Post by Tero » Sun Jun 19, 2022 6:17 pm

Not clinically insane. Just assholes.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/18/opinions ... &fs=e&s=cl
Meloy largely dismisses the common talking point, often touted by the NRA and its allies, that mass shootings are caused by individuals with mental disorders. Instead, Meloy focuses on how these mass murderers typically go down a predictable "pathway to violence" and the type of interventions that can sometimes derail them from carrying out a violent act.
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Re: Only in America

Post by JimC » Mon Jun 20, 2022 2:31 am

Finally, a useful solution:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-06-20/ ... /101166626
As Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls on the West for more weapons, one US city has answered the call in an unexpected way.

Dozens of residents from the city of Miami, Florida lined up outside City Hall on Saturday, holding their guns.

They will be donated to Ukraine through a gun buyback program called Guns 4 Ukraine, run by the local city council.

In exchange, residents received a gift card valued at up to $150, depending on the type of gun.

The program in total collected 69 guns in four hours, with firearms ranging from AK-47 style assault rifles to fully automatic AR-15s to homemade 3D-printed plastic guns.
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Post by pErvinalia » Mon Jun 20, 2022 3:13 am

But guns don't kill people, people kill people. So just send knives and hammers to Ukraine.
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Re: Only in America

Post by laklak » Mon Jun 20, 2022 6:45 am

The irony of turning in your guns to send to people who don't have enough firearms to defend themselves is lost on them.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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Re: Only in America

Post by Hermit » Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:56 am

laklak wrote:
Mon Jun 20, 2022 6:45 am
The irony of turning in your guns to send to people who don't have enough firearms to defend themselves is lost on them.
Putin has not attempted to invade the US yet.
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