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Seems more it's a weapon to have lying around on the off chance when a homeintruder do happen you can finally live out your Rambo Macho Fantasy and use "self-defense" as a excuse to spray your home full of bullets and maybe hit whoever entered your home. Red bandanna and baby oil included. Someone that actually knows guns, knows how guns work, respect the destruction a firearm can and will do, should be able to defend their home which is most likely a closed and narrow space to begin with, use a handgun. |
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I know jack-all about guns, again because being someone with a mental illness that's had a history of suicidal ideation means I keep away from them for my own safety, but from what I understand this particular weapon that everyone's fighting over is the firearm equivalent of a cool toy.
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The AR-15? As far as I'm aware, it's basically a semi-automatic variation of an M-16. It's a weapon designed to kill people. So it's no surprise it's frequently used in mass shootings.
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02-19-2018, 03:25 PM | #104 |
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6 reasons your right wing buddy is never going to budge on gun control:
http://thefederalist.com/2017/10/06/...e-gun-control/ Seems about right. Not perfect, but close.
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02-19-2018, 05:05 PM | #106 |
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It seemed somewhat reasonable as far as these sort of articles go right up until the last two - and at least it admits that they don't come to the table in good faith - but that's a whole thing I don't feel like talking about right now.
I genuinely wish second amendment defenders put as much time and effort into defending the fourth too. Maybe then we could get back to a place where getting on an airplane isn't a gigantic hassle where you show them everything but your privates (and they might even see those with some of the machines they have).
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02-23-2018, 12:25 AM | #107 |
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I know, I know, this is Fox News, but this is a little concerning. Unless we're assuming this shooting survivor is a liar:
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/vi...town_hall.html
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Apparently the school cop went outside and hid the entire time this was happening, and then ended up retiring when he was suspended. I also came across a Twitter thread in which someone did some research into why the cop never engaged the shooter and he apparently uncovered a thing in where students are immune to being arrested.
https://twitter.com/TheLastRefuge2/s...54507744374784
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Got a pull quote, Andrew?
I'm not really inclined to give that site more ad money with a click.
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"So, I gave her my questions and then yesterday, at about 5:15, I made contact with her. And she had asked if I had just asked her one question. So what they had actually done was wrote out a question for me because in my interview with CNN, I had talked about arming the teachers, if they were willing to arm themselves in the school to carry on campus. And they had -- she had taken that of what I had briefed on and actually wrote that question out for me." "I mean, honestly, it was very shocking to me because we just went through such a horrific tragedy. For them to take that and now make such a big newscast over what they want to hear, it was very upsetting to me," Haab answered.
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02-23-2018, 10:59 PM | #111 | |
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02-24-2018, 12:39 PM | #112 |
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I'm laughing at the fact that theyre blaming video games for this, because we all know once you pick up a controller to any console, that means you're a homicidal maniac.
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Well that does explain why Japan has one of the highest mass shootings.
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02-26-2018, 05:07 PM | #115 |
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This kid is trying way too hard to get his name out there at this point
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...mpression=true I get he's a survivor and it's still tragic what happened but he's being way too involved in the media and is coming off like a crisis actor
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Ah. So a young person that gets politically after a terrorist attack is a "crisis actor", guess we have a lot of "crisis actors" here in Norway after 22. July, although the kids where already members of Norway's Labor Party Juniors, so i guess that don't count.
Cause "crisis actor" is a term for a young person that gets politically active after being a victim of a massacre, right? And not a ****** derogatory term to undermine a person's actions and wants to enact change so said massacre(s) won't happen again, cause that would be pretty scummy to use. |
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...=.8d06e0813463
This explains a fair amount of the confusion surrounding the whole thing and just kind of solidifies that certain parts of the internet are a total sewer. This also happened, which is another reason "arming teachers" is a terrible plan. https://uproxx.com/news/georgia-teac...d-high-school/ A former student walked in and shot up his school. The government has done next to nothing about mass shootings - it's not even just school shootings - despite the fact that they've been on the rise. He has every right to be pissed and get active. You don't get anything done or help bolster awareness by fading to the background and letting the whole thing die away.
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And "arming teachers" can be a bad plan, it can even be a "terrible plan"... though so far it appears to be the only plan being bandied about (and I say that loosely, no one is seriously looking into it) in official channels that has even the smallest, most infinitesimal chance of preventing actual, in-progress school shootings. Everything else is, "Ban on all scary, yet imaginary 'assault rifles'! I don't care if they pose the same risk as pistols, we can get to those, too after this when the next school shooting comes around!" "Pre-crime! We can stop... eh, some of these before they happen... maybe! Let's make healthcare more affordable for 17 year-olds to admit themselves!" "Let's make it a little more difficult to get guns! If we can't stop school shootings, maybe we can delay them a little, or make them somewhat more inconvenient for the gunmen!" <---- none of these things address protection for our children during actual shootings. Which will happen again. And just sitting there going, "You can't arm teachers! That's a stupid plan!!!"... really? It's kind of like, arguing with someone who says, "I disagree with you," (it could be on anything) without offering their own opinion to counter. I mean, what's your better plan to protect students during actual shootings, if you're going to sh** on my plan? *Note: I'm not saying let's arm teachers. There are better, less... difficult alternatives. But that could work.
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Kind of like how "fake news" is just "yellow journalism" under a new name.
Dick's Sporting Goods, meanwhile, is stopping the sale of "assault style" weapons and will no longer sell guns to anyone under the age of 21. And now...my list of reasons why arming teachers is a bad idea
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