Sat February 24, 2018 8:21 am
BurtReynolds wrote:McParadigm wrote:I see Burt has finally reached his full “whine about how other men aren’t masculine enough on the internet” potential.
If action in the face of the children in your care being murdered is a masculine trait, then I'd like to think I'm fucking Rambo.
Sat February 24, 2018 8:26 am
McParadigm wrote:I see Burt has finally reached his full “whine about how other men aren’t masculine enough on the internet” potential.
Sat February 24, 2018 2:29 pm
cutuphalfdead wrote:It should be legal to own an assault weapon but illegal to be a coward.
Sat February 24, 2018 2:42 pm
Bi_3 wrote:cutuphalfdead wrote:It should be legal to own an assault weapon but illegal to be a coward.
https://gizmodo.com/the-nra-just-awarded-fcc-chair-ajit-pai-with-a-gun-for-1823273450
Sat February 24, 2018 3:01 pm
MadTIGERmaN wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:bada wrote:Personally I rely on my skills with the bo staff to save me. Still breathing bitches.
nunchucks are objectively superior weapons, you fool.
I'll stick with my baseball bats
The argument, that if we get rid of guns, we will just see an increase in knife attacks, has to be my favorite stupid argument. The people who can not understand the difference between someone shooting a gun into a crowd of people, and someone trying to knife a crowd of people... probably shouldn't own a gun to begin with.
You don't bring a knife to a gun fight for a reason, unless youre Bruce Lee, or Geronimo (any Apache for that matter, they were notorious knife fighters)
Sat February 24, 2018 4:55 pm
Chem trails and the linings of juice boxes should be investigated.Dscans wrote:MadTIGERmaN wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:bada wrote:Personally I rely on my skills with the bo staff to save me. Still breathing bitches.
nunchucks are objectively superior weapons, you fool.
I'll stick with my baseball bats
The argument, that if we get rid of guns, we will just see an increase in knife attacks, has to be my favorite stupid argument. The people who can not understand the difference between someone shooting a gun into a crowd of people, and someone trying to knife a crowd of people... probably shouldn't own a gun to begin with.
You don't bring a knife to a gun fight for a reason, unless youre Bruce Lee, or Geronimo (any Apache for that matter, they were notorious knife fighters)
This is true. However, I read a long post on Slate Star Codex about gun homicide (that I'm too lazy to look up) recently. Two of the main points were
1. there does seem to be a correlation between gun ownership and gun homicide, even when controlling for all variables and
2. if you only looked at non-gun homicides (knives, bats, nunchucks, etc.), the U.S. is still worse than pretty much every European country's total homicide numbers.
And if you could eliminate guns, those non-gun homicides would likely increase. This isn't an argument against gun control, it just means that our country has problems that run deeper than guns.
Sat February 24, 2018 9:56 pm
Sat February 24, 2018 10:47 pm
Sat February 24, 2018 11:04 pm
Dscans wrote:MadTIGERmaN wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:bada wrote:Personally I rely on my skills with the bo staff to save me. Still breathing bitches.
nunchucks are objectively superior weapons, you fool.
I'll stick with my baseball bats
The argument, that if we get rid of guns, we will just see an increase in knife attacks, has to be my favorite stupid argument. The people who can not understand the difference between someone shooting a gun into a crowd of people, and someone trying to knife a crowd of people... probably shouldn't own a gun to begin with.
You don't bring a knife to a gun fight for a reason, unless youre Bruce Lee, or Geronimo (any Apache for that matter, they were notorious knife fighters)
This is true. However, I read a long post on Slate Star Codex about gun homicide (that I'm too lazy to look up) recently. Two of the main points were
1. there does seem to be a correlation between gun ownership and gun homicide, even when controlling for all variables and
2. if you only looked at non-gun homicides (knives, bats, nunchucks, etc.), the U.S. is still worse than pretty much every European country's total homicide numbers.
And if you could eliminate guns, those non-gun homicides would likely increase. This isn't an argument against gun control, it just means that our country has problems that run deeper than guns.
Sun February 25, 2018 7:57 am
Sun February 25, 2018 1:43 pm
Dscans wrote:This isn't an argument against gun control, it just means that our country has problems that run deeper than guns.
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Frankly I think black people in the US are entitled to a little violence toward our institutions at this point.
Sun February 25, 2018 2:24 pm
Sun February 25, 2018 2:31 pm
bart wrote:Good thing none of those people post here, huh b_i?
Sun February 25, 2018 3:10 pm
Sun February 25, 2018 3:18 pm
elliseamos wrote:I have nothing to back this up directly, but:
Isn't the problem that gun makers get very lucrative contracts from our government (and others, looking at you middle east), which the gun manufacturers repay by filling the campaign coffers for those politicians that keep said cycle flowing? Eisenhower warned of the MIC, and that was almost 70 years ago now.
Sun February 25, 2018 3:21 pm
Bi_3 wrote:elliseamos wrote:I have nothing to back this up directly, but:
Isn't the problem that gun makers get very lucrative contracts from our government (and others, looking at you middle east), which the gun manufacturers repay by filling the campaign coffers for those politicians that keep said cycle flowing? Eisenhower warned of the MIC, and that was almost 70 years ago now.
The gun companies arent that rich (market cap for S&W is like $1.2B, real MIC like Raytheon is around $65B). IMHO, it's the fear votes from white America's inability/refusal to come to grips with what it's done to black Americans.
Sun February 25, 2018 3:39 pm
LetMeSleep wrote:Bi_3 wrote:elliseamos wrote:I have nothing to back this up directly, but:
Isn't the problem that gun makers get very lucrative contracts from our government (and others, looking at you middle east), which the gun manufacturers repay by filling the campaign coffers for those politicians that keep said cycle flowing? Eisenhower warned of the MIC, and that was almost 70 years ago now.
The gun companies arent that rich (market cap for S&W is like $1.2B, real MIC like Raytheon is around $65B). IMHO, it's the fear votes from white America's inability/refusal to come to grips with what it's done to black Americans.
Yep. And the cycle of arm yourselves in case of a police force state which then leads to me armed forces.
Ironic that the Black Panther activity in the late 60s came to redefine the 2nd amendment.
Sun February 25, 2018 3:52 pm
elliseamos wrote:LetMeSleep wrote:Bi_3 wrote:elliseamos wrote:I have nothing to back this up directly, but:
Isn't the problem that gun makers get very lucrative contracts from our government (and others, looking at you middle east), which the gun manufacturers repay by filling the campaign coffers for those politicians that keep said cycle flowing? Eisenhower warned of the MIC, and that was almost 70 years ago now.
The gun companies arent that rich (market cap for S&W is like $1.2B, real MIC like Raytheon is around $65B). IMHO, it's the fear votes from white America's inability/refusal to come to grips with what it's done to black Americans.
Yep. And the cycle of arm yourselves in case of a police force state which then leads to me armed forces.
Ironic that the Black Panther activity in the late 60s came to redefine the 2nd amendment.
From s.s.'s nyt link:
"While the N.R.A. cuts relatively few checks to individual lawmakers — a fact that has been noted by The Tampa Bay Times, among others — it does devote tens of millions of dollars to ads backing its preferred candidates or criticizing its opponents, often with vividly alarmist messages about crime and self-defense."
Loosely what I'm getting at... and this is not to say they're the only group interested in maintaining a certain culture at home as well as through alliances abroad.
Sun February 25, 2018 4:04 pm
Sun February 25, 2018 4:39 pm
doone wrote:Perhaps the kids need to stand outside gun shops protesting, yelling "baby killer" at every one who walks in the door. Maybe then your politicians will start listening to them.