If reason played any part in the American love affair with guns, things would have been different a long time ago and we would not have so many mass shootings like the one that took the lives of seventeen high school students in Parkland, Florida on February 14. Almost everywhere else in the world, if you proposed that virtually any adult not convicted of a felony should be allowed to carry a loaded pistol—openly or concealed—into a bar, a restaurant, or classroom, people would send you off for a psychiatric examination. Yet many states allow this, and in Iowa, a loaded firearm can be carried in public by someone who’s completely blind. Suggest, in response to the latest mass shooting, that still more of us should be armed, and people in most other countries would ask you what you’re smoking. Yet this is the NRA’s answer to the massacres in Orlando, Las Vegas, Newtown, and elsewhere, and after the Parkland killing spree, President Trump suggested arming teachers. One bumper sticker on sale here shows the hammer and sickle again with GUN FREE ZONES KILL PEOPLE.
So in other words, liberals hate freedom and civil rights.
We all already knew that. Always good to confirm it though.
Liberals are in good company. The 9/11 hijackers hated our freedom too.
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oralloy
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Sun 25 Mar, 2018 04:28 am
@Olivier5,
Olivier5 wrote:
It's important to save lives, period.
How does banning pistol grips save any lives?
Maybe you should start by trying to ban the use of private cars on public roads.
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oralloy
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Sun 25 Mar, 2018 04:29 am
@Olivier5,
Olivier5 wrote:
Could you be more ridiculous?
Can you provide any justification for banning pistol grips?
No?
Then the only reason that the whiny brats have for calling for such a thing is the joy that they get out of of violating people's civil rights.
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blatham
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Sun 25 Mar, 2018 08:39 am
@Olivier5,
It is. But without question, the only way that is coming about is through significant damage to GOP political clout.
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blatham
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Sun 25 Mar, 2018 08:46 am
@hightor,
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in Iowa, a loaded firearm can be carried in public by someone who’s completely blind.
"How was that one?"
"Definitely better, John. Well done. But you're still a little far to the left. Helen! Will you call the ambulance please. Grandma just took one in the belly"
Sean Illing
It may strike some readers as odd to hear that Trump’s campaign vision and Bolton’s worldview are diametrically opposed.
Tom Nichols
Bolton’s philosophy is to extinguish all threats to the US by extending military force at will. Trump ran on “America First” and called the Iraq War stupid, whereas Bolton continues to defend the Iraq War and believes that we should stomp out danger wherever we think it will appear. So you’re either an isolationist guy, or you’re an elephant roaming the field stomping on every mouse that scares you, and Bolton is the latter.
As with "drain the swamp" or countless other campaign statements from Trump about his intentions and his plans once in office, there is no relationship whatsoever with what he now is actually doing. That's not because he's learning or gaining in policy sophistication. It is because what he says now (or what he has said previously) and what he does are all the behaviors of a con man. Nothing is principled. Nothing is permanent. Nothing is honest nor sincere.
The money part is working for sure right now. Government funds flowing into #45/#45 family coffers. The effect on long-term branding is more difficult to sort.
in Iowa, a loaded firearm can be carried in public by someone who’s completely blind.
"How was that one?"
"Definitely better, John. Well done. But you're still a little far to the left. Helen! Will you call the ambulance please. Grandma just took one in the belly"
ABC News
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@ABC
The New England Patriots loaned its team plane to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students and their families traveling to Washington, D.C., for the #MarchforOurLives rally. https://abcn.ws/2IRA9G7
That got people all excited on twitter on Thursday as the Pats owner is a 'friend' of #45. Great to see it finally got some media coverage esp on such a pro-#45 network.
President Trump has decided not to hire two lawyers who were announced last week as new additions to his legal team, leaving him with a shrinking stable of lawyers as the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, enters an intense phase.
I wonder if diGenova's mustache had anything to do with it? Don't want too many of those types around.
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According to two people told of details about the meeting, the president did not believe he had personal chemistry with Mr. diGenova and Ms. Toensing.
Seriously, this is probably good news — assuming Trump's able to hire a better lawyer to relace Dowd. DiGenova seemed a bit too media-oriented and kind of slimy. Trump needs a James St. Clair.
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blatham
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Sun 25 Mar, 2018 10:10 am
@ehBeth,
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It is about branding and $$$.
Though that is clearly in play here, I think that formulation invests far too much cognitive organization and purposeful strategy to the man's mind and behavior. He is putting his future branding and income at serious risk (not to mention the possibility of indictment for criminal offences) through his ego/id driven behaviors which mark most everything he says and does. He is less a rational businessman than he is a sociopath.
I don't think he's rational but I do think he is a businessperson before anything else.
My view differs. I think his urge or need to bully and dominate others is what drives everything else. But regardless, I expect we're in agreement that this is a functionally evil individual.
They are against DACA because Trump will not give it to them until chain migration and the lottery where countries dispose of their garbage are ended. He is simply on to the Democrats, as is almost everyone else, including those who are DACA eligible.
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ehBeth
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Sun 25 Mar, 2018 10:58 am
@farmerman,
It was kind of funny in both the odd and haha way that he didn't take the offer he got a month or so back. He lost both of the things he said he wanted.
I can't figure out if he understands that in any way.
