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adatesman
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You know, we can argue semantics and meaning of "assault rifle" and "The Constitution" until we're blue in the face. Won't change the fact that there's a segment of our society that's prone to violence and sociopathic behavior that's being egged on to commit horrible acts by the RW noise machine.
Tell me this: how many attacks have been committed with grenades and/or fully automatic weapons? Pretty much zero. Because they're really hard to get.
People are lazy, and if you limit the availability of weapons that allow killing a lot of people quickly, the number of times a lot of people are killed quickly will drop. 5.56Nato is a horrible round for anything bigger than a gopher, and there's no legitimate reason for military-style/capacity versions to be available to anyone with a credit card that walks into Walmart.
Edit: should point out that 5.56Nato is used by the military *precicely* because it won't kill. A wounded soldier is not left behind like a dead one, and caring for the wounded is an economic and psychological toll that makes early surrender attractive.
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apogee
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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^^^ what's your point?
there were 36 murders in LA this October. 29 were from gunshot, 1 was a stabbing.
edit-i was responding to a post that has now been deleted.
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Ward Trotter
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I linked at least 3 incidents of knife stabbing fatalities on Nov. 1,2013.
(For some reason most of the links didn't work)
My point was that none of these knife murders received any hyped attention in the national mainstream media.
Look , you gun- elimination fanatics are going to have to face a few facts of life.
Either eliminate the Second Amendment or quit ringing your hands. Put up or shut up.
Good luck.
What you fail to recognize or appreciate is the political meaning that underlies the right to private gun ownership in the United States.
Until you are able to deflect that political meaning away from a constitutionally protected right and shift it totally onto these rare incidences in which guns are misused ,you will not succeed in taking guns out of law-abiding citizens hands.
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philo
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Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Nov 2, 2013 - 02:31pm PT
F##3ken anti-gun nut wusses.
Assault rifles had been banned in CA long time ago.
Anyway, this kind of person would make an explosive if he couldn't get access to another weapon and ripped a few more faces off.
Stupid Straw Man argument.
He didn't go 3rd world on them I mean... No he went "American" on them.
They (anti-gun nuts) want all of us to live experiencing tooth and claw fights everywhere
WTF?
(and these nuts hate women so bad, they're full of hatred)... Again WTF? Are you insane or asinine?
irony is most of the are most wuss and weak and haven't been in a street fight. You are one dumb ass mother f*#ker.
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i'm gumby dammit
Sport climber
da ow
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I linked at least 3 incidents of knife stabbing fatalities on Nov. 1,2013.
(For some reason most of the links didn't work) they didn't work because you put them within the quote function and it made the [/quote part of the link. It's pointless though. None of the 29 gun murders in Los Angeles received national attention either. If the guy had killed a TSA agent and caused the shutdown of a terminal at LAX with a knife, it still would receive national attention.
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Ward Trotter
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If the guy had killed a TSA agent and caused the shutdown of a terminal at LAX with a knife, it still would receive national attention.
Perhaps, but it would not have provoked this hand-wringing thread.
'wringing'
So , all you've got is a misspelling and a photo which is somehow suppose to link me to uneducated moron gun "nutz"
Btw , it's spelled "nuts"
That ad hominem boilerplate Politard stuff never works.
Better use your enormous brain power to find a way to eliminate the Second Amendment.
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philo
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Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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If the guy had killed a TSA agent and caused the shutdown of a terminal at LAX with a knife, it still would receive national attention.
Perhaps, but it would not have provoked this thread.
Yes that act would have certainly spawned at least two or three threads.
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philo
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Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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apogee
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PeoplesCube, huh?
Ward Trotter = Donald Thompson?
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Ward Trotter
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Ward Trotter = Donald Thompson?
Nope. Sorry. Ward Trotter=Ward Trotter .
Lots of people enjoy Peoples Cube.
I'm a student of history.
All "progressives " should appreciate their ideological similarities with the Socialist totalitarianism satirized in the People's cube.
A lot of the people on that site have actually lived under a system where only the government owns guns. And own everything else btw.
The current crop of baby boomer progressives that are now running this country remind me a lot of the cafe-society European intelligentsia of the late 1800s, early 1900s, whose justifications ultimately paved the way for the awful collectivism of Nazi Germany ,Soviet Russia, and Communist China.
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apogee
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No doubt...but here at ST, the primary person who posted that kind of Krap® on a regular basis was Donald Thompson.
Not sayin'....jess sayin'.
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Deekaid
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Clips are what women put in their hair...guns accept magazines
I AM SEMANTICS MAN!!!
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MisterE
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 2, 2013 - 08:33pm PT
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Sorry if I mis-posted the type of gun - pretty clueless about this, and was just reporting what I had seen on the news.
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philo
Trad climber
Is that light the end of the tunnel or a train?
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Yeah, miss quoting gun type, now that is the sorry part of this story.
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apogee
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DT kinda slipped away...wonder what happened to him?
Why would he bother with another avatar?
Edit: Oooooo....looks like DT got the boot sometime around Feb 1 of this year....
Hmmm....things are adding up....
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adatesman
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philadelphia, pa
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I kinda miss the time way back when the ST whackadoodles were actually coherent in their arguments and knew how to spell properly....
I blame Bush43 for this, as clearly if anyone is living proof of the Peter Principle, he is.
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MisterE
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 2, 2013 - 10:37pm PT
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So now that there is the idea for this kind of attack, what is the preventative measure?
There is too much traffic in and out of the airports for individual vehicular searches - do you beef up security even more and add even more check-points at the entry points?
That sounds nightmarish - everyone has big bags...
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