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  • Re: Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

    Originally posted by Handyman View Post
    No it doesnt. The blame is on the Right. Only the uninformed like you pretend both sides are part of the problem.

    One side wants sensible laws and research done to fix the problems (Democrats) one side doesnt care if everyone dies and uses scare tactics to make you believe a bunch of crap which you then spout around here. (Republicans) Not the same no matter how much you want to believe it is.
    And one should be very clear of the ACTUAL motive of these scare tactics- it's to make more money.

    The gun industry made out like train robbers when President Obama was rumored to be taking guns. Every time there's even a tiny hint of anything- gun sales go up. Even better, by making excuses, prices for ammo has gone up a LOT, too- I listen to my gun friends here at work about that complaint all of the time. Last time I checked, there's no actual reason for this price increase, other than a "shortage"- which is another way to wind up people and fear- making the price hikes a whole lot easier to just lay on the consumer.

    When the NRA became a gun makers lobby, this whole conversation turned into what it is right now. Where the unthinking want to portray this as a "bothsidism" BS. Totally ignoring the actual history of the NRA and that they actually lobbied for gun controls.

    This is all about greed. And using fear to feed that greed.

    Just like many other arguments. Like for roads, and for schools, and for prisons, .......

    What sucks here is that the greed does lead to people getting killed by instruments designed 100% to kill people. And that's all they are actually good for.

    Funny how the last 50 years- we've been regulating safer and safer stuff for so many other items- electronics, homes, cars, power plants, etc... And the NRA had just lobbied for deadlier and deadlier stuff.

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    • Re: Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

      Originally posted by alfablue View Post
      Funny how the last 50 years- we've been regulating safer and safer stuff for so many other items- electronics, homes, cars, power plants, etc... And the NRA had just lobbied for deadlier and deadlier stuff.
      It makes sense. The last fifty years have seen a steep diminution of the real purchasing power of the stupid to where now they really only factor in the economy as consumers of drugs, media, and cheap goods, and as a drag on public assistance. The losers lost in the free marketplace because they have nothing to offer except their numbers. They make nothing. They create nothing. They think nothing. They're in stasis.

      Guns are the Great Equalizer. With a gun you can take what the better qualified, better educated person has earned. So they need their arsenals. They have wasted their lives and destroyed their childrens' future, so all that's left is to disappear into the hinterland and become brigands, hoping to score some meth and abduct some girls. They are in a cultural death spiral. Let sickness and violence do its work.
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      • Originally posted by Kepler View Post
        It makes sense. The last fifty years have seen a steep diminution of the real purchasing power of the stupid to where now they really only factor in the economy as consumers of drugs, media, and cheap goods, and as a drag on public assistance. The losers lost in the free marketplace because they have nothing to offer except their numbers. They make nothing. They create nothing. They think nothing. They're in stasis.

        Guns are the Great Equalizer. With a gun you can take what the better qualified, better educated person has earned. So they need their arsenals. They have wasted their lives and destroyed their childrens' future, so all that's left is to disappear into the hinterland and become brigands, hoping to score some meth and abduct some girls. They are in a cultural death spiral. Let sickness and violence do its work.
        Nothing like breaking out the AR-15 after you’ve taken a few hits of meth.
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        • Re: Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

          Originally posted by Drew S. View Post
          Nothing like breaking out the AR-15 after you’ve taken a few hits of meth.
          I just saw John Wick 2 as a matter of fact.

          Do enjoy your party.
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          • Re: Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

            Originally posted by SJHovey View Post
            When was the last time you heard of someone boarding a train, robbing it, and making their getaway?
            Boston, about 30 seconds ago.
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            When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
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            • Re: Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
              It makes sense. The last fifty years have seen a steep diminution of the real purchasing power of the stupid to where now they really only factor in the economy as consumers of drugs, media, and cheap goods, and as a drag on public assistance. The losers lost in the free marketplace because they have nothing to offer except their numbers. They make nothing. They create nothing. They think nothing. They're in stasis.

              Guns are the Great Equalizer. With a gun you can take what the better qualified, better educated person has earned. So they need their arsenals. They have wasted their lives and destroyed their childrens' future, so all that's left is to disappear into the hinterland and become brigands, hoping to score some meth and abduct some girls. They are in a cultural death spiral. Let sickness and violence do its work.
              One of the more amusing things about this manipulation- the fear and anger that the NRA has stirred up has gotten people who have had zero interest in guns wanting them, and then making fun of people who don't have them.

              I grew up with guns, and I'm 100% sure that most of these people have not had a real gun safety class, and are light years more dangerous than we used to be. I remember going shooting with some of these kind of people, and the look of amazement on their faces when I went through the procedure to visibly show them there was not a round in the chamber as I was taught to do.

              I left my guns with my parents, as I don't hunt anymore, and I have no intention of shooting a person- which is the point of anything other than a hunting rifle. For the most part, I will defend the right to have some kind of gun, but I also understand that real things can be done to reduce gun deaths- one of the easiest being a magazine clip max and a shooting rate max. Less rounds off in X amount of time reduces the amount of people getting hit in X amount of time. Pretty simple math. But at least we can have universal background checks. It's amazing that we are so quick and thorough reducing one's constitutional right to VOTE, but we can't even examine the constitutional right to bear arms. Given that BOTH are laid out, it just tells me that you can make money selling arms, you can't make money selling votes.

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              • Re: Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

                Originally posted by alfablue View Post
                I grew up with guns, and I'm 100% sure that most of these people have not had a real gun safety class, and are light years more dangerous than we used to be. I remember going shooting with some of these kind of people, and the look of amazement on their faces when I went through the procedure to visibly show them there was not a round in the chamber as I was taught to do.
                I worked with a marine sniper for many years. He still did competitions and training. He hated these people. He was a complete nutter about 2A but he thought about 90% of people should not have firearms because they're either intellectually or emotionally incapable of handling the responsibility. And most of those people don't have a gun -- they have a dozen. Mark (my friend) had 3: one pistol, one semi-auto (which scared the living sh-t out of me) and one vintage WW2 Carcano carbine that I fell in love with.
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                • Re: Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

                  Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                  I worked with a marine sniper for many years. He still did competitions and training. He hated these people. He was a complete nutter about 2A but he thought about 90% of people should not have firearms because they're either intellectually or emotionally incapable of handling the responsibility. And most of those people don't have a gun -- they have a dozen. Mark (my friend) had 3: one pistol, one semi-auto (which scared the living sh-t out of me) and one vintage WW2 Carcano carbine that I fell in love with.
                  This is where I am, on the issue.
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                  • Re: Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

                    Seattle active shooting. Multiple victims.
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                    Originally posted by SanTropez
                    May your paint thinner run dry and the fleas of a thousand camels infest your dead deer.
                    Originally posted by bigblue_dl
                    I don't even know how to classify magic vagina smoke babies..
                    Originally posted by Kepler
                    When the giraffes start building radio telescopes they can join too.
                    He's probably going to be a superstar but that man has more baggage than North West

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                    • Re: Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

                      Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                      Seattle active shooting. Multiple victims.
                      We get to hear about how it's liberalism.
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                      • Re: Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

                        Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                        We get to hear about how it's liberalism.
                        I thought it was the video games. Or lack of discipline in the home, you know we can't spank our kids any more...
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                        • Re: Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

                          Originally posted by MissThundercat View Post
                          I thought it was the video games. Or lack of discipline in the home, you know we can't spank our kids any more...
                          No Jeebus in the classroom.
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                          • Re: Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

                            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                            No Jeebus in the classroom.
                            And now on Fox, we go to Scott Baio, Kevin Sorbo, and Stacey Dash for their opinions!
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                            • Re: Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

                              Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                              We get to hear about how it's liberalism.
                              Something something gun-free zones in commie Dem-run cities like Seattle, Sh1tcago, Destroy-it, need more good guys with gunz rabble rabble bleep-bloop-bleep

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                              • Re: Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

                                Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
                                Something something gun-free zones in commie Dem-run cities like Seattle, Sh1tcago, Destroy-it, need more good guys with gunz rabble rabble bleep-bloop-bleep
                                The rightwing name for Chicago is "Chi-raq."

                                The rightwing name for Detroit is "N-ggertown."
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