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Post by jdredd on Feb 16, 2018 3:31:42 GMT -5
I have nothing new to say on the latest school shooting. Nothing will change until the American people evolve. And with the rise of Trump it looks more like we are devolving.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 22, 2018 15:28:08 GMT -5
www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/us/politics/gun-control-immigration-legislation.html?&hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news"WASHINGTON — As the nation faced another crisis, polls clearly reflected what a significant majority of the public thought should be done. A bipartisan move to draft a legislative response finally gained steam after years of stasis. A stunning breakthrough looked to be at hand. The issue was put to the test in a series of votes on the Senate floor. Backers of the bipartisan compromise showed they could get tantalizingly close to the magic threshold of 60 votes, but still came up short at 54 and the entire effort collapsed in failure. That situation aptly describes what occurred last week when the Senate took on immigration. But it also depicts — down to the 54 votes for a leading bipartisan proposal — what happened the last time the Senate voted on major gun control legislation, in 2013, after the school shooting in Newtown, Conn. It is also a predictable result if significant gun control legislation emerges in Congress in the aftermath of the school massacre in Parkland, Fla. That prospect underscores the parallels between the two politically divisive issues and the difficulties of enacting meaningful legislation even when a majority in Congress and the public agree. The inability to push legislation over the finish line has lawmakers fed up while feeding public discontent with Washington." Gun control and immigration are the two most divisive issues? Two things I don't give a crap about. Oh well.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 24, 2018 13:25:48 GMT -5
New laws restricting gun buying, or at least clip sizes? Right or wrong, not my problem. I would like to see the other side in the "Kulturkampf" get their "rural primitive" asses kicked, especially the vile NRA. But the RP side should start worrying that these shootings may be the pushing young people into the enlightened camp.
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Post by sparky on Mar 5, 2018 4:40:57 GMT -5
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Post by sparky on Mar 5, 2018 4:51:54 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Mar 24, 2018 16:37:52 GMT -5
Hey Turk! Since you are the expert on this stuff (and I know nothing except about vintage rifles like the KAR-98), what is the difference between a "machine gun", which I guess is banned, and an AR-15? Is it just semantics?
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Post by sparky on Mar 25, 2018 23:15:29 GMT -5
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Post by sparky on Mar 26, 2018 9:46:03 GMT -5
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Post by sparky on Mar 26, 2018 13:25:01 GMT -5
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Post by jdredd on Mar 26, 2018 15:57:35 GMT -5
Did you read the comments on this kid's speech? The loathing from the far side of the cultural divide is incredible!
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Post by sparky on Mar 26, 2018 16:42:01 GMT -5
Did you read the comments on this kid's speech? The loathing from the far side of the cultural divide is incredible! I heard about some of them. The whole thing stinks to high heaven. I'll point out that if they're banning weapons of mass murder then why aren't they banning the Quran?
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Post by jdredd on Apr 30, 2018 16:36:39 GMT -5
This is hilarious! The headline under a half-page photo of migrants at the border fence is "CARAVAN MIGRANTS REACH BORDER FENCE" in huge letters on this morning's UT/. You'd think the Mongol hordes had arrived at the city gates instead of a few hundred pathetic refugees. But that is the level of anti-immigrant hysteria happening on the wrong side of the cultural divide.
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