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    What is better, no guns, or more guns?

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    36 minutes ago, BillStime said:

    The truth hurts these MAGA gun nutters - that’s why they are so defensive and desperate to blame everyone but their votes

     

    I was actually prepared to let you have the last word, misinformed and condescending as it may be.. but then you had to come back and pathetically double post to try and get yet another shot in. 

     

    You add nothing to this discussion. You are effectively a Twitter repost bot devoid of any ability to comprehend nuance let alone digest opinions expressed in long form. When cornered you deflect to tangential arguments for which you have no basis of fact. You are the quintessential holier than thou clairvoyant leftist who believes that they know what's best despite their obvious high-school level education.

     

    "Roe is laughing". No, Roe is dead. Just like your disgusting ideology. The bodies of the victims have not yet cooled and you turkey vultures are already circling the carcass attempting to leverage the tragedy to foist your delusions of a grand utopia in which all we need are more laws and more concessions and more restrictions placed on the American people who had no part in this. I've seen the evolution of your kind. Fat slovenly totalitarians who are too stupid to win on the merits of the argument so you disingenuously flail around reposting other people's quips like youre some kind of sociological expert when you're clearly too stupid to even type out more than 3 sentences before copy/paste syndrome kicks in. 

     

    You're a joke and a disgrace to actual "liberals", who once championed themselves as being fighters for civil liberty rather than pigs in a pen wallowing away on the slop that is fed to them by their almighty government. 

     

    You should have quit while you were ahead. 

     

     

     

     

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    What is better, no guns, or more guns?

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    1 hour ago, BillStime said:


    Roe is laughing at you - u fn hypocrite.

     

    1. I never expressed an opinion on abortion, as this is not the topic of discussion here. 

     

    2. Filling vacancies in the Supreme Court as they present themselves is different than unilaterally expanding the number of SCOTUS seats and simultaneously appointing new judges to fill them. 

     

    3. As it pertains to the topic at hand, Your feigned concern over the rights of women is laughable as you advocate for stripping them of the best force multiplier they have when confronted with a larger, stronger attacker who would otherwise overpower them with ease. This is even more troubling if I reject your world of make believe where criminal rapists, muggers, and home invaders all willingly submit to your pie in the sky solution and turn in their guns. 

     

     

     

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    What is better, no guns, or more guns?

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    I suppose this is where the road ends. When forced to reconcile the fact that your solutions are untenable given the constraints set forth on the state by the highest law of the land your only remaining recourse is to undo those constraints. 

     

    Stripping away more liberty from the individual via expanding and packing the supreme court with like minded ideologues who just so happen to share your view on what is "ethical". It's a very shortsighted game you're advocating for, given how quickly the winds of politics change. 

     

    I guess we'll see how it all plays out!

     

    Take care

    What is better, no guns, or more guns?

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    Posted · Edited by Pabstblueribbon

    Nuclear bombs and fighter jets eh? I see we've made it to the red herring stage of the debate. 

     

    The limitations referenced by Scalia narrow the ruling to types or classes of arms (not jets or bombs) that would be commonly owned by citizens. The fact of the matter is that semiautomatic firearms are the most commonly owned class of firearm by citizens for the legal purpose of self defense thus they are protected by 2A. That's the end of the story. Unless you'd like to delve in the the Bruen decision which took Heller and strengthened the rights of the citizen even further by requiring a historical analog or precedent be available to justify any infringement. 

     

    This sent NY in to such a frenzy they actually decided to try and use the historical precedent of disarming Native Americans as the justification for their unconstitutional edicts. 

     

    "From the early days of English settlement in America, the colonies sought to prevent Native American tribes from acquiring firearms, passing laws forbidding the sale and trading of arms to Indigenous people,” the filing from the office of Attorney General Letitia James (D.) reads.

    What is better, no guns, or more guns?

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    It's the bill of rights, not the bill of wants or the bill of needs. No law abiding citizen of the US has to justify anything to you as it pertains to their constitutional rights...especially when no reason provided will ever be good enough for you.  

     

    Your entire premise has already has been rebuked by the highest court in the land when it determined the state of NY to be violating the rights of its own citizenry when it did exactly what you are trying to do now in setting its own arbitrary set of "reasons" that it made necessary to allow its subjects to carry a firearm for protection while navigating the crime ridden hellscape that this state fostered. 

     

    No, The onus is on YOU to give us a reason why we should forsake our right to defend ourselves and our families with whatever tool we deem necessary.. and it better not be "because there are lunatics out there who want to kill innocent people"

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    How much did you pay for gas and groceries today?

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    The president has no control over gas prices.. 

     

    Unless it's a midterm election year, in which case you simply drain the strategic oil reserves in order to lower them. Bonus points if the reserves run dry while simultaneously being engaged in a proxy war with a nuclear power. 

     

    Or unless  you relax oil sanctions imposed on hostile nation to increase global supply. Bonus points if the hostile nation uses the money to destabilize the region and fund jihad against a country you are aligned with, thus dragging you into a second proxy war.

     

    These would generally be considered outliers however. 

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    Biden's Foreign Policy Already GettING Results

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    1 hour ago, sherpa said:

     

    Innocent lives were lost because we abandoned those who supported us in a disgraceful and completely stupid manner.

    The lives I am talking about were not combat casualties.

    They were lost because the US fleeing Afghanistan, a decision made by this administration, put them at grave risk, and it didn't need to be that way. 

     

    Leave no doubt: 

     

    "Almost a year later, the U.S government is still working to rectify its last act in Afghanistan – an erroneous airstrike that killed 10 civilians, including seven children.  

    A U.S. airstrike in the final days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan intended for an ISIS-K terrorist instead killed the aid worker Zemari Ahmadi and members of his family. After initially calling it a "righteous strike" and claiming no civilians were killed, the Pentagon admitted its mistake and promised to resettle members of Ahmadi's family and employees of the aid organization he worked for. "

     

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    Israel and the Slaughter in Gaza

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    5 hours ago, BillStime said:


    An Egyptian intelligence official told the Associated Press news agency this week that Cairo had repeatedly warned the Israelis "something big" was being planned from Gaza."We have warned them an explosion of the situation is coming, and very soon, and it would be big. But they underestimated such warnings," said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

     

    Yes, "Doc" - we know - when it comes to you MAGA nutters - EVERYONE IS LYING.

     

     

     

    It's not "everyone". From what I can tell all these articles spring from Michael McCall's statement in conjunction with an "anonymous intel official".

     

    McCall's statement immediately follwed a briefing held by Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines. Coincidentally, Avril is among the many that comes from the Obama administration and played a key role in the white house at the time the Iran Nuclear Agreement was put into place (https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/photos-and-video/photo/2015/07/president-obama-discusses-iran-nuclear-agreement)

     

    In the year after the implementation of the original 2015 nuclear accord, the military budget of Tehran increased by a whopping 90%, enabling the regime to funnel resources to Iranian aligned terror organizations including Hamas.  Biden campaigned on restoring this agreement and to do so, began granting waivers to once again relax the economic sanctions (put in place by the Trump administration) 

     

    Indiana Representative Mike Braun raised this concern at the time of Haines confirmation hearing.

     

    "I voted against Avril Haines’s nomination because her record of support for President Obama’s Iran nuclear deal is clear. It’s imperative that our Director of National Intelligence is tough on any state sponsoring terrorism and committed to stopping Iran from getting a nuclear bomb. I also disagree with her support of Obama-era policies that accelerated our conflicts around the globe instead of working to find peace through strength" 

     

    I'm sure similar to the Russian re-entry into Ukraine, past performance by the same group of people cant be indicative of the results we are seeing. Its much more likely that this is somehow Trump's fault...i mean did anybody hear that he called them "smart"?

     

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    Israel and the Slaughter in Gaza

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    24 minutes ago, Justice said:

    It was all over the place yesterday. It’s somewhere in this thread too. I get that. I understand what you’re saying but the issue I have is their initial inclination was to lie about it. Now THAT I can’t understand. That’s smells bad to me. 

     

    Thanks for the reply, and I don't discount your skepticism. 

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    Israel and the Slaughter in Gaza

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    8 minutes ago, Justice said:

    The Israeli news reported the Israelis admitted to being warned. I have Israeli TV news. I heard it for myself. Get real with this wack source. 

     

    I don't have Israeli TV. Is there some other article youve seen that doesn't stem from Mike McCall's statement? Not trying to be argumentative here, but it would not be at all uncommon to receive warnings that violence might break out on the border during the Jewish Holiday. It's a big leap to equate that to "they were in on it"

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