LA Grant

Early 90s!? Good lord, man, not even close. TSW has only been around since '98 or so. I started posting or lurking around JP Losman era. '05? That's why I remember your Fabio anecdote. It was one of the things I saw when I first found this place. There you go, you sweet narcissist. You can now have the weird pleasure of imagining a post you wrote being read by me 15 years ago. It is slightly amazing that this detail is the only thing that concerns you. You may not have voted for him, but Trump represents you pretty well. But I'm happy that, late in life though it may be, you are now learning that even your small actions DO have consequences, even when you yourself can't SEE them. Things li'l ol' you put out there could be read and remembered just like anything else. Who knew!

Right! Because when we talk about "gun control" we obviously mean "eliminate hunting." When we talk about "gun reform" we must mean "send all republicans to death camps." When we talk about "restrictions on gun purchases" obviously that's code for "storm the houses of all who post on TSW and put all of their guns in a ziploc bag." It couldn't be a slight bit more nuanced than that. It couldn't be. You know why? Because guns aren't the problem! Never have been. Never will be. It's science. And history!

Ya caught me, Rhino! There's absolutely no contextual clues that I merely left out a "?" in a typographical error. It's CLEARLY supposed to be one long sentence. That proves everything. Me dumb and you smart!

Ohhh a gay joke, ohhhhhhh snap. I haven't seen someone grasp for straws this pathetically since my one-handed cousin Mookie worked at a concession stand. I'm sorry that your life is so empty that "a guy who DOESN'T like you on the internet but DOES remember you" is somehow, in your eyes... a loving gesture???

Do you possess weaponry sufficient to overthrow the government? Do "The People'" What do you think a government necessary of being overthrown looks like? I don't know if you've seen them in action but I guarantee you're not going to out-gun the US Military. Suppose gun reform passes, and now the gubbermint is more involved in your guns than before, comparable to how involved they are with cars/traffic and the DMV. Is Obama or George Soros or LA Grant coming to your house to take your guns? Or would it more likely be local police checking on the bad guys who didn't follow the rules to re-register their lawful weapons? And hey Blue Lives Matter, right? Seems like something we can agree on. I've seen dogs learn concepts faster than you, I swear to god.

Watching you learn things is sort of like the joy of fatherhood except with you, the child is a mutant, and you just want them stop sticking their finger in the socket. How do you suppose one amends the constitution, sweet child? What do you think "politics" is? Why is the NRA such a powerful lobby? What laws/changes have they made possible or prevented? Who is the NRA? The Bill of Rights.... were not actually literally written by God. You.... you do understand that, right? They are "inalienable rights" because those are the description written on the paper. History matters. Context matters. If you spent just a little more time educating yourself rather than... <looks at your post history> ... okay a lot more time educating yourself.... <looks deeper into your post history> .... good lord man.

"Mmm, actually a 'douche' is a sanitizing product, so I take that as a compliment." — this is what you sound like. The Bill of Rights have any number of qualifiers. The First Amendment has tons of restrictions. Fourth Amendment. On and on. These are largely considered acceptable or necessary for the greater good. Somehow only the Second Amendment is beyond reproach though, eh? In your head, the idea is that we'd all just continue to get more armed as technology increases? A mini arms race against your neighbors to match the big boys in the news? That was their vision, you think? Well, I wouldn't be too flattered. Trump has been in my "noggin" for a time too, and it's not because he's any kind of talented, clever man. He was just on the screen a lot. You just happen to be on this screen/message board a lot. You & JP Losman share about a similar basement space, if we're looking at the floorplan. Congrats...? Anyway, as for snowflake, etc., I wasn't even going expressly personal with that one — I just guessed you were using those kinds of terms because you're a hack who gets all of his 'jokes' from conservative memes. Lazy.

You're absolutely correct! Well done, Fabio, you're starting to understand why I'm posting down here. I'm terribly sorry that I have triggered you, snowflake, or ruined your safe space with my "stomping and whining"! Didn't you start the "Deep State" thread? You are dumb as hell, dude.

Well, gee Tom, it could be that one involves murder. Do you think that might be why? Also, opioids get PLENTY of attention and screaming. Especially from the right. Especially when they don't want to talk about gun reform! http://www.newsweek.com/pennsylvania-opioid-crisis-guns-rights-groups-780081 https://www.google.com/search?q=opioid&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiwweXCwbrZAhXn5oMKHWr4D9kQ_AUICigB&biw=1200&bih=781 "If we're going to ban gun manufacturers, shouldn't we also ban Vicodin"? The reason it's a false equivalency, Tom, is because as dangerous & addictive as opioids are, you cannot go into a school and murder 20 people with painkillers.

You're an idiot. No #!*(!&* we are in a constitutional republic and not a true democracy. Thank you for the insight. "More rights taken away." "Hillary." You live in a fantasy land. Talking to you is like playing telephone with whatever the Glenn Beck show has on today or whatever.

You're way off. The idea, as clearly outlined in those Jefferson letters as anywhere (but not just there), is that the document evolves with society. They were aware they were not Moses coming down from the mountain, although people like yourself get completely lost and miss the forest for the trees. You, your stubbornness, your unwillingness to change or compromise — you are what they were trying to save us from. Military technology is NOT a God-given inalienable right. It is not inborn. It is not intrinsic. NRA folk are clinging to this perversely warped misinterpretation of the Bill of Rights/the Second Amendment because they think Obama himself is going to come smack the rifle out of their hand or something. Again — No one cares about you shooting beer cans in the woods. But AR-15s are not an inalienable right. OBVIOUSLY. It's madness that such a statement even needs to be said.

Hey Tom! Long time listener, first time caller. Big fan of your "sniping retards from balcony with Muppet avatar" schtick. Question for you — are you aware of what a False Equivalency is? You seem to use 'em a lot! Do you have a defense for owning an AR-15 that isn't "well it's already available, therefore, it should always be available" ? Are you one of those people who thinks "white film critics should not be allowed to write a review for Black Panther" is an actual thing in reality, and not some made-up conservative radio talk point to push your buttons?

Yes, Tom is funny sometimes on TSW. It's clearly gone to his head down here. If you were good at deconstructing stupidity, you'd realize you're stupidly wasting all this valuable social satire toiling in PPP. Looks like a handy delusion to me. "Hey, not me, I don't have a point, I go after all sides. I'm an Equal Opportunity Offender. I snipe retards from the balcony with a Muppets avatar. I have a mug with funny words on it and several funny bumper stickers."

I know. It's weird, right? Buncha crybabies getting upset about nothing. Guns are logical and good. ZING! It doesn't matter that your logic doesn't track at all, but hey — AR-15, that's timely, plus "someone is upset"... the joke logic ALMOST works, so nice job there Tom! "Sniping retards from the balcony" good lord.

You (or Tasker) do not have a point. You have "gun control doesn't work," "b-b-but the Second Amendment," and any number of distractions/excuses like "what about prayer" or "what about fatherlessness" or "what about opiods" or "what about spoons" or whatever. You are not "sniping retards from the balcony." You are not clever. You're just pissy, evasive, and petulant on a Bills message board. Somehow you think of yourself as a hero, a man out of a time, a cowboy born in the wrong age. It's really amazing, but it's not surprising, because it's this whole idiotic debate writ small. You're not some useless lazy old fart, you're like those charming balcony Muppets! Yeah, that's the ticket.... Like the NRA, you are delusional, cynical, and useless. GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS! The only thing protecting us from EVIL TYRANNY is a bunch of chubbos with a stupid hobby. Therefore AR-15s should be legal everywhere. Once again: you have no point, no argument.

Cute meme! Can't wait for you to do a "what are thoooose" or whatever next year. No sweetie, you're right, we're putting words in your mouth. You didn't say "we should blame anything but the guns." You just happen to blame anything but the guns. Habitually. Every time. Feel free to prove me wrong and dazzle us with your "actually guns are a problem" routine (loved the Fatherlessness one) but I expect it will be more crying about how we're all willfully misinterpreting your intentions.

No one wants your stupid firearms. No one is coming for your guns, you knob. No one is scared of "the people with all the guns." I don't know how this idea just won't pass through your doughy mind. NO ONE CARES ABOUT YOUR LOSER HOBBY SHOOTING BEER CANS IN THE WOODS. It is a false equivalency. Guns are NOT PROTECTING YOU from some evil government dystopia. Good lord. Legal Gun Owners are the softest people alive. Not just in the mid-section. In the brain. Aw I'm sorry you're being mildly inconvenienced with message board posts you don't prefer! Life is so hard for you! Don't worry. Go take gun from safe. Look at gun. Gun won't judge you. Gun thinks you're smart and cool.

Bumping this quote YET AGAIN for Tasker/LABillz who seem very hung up on the idea that somehow the Second Amendment and Guns are as unchangeable as the wind or the ground. IT IS A DOCUMENT INTENDED TO BE CHANGED. The reason it is not changed is because.... Well, that's a good question. Suppose it would take some ugly people with ugly thoughts to do something they're very uncomfortable with: look in a mirror.

Well I am glad you feel that way, and I hope you are doing your part as a father or someone who knows fathers. No argument that its not an issue. The point is that it is completely IRRELEVANT. There are no shortage of societal problems you could spin out as explanation, all of them to some merit. He didnt shoot people with a Fatherlessness rifle. Every time. It's always these distractions/excuses, a new one each time. But never guns. It's amazing. You live in a fantasy world, which also apparently includes fantasy man-on-man dom/sub relationships with people you talk to online. Attaboyst.

GENUINELY one of the dumbest takes I have seen. Like the bar was low, and seeing your name the bar droops a little lower, and even then — an amount of stupid that's surprising every time. Well done. ^ On the Second Amendment garbage. Grow the $*!^( up and face reality. No one is "taking your guns away" you hobbyless morons. You've done plenty of damage. The idea is to prevent more. Gun reform is the obvious answer in front of your stupid potato face.

Oh hey jmc! Well, I already know you're trash from your posts on TSW but speaking of Amendments... Let's hear it from Thomas Jefferson. (Apologies he doesn't write in message board style for you, jmc, but it's worth it to read through the full excerpt, or even more!) "Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew that age well; I belonged to it, and labored with it. It deserved well of its country. It was very like the present, but without the experience of the present; and forty years of experience in government is worth a century of book-reading; and this they would say themselves, were they to rise from the dead. I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions. I think moderate imperfections had better be borne with; because, when once known, we accommodate ourselves to them, and find practical means of correcting their ill effects. But I know also, that laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths disclosed, and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also, and keep pace with the times." http://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/letter-to-samuel-kercheval/ "Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere matter, unendowed with will." https://thefederalistpapers.org/founders/jefferson/the-creator-has-made-the-earth-for-the-living-not-the-dead "A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man." ^ Congrats on being the binding generation, you selfish lazy old useless farts.

Listen to this podcast episode. It's 2 veterans of Iraq talking about guns. What do you think these military veterans say about it? They are both gun owners. What do you think their position is? For arming schools and teachers, what do you think they think? They talk it through pretty logically, considering who would be in those jobs and what equipment they'd need. How many infantry do you suppose they'd estimate it would take to secure a HS as safely as a US embassy? It's worth a listen.

Good point. How about something we can all agree on for unity, like #GunsHaveNeverKilledPeople

Ban guns?? Uhh yeah good idea... NOT! What's next? Are you going to ban spoons?? People use spoons to get obese, and that's even deadlier! And that logic follows because I use my guns to eat cereal.

You have no argument. You are just pedantic for the sake of pedantry. You are a stupid person. Attaboy. Father-less households are the most critical issues of our time. Really great point here. No, I'm serious. You're totally right. That's exactly what killed all of these people. They didn't have fathers! Are you an author outside of here? You ought to be! You're SMART. Yes, we should blame anything but guns. ANYTHING! It quite literally doesn't need to make any sense, be connected to reality, or even this specific example. Everything is okay as long as guns are not receiving any blame (apologies to guns for even putting them near the word 'blame'). Did Fabio admire your guns?