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I literally answered your question. Its just not an answer you apparently want to hear. You want the band-aid fix. “Give me a specific law!” I did… I gave you multiple laws broken as a precursor to someone who forecasted himself as a threat to society. And the people who want more gun control keep voting for the people who enable that threat. Im telling you that this country has cancer and it’s far deeper than us being able to put a bandage over a cut.

The gun control advocates don’t care when it’s black people gunning down black people in the parts of cities they never go to. It’s only a problem when that violence bleeds out into the areas they feel threatened by. And then they happily invoke the inner city gun violence statistics to back up their position as the moral high ground.

John Doe is 16 years old. Commits a violent crime as a juvenile. Judge is lenient and record is wiped when John Doe turns 18. John Doe jumps someone and is arrested at 18. Pleads down to a misdemeanor. John Doe steals from a store. Arrested. Back out on the street. Does it again. Arrested. Back on the street. Should this person have legal access to a firearm? No. They shouldn’t. But we elect people in these areas that feel, for whatever reason, that they need saving and let them slide through, unflagged in the registry … until the day they legally obtain a firearm and kill someone. People typically tell you who they are. They usually don’t go from strait laced choir boy to staying strapped and taking a life. Or they do get flagged and illegally obtain a gun. Or they have mental health issues that go unchecked and/or medicated… and we, as a society, have no idea how to deal with the fact half this country is under chemical control.

We have sensible gun laws. They’re not enforced. Criminals illegally obtain guns.. shocking, I know. For those that legally do … Precursors to violent behavior that would flag gun purchases don’t arise when politicians don’t enforce basic laws. Mental health & SSRI’s are not a conversation we, as a nation, want to have right now. Therefore, in a country awash in guns, we have a gun violence epidemic. Let’s see who these suspects are, and what their criminal records may be. Let’s see if they obtained these guns legally or illegally. Because in most of these cases, new laws wouldn’t have stopped it… especially when the gun control advocates keep voting for people who don’t enforce laws to begin with.

More gun control is not to be taken seriously when it’s championed by those that vote for politicians who don’t enforce existing laws. What they advocate for is more gun control for mothers and fathers that want to protect their family. We have a society in decline and we are awash in guns. Gun violence is a symptom of the deeper cause. But no one wants to dig deeper because that would require actual introspection as a society and we’re conditioned to fix everything with band-aids.

Y’all have Kelce and proceeded to draft back to back RD2 WR’s, trade for a former RD1 and sign MVS & Juju (last year). Bills traded for Diggs, drafted Davis in RD4, Shakir RD5 and decided Allen can figure it out with tomato cans after the Emmanuel Sanders year. I know some of the moves haven’t worked out and/or TBD, but along with heavy OL investment, you probably underestimate how much we envy what Veach/Reid have done for Mahomes in relation to Beane/McDermott for Allen.

Can he mentally overpower his teammates and coaches to not shrink against KC in the playoffs?

Poor Mahomes with his All-World Tight End able to match up against backup for the second time in three games. Along with a good young WR in Rashee Rice … who is basically what Diggs regressed to last half of the season.

Von will have a big year Spencer Brown will become a premier RT Taron Johnson is overrated Our Offense would be better off if we found a way to trade Diggs

This isn’t a charity we’re running here. The guy was an absolute liability down the stretch and, while I doubt our defense would get the stop, he effectively ended our season. The margins are too slim against KC in the playoffs and we already have enough guys letting down Allen .. nevermind adding a paid kicker to that list.

Sounds familiar…

Let’s keep coddling the trans movement. Nothing to see here. Totally not a mental issue.

Like when Rashee Rice was open in the middle of the field to win the game with a walk in TD? Fact is, we focus more on Allen misses (should he have checked it down rather than throw to Shakir in the end zone?) because we lose these games. Mahomes was able to settle for the FG because he has a defense behind him that doesn't require him to have zero margin for error in the playoffs. His defense got him the ball back down3 when SF could've ran the clock out. Then Butker makes the FG. Overtime. KC holds to a FG again. Mahomes gets the game winning TD on a gassed SF defense. We don't talk about his pick to start the second half after putting up 3 first half points. We don't talk about him missing Rashee Rice for the game winner in regulation. Because of his defense, we talk about how Mahomes is the GOAT today. Because of our defense, Allen is still searching for a Super Bowl appearance.

Realistically? Re-sign: Daquan Jones AJ Epenesa Ty Johnson David Edwards Shaq Lawson Cut: Tre White Deonte Harty Draft: Two Wide Receivers in Rounds 1-4 Use the rest of the picks on Defense (DT, DT, S, S, CB, CB, LB) Restructure: Allen Extension: Dawkins Douglas Johnson Going to need to absolutely crush this Draft If we're allowed to dream.. Trade Diggs. Somehow, someway. I'd even be willing to lose a player or two to make this happen due to his cap acceleration. This team around Allen doesn't step up in the playoffs, and while Kelce is ol' reliable for Mahomes, Diggs has been the opposite of that for Allen. Rip the band-aid off and move on. Kincaid, Shakir, Knox and Cook can hold it down while we get some high draft picks at WR going as the season progresses.

If his defense isn't elite, do we talk about how he threw a pick and missed Rashee Rice for the game winning TD? Because it seems we always need to talk about this with Allen due to the defense vomiting all over themselves in these games, thus everything he does is magnified in a loss.

Bills need a radical makeover this off-season. Just rip the band-aid off, get younger and hope we crush the draft. We're not getting over the hump running it back with most of these guys. It's bad enough McDermott is leading us into '24, can't have the same guys around Allen that haven't stepped up when it matters for years now. If there was any way to trade Diggs I would.. that's the level of change I want to see. Watching players up and down the line step up in the Playoffs every year for Kansas City while our guys, for the most part, do the opposite. We need radical change, not a tinkering.

I don't think Mahomes is this dominant in Buffalo. I think he's Josh Allen in Buffalo right now, but maybe we win a Super Bowl because he's a bit more consistent in the regular season and we wouldn't have to deal with the Mahomes/Reid pairing.. but what if Reid got Allen? Because I think Allen would be just as dominant in KC. I type all of that to say, that I think we have the QB. I think Mahomes is Allen in Buffalo, and we already have Allen. After last night I just feel hopeless because whether it's coaching, clutch-gene, luck, supporting cast around the QB etc., they are just better than us every year when it matters. With McDermott coming back and KC in better cap position than us, what changes?

Chiefs Defense steps up in the Playoffs. Bills Defense does not. Chiefs supporting cast around Mahomes steps up in the Playoffs. Bills supporting cast around Allen does not. Not just KC's HC is better than the Bills HC, their DC is a better DC than our HC. It is what it is.

There should be revisionism.. Iron sharpens iron and playoffs are where you find out what you’re made of. And it’s a little bizarre to me to act like we had more talent when we were down Gabe Davis and Diggs looked entirely like a WR2 down the stretch. Nevermind the fact that Allen had to go up against a mostly healthy elite defense, whereas Mahomes faced a mash unit back 7 for us. Maybe that somehow doesn’t matter to you .. it certainly doesn’t seem to matter in the ESPN world that portrays QB’s as if they are playing each other 1v1.

You quoted my post in which I asked that. A question you and others who share your opinion haven’t answered until now. I think there’s a chance we could have one. I’ll be totally honest and probably surprise you with that answer. Mahomes difference over Allen for me is that he’s consistently good in the regular season. Up until this year, no real stretches of play where you’re like bruh what is his problem? Maybe we get the 1 seed because of that and win it. But I agree, no dynasty. Our coaching and talent level has not been on a dynasty trajectory.

Holy **** just answer the question.. Mahomes on the Bills teams we’ve had for Allen. Dynasty, yes?

Conversation would’ve changed this year if we beat them and went on to win the Super Bowl. Instead we had injuries all over, nobody except Shakir stepped up to help Allen and the narrative about Josh deepened. He’s a better man than I.. Seeing your legacy destroyed because your rival has better coaches and players around him. I’m not sure how much of the good soldier I would keep playing along with.

Grow up.