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Offline SirJohn

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« Reply #2025 on: May 23, 2018, 12:03:38 pm »
Um, actually you may have heard of the Sandy Hook school shooting, which happens to be  the deadliest in US history to date. It's in Newtown Connecticut which borders New York state. Granted there are certainly more in the south, which is not surprising given that the strong right leaning people who live there seem to cherish their 2nd amendment more than life itself. My point though was that adding more guns to schools wherever they may be isn't a very smart solution to the problem IMO.

There have been 16 school spree shootings in Texas. The same in Georgia. And I think it's 17 in Florida.
There have been none in New York or New Jersey.

I might point out that Texas, Georgia and Florida have some of the weakest gun laws in America while New York and New Jersey and, since Sandy Hook, when they brought in sweeping new gun control legislation, Connecticut, have some of the strongest gun control laws in America.
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« Reply #2026 on: May 23, 2018, 12:44:26 pm »
There have been 16 school spree shootings in Texas. The same in Georgia. And I think it's 17 in Florida.
There have been none in New York or New Jersey.

I might point out that Texas, Georgia and Florida have some of the weakest gun laws in America while New York and New Jersey and, since Sandy Hook, when they brought in sweeping new gun control legislation, Connecticut, have some of the strongest gun control laws in America.

That's great but what about the people who don't have the opportunity to move to Connecticut? I doubt Trump will have any kind of enough backbone to back up any of his statements on gun control lest he **** off the NRA. So they'll need to keep the ambulances gassed up.

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« Reply #2028 on: May 23, 2018, 08:57:54 pm »
I just listened to a segment of Hannity on Fox (Faux), you know because I like to hear all sides of a story. What a hoot it was to listen to him interviewing Sean Spicer, who was caught in a number of lies especially the numbers of Trump supporters at the inauguration, and Newt Gingrich (need I say more?) and watching them trying build this case to oppose the Mueller investigation into election meddling by saying they want an investigation into the investigation and of course it comes off sounding like schoolyard IQ level "I know you are, but what am I?" It's scary to think people are actually swayed by this nonsense. I'll tell you I was raised on a farm until I was in my teens and I recall it took us the better part of a day to load a manure spreader and spread a load of horse **** over a field. Hannity and Co. can do it in 20 minutes.

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« Reply #2029 on: May 23, 2018, 09:08:56 pm »
That's great but what about the people who don't have the opportunity to move to Connecticut? I doubt Trump will have any kind of enough backbone to back up any of his statements on gun control lest he **** off the NRA. So they'll need to keep the ambulances gassed up.

Well the answer is simple. People who love their kids more than their guns need to vote for politicians at the state level who will implement reasonable gun control laws.
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« Reply #2030 on: May 23, 2018, 09:18:31 pm »
Well the answer is simple. People who love their kids more than their guns need to vote for politicians at the state level who will implement reasonable gun control laws.

Well hopefully efforts such as "March for our lives" stay strong and have an effect. It's about time I would say.

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« Reply #2031 on: May 23, 2018, 09:29:51 pm »
Nothing will have any effect.   another week and this will blow over.  Republican politicians don’t even try and give pat answers anymore.   They just blame too many doors in schools, video games and rock’n’roll for the mass shootings.  And their supporters agree...   kids lives aren’t worth having to lock up your gun, background checks or limiting magazine capacities.

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« Reply #2032 on: May 23, 2018, 10:10:45 pm »
Nothing will have any effect.   another week and this will blow over.  Republican politicians don’t even try and give pat answers anymore.   They just blame too many doors in schools, video games and rock’n’roll for the mass shootings.  And their supporters agree...   kids lives aren’t worth having to lock up your gun, background checks or limiting magazine capacities.

I suspect you are right, as sad as that is. The NRA has a lot more money/influence than any group of high school students will likely ever have. I'm sure Colt, Remington etc. will contribute handsomely to Trumps re- election.

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« Reply #2033 on: May 23, 2018, 10:53:45 pm »
I suspect you are right, as sad as that is. The NRA has a lot more money/influence than any group of high school students will likely ever have. I'm sure Colt, Remington etc. will contribute handsomely to Trumps re- election.

Even a “progressive” state like Washington is an open-carry state where the gun nuts and NRA have already won.   Cat’s out of the bag....   all we can do is increase our security at the border to try and keep the nonsense south of us.

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« Reply #2034 on: May 24, 2018, 12:24:02 am »
Even a “progressive” state like Washington is an open-carry state where the gun nuts and NRA have already won.   Cat’s out of the bag....   all we can do is increase our security at the border to try and keep the nonsense south of us.

The first two people I happened to be unlucky enough to have seen get shot (outside of war zones) were in Florida, near Ft. Lauderdale where I used to have a small sailboat for a winter escape when I was on time off. Both at different times but both within a stones throw of each other and both the result over fights over girlfriends that got out of hand. Neither of those ended up in death (luckily) but I was shaken for sure. After the second one and once I recouped I decided to just see how easy it would be to get a gun. I went to a nearby gun shop and looked around. The stuff hanging on the wall was amazing. I went to the clerk and said I was thinking about something for protection on my sailboat. He suggested a sawed off choked shot gun since in that situation I wouldn't need long range. I advised him I was a Canadian citizen and so was I eligible to purchase a firearm. He asked if I had a valid drivers license, which I did, but in those days BC drivers licenses didn't have a photo so that was a show stopper. But what I could do was go down the street to the state office and for 35 bucks have a Florida state DL issued with my pic on it and come back and he could sell me anything in the store. Had I have followed up I could have walked back to my boat with a semi automatic weapon.
 

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« Reply #2036 on: May 24, 2018, 09:41:27 am »
Trump says NFL players who kneel during the anthem don't belong in America.  (America is for "very fine people".)

I hope people resist the temptation to get mad about this and keep their attention focused where it belongs, because Trump is obviously just talking about protesting NFL players to deflect attention from more pressing concerns.

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« Reply #2037 on: May 24, 2018, 11:04:01 am »
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-north-korea-demolishes-nuke-test-site-with-series-of-blasts/

Trump cancels NK summit... recaps nuclear superiority...

And then the dumb ass, in typical Trump style schoolyard bully fashion releases his letter, which when you read it, could only have been written by Trump himself. He is currently making a statement at the WH and as usual he can barely read from his cue cards and string two sentences together without reminding me of the days in grade one when learning how to read "see Spot run. See Spot chase the ball"...Sheesh!

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« Reply #2038 on: May 24, 2018, 11:25:51 am »
Trump says NFL players who kneel during the anthem don't belong in America.  (America is for "very fine people".)

I hope people resist the temptation to get mad about this and keep their attention focused where it belongs, because Trump is obviously just talking about protesting NFL players to deflect attention from more pressing concerns.

 -k

It was inevitable Trump would comment on the NFL decision to ban kneeling during the playing of the national anthem. And if by some miracle he didn't, someone would have asked for a comment.
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« Reply #2039 on: May 24, 2018, 02:48:14 pm »
Just heard a comment on CNN that Trump didtated every single word of his letter to "Fat Kim". Somehow I'm not surprised when you read it.