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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2018 20:02:43 GMT
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Post by Ela on Feb 18, 2018 18:35:05 GMT
Sad but true, johnhurtdoctor. They can keep their bleeping thoughts and prayers. They need to do something already.
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Post by mrperson on Feb 18, 2018 22:56:15 GMT
Sad but true, johnhurtdoctor . They can keep their bleeping thoughts and prayers. They need to do something already. It's a tough and miserable situation. Forgive me, but I don't even recall if you are American and/or how much you know about our law. But basically, the 2nd Amd is never going to get repealed. It has been interpreted robustly, and while I don't like that it exists, I think it was interpreted correctly in the Heller and McDonald decisions. (I do at least do criminal appeals, so, I do have legal experience). I think we can generally make a few dents in overall gun violence and mass shootings specifically, but I don't think we'll be able to do anything that really counts - not as long as we have a 2nd Amd. And even if we got rid of it, it'd be a very long process to get rid of all the firearms. We'd have to trust that lawful citizens turn them in, look at FID cards/LTCs to make sure people who at least might have a gun turned at least one in, but even then we couldn't constitutionally do a full-country sweep & search to make sure everyone didn't keep theirs anyway. Even if all legal owners turned theirs in, there are still a tremendous amount of illegally possessed arms and criminals wont' be turning those in. They'll just slowly discard them after various crimes. We could strengthen background checks. We could get more aggressive with various "mental health" checks. (Even there, it's tricky. Across all illnesses, the mentally ill are more likely to be the victims of violent crime than its perpetrators, so it's very hard to judge which mentally illnesses correlate with violence, if any). I hate to sound defeatist on the subject, but that's the way I've come to feel. I'm not saying "do nothing" and I'm not some big guns' rights' fan, but it is hard to see what can be done at this point given the political situation. The most productive thing would be a general movement to try to help people fall out of love with guns, but.....eh.... I'm not betting on anything like that working.
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Post by Ela on Feb 19, 2018 5:44:45 GMT
mrperson: I am not going to respond to your post in detail, cause this is not the thread for it. Suffice it to say that the recent school shooting took place in a community not far from where I live and affected people I know. I think that the way the Second Amendment is currently used by the NRA and those opposed to gun control is not what was intended by the original writers of the amendment. Appropriate gun control laws can help. Just ask people in the UK, Australia and other countries, where stronger gun control laws were instituted after similar tragedies similar to the one that occurred here last week and gun related violence went down. www.bbc.com/news/av/world-43072571/gun-control-how-countries-around-the-world-introduced-restrictionsThe real problem is politicians in the pocket of the NRA. NO private citizen needs to own a semiautomatic weapon of the type that was legally obtained and used in Florida, Las Vegas, Sandy Hook, and other similar tragedies. Enough said.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 22, 2018 20:09:26 GMT
I want one, it is like something from eXistenZ.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 8, 2018 16:22:33 GMT
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Post by Ela on Mar 8, 2018 23:24:00 GMT
The Umbilical cord phone charger made me laugh.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 9, 2018 7:48:12 GMT
Cody Leach, entertaining movie reviewer.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2018 8:55:23 GMT
Avengers Infinity War Trailer 2, OMG i last goosebumps throughout watching this trailer, this will be a epic.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2018 16:56:48 GMT
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Mar 21, 2018 12:34:26 GMT
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Post by rran on Mar 24, 2018 7:40:44 GMT
Oggy and the cockroaches. Courtesy my 5 year old nephew. Awful
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2018 8:02:14 GMT
Angry Joes Pacific Rim Uprising review, Joe stop being a ignorant host & interrupting other Joe & Alex it makes you look like a complete pillock.
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Post by aussiedoctorwhofan on Mar 24, 2018 9:31:07 GMT
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Mar 24, 2018 13:18:31 GMT
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