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He's coming for the guns, and hell's coming with him!

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by BDC99, Dec 31, 2015.

  1. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

  2. Rainman

    Rainman Well-Known Member

    Better how? What leads you to believe they aren't thorough enough? Can you cite ONE recent tragedy that IF these "better background checks" were in effect, they wouldn't have happened? Tashveen Malik came into this country on an K-1 Visa, which you would expect has a more thorough background check than purchasing a gun, and it didn't stop her from doing what she did, did it? So what makes a "better background check" and how would it change anything?
     
  3. Baron Scicluna

    Baron Scicluna Well-Known Member


    James Holmes.
     
  4. Big Circus

    Big Circus Well-Known Member

    WHAT A PUSSY BITCH AMIRITE
     
  5. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Obama's tears could cure cancer. Too bad that Mooslim African doesn't cry real tears [/rwsm]
     
  6. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    So, in February 2017, when President Trump issues executive orders banning Islam and to build a fence along the Mexican border, that'll be OK as long as he couches it as being in the interest of national security?
     
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  7. dooley_womack1

    dooley_womack1 Well-Known Member

    Oh, heck, it's just a well-regulated militia up there in Oregon
     
  8. cranberry

    cranberry Well-Known Member

    Sure, if he has the budget for the wall (he wants a beautiful wall not some crappy chain-link fence) and banning Islam isn't held up by those pesky courts.
     
  9. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    This country tolerates a level of firearms-related death (most suicides and accidents, BTW) that belies our claim to civilized status. You can see the hints of why we do on this thread. We have an irredeemable subset of the population, most but not all of them white men, for whom paranoia and cowardice creates a vital need for guns to sustain their own sweet, sweet revenge fantasies. Deep down, they long for the dystopia they say guns will protect them from.
    Spare me the freedom crap. In this country, guns are for limiting the freedom of others.
     
  10. Smallpotatoes

    Smallpotatoes Well-Known Member

    That doesn't answer my question.
     
  11. Rainman

    Rainman Well-Known Member

    Nothing about Holmes would have prevented what happened.

    There were psychiatrists that said he might be homicidal, there were some that said he wasn't. He met with three before the shooting, ONE said he might be homicidal. Denying someone a right because of what ONE doctor would be a violation of the Due Process Clause. 2) Much of his treatment would have been protected by HIPPA anyway.

    Got anything else?
     
  12. Mr. Sunshine

    Mr. Sunshine Well-Known Member

    We've got global warming destroying the planet and this fuckin' guy is worried about guns.
     
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