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Author:
Stark Raving Dad
(5192 Posts - Joined: Aug 19, 2020)
Posted at 8:58 pm on May 30, 2022
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"It’s always a wonder how you all are experts in everything." jimbasil 6/26/2022
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The Myth of Mass School Shootings
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MAS
- 2:49pm 5/30/22
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It's good to know that if only three children die it doesn't count.
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NDsub
- 10:37am 5/31/22
Reminiscent of the satanist daycare hysteria of the 80s. One mass shooting is horrible BUT
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LanceManion
- 5:02pm 5/30/22
Anything like Death Panels?
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jimbasil
- 11:23pm 5/30/22
At a fundamental level, you have to address the individuals who commit these heinous acts.
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iairishcheeks
- 5:21pm 5/30/22
I sense some level of agreement here...the issue is "multivariate"...we can, and should, address
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TyroneIrish
- 6:32pm 5/30/22
Nah, we're no closer, it's just that the stuff I keep repeating is slowly seeping in
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iairishcheeks
- 8:57pm 5/30/22
First off, you blew it on the AR-15 in semiautomatic mode not being an Assault Weapon (see linked
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TyroneIrish
- 9:40pm 5/30/22
Point at a time to keep you off tangents.
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iairishcheeks
- 10:09pm 5/30/22
Alright, don't listen to me...listen to this Afghan War veteran...(see link)
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TyroneIrish
- 10:42pm 5/30/22
Objection, relevance.
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iairishcheeks
- 11:02pm 5/30/22
"ARs and similar are semiautomatic only and have always been. Do you really not know this by now?"
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TyroneIrish
- 11:52pm 5/30/22
Objection again, relevance?
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iairishcheeks
- 12:42am 5/31/22
As I see it, we're hung up on the definition of an "AR-15" as an Assault Rifle...i.e. a weapon
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TyroneIrish
- 1:39am 5/31/22
You keep trying to paint a devil and I keep seeing a clown.
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iairishcheeks
- 2:21am 5/31/22
Are you ready to acknowledge that an AR-15 can indeed be classified as an "Assault Rifle" which our
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TyroneIrish
- 9:44pm 5/31/22
No matter how hard you try, not an assault weapon.
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notredame678
- 10:05pm 5/30/22
Read what the Afghan War Vet has to say in my post to 'Cheeks'...he knows how to classify an AR-15..
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TyroneIrish
- 10:46pm 5/30/22
He is not saying what you think he is saying, not an assault weapon.
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notredame678
- 11:17pm 5/30/22
The problem is that you people have earned zero goodwill.
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jakers
- 8:46pm 5/30/22
You're talking to me...not "You People"...and I have never said any of the things you ascribe to me,
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TyroneIrish
- 9:04pm 5/30/22
Yes, "you people." What your political ilk have become.
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jakers
- 9:15pm 5/30/22
The fact remains...I have never said the things you ascribe to me...so that's kind of a problem...
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TyroneIrish
- 12:03am 5/31/22
Well said. They can't be trusted. They put themselves in this position.
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NedoftheHill
- 9:36pm 5/30/22
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Stark Raving Dad
- 8:58pm 5/30/22
Agree. They weapon inflicts mass carnage, but so do other things.
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LanceManion
- 5:29pm 5/30/22
Just curious: Why do you propose your step 6? It doesn't seem related to these shootings.
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NedoftheHill
- 5:14pm 5/30/22
Throwing a bone to the anti-gun crowd. + the amount of ammo sold in this country yearly is insane.
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LanceManion
- 5:26pm 5/30/22
The amount of ammo wasted by AR-15 owners every Saturday at the local range...
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iairishcheeks
- 5:43pm 5/30/22
Gun ranges are interesting places. I get the same feeling as in a casino.
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LanceManion
- 5:50pm 5/30/22
I would go to the range a couple of times a year. Last March was the last time for awhile.
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ELP
- 10:21pm 5/30/22
Heh, that's what happened when I was developing a recipe for my 300 win mag.
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iairishcheeks
- 6:34pm 5/30/22
Understood. Fair enough.
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NedoftheHill
- 5:30pm 5/30/22
Not sure what your 'magic number' of school massacres is before you get repulsed enough to call for
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TyroneIrish
- 4:53pm 5/30/22
Same wisdom that brought you "1 COVID death is too many."
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jakers
- 5:10pm 5/30/22
3400 people drown each year and it is the #1 cause of death for ages 1-4.
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iairishcheeks
- 4:56pm 5/30/22
Read the last sentence of my post...taken from MAS' linked article...
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TyroneIrish
- 5:54pm 5/30/22
All so that people can claim the "Pleasure" of swimming, as Tyrone would say.
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NedoftheHill
- 5:07pm 5/30/22
Swimming deaths are tragic accidents for which we take action to reduce...such as swimming
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TyroneIrish
- 6:03pm 5/30/22
I forget, what were your mental gymnastics deployed for inner city gun deaths being different?
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iairishcheeks
- 6:58pm 5/30/22
The reaction to Uvalde was/is visceral...little kids, in supposedly the safest place they could be,
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TyroneIrish
- 8:54pm 5/30/22
As safe as a Christmas parade should be.
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ELP
- 10:23pm 5/30/22
The Constitution and our system of government were crafted to prevent "visceral" knee-jerk reactions
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iairishcheeks
- 9:08pm 5/30/22
Man, do you love your guns...gotta go down the the range and fire off a few hundred rounds...what's
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TyroneIrish
- 11:29pm 5/30/22
Aha, now we're getting somewhere.
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iairishcheeks
- 11:32pm 5/30/22
To answer that question, he'd have to acknowledge that he's a lying fraud.
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jakers
- 5:12pm 5/30/22
An example of a post that should not be made
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Mark
- 5:20pm 5/30/22
Good to break down mass shootings into categories to give them
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jimbasil
- 4:30pm 5/30/22
It is necessary in order to find meaningful solutions. I would hope this interests you.
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BaronVonZemo
- 5:42pm 5/30/22
It is impossible to solve any problem without first understanding it.
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iairishcheeks
- 4:53pm 5/30/22
Yes, we should be setting the dinner table while house is on fire. Brilliant!
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jimbasil
- 6:22pm 5/30/22
The house isn't on fire, Jim. That's the point. Shockingly, you missed that.
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MAS
- 9:06pm 5/30/22
Actually, the house is on fire and most everyone here is discussing
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jimbasil
- 10:54pm 5/30/22
Most mass shootings are part of gang warfare. There are extremely few school mass shootings.
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MAS
- 11:11pm 5/30/22
So, question is, which do they want more on this issue? A solution? Or, more votes for their party?
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NedoftheHill
- 5:20pm 5/30/22
I am not that cynical. I prefer to believe that this issue transcends politics.
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iairishcheeks
- 5:23pm 5/30/22
Yeah, but deploying optimism will make you a happier person. Stay with that.
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NedoftheHill
- 5:24pm 5/30/22
Cheers to that.
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iairishcheeks
- 5:44pm 5/30/22
When people don’t want solutions, it’s easier to demand solutions that will never work.
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LanceManion
- 4:04pm 5/30/22
A lot of that going on with this board. We have a few who think they are morally
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TampaIrish
- 4:20pm 5/30/22