A spoon can be an assault weapon if you use it to gouge out someone's eye. Going after guns is ignoring the cause.
what is the common denominator in both guns and IEDs?
A spoon can be an assault weapon if you use it to gouge out someone's eye. Going after guns is ignoring the cause.
The coming Ice Age, err, Global Warming, err, Climate Change?
Well, excuse me! Since you have so much sense, maybe you can explain why the attack had a personal aspect to it? If he was given orders from a group, why a relatively small target of people?
goddammit. now we have to ban spoons?!?!
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_...child_labor_are_not_the_price_of_liberty.html
This guy has a point. Should the right to personal safety, outweigh the right to unlimited gun ownership?
This was a terrorist attack. I have no doubt. The planning and type of attack is clearly islamic extremist. Again, this shows our enemy is just a complete nut job. They have a 6-month old daughter and they decide to jihad themselves to Allah and take 15-18 people down with them? Think about that for a minute. Most fathers with a 6-month old are worried about how to get 6 hours of sleep, this guy was building bombs and stockpiling up ammo/weapons.
I still think there needs to be some honest gun talk. When you write "honest gun talk" I see " gun ban talk that agrees with my opinion." Why do we have assault weapons legal exactly? Define the term and I'll be happy to discuss. Does an arms race between the right-wing NRA and criminals really benefit anyone except gun corporations? Don't you see this is what they want so they can sell more guns? I buy the guns I want or need......despite your obvious contempt for the mental capacity of rural type gun owners I am perfectly capable of discerning my own wants and needs......no campaign to "sell more guns" (if there even exists such a thing other than a sweet sale at a local shop) has an effect on that. And the more guns in circulation (legal or illegal) just increases their use in crime and increases the effectiveness of killing. So much wrong there.....but explain how "legally" owned guns increase crime?
I'm not pro-gun or anti-gun. Those terms don't make any sense to me. A gun is a tool. It's the most effective tool at killing that is "legal" and mentioned in our constitution. Our constitution doesn't mention bombs or nukes or chemical weapons. It just says "arms". I don't understand how "arms" as our forefathers understood them - single shot muskets - has translated into the idea it allows a keeping up with technology into machine guns and assault rifles. Using that logic, maybe bombs and nukes should be allowed into private hands. Do you believe that you, or anyone else today for that matter, are smarter, more forward thinking or have greater understanding of or faith in the potential of human development than the founders? Because I believe that they knew and understood that weapon technology would increase and develop exponentially over the life of the REPUBLIC.....and that their express intent was that whatever "arms" were available should be available to ALL....After all, the Constitution and the BOR's are SUPPOSED to be restrictions on government by the people, not the other way around.Why not? What is "arms"? And if the purpose is to be able to fight against an oppressive government, wouldn't bombs and nukes in the hands of civilians deter government oppression as much as assault rifles? Yes. They would.
The whole gun thing doesn't make sense.
I think the right-wing, NRA proponents don't want to admit how silly their argument of legal assault weapons against an oppressive government is. Please explain the silliness of that argument. Are you saying the people should have to defend themselves from government oppression with muskets? Now THAT is silly! We are WAY past that.
It really comes down to me on what gun ownership means and for what reasons. We have propagandized the ownership of guns into being "American" and we have decided owning a gun is what makes us separate and superior in our freedoms. It most certainly does make us "separate" but not sure what you mean by "superior in" our freedoms. The NRA and gun manufacturers have played the uneducated rural lifestyle and the ghetto gang lifestyle into glorifying gun ownership as a symbol of freedom and power and independence (when it really means none of those things). Thank you very much for equating us "uneducated rural" folks with those freedom loving patriot hood rat gang banging drug pushers.....I can't for the life of me figure out why the entire population of the sparsely populated township in which I reside hasn't been wiped out in the last week, since obviously we own lots of guns and given the nightly death toll in say, Chicago. And the more guns that get into circulation, the more they are used in acts of violence. Gonna have to back that up with some figures.....bet ya can't.
It is much too late to get the cat back into the bag with guns. We have 1 out of every 4 guns in the world within our borders, yet no one cares. I care.....why are we so far behind? I'm going to have to up my game.....we should be at least 2-3 outta 4. We have no effective way of tracking them or knowing who has access or how. More bullshit.They are everywhere. For every man, woman and child you see in a day, there are that many guns "around". Hand guns, shot guns, assault rifles, hunting rifles, et. al.
I've voting for more gun regulation because I think we need LESS guns in circulation (I want that to be a republican, but oh well). That's me. We are a democracy so I am fine with voters disagreeing with me. The voters will decide. But I do think we'd be a better society with less guns in it. It's just how to do that now that is so convoluted.
Female attacker Tashfeen Malik pledged allegiance to ISIS leader
This was a terrorist attack. I have no doubt. The planning and type of attack is clearly islamic extremist. Again, this shows our enemy is just a complete nut job. They have a 6-month old daughter and they decide to jihad themselves to Allah and take 15-18 people down with them? Think about that for a minute. Most fathers with a 6-month old are worried about how to get 6 hours of sleep, this guy was building bombs and stockpiling up ammo/weapons.
I still think there needs to be some honest gun talk. Why do we have assault weapons legal exactly? Does an arms race between the right-wing NRA and criminals really benefit anyone except gun corporations? Don't you see this is what they want so they can sell more guns? And the more guns in circulation (legal or illegal) just increases their use in crime and increases the effectiveness of killing.
I'm not pro-gun or anti-gun. Those terms don't make any sense to me. A gun is a tool. It's the most effective tool at killing that is "legal" and mentioned in our constitution. Our constitution doesn't mention bombs or nukes or chemical weapons. It just says "arms". I don't understand how "arms" as our forefathers understood them - single shot muskets - has translated into the idea it allows a keeping up with technology into machine guns and assault rifles. Using that logic, maybe bombs and nukes should be allowed into private hands. Why not? What is "arms"? And if the purpose is to be able to fight against an oppressive government, wouldn't bombs and nukes in the hands of civilians deter government oppression as much as assault rifles?
The whole gun thing doesn't make sense.
I think the right-wing, NRA proponents don't want to admit how silly their argument of legal assault weapons against an oppressive government is. We are WAY past that.
It really comes down to me on what gun ownership means and for what reasons. We have propagandized the ownership of guns into being "American" and we have decided owning a gun is what makes us separate and superior in our freedoms. The NRA and gun manufacturers have played the uneducated rural lifestyle and the ghetto gang lifestyle into glorifying gun ownership as a symbol of freedom and power and independence (when it really means none of those things). And the more guns that get into circulation, the more they are used in acts of violence.
It is much too late to get the cat back into the bag with guns. We have 1 out of every 4 guns in the world within our borders, yet no one cares. We have no effective way of tracking them or knowing who has access or how. They are everywhere. For every man, woman and child you see in a day, there are that many guns "around". Hand guns, shot guns, assault rifles, hunting rifles, et. al.
I've voting for more gun regulation because I think we need LESS guns in circulation (I want that to be a republican, but oh well). That's me. We are a democracy so I am fine with voters disagreeing with me. The voters will decide. But I do think we'd be a better society with less guns in it. It's just how to do that now that is so convoluted.
So there you have it....workplace violence.
How many well regulated militias exist in the United States today?
The 2nd amendment as originally written is obsolete.
That's what I'm saying, libtards need to stop focusing on the weapon and instead focus on the cause. Otherwise they would eventually have to ban knives, bricks, hammers... anything that could be used to hurt someone. It's not the tool that does the killing, it's the person.
How many well regulated militias exist in the United States today?
The 2nd amendment as originally written is obsolete.
Did you forget Chattanooga? Not all acts of terrorism are "large"
The size of the target population of victims doesn't define it as terrorism or not.
How many well regulated militias exist in the United States today?
The 2nd amendment as originally written is obsolete.
Your incessantly dumb comments are obsolete.How many well regulated militias exist in the United States today?
The 2nd amendment as originally written is obsolete.
These are the kind that scare me the most. Almost impossible to track or get a read on. They will attack a mall at Christmas time. They will build a suicide vest, and explode it while in a crowd waiting to get into Heinz Field on gameday. It is coming.I never said it wasn't terrorism, only that I thought the guy was a lone wolf, not part of a larger group.
The latest reports are that its looking more and more like self-radicalization, and communication with others was infrequent and months ago. It's Also being reported he had heated political arguments with a Jewish co-worker in the past.
Amendment II..... A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
It is amazing how unambiguous that which frames our every liberty is. It is succinct for a reason - to prevent the usurpation of said liberties for the duration of the Republic, and lend to its own defense against the arguments of those who would usurp. In honest consideration, it leaves no room for debate. Every word of the amendment is readily understandable to any literate, and should be even to those whose minds have been ravaged by modern "education".
Note that types and classes of weapons are not prescribed, but rather the amendment is framed, again succinctly, no, air tightly as "shall not be infringed". To modern readers, this translates to mean any weapon of any kind is available by right to the people without any consideration by the damn gubmint in order that they may defend their free state. It is so stated because the purpose of the amendment is to preserve the Republic by giving advantage to the people to defend it against would-be tyrants and their apologists. Had it been written for another purpose, it might have read "A well organized hunting club, being necessary to the recreation of rich white folk, the right of white people to have registered shotguns with approved storage, shall be granted as long as they pass all gubmint regulations, are not on the 'no fly' list, and said rich white folk have greased the requisite palms.". But it wasn't, and it doesn't. In fact, one might infer that the framers framed it to be idiot proof, albeit modern idiots find such deliberation absorbing.
"Shall not be infringed" seems to elude moderns. What that means is that the gubmint has no right, real or imagined to regulate, license, contravene, violate, transgress, break, breach, restrict, limit, curb, check, or say **** about weapon a citizen chooses to defend his free *** with, and by extension the free state. In consideration to moderns, and in terms they would find usable, that means if I can afford to buy an MRAP, an F-16, or even an evil "assault rifle", I get to damn do so and would-be tyrants, even black ones, and their courtiers have nothing to say about it.