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The Coronavirus thread

CharlesDavenport said:
Yep. They are playing a dangerous game and just asking for a Lexington and Concord moment. May find out exactly why American citizens believe so strongly in the right to bear arms.
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they are hoping that happens so they can confiscate guns
 
jitter77 said:
How is Russia or China going to get weapons to us? Also people defending their home are tough, but only because we choose to prevent as many civilian casualties as possible. If we unleashed our full capabilities the middle east would be destroyed. The revolutionary war was a bit different because technologies were similar on both sides.
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Russia, China, Iran have inserted themselves, directly or indirectly, into every American conflict since the Korean War. Why would they stop now? They have agents here that could get an organized militia just about anything they want, long as they have some money and it serves their nation’s interest. Defeating America is certainly in their interest.

Again, I agree the rules of engagement limit our military. I don’t think there has been a bigger advocate around here for removing such rules than me. Again, you think they’ll just turn it loose on American citizens? Hell, half the military or more wouldn’t do it and would likely fight on the side of the citizenry.

During the Revolution, the British army and navy were considered the best in the world. The colonists defeated them with French help coming late.
 
I don’t see some huge uprising, an independence type of event. But I do see huge protests happening, shooting and death from them. It’s only going to take a few events to either stir more uprising or most likely these governors ***** to give us back our freedoms.

There is going to be countless lawsuits against the states, from small business owners who lost everything. They forced them to loose everything. You want to force me closed, well you damn sure better pay my tab
 
tapeANaspirin2it said:
they are hoping that happens so they can confiscate guns
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This ^^^

And has anybody asked, "Why are leftists to ******* insistent on taking away firearms from Americans?!?!?"

Safety? Oh **** off. Firearms are used for self-defense vastly more often than they are used by legal gun owners to inflict harm. Gun laws are a complete failure. Only an idiot would fail to recognize that.

Worst areas for gun violence? Chicago, Washington, D.C.
Most restrictive gun laws in the nation? Chicago, Washington, D.C.

Gun deaths are mainly suicide (60%), which the anti-gun bimbos categorize as "gun violence" deaths. Mmmkay, sure. No other way to off yourself other than guns, right? It's not like Romans would kill themselves out of honor before Christ was born and guns invented, or Japanese kill themselves out of honor before guns reached Japan.

The anti-gun crowd is looking to take firearms away from those who obey laws, where such measures have literally no effect on criminal behavior since, well, such behavior is criminal. So what the hell is going on??

Take away guns and citizens are much, much, much, much more likely to be spineless wards of the state. Know those articles you read where Muslims are gang-raping white girls in England and the police do nothing about it? Okay, got it, Fakebook and twitter won't allow such stories, but they exist by the dozens. One such story:

A story of rampant child abuse—ignored and abetted by the police—is emerging out of the British town of Rotherham. Until now, its scale and scope would have been inconceivable in a civilized country. Its origins, however, lie in something quite ordinary: what one Labour MP called "not wanting to rock the multicultural community boat."

In fact it is only one of over 1,400 cases, all arising during the course of the last fifteen years in the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham, all involving vulnerable girls either in Council care or inadequately protected by their families from gangs of sexual predators. Almost no arrests have been made, no social workers or police officers have been reprimanded, and until recently the matter was dismissed by all those responsible as a matter of no real significance. Increasing public awareness of the problem, however, led to complaints, triggering a series of official reports. The latest report, from Professor Alexis Jay, former chief inspector of social work in Scotland, gives the truth for the first time, in 153 disturbing pages. One fact stands out above all the horrors detailed in the document, which is that the girl victims were white, and their abusers Pakistani.
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https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogers...-children-political-correctness/#6f25c10c754a

Why do the Brits stand for it? Because they have no way to defend themselves. They cannot own firearms and are completely at the mercy of the government and criminals - too often one in the same.

America? Invaders rape 1,400 women, cops and courts do nothing, some bad guys are going to be shot. No, A LOT of bad guys will be shot.

Disarming America is all about taking away our independence and making the almighty government our superior. Anybody who doubts that is just not paying attention.
 
Steeltime said:
Ammo supplies started to dry up in early March. Or so I was told. I wouldn't have any reason to get ammo since guns scare me.
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I've heard from sources you can get great deals on cases of ammo at gun&knife shows. I know a guy who buys 1000 round cases of 7.62x39 for a few hundred bucks. You can also pick up a nice .50.cal.rifle all set up for those long range deer hunting shots for 7k-12k depending on the set up. I too am very afraid of guns even though I've been shooting since I was 6 years old and hunting on my own by 12. That's before I learned how they could just jump out of your gun safe to rain terror on communities .
 
at least we have the ACLU to defend our civil rights. Just look at all the hell they are raising. All the lawsuits they have prepared helping working people challenge governmental overreach. Maybe not. They're all too busy looking for a town with a Nativity scene to bully. ******* frauds.
 
I know weightlifting equipment is pretty scarce from people outfitting their home gyms. Some of the prices are pretty funny. I expect some great deals from people looking to unload their stuff once gyms open up.
 
 
jitter77 said:
How is Russia or China going to get weapons to us? Also people defending their home are tough, but only because we choose to prevent as many civilian casualties as possible. If we unleashed our full capabilities the middle east would be destroyed. The revolutionary war was a bit different because technologies were similar on both sides.
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You're also forgetting the political backlash of leadership if they try to turn on the civilian populous. Look at the Clive Bundy standoff. Militias and US military veterans showed up by the hundreds. Reports of Marine Corps snipers on the bridge. Had the Bureau of Land Management engaged against the civilians, Heads in Washington would have rolled. They smartly backed down and gave the Rancher back his cattle.

...of course they ambushed him two years later on a remote country road and shot him in the back when he reached for his pistol like a dumbass.
 
I think that gyms, like Planet Fitness, are going to go the way of the Dodo bird. We now know that the disease is spread via respiratory exhaling, including coughing, sneezing, and heavy breathing. Heavy breathing is in excess at gyms. Most people are going to get there exercise at home, or in the great outdoors, moving forward.
 
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hamster said:
I think that gyms, like Planet Fitness, are going to go the way of the Dodo bird. We now know that the disease is spread via respiratory exhaling, including coughing, sneezing, and heavy breathing. Heavy breathing is in excess at gyms. Most people are going to get there exercise at home, or in the great outdoors, moving forward.
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That blows. I hate exercising at home. Theres always something better to do at home. Like right now, as I type on a Steelers message board.

Right now I would be at my cities rec center. I pay for a membership so it forces me to go.

I purchased a cheap elliptical and a stairclimber. The elliptical is siting here, right next to me in my home office. The stairclimber is in the basement along with my weights. We have a small basement.
Time to get on this thing. See yinz later.
 
This is all we really needed to do.

A photo of fans wearing masks at a Georgia Tech game during the 1918 pandemic.

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Sarge said:
Well no ******* ****. This guy is a clown, point blank, period.

https://www.foxnews.com/health/fauci-says-extended-stay-home-orders-could-cause-irreparable-damage
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Insane. I had to share that on the Book of Face. How ANYONE places any faith in this man any further is beyond me.

As I wrote over there:

How...how does anyone take this man seriously? If you do, I'm begging you to jump in and tell me why you do. His inconsistencies are becoming epic.

Now Dr. Fauci says extended lockdowns "could be detrimental?" I'm sorry but I no longer trust a thing he says. Nothing.

On Feb. 17 Fauci said that this new strain of coronavirus possessed “just minuscule” danger to the United States.

In Feb/March, he called the idea of banning restaurant eating “overkill," and said there was no benefit to shutting down air travel.

On Feb 25, he said it wasn't important to implement social distancing. Two weeks later he said it's ok to go on cruise ships.

Feb 25, he stated that “we are reasonably well prepared. We have had a pandemic preparedness plan that we put together years ago.” Yet he followed that up with saying the plan might require mitigation strategies such as closing schools, teleworking, and imposing social distancing to slow the virus.

He's offered two very different assessments of the mortality rate of COVID-19. He wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine in late March it could be about the same as a bad flu season yet told Congress a few weeks earlier it could be 10 times higher.

He told thousands on Snapchat, it's ok to hook up with people from Tindr for physical encounters, but has warned we may need to ban handshakes.

If this were in a movie, he'd be the mad scientist or the quack Doctor everyone laughed at. Instead, he helped shut down a nation and is revered by many.​
 
What a sad milestone for the nation. Condolences to all the affected families.

“They were not simply names on a list. They were us.”

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Good to see there are least a handful of GOP politicians who've chosen to remain on the right side of history. Kudos to Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND).

“If someone is wearing a mask, they’re not doing it to represent what political party they’re in or what candidates they support. They might be doing it because they have a 5-year-old child who’s been going through cancer treatments.”

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Tibs said:
What a sad milestone for the nation. Condolences to all the affected families.

“They were not simply names on a list. They were us.”

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This isn't an either or situation, protect those vulnerable to the virus, as well as those suffering from the cure. It's not that hard of a concept to comprehend, and shouldn't be political, but is being used as such.
 
ZonaBurgh said:
...and shouldn't be political, but is being used as such.
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I agree, though it seems to me it's being made political by the right at least as much as by the Dems, if not more so. The country needs to come together to find a way out of this conundrum, both regarding the pandemic itself and the resulting economic fallout. Turning down the volume on political rhetoric and finding some common ground may help achieve that.
 
Tibs said:
What a sad milestone for the nation. Condolences to all the affected families.

“They were not simply names on a list. They were us.”

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Yes it's very sad.

Did they post the names of the up to 62000 people who died from flu this past season? The 650,000 or so who died from heart disease last year? The 600,000 who died of cancer? Must have missed those issues. Guess those lives didn't matter.
 
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