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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo
    Several recent posts complained about Common Core education standards, and about President Barack Obama.
    She is a good example why 'Common Sense' should be taught


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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    BACKDOOR GUN CONTROL: OBAMA’S ATF PROPOSES AR-15 AMMO BAN
    Why any president or self-respecting American would want to ban this is quite beyond understanding...





    We are all far safer leaving our kids at home knowing that they have these peacekeepers to defend themselves should anybody break into the house.
    Cycling should be banned!!!

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    ^ Hunting purposes . . . clearly

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    ^ I love the way the experts, ex-military, gun teachers, wildlife/hunting experts, you know, the folks who are really keen on guns and have lots of experience, especially military and or police and or federal agency training, I love the way these folks keep shooting themselves by accident. And then, the fukwits, the people with no experience or knowledge think it's gonna be safe for them (and their children...) to carry and handle guns. Beyond belief really.

    Well it's not beyond belief because the longer I live the more I realize that there is no common sense or morals or ethics or anything else for the masses; there's just propaganda and brainwashing. Human beings are fukin stupid and are seemingly getting more stupid everyday in this globablized capitalist neo-liberal world of ours.

    The poor old Americans are highlighted due to their current position as world leaders, so seeing their insane and stupid gunlaws and the insane and stupid citizens that go around shooting themselves and others, and seeing the way they wave their flags and claim the right to democratically bomb women and children in far off lands in hugely murderous numbers over so many decades because they don't follow American values is well, just sooooo American. Which is why the world hates them. But, it's just their elevated position is so visible. We're all fukin stupid from what I can see (especially Australians...). Human beings are despicable creatures really; as can be seen here on TD...

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    Quote Originally Posted by OckerRocker View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Troy
    ...What's the obsession with having the gun loaded and ready anyway? Is everyone that afraid???
    Yes, they are . . . as would we be knowing some drunk or menopausal neighbour has a gun in their hands

    Pathetic - Land of the Free and Home of the Brave . . . perhaps in decades gone past
    The west wasn't won with a registered gun.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fishlocker View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by OckerRocker View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Troy
    ...What's the obsession with having the gun loaded and ready anyway? Is everyone that afraid???
    Yes, they are . . . as would we be knowing some drunk or menopausal neighbour has a gun in their hands

    Pathetic - Land of the Free and Home of the Brave . . . perhaps in decades gone past
    The west wasn't won with a registered gun.
    . . . and fast forward a few hundred years and you have . . . the present.

    The native Americans have been all but wiped out and American exceptionalism has created a morally and financially bankrupt state which feeds itself through the military-industrial complex . . . vested interests have taken over politicking and science is seen as weird magic by close to half the population that believes in angels and the right to life while decimating itself and incarcerating a minority into oblivion.

    Yup - - unregistered guns are the way to go

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    Quote Originally Posted by ENT View Post
    It's a patriotic duty to defend your nation from its government.
    Think a minute man, did the minute man have a tea party? I'll have another Sam Adams, thank you very much.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OckerRocker
    The native Americans have been all but wiped out and American exceptionalism has created a morally and financially bankrupt state which feeds itself through the military-industrial complex . . . vested interests have taken over politicking and science is seen as weird magic by close to half the population that believes in angels and the right to life while decimating itself and incarcerating a minority into oblivion.
    Pretty good summation. As an American I would say you are not exact but pretty close.

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    Quote Originally Posted by OckerRocker View Post

    Yup - - unregistered guns are the way to go
    That's right and you're a tool if you cannot grasp that a firearm is just a tool.

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    No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. - Ernest Hemingway.

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    I wonder If this one is registered. Turkish Mauser looks to be from 1935. I bet it has some stories behind it, like how did it get here. I think its a model 1903.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Boon Mee
    That's right and you're a tool if you cannot grasp that a firearm is just a tool
    A Radar is just a tool but would you put your knackers in front of one?

    An acetylene torch is just a tool but would you let your kid anywhere near one?

    A jet airliner is just a tool but would you let any untrained passenger fly one?

    Stop being a tool....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bettyboo View Post
    We are all far safer leaving our kids at home knowing that they have these peacekeepers to defend themselves should anybody break into the house.
    Yeah.. cos who needs a babysitter when your eleven year old has a shotgun.

    Nice neighbourhood

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    I feel I'm not so much a tool as a product. The product of a moral upbringing, having learned good from bad and right from wrong, I was taught young maybe twelve or thirteen years old how to handle a riffle by taking a proper hunter safety course. It was no joke and taken very seriously back then.
    My sister was in the same course and I still recall her screwing up one of the ten commandments as she once said "never point a gun a a loaded person." While not entirely correct, may not be bad advise.
    It was and is still required for youth to hunt as it should be. Training is key to proper handling of the fire arm. However, It is my opinion that society has changed in some places where there is no proper mentors for youth, and also many twisted adults, to construct themselves into a solid product of moral fortitude with a real sense of worth and purpose.
    These folks are on the fringe of the norm and the ones who often make the 10 o'clock
    news. Just a slice of opinion from my perspective.

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    Thinking back our family gun cabinet was not a safe. It was an unlocked display case with two glass doors and glass sides made of finished wood similar to a "China Cabinet". Its lower was an ammo storage box. It was a very nice display case. This was the norm then. No trigger locks. Hell we never locked our house or cars back then. My how things have changed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bsnub View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by OckerRocker
    The native Americans have been all but wiped out and American exceptionalism has created a morally and financially bankrupt state which feeds itself through the military-industrial complex . . . vested interests have taken over politicking and science is seen as weird magic by close to half the population that believes in angels and the right to life while decimating itself and incarcerating a minority into oblivion.
    Pretty good summation. As an American I would say you are not exact but pretty close.
    The USA isn't really a country in the "old world" sense, it's like a corporation that recruits citizens from anywhere.

    Countries in Europe are mostly extensions of indigenous ethnicities, as America might have been had colonisation never taken place.

    The problem is that the establishment in countries like the UK try and adopt the cultural products of the USA when they are not a natural fit.

    Take the notion of "white"ness. There is no actual such thing as "white", it's a convenient construct invented in America to club together all these disparate incomers from vaguely similar places in Europe, and distinguish themselves from supposedly lesser tinted folk.

    For the "old world" where the indigenous ethnicities maintained their sovereignty and thrived, this "new world" concept makes no sense... because it's imposing a fake identity over an existing one (i.e.: deleting the indigenous ethnic identity, such as Swedish or Italian) and rebranding it as some collective noun that's abstract, vague and meaningless, i.e.: white, that makes no sense, unless you want to replicate the "new world" demographic process of bringing anyone from anywhere and permanently extinguishing and erasing the indigenous identity of the population that's already there.
    Unchecked, you end up with a sort of homogenisation of identity across the world.
    The problem with it is that it seems to be being imposed only in advanced countries with European ethnicities, and so you end up with a phenomena where all the incomers into these "old world" states are permitted to retain their ethnic identifiers, but host populations are not.
    This is made all the more absurd when in the non-European "new world" states where European ethnicities migrate to, the retention of their European ethnic identity is permitted.
    The ultimate destination is that you only end up finding people whose ethnicities are things like Swedish and Italian in "new world" countries where they could emigrate to, but in the "old world" countries those ethnic identities are erased, and replaced with "white" and the rainbow of ethnic incomers.

    This is not intended as a tirade against immigration into Europe, but it does indicate what underpins the difference in attitudes when it comes to firearms in the "new world" and "old world" states. In the new world, the incomers came armed, knowing they were not welcome; in the old world, the arms faded after centuries of warfare was replaced by general political, technological, and economic advancement, and now they are faced with incomers, whom they do not want.
    A fundamental difference in the two scenarios, is that the incomers into the new world were more numerous and more advanced than the indigenous ethnicities; but in the old world, the reverse is true, so again the dynamic and attitude is different.

    For this to change in the old world, it would take the numbers of incomers to increase substantially, and for them to be sufficiently technologically advanced and organised as to be perceived as a threat.

    Islamic terrorists and China or Russia aren't quite at that level yet, so it may be a long way off if it ever happens; but the peoples of Europe will be defending their ancestral homelands, as opposed to the Americans who are defending land they know that they stole by force from indigenous peoples.

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    Have we had this one yet?

    Three-year-old boy shoots pregnant mother and father in New Mexico

    A three-year-old has shot his father and pregnant mother inside a motel room in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

    The boy was able to remove a loaded handgun from his mother’s purse, before shooting his father in the lower backside on Saturday.

    The bullet then exited the man’s body and struck the pregnant woman in the shoulder, according to local police.

    Both parents were treated at a nearby hospital. The father has since been released, but the mother, who is eight months pregnant, was hospitalised.

    She is believed to be in a stable condition, however the condition of her unborn baby is unknown.

    Robb Robillard, who was staying at the motel when the shooting occurred, said that it was “scary” a three-year-old was the culprit.

    “I came out of the room and saw police officers downstairs and I came down the stairs and saw a whole bunch of cop cars,” he told KRQE News 13.

    Police vehicles outside the motel in Albuquerque, New Mexico where a boy shot his parents (KRQE News 13) “I think everybody should have the right to own guns, but you need a lock on them too, especially when kids are around,” he added.

    A two-year-old girl was found by police in the room, but she was not injured. The children have been placed in the custody of the Children Youth and Families Department for a minimum of 48 hours.

    Local animal control officials were also called to remove two pit bulls that were discovered in the motel room.

    Police said that the parents could face charges of criminal negligence for allowing a loaded gun to get into the possession of a child.

    The District Attorney’s office will be notified and will decide whether to press charges.

    The case is strikingly similar to a shooting in December last year, when a woman, 29, was fatally shot by her two-year-old son in an Idaho Walmart, after he found a gun in his mother's handbag.
    Three-year-old boy shoots pregnant mother and father in New Mexico - Americas - World - The Independent


    Soooooooeeeeeeee, Jessie.

    Two pitbulls - you know, the puppies that only the intelligentsia own - a two year old, a three year old and two Americans, err, adults, one of them pregnant.

    Guns . . . What could possibly go wrong.

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    Or the Idaho one? Has one of the all-time great quotes:
    The inside story of how an Idaho toddler shot his mom at Wal-Mart - The Washington Post
    "'[The mom and dad] carried one every day of their lives, and they shot extensively,' Rutledge said. 'They loved it. Odd as it may sound, we are gun people.'. . .Sandow told The Post she often sees people with a gun cradled at their side. 'In Idaho, we don’t have to worry about a lot of crime and things like that,' she said. 'And to see someone with a gun isn’t bizarre. [Veronica] wasn’t carrying a gun because she felt unsafe. She was carrying a gun because she was raised around guns. This was just a horrible accident.' Yeah, sure, just kind of happens, right? Two-year-old shoots his because "We are gun people."
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    Two opposite views of the same situation:

    In Idaho, we don’t have to worry about a lot of crime and things like that
    Gun supporter: That's because everyone has guns
    Non-gun supporter: If there's very little crime, why do you need to carry guns?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Neverna
    In Idaho, we don’t have to worry about a lot of crime and things like that
    Quote Originally Posted by Neverna
    Non-gun supporter: If there's very little crime, why do you need to carry guns?
    Hmmmmm . . . maybe we just don't understand because we didn't spend every single minute from birth in the USA

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    ^^^ all of those have had dedicated threads.
    Hasn't been one in a while, maybe they are out of ammo.
    NY City just went 11 says without a murder, but I bet that's just cause the snow and cold weather has stopped the bodies from stinking up and being found....

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    "all of those have had dedicated threads"- Uh, OK. The horrible story below seems new enough:
    Man accidentally kills babysitter after stopping home to check on kids and repair his gun
    While at their Baton Rouge home, police said, the 25-year-old Forbes also decided to check on his handgun and found it was malfunctioning.

    Police said the gun fired while Forbes was trying to repair it, and a bullet struck the 13-year-old babysitter in the abdomen.

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    Florida Man strikes again: On July 26, 2014, William DeHayes was showing off his gun collection to Carson Hoover and his wife, Katherine, when DeHayes’ antique revolver fired, fatally striking Katherine in the temple.
    http://www.thedailybeast.com/article...t-jail-me.html
    Florida Shooter: I Killed A Pregnant Woman. Don't Jail Me.

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    ^ Nice ones.


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    Tough guys, tough guys, what'cha gonna do? What'cha gonna do when they come for you.


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