CharminUltra
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Ok, that cracked me up. I'm stealing it
and hoping I don't get shot in the process.
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President Barack Obama preparing to issue Executive Order on gun control
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Shao Kahn on the Lawn
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Motorcycle accidents have caused any number of multi-car pileups. It really isn't all that difficult for a motorcycle to low or high-side and all the traffic around it is going to react suddenly and, in most instances, poorly.
That aside, the fundamental premise of your implication is flawed. My neighbor isn't at risk because I own firearms.
I don't know, the murder-cores in some of my guns have melted down and wrought untold destruction to everyone within a five-mile radius.
It's what the Brits call guns.
Ryan242004
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It's funny how Obama wants more gun control for regular citizens but then decides he needs armed secret service protection for life.
How much did that gun cost you? I see a local gun store is selling similar looking rifles in the $400 range.
The average citizen isn't an assassination target. Also, please be joking.
... its sad that I can't tell if this is a joke or not
lol
Saying that, making background checks mandatory at gun shows is not a problem with me. But I doubt Obama, even via executive order, can enforce that.
I doubt that any of his executive orders even have any power without legislation to back them up.
I...I'm not quite sure I follow?
I hope you're joking.
yeah?
he's the one who came up with that originally?
in 1958?
obama confirmed for time traveling
NoblesseOblige
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Was that before or after the declaration of war against Christmas?
QuantumBro
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His Kenyan superpowers have no end.
Where? Is it a 5.56 or .223? Been looking for a decent AR-15.
Time to stop looking at facebook pictures posted by rightwing friends.
ayyyy lmao.
DrGonzo615
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NoMoreTrolls
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First they came for our Starbucks cups, then our guns.
Aeriscloud
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I love this man.
what kind of guns did he take 1911 or the ak ?
Most I've seen support both. But I certainly haven't seen any ARs around here for under $570.
NoblesseOblige
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I don't even know where I stand on gun control anymore. I like to shoot my bang bangs, but I want more control and I'm perfectly fine with surrendering them if the government dictated such. So I'm proclaimed a murderous psychopath by some because I have a hobby to do the shoot-bangs, yet a freedom hating socialist commie by others because I'm okay with control. I'm so unwanted by both side.
The Islamic Shock. Coming to a comic book store near you.
The president actually doesn't have a choice about Secret Service protection. It was forced by Congress.
Also, you know, the President is objectively going to get shot at more than the average person.
You live in the Northwest right? I'm guessing guns are cheaper in other places like here in Arizona.
SmarmySmurf
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But he's right, you are a fucking piece of shit. You believe in freedom to own guns but you don't believe in his far more crucial right to free speech? On account of being a miserable piece of shit, such as you are? Okay piece of shit, whatever you say piece of shit.
Quote me too.
Yeah, same here. Everything runs about $600 and up. Like to grab a Rock River but they're pretty pricey.
Isn't that, like, extremely obvious? If you have a gun in the house, you've automatically invited the risk of someone -- your partner, your child, or yourself in a moment of being mentally unhinged -- being hurt or killed, or using it to hurt or kill others. The gun doesn't will itself into existence and fire based on its own volition; guns only endanger other people because they're in somebody's possession.
The president faces more attempts or threats of attempts on his life than any single person in the country.
We don't really know about the neighbors, but it is sure that you owning guns put your family at a bigger risk of dying by murder and/or suicide.
Remember that the next time you check whether your gun is kept locked safely and the ammo separate from it.
Limited Edition
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Nah, I'll do it for him.
NoMoreTrolls
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I've seen this study. Correlation=/=causation. I concede that the easier it is to get guns legally, it follows that it could be easier to get them illegally. Which again is why I'm an advocate for strict background checks/waiting periods for people to purchase firearms. What I absolutely will dispute is that removing legal firearms from the homes of those who have already purchased them to date will reduce the firearm homicide rate. If we made it really tough for everyone to get guns (meaning significantly cracking down on the black market as well as gun shops), I am certain that the homicide rate would decrease. But that relies on the ability for would-be criminals to get guns to be equally curtailed when compared to legal means.
GovtPlates
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NoblesseOblige
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What a well articulated position.
You might consider building one, which is like PC gaming in that you can get more for your money that way.
Things are just getting buck wild in here!
I feel you, and PBY, but you know we're on a privately owned message board right
Coffee Dog
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People here are legitimately questioning whether guns are dangerous, lol.
This has ceased to be a conversation. There are people that know that a modern society has no need for mass gun ownership, and those that are wrong.
This has ceased to be a conversation. There are people that know that a modern society has no need for mass gun ownership, and those that are wrong.
Halcyon
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It's almost Christmas guys. Lets hug it out.
Tinfoilhatsron
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What?
Is this a serious post?
Coffee Dog
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You mean the same board that doesn't accept other backwards points of view? What makes spreading dangerous pro gun rhetoric any different?
I was calling his hypothetical self responding to my hypothetical question a piece of shit.
I actually believe that his "No" is argumentative posturing, which I get, given a person's investment in a certain hobby versus outside forces trying to "take that hobby away."
I get that. I don't believe that if there was data showing a person that if you simply gave up your guns you use as part of your hobby you'd save lives, that he wouldn't do it.
And in that hypothetical, with hard data showing otherwise, anyone would be a piece of shit to keep guns for hobbyism if giving them back would save lives. Not sure how thats really a controversial statement to be honest.
NoMoreTrolls
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I wasn't questioning that guns are dangerous. The poster I quoted was asking people for statistics and data while making claims without evidence. Guns are dangerous, and should be treated with all of the respect that any tool that was invented to kill things should be afforded.
But daaamn has this thread gotten hostile. This kind of name calling is unbecoming, and doesn't strenghthen your arguments at all.
But daaamn has this thread gotten hostile. This kind of name calling is unbecoming, and doesn't strenghthen your arguments at all.
Silver Arrows
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Nvm
Coffee Dog
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"Both sides" looooool
You might consider building one, which is like PC gaming in that you can get more for your money that way.
Let me guess, even your Grandma could do it? I kid.
It's funny, I get into arguments all the time with PC gamers because they think building their own PCs is as simple as drinking water. I got frustrated for hours because I couldn't figure out what type of RAM I needed for adding into my laptop. Some things come more natural to people.
Point taken, not my intention. Just get annoyed when we have these threads and people start posting pics of the guns they just bought as some sort of "look at me" thing. I just can't reconcile that with the daily murders we see.
But point taken.
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