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  1. 4 points
    For all you cunts who can't accept people with different opinions it's shows how insecure you are with your own. I've always accepted and politely disagreed unless I was lied about. I. E the lying penguin twat above. Defo been an influx of SJW cunts who fresh out of adult nursery (university) and shutting down people they disagree with think they can do it after uni.
  2. 4 points
    @the_engineer Sorry I took you away from your Fox News broadcast to read this message, but this is something you need to hear. You are the problem. Not 'dem illegals. Not 'dem libtards. You. You are so corrupted by conservative propaganda that you will just eat up anything these lying pricks tell you, won't you? 1. Gun control =/= taking away every. single. fucking. gun. I cannot comprehend how ANYBODY could be against implementing SOME form of gun control. You DO NOT need an M16 or AK-47 for "muh protection". You don't need bump stocks for "muh protection". You don't need 100-round magazines for "muh protection". Do you get the point? That's what gun control means. Nobody gives a shit that you have a Beretta. 2. These mass murderers you seemingly agree with were motivated by prejudice, not the possibility of a civil war Both the Christchurch shooter and El Paso shooter were motivated by far right conservative ideas of prejudice against Muslims and Hispanics. Both of these types of racially-motivated attacks have increased in magnitude since Trump was elected. I had to stop here. It was difficult. There's so much more of your bullshit you spewed that is so fucking wrong and straight up racist and moronic. I can't do this. I really hope this civil war you preach of happens. They'd call it the Darwinism War.
  3. 3 points
    The thing about the mental health issue is that the whole world has an issue with mental health. But the rest of the world does not have anything like the same issue with mass shootings that the USA does. In Britain, yesterday, we had a horrific episode where a teenager threw a 6 year old he did not know from a 10th floor balcony at an art gallery to land on a 5th floor concrete roof below. (The child is now in critical care). Unimaginably awful for the family. But if the same teenager had been able to get hold of an AR15, or even a handgun, he could have inflicted many more horrific injuries on many more people, rather than being immediately physically restrained by bystanders.
  4. 3 points
    Well people are certainly allowed to form an opinion and believe it with all their might. And two people can do so and those two opinions can differ completely. What doesn't follow is that both opinions are allowed to carry the day and be considered the correct opinion. You can maintain an incorrect opinion all you want, and though you have the right to believe it, it could well be unpopular and wrong. So people aren't allowed to have diametrically opposed opinions and both be correct. One of them is wrong. They are not allowed to walk around saying 'it's my opinion' which thereby gives said unpopular, incorrect opinion equal credence to opposing, popular, correct opinions. And people are allowed to call the person who maintains an unpopular incorrect opinion a fucking moron. SC
  5. 3 points
    Well, that escalated quickly. I've been watching coverage particularly local coverage of the El Paso incident. Now let's look at some of the facts. El Paso has what appears to be a well integrated bi-cultural community that even in a place of 700,000 people, there are minimal murders annually. Texas is essentially an open-carry state - wherever you are, more than likely someone is "packing heat". There's a larger than average military and ex-military personnel in El Paso (by all accounts). There were thousands of people in Walmart at the time of the incident. Further many more in the surrounding mall. Not one ordinary person including military and ex-military appears to have drawn their weapon and run towards the active shooter - even a military guy ran away, gathering some kids as he went to protect them. Now is that because in drawing your weapon you automatically make yourself a target for the cops who might shoot you dead? Or simply an equality of arms issue - shooter has the silly death spraying gun and you have your Saturday morning pop a cap in an ass gun? I don't know. In this case and it seems in many others, the ordinary folk and even those most covetous of their Second Amendment rights, run away, preferring to leave the taking on of the shooter to law enforcement, the security guards, etc etc. Notwithstanding all of the above, the shooter is arrested. Not shot down by anyone. If he goes to Death Row, he's got maybe 30-40 years anyway? Many make out the mental health aspect of this - I ask, what person not in their right mind is going to pay for treatment for their mental health issue? Cheaper surely to pop down the local gun store and allow your mental health its free expression. (Admittedly, I'm unsure how the US deals with mental health provision and whether that is actually free). It's all just such a different culture.
  6. 3 points
    Wow, that's convenient. Calls from everywhere for McConnell to recall the Senate to discuss gun legislation and he has "an accident"? 'Dear Congress, Mitch (known as Moscow to friends and enemies alike) can't possibly come to the Senate today. He's had a nasty fall and will be out of commission for some time. We were both at the top of his staircase and he suddenly tumbled. More than anyone else in America, he needs your thoughts and prayers right now. Yours, Carolyn D Meadows (President, NRA)'
  7. 3 points
    I am gonna get on a massive rant here but first off I would like to say @the_engineer, you are absolutely the most ass-backwards person on this site and a glarIng example of what’s wrong with the US.
  8. 3 points
    A couple of shooters including Tarrant both stated they wanted gun control in the USA as that would lead to civil war. Let's be real here inacting gun control could kill millions of Americans and end America as we know it with a civil war. Are all Americans going to happily give up guns? No Will there be a civil war most probably yes. Will many conservative army soldiers support gun control or rally against it? Will the police support it? America is a long cry from 1861. The American standing military would have no difficulty taking down your average bubba-redneck idiot sitting in his handmade bunker under his Confederate battle flag and “The South Will Rise Again” banner. I live in Texas. I know these people. They can take an AR-15 into a WalMart full of unprotected civilians but they will pale when they are staring down a M109 Howitzer. Mass shooters are cowards. Will people resist giving in their guns? Very few people have suggested that gun owners give up their guns and the most reasonable who have only want the assault weapons off the streets. American gun control legislation is generally very middle of the road – the NRA is the agency of hyperbole here. What happens to people living in rural areas many miles from police how do they defend themselves from armed robbers? They will have their guns. See above. However, this argument is logically fallacious as the reason most people who live rurally in the US do so, at least in part, because there is little to no crime. Any gun control will be seen as unconstitutional anyway and thrown out of the courts. The supreme Court if Ginsburg dies will always vote to keep guns for at least 30 years. Again. You are arguing from an extreme position that is driven by the hyperbole of the NRA. If you look at the legislative history in the US concerning gun control – and there are multiple timelines on the internet – will demonstrate that legislation swings a little left in response to a tragedy, then swings a little right to compensate, then settles back in the middle. And there is precious little effective legislation after the 1930s. It takes 15 years for legislation to wend its way through the US courts and enter the Supreme Court. I find it the height of ridiculousness to make decisions based on the makeup of the court. Another truism is that Supreme Court justices are free agents. They tend to vote their intellect and their understanding of the Constitution even though they played most Senators for fools in their confirmation hearings. See Texas v Johnson. Will police be disarmed? If yes then the only one armed are the law breaking criminals and the army. If no then you will still have cops killing civilians. American police will never be disarmed. It's not even an issue worth considering. See reductio ad absurdum. For every mass shooter there's about 5 of these. Gun control just takes the guns for the weak and law abiding citizens. How many below and many more would of turned into murders? In total those saved by guns and those killed in random mass shootings probably balance each other out. Alot are female as well were the feminists at? Actually, find significant instances of armed Americans, even in Texas, who have intervened and taken down a domestic terrorist. There ain't very many. An FBI study in 2014 showed that while five of 160 active shooter situations between 2000 – 2013 had civilians effectively exchanging gunfire with the shooter, 21 were handled by unarmed bystanders. Since 2014, the trend has been more to the ineffectiveness of civilian gun owners, with the exception of Sutherland Springs – but the damage was done by the time that intervention happened. My father was a five time combat veteran and he told me something very interesting. First, the instinct is to flee in self preservation. Second, if that urge is defeated, simply facing someone you know wants your life can send you back to fleeing. Third, if you can push through that, a significant number of people, no matter their rhetoric at the backyard barbecue, simply can not kill even to save their own lives. This, he said, is what American military training is designed to break down. Civilians generally do not have that training. They have a lot of hubris, though, I’ll grant you. If I had a dollar for every time I heard some Texas redneck wannabe talking about what he'd do if he saw a bad guy I'd be lounging in Aruba. As far as women go, according to the FBI, 7.6% of all firearm homicides in the US are committed by women, and since 2000 nine women have committed mass shootings. In addition, they tend to be armed with handguns, not assault rifles, and their targets tend to be people and places with connections to them. That’s a glass ceiling I’ll keep, thank you. Americans will always have guns, but we have got to find a way to effectively drive down the rate of mass shootings. We sacrifice children on the altar of the Second Amendment. This is unacceptable to sane people. Arming every man, woman, and child is not practical nor is it the answer – it didn’t work on the frontier and it is not helping now. All that this has demonstrated is that Congress is firmly in the pocket of the NRA and that assault weapons exist for one reason and one reason alone. The NRA has effectively replaced the concept of “well regulated militia” with the individual, negating the intent of the second amendment while strengthening it, oddly enough. They have mastered the rhetoric. There is no issue that is so dangerous it can’t be talked about, but it requires people of good faith to talk about it in good faith. That’s where we are lacking in Washington right now. That’s why we will continue to die.
  9. 2 points
    Christ on a bike! One of the few threads that have come to life by discussing something meaningful with people throwing insults at each other and you want to get the mods to intervene!! You are missing the point a bit, fight back with a robust defence or step out of the ring. Anyway, CA has responded and put the whole fucking thing to bed, you will not counter her comments because you cannot, Trump cannot, the NRA cannot and nor can Mickey Mouse. The End ( or summat)
  10. 2 points
    If you're so serious about gun control all of you so called tough guys trying to take others rights away, go and try and take the guns away yourself from your fellow Americans or your pussies want bigger men with GUNS to do it for you? Fucking gutless cowards and government bootlickers. cold dead hands!
  11. 2 points
    Interesting what it took to get @CarolAnn off the bench. Welcome back. SC
  12. 2 points
    Kamala Harris has had massive problems during her tenure as attorney general of California so I wouldn’t really trust her as president. She’s great at being a politician, but I wouldn’t expect much (if any) change if she were elected to president in 2020
  13. 1 point
    L. Brooks Patterson was a local politician,his equivalent isn't the oldest man in the UK but like Mayor of Johnstone,Scotland or Vicar of Ayr. Patterson is unlikely to get national Obits while Alf Smith death is being mentioned by most qualifying obit sources(sun,bbc,metro,guardian,daily,mail etc)
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    I think that's the price people are willing to pay for their right to bear arms. I don't believe the crazy few should deny the lawful majority their rights. If someone suggested banning all Muslims and removing them from society to stop Islamic terror attacks everyone would say you can't hold all Muslims to account for the crazy few. You could guarantee 0 deaths by Islamic terror attacks but some accept the price of occasional terror attacks and child rape gangs are a price people are willing to pay. Banning guns won't stop shootings in America there's too many weapons in circulation. It worked in other places because they don't as you put it have a 'sick gun culture'. You'd be lucky to have 30m guns turned in out of 300m plus in circulation. Also see prohibition to how Americans respond to the government banning something they like.Progressives were behind that and it lez to sky rocketing crime, organised crime and violence. P. S societal collapse and civil war has happened over alot less. Banning guns will lead to civil war and millions of dead Americans.
  16. 1 point
    Technically speaking the UK is still allowed guns and always will be. If you say you own a gun for self defence it can't be removed from you and you can't be arrested. So if you get a shotgun or firearm certifcate and say it's for sport then when you renew it say it's for self defence they can't remove it or arrest you but you still must keep it on your property and in cabinet. https://misesuk.org/2014/12/22/the-british-constitution-and-the-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms-for-defence/
  17. 1 point
    There's more guns than people in the USA do you think gangs and gang bangers will turn in their guns? Do you think guns will be the next thing smuggled across the border if they became illegal like drugs? Hmm maybe if there was a strong physical barrier that could solve that problem. We still have shootings in the UK and the the UK banned guns last century and the UK didn't even have that many guns in circulation. So you can imagine what would happen in the USA. I notice you leave out Switzerland who haven't had a mass shooting since 2001 and has more guns than ever before and less deaths shooting deaths than ever. In fact Switzerland hasn't even been at war with another country since 1815. Similar to USA until 1910s. Mass shootings were rare in the 20th century it's a recent phenomenon and the media glamourising murder, violence and airing their political, racial or socialital ills is perfect for them to finally be heard. How come no one talks about that? How can leftists justify their hypocritical and contradictory political positions? Donald Trump they claim is a dictator in waiting. So lets disarm ourselves. Banning alcohol or weed doesn't work but banning guns will. Banning speech protects people's feelings but banning guns so people can protect their businesses ,families and life is perfectly acceptable?
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    That is the biggest pile of horse shit I have ever read on here.
  21. 1 point
    We do have a bit of a drolean wipe-out this year. Maybe it's all building up to a Mugabe death at Christmas.
  22. 1 point
    Yet another politician has said that more citizens should carry guns and take the law into their own hands when the police don't get there quickly enough. Yeah, that should solve all the mass shooting problems.
  23. 1 point
    I don't know why people say they're shocked whenever another shooting happens in the USA. How can you be shocked at something that happens so often and is so predictable? And so easily preventable. Utter madness ! Sadly footage of the shooting in progress is circulating on twitter adding an extra element of sickness to the phenomenon.
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    One of The Few, Archie McInnes, reported dead hours after celebrating his 100th birthday:
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