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Chicago has been a kind of laboratory of the use of gun laws. Sigh... That's like having having a small town downwind from a smelting plant outlawing pollution. Interesting analogy. Riddle me this, Gramps. How come Chicago still has more murder than Houston Tx? Similar sized cities. You have toughe...

I wish there was more I could do to give back to this astonishingly pristine little farm town. I like to donate goods that are not covered by SNAP. Two are Toilet Paper and feminine hygiene products. Always anonymous donations. I don't want credit for it. I don't need credit for it. It's an anonymo...

The tiny 24 hour market in my sleepy little farm town has a little bird-house-lookin' book exchange booth. I figured one of these savages could benefit from Sarno's back pain book. Absolutely nailed that good Smartian shit. You could have some fun, see how long it stays in the birdhouse. Around her...

Twelve percent of cars are not insured, Nafod. In Mississippi it's roughly one in three. https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-uninsured-motorists It’s not numbers of cars, it’s numbers of drivers involved in reported accidents. Nafod wants to make all gun owners responsible for the b...

Shooter didn't live in Highland Park, he lived in Highwood. Adjacent town, no ban, no borders checking vehicles for weapons. You are awarded zero points. What Crimo used in Highland was legal. He used a "high powered weapon" not one of those baby killing semi-automatic assault weapons. I'...

One of the irritating things about interacting with you on these subjects if you take the absolute dumbest strawman possible and ascribe it to people who have already said something different in the same thread. Highland Park is a tiny suburb with no gun stores. An AWB there is meaningless, and the...

How's the fishing been over the last twenty years? If the food chain is collapsing we should be seeing it. How many other places have had samples taken? Just looking in the Atlantic Ocean is like measuring "global CO2" on the slopes of a volcano in Hawaii. Is it time to consider engineerin...

If you rubbed the genie bottle, and your first wish was that all "assault weapons" were to disappear, it would barely move the needle of firearm deaths. But hey, pass some new arbitrary, capricious, stupid law, as long as it makes people feel safer. The saying "Safety perceived is sa...

I think Sandy Hook, Uvalde, etc. etc. etc. where you see a bunch of American children executed is something worth preventing even if, in the long run, we all die anyway. Were you aware that Highland Park Illinois instituted an "assault weapon" ban in 2013? The shooter who killed six peopl...

I'm going to ask you, Bram, what Nafod refuses to answer. There are 15,000,000 such rifles in private hands. How do you intend to get them out of circulation? The key is illegality and/or liability. Require insurance to own one, and you’ll see them filling landfills. Landfills? They'll end up in fl...

I would like to see a change on this shit ASAP, thank you. Highland Illinois had such a change in 2013. Assault weapons were banned. Junior used a "high powered weapon". A featureless rifle like I posted earlier. A ban of AR15s, etc, is probably doable. If not now, then after the election...

ANot for self defense, not for fun. Nothing in the discussions building up to the Constitution and Bill of Rights involved self defense or recreation. The Constitution was silent on it. Just the need for a militia, which is now as relevant as the 3rd amendment, keeping soldiers from being quartered...

I think it's not vague, and written perfectly. It provides checks and balances on the govt and their control of the militia. Not vague? You can start a fist fight among constitutional lawyers over what the commas mean in the 2nd amendment. In today's jaded age people have fist fights over he/she/th...

Any discussion of the 2nd amendment needs to focus on the role of government. Is Government meant to be balanced by an Armed people That is not part of the 2nd amendment, as is made clear by the opening predicate, “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State…” If you f...

What I'm talking about above could be considered "terrorism". The Founders of the US would be considered terrorists. They used armed force to achieve political ends. Abraham Lincoln terrorized the Southern US to make it stay in the Union. We terrorized the Native Americans to push them off...

The argument for repealing the Second Amendment I’d settle for not ignoring the “well regulated militia” preface that the right is predicated on. What specifically does that mean to you? The 2nd amendment was predicated on the need for a well regulated militia to defend the country and put down reb...

40% (see page 7) isn't "most," but still. It's not a walled city. Hammond, IN is 15 minutes away. From page 10 of the referenced document.... most of the firearms by a single source coming from Illinois. Proof that the FOID doesn't work. gunsource.JPG Hammond Indiana is across State Lines...

Illinois has a FOID, required to buy a firearm or ammunition. Where do the guns in Illinois come from? Most came from Illinois, at least as of 2017. Go to page 10 of the 2017 trace report. https://www.chicago.gov/content/dam/city/depts/mayor/Press%20Room/Press%20Releases/2017/October/GTR2017.pdf In...

Have you watched The Animatrix? This particular issue comes up at the beginning. Humanity sez, "Fuck the machines!" and the machines eventually destroy humanity in an effort to defend themselves.* Was a brutal cartoon.... humans reacted poorly to the overtures from AI. They got what was c...

Happy 4th, dead people in Illinois killed by another young white male. Yeah, there are some odd things about that shooting and Awake the Rapper. Illinois has Red Flag. This kid was a walking talking advertisement for Red Flag. Violent social media posts, Illinois has a FOID, required to buy a firea...

The AR15s are just an inevitable end point in the cult train. Colt firearms started selling the sporter version of the AR15 in the 1960s. I posted an advertisement for it here. The more notorious that it gets, the more that people want to get one. The actual lobbyist group for the gun industry has ...

It’s the gun cult (ure). That’s the thing that wasn’t around before. This is victim blaming. Threaten people with prison or murder in their homes for owning an inanimate object, then blame them for politically defending themselves. Naturally there will emerge a culture around such a movement. Contr...

One thing to contemplate on in going back to the Torah, or for that matter originalism in the Constitution, is that it was all written by dudes. No female voices. Absent the fun and games with 57 genders, we don't know who wrote the Torah. The work was transmitted through oral recitations for centu...

Spent years trying to figure out a Biblical basis for a ban on abortion. The Catholic Church went back and forth on this for centuries, permitting it before movement could be felt, or not, until one of the Pope Innocents put a stop to it. There's no clear biblical info on this apart from how. In th...

If anyone is bothered by my sentiments to Bill. During the Vietnam War US soldiers put on Tunnel Rat duty would sweep underground hospitals. These served the National Liberation Front or NVA. Now and then they would find care packages from either the US based Quaker Friends Committee or from the Uni...