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Aug 13 2019 04:53am
Quote (fender @ Aug 12 2019 04:33pm)
the fact that your personal stance on the issue happens to align with many (not all) trump cultists is in itself NO proof of you being principled, that's another basic logic fail. if you were actually principled on constitutional rights and the radically literal interpretation of the document, you'd be much closer to one of those libertarian caricatures (not necessarily all their alleged 'principles', but the hilarious way in which they have to reframe everyday issues in order to make the 'principled' claim in the first place) we have in pard.
in reality, you are just as selectively 'principled' - meaning whenever it fits your narrative.

and for that you're 'willing to pay that price' (thousands of preventable deaths of innocent people each year) with NO realistic upside (poor people suffer the most under america's gun obsession, it did nothing to prevent the erosion of your freedoms and rights), other than the simplistic 'the constitution says so - i'm just being principled' claim...


What exactly do you support being done?

None of the rage against cultists and America and gun obsession NRA right wingers libertarians or personal attacks against anyone and all the rest of the usual because it clogs the conversation and makes it confusing as to what you support

Clear list of what you propose with specifics to stop/prevent mass killings
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Aug 13 2019 05:03am
Quote (Beowulf @ Aug 12 2019 04:22pm)
no clue how often, no clue the rate they will, no clue more or less

but they will happen so we aren't talking infringing on rights to eliminate mass harm we are talking infringing on rights to feel like we did something and maybe get murderers to switch weapons and possibly from time to time snag up the incompetent

your view is honest which is you are willing to sacrifice certain freedoms for what you believe to be a safer environment so I just disagree


Getting murderers to switch weapons is a big deal imo, because then they have less options to choose from.

Sure to a determined killer it might not make a difference. But that too is the point, to deter people, it can be conceivable that people commit murders because they can get access to guns and that's how they wanted to commit the crime. A bad example but still someone like Zimmerman comes to mind.
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Aug 13 2019 05:58am
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As I said before in a similar thread: It's peculiar that the "nothing can be done" narrative exists in the one and only developed country that has this problem.


That narrative exists though it is untrue but is pushed by the liberals all the same.
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Aug 13 2019 07:40am
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That narrative exists though it is untrue but is pushed by the liberals all the same.


Liberals are not really that much better than conservatives. The democratic party only gets support because it's the lesser of two evils.
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Aug 13 2019 08:11am
meanwhile in 'straya:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-49327241

mentally ill person murders woman in apartment, goes on a rampage, injures one more person and is then stopped by citizens with a chair and a milk crate.
i wonder how this would have developed, had he had easy access to semi-automatic rifles and large capacity magazines...
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Aug 13 2019 08:56am
Quote (Santara @ Aug 13 2019 04:58am)
That narrative exists though it is untrue but is pushed by the liberals all the same.


Quote (Santara @ Aug 13 2019 04:58am)
That narrative exists though it is untrue but is pushed by the liberals all the same.


"Let's see if we can figure out things that will actually make sense and help while not sacrificing or infringing on rights just to say we did something..here is idea A B C hopefully they will help address motivation etc etc. Also please list specifics so we can address those and see if they make sense and arent just control for the sake of control"

But that turns into a we support a do nothing strategy

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What exactly do you support being done?

None of the rage against cultists and America and gun obsession NRA right wingers libertarians or personal attacks against anyone and all the rest of the usual because it clogs the conversation and makes it confusing as to what you support

Clear list of what you propose with specifics to stop/prevent mass killings


Quote (fender @ Aug 13 2019 07:11am)
meanwhile in 'straya:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-49327241

mentally ill person murders woman in apartment, goes on a rampage, injures one more person and is then stopped by citizens with a chair and a milk crate.
i wonder how this would have developed, had he had easy access to semi-automatic rifles and large capacity magazines...


No shock you decided to ignore a request for clear specifics about your ideas on this without insults and rants about a smorgasbord of people but it would help the conversation so we dont always have to deal in generalities and just keep repeating the same things over and over
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Aug 13 2019 09:28am
Any data on the amount of shootings stopped by good guys with guns ? *derp*
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Quote (Beowulf @ 13 Aug 2019 16:56)
"Let's see if we can figure out things that will actually make sense and help while not sacrificing or infringing on rights just to say we did something..here is idea A B C hopefully they will help address motivation etc etc. Also please list specifics so we can address those and see if they make sense and arent just control for the sake of control"

But that turns into a we support a do nothing strategy





No shock you decided to ignore a request for clear specifics about your ideas on this without insults and rants about a smorgasbord of people but it would help the conversation so we dont always have to deal in generalities and just keep repeating the same things over and over


you already told me that thousands of dead innocent people are a price you're "willing to pay" (for something that has no real life upside).

so what's the point in telling you again that i think universal background checks, a ban of large capacity magazines, a strict licensing process, red flag laws, closing of the ridiculous loopholes that still exist, a comprehensive gun buyback program... are measures worth trying to limit the frequency and scale of not only mass shootings, but ALL gun related crimes and accidents? you'd immediately dismiss half of it as 'unconstitutional' (hilariously claiming you're just being 'principled'), misrepresent the rest of it as a slippery slope measures towards tyranny, lie about guns protecting the poor (when in reality the opposite is true) and freedom (same), and deluding yourself into thinking you're not being an immoral and dishonest person for doing so.

meanwhile you haven't proposed anything that could realistically work, just resorted to your 'no way to prevent this without violating my specific interpretation of the constitution - so unless you have some magical solution, let's not do anything. don't call me out on how this attitude makes sure innocent people keep getting killed at ridiculous rates, that's just super mean and offensive' approach.


inb4: just not doable, wouldn't prevent anything, people would just use bombs, only the bad guys would have guns, *insert any other generic NRA talking point*....
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Aug 13 2019 09:38am
Good thing

You can still own guns, but need to be a good person who won't go shooting up places
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Aug 13 2019 09:52am
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you already told me that thousands of dead innocent people are a price you're "willing to pay" (for something that has no real life upside).

so what's the point in telling you again that i think universal background checks, a ban of large capacity magazines, a strict licensing process, red flag laws, closing of the ridiculous loopholes that still exist, a comprehensive gun buyback program... are measures worth trying to limit the frequency and scale of not only mass shootings, but ALL gun related crimes and accidents? you'd immediately dismiss half of it as 'unconstitutional' (hilariously claiming you're just being 'principled'), misrepresent the rest of it as a slippery slope measures towards tyranny, lie about guns protecting the poor (when in reality the opposite is true) and freedom (same), and deluding yourself into thinking you're not being an immoral and dishonest person for doing so.

meanwhile you haven't proposed anything that could realistically work, just resorted to your 'no way to prevent this without violating my specific interpretation of the constitution - so unless you have some magical solution, let's not do anything. don't call me out on how this attitude makes sure innocent people keep getting killed at ridiculous rates, that's just super mean and offensive' approach.


inb4: just not doable, wouldn't prevent anything, people would just use bombs, only the bad guys would have guns, *insert any other generic NRA talking point*....


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