Amergin posted:

Last time I made an effort to debate, an admin had to come in and force everyone to change the topic (I think it was race chat but still).
Not my fault y'all love to

Amergin posted:

After pages of silly nuclear-attack-targets chat and then even sillier bestiality/Mr. Hands chat, I'm the one who's making GBS threads up this thread?

Really?

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Scott Price, of Andover, one of the plaintiffs on the lawsuit, is ready to keep fighting. The father of an adult daughter with cerebral palsy, he provides care a few hours a week and also pays a worker to care for her under a state program. Price called the unionization efforts misguided.

“I don’t want a union in my house; that’s why I agreed to join the lawsuit,” Price said. “I don’t need a union. They can’t help me.”

Amergin posted:

After pages of silly nuclear-attack-targets chat and then even sillier bestiality/Mr. Hands chat, I'm the one who's making GBS threads up this thread?

Really?

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An unidentified southern congressman once held the former upstate House member’s arm while walking her down the chamber’s center aisle. “You know, Kirsten, you’re even pretty when you’re fat,” he told her.

“I believed his intentions were sweet, even if he was being an idiot,” Gillibrand recounted.

Gillibrand has struggled with her weight, going between a Size 4 and Size 16 after giving birth.

She recalled a labor leader once told her: “When I first met you in 2006 you were beautiful, a breath of fresh air. To win [the special], you need to be beautiful again.”

“I knew I was too heavy for my own health,” Gillibrand recalled.

After she dropped 50 pounds and got elected to the Senate, one of her favorite older senators walked up behind her, squeezed her waist, and intoned: “Don’t lose too much weight now. I like my girls chubby.”

Radish posted:

I wish we had an equivalent to the libertarian thread or the booze derail thread where Amergin could post stuff from other forums and people could yell at him there instead of getting lame GOP talking points inserted into the politics thread randomly.

He would still be allowed to come in and suggest thread titles though.

StandardVC10 posted:

It's a good old boys club.

Phone posted:

Anybody have thoughts on the out of control teen 9 year old who totally turned on her wall hacks/ESP and headshotted her instructor from halfway across the map? Will the NRA endorse candidates who are pro VAC ban?

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A felony indictment for abuse of power will hit Texas Governor Rick Perry, an avowed gun enthusiast, where it hurts - by curtailing some of his rights to bear firearms.

Perry, a possible candidate in the 2016 Republican presidential race, has sought the spotlight since his indictment last week, holding news conferences to denounce the charges as politically motivated and turning his booking into a campaign-style event where he spoke to cheering supporters.

Under state law, Perry, a staunch supporter of gun rights who said he shot a coyote to death with a pistol while jogging in Austin in 2010, is no longer allowed a license to carry a concealed handgun because of the indictment.

Someone whose license is revoked can appeal or reapply two years after the date of revocation.

Perry has entered a not guilty plea to charges of abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony, and coercion of a public official, a third-degree felony, handed down by a state grand jury last week. He faces up to 99 years in jail if convicted of the first-degree felony.

The longest-serving governor in the state's history, Perry became the target of an ethics investigation last year after he vetoed $7.5 million in funding for the state public integrity unit run from the Travis County district attorney's office. His veto was widely viewed as intended to force the resignation of Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, a Democrat, after she had pleaded guilty to drunken driving.

Edwin Walker, a gun rights attorney in Houston, said if someone is indicted for a felony the state will suspend his or her concealed handgun license during the indictment period. Texas does not generally allow for the open carrying of handguns in public.

But a suspension would not prevent the governor from carrying a handgun while at home.

"He is allowed to have a concealed handgun wherever anybody is allowed to have one," Walker said. "That is on property that they own or property that they control."

At work, Perry is protected by an armed security detail.

Perry has been photographed firing weapons and posted a video called "What to do on a Day Off" that shows him shooting weapons at an Austin gun range. He has told reporters he owns several guns, including family heirlooms and historic handguns.

Under federal law, he is prohibited from buying guns and ammunition while under indictment for a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year.

"What he has he can use, but he can no longer purchase new stuff because of this felony charge," said Josh Felker, who runs Lone Star Handgun, a shooting range near San Antonio.

Perry has waived his right to appear at an arraignment scheduled in Austin on Friday, where his lawyers said they may seek to have the charges dismissed.

Under state law, Perry can keep his handguns, including the Ruger .380 he said he used to kill the coyote.

StandardVC10 posted:

Another case of irresponsible gun ownership. Of course, any legislation that attempts to make gun owners more responsible, will be fought tooth and nail as the long-foretold end of freedom.

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"[The instructor] never should have been off to one side or the other. It's called the 180-degree rule," said Roberts, a weapons instructor from Franklin Township, Gloucester County.

"There's nothing inherently wrong with a 9-year-old shooting [fully automatic weapon]," Roberts said. "It just has to be done under very strictly controlled circumstances."

While Roberts said he didn't want to criticize the deceased instructor, he said there are a number of precautions instructors can take to prevent such an accident.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

The answer is clearly forcing little girls to play call of duty so they can learn about the muzzle rise of Uzis with only the risk of virtual friendly fire.

StandardVC10 posted:

It's a good old boys club.

Badger of Basra posted:

I would say we should elect some more gay congressmen to objectify the men, but they're all pretty gross looking except for Schock (R-The Closet).

Bhaal posted:

That poor loving kid. Something tells me she's not going to grow up into a guns-are-fun enthusiast like her parents had hoped.

When I was around that age I was put through a gun safety course (mostly geared for hunters-to-be but that's not why my parents enrolled me) and taken out to the range reasonably often, but even then the overwhelming theme was always "guns are loving serious, more than a little scary, and each one of them in an instant could end anybody's life. Never for a second believe they're a toy"

Also I absolutely love the criticisms of, "Well, it's not THAT he handed a loaded Uzi to a nine year old and encouraged her to spray downrange. It's HOW he did it...". Yes, we dare not suggest that a 2nd grader going full auto might not be the best idea. Obviously it's a great idea, for all possible worlds.

It's almost as if half of this country is fully convinced that there is no bad bullet that could ever come out of the chamber: the world can only be enriched by each expression of freedom. That the problem with guns is only ever one of a technical nature that wades into fringe details, like where a bullet ended up after it let the barrel.

Raskolnikov38 posted:

There's 500 gallons of piss labelled with the words 'the sound a wet fart makes' and a picture of ted cruz next to 500 gallons of apple juice and instead of letting people complain endlessly about the existence of the piss you're telling them to just ignore it and go on drinking apple juice!

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Have you ever been in a house that had something just egregiously wrong with it? Something massively unsafe and uncomfortable and against code, but everyone in the house had been there a long time and was used to it? "Oh yeah, I almost forgot to tell you, there's a missing step on the unlit staircase with no railings. But it's okay because we all just remember to jump over it."

Some people are like that missing stair.

Trabisnikof posted:

I've had female lobbyists tell me that (unfortunately) if you can't handle some light groping then you probably won't last long.

Radish posted:

I wish we had an equivalent to the libertarian thread or the booze derail thread where Amergin could post stuff from other forums and people could yell at him there instead of getting lame GOP talking points inserted into the politics thread randomly.

He would still be allowed to come in and suggest thread titles though.

Phone posted:

Anybody have thoughts on the out of control teen 9 year old who totally turned on her wall hacks/ESP and headshotted her instructor from halfway across the map? Will the NRA endorse candidates who are pro VAC ban?

Bhaal posted:

That poor loving kid. Something tells me she's not going to grow up into a guns-are-fun enthusiast like her parents had hoped.

When I was around that age I was put through a gun safety course (mostly geared for hunters-to-be but that's not why my parents enrolled me) and taken out to the range reasonably often, but even then the overwhelming theme was always "guns are loving serious, more than a little scary, and each one of them in an instant could end anybody's life. Never for a second believe they're a toy"

Bhaal posted:

That poor loving kid.

Rhesus Pieces posted:

Supposedly this happened at an Arizona tourist trap called (I poo poo you not) "Burgers and Bullets".

Duke Igthorn posted:

Captain_Maclaine posted:

This is more or less how I learned to shoot when I was growing up as well, with a single-shot bolt action Savage .22.

Captain_Maclaine posted:

This is more or less how I learned to shoot when I was growing up as well, with a single-shot bolt action Savage .22. My father was insistent that, while shooting can be an enjoyable hobby and a great deal of fun, it's nevertheless nothing to take cavalierly because if you do, someone can easily end up dead. It mystifies* me that anyone would allow someone that young to handle a submachinegun, particularly one like the Uzi which you need to have some beef behind it to keep under control.

*"mystifies" in the sense that I technically get why it happened, and yet am still confounded that anyone would be that dumb.

Shear Modulus posted:

What 9-year old with an Uzi story are you guys talking about? Is that this month's school shooting?

Shear Modulus posted:

What 9-year old with an Uzi story are you guys talking about? Is that this month's school shooting?

Shear Modulus posted:

What 9-year old with an Uzi story are you guys talking about? Is that this month's school shooting?

theshim posted:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28948946

Girl was at a shooting range, instructor had her fire an Uzi on full auto.

ReindeerF posted:

I had to google it up too:

http://www.nj.com/south/index.ssf/2014/08/new_jersey_girl_with_uzi_accidentally_kills_firearms_instructor_in_arizona.html

Phone posted:

Between this and the Cops sound technician getting one to the dome...

http://www.theonion.com/articles/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this,36131/

Phone posted:

Anybody have thoughts on the out of control teen 9 year old who totally turned on her wall hacks/ESP and headshotted her instructor from halfway across the map? Will the NRA endorse candidates who are pro VAC ban?

Evil Fluffy posted:

When I was taught to fire a rifle it was a 22/410 combo thing and single shot and I was probably 8 or 9 at the time(my brother fired a shotgun when he was 9 or 10 and him describing the kick kept me from wanting to try it). If someone had offered to let me fire a full auto weapon when I was 9 my parents would've ripped them several new assholes because guns are not goddamn toys and unless you're training a child soldier you have no reason to let this poo poo take place. There's not reason children in the US should be handling full auto weapons. It should be illegal but good loving luck with that while the NRA's out there whoring for gun manufacturers and riling up millions of idiots for are freedoms.