DarkCrawler posted:

Ok this is the Second Amendment:


A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

Rent-A-Cop posted:

How would that work? Be in the reserves 2 days a month?

TBQH we're probably all better off the fewer guns loving Guardsmen are allowed to touch. If the Army could find some way to inflict the National Guard on America's enemies we'd never lose another war.

Rent-A-Cop posted:

Hmm yes this is a well considered opinion we should all join the National Guard Reserve, an organization with a proud history.

Rent-A-Cop posted:

I didn't know the National Guard Reserve had such an advanced tracking system. Tell me more.

Rent-A-Cop posted:

Oh no, the National Guard Reserve has my address? How did they get it?

Literally The Worst posted:

also he'll only believe that maybe having a scared person shooting in addition to the guy who's already shooting is bad if you can cite a peer-reviewed journal, which you can't do, and then he mocks the idea of mocking this? i don't even get it man


i didn't know being a dipshit was a constitutionally protected right

this_is_hard posted:

hmm ya 5000 rounds of ammunition is definitely something i wanna store in my home until i 'need it'

ammunition is like golf except it murders a school full of children 2-3 times a month

Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:

It's no longer caffeinated so there's really no point. I wanna get Loko dammit.

Hollismason posted:

What's wrong with banning guns?

Star Man posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LOYh7zhwF0

This has been in my favorites list for two years.

Funky See Funky Do posted:

Why do people feel they need a gun to be safe in America. I feel perfectly safe and I don't even have a knife in easy reach.

E: Also on the ineffectiveness of having a gun for self defence. A man recently attacked a family with a knife. One of those family members was armed. Then man then took the gun and went on to shoot other people with it. A gun will only protect you from harm in very specific and very rare circumstances.

Bob Ojeda posted:

It's still there, it's just unable to command a majority of the House anymore. You have two basically distinct groups within the party.

E: Like, more and more, I'm kind of thinking that the people who were predicting the disintegration of the GOP after 2008 weren't wrong. It's just that, in the American political system, it's really not possible to actually have a successful third party and so everyone stayed under the name of the Republican Party because that's where the structure leads you.

Hulk Krogan posted:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/05/us/politics/a-struggling-jeb-bush-may-lean-on-george-w-in-south-carolina.html

Fojar38 posted:

I find "US bombed a hospital for the hell of it" way harder to believe personally.

mr. mephistopheles posted:

This seems like the most probable explanation. Or, similarly, they just straight up had bad intel and saying "we bombed a hospital on a bad tip" also would not fly.


Which is why the higher ups should be the ones held accountable.

Sax Solo posted:

Apocalyptic scenarios are attractive to the right wing because they are:

1. A chance to be a cool religious cult like stories from the Bible.
2. An awesome world of ubiquitous gun violence that will be fun.
3. The death of the larger society they don't understand or believe in.
4. A time of exciting economic opportunities.

These people want disaster and suffering.

Pity The Billionaire posted:

They purred to hear about the campaign of "indoctrination" that the new president had planned for their innocent kids; their pulse quickened to think of the "chains" he was preparing for their mighty wrists; and they swelled with imagined bravery to picture how they would be targeted by "the coming insurrection." Their heroes, they quivered to learn, were victims of "persecution," their nation was under "systemic assault" by its own leaders, and they who had defeated Soviet communism; they who rejoiced to see their enemies writhe in the dungeons of Guantanamo- why, now they were "Gulag bound," as a popular website of the day moaned rapturously. This time it was apocalypse that moved the needle, that swayed the undecided, that made the sale.

We the Market

And what it sold was the great god Market. If only Americans would return to the path of mercantile righteousness, we were told, the market's invisible hand would lift the threat of "destruction" from the land. It would restore fairness to a nation laid waste by cronyism and bailouts. It would let the failures fail, while comforting the thrifty and the diligent. Under its benevolent gaze, rewards would be proportionate to effort; the lazy and the deceiving would be turned away empty-handed, and once again justice and stability would prevail. From the day the newest Right emerged from the shell of its rattlesnake egg, apocalypse (on the one hand) and perfect capitalism (on the other) have been its two lodestars, its omega and its alpha, its fear and its hope. "What do we say to socialism?" went the rallying cry at a Los Angeles Tea Party protest in 2009, according to two pollsters who have studied the movement.
"Nooooo!" yelled the crowd on hand.
"What do we say to free market?"
"Yessssss!"

DeusExMachinima posted:

Were our guys with the Afghanis to verify if they were taking fire from the hospital? If not or if everyone on the ground agreed then C2 probably revoked the hospitals protected status based on available information.

Phone posted:

I actually laughed out loud at the "The shooter can only shoot one person at a time, he cannot shoot a group of people" line.

Filthy Hans posted:

Nah, I bet Seppuku is plenty effective

AfroLine posted:

Ben Carson was held at gunpoint at a Popeyes. That's wrong.

quote:

CHANNELVIEW, Texas -- A fast food restaurant is robbed and the shift manager says she got fired for refusing to pay the money back.

"I told them I'm not paying nothing," said Marissa Holcomb. "I just had a gun to me. I'm not paying the money."
The heist happened on Mar. 31 at the Popeyes restaurant in the 500 block of Sheldon Road in Channelview and was captured on surveillance video.
In the video, you see a man with a beanie over his face run in waving a gun. He forced all the employees to the floor.
Then, he turned his attention to Holcomb.

"By the back of my shirt, he pulled me up and he pushed me to the front," she recalled. "He told me to give him everything out of my safe."
But the only thing Holcomb could open were the registers. The gunman got away with nearly $400.
Holcomb claimed that after the robbery, one of her managers gave her a choice to either pay the money back or get fired.
"I don't think it's right because now I'm struggling for my family because what I had to do to keep my life," Holcomb said.
Less than 36 hours after the robbery, Holcomb was fired.

The Popeyes franchise owner, Z&H Foods Inc., wouldn't talk on camera. However, a spokesperson in their human resources department explained that Holcomb was fired because she broke policy by leaving too much money in the register, and this wasn't her first offense.
That spokesperson also claimed that if Holcomb was given the option to pay money back, the company knew nothing about it.
Holcomb argued that it was a busy Tuesday when they offer a 2-piece chicken meal for $1.19, and she moved money as fast as she could.
"They got what they got because that's what we made within one hour," she said
We've also learned that Z&H Foods Inc. isn't the only company with this type of policy. Some other fast food restaurants have rules about how much money is in the till and how much an employee is liable for.
That's little comfort for Holcomb, who is not only unemployed but pregnant with her fourth child. She's constantly filling out applications but doesn't expect anyone to hire her now.
"I mean who's gonna call me? I'm 5 months pregnant," she said. "The fact that I got robbed at gunpoint and it's like nobody cares."
Cheryl Bachelder, CEO of Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Inc. issued the following statement in response to the story:

"We recently became aware of a story in Houston involving a Popeyes restaurant and employee. The restaurant is operated by an independent franchisee of the Popeyes brand. We have spoken to the local franchise owner of the restaurant, and he has taken immediate action to reach out to the employee to apologize and rectify the situation. While the facts are gathered, we will closely monitor this until it is appropriately resolved. We deeply regret the distress this situation has caused."

ChairMaster posted:

By no means should you guys believe that our country is any good, I'm pretty sure Harper's gonna end up with a majority in this election and be declared god-emperor for life at this rate. Canadian politics are currently a complete nightmare, which is why I'm paying attention to American politics, because as much as everyone here hates to admit it, what happens in America really does matter a lot to Canada. If America of all places can elect a socialist, then that at least sets a good example for my stupid rear end fellow countrymen.

Mitt Romney posted:

Didn't Canada wanting to elect a far left wing candidate split the party vote and allow a conservative (Harper?) to be president for a while?

Cardboard Box A posted:

LeeMajors posted:

Bin Laden won.

Fried Chicken posted:

Epic High Five posted:

Donald Trump is not only the strongest GOP candidate, but he's also the closest one to a normal human being and literally the only one on stage tonight that didn't literally propose loving everybody under 40 for the rest of their lives to maintain a status quo that they then spent 2 hours railing against

Why did I quit drinking

WhiskeyJuvenile posted:

CNBC was terrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrible

greatn posted:

It was embarrassing and the worst thing in the prequels

Hieronymous Alloy posted:

Y'all overthunkin it. It's because the Republicans are whiny baby candidates and Hillary isn't.

Vivian Darkbloom posted:

Bernie's out of step with the usual idea of socialism, which requires public control of the means of production. I'd say he's more of a social democrat, which is a compromise between socialism and liberalism.

The Crotch posted:

Wait, do Americans not have butter tarts?

SLOSifl posted:

Show me the birth certificate (in English and French -- en français et en langue de chien)