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teethgrinder posted:That was my only post in the old thread -- I only found out about the wife and daughter because of the CBC interview with the aunt in Toronto. Judging from the statement her family released and statements of her neighbors, I would guess that their relationship did not end well and there hasn't been a ton of contact between them for a while.
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C2C - 2.0 posted:Deterrence is still at thing, y'know. This isn't an insistence by anyone that there be a 100% rate of success regarding anything. It's about minimizing potential harm.
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C2C - 2.0 posted:What? How many people are going to be "shackled" if all but the most hobbyist amounts of explosive materials are tracked? I'm sure shackled isn't the right word...but it's akin to the idea that I have to slide my driver's license through a machine every time I want to buy Sudafed just because people can make Meth out of it.
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If you guys continue to regurgitate links, photos, ideas, posts from other sites and discuss them legitimately while then later demonizing those sites for being horrible for containing such content, I'm just going to keep pointing out how incredibly hypocritical you are for it. If some other site posts something horrifically offensive and you repost it here and it gets pages of comments, don't end it with "yeahhhh THAT OTHER site sucks!". If you're contributing to the problem, at least acknowledge it. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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C2C - 2.0 posted:Deterrence is still at thing, y'know. This isn't an insistence by anyone that there be a 100% rate of success regarding anything. It's about minimizing potential harm. millions of people use black powder and smokeless to reload. at this point i think a grand total of three? people have been killed with bombs utilizing it. there's basically no benefit to restricting it and it causes a lot of people a lot of hassle. no reason to restrict it.
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demonachizer posted:In three letters: It won't be a thing because you're not just pissing off American gun manufacturers and their consumers, you're pissing off Dupont, Dow Chemical, and the Kochs. That's the real big difference. Also, it wouldn't have mattered because they could have bought shotgun shells from Walmart and poured them out. In fact, that's probably what they did.
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C2C - 2.0 posted:Deterrence is still at thing, y'know. This isn't an insistence by anyone that there be a 100% rate of success regarding anything. It's about minimizing potential harm. There is no minimizing harm. You can't stop the people truly dedicated top doing it. No zealot was ever dissuaded by a background check or limit. There's a case to be made for actual criminals being thwarted, but there is no way to stop guys like this. Look at the weapons already used: guns, box cutters, gas(in Tokyo), our own planes, flammable liquid in your pants, pressure cookers, fertilizer, etc. In a modern age where everything is mostly powered off some sort of combustion or high energy, you're never going to be able to legislate it away.
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demonachizer posted:Yeah the guy whose asylum app I translated is pretty much hosed at this point. If he goes back to Chechnya he is doubly hosed though. The whole situation is incredibly depressing. Ramzan Kadyrov, president of Chechnya, is little more than a warlord that acts as a puppet for Moscow. He's lavished with money and in change he acts as a strongman in the state. If you think civil rights are hosed in Russia, just look at Chechnya or any other of Russia's federated states.
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Inspector_71 posted:Somebody was just kind enough to let Shepard Smith know that "my mom loves you!" Joke's on the mom, Shepard Smith is gay.
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You people are aware that going into a gun control derail is pretty much the surest way of ruining this thread, right?
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Crasscrab posted:The whole situation is incredibly depressing. Ramzan Kadyrov, president of Chechnya, is little more than a warlord that acts as a puppet for Moscow. He's lavished with money and in change he acts as a strongman in the state. If you think civil rights are hosed in Russia, just look at Chechnya or any other of Russia's federated states.
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Sir John Falstaff posted:You people are aware that going into a gun control derail is pretty much the surest way of ruining this thread, right?
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Inspector_71 posted:Somebody was just kind enough to let Shepard Smith know that "my mom loves you!" Didn't know it was possible to love somebody as rat faced as that taint. Learned something new everyday.
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demonachizer posted:Funny thing. I lived in Italy for 3 years and have dual citizenship. All of the Italians I know view American "Italians" in an odd light. It is almost like they are caricatures or something. My sister's husband is Italian and he found the North End of Boston to be somewhat hilarious. He is from Milan though so take it with a grain of salt as the North and South are really different. I made an A/T thread about this once, it was titled something like "non-Americans, what do you think of your American counterparts?" The general concensus was that anyone from not America did not feel that Americans claiming to be whatever were like. As a white, Spanish sort of speaking person with an Arabic name, I don't blame them.
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I did kind of hope that somewhere in one of these gun battles would be Willem Dafeo screaming "There was a firefight!" and just firing a pistol straight up in the air. And it was funny until the report about cops getting injured started coming in.
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Catastrophe posted:If you guys continue to regurgitate links, photos, ideas, posts from other sites and discuss them legitimately while then later demonizing those sites for being horrible for containing such content, I'm just going to keep pointing out how incredibly hypocritical you are for it. If some other site posts something horrifically offensive and you repost it here and it gets pages of comments, don't end it with "yeahhhh THAT OTHER site sucks!". If you're contributing to the problem, at least acknowledge it. Thanks for the morality check.
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Crasscrab posted:Didn't know it was possible to love somebody as rat faced as that taint. Learned something new everyday. He is, by far, one of the least deplorable Fox News correspondents.
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codenameFANGIO posted:He is, by far,
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codenameFANGIO posted:He is, by far, one of the least deplorable Fox News correspondents. He is, however, an alumnus of Ole Miss. So there's that.
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Nessus posted:We should get angerbot to make a Gun Control Derail generator because I'm pretty sure they're mathematically all identical. People can just be all ##GCD and then bam, five pages of randomized posters. Set a flag in your profile to say if you want to argue pro-gun, pro-control, or leave it up to chance. Be punished for your automatically generated post content! Things like this are a bit further on the scale than gun control, though, because of the state of mind involved and the chosen materials. Arguments can be cogently made for both sides to a certain degree on the gun debate, but crafting legislation in response to terrorist attacks has been almost universally bad since 9/11. You essentially have all of these laws and restrictions placed arbitrarily because of the last set of resources terrorists used to attack us. You end up not being able to carry shampoo and strip-searching grandpa and kids in a wheelchair to try and filter it out, and then they just change their tactics and do something like this. Now billions have been spent on what many people would consider overreaching laws in the name of protection, just to have bad things happen again. I'm sorry if it got a little to far into gun control territory because it does overlap. It's not my intention to have that argument here, though.
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GreenCard78 posted:I made an A/T thread about this once, it was titled something like "non-Americans, what do you think of your American counterparts?" The general concensus was that anyone from not America did not feel that Americans claiming to be whatever were like. As a white, Spanish sort of speaking person with an Arabic name, I don't blame them. It's weird how people apply national / cultural identity to themselves. I'm Italian but I don't like to tell other Italians that I am, because then they won't shut up about it. They wear kappa and like soccer and poo poo and the only Italian words they know are food related. They identify with a culture which isn't particularly Italian or particularly Canadian either. Hell, very few have even been to Italy and if they were to actually travel there, they wouldn't find much of anything relevant to them at all. It's pretty obnoxious actually when people find it so important embrace their ethnicity when it's for the most part irrelevant to their lives and even totally wrong.
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codenameFANGIO posted:He is, by far, one of the least deplorable Fox News correspondents. Shepard reminds me of the kid who was chosen by popular vote in the Tv Production classes in High School to be the "Serious" news anchor, and ended up with so many language bumbles that we made a clip show of him at the end of the year to celebrate his inability to say the Principal's name correctly.
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codenameFANGIO posted:He is, by far, one of the least deplorable Fox News correspondents. Still doesn't change his rat faced taint status.
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 Christ, my facebook friends are retards.  How can you honestly be politicizing this poo poo right now?(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Told you it would happen the minute people picked up on the story that this guy & the FBI had a run-in.
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Catastrophe posted:If you guys continue to regurgitate links, photos, ideas, posts from other sites and discuss them legitimately while then later demonizing those sites for being horrible for containing such content, I'm just going to keep pointing out how incredibly hypocritical you are for it. If some other site posts something horrifically offensive and you repost it here and it gets pages of comments, don't end it with "yeahhhh THAT OTHER site sucks!". If you're contributing to the problem, at least acknowledge it. Oh, are you back to be a whiny little brat again? What a delight.
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C2C - 2.0 posted:Told you it would happen the minute people picked up on the story that this guy & the FBI had a run-in. It happened with 9/11 too. There were warnings beforehand. There is just only so much people can do without becoming monsters. And even then it's still not a guarantee.
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JohnSherman posted:
Scan that person's page and I guarantee you'll find whining about intrusive background checks for firearms. Actually don't. Watch some kitten cam or something.
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JohnSherman posted:
Because that's what people do? There were people blaming Bush for crazy poo poo that he had no power over, there will be people blaming Obama for crazy poo poo that he has no power over. The politicization exists on both sides, and should come as no surprise.
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Samurai Sanders posted:Yeah, since it's a concept that only exists inside people's minds, I can understand the confusion. So race is as real, as genuine as time and timekeeping? ("Human ethnic differances are made up" is something that annoys the poo poo out of me.)
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Anus Dei posted:Actually don't. Watch some kitten cam or something. That's actually a really great idea right now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxxzGVLwxIQ
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It's obvious we need to get background checks for buying improvised explosive devices from a private seller. What's taking you so long Obama?
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As someone who stayed up way too late listening to police band I am super pumped they got that guy alive. The intensity and suspense of 89 dexter was pretty great.
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SaxMaverick posted:Well, this thread officially devolved faster than tv media did. Thank you for contributing to better it as a thread. Thanks to everybody, especially YOU, the posters at home reading this post about the post about the posts.
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JohnSherman posted:Christ, my facebook friends are retards. Because it's easier than admitting that the world is run by random chance and that every moment of every day you are theoretically at risk from something on a variably sliding scale of odds no matter what you or anyone else does. Between a placebo and the existential dread of life, most everyone will op for the sugar pill and find someone to paint a blame target on.
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Let's honor the biggest hero: the guy who checked his boat and made the capture possible in the first place.
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Radbot posted:Let's honor the biggest hero: the guy who checked his boat and made the capture possible in the first place. Without getting shot in the face!
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