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  • M Munchies_Matt

    I didnt attach any meaning to the fact, you imagined it, because you want to. You want the easy slur of racism. Its a cheap card to play, about as cheap as they get, and says more about you than you think.

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    A_Griffin
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    Go stuff a cake down your gob

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      Go stuff a cake down your gob

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      Oh what an utter child you are! That explains so much about the immaturity of your posts. You accuse me of not looking in depth, yet you got the gun issue completely wrong in your simplistic thinking. Thats just one example.

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      • realJSOPR realJSOP

        Gun control has racist origins. After the civil war, the democrats in congress were worried that blacks would be able to easier exact revenge for being held as slaves if they had access to guns, so the first gun control laws were aimed expressly at them. The KKK was widely regarded as the militant arm of the democratic party. It really baffles me that any person of color would count himself among the ranks of democrats. Historically speaking, racism is more deeply rooted on the left than on the right. Of course, you have to have been taught actual history instead of liberal agenda-driven history re-write in order to understand the history of things.

        ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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        When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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        John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

        It really baffles me that any person of color would count himself among the ranks of democrats.

        Surely the Democrats have moved somewhat Left of:

        George Wallace (Dem):

        Let us rise to the call of freedom- loving blood that is in us and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South. In the name of the greatest people that have ever trod this earth, I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny . . . and I say . . . segregation today . . . segregation tomorrow . . . segregation forever.

        have they not? After all, they successfully fielded a desegregated Presidential Candidate.

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        • realJSOPR realJSOP

          Gun control has racist origins. After the civil war, the democrats in congress were worried that blacks would be able to easier exact revenge for being held as slaves if they had access to guns, so the first gun control laws were aimed expressly at them. The KKK was widely regarded as the militant arm of the democratic party. It really baffles me that any person of color would count himself among the ranks of democrats. Historically speaking, racism is more deeply rooted on the left than on the right. Of course, you have to have been taught actual history instead of liberal agenda-driven history re-write in order to understand the history of things.

          ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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          You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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          When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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          Le centriste
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          Racism is the base of right-wing extremism. Look at those white supremacists groups, often inspired by the extreme right nazism.

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          • L Le centriste

            Racism is the base of right-wing extremism. Look at those white supremacists groups, often inspired by the extreme right nazism.

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            However, we have thousands upon thousands of Democratic neo-nazis in the United States. Yes, that's right, leftists. So, you can't just use right-wing extremism, you need to throw the left in there too. Just saying...

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            • D den2k88

              DRHuff wrote:

              you would be more like Chicago

              Which has harsh gun control laws and a radicated organized crime. As New York does. As Italy does. It seems that organized crime and gun bans go very well together... Maybe because it's easy to buy the police but not so easy to buy each and every citizen?

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              den2k88 wrote:

              It seems that organized crime and gun bans go very well together...

              As you'd know, if you gave it a moment's thought, it's not organized crime that's the problem.

              • It's the hordes of jackasses who keep them in their pickup trucks in case someone beeps there horn at them.
              • It's the gangs (organized crime seedlings that need guns to grow big and strong)
              • It's people with mental illness, whose acquisition of guns was actively protected by the NRA
              • Etcetera   Etcetera.   Etcetera

              I really really really hope the next big wild shoot-em-up is at an NRA convention. I just got to hear how they spin that story whilst their fellow members bleed out.

              Ravings en masse^

              "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

              "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                den2k88 wrote:

                It seems that organized crime and gun bans go very well together...

                As you'd know, if you gave it a moment's thought, it's not organized crime that's the problem.

                • It's the hordes of jackasses who keep them in their pickup trucks in case someone beeps there horn at them.
                • It's the gangs (organized crime seedlings that need guns to grow big and strong)
                • It's people with mental illness, whose acquisition of guns was actively protected by the NRA
                • Etcetera   Etcetera.   Etcetera

                I really really really hope the next big wild shoot-em-up is at an NRA convention. I just got to hear how they spin that story whilst their fellow members bleed out.

                Ravings en masse^

                "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                W∴ Balboos wrote:

                I really really really hope the next big wild shoot-em-up is at an NRA convention

                Ah, thank you for showing your true face. Following that "logic", shooting ranges should be the first theaters of homicides, all those psychos with guns and ammo. Instead the best mass killings happen in gun free zones. Dallas and Zurich should be real cemeteries filled with dead bodies while London and New York should be the safest places, guess what...

                GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

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                • W W Balboos GHB

                  den2k88 wrote:

                  It seems that organized crime and gun bans go very well together...

                  As you'd know, if you gave it a moment's thought, it's not organized crime that's the problem.

                  • It's the hordes of jackasses who keep them in their pickup trucks in case someone beeps there horn at them.
                  • It's the gangs (organized crime seedlings that need guns to grow big and strong)
                  • It's people with mental illness, whose acquisition of guns was actively protected by the NRA
                  • Etcetera   Etcetera.   Etcetera

                  I really really really hope the next big wild shoot-em-up is at an NRA convention. I just got to hear how they spin that story whilst their fellow members bleed out.

                  Ravings en masse^

                  "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                  "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                  W∴ Balboos wrote:

                  I really really really hope the next big wild shoot-em-up is at an NRA convention. I just got to hear how they spin that story whilst their fellow members bleed out.

                  NRA members aren't the problem, these shooters are generally left-wing and democrat. So you want NRA members to be shot because they are supporting the rights of democrats rather than wanting to stop the left-wing democrats from becoming shooters in the first place? The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

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                    W∴ Balboos wrote:

                    I really really really hope the next big wild shoot-em-up is at an NRA convention. I just got to hear how they spin that story whilst their fellow members bleed out.

                    NRA members aren't the problem, these shooters are generally left-wing and democrat. So you want NRA members to be shot because they are supporting the rights of democrats rather than wanting to stop the left-wing democrats from becoming shooters in the first place? The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

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                    F-ES Sitecore wrote:

                    they are supporting the rights

                    To buy armor-piecing bullets To allow insane people to buy guns (legally) To oppose any sane limitation on the firepower available without a permit. How'd you like your neighbors to be stocking RPG's and Landmines? Maybe a Quad-50 on their vehicle, too. That's what the NRA protects. It's like the parallel, with the concept of theft: if you didn't have fence's willing to buy the stolen property it would be less useful to steal. Or graft - the source of endless criminal activity. Both allow it to be done - and then use that same whine you just implied - that "we didn't do it". The NRA are enablers.

                    Ravings en masse^

                    "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                    "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                    • D den2k88

                      W∴ Balboos wrote:

                      I really really really hope the next big wild shoot-em-up is at an NRA convention

                      Ah, thank you for showing your true face. Following that "logic", shooting ranges should be the first theaters of homicides, all those psychos with guns and ammo. Instead the best mass killings happen in gun free zones. Dallas and Zurich should be real cemeteries filled with dead bodies while London and New York should be the safest places, guess what...

                      GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

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                      W Balboos GHB
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                      den2k88 wrote:

                      true face.

                      Ahhh. My true face. It is in there: for those who insist on creating a condition I wish them to reap the benefits thereof - personally. So making fun of the murder of children in Connecticut - conspiracy stories, claiming it never happened. That's the group in which you've gone to search for your face. Those rotten victims? They should never have gotten in the shooters line of site, spoiling his/her aim at their true targets. If they recover, they should be jailed

                      Ravings en masse^

                      "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                      "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                      • W W Balboos GHB

                        den2k88 wrote:

                        true face.

                        Ahhh. My true face. It is in there: for those who insist on creating a condition I wish them to reap the benefits thereof - personally. So making fun of the murder of children in Connecticut - conspiracy stories, claiming it never happened. That's the group in which you've gone to search for your face. Those rotten victims? They should never have gotten in the shooters line of site, spoiling his/her aim at their true targets. If they recover, they should be jailed

                        Ravings en masse^

                        "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                        "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                        Your true face is that of a person who calls for another massacre, of your political antagonists, to prove a point. That's revolting.

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                        • D den2k88

                          Your true face is that of a person who calls for another massacre, of your political antagonists, to prove a point. That's revolting.

                          GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++*      Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X

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                          W Balboos GHB
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                          Only you would fail to see that I'm assuming that, since nothing's changed, more massacres will occur.   Accepting that as inevitable, my hope is simply that the consequences be laid upon the cause. Those who oppose any attempt at halting the slaughter. Let them know what it's like first-hand. Or - in a word - JUSTICE

                          Ravings en masse^

                          "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                          "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                          • W W Balboos GHB

                            F-ES Sitecore wrote:

                            they are supporting the rights

                            To buy armor-piecing bullets To allow insane people to buy guns (legally) To oppose any sane limitation on the firepower available without a permit. How'd you like your neighbors to be stocking RPG's and Landmines? Maybe a Quad-50 on their vehicle, too. That's what the NRA protects. It's like the parallel, with the concept of theft: if you didn't have fence's willing to buy the stolen property it would be less useful to steal. Or graft - the source of endless criminal activity. Both allow it to be done - and then use that same whine you just implied - that "we didn't do it". The NRA are enablers.

                            Ravings en masse^

                            "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                            "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                            Look at the YouTube shooter. She was just a regular legal gun-owner. What's telling is that rather than criticise the person who pulled the trigger you criticise an organisation that simply supports the rights of regular citizens. That kinda comes off like you have an agenda. You know, like the people who blame Trump for these shootings when they didn't blame Obama for the shootings that happened under his watch. You know the types.

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                              Only you would fail to see that I'm assuming that, since nothing's changed, more massacres will occur.   Accepting that as inevitable, my hope is simply that the consequences be laid upon the cause. Those who oppose any attempt at halting the slaughter. Let them know what it's like first-hand. Or - in a word - JUSTICE

                              Ravings en masse^

                              "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                              "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                              There's no rational evidence that NRA supports are responsible for these shootings, neither physical, moral nor philosophical. So what you're basically saying is that people deserve to be murdered if they act in a way that you personally object to. This is why these shooters are usually left-wing democrats.

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                                Racism is the base of right-wing extremism. Look at those white supremacists groups, often inspired by the extreme right nazism.

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                                And do you - like so many others - lump everyone to the right of you in with those right wing extremists? Racist extremists are given far more credit for power and numbers than they really deserve - primarily because the left wing media likes to use them to try to paint the entire right side of the spectrum in a similar mold.

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                                extreme right nazism.

                                That would be the extreme right National Socialists?

                                I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended. I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended. Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like. Dave

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                                  There's no rational evidence that NRA supports are responsible for these shootings, neither physical, moral nor philosophical. So what you're basically saying is that people deserve to be murdered if they act in a way that you personally object to. This is why these shooters are usually left-wing democrats.

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                                  F-ES Sitecore wrote:

                                  This is why these shooters are usually left-wing democrats.

                                  So typical. I'm surprised you didn't add "Obama Inspired" to that. He's the permanent boggy-man in the Republiscum closet. NRA, through it's financial control of many senators/congressman, is hard at work maintaining the status quo. To them, the status quo is quite acceptable. I'd like to change that by making them take a real first-hand interest in being shot at by a stranger

                                  Ravings en masse^

                                  "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                                  "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                                    Look at the YouTube shooter. She was just a regular legal gun-owner. What's telling is that rather than criticise the person who pulled the trigger you criticise an organisation that simply supports the rights of regular citizens. That kinda comes off like you have an agenda. You know, like the people who blame Trump for these shootings when they didn't blame Obama for the shootings that happened under his watch. You know the types.

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                                    How about you look at all the other shooters - able to purchase massive cache's of guns and ammo - without so much as a second look. Certainly not in gun-monger states. I find it quite amazing:   if you have been to prison you cannot own a gun. If you are mentally unstable, you can (they insist !) . . . obvious conclusion . . . NRA would lose half its membership if the insane couldn't own guns. And as alluded to noted in another post - when will you Republiscum going to stop invoking "Obama" every time you find yourself in an indefensible position?

                                    Ravings en masse^

                                    "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                                    "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                                      F-ES Sitecore wrote:

                                      This is why these shooters are usually left-wing democrats.

                                      So typical. I'm surprised you didn't add "Obama Inspired" to that. He's the permanent boggy-man in the Republiscum closet. NRA, through it's financial control of many senators/congressman, is hard at work maintaining the status quo. To them, the status quo is quite acceptable. I'd like to change that by making them take a real first-hand interest in being shot at by a stranger

                                      Ravings en masse^

                                      "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                                      "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                                      W∴ Balboos wrote:

                                      I'm surprised you didn't add "Obama Inspired" to that.

                                      Why would I add that? I'm a rational person, a realist, no president is responsible for these things, neither Trump now nor Obama then. Maybe you just struggle to deal with rational arguments and instead seek to frame them with your own view of the world. Similarly the NRA isn't responsible either. I know you're looking for an easy quick-fix but alas it doesn't exist as the cause of these things isn't a single thing, that's far too a simplistic and naive way to look at the world. Being naive and posting garbage on the internet is one thing, but that naivety resulting you in wanting people to be shot? Crazy.

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                                        And do you - like so many others - lump everyone to the right of you in with those right wing extremists? Racist extremists are given far more credit for power and numbers than they really deserve - primarily because the left wing media likes to use them to try to paint the entire right side of the spectrum in a similar mold.

                                        The Centrist wrote:

                                        extreme right nazism.

                                        That would be the extreme right National Socialists?

                                        I'm pretty sure I would not like to live in a world in which I would never be offended. I am absolutely certain I don't want to live in a world in which you would never be offended. Freedom doesn't mean the absence of things you don't like. Dave

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                                        DRHuff wrote:

                                        nd do you - like so many others - lump everyone to the right of you in with those right wing extremists?

                                        No.

                                        DRHuff wrote:

                                        That would be the extreme right National Socialists?

                                        This is only a name. The actual name of North Korea is Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Do you consider NK a democracy? And what about the Civil Rights Movement? Is it a right-wing movement? A name is what it is, just a name. It is the actions that defines what you actually are.

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                                          How about you look at all the other shooters - able to purchase massive cache's of guns and ammo - without so much as a second look. Certainly not in gun-monger states. I find it quite amazing:   if you have been to prison you cannot own a gun. If you are mentally unstable, you can (they insist !) . . . obvious conclusion . . . NRA would lose half its membership if the insane couldn't own guns. And as alluded to noted in another post - when will you Republiscum going to stop invoking "Obama" every time you find yourself in an indefensible position?

                                          Ravings en masse^

                                          "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein

                                          "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010

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                                          Given a fraction of a percent of people killed by guns are from mass-shootings from people will legally owned guns I guess I'll leave you to your crusading. After all if your lobbying stops 0.00001% of murder victims being killed then I guess it's all worth it. The ends justify the means, right?

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