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You don't know shit about me.And that's the problem. Reading your posts, I can see you are an angry guy. Not as angry as Bob, that guy's a hate crime looking for a place to happen, but pretty angry.
All it takes sometimes is one bad day.
Reality is now racist, apparently.
Don't talk to me, talk to cops who still racially profile people.
Where when between 1791 and 1965 did a lone gunman use a gun to randomly kill a group of innocents? The capability of the weapons (eg rounds per second) is irrelevant. This is about human behavior.Wrong
A Brief History of Mass Shootings – Behind the Tower
Maria Esther Hammack provides a survey of mass shootings in the United States as context for the tower shooting.behindthetower.org
We have not changed. What has changed is the lethality of weapons
Muzzle loaders just don’t kill fast enough
Regardless of the rounds per second capability of the guns, people did not pick up a single shot rifle or revolver and walk into a town square or village with the sole intention of killing people.What changed was that you didn't have a gun industry selling to people who shouldn't have guns.
For most of those 174 years, guns didn't fire fast enough to carry out a mass shooting. Can't do a mass shooting from a single-shot muzzle loader.
After Gangsters in the 1930s started using machine guns to kill each other, we imposed sensible gun laws.
What happened after 1965 is two things.
1) Hunting started falling out of fashion as a sport.
2) The Gun industry needed new markets and played on fears to sell them.
You see, before the 1970s, the NRA was actually FOR sensible gun laws. When the Black Panthers started openly carrying weapons in defiance of police, the NRA and Republican governors like Ronald Reagan passed strict new gun laws.
Again, when I got my Illinois FOID card, all I had to do was pinky swear I wasn't a criminal or mentally ill. No background check was done. They didn't talk to my family, my employer, or my friends.
Now, by way of comparison.
When I applied for my mortgage- I received a thorough background check, I had to provide three years of tax records, had to account for every credit card in my name, despite the fact I had previously gotten three mortgages on two previous properties and had a credit score of 805.
When I applied for my current job, they did a credit check, interviewed former co-workers, former employers, made me piss in a bottle, did several thorough interviews, did a criminal background check.
I am currently trying to get my wife's immigration status changed from "work visa" to "Marriage Visa", and to do that, I have to provide my birth certificate, marriage certificate, pictures from our relationship, proof of insurance with her name, proof of bank accounts with both our names, (There are also documents she has to provide as well.)
Many things.What changed?
Who isn’t acknowledging your beliefs? We all know there are a lot of people who believe in the “god did it” story.
What I won’t do is treat science and faith as equivalent. They aren’t. They don’t exist in the same space. It would be intellectually dishonest to say they could.
Had Maine pulled this guys guns YOU would have been screaming bloody murder.
How DARE. They take guns away from a Veteran who has never committed a crime!!
You know it and everyone else does too
Regardless of the rounds per second capability of the guns, people did not pick up a single shot rifle or revolver and walk into a town square or village with the sole intention of killing people.
They “dropped the ball” because they were unwilling to face the backlash from people like you
As I said earlier.
See post 128Regardless of the rounds per second capability of the guns, people did not pick up a single shot rifle or revolver and walk into a town square or village with the sole intention of killing people.
What you mentioned are catalysts or exacerbates to the core problem. My contention is that past peolle for all of their faults, did not go around shooting up innocents.,Many things.
The 24 hour news cycle and sensationalism of these acts.
Politicians all but telling people to stay pissed at one another and stay angry!
the elimination of mental institutions
the increase in population.
the increase in third worlder population
just to name a few.
That right there is a shining example as to how things have changed. 40-50 years ago, a student comes pulling into the HS parking lot with gun racks to go hunting after school. I’ll bet principals, coaches, and teachers who shared the same hunting interest walked out to see the guns and compare notes?Shotguns could be found on gun racks in the back window of nearly every truck in the parking lot at my high school. Nobody gave it a second thought and nobody shot up the school. We have a serious behavioral problem in this country and it starts with people like JoeB who have an insatiable appetite to play the victim in every circumstance. Nothing is ever their fault and they lash out.
I'm talking to racist psychopaths such as yourself, who argue that black people just can't help themselves, that they can't help behaving like violent subhuman criminal shit;
And obviously they didn't read the kookiness you post on message boards either.
And yet providing a simple ID to vote is just too much. Funny stuff.
The problem isn't that blacks commit more crime, it's that the justice system treats them differently.
Again, if you could kill someone with a vote, you MIGHT Have a point. Again, given the shit your part of the country pulled after the Civil War and are still trying to pull off to this very day, you should have no say in running your own elections. They should be monitored like we do for third-world countries.
This is patently false. Blacks do commit more crime per capita. You can say that water isn’t wet as often as you would like, but it doesn’t make it true.
Yeah, we should just let people like you run the country. We would fall in short order if for no other reason that pure stupidity and gullibility.
Since we are talking about guns, do you think things would have turned out at least somewhat different if the Israelis that Hamas attacked would have all been armed? Sure, some would have still been killed, but blazingly walking into someone’s home and shooting would have been a lot more dicey if the entire family was packing.
At the rate that unaccounted for people are walking across our Southern border, it is not inconceivable that some of these are armed and that some of these are out to do harm to the US. I mean, seriously, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist(or a terrorist organization) to figure out that would be an easy way to infilterate our country, small group by small group.
Imagine this happened and they are all activated by their leadership and start going house to house in these blue cities where only the criminals have guns, much like what happened in Israel.
I applaud your eternal optimism that somehow we can make peace with these type people and that they would never do anything to harm us, but at some point the adults(Repulicans) have to protect you gullible imbeciles from yourselves. You can’t continue to “think” like spoiled 18 year olds if you want our country to continue to flourish.
You are anything but chill on this forum.You don't know shit about me.
I am the most chill person in daily life you would ever meet.
And I like every other person on this planet I have had a lot more than just one bad day.
You are projecting your own propensity for violence on everyone else
You are anything but chill on this forum.
So you either save all your bile for this a anonymous venue or you are a dishonest fuck.
I disagree with several conservative posters on this site without resorting to angry rhetoric from them or myself.Yes I disagree with you so I'm just full of bile.
Grow a set
I disagree with several conservative posters on this site without resorting to angry rhetoric from them or myself.
You however cast those who disagree with you as the evil enemy.
So there’s that
Tell ya what. I’m not going to back searching through your garbage posts.Yeah well you have a penchant for making shit up and when I ask you to quote the post where I have said these things you claim I said you never do.
And tell you what why don't you quote a post where I cast people as the "evil enemy"
I know for a fact that I never call anyone "evil" because the word is meaningless subjective tripe.
