Author Topic: The Gun Control Bandwagon (Read 77045 times)

Ben · « **Reply #100 on:** February 22, 2018, 11:02:12 PM »

So I saw the bank that the NRA uses for their credit card has caved to protestors and is no longer providing card service. First National of Omaha I think.

Pb · « **Reply #101 on:** February 23, 2018, 01:09:37 PM »

I made an error, I forgot the Lautenberg Amendment was passed by congress in 1996... so the last federal gun control I can recall was about 22 years ago...

MechAg94 · « **Reply #102 on:** February 23, 2018, 01:10:33 PM »

Quote from: Ben on February 22, 2018, 11:02:12 PM

So I saw the bank that the NRA uses for their credit card has caved to protestors and is no longer providing card service. First National of Omaha I think.

Rush mentioned that. He suspects they caved to fake Twitter bots protesting.

Ben · « **Reply #103 on:** February 23, 2018, 04:00:20 PM »

MSNBC hot take:

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Lawrence (Tribe): A bullet fired from an AR-15 travels 3x faster than one from a handgun.

And yet the president and the NRA think giving teachers guns will stop a school shooter

Since the AR-15 bullet travels faster, the handgun is useless against it. "Party of science", yo.

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/2018/02/23/satire-is-dead-msnbc-anchors-get-dragged-for-incredibly-dumb-take-on-gun-physics/

Angel Eyes · « **Reply #104 on:** February 23, 2018, 06:08:44 PM »

abovethelaw.com never fails to entertain:

https://abovethelaw.com/2018/02/you-realize-arming-teachers-is-going-to-lead-to-black-students-getting-murdered-by-their-teacher-right/

But what if the armed teacher is a person of color? Will (s)he start shooting white students? The author doesn't say.

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #105 on:** February 23, 2018, 08:37:45 PM »

Quote from: Angel Eyes on February 23, 2018, 06:08:44 PM

abovethelaw.com never fails to entertain:

https://abovethelaw.com/2018/02/you-realize-arming-teachers-is-going-to-lead-to-black-students-getting-murdered-by-their-teacher-right/

But what if the armed teacher is a person of color? Will (s)he start shooting white students? The author doesn't say.

My sense of humor is currently off line for maintenance. Please tell me that is satire.

Angel Eyes · « **Reply #106 on:** February 23, 2018, 09:07:12 PM »

Quote from: RoadKingLarry on February 23, 2018, 08:37:45 PM

My sense of humor is currently off line for maintenance. Please tell me that is satire.

It does read like The Onion, doesn't it? Unfortunately, no such luck.

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #107 on:** February 23, 2018, 09:25:47 PM »

dammit, I said please...

Angel Eyes · « **Reply #108 on:** February 23, 2018, 10:04:27 PM »

Also not satire:

http://www.miamiherald.com/article201604224.html

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On the afternoon of Feb. 20, detectives investigated a report of terroristic threats at the school, where they learned that a student had been completing a math problem that required drawing the square-root sign.

Students in the group began commenting that the symbol, which represents a number that when multiplied by itself equals another number, looked like a gun.

So if you do math, someone may call the cops on you.

Better not draw the infinity symbol; someone might mistake it for a side-by-side shotgun.

Ben · « **Reply #109 on:** February 23, 2018, 10:31:28 PM »

Quote from: Angel Eyes on February 23, 2018, 10:04:27 PM

Also not satire:

http://www.miamiherald.com/article201604224.html

So if you do math, someone may call the cops on you.

Better not draw the infinity symbol; someone might mistake it for a side-by-side shotgun.

No. That's not real. That can't be real. It just can't. I can't have phase-shifted into another alternate reality again. Not again.

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #110 on:** February 23, 2018, 10:53:07 PM »

Suck it up old man, that *expletive deleted*it is as real as it gets.

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #111 on:** February 23, 2018, 11:07:54 PM »

And the media lies continue: http://www.newsweek.com/five-gun-control-bills-congress-could-pass-wake-florida-shooting-816327

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Just last year, congressional Republicans voted to roll back Obama-era legislation that required the Social Security Administration to enter information about individuals with mental illness into the system.

We've discussed this before. The people being entered into NICS by the Social Security Administration were not people who had been adjudicated mentally defective, they were simply people who had designated someone to help them handle their finances. The Veterans Administration did the same thing.

G-d I hate the media!

bedlamite · « **Reply #112 on:** February 24, 2018, 12:19:38 AM »

Ben · « **Reply #113 on:** February 24, 2018, 10:10:05 AM »

"AR-15s tear bodies apart!!!". So says moron "Retired Lt Colonel Ralph Peters" on Fox News right this minute. "A pump action shotgun is what you want for home defense. If you want to shoot an AR-15, join the military."

Firearms expert.

TommyGunn · « **Reply #114 on:** February 24, 2018, 11:32:00 AM »

Quote from: Ben on February 24, 2018, 10:10:05 AM

"AR-15s tear bodies apart!!!". So says moron "Retired Lt Colonel Ralph Peters" on Fox News right this minute. "A pump action shotgun is what you want for home defense. If you want to shoot an AR-15, join the military."

Firearms expert.

My respect for Peters is diminished. If I wanted to choose a weapon that tears people apart, I'd choose the pump shottie, with appropriate loads they very nearly do that. They were the "trench broom" of WW1 and have been used in many wars since.

bedlamite · « **Reply #115 on:** February 24, 2018, 11:58:22 AM »

Quote from: Ben on February 24, 2018, 10:10:05 AM

"AR-15s tear bodies apart!!!". So says moron "Retired Lt Colonel Ralph Peters" on Fox News right this minute. "A pump action shotgun is what you want for home defense. If you want to shoot an AR-15, join the military."

Firearms expert.

And the military needs a new rifle because the AR-15 only puts little pinholes in the enemy and doesn't kill them ...

gunsmith · « **Reply #116 on:** February 24, 2018, 01:51:28 PM »

Quote from: Ben on February 24, 2018, 10:10:05 AM

"AR-15s tear bodies apart!!!". So says moron "Retired Lt Colonel Ralph Peters" on Fox News right this minute. "A pump action shotgun is what you want for home defense. If you want to shoot an AR-15, join the military."

Firearms expert.

paraphrasing the famous nazi quote about how if you want a gun join the hitler youth or wherhmacht ( s.i.c )

deadly force is deadly force.
we do not need to join the army to own rifles, we are already "the people" .... sir

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #117 on:** February 24, 2018, 02:15:10 PM »

Clearly we need to go back to muskets and grape shot, because those old timey type guns don't really hurt people.

Hawkmoon · « **Reply #118 on:** February 24, 2018, 03:57:56 PM »

Quote from: Ben on February 24, 2018, 10:10:05 AM

"AR-15s tear bodies apart!!!". So says moron "Retired Lt Colonel Ralph Peters" on Fox News right this minute. "A pump action shotgun is what you want for home defense. If you want to shoot an AR-15, join the military."

A couple of hours ago I had a loooong telephone conversation with a non-shooter friend who must have seen this video clip. He said he knows how big a 9mm is (although he didn't), and he asked me how much bigger an AR-15 is. He was shocked (seriously, I'm not just using that as an expression) when I told him it's only .22 caliber. He had no idea -- he thought it was on a par with a .50 cal bullet.

Which, of course, is what the media wanted him to believe.

T.O.M. · « **Reply #119 on:** February 24, 2018, 04:16:51 PM »

Quote from: Hawkmoon on February 24, 2018, 03:57:56 PM

A couple of hours ago I had a loooong telephone conversation with a non-shooter friend who must have seen this video clip. He said he knows how big a 9mm is (although he didn't), and he asked me how much bigger an AR-15 is. He was shocked (seriously, I'm not just using that as an expression) when I told him it's only .22 caliber. He had no idea -- he thought it was on a par with a .50 cal bullet.

Which, of course, is what the media wanted him to believe.

Better than some of the morons I've heard in the hallways... because you know the AR-15 uses a "556", which is like 60 times more powerful than just a "9" or even a "40", which is all the police need.

Perd Hapley · « **Reply #120 on:** February 25, 2018, 12:37:45 AM »

Quote from: Chris on February 24, 2018, 04:16:51 PM

Better than some of the morons I've heard in the hallways... because you know the AR-15 uses a "556", which is like 60 times more powerful than just a "9" or even a "40", which is all the police need.

That makes no sense at all! I mean, obviously a 40 must be about 4-1/2 times more powerful than a 9.

BlueStarLizzard · « **Reply #121 on:** February 25, 2018, 12:50:23 AM »

and youtube is at it again.

https://www.full30.com/video/6ae2cc31487b3706e27b6342b892acbc

230RN · « **Reply #122 on:** February 25, 2018, 12:59:46 AM »

Quote from: Ben on February 23, 2018, 10:31:28 PM

No. That's not real. That can't be real. It just can't. I can't have phase-shifted into another alternate reality again. Not again.

Of course it's real. It even has the European-style mag release.

And, hey, converting from metric, that 556 is 21.9 inches. Why, that would tear anything apart.

gunsmith · « **Reply #123 on:** February 25, 2018, 04:10:30 AM »

Quote from: bluestarlizzard on February 24, 2018, 02:15:10 PM

Clearly we need to go back to muskets and grape shot, because those old timey type guns don't really hurt people.

yup, if only they were serious about that assertion.
I would be fine carrying a black powder firearm in NYC.
please, let me carry the same kind of dueling pistols A Hamilton and A Burr had in NYC.
They would quickly back off from the assertion that the @A applies only to muskets

Ben · « **Reply #124 on:** February 25, 2018, 08:38:37 AM »

Well, I'm disappointed to say that Condoleezza Rice is now on the bandwagon. Too much time at Stanford must have gotten to her.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/25/condoleezza-rice-says-us-needs-to-consider-second-amendments-place-in-modern-world.html

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Author Topic: The Gun Control Bandwagon (Read 77045 times)