Timeline for introvert list by m14brony, page 55
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@awlditzy Such people are used by other powers for the gain of the elite running such powers, just as the Ukrainian separatists are being cynically used as pawns by the Kremlin even though they have a right to defend themselves from fascist auxiliaries employed by Kiev.
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@metaltao I will just get a white selective fire M14, as that would be classified as a battle rifle, not an assault rifle. ;)
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@metaltao Thanks to Ronald Reagan closing the NFA registry on machine guns and genuine assault rifles in 1986, I don't own any assault rifles. :P
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@metaltao So assault rifles are okay as long as they have a black, flat dark earth, etc. finish on them? :P
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@redenchilada Scapegoating guns is a convenient way for politicians to divert attention away from things like income inequality, lack of access to mental healthcare, etc. When the Tsarnaev brothers used a pressure cooker bomb to kill and wound people, the media presented the problem as being those two brothers. When Adam Lanza stole his mother's guns and killed teachers and children, the media presented the problem as being firearms.
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@redenchilada Admittedly, I strongly support the right to self-defense as well, but that is often done with handguns (hopefully I will never have to resort to using it, but I do have a concealed carry permit and carry a Glock 19 around with me), as opposed to the "assault rifles" that are often targeted by anti-gun politicians (the AR-15, AK, etc. models on shelves in gun shops are semi-auto only and are therefore not genuine assault rifles).
I don't have a problem with keeping guns around the home for self-defense; my Glock 17 is outfitted with a tactical light if I ever have to defend myself in the home (using a rifle would present over-penetration problems in an apartment complex). People with children should make sure that their kids cannot easily access their firearms. -
@redenchilada Aside from personally enjoying collecting and shooting firearms, no reliable evidence has proven that guns are responsible for the violent crime that anti-gun types typically attribute to gun ownership. It is true that the USA (more relaxed gun control in many states) has a higher rate of violent crime than Japan (strict anti-gun laws on the books). However, Switzerland has more relaxed gun control laws vis-à-vis other countries in Europe, and their violent crime rate is much lower than that of the United Kindgom (strong anti-gun laws on the books over there).
I have always found it ironic that there are so-called progressives that complain about police brutality on the one hand and then effectively say that these very same police should be the only people with guns by coming out against the idea of civilians being allowed to own fireams. -
@redenchilada It seems a good deal of people assume that supporting gun ownership is a "conservative issue;" such people seem to rely heavily on false dichotomy fallacies. It seems that some people have trouble processing the idea of a gun control opponent being on the left wing of the political spectrum.
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@redenchilada The head of a petty-bourgeois "social justice warrior" would explode upon learning that I strongly support civilian gun ownership in spite of not being remotely conservative. :P
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@redenchilada Wait until they find out about my gun privilege.
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@awlditzy Regardless of the situation, it sounds like a typical case of bad parenting to me. I will lay odds that no small number of children learn such profanity from their parents. Of course, such things are bound to happen when parenting is largely considered to be a right instead of a privilege as it should be.
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I have worked far ahead enough on my HVAC homework to allow myself to spend the rest of the school week studying for my math test-out. :)
Monday, 09-Mar-15 06:26:41 UTC from web -
@rednorth I never bothered with Pokemon, even during the height of its popularity back in the late 1990's.
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Hm. I may get a Venezuelan PK-A optic for my SAM7SF.
Sunday, 08-Mar-15 05:46:10 UTC from web -
Potato.
