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RE: BREAKING: OREGON COLLEGE SHOOTING
October 2, 2015 at 11:16 am
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(October 2, 2015 at 11:12 am)Irrational Wrote: 0% deaths by gun shooting is much better than 1%.
Sure is, but that's not the point. We have limited resources. Can the resources that would be needed to keep guns completely out of the hands of mentally unstable people be better deployed? That's the question. Everything comes with a price tag.
ETA: You could post pictures of a couple drunk-driving accidents that killed ten people and likewise ask how many people need to die this way before the government finally keeps booze out of the hands of drunk drivers...but I don't see Boru or anyone else doing that.
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RE: BREAKING: OREGON COLLEGE SHOOTING
October 2, 2015 at 11:21 am
(October 1, 2015 at 7:52 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (October 1, 2015 at 7:43 pm)Mermaid Wrote: Where are you? That's interesting.
New Zealand. A population of four and a half million, with just over one million privately owned firearms.
Boru
But the difference is my bet is that if gun death started to become a problem, you'd likely do what Australia did after one too many mass shootings. The other thing is that you don't have the same population nor the amount of religiosity nor our pay gap. But I wouldn't be complacent about it. You still don't need big clips or assault rifles anymore than we need rotary phones in an age of cell phones. The biggest thing sane countries have that we don't, is blind worship of an object.
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RE: BREAKING: OREGON COLLEGE SHOOTING
October 2, 2015 at 11:24 am
Yeah, why try to stop these mass shootings. America is fucking number one at them. Isn't it time we're #1 at fucking something?
We have the war on drugs, and the war on gay marriage. Both of those are wasted resources. Apparently it's not okay to buy weed, but you want a gun? Go the fuck right ahead, doesn't matter how sane or insane you are. There's more important shit to worry about. Like gay people getting married.
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RE: BREAKING: OREGON COLLEGE SHOOTING
October 2, 2015 at 11:32 am
You can't carry liquid on a plane but you can walk down a street with an automatic rifle. Its the inconsistency I don't understand.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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RE: BREAKING: OREGON COLLEGE SHOOTING
October 2, 2015 at 11:35 am
(October 2, 2015 at 11:24 am)Divinity Wrote: Yeah, why try to stop these mass shootings. America is fucking number one at them. Isn't it time we're #1 at fucking something?
We have the war on drugs, and the war on gay marriage. Both of those are wasted resources. Apparently it's not okay to buy weed, but you want a gun? Go the fuck right ahead, doesn't matter how sane or insane you are. There's more important shit to worry about. Like gay people getting married.
We're #1 on mass incarceration and false conviction rate, by a long shot. So... y'know... USA! USA!! USA!!! 
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I replied: Can I refuse? Because I find the entire concept of vicarious blood sacrifice atonement to be morally abhorrent, the concept of holding flawed creatures permanently accountable for social misbehaviors and thought crimes to be morally abhorrent, and the concept of calling something "free" when it comes with the strings of subjugation and obedience perhaps the most morally abhorrent of all... and that's without even going into the history of justifying genocide, slavery, rape, misogyny, religious intolerance, and suppression of free speech which has been attributed by your own scriptures to your deity. I want a refund. I would burn happily rather than serve the monster you profess to love.
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RE: BREAKING: OREGON COLLEGE SHOOTING
October 2, 2015 at 11:42 am
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(October 2, 2015 at 11:35 am)TheRocketSurgeon Wrote: (October 2, 2015 at 11:24 am)Divinity Wrote: Yeah, why try to stop these mass shootings. America is fucking number one at them. Isn't it time we're #1 at fucking something?
We have the war on drugs, and the war on gay marriage. Both of those are wasted resources. Apparently it's not okay to buy weed, but you want a gun? Go the fuck right ahead, doesn't matter how sane or insane you are. There's more important shit to worry about. Like gay people getting married.
We're #1 on mass incarceration and false conviction rate, by a long shot. So... y'know... USA! USA!! USA!!!
Let's not forget military spending. Oh, and we have perpetual election seasons, so I suppose we can also boast the longest election cycle of any nation.
We do so many things "better" than anyone else! I get a warm, patriotic glow just thinking of it. 
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RE: BREAKING: OREGON COLLEGE SHOOTING
October 2, 2015 at 11:48 am
(October 2, 2015 at 11:42 am)Crossless1 Wrote: We do so many things "better" than anyone else! I get a warm, patriotic glow just thinking of it.
I've got a red, white and blue boner now.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: BREAKING: OREGON COLLEGE SHOOTING
October 2, 2015 at 11:53 am
(October 2, 2015 at 11:32 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: You can't carry liquid on a plane but you can walk down a street with an automatic rifle. Its the inconsistency I don't understand.
NRA = money = congress.
It's really very simple. The NRA exists to protect the profit margins of the death merchants.
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RE: BREAKING: OREGON COLLEGE SHOOTING
October 2, 2015 at 12:07 pm
(October 2, 2015 at 11:48 am)Faith No More Wrote: (October 2, 2015 at 11:42 am)Crossless1 Wrote: We do so many things "better" than anyone else! I get a warm, patriotic glow just thinking of it.
I've got a red, white and blue boner now.
Ah, the old barber's pole!
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BREAKING: OREGON COLLEGE SHOOTING
October 2, 2015 at 12:39 pm
(October 2, 2015 at 11:32 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: You can't carry liquid on a plane but you can walk down a street with an automatic rifle. Its the inconsistency I don't understand.
The banning of liquids on the street is coming.
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