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Senate Gun Control

Discussion in 'Community' started by Ghost, Dec 14, 2012.

  1. heels1785

    heels1785 Skywalker Saga + JCC Manager / Finally Won A Draft star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    moreso than the virus itself, i'm scared that it's going to amplify violence in general to unforeseen levels. lots more desperation is about to be on the streets, if financial stressors are not universally alleviated and the leadership vacuum continues on, unfilled.
     
  2. Ghost

    Ghost Chosen One star 8

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    There has been a weird spike in housefires in my area lately.
     
  3. EmuBay

    EmuBay Jedi Knight star 1

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    You only need 13 states out of 50 to block a constitutional amendment. I can think of at least 13 states that would block a gun control amendment or, indeed, the Equal Rights Amendment.

    Ruth Bader Ginsburg is correct in reminding progressive activists that if they say pro-ERA states should be allowed to ratify after the expired deadlines, they also have to accept the states that rescinded are allowed to change their minds.
     
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  4. appleseed

    appleseed Chosen One star 5

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    There will never be another Amendment passed.

    Yet another reason why America is fatally flawed and cannot be fixed.
     
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  5. EmuBay

    EmuBay Jedi Knight star 1

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    I always thought the "i am woman, hear me roar"/"Strong Women fight back" thing is foolish in a country awash with guns as the United States is. Seems that every school dance season now, you see that some boy reacts to a girl refusing to be his date to the dance by getting his adult's gun and killing her. @appleseed
     
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  6. Iron_lord

    Iron_lord Chosen One star 10

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    What's right, or wrong, doesn't change merely because the country is awash in guns.

    People have the right to refuse others dates, and anyone who shoots another just for refusing them a date, is a dangerous monster.
     
  7. Mortimer Snerd

    Mortimer Snerd Force Ghost star 4

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    I saw a Newsthump or Onion link on my phone this morning that quipped "With Large Gatherings Cancelled, Mass Shooters Forced to go Door-to-Door" or something like that. I kinda wish that hadn't been put out there like that because it's only a matter of time before some gun nut does exactly that. Or shoots up a hospital. Anything for the next big headline.

    'Murica.
     
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  8. Juliet316

    Juliet316 Chosen One star 10

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    I would just like to point out that Virginia just passed the ERA and became the 38 state and the one to put it over the top to ratify it. Now it's in the courts to make insure that it's enshrined in the Constitution despite the 'expired deadline' deal.
     
  9. EmuBay

    EmuBay Jedi Knight star 1

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    Given the current composition of the supreme court and the fact that 28 of 50 state governments are controlled by the Republicans, i don't like your chances.
     
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  10. Juliet316

    Juliet316 Chosen One star 10

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    Debbie Downer
     
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  11. EmuBay

    EmuBay Jedi Knight star 1

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    Rachel Realist.
     
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  12. heels1785

    heels1785 Skywalker Saga + JCC Manager / Finally Won A Draft star 10 Staff Member Manager

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  13. anakinfansince1983

    anakinfansince1983 Skywalker Saga/LFL/YJCC Manager star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    Howumigonna shoot dem libruls who told me I caint have no party if I caint buy no gun?
     
  14. EmuBay

    EmuBay Jedi Knight star 1

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    and feck the Supreme Court that will support the NRA
    ("It amused Justice Alito to think that, with a gentle press on the trigger, he could bring death to anyone he chose")
     
  15. Juliet316

    Juliet316 Chosen One star 10

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  16. heels1785

    heels1785 Skywalker Saga + JCC Manager / Finally Won A Draft star 10 Staff Member Manager

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    18 years. that's pretty embarrassing.
     
  17. Juliet316

    Juliet316 Chosen One star 10

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    And it took a pandemic for it to happen.
     
  18. FatBurt

    FatBurt Sex Scarecrow Vanquisher star 6

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    See you can do it if try hard enough
     
  19. Juliet316

    Juliet316 Chosen One star 10

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  20. appleseed

    appleseed Chosen One star 5

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    Complete insanity. The guy apparently posed as a mountie.
     
  21. Juliet316

    Juliet316 Chosen One star 10

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  22. FatBurt

    FatBurt Sex Scarecrow Vanquisher star 6

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    Yeah but he's a "sensible" politician or at least a more rational one unlike the entirety of your rabble
     
  23. Obi Anne

    Obi Anne Celebration Mistress of Ceremonies star 8 Staff Member Manager

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    Mexico has a big problem with guns coming in from the US, is it the same in Canada?
     
  24. A Chorus of Disapproval

    A Chorus of Disapproval Head Admin & TV Screaming Service star 10 Staff Member Administrator

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    He is also not owned, body and soul, by the NRA and similar PACs and their money.
     
  25. Darth_Duck

    Darth_Duck Chosen One star 5

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    It is a problem and It was a problem this time.

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/investigation-firearms-ns-shooting-1.5544180

    "Investigators are trying to piece together how Gabriel Wortman was able to obtain the handgun and long guns he used last weekend in a deadly rampage through rural Nova Scotia, including how some made it across the Canada-U.S. border.

    Police have traced one of Wortman's weapons back to Canada, but believe the others may have been obtained in the United States, the RCMP revealed on Friday."