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I am not a lawyer, but my understanding of booby trap law is that they're illegal. However, it's not necessarily illegal to have an unsafe home. So a pit trap in your living room would be illegal, but if you have a bunch of rotting floorboards and you've got dangerous piles of trash and rusty old bicycles, you might avoid the worst problems.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I am not a lawyer, but my understanding of booby trap law is that they're illegal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WllmUTgi5Tg
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Oct 12, 2015 23:28
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mr. mephistopheles posted:How many of those social issues were backed up by a Constitutional Amendment and had a lobby as powerful as the NRA. The NRA's strength is overstated. If you look at the last few election cycles, their win record regarding candidates they support is pretty bad. Some politicians still run from them as though they're invincible, but there's an opening for politicians who challenge them directly.
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Oct 12, 2015 23:29
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Spite posted:I mentioned this in the other thread: the only thing that has resulted in actual gun control in this country is scary minorities showing up to courthouses and polling places with large guns. Why do you think we worked so hard on giving so many felony records?
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Oct 12, 2015 23:30
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Senf posted:Eh, I know an openly-racist, gun-lowing guy that's halfway through the interview process for a local police department. He's on many occasions told me that "all Muslims should be taken care," "profiling isn't racism," and that he "really wants to be able to carry [his] own gun" after he's hired. I seriously looked into becoming a cop a couple years ago for the whole "be the change you want to see" blah blah but I've basically done way too many drugs and there's like two cities in the whole country that don't do polygraphs and they seem almost exclusively designed to catch people who lied about drug use and I wasn't confident I could beat it and it's always one of the last steps in a process that can take up to a year to get through. I get why they'd target people who will unquestionably enforce the law independent of personal beliefs but that tends to make it lean toward dumb motherfuckers who have absolute faith in the law and a very black and white view of morality. mr. mephistopheles fucked around with this message at 23:35 on Oct 12, 2015 |
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Oct 12, 2015 23:32
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I am not a lawyer, but my understanding of booby trap law is that they're illegal. That's not gonna pass inspection though Also i submit that all these justifications for anti booby trap laws could also apply to guns
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Moxie posted:That's not gonna pass inspection though They won't because 2nd Amendment and Murrika.
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Moxie posted:That's not gonna pass inspection though Booby traps are automated and indiscriminate, guns require some level of agency to fire (unless they're rigged to a booby trap, obviously)
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Oct 13, 2015 00:14
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 THIS PERSON Would also throw a fit if someone didn't say Merry Christmas!
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And here's the rest of the miscellaneous Extremely Pissed Off Right Wingers II for this week  So close and yet so far  So sayeth Obama in this macro, while you're looking at the EPORWII site. hm.  Time to give 111%!  Frowny face   ARE VETS  Probably true, considering how black people couldn't vote  Oh that's what you meant  \This macro makes me want to find a freshman philosophy TA and acknowledge the thankless work they do every day  I'm sure this macro contradicts the last one somehow  [citation needed]  I love death  Awkward  Nothing is Racist  How dare you misuse the star trek font for this drivel  White people never realize how privileged they are. A good macro   Ok, sure.  True, capitalism is more complicated than that  jpg artifacts before all!  EPORWII is anti-Darrel Issa?  This is either a comment on right to die or an inadvertent admission that Obamacase is so good it can keep you alive when half your body is missing  That reminds me: why haven't you closed Guantanamo Bay, Barry   California sounds terrible. Surely no one wants to live there...  Dad Jokes  Trump will bring the zombie apocalypse?  This came up in the comments regularly  Fuckin hippies amirite  now more about how illegal immigrants should be deported and get no benefits. "Indians?" really?  Hillary  Can anyone parse this?  Too real, EPORWII. Too real.
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Defenestration posted:
Liberals said that anyone who likes the Confederate flag are evil dumb racists. But then South Carolina got massive flooding and some of the people who owned boats also owned Confederate flags and saved the liberals from drowning. This proves everyone who likes the Confederate flag is a great person and that liberals are dumb.
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Rednecks own big vroom-vroom motor toys which are generally useless outside recreation. In an emergency, they become temporarily useful. Many of these rednecks casually sport a symbol of a slave state, ostensibly for its connotations of rebellion. Thus, all people who support the Confederate flag are lionhearted heroes. At long last, those who decried the Stars 'n' Bars will get their comeuppance for their hubris! Dixie's hallowed ancestors shall taste vengeance 'gainst those who struck their gallant banner AUGHHHHHHHHHHHH i must rest now i.. . i have become most weary
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What the gently caress is up with the typesetting on this one?
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I love this one because it's actually true.
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quote: I haven't gone through the looking glass this hard since the last time Microsoft had an E3 presentation. quote:Too real, though I have other options personally 
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SwitchbladeKult posted:I don't know if it's been posted or not but a meme has been floating around Facebook for days about the "biased anti-gun media" that can be debunked in 30 seconds of Googling. It keeps spreading because the cognitive dissonance of pro-gun advocates is so drat high you can't even speak to them. They refuse to live in the real world. In the wake of dead first graders he was brought in to tell his story on an NPR program: http://www.thestory.org/stories/2013-03/joel-myrick
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Anosmoman posted:Well it seems pro-gun folks are getting excited about mental health issues so that'll surely lead to strong bi-partisan measures to strengthen mental health treatment. No, it'll only lead to mental illness being further demonized and in turn make it harder for the mentally ill to seek treatment. To pro-gun people in America, and the world and even this very board, the mentally ill are nothing more than a scapegoat for them to shift the blame onto. "Surely it cannot be the guns fault, he must have been mentally ill! Goddamn those
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I've been seeing a lot of bullshit lately about how the NAU shooting proves that Ben Carson was right about how to stop shooters. I can't help but wonder if the shooter had managed to kill all his victims before being tackled, if he'd be treated like a George Zimmerman who successfully defended himself from a bunch of thugs.
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Defenestration posted:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/taxes/itin.as Although to be fair the issue looks a lot more complicated then Mexicans bad, but there you go.
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WoodrowSkillson posted:Reagan and Giffords have both happened within living memory, and did not even make a dent. Under Reagan the supply of registered machine guns was frozen at 1985 levels, then in 1991 Bush I signed the import ban on military-type rifles, and then in 1994 Clinton signed in the Assault Weapons Ban which sunset after 10 years. None of those things had any appreciable effect on crime though since registered machine guns have almost never been used in a crime since full auto isn't particularly useful for 99% of even violent criminals and for the few that it is its doable (if not Hollywood-easy) to convert some weapons if you're so highly keen. And the 1991 and 1994 restrictions were pretty close to worthless because they defined "assault weapon" by external features unrelated to lethality or criminal utility, so when companies modified firearms to get them back on the market it wasn't even slightly a loophole, it was following the letter of the law as written. You could argue that the 1991 import ban had some slight utility in raising prices slightly on imported semi-auto rifles to make them compliant, but it also unintentionally served as trade protectionism for small US firms, who all things being equal are much more involved in firearms politics and ideology etc. as opposed to some Belgian factory. TapTheForwardAssist fucked around with this message at 20:00 on Oct 13, 2015 |
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quote:I mentioned this in the other thread: the only thing that has resulted in actual gun control in this country is scary minorities showing up to courthouses and polling places with large guns. A reminder that five sitting Congressmen were shot in 1954 right there on the House Floor by Puerto Rican nationalists up in the visitor's gallery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol_shooting_incident_(1954)
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Defenestration posted:And here's the rest of the miscellaneous Extremely Pissed Off Right Wingers II for this week Even pretending the definition is true, how is the use they are referring to for "racist" a "verb"?
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Under Reagan the supply of registered machine guns was frozen at 1985 levels, then in 1991 Bush I signed the import ban on military-type rifles, and then in 1994 Clinton signed in the Assault Weapons Ban which sunset after 10 years. Exactly, neither did anything to curb the actual kinds of gun ownership that are responsible for the constant stream of mass shootings in this country.
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I agree, we should increase the enforcement budget for the IRS.
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Billy Gnosis posted:Even pretending the definition is true, how is the use they are referring to for "racist" a "verb"? Probably the same reason as the bizarre pronunciation guide.
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James Garfield posted:Probably the same reason as the bizarre pronunciation guide. I'm trying to figure out what that would sound like using IPA characters, and it's loving weird. It's like (R-r-r)aayoo-Sseesst or something as far as I can make out.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I've been seeing a lot of bullshit lately about how the NAU shooting proves that Ben Carson was right about how to stop shooters. heh guns are simultaneously necessary for self-defense and easily defended against if unarmed.
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Brawnfire posted:I'm trying to figure out what that would sound like using IPA characters, and it's loving weird. My favourite thing is that there's only one language that pronounces "rey" as "ray" and it ain't English.
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Oct 13, 2015 22:28
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Defenestration posted:
Yeah... this really irritates me. My parents refuse to admit that thinking all blacks are criminals is racist. Clearly the only reason I call them racists is to win imaginary argument points. I don't talk to them anymore.
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Posting here because of the threads creator. Breitbart using a PAC and using Vilerat's face for it makes me disgusted. Claiming he'd be asking for more investigations make me loving sick. The words "GO gently caress YOURSELF" just seem to not be strong enough.
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:A reminder that five sitting Congressmen were shot in 1954 right there on the House Floor by Puerto Rican nationalists up in the visitor's gallery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Capitol_shooting_incident_(1954) I knew about this but this I didn't know: quote:in 1978 and 1979, they were pardoned by President Jimmy Carter; all four returned to Puerto Rico.
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If you all don't shut the gently caress up about guns I will Helldump this thread again, I don't care what it does to my mental health.
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Fulchrum posted:If you all don't shut the gently caress up about guns I will Helldump this thread again, I don't care what it does to my mental health. Do it motherfucker
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FuzzySkinner posted:Posting here because of the threads creator. Can I get link? I've been trying to find it to no avail.
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Ron Jeremy posted:I knew about this but this I didn't know: In retrospect, the 1980 Election was really unlucky for Carter but also kind of a culmination of a whole bunch of dumb stuff that he did.
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I've seen surprisingly little right wing rage about (or even acknowledgment of) last night's debates. Aside from Huckabee's racist tweet but really that happens every day.
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Lightning Jim posted:Can I get link? I've been trying to find it to no avail. I assume he's talking about this. FuzzySkinner posted:The words "GO gently caress YOURSELF" just seem to not be strong enough.
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PUGGERNAUT posted:I've seen surprisingly little right wing rage about (or even acknowledgment of) last night's debates. Aside from Huckabee's racist tweet but really that happens every day. My favorite so far as been noting the Democratic debate was full of old white people while the GOP debate had a business tycoon, a former CEO, and a neurosurgeon. Actually comparing apples to oranges, but whatever.
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