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Bombadilillo posted:Don you know what Trust me, I know and it pisses me off. It's hell to find any decent priced .22 just for plinking, and when you do it's limited quantities because "Patriotz be hoardin' dem some ammoz 4 da big gunz ban"
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Schnorkles posted:The great irony of gun companies is that they are both rooting for and terrified of any political figure who wants gun control. Presidents advocating for it drives their sales through the roof, though there are obviously issues if they were to get serious measures passed. Thanks to their lobbying and well-trained customers, any serious measures to limit guns seems to be at least a generation or so off.
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I think it's nice that gun manufacturers are able to make the best of a bad situation and see the bright side of things. It's a lesson we should all take to heart and apply in our everyday lives. Lets all try to be like them and maintain a positive outlook in the face of adversity.
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cumshitter posted:I think it's nice that gun manufacturers are able to make the best of a bad situation and see the bright side of things. It's a lesson we should all take to heart and apply in our everyday lives. Lets all try to be like them and maintain a positive outlook in the face of adversity. And hey for most bans they can just start selling new compliant stuff!
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SocketWrench posted:Trust me, I know and it pisses me off. It's hell to find any decent priced .22 just for plinking, and when you do it's limited quantities because "Patriotz be hoardin' dem some ammoz 4 da big gunz ban" Yeah, my old boss was going around the office a few years ago asking everybody if they knew where he could pick up 10,000 or so rounds of .22 "for a friend" He got fired not long after that so we were wondering for a while if we were going to have to worry about whether he ever found any or not because he had already tried to shoot his neighbor for way less
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Lord of Pie posted:Yeah, my old boss was going around the office a few years ago asking everybody if they knew where he could pick up 10,000 or so rounds of .22 "for a friend" If you aren't wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a tactical clip board at all times I don't even know what you are doing with your life.
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Lord of Pie posted:... because he had already tried to shoot his neighbor for way less How was he not arrested/still working?
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Lord of Pie posted:Yeah, my old boss was going around the office a few years ago asking everybody if they knew where he could pick up 10,000 or so rounds of .22 "for a friend" .22, the ammo of FREEDOM! I don't get why everyone thinks it's gonna do them more than jack poo poo against an actual government threat
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SocketWrench posted:.22, the ammo of FREEDOM! I don't get why everyone thinks it's gonna do them more than jack poo poo against an actual government threat FREEDOM MAGIC!
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Schnorkles posted:The great irony of gun companies is that they are both rooting for and terrified of any political figure who wants gun control. Presidents advocating for it drives their sales through the roof, though there are obviously issues if they were to get serious measures passed. Gun companies aren't terrified because they know there's not going to be any 'serious measures' passed. 20 schoolchildren were brutally gunned down and all anyone can talk about is "well maybe more background checks" or some other bogus intellectual dishonesty, because nobody wants to go down the path of "maybe the ~*~founding fathers, praise be unto them~*~ straight-up got it wrong when it came to the Second Amendment."
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Gun companies aren't terrified because they know there's not going to be any 'serious measures' passed. 20 schoolchildren were brutally gunned down and all anyone can talk about is "well maybe more background checks" or some other bogus intellectual dishonesty, because nobody wants to go down the path of "maybe the ~*~founding fathers, praise be unto them~*~ straight-up got it wrong when it came to the Second Amendment." The founding fathers really couldn't have possibly imagined the weapons technology of the future considering that they had been using breech loading muskets for over a hundred (hundreds?) years at that point If I could, I'd like to go back in time and have a military man of the era, like Washington, try out a crate of handguns and assault rifles and see how he responds.
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it's pretty fun imagining a founding father trying to comprehend modern weaponry. it'd be like me trying to imagine the future weapons and all i can think of is that one episode of star trek where kirk goes to the evil universe and finds out that evil kirk has a secret computer that basically displays anyone on a monitor and that person will be instantly killed
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Mr. Pumroy posted:it's pretty fun imagining a founding father trying to comprehend modern weaponry. it'd be like me trying to imagine the future weapons and all i can think of is that one episode of star trek where kirk goes to the evil universe and finds out that evil kirk has a secret computer that basically displays anyone on a monitor and that person will be instantly killed Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Considering how staggeringly high the body counts were in wars in the revolutionary war and civil war I imagine they would be surprised the human race was even still alive.
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I don't think it would take long at all for someone like Jackson especially to come to grips with the operation of a modern assault rifle and think up a few dozen hundred things he'd like to utilize them for
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Epic High Five posted:I don't think it would take long at all for someone like Jackson especially to come to grips with the operation of a modern assault rifle and think up a few dozen hundred things he'd like to utilize them for True, Jackson really did live for murder
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I wrote a change dot org petition to have the president say the words "did you know we technically have the ability to repeal the 2nd amendment?" It got zero thumbs up or whatever the gently caress metric counter eventually merits a response.
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Once again, if we impliment gun control then the Founding Fathers will not get the blood sacrifices needed to ensure that the sun continues to rise and the sigils holding the lovecraftian horrors sealed beneath the various D.C. monuments will weaken enough for them to escape.
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Like even the founders were smart enough to realize that the constitution shouldn't last forever:Thomas Jefferson posted:Every constitution, then, and every law, naturally expires at the end of nineteen years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of right. It may be said, that the succeeding generation exercising, in fact, the power of repeal, this leaves them as free as if the constitution or law had been expressly limited to nineteen years only. In the first place, this objection admits the right, in proposing an equivalent. But the power of repeal is not an equivalent. It might be, indeed, if every form of government were so perfectly contrived, that the will of the majority could always be obtained, fairly and without impediment. But this is true of no form. The people cannot assemble themselves; their representation is unequal and vicious. Various checks are opposed to every legislative proposition. Factions get possession of the public councils, bribery corrupts them, personal interests lead them astray from the general interests of their constituents; and other impediments arise, so as to prove to every practical man, that a law of limited duration is much more manageable than one which needs a repeal. Meanwhile in highschool history class instead of learning the above we were taught that the founders wanted the constitution to be super-hard to change because they got it perfect on the
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Like even the founders were smart enough to realize that the constitution shouldn't last forever: The Founding Fathers, praises be upon them, weren't indoctrinated with two centuries worth of mythology that holds their documents as sacred truth from God's own hand like most of the old farts that dominate the electorate. That and they weren't quite as programmed with the idea that guns are divine tools of justice that everyone needs at all times like these hicks.
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Geostomp posted:The Founding Fathers, praises be upon them, weren't indoctrinated with two centuries worth of mythology that holds their documents as sacred truth from God's own hand like most of the old farts that dominate the electorate. That and they weren't quite as programmed with the idea that guns are divine tools of justice that everyone needs at all times like these hicks. If they repeal the second amendment, I'd just like to see them try to take God's guns away
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citybeatnik posted:Once again, if we impliment gun control then the Founding Fathers will not get the blood sacrifices needed to ensure that the sun continues to rise and the sigils holding the lovecraftian horrors sealed beneath the various D.C. monuments will weaken enough for them to escape. It's already starting. Why do you think the Washington monument is closed all the time? That's why all background checks and restrictions on weapons should be repealed.
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Mirthless posted:Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Considering how staggeringly high the body counts were in wars in the revolutionary war and civil war I imagine they would be surprised the human race was even still alive. It's always a little sobering to think just what would have happened if nukes were invented any earlier.
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Geostomp posted:The Founding Fathers, praises be upon them, weren't indoctrinated with two centuries worth of mythology that holds their documents as sacred truth from God's own hand like most of the old farts that dominate the electorate. That and they weren't quite as programmed with the idea that guns are divine tools of justice that everyone needs at all times like these hicks. I mean I'd go so far as to say that the second amendment absolutely did make sense at the time, the same way the third amendment probably seemed like a perfectly reasonable response to Britain using private homes to house soldiers but now just seems weird and antiquated and not something anyone would expect to have in the supreme document governing the government itself.
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Advantageous posted:It's already starting. Why do you think the Washington monument is closed all the time? That's why all background checks and restrictions on weapons should be repealed. More importantly, where do you think Cruz came from
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Advantageous posted:It's already starting. Why do you think the Washington monument is closed all the time? That's why all background checks and restrictions on weapons should be repealed. This is what is buried under the Washington monument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7iVsdRbhnc
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Haystack posted:It's always a little sobering to think just what would have happened if nukes were invented any earlier. Isn't one of the current theories as to why there's been no signs of intelligent life out there is that, on the universe's time scale, it wasn't that long ago that it was relatively easy to make nukes with the material on hand and that they might have blown themselves to extinction while still at the feudalism stage of civilization? zeal posted:More importantly, where do you think Cruz came from If it's a legitimate lovecraftian horror reality has ways of shutting it down.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:I mean I'd go so far as to say that the second amendment absolutely did make sense at the time, the same way the third amendment probably seemed like a perfectly reasonable response to Britain using private homes to house soldiers but now just seems weird and antiquated and not something anyone would expect to have in the supreme document governing the government itself. Ummm, the modern interpretation of the 3rd Amendment means freedom from government intrusion, since the whole point of quarter troops in private residences was to keep watch on citizens and/or coerce the populace, similar to what Louis XIV did by billeting dragoons in the homes of the Protestant Hugenots in France to intimidate them into converting to Catholicism) Most famously, the 3rd Amendment was referenced in Griswold v. Connecticut, where the Supreme Court ruled that the government had no right to enforce the Comstock contraception laws because the defendants had a right to marital privacy, and was one of the establishing cases for Roe v. Wade.
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Young Freud posted:Ummm, the modern interpretation of the 3rd Amendment means freedom from government intrusion, since the whole point of quarter troops in private residences was to keep watch on citizens and/or coerce the populace, similar to what Louis XIV did by billeting dragoons in the homes of the Protestant Hugenots in France to intimidate them into converting to Catholicism) gently caress yeah penumbra.
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Peztopiary posted:How was he not arrested/still working? Arkansas
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Lord of Pie posted:Arkansas Used to live in the Good Part of AR, can confirm story is plausible
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Young Freud posted:Ummm, the modern interpretation of the 3rd Amendment means freedom from government intrusion, since the whole point of quarter troops in private residences was to keep watch on citizens and/or coerce the populace, similar to what Louis XIV did by billeting dragoons in the homes of the Protestant Hugenots in France to intimidate them into converting to Catholicism) More recently courts don't seem to think the 3rd amendment applies, at least as far as law enforcement is concerned. By that ruling at least, as long as the court doesn't consider law enforcement as "soldiers" they can occupy your home indefinitely.
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zeal posted:More importantly, where do you think Cruz came from I thought we were all in agreement that he was a urine golem?
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Lord of Pie posted:Arkansas As an Arkansan, I can vouch for this. Especially if the person was white.
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Geostomp posted:As an Arkansan, I can vouch for this. Especially if the person was white. He was, but he was a Yankee transplant wannabe redneck so he tried way too hard. His whole neighbor dispute was over retarded lake condo bullshit.
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Lord of Pie posted:He was, but he was a Yankee transplant wannabe redneck so he tried way too hard. His whole neighbor dispute was over retarded lake condo bullshit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9IyiH1D6XM&t=38s
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SocketWrench posted:.22, the ammo of FREEDOM! I don't get why everyone thinks it's gonna do them more than jack poo poo against an actual government threat Something that I have seen come up when it comes to planning for survival in the aftermath of a doomsday scenario, be it communist invasion, feral "zombie" hordes, or some plot of that homosexual, dope-addled archfiend Barry Soetoro, is what to do for money in this new economy. In addition to the obvious choices of gold and silver, I have read serious arguments in favor of canned food and ammunition, specifically .22 rounds; although why the end-times crowd have settled on .22s is beyond me. It is a distinct possibility that Lord of Pie's former boss was outfitting a doomsday bunker.
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bedpan posted:Something that I have seen come up when it comes to planning for survival in the aftermath of a doomsday scenario, be it communist invasion, feral "zombie" hordes, or some plot of that homosexual, dope-addled archfiend Barry Soetoro, is what to do for money in this new economy. In addition to the obvious choices of gold and silver, I have read serious arguments in favor of canned food and ammunition, specifically .22 rounds; although why the end-times crowd have settled on .22s is beyond me. .22 is good for plinking and small game. That's pretty much it. I mean, you can totally kill a guy with a .22, but you need to try a lot harder than with an AR-brand AR in .223.
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Parallel Paraplegic posted:Like even the founders were smart enough to realize that the constitution shouldn't last forever: ehh. jefferson was big into the french revolution ideals of everything has to be changed every other year through revolution, he also believed that it would take 1000 years for us to colonized the rest of the Continent and it would be a massive food basket for the world, jefferson was weird like that.
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