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Withnail posted:The rush to figure out if a mass shooting can somehow enforce your sociopolitical ideology is pretty loving disgusting. I agree, it should have been enforced decades ago. Could have saved a lot of lives.
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Withnail posted:The rush to figure out if a mass shooting can somehow enforce your sociopolitical ideology is pretty loving disgusting. Sure but is one outcome not vastly superior to the others? What's your point? That we should put it out of our minds entirely?
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Withnail posted:The rush to figure out if a mass shooting can somehow enforce your sociopolitical ideology is pretty loving disgusting. What's disgusting is the calls to violence that the President is making on television is actively making people crazier and new shootings keep happening that are perpetrated by his supporters. So monitoring the situation is relevant and necessary even if it hurts your sensibilities.
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# ? Nov 8, 2018 14:57 |
Republicans are already voting on the assumption that the Democrats are going to ban all guns. By backing off the issue you are just allowing the notion this nightmare should be normal to continue. It's like saying that we can't use leftists messaging when they are already calling Nancy "we are capitalists" Pelosi a socialist extremist in ads targeting right leaning Democrats. We need to actually have concrete positions and fight for stuff instead of meekly letting the right dictate every narrative since oh no they might say the Democrats are bad.
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Radish posted:Republicans are already voting on the assumption that the Democrats are going to ban all guns. By backing off the issue you are just allowing the notion this nightmare should be normal to continue. Yeah, a few years ago I thought we should just concede the gun issue because it wasn't winnable and just drove Republican turnout. But people just keep getting slaughtered. We gotta try anyway.
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Obama spent seven years not mentioning guns and it didn't stop every conservative from trying to claim that's his top goal after socialism and making everyone convert to Islam. (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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twice burned ice posted:Yes assuming that yet another Chud went off the loving deep end seems like a real awful assumption Then let's not pretend we're any better than Free Republic doing the same thing, but with muslims/blacks/hispanics.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah, a few years ago I thought we should just concede the gun issue because it wasn't winnable and just drove Republican turnout. Evil prevails when good people do nothing. We have to try otherwise we are complicit in perpetuating the slaughter of innocents. A friend of mine remarked to me this morning that she went to a concert and there was a prevailing thought in her mind that there was a nonzero chance someone could walk in and start shooting. People are having these thoughts more and more in places where large groups congregate, that is what is truly terrifying. Large numbers used to make us feel safe, now it makes us a target. No one is safe from this kind of violence and it needs to stop.
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KingNastidon posted:Then let's not pretend we're any better than Free Republic doing the same thing, but with muslims/blacks/hispanics. The difference is they want it to be a brown guy because they want an excuse to discriminate against them and we want it to be a white guy so brown people don't get retaliated against.
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Pakled posted:The difference is they want it to be a brown guy because they want an excuse to discriminate against them and we want it to be a white guy so brown people don't get retaliated against. No I'm looking for an excuse to discriminate against white people. thanks.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Yeah, a few years ago I thought we should just concede the gun issue because it wasn't winnable and just drove Republican turnout. It's sad. And yeah, at this point, we should just do something since the Republicans just assume we already are anyway. We saw though how even the threat of doing anything drove record gun sales during Obama. Another day, another shooting. It just makes me sad. I was actually in a bar/grill last week seeing live music and I found myself sort of mentally mapping the building and noting where the exits were, just in case. This is America.
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KingNastidon posted:Then let's not pretend we're any better than Free Republic doing the same thing, but with muslims/blacks/hispanics. We don’t have to pretend because we are better than them
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Withnail posted:The rush to figure out if a mass shooting can somehow enforce your sociopolitical ideology is pretty loving disgusting. Lol yes, because leftists regularly shoot up bars, concerts, yoga studios, and nightclubs because M4A is not passing
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VH4Ever posted:Another day, another shooting. It just makes me sad. I was actually in a bar/grill last week seeing live music and I found myself sort of mentally mapping the building and noting where the exits were, just in case. This is America. Ever since I was 6 I was taught to always pick a spot in any establishment that gives me line of sight to the entrance, so I can see who is coming and going. It was originally intended to "watch out for someone you owe money to or you ripped off" but also works for shootings.
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Mahoning posted:How on the nose that we're simultaneously talking about gun violence and Karen Handel conceding to Lucy McBath, whose son was murdered by a white man for playing rap music too loud. Color me impressed that she is actually conceding the election willingly; I thought Handel would be putting up a massive fight and begging Kemp for some vote fuckery to push her over the line. I’m really loving glad she’s gone, though.
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# ? Nov 8, 2018 15:09 |
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friendbot2000 posted:There is a political way out of our country. Start volunteering with your local political party and support progressive candidates. Right now, your vote is not enough to change things. What we need now is your time and within reason, your money. Spend it volunteering, canvassing, phone-banking, raising money for future and current campaigns, and support the DSA. State houses are especially vulnerable when candidates get a whole lot of volunteer support and donations because the federal machine just...doesn't spend on them. Hey, btw since this isn't clear in my earliest posts, I want to thank you for your positivity and your hard work. If there is a way out, it will be because of people like you.
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friendbot2000 posted:Lol yes, because leftists regularly shoot up bars, concerts, yoga studios, and nightclubs because M4A is not passing Well it's a country bar, therefore Republican bar, therefore leftists must have done it Pretend that's the emote with the dumb professor case I couldn't find it
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The only people saying Acosta was at fault are the ones who had no problems with Gianforte violently assaulting an journalist for asking a question about ACA.
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Unfortunately the most important action that could be taken on gun control is to put liberals on SCOTUS so that at least sane states could start putting restrictions on guns.
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I still haven't seen any gun control plan which would stop mass shootings in the near term
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Arist posted:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Jordan_Davis "She testified that Dunn told her, "I hate that thug music" before she left the car for the store, although Dunn claims he used the phrase "rap crap." "The argument continued and an independent witness overheard Dunn say, "You aren't going to talk to me like that." Dunn, who had a concealed weapons permit,[3] took a handgun out of his glove compartment and started firing at Davis' door, hitting him in the legs, lungs, and aorta." "Rouer returned to Dunn's car and they went back to their hotel where they ordered pizza. Dunn did not contact the police." Can we have no more guns please and if we have to have guns can we have even stricter background checks where domestic abuse invalidates your privilege to have a gun
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https://twitter.com/AP/status/1060534392634916864 hahahahahahahaha welcome to hell
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FUUUUUCK
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:Ever since I was 6 I was taught to always pick a spot in any establishment that gives me line of sight to the entrance, so I can see who is coming and going. VH4Ever posted:It's sad. And yeah, at this point, we should just do something since the Republicans just assume we already are anyway. We saw though how even the threat of doing anything drove record gun sales during Obama. Same. I map out a path out of the building because there is a non-zero chance someone will come in shooting. There is an everpresent fear when people congregate in large numbers now because we know that makes us a target. But don't worry, it isn't terrorism even though we are terrified. Just the actions of a lone madman. Total outlier.
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Blitz7x posted:I still haven't seen any gun control plan which would stop mass shootings in the near term Oh well if it can't end shootings within a year then why even bother!
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Grouchio posted:Called it. It's usually more likely an incel/chud than anything these days. You're probably not wrong but I do remember reading a ton of articles about how everybody under 40 is still living with their mom and driving her car
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Pakled posted:The difference is they want it to be a brown guy because they want an excuse to discriminate against them and we want it to be a white guy so brown people don't get retaliated against. And the left want it to be a white conservative as a political "win" that would justify criticism of conservative rhetoric and strengthen the case for gun control. We could just wait 12 hours for the shooter's actual identity rather than blindly speculating and hoping it's someone we don't like. Gives the bodies time to cool off a bit.
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FFFUUUUUUUCCCKKKKK https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1060534802191921153 edit: beaten
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CRIP EATIN BREAD posted:Ever since I was 6 I was taught to always pick a spot in any establishment that gives me line of sight to the entrance, so I can see who is coming and going. Tell me about your father
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i wasn’t joking. ban guns. they won’t give an inch, take a mile.
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CubanMissile posted:Obama spent seven years not mentioning guns and it didn't stop every conservative from trying to claim that's his top goal after socialism and making everyone convert to Islam.
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Kavanaugh is off on the side snickering like that dog Muttley from the "Wacky Racers," cartoon.
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Gripweed posted:https://twitter.com/AP/status/1060534392634916864 gently caress EVERYTHING
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Gripweed posted:https://twitter.com/AP/status/1060534392634916864 I hate everything
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Someone open a Kickstarter to donate ribs to RBG and you'd have enough bones to start the skeleton war immediately.
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# ? Nov 8, 2018 15:14 |
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KingNastidon posted:And the left want it to be a white conservative as a political "win" that would justify criticism of conservative rhetoric and strengthen the case for gun control. We could just wait 12 hours for the shooter's actual identity rather than blindly speculating and hoping it's someone we don't like. Gives the bodies time to cool off a bit. Maybe on the first point, but as to the case for gun control it doesn't matter who it is
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Gripweed posted:https://twitter.com/AP/status/1060534392634916864 Oh dear God, no. Please let her be okay. Please.
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Supreme Court Justice beef supreme incoming
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kidkissinger posted:Tell me about your father step-father but yeah. he's been in some... situations. he owns, though.
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Your Taint posted:FFFUUUUUUUCCCKKKKK whew lad looks like POTUS gets 3 USC picks!
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