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Ah, yes, combat knives, one of the most regulated industries in America
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quote:The U.S. Constitution does not adequately define "arms". When it was adopted, "arms" included muzzle-loaded muskets and pistols, swords, knives, bows with arrows, and spears. However, a common- law definition would be "light infantry weapons which can be carried and used, together with ammunition, by a single militiaman, functionally equivalent to those commonly used by infantrymen in land warfare." That certainly includes modern rifles and handguns, full-auto machine guns and shotguns, grenade and grenade launchers, flares, smoke, tear gas, incendiary rounds, and anti-tank weapons, but not heavy artillery, rockets, or bombs, or lethal chemical, biological or nuclear weapons. Somewhere in between we need to draw the line. The standard has to be that "arms" includes weapons which would enable citizens to effectively resist government tyranny, but the precise line will be drawn politically rather than constitutionally. The rule should be that "arms" includes all light infantry weapons that do not cause mass destruction. If we follow the rule that personal rights should be interpreted broadly and governmental powers narrowly, which was the intention of the Framers, instead of the reverse, then "arms" must be interpreted broadly. from https://www.constitution.org
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Nov 23, 2015 06:01
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Litany Unheard posted:Hahaha what a wonderful source. I would like to donate to this wonderful group of constitutional scholars. How would I go about that? Oh, here we go: Ugh, this isn't as fun as watching fishmech immediately fly off the handle. Way to loving go, killjoy.
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Nov 23, 2015 06:11
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Litany Unheard posted:Edit: ^^^^ Or bait this guy. He at least switches up his gimmick every now and again. Though it's been a bit heavy on the anti-Muslim stuff lately. Fishing in a barrel with dynamite sounds really loving rad
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Nov 23, 2015 06:37
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Racism is so pervasive that there are of course people who are otherwise intelligent who are horrifying racists. HP Lovecraft comes to mind - a beloved author, whose works are the foundation for a great deal of western horror, was a disgusting arch-racist. There are still people like this, because they live in a bubble of whiteness and never had any of their racist attitudes challenged.
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Nov 27, 2015 18:32
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Considering the Republicans this go-round are complete whack jobs we're in for a really interesting time. I wonder who the shooter was voting for.
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Nov 28, 2015 02:10
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It's good that they took him alive.
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Nov 28, 2015 16:39
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DemeaninDemon posted:He's so antigovernment that he's apolitical. Nope, there are true believers that really think it's killing a baby.
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Nov 28, 2015 23:49
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PleasingFungus posted:an important thing to remember about the 'Tea Party is tearing the GOP apart' narrative is that we got the exact same message four years ago, when, hey, an overwhelming majority of the party was united against romney. Surely the establishment was doomed! Except that it turned out GOP voters didn't actually dislike romney, they just weren't that excited by him. When it came time to vote, they rallied solidly behind their candidate, just as usual.his behalf Romney got spanked pretty good, though, and extreme polemics played into that absolutely.
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Nov 29, 2015 16:02
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Well thankfully the guy's still alive so eventually he's going to have to go on trial. There's going to be video of him on the stand screaming "I ain't no fuckin' transgender, sir" and talking about how Obama is a muslim usurper. This guy's crazy is so off the charts, politically relevant, and readily available that we might see some real poo poo if this guy's a dyed in the wool conservative.
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Nov 30, 2015 01:35
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Rexicon1 posted:You are going to see MAYBE 5 minutes of coverage of this trial at best. I bet Rachel Maddow alone gives him more than that. Either way, If I were a Republican candidate I would be praying that he doesn't say who he was going to vote for because that will definitely get headlines.
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Nov 30, 2015 02:08
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Hollismason posted:I think the problem now is that with Superpacs more fully formed now than before candidates that before were dropping out by this point are kept alive by super pac money so we'll get this weird divisiveness all through out the primary season. Like Jeb Bush and Ted Cruz will still be in this because their super pac. Also interesting that this is not the case on the Democrat side. The lack of GOP control over their own party is actually starting to un-nerve me.
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Nov 30, 2015 03:32
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Joementum posted:Only because it was clear a year ago that Hillary would run and win while it wasn't (and still isn't) clear who would win the Republican nomination. I guess you don't remember how well Jeb was projected to do at the beginning of this thing. His superPAC money alone was supposed to scare away the smaller fish.
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DemeaninDemon posted:"Hey lets shut down the government during the one time of year Americans buy all the poo poo!" I have a really bad feeling about the numbers for christmas this year. EDIT: ha ha ha ohhhh boy http://time.com/4128592/black-friday-sales-down/
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