Politics as usual, no matter the issue.And while HT entertains mature debate, the political class carries on with meaningless pandering and virtue signaling. . .
Senate GOP blocks domestic terrorism bill, gun policy debate
Democrats' first attempt at responding to the back-to-back mass shootings in Buffalo and Uvalde, Texas, failed in the Senate Thursday as Republicans blocked a domestic terrorism bill that would have opened debate on difficult questions surrounding hate crimes and gun safety.www.startribune.com
No I didn't challenge your facts, you never answered the question, go read it again.
Not to be too argumentative, but I would guess they would say, "My hometown lost twice that number to last week's cholera outbreak alone, you bore me with your silly 21st-century whining." Time travel is tricky - we share very little context.
I'm in. We probably could have had a great head start if we used the $150 billion we sent to Iran, and the $40 billion we sent to Ukraine.
Add churches, shopping malls, colleges, workplaces, govt facilities, and give us that math again?
I would think that if we brought them here today, they would have started the 2nd Revolutionary War by now. We would never get to the 2A because we'd never get past "In God We Trust" before the shooting started.
Don't go looking for money. The budget deficit will finally drop below $1T this year. You will never get out of the rabbit hole.
People have the ability to defend themselves in most of those places - IF THEY SO CHOOSE. In the places where they can't protect themselves, then the responsibility of ensuring their protection lies with the organization (workplace, govt facilities, etc.). If you create a Gun Free Zone, you have the moral obligation to provide protection to people while they are in it.
In a home invasion scenario, I would much rather have a long magazine shotgun (and do), in fighting off tyrants I would choose AR - hence the differences in opinion on ARs. Like always, it's about the use case. I for one welcome my future tyrannical leader, I only ask that he/she sees fit to punish all those who disagree with me.
[SARCASM]But you've got to think if the children...[/SARCASM] The politicians are great at bringing that point up - right until they have to allocate funding.
I appreciate the hesitation to add another layer of bureaucracy to anyone's life. But what if this permit were nearly as easy to acquire as your hunter's safety certificate was? I'm thinking of the thing being more like a NICS check that's good for five years.
I would rather roll the dice on my children being involved in a mass shooting vs raising them in fear with a security guard and metal detectors at the doors of their schools.
When I moved to MA I had to get one to own any firearm.
Let's try that BEFORE we go all in on another Federal program.
I should have been more clear, not with a supressor, no. Those being a federally controlled thing and all. Which is silly to me.
