Days without a mass shooting:
- BostonBeaneater
- Autonomous Insect Cyborg Sentinel
- Posts: 11944
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 7:24pm
- Location: Between the moon and New York City
- Flex
- Mechano-Man of the Future
- Posts: 35799
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 2:50pm
- Location: The Information Superhighway!
Re: Days without a mass shooting:
Lock thread and sticky to top of forum.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
- BostonBeaneater
- Autonomous Insect Cyborg Sentinel
- Posts: 11944
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 7:24pm
- Location: Between the moon and New York City
- BostonBeaneater
- Autonomous Insect Cyborg Sentinel
- Posts: 11944
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 7:24pm
- Location: Between the moon and New York City
- Dr. Medulla
- Atheistic Epileptic
- Posts: 115976
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 2:00pm
- Location: Straight Banana, Idaho
Re: Days without a mass shooting:
Own this shit, gun rights people. Embrace this as part of the society you want to exist. These are the eggs you're willing to sacrifice every day for your freedom omelet.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
- BostonBeaneater
- Autonomous Insect Cyborg Sentinel
- Posts: 11944
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 7:24pm
- Location: Between the moon and New York City
Re: Days without a mass shooting:
90% of Americans (and 75% of NRA members) want universal background checks. But no, because TYRANNY.
Got a Rake? Sure!
IMCT: Inane Middle-Class Twats - Dr. M
" *sigh* it's right when they throw the penis pump out the window." -Hoy
IMCT: Inane Middle-Class Twats - Dr. M
" *sigh* it's right when they throw the penis pump out the window." -Hoy
Re: Days without a mass shooting:
I used to be more keen on the ownership of firearms when I was a Marxist, but:JennyB wrote:90% of Americans (and 75% of NRA members) want universal background checks. But no, because TYRANNY.
1. Military technology has so outpaced the kinds of firepower that average people can muster that a violent revolution just isn't feasible without cooperation from the military.
2. If guns are a check on tyranny, then why have we seen the unimpeded stripping of core civil liberties in the past decade and a half after 9/11? Instead, more activism (with a threat of violence) has been performed on behalf of the mere right to own and display a firearm than on other core liberties under Bill of Rights protection.
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
— Morton Feldman
I've studied the phenomenon of neo-provincialism in self-isolating online communities but this place takes the fucking cake.
— Clashy
- Dr. Medulla
- Atheistic Epileptic
- Posts: 115976
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 2:00pm
- Location: Straight Banana, Idaho
Re: Days without a mass shooting:
The gun rights argument is the barest of fig leafs for gun industry lobbying. Ginned up anxiety about government and [pick the minority or ideology of your greatest nightmare] to sell weapons and ammunition, along with a narrative that argues using a gun is a legitimate means of resolving disputes and proving your worth as a man, woman, American, etc. It's the perfect addiction scenario, where every trauma caused by guns encourages more people to buy guns.eumaas wrote:I used to be more keen on the ownership of firearms when I was a Marxist, but:JennyB wrote:90% of Americans (and 75% of NRA members) want universal background checks. But no, because TYRANNY.
1. Military technology has so outpaced the kinds of firepower that average people can muster that a violent revolution just isn't feasible without cooperation from the military.
2. If guns are a check on tyranny, then why have we seen the unimpeded stripping of core civil liberties in the past decade and a half after 9/11? Instead, more activism (with a threat of violence) has been performed on behalf of the mere right to own and display a firearm than on other core liberties under Bill of Rights protection.
Which is why it pisses me off when the gun nuts call these shootings a tragedy. No, fuck you, you don't get to do that. This is the shit that you want, even if you can't admit it. These events validate your worldview. You fucking well need this stuff to prove to yourself that you're right. It's a tragedy to the people who don't think the world should be governed by assholes with guns. If you love your gun and think you need it to cope with the world, shut the fuck up and own this crap.
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft
- tepista
- Foul-Mouthed Werewolf
- Posts: 37871
- Joined: 16 Jun 2008, 11:25am
- Location: Livin on a fault line, Waiting on the big one
Re: Days without a mass shooting:
What does Caitlin Jenner have to do with it?JennyB wrote:90% of Americans (and 75% of NRA members) want universal background checks. But no, because TYRANNY.
...oh, Tyranny.
We reach the parts other combos cannot reach
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
Re: Days without a mass shooting:
I really shouldn't have laughed, but I did.tepista wrote:What does Caitlin Jenner have to do with it?JennyB wrote:90% of Americans (and 75% of NRA members) want universal background checks. But no, because TYRANNY.
...oh, Tyranny.
My Fox News loving aunt (seriously, the worst Jew ever - we're supposed to be liberal atheists, dammit) offered her "thoughts and prayers" today. I basically told her to fuck her thoughts and prayers.
Got a Rake? Sure!
IMCT: Inane Middle-Class Twats - Dr. M
" *sigh* it's right when they throw the penis pump out the window." -Hoy
IMCT: Inane Middle-Class Twats - Dr. M
" *sigh* it's right when they throw the penis pump out the window." -Hoy
- Flex
- Mechano-Man of the Future
- Posts: 35799
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 2:50pm
- Location: The Information Superhighway!
Re: Days without a mass shooting:
Thoughts and prayers don't seem to do shit in terms of stopping bullets.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
- tepista
- Foul-Mouthed Werewolf
- Posts: 37871
- Joined: 16 Jun 2008, 11:25am
- Location: Livin on a fault line, Waiting on the big one
Re: Days without a mass shooting:
Maybe God thought it was those people's time to go. He works in mysterious ways, ya know.Flex wrote:Thoughts and prayers don't seem to do shit in terms of stopping bullets.
We reach the parts other combos cannot reach
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
We beach the beachheads other armies cannot beach
We speak the tongues other mouths cannot speak
- Flex
- Mechano-Man of the Future
- Posts: 35799
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 2:50pm
- Location: The Information Superhighway!
Re: Days without a mass shooting:
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead
Pex Lives!
- Dr. Medulla
- Atheistic Epileptic
- Posts: 115976
- Joined: 15 Jun 2008, 2:00pm
- Location: Straight Banana, Idaho
Re: Days without a mass shooting:
Hey, cool, Curt Schilling is a sheriff in Oregon: http://gawker.com/lead-sheriff-in-orego ... 1734344410
"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft