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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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Hillary Clinton calls for renewed assault weapons ban: they're a 'weapon of war' | US news | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016 ... ndo-attackJesus fcuking wept.
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paulzolo
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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As an American told me last year, the whole gun ownership thing is an arms race between the population, who feel that they need to be armed, and the police who feel that they need more and better weaponry than anyone else. So the population want bigger more powerful weapons to equal what the police have. And so it escalates. The problem is that the second amendment isn’t really about gun ownership. It’s about forming militias after Independence when there wasn’t a standing army (partly because there weren’t enough guns to go round). So if you joined a militia, you had the right to bear arms (“arms” being a wonderfully vague term that could mean anything that could be handy in a fight).
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Fogmeister
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:35 pm Posts: 6580 Location: Getting there
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You know what's ridiculous. That since the Orlando shooting there have been 3 more mass shootings (according to the FBI definition of mass shooting).
It's like it's the norm over there. It's crazy.
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Tue Jun 14, 2016 1:48 pm |
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hifidelity2
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:03 pm Posts: 5041 Location: London
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The Doctor of the local hospital that took the casualties Said “We are used to gun shot wounds as we get them most nights” I wonder how many Gun shot wounds the average city A&E in this country gets
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Wed Jun 15, 2016 7:38 am |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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Average? None.
The US army used to send it's battlefield surgeons to A&E departments of hospitals in the rougher areas of Washington as training, because the rate of gunshot wound casualties incoming in there was higher than in any conflict theatre the troops were involved in. Not sure if it's still true but it was the practice at one point.
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36545432Please let that be the start of something meaningful.
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Thu Jun 16, 2016 8:57 am |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am Posts: 12700 Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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You know nothing will change.
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Thu Jun 16, 2016 1:34 pm |
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hifidelity2
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:03 pm Posts: 5041 Location: London
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agree - there will be some talk and then it will go quiet until the next one
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Paul1965
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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If the Sandy Hook shooting wasn't enough to change gun laws in the US, then this incident won't do anything either.
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Fri Jun 17, 2016 10:23 am |
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pcernie
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Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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US Senate rejects terror list gun sale restrictions http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36563337YOU UTTER W@NKERS.
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Tue Jun 21, 2016 12:37 pm |
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hifidelity2
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 1:03 pm Posts: 5041 Location: London
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no suprise really
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jonbwfc
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:26 pm Posts: 17040
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Wed Jun 22, 2016 4:57 pm |
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pcernie
Legend
Joined: Sun Apr 26, 2009 12:30 pm Posts: 45931 Location: Belfast
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House Democrats stage sit-in protest to demand vote on gun control | US news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/201 ... un-control
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Wed Jun 22, 2016 9:37 pm |
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paulzolo
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:27 pm Posts: 12251
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Fri Jul 08, 2016 9:13 pm |
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jonbwfc
What's a life?
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William Gibson (Famous sci fi author) tweeted something after the 'we killed the shooter with a robot bomb' story came out. It's the first paragraph of 'Count Zero', a book he wrote in 1986..
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Fri Jul 08, 2016 10:30 pm |
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