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Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!)

Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jan 2 11:18:59 2013, in response to Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!), posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Jan 2 10:05:42 2013.

So? It's still worthless.

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 11:34:14 2013, in response to Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jan 2 09:55:06 2013.

Everyone has the right to know who has guns in their neighborhood, if solely to pressure them into keeping them locked away and unloaded for the safety of their kids. The police should know who has guns should they need to respond to a call, in order to be prepared for the presence of guns.

Whoever thinks they did nothing beyond a public service needs their head examined. The right to have a gun does not in any way infer or include privacy rights about it. Back in the 18th century, the government needed to know who had guns so they could roust and draft them into a militia or posse. Who owned a gun was always intended to be public knowledge.

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Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!)

Posted by mcorivervsaf on Wed Jan 2 11:37:06 2013, in response to Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!), posted by streetcarman1 on Wed Jan 2 11:15:48 2013.

Guess I'll have to humor you, won't I? Okay then! Anything that isn't racially charged, like what YOU put out once in a while, but that's just the tip of the iceberg! So, there!

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Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!)

Posted by mcorivervsaf on Wed Jan 2 11:38:01 2013, in response to Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!), posted by streetcarman1 on Wed Jan 2 11:14:51 2013.

You wrote the book on it, not me, so... As you were!

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 11:38:48 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by SLRT on Wed Jan 2 11:04:44 2013.

Public safety comes to mind. I could see a LOT of parents not wanting their child in a home where there is a gun openly available to kids.

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Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!)

Posted by mcorivervsaf on Wed Jan 2 11:39:20 2013, in response to Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!), posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jan 2 11:18:59 2013.

Not as worthless as the originator of this thread, Faux Einstein!

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Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!)

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jan 2 11:40:54 2013, in response to Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!), posted by mcorivervsaf on Wed Jan 2 11:39:20 2013.

I put it here because of its worthlessness really, and because it matches the title of the thread so closely. Goes together like . . .

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by Train Dude on Wed Jan 2 11:41:23 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 11:34:14 2013.

Errr, perhaps you've not looked lately but this is the 21st century. However, if I lived on your block I'd put a sign on my front lawn,






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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by SLRT on Wed Jan 2 11:43:19 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 11:38:48 2013.

I think you're responding to someone else. At any rate, if a cop doesn't know how to secure a gun so it's not available to others, no one does.

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by SLRT on Wed Jan 2 11:45:40 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 11:34:14 2013.

Police DO know who has [legal] guns.

Should the newspaper publish the names and addresses of all sex offenders?

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by LuchAAA on Wed Jan 2 11:46:13 2013, in response to Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jan 2 09:55:06 2013.

I'm sure there are people in academia and business who would stalk a student or job applicant and use this information against them.

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Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!)

Posted by mcorivervsaf on Wed Jan 2 11:49:35 2013, in response to Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!), posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jan 2 11:40:54 2013.

Bacon and Eggs!

I don't blame you!

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by Train Dude on Wed Jan 2 11:49:59 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by SLRT on Wed Jan 2 11:45:40 2013.

Please! As far as big-bang is concerned sex offenders should still have rights. Gun owners, not so much. I wonder why that is?

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 11:50:12 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by Train Dude on Wed Jan 2 11:41:23 2013.

Around here, we'd call you an asshole. It would make your place a target since it's where criminals would go to get a gun. They still fetch more on the black market than anything.

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 11:53:48 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by SLRT on Wed Jan 2 11:43:19 2013.

I would imagine that would be the case. Pity they don't require the same knowledge and enforce the same action for every gun owner.

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by Train Dude on Wed Jan 2 11:55:01 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 11:50:12 2013.

Oh, I see. So you don't think that knowing that you were unarmed would make you an easier and more tempting target? Maybe they just want the slop in your trough.

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by Train Dude on Wed Jan 2 11:56:44 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 11:53:48 2013.

You seem to know a lot about guns and gun laws considering that you don't own one. Kind of makes one wonder.

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 12:00:56 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by SLRT on Wed Jan 2 11:45:40 2013.

They do. It's required. Plus they notify everyone in the neighborhood by mail.

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 12:02:18 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by Train Dude on Wed Jan 2 11:56:44 2013.

All it takes it paying attention.

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Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!)

Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Wed Jan 2 12:02:41 2013, in response to Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!), posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jan 2 11:18:59 2013.

You mean like the intellectual masterpiece the original post in this thread is?

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 12:05:19 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by Train Dude on Wed Jan 2 11:55:01 2013.

Hardly. A gun is more valuable to a criminal, especially if it doesn't trace back to them.

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by SLRT on Wed Jan 2 12:05:48 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 11:53:48 2013.

Actually, I think everyone who has a pistol should be required to take a course and qualify minimally on the weapon. Back in the day I'd sometimes get a coworker who'd tell me he wanted a pistol. I always told them "if you do, get thorough training, or the first victim is likely to be you. Otherwise, if you MUST have a weapon at home, get a long gun."

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 12:11:24 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by SLRT on Wed Jan 2 12:05:48 2013.

I think that should apply to all gun owners. When they discover that they and their immediate family are at greatest risk in having the thing in the house, they might think twice or at minimum handle it differently than they otherwise would have.

They should also be required to demonstrate basic competency in shooting the thing.

During the education process a complete background check (already determined to be legal) could be done. None of this is in conflict with anyone's rights, even a small majority of NRA *members* (not their nutty executive board and lobbyists) agree.

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by SLRT on Wed Jan 2 12:11:29 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 12:00:56 2013.

Level 1 offenders -- not any more. Level 2 and 3, the police DON'T inform you, at least not in Suffolk. The local politicians have the option to do so. My school district used to do it, as long as we had children in the system.

But I'll ask again: Should a newspaper take it on themselves to publish the names and exact addresses and a map of every sex offender in their circulation area, as is being done with the gun owners? That's kind of different than the targeted naming of offenders in your immediate area.

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Re: Syrian rebels behead Christian man and feed his body to dogs (SUCK IT!)

Posted by orange blossom special on Wed Jan 2 12:12:46 2013, in response to Syrian rebels behead Christian man and feed his body to dogs (SUCK IT!), posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jan 2 10:22:58 2013.

Our American allied buddies have a lot of work to do once Assad is out. There's more groups in Syria to cleanse than most of the other countries where the work has already been done.

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Re: Taliban jeers USA, mocks cutting and running like in Vietnam (SUCK IT!)

Posted by Dan Lawrence on Wed Jan 2 12:22:28 2013, in response to Taliban jeers USA, mocks cutting and running like in Vietnam (SUCK IT!), posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jan 2 08:18:04 2013.

More total crap from Olog.

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 12:23:31 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by SLRT on Wed Jan 2 12:11:29 2013.

Why not? I think it's a public service. Most parents would agree.

Google has several lists of released sex offenders, right out in the open.

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Re: Taliban jeers USA, mocks cutting and running like in Vietnam (SUCK IT!)

Posted by Dave on Wed Jan 2 12:26:26 2013, in response to Re: Taliban jeers USA, mocks cutting and running like in Vietnam (SUCK IT!), posted by Dan Lawrence on Wed Jan 2 12:22:28 2013.

WADL. That was a nationally carried news story.

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by SLRT on Wed Jan 2 12:26:44 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 12:23:31 2013.

An awful lot of people would disagree with you.

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 12:36:46 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by SLRT on Wed Jan 2 12:26:44 2013.

Why, exactly? Guns are a public safety hazard. The public should know where guns are.

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Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!)

Posted by streetcarman1 on Wed Jan 2 13:00:20 2013, in response to Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!), posted by mcorivervsaf on Wed Jan 2 11:37:06 2013.

"Guess I'll have to humor you, won't I"

Are you a humorist by trade? eh?

" Anything that isn't racially charged, like what YOU put out once in a while, but that's just the tip of the iceberg!"

So now you're saying there is no Freedom of Speech here on OT as it relates to race relations in America.

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Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!)

Posted by streetcarman1 on Wed Jan 2 13:01:44 2013, in response to Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!), posted by mcorivervsaf on Wed Jan 2 11:38:01 2013.

"You wrote the book on it, not me, so... As you were! "

If you claim I wrote the book, when was it published? who was the publisher?


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Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!)

Posted by streetcarman1 on Wed Jan 2 13:06:01 2013, in response to Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!), posted by mcorivervsaf on Wed Jan 2 11:49:35 2013.

Don't blame the bacon and eggs

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by SLRT on Wed Jan 2 13:06:11 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 12:36:46 2013.

We were talking about Sex Offenders.

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by streetcarman1 on Wed Jan 2 13:06:45 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by Train Dude on Wed Jan 2 11:41:23 2013.

My house says this....trainy dude

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Re: Taliban jeers USA, mocks cutting and running like in Vietnam (SUCK IT!)

Posted by 3-9 on Wed Jan 2 13:24:33 2013, in response to Re: Taliban jeers USA, mocks cutting and running like in Vietnam (SUCK IT!), posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jan 2 08:21:34 2013.

How are we not engaging the enemy? Unless you're suggesting we invade a much more heavily armed, nuclear armed country who BTW also acts as the host for the majority of our supply routes during the war?

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 13:27:45 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by SLRT on Wed Jan 2 13:06:11 2013.

Their names and addresses are already published. Anyone can use Google and find the lists easily.

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 13:28:34 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by streetcarman1 on Wed Jan 2 13:06:45 2013.

Now *that's* a deterrent!

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Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!)

Posted by mcorivervsaf on Wed Jan 2 13:31:20 2013, in response to Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!), posted by streetcarman1 on Wed Jan 2 13:00:20 2013.

Did I say that, or are you insinuating something else entirely?

Waits for it...

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Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!)

Posted by mcorivervsaf on Wed Jan 2 13:34:34 2013, in response to Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!), posted by streetcarman1 on Wed Jan 2 13:01:44 2013.

You wrote it in "Anywhere, Anytime, U.S.A"

Just because you have the freedom to say it, doesn't mean it's true, and I have no interest in taking away your freedoms, because there's enough people in Washington doing that, and it's not who you think it is, either!

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Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!)

Posted by mcorivervsaf on Wed Jan 2 13:37:41 2013, in response to Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!), posted by streetcarman1 on Wed Jan 2 13:06:01 2013.



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Re: Taliban jeers USA, mocks cutting and running like in Vietnam (SUCK IT!)

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jan 2 13:38:10 2013, in response to Re: Taliban jeers USA, mocks cutting and running like in Vietnam (SUCK IT!), posted by 3-9 on Wed Jan 2 13:24:33 2013.

How are we not engaging the enemy?

Negotiating with the enemy from a point of self-enforced weakness is not engagement.

Unless you're suggesting we invade a much more heavily armed, nuclear armed country who BTW also acts as the host for the majority of our supply routes during the war?

No country comes to mind.

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Re: Taliban jeers USA, mocks cutting and running like in Vietnam (SUCK IT!)

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jan 2 13:50:01 2013, in response to Re: Taliban jeers USA, mocks cutting and running like in Vietnam (SUCK IT!), posted by Dan Lawrence on Wed Jan 2 12:22:28 2013.

Glad to hear you're so clear-headed that you can no longer tell the difference between me and the Associated Press, WADL!

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Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!)

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jan 2 13:52:37 2013, in response to Re: Kathy Griffin gives Anderson Cooper ''simulated'' Xmas present (SUCK IT!), posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jan 2 07:33:29 2013.

LOL! Much higher than the level of worthlessness that the OP was at. You should be grateful to me for pulling the thread out of the gutter, relatively speaking!

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Re: Taliban jeers USA, mocks cutting and running like in Vietnam (SUCK IT!)

Posted by SMAZ on Wed Jan 2 14:19:12 2013, in response to Re: Taliban jeers USA, mocks cutting and running like in Vietnam (SUCK IT!), posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jan 2 08:21:34 2013.





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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by SMAZ on Wed Jan 2 14:23:05 2013, in response to Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jan 2 09:55:06 2013.

another reason why licensing of gun owners is dangerous and probably unconstitutional.

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by SMAZ on Wed Jan 2 14:24:01 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 11:34:14 2013.

Everyone also needs to know who the people who write stupid stuff on Internet forums are.

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Iowa leftist: Repeal 2nd Amendment, ban NRA and tie GOP leaders to back of pickup truck (SUCK IT!)

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jan 2 14:24:12 2013, in response to SUCK IT!, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Nov 6 23:34:30 2012.

That's your "peace-loving" libs for you. More like Nazis.

Des Moines Register

Nation needs a new agenda on guns

This time, the debate has to be about more than not offending the NRA's sensibilities.

2:59 PM, Dec 29, 2012
Written by Donald Kaul
Donald Kaul suffered a heart attack back in July and discontinued writing his weekly column for the opinion website OtherWords.org. Depending upon how you count, that was Kaul’s second or third retirement. Today, Kaul announces that he’s ba-a-a-ck. This time, he’s only promising to write when events move him and not to be pinned down by a weekly column. — Opinion Editor

I’m glad I retired five months ago.

Think of it: I was spared writing about the presidential election, an event so vacuous it made reality TV seem interesting. If there was any serious discussion of an important national issue — global warming, obesity, transportation policy, the morality of drone attacks on civilian populations, the environmental consequences of fracking, existential implications of the designated hitter — I missed it.

Instead, we got a campaign of misrepresentations, exaggerations and outright lies. The Republicans were by far the worst offenders, but President Barack Obama didn’t cover himself in glory either.

I was happy with the result of the presidential election, but I didn’t regret not covering it. And I was entirely content to go on not writing about things. (If I could make a living at that, life would be perfect.)

But then Newtown happened. A misanthropic young man who never seemed particularly violent killed his mother then broke into an elementary school and massacred little kids, teachers and the principal.

And the very air changed. The holiday season suddenly turned somber. You looked at the small children around you differently, as fragile, precious gifts to be cherished and, above all, protected.

Obama struck that note in his moving speech at the memorial service. Speaking for us all, he said: “We can’t tolerate this anymore. These tragedies must end. And to end them, we must change.”

Nice words, but somehow not enough. Not nearly enough.

That’s when I figured I should write a column about it. During my 50-year career, every time some demented soul would take a semiautomatic gun and clean out a post office, a school or a picnic, I’d get up on my soap box and let loose with a withering diatribe about guns, the National Rifle Association and weak-kneed politicians. Did it about 75 times, give or take.

And in every case the main effect was a spike in gun sales.

Still, I thought I’d give it one more shot ... er, chance.

Obama’s speech was fine as far as it went, but it didn’t go very far. Neither have any of the other responses I’ve heard.

California Sen. Dianne Feinstein said she was going to introduce a bill to ban the sale and importation of assault weapons. Great, but the bill wouldn’t apply to weapons already out there, and in defining illegal weapons, it listed more than 900 exceptions.

Nine hundred!

The thing missing from the debate so far is anger — anger that we live in a society where something like the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre can happen and our main concern is not offending the NRA’s sensibilities.

That’s obscene. Here, then, is my “madder-than-hell-and-I’m-not-going-to-take-it-anymore” program for ending gun violence in America:
  • Repeal the Second Amendment, the part about guns anyway. It’s badly written, confusing and more trouble than it’s worth. It offers an absolute right to gun ownership, but it puts it in the context of the need for a “well-regulated militia.” We don’t make our militia bring their own guns to battles. And surely the Founders couldn’t have envisioned weapons like those used in the Newtown shooting when they guaranteed gun rights. Owning a gun should be a privilege, not a right.

  • Declare the NRA a terrorist organization and make membership illegal. Hey! We did it to the Communist Party, and the NRA has led to the deaths of more of us than American Commies ever did. (I would also raze the organization’s headquarters, clear the rubble and salt the earth, but that’s optional.) Make ownership of unlicensed assault rifles a felony. If some people refused to give up their guns, that “prying the guns from their cold, dead hands” thing works for me.

  • Then I would tie Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, our esteemed Republican leaders, to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag them around a parking lot until they saw the light on gun control.
And if that didn’t work, I’d adopt radical measures. None of that is going to happen, of course. But I’ll bet gun sales will rise.


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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by SMAZ on Wed Jan 2 14:25:08 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by streetcarman1 on Wed Jan 2 13:06:45 2013.

Is the dog at least 3 years old?

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Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!)

Posted by SMAZ on Wed Jan 2 14:27:34 2013, in response to Re: Journal News hires armed guards after publishing map of Rockland/Westchester gun owners (SUCK IT!), posted by bingbong on Wed Jan 2 12:23:31 2013.

You are really putting sex offenders on the same level as legal gun owners who by DEFINITION have no felony convictions?

A map and publication of legal gun owners tells me who the people without criminal convictions are.

The OPPOSITE of the sex offender registry.

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