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I'm no republican but...
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Hard core liberals really seem to irritate the hell out of me. Especially with their whole anti-gun stance. They seem to ***** and moan so much about the government and yet they want more government involvement in our daily lives.
The day I'm not allowed to own a gun is the day I pack my bags and move somewhere else.
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> Hard core liberals really seem to irritate the hell out of me
Extremist on both sides "irritate the hell out of me", not just hard core liberals. I've got one side installing cameras in my home and drafting me for the modern day crusades and the other side taking away my guns and spending tax money to tuck me in to bed at night.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: Seuss]
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Ya, your right extremists on both sides do irritate me it's just that recently it's been the liberals.
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i used to be in favor of gun-control, but after this administration's trashing of the constitution, i came to understand the need for the 2nd amendment.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: Taco Chef]
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novumorganum said: i used to be in favor of gun-control, but after this administration's trashing of the constitution, i came to understand the need for the 2nd amendment.
Me Too!
Have you noticed the MSM doing hour specials revisting the DC sniper case? I swear they are doing it, to get people all worked up for gun control candidates.
Thomas Jefferson said, " The irony of the second ammendment is that, when you will need your guns the most is when they have been taken from you."
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Mandrake said: I just hate people I think.
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novumorganum said: i used to be in favor of gun-control, but after this administration's trashing of the constitution, i came to understand the need for the 2nd amendment.
Me Too!
Have you noticed the MSM doing hour specials revisting the DC sniper case? I swear they are doing it, to get people all worked up for gun control candidates.
Thomas Jefferson said, " The irony of the second ammendment is that, when you will need your guns the most is when they have been taken from you."
For realz.
The gun thing is a pandora's box that, once open, can't be closed. You could shut down every gun shop in America and the bad guys are just going to get their shit from dealers that get their shit from overseas. Then we'll be in a world of mess because no one can defend themselves.
It's like all crime. Cops barely put a DENT in the crime going on out there, but imagine how much worse it would be if there weren't any cops and there was NO FEAR of ever having to get arrested.
THe thought that MAYBE the guy inside this house has a gun is probably what keeps thousands of phychos from busting in your door.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: BrAiN]
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Ummm not for nothing but if any of you think any gun you could ever buy would be worth more than a suicide note against government troops you are so utterly deluded that you might as well go Koscinski right now.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: zappaisgod]
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I think most people that are anti gun control are just talking about defending their own home and family against intruders.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: BrAiN]
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Which I can understand, but the bombastic posturing by some of the people espousing a defense against an unreasonable government is utterly absurd. They would be history. Then they would be geography.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: BrAiN]
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BrAiN said: I think most people that are anti gun control are just talking about defending their own home and family against intruders.
Yup! I live in a gated community with 24 hr security and yet, when a 13 year old boy waa taken at gun point from a bus stop not far from me, a bunch of moms in my subdivision went out and bought guns and have been practicing at the shooting range.
I agree with you Zap. My sister and I were talking about it the other night and it was discussed that when the Constitution was written, it was a time armed citizens could rise up against government tyranny and defeat it. Now, it would be a short lived isolated mess with the government diffusing any armed uprising quickly. If our own military turned on the government, that would be another story That will never happen either.
None the less, I posted the Jefferson quote as reminder, about a government looking to take away your right to bare arms, being a government you would want to use them against.
The government has far to much power over us now. It was never meant to be that way though.
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I agree with you Zap.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: zappaisgod]
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zappaisgod said: Which I can understand, but the bombastic posturing by some of the people espousing a defense against an unreasonable government is utterly absurd. They would be history. Then they would be geography.
I disagree. The gov't has satellites but they can't cover every inch of the earth at all times and know exactly every person to target who might be a dissident. They can tap our phones. but you don't neccessarily need a phone to communicate. 300,000,000 people is a lot to tame. Not to mention any civil war going on would probably lead to other countries trying to get a piece of the action and starting to fund uprisings.
besides... I don't know if you're aware.. but assault rifles such as the m16 and AK47 are now LEGAL to own in the states as of about two years ago.
I don't think America will ever (in the near future anyways) get to a point where it needs to rebel against the gov't. I think whatever gov't we have will be smart enough to keep us at least no farther than the edge of what we'll accept.
No matter how opressed we become, we still have a pretty posh lifestyle. We're too comfortable. I don't think anything would ever happen until the average income per person drops DRAMATICALLY. It would probably take another all out world war to happen, or something else drastic, before this ever happens.
Once the middle class loses it's big screen TV's, hummers, and sex and the city.. then maybe they'll get off their asses and take action.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: BrAiN]
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besides... I don't know if you're aware.. but assault rifles such as the m16 and AK47 are now LEGAL to own in the states as of about two years ago.
They have been for years.
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Maybe back in the day. There was a long-time ban on them that expired only a couple of years ago.
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zappaisgod said: 300,000,000 people is a lot to tame.
Except that about 299,900,000 are already tame.
I just did a search under my name and BrAiN and I couldn't find this exchange. Where did it come from
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The day I'm not allowed to own a gun is the day I pack my bags and move somewhere else.
This is the only decent reason for passing gun control laws I have heard to date.;)
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: zappaisgod]
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zappaisgod said: Ummm not for nothing but if any of you think any gun you could ever buy would be worth more than a suicide note against government troops you are so utterly deluded that you might as well go Koscinski right now.
Sure, but would the guys in the armed forces really shoot their own people and obey orders no matter what? In regard to the topic, while I'm not an extremist, or particularly left winged, at least the super left want to help the people with social programs even if what they're doing is misguided. I'd rather have that than a very right winged country dictating my social conduct at all times.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: robbyberto]
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abolish all governement, its never going to work
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liberals tend to contradict themselves. They want the government to butt out and let them live freely, but then they fight for socialist ideas. They don't want the government but they do want the government.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: robbyberto]
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: aDoS]
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I have huge problems with both sides...so I am neither.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: aDoS]
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: BrAiN]
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BrAiN said: Maybe back in the day. There was a long-time ban on them that expired only a couple of years ago.
Wrong. If you are talking about full auto weapons, you have needed a special permit.
Wrong. If you are talking semi-auto there were several models that had certain features that were banned. An example would be folding stocks. Manufacturers merely switched to non-folding stocks.
All that has lapsed is the ban on those particular features.
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> & throw you in jail for growing and possessing plants they don't like.
Please look at the number of convictions for cannabis over the last thirty years and note what president was in office during the vast majority of them. I'll give you a hint... it was Clinton... by a HUGE massive margin... more than twice the number during the Clinton years than all the other presidents (Regan, Bush and Bush) combined. You may want to rethink your claim a bit.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: aDoS]
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aDoS said: liberals tend to contradict themselves. They want the government to butt out and let them live freely, but then they fight for socialist ideas. They don't want the government but they do want the government.
It's not that I disagree with you, its that I think neo-conservatives contradict themselves just as much. They say "no government," but then want to ban gay marriage, abortion, extend military campaigns all over the middle east. Its the same thing. Both sides do everything they do in the name of liberty.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: Seuss]
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Please look at the number of convictions for cannabis over the last thirty years and note what president was in office during the vast majority of them. I'll give you a hint... it was Clinton... by a HUGE massive margin... more than twice the number during the Clinton years than all the other presidents (Regan, Bush and Bush) combined. You may want to rethink your claim a bit.
We've had this discussion before. That simply isn't true.
If you really want me to, I can prove it to you with the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program statistics, but they aren't user friendly and it would take me awhile to find the tables I need and throw something together.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: gluke bastid]
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Thats not more government in the sense that they actually want to increase the size of bureaucracy but it is increased as a result of their policies. I guess that always applies.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: gluke bastid]
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aDoS said: liberals tend to contradict themselves. They want the government to butt out and let them live freely, but then they fight for socialist ideas. They don't want the government but they do want the government.
It's not that I disagree with you, its that I think neo-conservatives contradict themselves just as much. They say "no government," but then want to ban gay marriage, abortion, extend military campaigns all over the middle east. Its the same thing. Both sides do everything they do in the name of liberty.
I don't think there is a neo-con position on abortion or homo marriage. They also don't say "no government" and they don't advocate intervention all over the Mid-East. You are lying.
This conservative (I consider Libertarian to be more conservative than Republican) loves abortion and wants homos to just shut the fuck up, they are boring me. As to intervention it becomes far less necessary when the enemy knows that you aren't afraid to use it. THAT is something the libtards will never ever figure out.
And finally, if you don't think the libtard nanny state comes without much more than fiscal strings you are seriously deluded. They WILL be telling you how to act what to eat where to go far more than real conservatives. Do not make the mistake of conflating the morality police morons with all conservatives. There is just as much morality police overlap with libs as with conservatives. At least the conservative moralists will leave you with enough money in your pocket to misbehave. Liberal moralists? Not a fucking nickel of your own.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: Seuss]
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: zappaisgod]
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Ummm not for nothing but if any of you think any gun you could ever buy would be worth more than a suicide note against government troops you are so utterly deluded that you might as well go Koscinski right now.
if you were fighting openly against a unified, popular u.s. government and you had no support other than a few other civilians with guns, yeah, you'd be dead pretty fast.
there are other scenarios where civilians might fight againt government troops and have a much better chance though.
civil war, massive unrest accompanied by defections of regular military forces, etc.
then there's the deterrent factor. even if you are a dictator, you make decisions based on risk vs. reward like everyone else. a populace that is well armed and not too keen on what you might be thinking about doing may tip the scale in your scheming.
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: zappaisgod]
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"clinton was a center to center-right president."
and bush was a center to center-left president? 
Bush gave us huge new prescription drug entitlement program, centralizing education, bigger government and Immigration Amnesty etc..............
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It would be a lot more effective if it weren't for the incessant bleatings of the useful idiots (their term, not mine). And in fact the two cases you cite are not failures by any means, no matter what your unrealistic expectations may have been.
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Immigration Amnesty
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fascists want big government every bit as much as Communists do.
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Vote pandering. Are you fucking kidding me?
"Mission Accomplished" is where you hang your hat? The fucking mission was accomplished, the mission being the destruction of the Iraqi Army and the removal of Saddam Hussein from power. You can move the goalposts all you want but it doesn't make you correct or the statement wrong. What makes you think that YOU get to define what the mission being referred to was? Bulletin to you, "you don't."
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Re: I'm no republican but... [Re: zappaisgod]
#7528787 - 10/17/07 06:08 PM (16 years, 3 months ago) |
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zappaisgod said: Which I can understand, but the bombastic posturing by some of the people espousing a defense against an unreasonable government is utterly absurd. They would be history. Then they would be geography.
could an armed populace overthrow or prevent an oppressive government? Probably not.
But I think having an armed populace does discourage government from going too far. Its all about cost-benefit analysis. The government knows if they go too far, people will fight back, and since they are armed it would definitely cause casualties and losses for the government that they might not be prepared to accept.
-------------------- "America touts itself as the land of the free, but the number one freedom that you and I have is the freedom to enter into a subservient role in the workplace. Once you exercise this freedom you've lost all control over what you do, what is produced, and how it is produced. And in the end, the product doesn't belong to you. The only way you can avoid bosses and jobs is if you don't care about making a living. Which leads to the second freedom: the freedom to starve." - Tom Morello
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