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Philadelphia’s District Attorney is pushing back on the notion that violence is on the rise, despite the more than 500 people murdered so far this year — insisting that there is a gun violence crisis, but not “a crisis of violence” in the city.
“We don’t have a crisis of lawlessness,” he said.
During a testy exchange with reporters during his weekly gun crime update Monday, Larry Krasner pointed to the fact overall violent crime in the city is down about 3% compared to last year.
“As we report on a true crisis when it comes to gun violence in the United States, or also in Philadelphia, I think it’s important that we don’t let this become mushy and bleed that there is a big spike in crime,” he said. “There isn’t. There is not a big spike in crime — that is not true. There is also not a big spike in violent crime, either.”
Blame the guns, right? It's all the fault of gun manufacturers. Guns goad criminals into criminality, right? Don't suspect for one moment that liberal policies like low-bond and no-bond releases actually encourage criminals to be criminals. He's half right, there isn't really a spike in crime, it's just the criminals that he coddles are becoming more violent.
https://bigleaguepolitics.com/kamala-harris-staffers-point-to-vp-as-soul-destroying-toxic-boss/
Meanwhile, more and more people are exposing the Vice President as a soul sucking ghoul. Of course, we knew that alrady. This is the woman who kept black men chained up in firefighting crews, even after ordered by the courts to free them.
No less than 19 present and former staffers and personnel associated with Vice President Kamala Harris have spoken negatively of Harris, according to reporting of the Washington Post published last week.
Accounts of Harris staffers have pointed to laziness and callousness on her part, as well as a willingness to behave in an abusive manner towards staff. “It’s clear that you’re not working with somebody who is willing to do the prep and the work,” one former staffer said. “With Kamala you have to put up with a constant amount of soul-destroying criticism and also her own lack of confidence So you’re constantly sort of propping up a bully and it’s not really clear why.”
Not to worry too much though.
Kyle Rittenhouse Reveals He Plans to Become a Lawyer to Fight “POS” Prosecutors
Exonerated Illinois youth Kyle Rittenhouse revealed on Monday that he’s planning on becoming a criminal defense lawyer, speaking in his second major interview since a Kenosha County, Wisconsin court found him not guilty of homicide charges stemming from a self defense event in August 2020.
Rittenhouse singled out Kenosha County assistant prosecutor Thomas Binger, pointing to Binger’s track record of misconduct in his case as a motivating factor for him to pursue a career in the legal field. Rittenhouse was speaking with The Blaze’s Elijah Schaffer and Sydney Watson.
“I want to be a lawyer. I want to go to law school,” said Rittenhouse, revealing he had decided to go for a law career near the end of his homicide trial. “I want to go against corrupt piece of s*** prosecutors like Thomas Binger, and put them in their place and make sure they never practice law again.”
Binger was implicated in hiding critical evidence from the defense team during Rittenhouse’s trial, including a high-definition FBI drone video that showed Rittenhouse under attack by convicted pedophile Joseph Rosenbaum. He faced rebuke from the judge overseeing the trial, with many pointing to the entire prosecution as a politically motivated charade conducted at the behest of the Democratic Party.
In one revelation, Rittenhouse revealed that he had played Call of Duty on the nights of the trial, in a nod to a ridiculous insinuation on the part of Binger that playing Call of Duty suggested Rittenhouse was prone to violence.
If Kyle can take down a couple hundred activist DAs in the next 16 years, he should have a good shot at the presidency in 2036.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1468025692344532994
https://twitter.com/i/status/1468015792281341956
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @05:13PM (3 children)
If there is one thing Kyle is guilty of, it is having terrible taste in video games.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @02:14AM (2 children)
And if there is a second thing Kyke's guilty of it is false bravado. That high opinion of himself is what got him in trouble in the first place. Now that he's on record as gunning for the DA, I think he's set himself up for a tough time getting in (or once in) law school. What school would want a lightning rod like that among their students?
Much, much better to do it the Count of Monte Cristo way -- suffer in silence until you are in a position to strike at those who have abused you.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 08 2021, @05:34AM
I am forced to agree. It isn't even a sure thing that he can graduate law school. From what I've seen, Kyle is fairly bright, but fairly bright doesn't get you through any college worth going to. It takes discipline and dedication that he hasn't demonstrated yet. Nor has he demonstrated the intelligence to get top honors - graduating 117th in a class of 130 doesn't attract the kind of attention anyone wants.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @10:59PM
Better than your antisemitism.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @05:19PM (44 children)
Collapse the system, build it back up as a Marxist paradise. It's no wonder that even our beloved Devin Nunes is giving up.
"We have a country that has no law enforcement, has no law and order. They're not allowed to do their jobs and they're now being hit. People aren't even afraid. They go and shoot police. They don't respect them. ... The people of our country love our police, and they do respect them, but they're not allowed to do their job. If you allowed them to do their job, that would stop and crime would stop."
- President Donald J. Trump
(Score: 5, Informative) by DannyB on Tuesday December 07 2021, @05:33PM (7 children)
According to this [techdirt.com] Devin Nunes is retiring from congress so he can devote his full time and energy to banning satirical cows from Trump's new social media platform. Because the Republicans are
against, uhin favor of, er...againstuh, um... in favor of censorship, but only on Trump SOCIAL. All other platforms should not be allowed to censor.Dear Mr. Nunes, don't have a cow man!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eVPKpBKGCE [youtube.com]
at 15 seconds in . . .
". . . when you see these thugstm being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just see 'em thrown in, I said 'please don't be too nice'. Like when you guys put somebody in the car, and you're protecting their head, you know, the way you put their hand over, like don't hit their head, and they've just killed somebody ... I said you could take the hand away, ok. (applause)"
- President Donald Jackass Trump
Why is it that when I hold a stick, everyone begins to look like a pinata?
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @05:51PM (6 children)
"We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women are created by the, you know, the thing."
- Joe
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @06:32PM (5 children)
Uh oh they made fun of the racist old white man that no one wanted. What shall we do?
You deplorables should really look into your tribal politics problem, it makes you look like morons.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @06:38PM (1 child)
You're going to have to narrow it down a bit. Which racist old white man?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @06:55PM
Oh, it doesn't really matter, much, as long as they're white.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @07:27PM (2 children)
Look like? The deplorables look like morons because they are morons, Runaway here being the case in point. Turns out Kyle is going vote Democrat in 2022.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:37PM (1 child)
He'll mature.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @12:28AM
FTFY
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 07 2021, @06:42PM (15 children)
Yep, by the people who were storming the Capitol grounds on 1-6.
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @06:52PM (8 children)
I'll bet you believe the Russian Hoax, too.
- Former DC National Guard Official Says Generals Fabricated January 6th Account [zerohedge.com]
(Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 07 2021, @06:56PM (7 children)
Haha, you understand he's accusing the Trump admin of delaying the response to the insurrection for political reason, right?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:00PM (6 children)
HA HA! It was Pelosi's call to bring in the Guard, remember? Congress' call, not the President's call to make. He might have preempted Pelosi, but he couldn't prevent her making the call.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:07PM (5 children)
He's just the Commander in Chief of the United States Armed Forces.... It's not like he has any control over the military!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:13PM (4 children)
That's part of what scares me about Joe.
More-so his puppetmasters.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:18PM (3 children)
I know, you must be bummed we're out of Afghanistan.
There are no more forever wars for you to pretend to care about!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:21PM
Tell that to the Americans Joe abandoned, and are still trapped in Afghanistan.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:36PM
That's a lie. No we aren't. Shooting missiles from "over the horizon" is still war
Holy shit, dude! Where did you get that idea? We're all over the middle east and Africa in forever wars over 75 years long
The Biden presidency and democrat congress is part of the Trump campaign.
(Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday December 10 2021, @06:03AM
Oh really? [apnews.com]
La politica e i criminali sono la stessa cosa..
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @08:58PM (5 children)
So, NOW you admit that Antifa was responsible for the alleged coup!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:03PM
In their defense, they were paid to do it. Everybody's gotta make a living.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:35PM (3 children)
The only coup Antifa was involved in was the one that took down Hitler.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @10:21PM (2 children)
The Roter Frontkämpferbund and Nazis were allies, [warhistoryonline.com] Antifaschistische Aktion wasn't founded to attack Nazis - it was created to attack liberal democracy.
Telling isn't it?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @11:16PM (1 child)
Where does this slogan come from today?
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/1932-kpd.jpg [warhistoryonline.com]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @12:17AM
DeathMonkey's friends! [lawofficer.com] They repurpose everything. [wikipedia.org]
The Roter Frontkämpferbund were banned following Blutmai in 1929. [wikipedia.org] The KPD rebranded their paramilitary arm as Antifaschistische Aktion in time for the strike of 1932. [wikipedia.org]
Antifa were not founded to fight the Nazis and the same "destroy the system" bullshit continues with today's BLM and Antifa lunatics.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 07 2021, @06:53PM (12 children)
“Take the guns first, go through due process second”
- Also President Donald J. Trump
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @07:01PM (11 children)
No, no, I see your point... let's let the thugs keep the guns until they have their day in court... in a couple of years.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 07 2021, @07:32PM (10 children)
No, my point is that Donald Trump quotes don't mean jack shit.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @08:41PM (4 children)
Nonsense like yours is why this place doesn't have nice people anymore.
I'm here because I'm taking a break from saving lives, today. And you?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:21PM (3 children)
Taking a break?
There's so much irony in that post you just cured my anemia.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:33PM (2 children)
People are funny animals, huh? I support self-defense, but the only time I've fired a gun in anger was to kill an old Seagate hard drive.
(Score: 1) by Mockingbird on Wednesday December 08 2021, @12:32AM (1 child)
And why did a Seagate hard drive attack you? Did you not stand your spinning rust?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @01:49AM
It vandalized my personal property.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @06:54AM (4 children)
:-) Then why do you keep quoting him? You must be on his payroll
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @03:47PM
OCD
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @05:27PM
TDS
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @08:12PM
NPC
(A Non-Player Character [dilbert.com])
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @03:38AM
WTF
(Score: 3, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @01:03AM (3 children)
Right wingers love law enforcement... unless it involves law enforcement shooting a right wing goon trying to commit breaking and entering at the US Capitol.
It's also telling that right wingers are intent on revisiting McCarthyism and reviving Jim Crow laws, two stains on the history of our country. Of course, right wingers don't want students to learn about Jim Crow laws and other evils from our nation's past. That's why they're trying to ban teaching about these topics, mislabeling them as critical race theory. If Americans don't learn about the wrongdoing in our nation's history, it makes it easier for right wingers to repeat those evils.
Right wingers love McCarthyism. Stopping police from abusing their power, as Black Lives Matter seeks to do, is apparently Marxist. Ensuring all Americans are able to pay for essential health care is apparently Marxist. Ensuring voting rights for all Americans who can legally vote is apparently Marxist. Preventing global warming from becoming as dire as the climate models project is apparently Marxist. Everything is Marxist. Anyone who doesn't unabashedly follow everything right wingers want is a Marxist who wants to turn the United States into the Soviet Union. They even create blacklists like Turning Point USA's professor watchlist, where expressing liberal views outside of the classroom can land you on the blacklist.
When right wingers don't get their way, they systematically ensure that loyal right wingers are placed in positions where they can overrule the will of the people in elections and reject the vote in state legislatures. When the people don't vote for right wingers, discard everyone's votes because of fictional fraud. Democracy be damned, nothing must get in the way of stopping the Marxist boogeyman, even if it means trampling on the Constitution.
And when right wing darling Ron DeSantis announces his intent to create a state military force independent of federal control, one cannot help but wonder if its true purpose is to wage war against the United States. Right wingers sure look like they're preparing to party like it's 1861.
Right wingers used to at least pretend that they supported democracy and cared about things like justice and truth. The facade is now totally removed. Today's dictatorships pretend to be democratic, staging elections while ensuring that one party rule prevails. There's free speech and free expression, just as long as the speech and expression favors the regime. Law enforcement works for the regime to silence dissent, without accountability to the people.
I'll probably get modded flamebait or troll. I've probably earned it by not even trying to be diplomatic. It's not worth the effort when right wingers have created a mass delusion so extreme that a majority of self-identified Republicans believe The Big Lie, and have no intention of dealing with honesty and integrity. Bring on the downmods. I'll just ask one question of the AC who posted the parent or any other right wingers who would like to chime in.
Why do you right wingers hate America?
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @01:55AM (1 child)
You certainly have the narrative down. Would you care to link to some real evidence of any of that? No, no, NO! I don't mean CNN, or WSWS. Try something more-or-less mainstream, outside of the US of A.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @01:51AM
Perhaps BBC [bbc.com] or CBC [www.cbc.ca] may be more to your liking? And next time don't be such a lazy-ass troll. Just a thought.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @02:12AM
FTFY
There's no question about it. I never thought it would actually happen, but here we are. I wonder how many sick right-wing motherfuckers think that all this is going to somehow summon the Nazarine and cause New Jerusalem to land on the Third Temple like something out of Stargate.*
* Revelation 21:2 MSG "I saw Holy Jerusalem, new-created, descending resplendent out of Heaven, as ready for God as a bride for her husband."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @02:00AM
ICFI/SEP/IWA-RFC: Ex-D.C. Guard officer accuses Army generals of lying to Congress about Pentagon actions during January 6 coup [wsws.org]
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Sulla on Wednesday December 08 2021, @04:29AM (1 child)
You don't understand Marxism, it can't "build up" anything by design. It goes back to the young Hegalians and alchemic ideals. The point is that the system is some shit piece of coal, the perpetual revolution is the process of breaking down every part of that lump as you turn it into gold. You destroy the family structure to break down the patriarchy, you follow Marcuse and make queer the norm to break down any association people have to another on the basis of sex, you engineer programs to keep blacks poor and break down the middle class to keep or turn them revolutionary. When everything has been broken down you sift out the parts that are not gold, then refine again. The problem is that no attempt at this has ever found any gold. The Chinese sifted out 200 million through starvation and failed. The Russians sifted out tens of millions in the Ukraine and found no gold. The process is continuing and forever with the real goal to create a new bourgeoisie of party members, Marxists all feel that they will rise to power in the new system as they break down any associations (even Marxist ones) that may be better but does not suit them personally.
Marxism is by definition from its creators and main writers a system of destruction and not creation.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 09 2021, @02:15AM
^ "one of those" posts that show you hit a nerve:
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(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @06:35PM (6 children)
Runaway's favorite past time! Funny how the rightwing narrative changes with the election cycles.
Rs in power? Everything is great fuck you libtsrds!
Ds in power? Everything is bad, liberals are the devil, immigrants are coming to rape and kill you!
Brainwashed fools ready to torch their own house.
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:42PM (5 children)
Yeah, the democrats are too timid and have to hire somebody else.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @12:21AM (4 children)
And fuck the democrat moderator. That was not offtopic at all. Democrats don't want to get their hands dirty. They have plenty of money to pay somebody else
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @01:54AM (3 children)
Scan through this thread! Most of the moderation is upside down. This is why we can't have nice things.
If the root word is "moderate" it must've gone off the rails and landed on its head. Modalism? No, that doesn't fit, either. It must be rooted in some other language. In some other time. On some other planet.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @02:49AM (2 children)
Translation: Most of the moderation doesn't support the agenda I am trying to push. And it makes me cry!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @03:47AM (1 child)
Poor hemo! WTF is up with all the downmods?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @05:04AM
Slow anti-right news day means points to burn. What'ya gonna rant about, stuttering? LGBTQ...S
(Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 07 2021, @06:50PM (26 children)
Guns make murder easier.
Pretty simple explanation for how violent crime is down 3% but murders are up...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @06:58PM (11 children)
Because it's now legal — and recommended by pols like AOC — to storm stores and upper-scale homes. No violence required.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @08:41PM (10 children)
<raises eyebrow>Got a citation for that?
I'll be waiting for your response with baited <heh> breath.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @08:46PM
Apparently any news site / station you never use.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:24PM (8 children)
If you're disingenuously splitting hairs by demanding a direct citation instead of evidence of implicit support, your breathing days are over -- probably for the best.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/aoc-gives-loony-tunes-answer-dismissing-organized-looting-mobs [zerohedge.com]
https://timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2021/06/16/its-time-for-californians-to-recognize-that-prop-47-criminal-justice-reform-failed/ [timesofsandiego.com]
https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/legislation/criminal-justice-reform [house.gov]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:29PM
Spoilsport.
(Nice job, though.)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @11:35PM (1 child)
Actually, I think she's illiterate. That would explain how she makes so many utterly stupid remarks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @01:57AM
Too many late nights at the bar.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @12:25AM
I see. So, you have nothing. Color me not surprised. And I'm still breathing. And waiting.
(Score: 1) by Sulla on Wednesday December 08 2021, @04:32AM (3 children)
Why would you bother starting with zerohedge or even bother to include it at all? You do more harm to your own argument than if you hadn't spoken at all. Its like liberals starting with a citation from huff post or snopes.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @07:00AM (1 child)
Don't make me break out the articles from Mother Jones and Rational Wiki. I'll do it!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @09:35PM
You're just salty the world socialist site guy unironically beat you to the punch.
;-)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @11:51AM
Yes it is [wikipedia.org] and Snopes is great for debunking leftists. Si veritatem dico, quare vos non creditis mihi?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @07:31PM (10 children)
Do they? [mylondon.news]
(Score: 3, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday December 07 2021, @07:34PM (9 children)
Yep.
It took a full year to kill those 27 people.
Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, it took about 10 minutes to kill 61. [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 0, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @07:39PM
Now do Waukesha.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @08:58PM (1 child)
2013 Boston Marathon took 14-seconds.
1995 Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City took a few seconds, too.
1993 World Trade Center took a little longer.
The Crusades took a couple of hundred years.
There must be a point, somewhere.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @12:08AM
Yeah, about 8 years
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 07 2021, @11:38PM (4 children)
What was your point? It seems to have gotten lost in translation from Liberalese to Realitese.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @11:51PM (3 children)
I've suspected that Runaway responds to his own narrative of what comments say instead of what they actually say. But to reply to a quote out of thin air like that is impressive.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 08 2021, @01:51AM (2 children)
Let me spell it out for you:
Someone says there is a peak in murder, because GUNS!
However, there was a previous peak, even higher, without guns.
Apparently the guns had little if anything to do with murderous people murdering people.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @03:43AM
Maybe you should check up on your geography.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @03:49AM
Maybe you should check on your history.
And your stats.
And your intelligence.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @12:05AM
Yeah? And how long did it take to kill 3000 people in New York? No gun there...
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:06PM (2 children)
Guns make defense easier. And, THAT is the reason Dems don't want honest citizens to have guns. Dems like criminals, not honest citizens. That's why Bloomberg went to Florida to pay fines and stuff for criminals to vote.
(Score: 0, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:26PM
More than just defense, the spectre of potential victims carrying guns is a huge deterrent.
They're no longer targets of [shopping] convenience.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @04:06AM
Clearly that is an infringement upon their right to redistribute your^H^H^H^H our wealth.
(Score: 5, Informative) by cmdrklarg on Tuesday December 07 2021, @07:28PM (20 children)
So much vitriol, so little understanding the facts.
No, he's blaming illegal resellers of said weapons. Read carefully before jerking that knee.
I'm not going to even comment on the BigLeaguePolitics links. A site that claims: "We challenge powerful politicians in both the Republican and Democratic Parties. We are not conservative. We are not liberal" when anyone with a clue can tell that it's a RWNJ blog that spouts Trumper nonsense. I got no time for sites that start out with such dishonesty.
Oh, and he'll have to wait for the 2040 election before running for POTUS, as he will only be 33 years old in 2036.
TTFN
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @08:36PM (3 children)
"Har har facts don't care about your feelings!"
* incoming facts *
"No wait, not like that!"
Every damn time conservatives get facts seriously wtong.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:18PM (2 children)
Hazu! Haven't heard your dullsaid drones in ages! Ever find that dream of yours?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @12:24AM (1 child)
Oh look, a moron!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @05:06AM
Made you look.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:10PM (15 children)
You're experiencing a bit of a disconnect here. Libruls make it illegal to have a gun, make it illegal to purchase a gun, make it illegal to carry a gun - then complain about illegal methods of acquiring a gun. It's a lot like making sex illegal - it's still gonna happen. The solution is to lock up every one who possesses genitalia.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:15PM (2 children)
So you want liberals to get off scot-free?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:24PM
You get over here and clean my monitors! Dang, I snorted a big swallow of coffee out my nose with that one!
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @03:53AM
As long as we lock up all the ammosexuals, with their full-auto genitals.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:47PM (1 child)
The solution is to knock up every one who possesses a vagina!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 07 2021, @09:49PM
Does that include all those Middle East slave owners?
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Wednesday December 08 2021, @05:50PM (9 children)
And you're projecting again.
So let me get this straight: you're complaining that it's illegal to supply weapons to criminals? So we should just let criminals legally purchase weaponry to use to commit crime?
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @06:00PM
Get it straight? Try Viagra [soylentnews.org].
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday December 08 2021, @08:51PM (7 children)
It is illegal to supply weapons to law abiding men and women. Because they are law abiding, they don't go looting for guns. Because they are law abiding they don't burgle guns. Because they are law abiding, they don't drive to Louisiana to buy a truckload of guns, to bring back to Illinois.
But no amount of laws prevents a criminal from bringing his own gun to a crime.
Stop focusing on the guns, and focus on the criminals.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 08 2021, @10:55PM
That's why for self-defense equipment, I always recommend purchasing from criminals. No sales tax, no shipping charge, no background check, pre-tested, always good inventory. Barrels sawed-off while you wait. Be patient, there may be a long line... illegal aliens, BLM, Antifa, celebrities, democrat store owners.
Cash 'n [Concealed] Carry.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Thursday December 09 2021, @06:56PM (5 children)
No it's not. As long as the rules are followed, a law abiding person should have little trouble acquiring a firearm. Yes, there are hoops to jump through, but them's the rules.
It sounds like that is what they are doing: focusing on the criminals who sells firearms illegally.
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday December 09 2021, @07:13PM (4 children)
You haven't been to New York or Chicago lately, have you? Or the District of Columbia? More criminals have guns than honest citizens do. The hoops and hurdles are insurmountable for a lawful citizen, hence the cases going to the Supreme Court. Guns have effectively been outlawed, and only criminals have guns, leaving citizens helpless.
New York is really funny. You can have a gun inside your home, and/or you can have a gun inside of your business, but the moment you carry that gun out the door, you are suddenly ILLEGAL. Concealed carry is "may issue", meaning "will not issue" unless you're sleeping with a high ranking official, or you grease his palm really well.
There are probably fewer legal guns in NYC than there are in my county, out here in Bumfuq, Nowhere. Of course, there is no way to count the illegal guns.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 10 2021, @03:59AM
Only criminals would concealed carry, those lying cheats! Same for silencers, or large cap mags. Criminals and terrorists. Or, Runaway from Arkansas, home of the Duggar crime family.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Monday December 13 2021, @07:13PM (2 children)
No I haven't. Let's see some evidence of your claims please. What exactly are these insurmountable hoops and hurdles you refer to? Please be specific.
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday December 13 2021, @08:22PM (1 child)
Current case which will hammer New York, California, Illinois, and New Jersey.
https://nypost.com/2021/11/03/supreme-court-poised-to-strike-down-ny-gun-law-from-1913/ [nypost.com]
Past cases, some of which the states are simply ignoring.
https://www.ranker.com/list/supreme-court-cases-about-guns/katherine-ripley [ranker.com]
Other cases on the way to the Supreme Court come out of the infamous 9th District, which wants to ban modern arms, standard capacity magazines as well as high capacity magazine, wants to require a new background check for every purchase of ammunition, and more. I think that the 9th actually wants to amputate the trigger fingers of all males born in the state before they can leave the hospital.
Illinois is also targeted for their firearm identification cards, as well as their de facto gun registry system which sends state police to the doors of people whose cards have expired and/or been revoked.
There are more suits pending than I can keep track of. What is needed, is for a constitutional carry case to reach the Supreme Court, which would eliminate any need for licenses of any type.
Criminals can't have guns - we're all agreed on that. Crazies can't have guns - again we're almost all agreed on that. (there are problems with defining who the crazies are) Minors can't have easily concealable sidearms - agreement on that is somewhat less universal, but it's nearly so.
Anyone else can walk into a store, pass a background check, purchase his weapon of choice, and take it home. Any law that violates that principle is unconstitutional. End of story.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by cmdrklarg on Tuesday December 14 2021, @05:19PM
This is what I want as far as gun control is concerned, so yes, agreed. I think the vast majority of people want this as well.
I can get on board with that, as long as the "pass a background check" step is thorough and accurate.
Answer now is don't give in; aim for a new tomorrow.