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Shooting at Las Vegas casino

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by melock, Oct 2, 2017.

  1. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    I knew you couldn’t stick to fashion advice. This place draws you in, doesn’t it?
     
  2. Azrael

    Azrael Well-Known Member

    We'll see how it goes.

    More a self-test of character than anything.

    I'm trying to stick to journalism, but the semantics under discussion here are a journalism question.

    Hope everyone has been well.
     
  3. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Yeah, I don't care about that. Right is right.
     
  4. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    Um, that’s why it was important to say that it was unlikely that he had a highly regulated fully automatic weapon.
     
  5. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Isn't it worse for the right that he had all legal shit?

    The talking point is that crazy gonna crazy. If dude has a fully automatic weapon, illegally obtained, that feeds that point.
     
  6. typefitter

    typefitter Well-Known Member

    Highly regulated but still available. It is insane that any civilian can own an automatic weapon. But you're right that this exposure of bump stocks, if America had any sense, will now lead to their being banned... Oh wait, no it won't.
     
  7. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Repeal and replace the Second Amendment. Why are Democrats afraid of that crusade? What the fuck do they have to lose? Start the campaign, guns blazing (no pun intended), yesterday.
     
  8. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    This thread being evidence to the con ... wait ... no.
     
  9. YankeeFan

    YankeeFan Well-Known Member

    I suppose it might be.

    And, while this guy didn’t use a fully automatic weapon, there were multiple aspects of this shooting that were rare/new/unprecedented and will understandably change the discussion we’ve previously had.

    In most cases, a bump stock probably wouldn’t even be practical — like walking through the hallls PF a high school.

    But, set up in a shooting stand, overlooking 20,000 country music fans, tightly packed into a small area? It changes everything.

    The fact that he reportedly had over $100,000 worth of weapons is also new, and a high barrier of entry for most mass murderers.

    The whole thing is horrible, and scary.
     
  10. Justin_Rice

    Justin_Rice Well-Known Member

    I believe the right to own guns will trump all other things conservatives pretend to care about.

    Fiscal responsibility or guns? Guns.
    In God we trust or guns? Guns.
    Keeping the muslims out or guns? Guns.
    Deport illegals or guns? Guns.
    Stop abortion or guns? Guns.
     
  11. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    Does it have you reconsidering any of your prior positions on gun control and/or the Second Amendment?
     
  12. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    It is processed as someone wanting to take something tangible away from them, someone changing the rules on them after the fact.

    I get it. It's not just about the guns.
     
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