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Many reasons...and it is sad...lax gun restrictions, increasing mental -- orangenblue 04/16/2021 8:18PM Only country with mental health problems. ** -- 79 Wahoo 04/16/2021 6:16PM A fascinating line from an article I read about the incident -- Capital City Hoo 04/16/2021 4:53PM It's statistically insignificant. ** -- psychobilly 04/16/2021 8:18PM Self importance and feelings of superiority ** -- Late 80s Hokie 04/16/2021 2:43PM Worth grappling with this question in an honest way ... we're not the only -- CharlestonSC 04/16/2021 2:26PM I don't have a problem with law abiding citizens owning guns. That said ... -- Blah 04/16/2021 2:49PM This reminds of Homer Simpson trying to buy a gun, finding out about wait -- CAVern 04/16/2021 4:02PM Because that wouldn’t solve the problem? -- tchoo 04/16/2021 2:55PM So, if we all agree its a problem, then what is the solution? "It won't -- Plano Hoo 04/16/2021 3:06PM Ban any gun that didnt exist in 1776, as the founders intended? -- tchoo 04/16/2021 3:42PM As Jim Jeffries points out... -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 5:52PM The guns people owned in 1776 *were* the "weapons of war" of the day -- CharlestonSC 04/16/2021 4:55PM How many private individuals owned cannons in 1776? ** -- 81_Hokie 04/16/2021 5:14PM Roughly the same number that own fighter jets today, I imagine ** -- CharlestonSC 04/16/2021 5:18PM No they did not. See Maupin's excellent post below. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 4:56PM I'm talking about the *type* of weapon. His post doesn't address mine ** -- CharlestonSC 04/16/2021 5:01PM You said the founders intended for us to have weapons of war. I think -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 5:16PM Hows this ... to the extent that the founders intended for private citizens -- CharlestonSC 04/16/2021 5:20PM So if Thompsons had been in use then, the founders would have said cool? ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 5:30PM Neither of us know for sure. Based on the best evidence, the most apt -- CharlestonSC 04/16/2021 7:15PM Doubtful. That's just crazy particularly since the amendment is directly -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 7:43PM You can carp all day long about democratic overreach, but its an attempt to -- Plano Hoo 04/16/2021 3:45PM To be clear, I am for it. -- tchoo 04/16/2021 4:41PM Yes ... It would matter. Even if it's a little, you still do it. ** -- Blah 04/16/2021 2:57PM My only concern is doing it and then the backlash -- tchoo 04/16/2021 3:43PM Seriously? I tired of the excuses. I'm fine with the 2nd Amendment. -- Blah 04/16/2021 3:45PM I'd like to think I'm rational ... and I agree ** -- CharlestonSC 04/16/2021 2:55PM I know you are. I'm just wondering why others are so irrational? ** -- Blah 04/16/2021 2:58PM I think due to proliferation of firearms, polices in US are more on edge -- JohnHoo2 04/16/2021 2:37PM Scalia’s Heller decision clearly allows room for significant gun -- Molina 04/16/2021 4:05PM For one thing, we should stop the recent revisionism about what the 2A is -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 2:42PM I wondered when this would get into the usual distracting techno-babble -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 2:34PM How about this - no definitions ... why is anyone working hard to ban -- CharlestonSC 04/16/2021 2:54PM So if people were able to go to their local gun shop and purchase -- BocaHoo91 04/16/2021 5:00PM That argument is why we haven't done a goddamned thing. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 2:56PM Because doing something for the sake of doing something and "feeling good" -- CharlestonSC 04/16/2021 3:03PM Just an FYI, but the only "explicit enumerated right" is the right of the -- WahooRQ 04/16/2021 4:56PM They're after the "assault weapons" because those are the greatest check on -- uvahoos76 04/16/2021 3:27PM Wolverine!!! ** -- 111Balz 04/16/2021 5:15PM The chair is against the wall. John has a long moustache. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 5:21PM You're a complete idiot. More that there's no excuse for civilian -- WahooRQ 04/16/2021 4:44PM Why don't you and some of your friends -- uvahoos76 04/16/2021 6:05PM I'd rather not associate with trash like you, but thanks for the invite. ** -- WahooRQ 04/16/2021 8:09PM DQ was at the top of his class and has 3 degrees just like his hero! ** -- Wahoo Gus 04/16/2021 6:20PM Goody. Another insurrectionist and cosplay boy. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 4:40PM So dumb. -- BocaHoo91 04/16/2021 4:15PM Yeah, that was Jame Madison’s theory. Or was it ISIS? ** -- Molina 04/16/2021 4:13PM Except we don’t want a lot of the Proud Boy types having weaponry -- TomGlansAski 04/16/2021 4:04PM You serious, Clark? ** -- CAVern 04/16/2021 3:54PM Meal Team Six ** -- hooshouse 04/16/2021 3:32PM The US military would decimate the wannabe Rambos so quickly its not -- BocaHoo91 04/16/2021 4:44PM The only answer that makes sense to me is that Americans are fed a constant -- Plano Hoo 04/16/2021 2:14PM You believe we should still be living in colonies? ** -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 2:26PM Good point. I think Queen Elizabeth is playing the long game and is coming -- Plano Hoo 04/16/2021 2:43PM We would still be English and live under tyranny without guns. -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 2:49PM Guns helped win the American Revolution. Privately owned guns, did not. -- Maupin233 04/16/2021 3:40PM Thanks for arguing that we need private gun ownership. That was great. ** -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 5:30PM Those wars are why we now have a standing army, Dipshit. Private gun -- Maupin233 04/19/2021 07:25AM Well dipshit, glad most gun owners don't operate that way now. -- Hokieesith 04/19/2021 09:03AM I'm not actually against private gun ownership for responsible, thoughtful -- Maupin233 04/19/2021 09:59AM Excellent. Real history is a wonderful thing. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 4:53PM Please post more often. ** -- SixerHoo 04/16/2021 4:51PM Psst! The English no longer live under tyranny. Strange then to think that -- SixerHoo 04/16/2021 3:16PM I'm not following your logic. Do you think guns are protecting us from -- Plano Hoo 04/16/2021 3:03PM Nice trolling. ** -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 3:06PM I'm serious...your comment about colonies was a complete nonsequitor to -- Plano Hoo 04/16/2021 3:07PM She'll return as Queen of the US by this August. ;) ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 2:47PM Philip had been restraining her. ** -- SixerHoo 04/16/2021 3:23PM Do you? You said blacks should be treated unequally because ... -- Blah 04/16/2021 2:38PM Here we go. Having a serious conversation and someone -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 2:46PM Looks like someone's in for a good and thorough treadmilling... ** -- ResistHoo 04/16/2021 2:55PM Looks like it. Fortunately, Winston has to go to the Vet -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 2:58PM Winston is your Advantix!!! ** -- ResistHoo 04/16/2021 2:59PM How can anyone have a serious conversation with a poster ... -- Blah 04/16/2021 2:52PM Those sluts deserved it. ** -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 2:55PM Say what you want. We know you are a RACIST. Even SouthDenverHoo ... -- Blah 04/16/2021 2:59PM Yes. He was absolutley shocked. I think that's why he -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 3:00PM What? since when have I not been around? -- southdenverhoo 04/16/2021 5:02PM If you're forgotten, here's your disgusting post. -- Blah 04/16/2021 3:05PM And here's when Sith doubled down. -- Blah 04/16/2021 3:07PM It's true. ** -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 3:10PM Sith - why do you think black people should be treated unequally? ** -- Blah 04/16/2021 3:02PM I don't. You do. It's as clear as day. ** -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 3:05PM You do and I linked your posts if there are any questions. ** -- Blah 04/16/2021 3:08PM I now you did. I hope you link it a thousand more times. ** -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 3:09PM I will. Everyone should know you are proud to be a racist. ** -- Blah 04/16/2021 3:09PM Everyone should know the truth. That blacks commit more -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 3:12PM You might want to look at Table 43 via the link below -- southdenverhoo 04/16/2021 5:48PM Your exact quote: "Hard to get treated equally when blacks commit 50% ... -- Blah 04/16/2021 3:17PM Are you gonna cry? ** -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 5:26PM I'm not here to troll you. Just calling you out for being a racist. ** -- Blah 04/16/2021 5:58PM You're wrong, Sithie. Or the FBI is. Please see my post above. ** -- southdenverhoo 04/16/2021 5:52PM Where is Latino in all of that? -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 6:04PM Now let's drill down a little deeper, shall we? -- southdenverhoo 04/16/2021 6:30PM He had an Hispanic last name. And by FBI statistics he’s white. -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 7:15PM The FBI includes Latinos in "White" ** -- BocaHoo91 04/16/2021 6:10PM So they are now white. Very interesting. ** -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 6:12PM Huh? ** -- Plano Hoo 04/16/2021 2:27PM Because ideologues have convinced themselves that Assault Rifles protect us -- Molina 04/16/2021 2:13PM Correct answer. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 2:32PM 1) We have more psychopaths with access to a gun -- DTsBicep 04/16/2021 2:05PM For the same reason we... -- Los Angeles Hoo 04/16/2021 2:04PM No wonder you loved Jan 6. Most of you wannabe Patrick Henrys are really -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 2:28PM Lots of Movementarians are just looking for purpose -- Beerman 04/16/2021 2:53PM Your concern for them is touching, but I'd note that they... -- Los Angeles Hoo 04/16/2021 3:03PM As opposed to your greater purpose of racial rabble rousing -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 2:49PM Settle down. ** -- Los Angeles Hoo 04/16/2021 2:31PM I'll bet you thought "Red Dawn" was a documentary. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 2:36PM Or porn, if ya know what I mean. ** -- SixerHoo 04/16/2021 4:15PM Nm** -- Plano Hoo 04/16/2021 2:24PM Yeah, the people of Western Europe, Australia, Japan, -- SixerHoo 04/16/2021 2:14PM Someone tell the ACLU and their brethren to close up shop and just buy -- Molina 04/16/2021 2:18PM Its funny that European countries have all those rights and they -- Plano Hoo 04/16/2021 2:13PM That's a steaming pile of tarhole -- Beerman 04/16/2021 2:10PM Yep and never mind that it was inextricable from the concept of state -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 2:30PM That freedom can go bye bye at anytime. ** -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 2:14PM It sure can, but a gun in your nightstand has nothing to do with that ** -- Beerman 04/16/2021 2:47PM Sure but that’s bigger than the 2A ** -- DTsBicep 04/16/2021 2:31PM So can your life if you’re at church, country music festival, work, school -- Molina 04/16/2021 2:20PM I know and I don't care. ** -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 2:23PM Ditto. The greater risk by far -- as all of history has taught -- is... -- Los Angeles Hoo 04/16/2021 2:29PM Yep. We all live in a such a comfortable world that -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 2:30PM It's hard to believe they can just ignore what has happened... -- Los Angeles Hoo 04/16/2021 2:43PM Pray tell -- Beerman 04/16/2021 3:03PM Fight like hell. ** -- Los Angeles Hoo 04/16/2021 3:15PM Wolverines!!! ** -- Beerman 04/16/2021 5:09PM Too bad Swayze's not still around to kick commie ass. ** -- Los Angeles Hoo 04/16/2021 10:18PM Yeah. Imagine of something happened and everyone's power -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 2:45PM Exactly. I left out the personal protection component of gun ownership... -- Los Angeles Hoo 04/16/2021 2:50PM But enough about Texas. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 2:47PM I shudder to think what the world would be like following your "wisdom." ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 2:45PM You'd be fine. You might even have more opportunities to virtue-signal,... -- Los Angeles Hoo 04/16/2021 2:53PM Oh, my hero. Fuck off. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 2:54PM He's right you know. Once the powers that be take over -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 2:59PM LOL! Scary... ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 4:41PM Clearly. But as a nihilist, don’t pretend to know what and who actually -- Molina 04/16/2021 2:25PM I prefer to think of you as the Nihilist. We live in such -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 2:28PM I agree. But a bunch of yahoos with AR-15's isn't going to prevent -- BocaHoo91 04/16/2021 2:18PM Look at the Civil Rights Movement, Anti-Vietnam War protests, even the -- Maupin233 04/16/2021 3:50PM It adds excitement and purpose to their lives to think they are the true -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 2:36PM When the tanks come for you what’s in your aresenal? ** -- SixerHoo 04/16/2021 2:17PM Why would I confront a tank? ** -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 2:25PM Exactly ** -- HoodatB 04/16/2021 2:53PM You don't have any point either? ** -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 2:56PM Your freedoms are as WE want unless you defeat our tanks and F22s!!! ** -- ResistHoo 04/16/2021 3:27PM The point is pretty simple -- DTsBicep 04/16/2021 3:24PM ^^^^^^ Didn't see Red Dawn ^^^^^^^^ ** -- BocaHoo91 04/16/2021 5:04PM Precisely my point sir. ** -- SixerHoo 04/16/2021 2:32PM Then you have no point. ** -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 2:35PM That you are oblivious to it is unsurprising. ** -- SixerHoo 04/16/2021 2:40PM I'm not oblivious to anything. -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 2:43PM Who said anything about you being by yourself? ** -- SixerHoo 04/16/2021 3:11PM You said "you" didn't you? Jesus Christ. ** -- Hokieesith 04/16/2021 3:13PM Try to stay focused. The words “by yourself” didn’t appear in my post. ** -- SixerHoo 04/16/2021 3:21PM Yeah, the Taliban and Vietcong got smoked cuz we have nukes!!! -- ResistHoo 04/16/2021 2:23PM I see you know as little about the Vietnam War as you do most things. The -- SixerHoo 04/16/2021 3:53PM Sixer logic wins again - The Viet Cong got beaten through superior weaponry -- ResistHoo 04/16/2021 4:02PM A bunch of tribesmen in pajamas outlasted... -- Los Angeles Hoo 04/16/2021 3:08PM Joey would call in the white phosphorus on the deplorables!!! ** -- ResistHoo 04/16/2021 3:25PM Because we have too many white males. ** -- psychobilly 04/16/2021 1:58PM Could you expand on that? ** -- DTsBicep 04/16/2021 2:07PM Poor victim ** -- wahoo138 04/16/2021 2:02PM More like we have too many psychos ** -- TomGlansAski 04/16/2021 2:02PM ^^^^ Look, here's one now ^^^^ ** -- ResistHoo 04/16/2021 2:08PM Well, if it isn't the fifth stooge! ^^^ -- TomGlansAski 04/16/2021 2:37PM Don't be mad just because you're busted, Glans. ** -- ResistHoo 04/16/2021 2:47PM Definitely a lot of mentally ill people. ** -- psychobilly 04/16/2021 2:04PM All countries have mental illness. The disparity in gun deaths is -- SixerHoo 04/16/2021 2:19PM Well, cops are inundated with videos and tales during training -- wahoo138 04/16/2021 1:52PM How do you feel today 138? ** -- hoolstoptheheels 04/16/2021 1:54PM Perfect, but it didn't clear until early this morning -- wahoo138 04/16/2021 1:56PM Sorry to hear that, but some say it speaks well of your immune system. -- hoolstoptheheels 04/16/2021 1:58PM I was getting kind of annoyed at my immune system -- wahoo138 04/16/2021 2:01PM Not enough good guys with guns to combat the bad guys with guns. -- HTrain90 04/16/2021 1:48PM Witness was interviewed on the Today show this morning -- 757 04/16/2021 2:02PM I wish it was obvious. ** -- Molina 04/16/2021 1:49PM Widespread easy gun availability. Start with that. ** -- Seattle .Hoo 04/16/2021 1:47PM Not enough thoughts and prayers. Can't think of any other reason. ** -- HoosWillWin 04/16/2021 1:25PM It's the greatest tool in our arsenal. We really should use it more. ** -- Beerman 04/16/2021 2:04PM