Posted on 12/18/2015 11:36:36 AM PST by Lazamataz
Ban guns. All guns. Get rid of guns in homes, and on the streets, and, as much as possible, on police. Not just because of San Bernardino, or whichever mass shooting may pop up next, but also not not because of those. Don't sort the population into those who might do something evil or foolish or self-destructive with a gun and those who surely will not. As if this could be known--as if it could be assessed without massively violating civil liberties and stigmatizing the mentally ill. Ban guns! Not just gun violence. Not just certain guns. Not just already-technically-illegal guns. All of them.
I used to refer to my position on this issue as being in favor of gun control. Which is true, except that "gun control" at its most radical still tends to refer to bans on certain weapons and closing loopholes. The recent New York Times front-page editorial, as much as it infuriated some, was still too tentative. "Certain kinds of weapons, like the slightly modified combat rifles used in California, and certain kinds of ammunition, must be outlawed for civilian ownership," the paper argued, making the case for "reasonable regulation," nothing more. Even the rare ban-guns arguments involve prefacing and hedging and disclaimers. "We shouldn't 'take them away' from people who currently own them, necessarily," writes Hollis Phelps in Salon. Oh, but we should.
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I think you can get custom etched ejection port covers. Get one that says ‘Phoebe’.
Why don’t she take care of Canada first. Then we’ll talk.
Good trigger discipline.
Pheobe doesn't realize the problem with 4th generation warfare: once the blood-letting starts it's very hard to turn off, particularly when there are no recognizable armies, and no set of laws. The only governing principle is total elimination of the opposition, because it's all about survival.
In that environment, a progressive bumper-sticker will get you killed as quickly as a gun-grabbing essay.
Tread lightly Phoebe.
I vomited a little in my throat.
It won’t be JBT, it will be Hellfire missiles fired from Drones 20,000 feet in the air.
They spent the last four decades swearing up and down this was NOT their goal.
I was going to drop her a note on twitter, but she’s already blocked me lol.
Drone fliers live somewhere.
What’s the deal with Burg Neu Schwanstein in the backround of that photo?
I'd rather have a sound card or chip with her singing *Smellycat.*
Won’t argue with It,
Will Not Comply.
You realize that that symbol and associated specs would completely confuse Dorkbama the Muslim, his butt kissing MSM buds, and the vast vast majority of all those who think they understand anything about science.
Can't have mine.
Too NYC for my tastes.
Feeble Bovine Mind seems more descriptive of this little fascist.
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