***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[rillo561]

Those hands are so tiny...

 

[IATT]

so pence is now addressing the same CPAC ole boy from the NRA above was speaking at..

did this dude even go and visit the victims?!?!?

 

[dacomeup]

He knows what to say to rile up the gun nuts.

 

[dreamer23]

 

[fargin]

The right is always very concerned about Chicago and mental health, when a white guy kills a bunch of people in a school or church.

 

[Belgium]

I'm just trying to imagine Osh Kosh founding a private army to terrorize Canada before moving south into America. It wouldn't end well for him
Or Belgium trying to claim the beautiful european countryside for Papa Vlad with his russian rifles Wouldn't end well for him either

Yeah I don't see armed resistance working well for anyone here
If you want to own a weapon that is beyond the capabilities of relatively simple hunting guns you need a special kind of license on top of a regular firearm permit to be able to purchase and own one.
Off the top of my head I'm not really familiar with the exact requirements but I know that people with regular firearm permits aren't allowed to have anything classified as military grade weapons.

There's a number of special licenses for specific gun types on top of the 2 basic firearm permits, which are hunting firearm permits and sport shooting firearm permits. Unlike with a hunting gun permit, a sports shooting permit allows you to have a handgun but any pistol under that license can only have a maximum capacity of 5 bullets. With hunting guns I've literally never seen anyone use a hunting gun that can hold more than 3 bullets at a time. And all required handloading the bullets with the break-action mechanism on all the guns.

An example of special licenses on top of those basic firearm permits is some kind of antique collector's license that is required if collectors wish to keep antique firearms of all kinds. Another example is requiring a special license to keep semi-automatic rifles and other types of firearms seen as military grade. I know that for law enforcement it's pretty much only the special ops units that can get that kind of license but I think all enlisted military men and women trained for firearm combat can get such a license.
Either way a provincial council on firearms must collectively support your application to get any firearm permit in the first place and then the governor has to personally sign off on it as well. And everyone who lives in the same residence as the person applying for a permit must not object to the application, otherwise it is blocked by default for as long as the co-inhabitant wants to object.

In short, an armed uprising would probably look something like those old battlegrounds with people standing around franctically trying to load up their muskets.
Won't be a whole lot of shooting going on when even if you have a standard firearm permit, at most you can use a handgun that carries 5 shots. The rest will probably spend more time reloading than anything.

 

[Sharpshoeter13]

Yup, her social media timelines are messed up. She prolly reads her news from notfakenews.com or usanews.com popping up on her social media. Such an ignorant and illogical hot take. She couldn't stand being at the town hall meeting and tried to shade CNN for biased reporting.

After she said there were machine guns at the time when muskets were around, I knew she was BS. She was a struggle to watch last night.

It was a stark contrast between the POVs of Da Sheriff and Dana. The way he calmly spoke by which he articulated his thoughts definitely made Dana look like a paid actor by the NRA. Nothing about resolutions from the end of the NRA was said, she just defended their narrative of the second amendment and crazy people being responsible for the shootings.

 

[IATT]

 

[boris]

Everyone dumps on millennials (present company included), but they aren't falling for a lot of the dumb **** that has plagued this society for years. They see and understand the tactics being used and they just aren't buying. It's great to see.

As a millennial in the corporate world, I've noticed that the older generations expect their opinions to be taken very seriously without question. They HATE when younger people question them or prove them wrong.

 

[IATT]

 

[Belgium]

aepps20
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...ml?rref=collection/sectioncollection/politics
Black Lung Disease Comes
Storming Back in Coal Country

 

[equality]

Millennials are so much more socially and politically aware due to the access to information. It can come off as entitled because they aren't willing to put up with the "it's always been done this way" bs arguments.

 

[Belgium]

Over here we were allowed to do just about anything in terms of protests, advertising, ... so long as it's not during the hours you're supposed to be in class. And my highschool had roughly 3500 students in total.
Perfectly fine during recess or lunch break. We often had various kind of ad campaigns, usually organized by the student council, hanging around the school to lobby the school staff and fellow students. Our student council hung around all sorts of flyers etc. to lobby the school board to approve sports activities during lunch breaks with refugees from the local refugee center. It worked and the school hosted weekly soccer tournaments during lunch break with local refugees. Some of our curriculum involved social activities that I guess could be construed as somewhat political. As part of a class called "project" in the final year, you could choose a variety of projects and one of them was to design, market and host a big cookout at the local refugee center and help the refugees integrate in the community. One of the other project options was a school play for example and there were certainly plenty of political elements in that as the students had most of the control.

 

[biggie62]

aepps20
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/22/climate/black-lung-resurgence.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/politics
Black Lung Disease Comes
Storming Back in Coal Country

Let’s cut off their funding. Too expensive anyway and the state can’t afford it anymore

*kanye shrug*

 

[rillo561]

As a millennial in the corporate world, I've noticed that the older generations expect their opinions to be taken very seriously without question. They HATE when younger people question them or prove them wrong.

I'm pretty sure nobody likes to be proven wrong regardless of generation. Also, it really depends on how the person proves the other person wrong too, attitude wise.

 

[aepps20]

aepps20
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/22/climate/black-lung-resurgence.html?rref=collection/sectioncollection/politics
Black Lung Disease Comes
Storming Back in Coal Country

They say hard work pays off. This proves that's right.

 

[Nike Jordan]

@ddale8
Chris Loesch, husband of the NRA's Dana Loesch, says they had to flee the scene of the CNN town hall fast because it could've gotten "dangerous" for them.

 

[rillo561]

 

[IATT]

 

[Mark Antony]

Y'all think he actually reads these before sending?

I never said give teachers guns, why would I just up and do something like That?

Yeah I remember saying give teachers guns.

 

[blastercombo]

“Granted by god”. Religion is cancer

 

[blastercombo]

If their fairytale Jesus was a real person they’d have him on the deportation list.

The creation of white Jesus is worse than any bomb that’s ever gone off and any gun that’s been fired

 

[IATT]

seems relevant



@osh kosh bosh

 

[IATT]

If their fairytale Jesus was a real person they’d him on the deportation list.

The creation of white Jesus is worse than any bomb that’s ever gone off and any gun that’s been fired

 

[ninjahood]

sure, killer mike also believes this ****, doesn't make it less crazy.

to us coastal folks perhaps...but Ice-T is former military & killer mike mike from da gun culture south.