*Prompter Thread* (NO personal attacks, NO trolling)

[cazzie34]

Originally Posted by coldengrey12

Alex Jones allegedly sent child porn to the lawyers for the Sandy Hook families?

https://www.ctpost.com/local/ctpost/...k-14005437.php

Legal Twitter is saying he probably didn't do anything wrong. More to it than just this.

[ShotgunDMB]

Originally Posted by zajDmB1

Lead dude of Birtherism is president, so I think you (and maybe all of us) underestimate how many there are. Maybe not basement dwellers, but conspiracy theorists.

I mean...to both sides this thing, plenty of libs are anti-vaxxers now so who knows what the fuck is going on in the world

Plenty of nutjobs out there for sure.

[drakan]

We know an assault weapons ban would make mass shootings decline as much as 70%
.
Alleged Dallas gunman Brian Isaack Clyde opens fire outside federal courthouse, dies in gun battle
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/gunman-ope...opstories.html

Not only that but serious injuries would decrease too.

[BTBaboon]

Originally Posted by cazzie34

McConnell calls granting statehood to D.C. and Puerto Rico, “full bore socialism.” https://t.co/LXi71EMtDV

https://twitter.com/resistbot/status...399037953?s=19

Everything is socialism these days.

can anyone here on the right help us loony libs understand how granting statehood is "socialism"?

[coldengrey12]

Originally Posted by drakan

We know an assault weapons ban would make mass shootings decline as much as 70%
.
Alleged Dallas gunman Brian Isaack Clyde opens fire outside federal courthouse, dies in gun battle
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/gunman-ope...opstories.html

Not only that but serious injuries would decrease too.

Did we all see the photo?

https://twitter.com/dallasnews/statu...56385899814912

[coldengrey12]

Wild how conservatism keeps breeding this:

https://twitter.com/JustinGlawe/stat...07540155715584

[cazzie34]

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan announces the Pentagon will send 1,000 additional troops to the Middle East "for defensive purposes to address air, naval, and ground-based threats." He adds: "The U.S. does not seek conflict with Iran."

https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/s...632983552?s=19

Drum beats louder. When's the deal maker gonna make a better Iran deal?

[AJF_41]

How the fuck is a former Boeing executive qualified to be Defense Secretary?

Everyone is just okay with that?

[TwoStep2888]

Originally Posted by coldengrey12

Wild how conservatism keeps breeding this:

https://twitter.com/JustinGlawe/stat...07540155715584

what a strange coincidence!

Originally Posted by AJF_41

How the fuck is a former Boeing executive qualified to be Defense Secretary?

Everyone is just okay with that?

the DOD is the biggest racket there is

[Tiduwho]

Trumper's gathering out of spite:


https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media...n0v8u5ji35.jpg

[AJF_41]

donny melting about fox

[smokew11]

Originally Posted by AJF_41

How the fuck is a former Boeing executive qualified to be Defense Secretary?

Everyone is just okay with that?

- a billionaire donor is qualified to be the Sec of Education
- the CEO of Exxon is qualified to be the Sec of State
- a surgeon is qualified to be Sec of HUD
- an anti-environment lobbyist is qualified to be head of the EPA

we could do this all day

[TwoStep2888]

Originally Posted by smokew11

- a billionaire donor is qualified to be the Sec of Education
- the CEO of Exxon is qualified to be the Sec of State
- a surgeon is qualified to be Sec of HUD
- an anti-environment lobbyist is qualified to be head of the EPA

we could do this all day

the best people

[jcc522]

Originally Posted by drakan

We know an assault weapons ban would make mass shootings decline as much as 70%
.
.

I love how you state this, unlikely, wild guess, as a fact

[BTBaboon]

Originally Posted by jcc522

I love how you state this, unlikely, wild guess, as a fact

FWIW, he did source the claim in a previous post:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30188421

Assault rifles accounted for 430 or 85.8% of the total 501 mass-shooting fatalities reported (95% confidence interval, 82.8-88.9) in 44 mass-shooting incidents. Mass shootings in the United States accounted for an increasing proportion of all firearm-related homicides (coefficient for year, 0.7; p = 0.0003), with increment in year alone capturing over a third of the overall variance in the data (adjusted R = 0.3). In a linear regression model controlling for yearly trend, the federal ban period was associated with a statistically significant 9 fewer mass shooting related deaths per 10,000 firearm homicides (p = 0.03). Mass-shooting fatalities were 70% less likely to occur during the federal ban period (relative rate, 0.30; 95% confidence interval, 0.22-0.39).

If you want to argue with the data, have at that. But this is a time where Drakan actually backed up his claim.

[jcc522]

Originally Posted by BTBaboon

FWIW, he did source the claim in a previous post:



https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30188421







If you want to argue with the data, have at that. But this is a time where Drakan actually backed up his claim.

[smokew11]

Originally Posted by jcc522

[rconverse]

LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Observational

[rconverse]

Polishits does have a nice ring to it.

[drakan]

Originally Posted by BTBaboon

FWIW, he did source the claim in a previous post:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30188421



If you want to argue with the data, have at that. But this is a time where Drakan actually backed up his claim.

I always back up my claims.

[drakan]

The number of gun massacres and massacre deaths decreased by 37% and 43% respectively after the 1994 ban on assault weapons went into effect, one researcher found. After it expired in 2004, they shot up by 183% and 239%.

https://www.businessinsider.com/scie...-skyrocketed-6

[drakan]

We all know that Republicans are impervious to facts and studies, I post for the libs.

[drakan]

CHILD GUN DEATHS FAR HIGHER IN STATES WITH THE MOST RELAXED LAWS
https://www.newsweek.com/child-gun-d...d-laws-1191849

[mthawk07]

It’s almost as if the mere presence of more guns leads to more shooting deaths. That logic’s not lost on all of us, but we know how the gun fetishists are.

[Tiduwho]

Those statistics are just a coincidence. I feel that the REAL cause is the rise of SoyBoy culture.

[cazzie34]

Originally Posted by Tiduwho

Those statistics are just a coincidence. I feel that the REAL cause is the rise of SoyBoy culture.

From my understanding, he thinks that Sex with hot prostitutes for a cheap price is the solution. It's women's fault since they aren't having sex with men.

[kydmb99]

I’ll ask this question since I was relentlessly asked the same when talking about abortion: I own an AR. I can say with 100% certainty that I have not and never would use it to harm someone (unless my life was in danger). Let’s say I decide I’m not going to turn in my gun when it’s banned because it’s my constitutional right to own one. What should my punishment be? Does the government have the right to come into my house to confiscate it if I don’t turn it in?

[AJF_41]

Originally Posted by kydmb99

I’ll ask this question since I was relentlessly asked the same when talking about abortion: I own an AR. I can say with 100% certainty that I have not and never would use it to harm someone (unless my life was in danger). Let’s say I decide I’m not going to turn in my gun when it’s banned because it’s my constitutional right to own one. What should my punishment be? Does the government have the right to come into my house to confiscate it if I don’t turn it in?

what was your reason for buying it in first place? just curious.

protection?
sport?
hunting (lol)?

how many guns in total do you own, if you don't mind me asking (just trying to frame up AR)?

[BTBaboon]

Originally Posted by kydmb99

I’ll ask this question since I was relentlessly asked the same when talking about abortion: I own an AR. I can say with 100% certainty that I have not and never would use it to harm someone (unless my life was in danger). Let’s say I decide I’m not going to turn in my gun when it’s banned because it’s my constitutional right to own one. What should my punishment be? Does the government have the right to come into my house to confiscate it if I don’t turn it in?

Well if it's made illegal, and through a legal challenge the ban is upheld at SCOTUS, then it is not your constitutional right to own one and the government could be within their right to confiscate it. Now, of course that's unrealistic because A) there's never going to be a ban and B) the logistics of confiscating every last remaining banned item seems too tall of a task.

What I would suggest in the case of a ban is 1) incentivize people to turn their guns in 2) incentivize the manufacturer to replace he weapon with something within the new legal parameters and 3) put strict laws on the books to hold the owners and manufacturers liable if any crime is committed with the newly outlawed weapon types.

This is all far fetched and hypothetical though, because it's just not a possibility politically. Dems are big pussies on the gun issue and at most we'll see background checks and loopholes closed whenever they hold Congress/POTUS next. Even that may be too much to ask for.

[kydmb99]

Originally Posted by AJF_41

what was your reason for buying it in first place? just curious.

protection?
sport?
hunting (lol)?

how many guns in total do you own, if you don't mind me asking (just trying to frame up AR)?

Because they’re fun as hell to shoot and it’s something me and some of my friends like to do. Other than that I own a 9mm pistol. I don’t consider myself a “gun nut” but it does make me and the wife feel better having them. I don’t live in a high crime area but there have been people who have had their homes broken into around me so I’d rather have a way of protecting myself if I needed it.