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Re: You are not going to get a non emotional discussion about guns, it will never ever be rational Dragonsoul Send a noteboard - 26/05/2022 08:36:34 PM


For example why those 3 cities? Why not other cities?


Why not those three cities? I picked three cities at random from what I remember hearing in the news; your other examples are a great illustration of my point: none of those other cities are experiencing murder on a great scale with AR-15s. It's just more proof to my central thesis: selective outrage. Certain political groups freak out when 22 kids are murdered with an AR-15 style rifle, but they don't care about the children killed or maimed daily by handguns, in ALL of those cities you mentioned. So thanks!



And there are about 50 different ways we can reduce gun deaths on the margins. Stuff involving guns but also stuff like locating more hospitals that treat gun related injuries at the sites and cities of high amount of gun deaths.

Please don't tell me your solution to gun violence is to build more hospitals in high gun crime areas? Good point actually, tons of doctors and nurses with expensive cars and high net worth in areas that are flush with violent gun crime; I can't possibly see what would go wrong with that idea.



In sum these conversations are never fruitful, never satisfying, never provide Catharsis with the releasing of tension. For we are talking about inside and outside, with things that penetrate the inside and that is inherently full of tension.

I'm not saying remove emotion from the debate, but hyperbole, which is an entirely different concept.

I'm also saying to address the root cause of so many violent gun deaths: gangs, drugs, cartels and criminals. There will always, always be the lone wolf mass shooter we can't stop. That is something as a society we have to accept.

What we don't have to accept is the daily gun violence and children murdered by criminals and gangs that could be prevented.

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If no one else wants to open this can of worms, I guess I’ll have to do it damookster - 26/05/2022 02:07:18 AM 1059 Views
Unfortunately, there's not much to say. Dragonsoul - 26/05/2022 04:26:10 PM 348 Views
You are not going to get a non emotional discussion about guns, it will never ever be rational Roland00 - 26/05/2022 08:04:55 PM 302 Views
Re: You are not going to get a non emotional discussion about guns, it will never ever be rational Dragonsoul - 26/05/2022 08:36:34 PM 338 Views
There are so many (partial)-solutions and no single one is going to solve it. Roland00 - 26/05/2022 09:03:10 PM 304 Views
Unfortunately every time there is a mass shooting, gun sales spike. damookster - 26/05/2022 09:26:09 PM 355 Views
Yes Roland00 - 26/05/2022 09:55:14 PM 299 Views
Re: There are so many (partial)-solutions and no single one is going to solve it. Dragonsoul - 26/05/2022 09:56:23 PM 308 Views
You understand two things can both be true, right? damookster - 26/05/2022 10:19:56 PM 284 Views
In such a way Dragonsoul - 26/05/2022 10:27:52 PM 313 Views
What Mookie said, Sense and Sensibility with Perspective Roland00 - 26/05/2022 10:29:04 PM 294 Views
Oh yes, everyone is to blame, and hence no one fionwe1987 - 26/05/2022 04:58:37 PM 325 Views
You obviously don't know anything about Canada's gun laws. Dragonsoul - 26/05/2022 05:20:25 PM 349 Views
Remarkable fionwe1987 - 27/05/2022 03:55:54 AM 307 Views
4% PAL acquisition is, in essence, a ban. Dragonsoul - 27/05/2022 04:13:45 AM 292 Views
Well, that was a load of chickenshit fionwe1987 - 27/05/2022 05:08:29 AM 312 Views
He said, running away. Dragonsoul - 27/05/2022 11:34:19 AM 279 Views
He said, running away. Dragonsoul - 27/05/2022 11:34:20 AM 283 Views
You are the RAFO poster child for inability to hold a rational discussion that includes disagreement damookster - 26/05/2022 06:50:11 PM 334 Views
No, we're just disagreeing on what is rational, that is all... fionwe1987 - 27/05/2022 03:42:23 AM 303 Views
You just don’t get it. damookster - 27/05/2022 04:22:55 AM 343 Views
I think the same of you... fionwe1987 - 27/05/2022 05:05:43 AM 318 Views
Article VI, Clause II damookster - 27/05/2022 05:17:40 AM 304 Views
You're like a broken record. fionwe1987 - 27/05/2022 05:23:52 AM 300 Views
Bro you literally come from a country that plays nuclear chicken with Pakistan. Dragonsoul - 27/05/2022 11:40:07 AM 322 Views
And? fionwe1987 - 27/05/2022 02:24:09 PM 304 Views
Lol Parody account confirmed. Dragonsoul - 27/05/2022 04:04:56 PM 335 Views
Your repertoire of insults needs expansion. Keep trying. fionwe1987 - 27/05/2022 04:27:35 PM 282 Views
He said, not coming up with any retort of his own. Dragonsoul - 27/05/2022 09:58:30 PM 303 Views
whooops *NM* Dragonsoul - 27/05/2022 09:58:03 PM 180 Views
Oh, fuck off. TyrReborn - 27/05/2022 06:21:45 PM 326 Views
Why is liking the Constitution a binary thing? Roland00 - 27/05/2022 08:36:12 PM 293 Views
As you point out, it isn’t binary at all. damookster - 27/05/2022 09:16:18 PM 299 Views
*NM* Roland00 - 27/05/2022 09:55:28 PM 183 Views
Loyalty is to God, Family, Community, and only then State. TyrReborn - 27/05/2022 09:55:58 PM 310 Views
The founding fathers have a dream, where dreams start and reality begin Roland00 - 27/05/2022 11:39:07 PM 315 Views
This is wonderfully meandering and thought-provoking, but woefully insubstantial for understanding. *NM* TyrReborn - 28/05/2022 12:10:04 AM 183 Views
It is not fionwe1987 - 28/05/2022 07:19:32 AM 296 Views
Re: Oh, fuck off. fionwe1987 - 28/05/2022 06:53:38 AM 309 Views
That's a lot of words to say absolutely nothing. TyrReborn - 28/05/2022 06:56:05 PM 311 Views
When you shut your eyes, of course you can only see nothing fionwe1987 - 28/05/2022 09:43:13 PM 312 Views
A dead child for freedom is the choice made every abortion. TyrReborn - 30/05/2022 08:16:18 PM 294 Views
Oh really? Then explain to me... fionwe1987 - 31/05/2022 08:41:09 PM 332 Views
That baby isn't a baby, but that man is a woman TyrReborn - 01/06/2022 01:57:40 AM 307 Views
How would the world be different Roland00 - 26/05/2022 07:03:22 PM 306 Views
Yes and if my aunt had balls she would be my uncle damookster - 26/05/2022 07:14:08 PM 288 Views
I do not believe the original thread was made with curiosity or charity in mind. Roland00 - 26/05/2022 07:24:20 PM 279 Views
Well isn’t this the pot calling the kettle black. Dragonsoul - 26/05/2022 07:33:12 PM 297 Views
Well it is about respectability politics you see Roland00 - 26/05/2022 07:38:59 PM 310 Views
You're one of those men. Dragonsoul - 26/05/2022 08:27:53 PM 318 Views
Hypocrisy Roland00 - 26/05/2022 08:42:17 PM 272 Views
I don't know whether English is your first language Dragonsoul - 26/05/2022 10:00:04 PM 293 Views
Your attempt at mind reading is an abject failure. damookster - 26/05/2022 07:58:07 PM 289 Views
You started with Foreclosure Roland00 - 26/05/2022 08:08:36 PM 276 Views
Foreclosure, huh damookster - 26/05/2022 08:48:50 PM 297 Views
My advice is listen to the podcast I linked Dragonsoul *NM* Roland00 - 26/05/2022 09:05:13 PM 150 Views
One more thing Roland00 - 26/05/2022 07:25:22 PM 310 Views
And I guess this post proves my point, lol. Dragonsoul - 26/05/2022 07:34:48 PM 300 Views
Did I trigger you? damookster - 26/05/2022 07:50:02 PM 259 Views
You screaming get off my lawn is inherently causes an urge to egg your house *NM* Roland00 - 26/05/2022 08:05:48 PM 166 Views
~soaks Roland with the jet nozzle as I hose the egg off my front porch~ *NM* damookster - 26/05/2022 08:50:22 PM 161 Views
Never owned a gun, but I support gun rights. But... TyrReborn - 27/05/2022 02:51:26 AM 309 Views
I pretty much agree. damookster - 27/05/2022 03:18:38 AM 314 Views
Yep, what Tyr said *NM* Roland00 - 27/05/2022 03:27:33 AM 163 Views
The NY Yankees are now tweeting about guns. Roland00 - 27/05/2022 03:26:45 AM 276 Views
Bah damookster - 27/05/2022 04:25:25 AM 301 Views
Baseball twitter is bad Roland00 - 27/05/2022 04:29:15 AM 269 Views
UPDATE on the shooter, Salvador Ramos damookster - 27/05/2022 03:27:59 PM 329 Views
Can't be more of a disgrace than waiting an hour to go in and kill him. Dragonsoul - 27/05/2022 04:05:58 PM 253 Views
Re: Can't be more of a disgrace than waiting an hour to go in and kill him. damookster - 27/05/2022 04:15:22 PM 310 Views
I disagree. Dragonsoul - 27/05/2022 10:02:23 PM 280 Views
And if one of the fathers went in and accidentally killed another child and not the shooter? Roland00 - 27/05/2022 11:46:17 PM 278 Views
Thats a good point, and something I didn’t consider when I wrote my response. Dragonsoul - 28/05/2022 12:08:48 AM 280 Views
Understanding with Madness and all that stuff Roland00 - 28/05/2022 12:50:35 AM 295 Views
It's funny how the left thinks only cops should have guns, but also ACAB. TyrReborn - 27/05/2022 06:15:23 PM 288 Views
They already lost their balls. damookster - 27/05/2022 06:52:52 PM 323 Views
I am glad you protect your family Roland00 - 27/05/2022 08:46:05 PM 275 Views
But see, this is why the death of community and religion is bad for America. TyrReborn - 27/05/2022 10:12:49 PM 281 Views
Charles Whitman took his rifles to the tower at UT Austin in 1966 and killed 14 random people. damookster - 27/05/2022 10:21:42 PM 298 Views
And in May 1928, a maniac bombed a school in Michigan, killing 44. TyrReborn - 27/05/2022 11:46:34 PM 292 Views
I think the presence of visual imagery provides a mimetic response Roland00 - 27/05/2022 11:52:32 PM 308 Views
Reasonable, but even then, that's merely another condemnation for the modern world. TyrReborn - 28/05/2022 12:06:30 AM 290 Views
I agree Roland00 - 28/05/2022 12:56:10 AM 290 Views
I haven't said "bAn GuNs!1" Roland00 - 27/05/2022 11:33:43 PM 303 Views
This is taken from the late Justice Scalia’s majority opinion in 2008’s DC vs. Heller damookster - 27/05/2022 11:50:40 PM 322 Views
Please do not relitigate Heller with me Roland00 - 27/05/2022 11:59:21 PM 304 Views
I wasn’t and will not. damookster - 28/05/2022 01:01:59 AM 277 Views
We would scare them off that is what Roland00 - 28/05/2022 01:43:11 AM 284 Views
You chose wisely damookster - 28/05/2022 02:59:47 AM 290 Views
You did not. My apologies. TyrReborn - 28/05/2022 12:03:43 AM 286 Views
Why not 'harden' all schools and kindergartens with armed guards ? AgentApple - 30/05/2022 03:40:06 PM 280 Views
You're completely right and I hate it. TyrReborn - 30/05/2022 08:24:29 PM 253 Views
Another podcast I enjoyed Roland00 - 27/05/2022 08:26:56 PM 301 Views
This thread is reminiscint of the classic Wotmania debates from the aughts. damookster - 29/05/2022 12:22:47 AM 328 Views
Nobody would like my idea, but personally, I think Korea's 2 year mandatory service would do us good TyrReborn - 30/05/2022 08:30:37 PM 277 Views
Yep there is zero chance that will happen. Roland00 - 31/05/2022 10:32:06 PM 322 Views
Interesting damookster - 31/05/2022 10:56:53 PM 307 Views
Re: Yep there is zero chance that will happen. TyrReborn - 01/06/2022 01:50:37 AM 280 Views
Believe it or not I am not always a Grump Roland00 - 01/06/2022 03:38:16 AM 298 Views
Hot damn, Moolin Rouge was fantastic! *NM* entyti - 01/06/2022 09:36:04 PM 296 Views
What about trans-men entyti - 31/05/2022 10:07:21 PM 306 Views
an intriguing question damookster - 31/05/2022 10:34:39 PM 309 Views
It's all tongue-in-cheek, and isn't that dumb? TyrReborn - 01/06/2022 02:01:04 AM 300 Views
Can the 21 year olds Roland00 - 01/06/2022 03:44:08 AM 306 Views
You know, fair enough. If they're old enough to smoke, and they have a doctor that'll rx it, sure. *NM* TyrReborn - 01/06/2022 03:59:17 AM 163 Views
Something tells me this won't factor in anyone's favor... entyti - 01/06/2022 09:08:31 PM 322 Views
Wait, the *late* conservative Justice Alito? fionwe1987 - 01/06/2022 03:56:19 PM 314 Views
my bad damookster - 01/06/2022 05:09:22 PM 292 Views
The Uvalde Police Department and the Uvalde Independent School District police force are no longer Roland00 - 31/05/2022 11:45:32 PM 342 Views
The Uvalde police incompetence is totally indistinguishable from a cover-up at this point Roland00 - 04/06/2022 07:50:04 PM 348 Views
Until the existing gun laws are actually enforced, I am not willing to entertain any new ones HyogaRott - 09/06/2022 09:55:41 PM 344 Views
Oh yeah, and I am sick of the hyperbolic gaslighting by both sides HyogaRott - 09/06/2022 10:02:25 PM 335 Views
Anarchy, the State, and UTOPIA ! Roland00 - 10/06/2022 08:25:05 PM 309 Views
It gets darker and darker Roland00 - 22/06/2022 02:10:08 AM 290 Views
It's so bad dude. So bad. Those poor souls... *NM* TyrReborn - 30/06/2022 05:04:56 PM 153 Views
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