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Okay, so here's why calling it the China virus or China plague is racist. And to be clear, it's not enormously so.It targets the country of origin for no good reason. This may be accurate, but it sets a bad precedent. The so-called Spanish
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I wish The president of US a speady recovery
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@1056. Yeah but this is about covid so...
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Maybe we should move this discussion to the politics topic.
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Yeah I don't think that's racist either, that's like saying spanish flu is racist. Oh and before you give me its a different time, with that logic it should be OK to still use the N word since it was a different tim. However I agree
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Again, I disagree that calling it the China virus is racist. You're not saying the chinese virus, you are saying the china virus. You are not saying, all chinese people have corona. If covid19 came from the Philippines, I would be fine
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@220Who told him to keep saying that it was the Chinese virus or even the Chinese plague?
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Donald trump himself has been tested Corona Positive but I condem the Chinese tweets we shouldn't celebrate when anyone is sick
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Ok, so trump just signed executive orders lowering the unemployment to 400 dollars, based on the bullshit republican myth of people sitting at home to get unemployment instead of going to work. Also, there is a payroll tax cut. I really
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Ok, so trump just signed executive orders lowering the unemployment to 400 dollars, based on the bullshit republican myth of people sitting at home to get unemployment instead of going to work. Also, there is a payroll tax cut. I really
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@1048 tongue firmly in cheek, i hear americans saying all the time that the bible says a man shall not lay with another man. it doesn't say you can't have sex standing up though. grins.
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@1049I dunno. I'd say we've actually shifted left. It looks bleak right now but universal healthcare and even UBI are now in the overton window. Obama shouldn't have just let torture keep happening, but it wasn't that long ago that we
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@1048 Good points. I just worry that we got to Trump by sort of wobbling toward the precipice. Our choice has always been between some sort of conservative, and some other sort of moderate liberal. That window has shifted further and
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Thing about Biden is that Biden makes a good deal of sense if your goal is to get rid of Trump. Sanders is a scary candidate that would probably have alienated the suburban white voter as well as many independents. You have to play that
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Dammit now I want to read a story where cats and dogs are overthrowing humanity successfully.I totally blame you for this, Nolan.(Also thank you, who knows? maybe I could develop a good plot out of this.)
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@1045 I get you. The way I see it is, I'm giving them one chance to field someone better in 2024. If in 2024 the oceans are flooding over the land, dogs and cats are rising up to overthrow humanity, and the world is falling apart, they'd
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Hi Camlorn,Though I didn't post all now, this article is on multiple news outlets, which makes it more likely it was true. Well, this just motivates me to look after myself more, in case a doctor decides my life isn't worth saving
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@1043 Fair points. I'm having a pretty raw week, and I wasn't really upset, it just hit a bit close to home since we were literally just talking about her fear of having her plug pulled if she got hospitalized because of this. Broke my
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@1039And as I said, I'm addressing the general point. Because this whole right to care in a triage situation is really irritating. It's a triage situation. By definition, someone's losing the right to treatment.In so much as I have a
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Nolan, I couldn't agree with you more on the latter point you raised, especially. I am not American, so I can't vote in an American election, but I hope that a bunch of people feel the same way you do. Give the democrats, who have the only
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@1033 As someone having a girlfriend with a disability, more specifically using a wheelchair, I'm going to call you on the "clear-cut case" bit. We need to be *very* careful about those sorts of judgment calls. If I misunderstood your
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Well, the thing to remember is this. If Biden flakes out, his VP will step in and run the country instead. That's why the VP is there. I hope no Americans use that as a reason to vote for Trump; the video I linked to raises some pretty
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Well, it is true that disabilities, especially severe ones like blindness, do degrade someone's quality of life, but I don't think it is right to condemn someone to death eeven when there isn't space in the intensive care ward, by
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Wow... the shear idiocy that Trump displays, even in the first few minutes -- discussing voting by mail and how "absentee voting" is supposedly different from voting by mail (which it isn't, as Jonathon says, its synonymous with voting by
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Turtlepower, good on you for trying to make a difference where you think it will matter.I'm not convinced Joe Biden is a great candidate, but I -am convinced that Trump is by far the greater of two evils. If I were American, I would vote
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Wow... the shear idiocy that Trump displays, even in the first few minutes -- discussing voting by mail and how "absentee voting" is supposedly different from voting by mail (which it isn't, as Jonathon says, its synonymous with voting by
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Wow... the shear idiocy that Trump displays, even in the first few minutes -- discussing voting by mail and how "absentee voting" is supposedly different from voting by mail (which it isn't, as Johnathon says, its synonyms with mail-in
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@1032I know I'm not supposed to say obviously screw the blind guy. And as a blind guy I don't want that to be the case. But the truth of the matter is that for a large number of people with disabilities, quality of life actually isn't
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Jayde, I haven't been actively reading the forum for a few days, but I'll respond to your post about voting now, though the discussion has wandered pretty far from that. Partially, I want to explain my thoughts, and partially, I want to do
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Just came across a video, and while it didn't tell me anything new, the stark horror of it blew my fucking mind.Seriously, get a load of this. Watch it all the way through. If you can support Donald Trump, and anything he has to say about
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Yeah. Clear triage, where a multitude of factors are involved, is one thing. Sixty-year-old paraplegic vs. twenty-year-old athlete is a clear-cut case. But people who are comparable save for one disability...well, let's just hope we never
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The issue is though, what would the doctor do, if he had a 20 year old athlete, and a 20 year old blind guy? Or a 60 year old sighted guy with conditions, and a 20 year old blind guy with none? If he still goes ahead and treats the sighted
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To be clearer, Donald Trump and his government didn't take Covid-19 seriously. They ignored pandemic prevention strategies put in place by prior governments, ostensibly because he just didn't believe the threat was that great but probably
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@1029 Because, like Brazil, we have an Idiot in Chief. And, like Brazil, we have terrible case counts.
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@1028, I was talking more in general terms, but of course given the corona virus and the government not taking it seriously as they should have from the start, of course shit hit the fan. But generally speaking, if it was not do to covid
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@1027Again, in the particular instance of that article, I don't know for sure what happened. But in general, congratulations for adding yourself to the long list of people who don't get this.They can't try. There aren't enough doctors to
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Damn. That's fucked up that disabled people aren't getting treatement in some hospitals. While I do get the point made about having two people and statisticly, patient 1, athlete, has a greater survival chance than patient 2, blind guy, in
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Damn. That's fucked up that disabled people aren't getting treatement in some hospitals. While I do get the point made about having two people and statisticly, patient 1, athlete, has a greater survival chance than patient 2, blind guy, in
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@1023 @1024That's bad, but if this continues we're going to see much more of it. That article makes it sound like that particular hospital wasn't overwhelmed, so shame on them, but it's also Texas, which is having overwhelmed hospital
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1021, this is the case in a lot of Asian countries.. Take this quick google turnup...Confirmed476Recovered443Deaths7'+' shows new cases reported yesterday · Updated less than 2 days ago·Taiwan's population in 2018 was 24 million give or
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1021, this is the case in a lot of Asian countries.. Take this quick google turnup...Confirmed476Recovered443Deaths7'+' shows new cases reported yesterday · Updated less than 2 days ago·Taiwan's population in 2018 was 24 million give or
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@1023, that's... messed up. And with that we've reached a kilobyte of posts.
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Also, apparently with hospitals deciding who gets treatment, with beds full, disabled people are refused to be treated. I think this is extremely worrieing. Here is an example I saw a few days ago.https://thetexan.news/austin-hospital-w …
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I really think it is because of trump's lax attitude with the virus, his refusal to wear a mask, thus setting a bad example, and his push to fully open states before infections were under control.
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I just got mindfucked. In South Korea, a country with a population of 51 million, Coronavirus infection numbers of about 14000, COVID-19 related deaths are only a little above 300. Hundred. In the United States, which has a population of
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I just got mindfucked. In South Korea, a country with a population of 51 million, COVID-19 related deaths are only above 300. Hundred. In the United States, which has a population of 328 million, we have over 156,000 deaths. 156,000. Are
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I just got mindfucked. In South Korea, a country with a population of 51 million, COVID-19 related deaths are only a little above 300. Hundred. In the United States, which has a population of 328 million, we have over 156,000 deaths.
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@1019, the point that Jayde and I are trying to make is that I wasn't explicitly calling you an idiot. Nowhere did I say or imply that you in particular were an idiot. If I meant to say that, I'd have no reason to hide behind some facade
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@1019, the point that Jayde and I are trying to make is that I wasn't explicitly calling you an idiot. Nowhere did I say or imply that you in particular were an idiot. If I meant to say that, I'd have no reason to hide behind some facade
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Jayde, I simply said I would take offense to just casually being called an idiot on the forum, and one reason I brought up my credentials, though I may be wrong, I am not an idiot, there is a very clear cut difference between the two.
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Enes, I'll counter that by saying that just because you have a degree, that obviously doesn't mean you can't be wrong, or can't embarrass yourself. I think my responses out too. Generally you'd hope that most of us would do this, and that
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Jayde, it was crystal clear that the money comments were in reference to my degrees, and I just find that disgusting that I would be accused of paying to earn my degrees. I despise people who do that, and my family's financial situation
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@1014, point taken. I didn't see post 1005 as insinuating that though, and again, the only reason I agreed was because it was one particular way and had no intention of insinuating that Enes in particular had done that. Maybe 1005 intended
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@989 as i pointed out, the A R 15 is sold as a semi automatic but can very easily be customised to full burst fire. that makes it an assault rifle when it's done and in fact if you look it up, makes it an m16.
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Uh...so this is where I do want to actually straight-up draw a line here.Observe the following fictional scenario.Bob says:Your degree really doesn't mean much. People can throw around a ton of money and just get a degree that way, and that
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@1012, you took that money issue out of context. Like majorly. I significantly doubt post 1005 was ever insinuating that you in particular threw around money to get your degree. That's definitely not what I got out of it, that's for sure.
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@1004, that's what I thought. And to be blunt, such arrogance... disgust the heck out of me. @1003... You just pruved my point even more so. That, plus the arrogance your displaying on posts 998 and 1003... Your automatically assuming i,
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@1004, that's what I thought. And to be blunt, such arrogance... disgust the heck out of me. @1003... You just pruved my point even more so. That, plus the arrogance your displaying on posts 998 and 1003... Your automatically assuming i,
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Jayde, I responded quite harshly because I saw that post as a clear attempt to insult me, and thus I responded in kind. Also, for people here to casually say, well you were some rich kid who had loads of money, and earned your degrees that
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@1004, that's what I thought. And to be blunt, such arrogance... disgust the heck out of me. @1003... You just pruved my point even more so. That, plus the arrogance your displaying on posts 998 and 1003... I'll just say this. Your focusing
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@1009, I didn't think I was taking things out of context, but maybe I am... hmmm. I probably went a bit overboard in 1004.
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I'm just gonna go ahead and point out that I think both of you, Ethin and Enes, are taking certain bits out of context.Ethin, you're trying to extract a tooth with a sledgehammer. You are overdoing this point, though I agree with the thrust
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@1007, I'm confused on where you got the idea that I had the idea that you were an expert on everything. Because I certainly didn't claim that anywhere in 1004. Yes, earning degrees shows intelligence and hard work ethic. But that doesn't
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@1007, I'm confused on where you got the idea that I had the idea that you were an expert on everything. Because I certainly didn't claim that anywhere in 1004. Yes, earning degrees shows intelligence and hard work ethic. But that doesn't
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@1007, I'm confused on where you got the idea that I had the idea that you were an expert on everything. Because I certainly didn't claim that anywhere in 1004. Yes, earning degrees shows intelligence and hard work ethic. But that doesn't
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1004, ok, where did you get the idea that I claimed to be an expert on everything? Again, as I said, earning degrees, shows some level of intelligence, and hard work ethic in specific areas. Any average joe on the street can't just earn a
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1004, ok, where did you get the idea that I claimed to be an expert on everything? Again, as I said, earning degrees, shows some level of intelligence, and hard work ethic in specific areas. Any average joe on the street can't just earn a
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@1005, yep.
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There are a lot of idiots in this world who happen to have degrees From very prestigious learning institutions. It’s just as likely however that they had $50,000 or so laying around, as it is that they got there through actual work. Any one
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@1003, I think you just proved 1000s point right there. And no, a college degree does not necessarily prove that you are hard-working or extremely intelligent. People who don't have degrees, or failed to get one because of the major
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There are a lot of idiots in this world who happen to have degrees From very prestigious learning institutions. It’s just as likely however that they had $50,000 or so laying around, as it is that they got there through actual work.
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@1003, I think you just proved 1000s point right there. And no, a college degree does not necessarily prove that you are hard-working or extremely intelligent. People who don't have degrees, or failed to get one because of the major
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@1003, I think you just proved 1000s point right there. And no, a college degree does not necessarily prove that you are hard-working or extremely intelligent. People who don't have degrees, or failed to get one because of the major
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Ok so it was obvious I was being insulted, as he refered to people who think guns should be banned as idiots. And I am sorry, I don't know what world you live in, but someone doing a masters degree does show intelligence, and hard work,
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@jayde, true. From what I read though, a couple of people where trying to help, not just staring. Then again, shooting said officer of the law wouldn't have been the solution either. My guess as to why a bunch of people didn't step
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@998, So? Did he call you a idiot personally? That was more of a general term. The fact you took it personally... And as far as waving your degree-as proof that your not an idiot, you said it yourself mind you... uh,1: That is irrelevant
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Ignatriay, a bunch of people saw an officer abusing his authority by literally kneeling on the neck of a black man and cutting off his airway. They shouted at him, but so far as I know from watching the video, none attempted to rush the
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@998, So? Did he call you a idiot personally? That was more of a general term. The fact you took it personally... And as far as waving your degree-as proof that your not an idiot, you said it yourself mind you... uh,1: That is irrelevant
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@998, So? Did he call you a idiot personally? That was more of a general term. The fact you took it personally... And as far as waving your degree-as proof that your not an idiot, you said it yourself mind you... uh,1: That is irrelevant
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@998, So? Did he call you a idiot personally? That was more of a general term. The fact you took it personally... And as far as waving your degree-as proof that your not an idiot, you said it yourself mind you... uh,1: That is irrelevant
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@998, So? Did he call you a idiot personally? That was more of a general term. The fact you took it personally... And as far as waving your degreeas proof that your not an idiot, you said it yourself mind you... uh,1: That is irrelevant
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My issue with the AR15 is a simple one, and it's not nomenclature, it's function. Why does a civilian need it?I guess the point I've been trying to get across is that regardless of the intention of the founding fathers or whatnot, Americans
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996, be careful with your inflamatory language, and who you call an idiot. I have graduated from one of the top 3 schools in the world, with a graduate degree, and have two degrees so UI hardly fit the description. My opinion results from
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996:I am pretty sure AR = ArmaLite Rifle, so the name doesn't even contain the word assault . The AR-15 has just been used in a few high profile mass shootings over the years, so anyone anti gun gloms onto it.
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Yeah, you might be right, 993. Or they might've stopped and added in restrictions to the right. So, ultimately, what I think is this. We need tighter gun control. We need current gun control laws to actually be enforced strictly, not just
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@994If guns are illegal, then the only privileged people who can have them are law enforcement. Given that law enforcement in the U.S. literally has tanks in some cases just because there was some extra money laying around, it's not like
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I'm seeing both points here. I agree, gun control on the US, should be much tighter than what it is. However, to those who say guns should be a privilege... think of this. Those few, privileged, people who owned guns... could very, very
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Guns only protect people from people with guns, and also you will find that if you wanted to be a well-funded militia you should be allowed an ICBM in your back yard.I agree that it's not so simple as just getting rid of all the guns but we
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For all dem scurry terrists who might invade 'Murica, right?
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@990 first of all their is no way in hell we are going to remove the second ammandment and as I said before I think it is a a great idea for everyone to have a gun to defend their house
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Ethin, again, there is no evidence that any other amendments would be changed. Though I do think limits should be placed on free speech to include death threats. But the lax gun laws are just asking for trouble as I said earlier, in a
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980 The ar-15 is not an assault rifle. It's black and scary looking, but it is not an assault rifle.
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here's a fun fact: in Michigan it is perfectly legal for a blind person to own and use a hunting rifle and to go in to the woods to hunt deer during hunting season. crazy much? just throwing that out there.
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here's a fun fact: in Michigan it is perfectly legal for a blind person to own and use a hunting rifle and to go in to the toods to hunt deer during hunting season. crazy much? just throwing that out there.
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@986, I really hope it doesn't result in millions dead by bullets either, but I also hope it doesn't result in millions dead by the various other ways we can kill one another -- tanks, nuclear weapons, etc. And I don't think that way that
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@986, I really hope it doesn't result in millions dead by bullets either, but I also hope it doesn't result in millions dead by the various other ways we can kill one another -- tanks, nuclear weapons, etc. And I don't think that way that
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I think the bar for gun ownership should be reasonably high. Yes, this includes things like sport hunting. Ahem, do we really need to be hunting anymore anyway, given that we already rule the roost and can get whatever we need without
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eOk, firstly, the slippery slope argument is a logical falicy. There is no evidence that repeeling one amendment would lead to the others. Second, as I said, there isn't any disadvantage of gun control at all. That is bullcrap fed by the
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Ok, firstly, the slippery slope argument is a logical falicy. There is no evidence that repeeling one amendment would lead to the others. Second, as I said, there isn't any disadvantage of gun control at all. That is bullcrap fed by the
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@982 and 983, answers:1. Practically speaking, pretty important. Not just for self-defense but for other sports like hunting. People use guns for self-defense more often than you realize; we just don't hear about it because its not usually
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