Dunno, last year - once you file these things they are usually forgotten.
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Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
Look, I just don't anymore, okay?
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Lying is what the NRA does. It is what they have always done.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.
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Originally posted by Alexander's Horse View PostThis is the real problem America is grappling with - and I really feel for you all on that. No easy answers at all.
But then, the NRA seems to have already won the war by making rank and file Americans think that there's no point.
All you need is a bit of resolve and to start chipping away at the edges, such as stopping crazies from easily getting permits, really cracking down on the crooked gunshop owners - all the stuff that your average American would support...
What needs to change is America's warped culture towards guns and this will take a long time through a long series of gradual and incremental steps.
Australia should be the US' roadmap - no wonder the NRA feel so threatened by what has happened in that country...
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Originally posted by Alexander's Horse View PostNobody noticed - which says it all really about these plans like OH&S and the Fire Plan that management people have to produce or sign off on. I spend as little time on them as possible.It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
RIP Tony Bogey & Baron O
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Originally posted by loinburger View PostThe Supreme Court could always step in when somebody challenges a gun control law and say that you can only own guns if you're in a militia, which would then limit (legal) firearm ownership to the country's craziest citizens.
Also, the NRA could just call itself a militia.Last edited by regexcellent; July 14, 2015, 18:58.
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Originally posted by rah View PostThey've used it in the US to raise the visibility of emergency planning. It was actually effective based on what I remember. (the fact that I remembered is something on it's own)
Ya I'm getting to the stage where remembering is difficult, although I'm having more difficulty with caring....Any views I may express here are personal and certainly do not in any way reflect the views of my employer. Tis the rising of the moon..
Look, I just don't anymore, okay?
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Originally posted by MOBIUS View PostBeing pro gun in spite of the overwhelming evidence of the death and misery it causes, must be one of the most stupid and idiotic stances to take ever...
It's almost as bad as still being a smoker after knowing how stupidly bad it is for you - or living somewhere like Texas...
So, basically Slowwhand - unless he's finally seen the light (not the lighter!) and given up fags.
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Originally posted by pchang View PostNational -> run by US Army. So, yes and no. A State run militia would eliminate that 2nd Amendment loophole.The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty…we will be remembered in spite of ourselves… The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the last generation… We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.
- A. Lincoln
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Originally posted by grumbler View PostThe US Army doesn't run the National Guard. The National Guards meet every criterion laid down for the "well-regulated militia" that the Second Amendment was designed to protect (see Federalist Papers #28 and #46). Its officers are appointed by the state governments, and answer to them. They are the state-run militias.
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