Chandemonium

If this does end up being worse than watergate and viewed as such by the public at large, can we stop the cultural practice of naming scandals (fill-in-the-blank)-gate? That would be one worthwhile accomplishment for the Obama legacy.

I think Haley will be the first female president.

Yeah, they might even start telling you how culturally appropriate you are.

Who TF calls it a water scooter?

I would. I lurk daily and read just about everything down here. Now commenting on it is a different story.

The real question is if he's down with OPP.

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Mow once a week and it gets water when it rains. When mowing make sure you take a beer break every half hour, every 20 minutes if temperature is 90 or higher. This is assuming a push mower. If you have a rider equipped with a cupholder you may choose to have a riding around beer instead of the beer break if desired.

Well, that depends what shade of pink your costume is.

If you're not omnibus, you're offnibus.

It ain't so bad. 20 teams have longer playoff droughts than us.

I think there's room in the discussion for using ketchup in an attempt to salvage a steak that's already been ruined by being well done. At that point you're essentially hoping for something resembling a hamburger or meatloaf. Actually preferring a steak that way and requesting it by choice is another matter entirely, however.

Lifeboy, on the other hand...blech!

If you look close, you can see the scratches from where he carved the gun out of an 80% lower with a pocket knife.

I get that it's a controversial organization in the sense that if prompted to think about the NRA people will tend to have strong opinions for or against, but I still don't think that most people think of them outside of the context of events like parkland or being asked directly "hey, what are your thoughts on the NRA?" While I can understand why a business owner wouldn't want to be associated with them due to the possibility of alienating potential customers, I also don't think that under most normal circumstances most people are considering whether a business supports the NRA or not when deciding which businesses to patronize. I tend to think of the NRA like black jellybeans in that regard. Everyone either loves them or hates them, but no one actually cares until there's a bowl of jellybeans in the room.

I don't think the NRA is controversial, until the left decides to make it so by associating it with a tragedy it nothing to do with to try to make political hay on the gun control front. The other 99% of the time most people never think about the NRA, and after the 'never think about them' group the next largest group is probably members.

He's out to get them Duke boys, who always seem to be onto his moneymaking schemes with the corrupt local sheriff. ...actually, that kinda fits

Wait, what?does she actually think the magazine comes preloaded and is not reloadable?

I said this yesterday in the other gun thread, but it's worth repeating here: this belief is all the more reason to support the second amendment. If you believe that in a worst case scenario where armed conflict is necessary to defend liberty the deck would be heavily stacked in favor of your oppressor, you should not willingly give up one of the few cards in your favor. To suggest otherwise is to suggest that freedom isn't worth defending because it might be difficult. I can empathize with that position because I think we're all afraid to die to varying degrees and likely more than we'd like to admit, but it's also ultimately an untenable position for those among us who believe that our freedom is literally the most important thing that we have. You or I or anyone else don't get to make the choice for anyone else that their freedom isn't that important. I certainly don't fantasize about a modern armed revolution, in fact the prospect terrifies me, but the beauty of the second amendment is that it acts as a deterrent making a scenario where there's just cause for such a conflict less likely.

Bumping this quote YET AGAIN for Tasker/LABillz who seem very hung up on the idea that somehow the Second Amendment and Guns are as unchangeable as the wind or the ground. IT IS A DOCUMENT INTENDED TO BE CHANGED. The right to bear arms falls under the unchangeable bit mentioned in the bolded section. The right to freedom is inherent and inalienable. By extension the right to protect said freedom against those who would take it away by force is also inherent and inalienable. Ergo, since those who would take this right by force have guns and will continue to do so, we the people get them too.

I could almost get on board with this, if it wasn't for the fact that we deem 18 year olds old enough to vote and to be conscripted into the military against their will. If you're enough of an adult to elect leaders and potentially be forced to die for your country, you're enough of an adult to exercise all your other constitutional rights as well.the reason I say I could almost get on board with it is I'm not convinced that your average 18 year old is actually mature enough to handle those other responsibilities, but I also don't see anyone lining up to raise the selective service registration age to 21 or to repeal the 26th amendment. Edited to add: instead of advocating for raising the voting age, the same people pushing for an increased age to purchase firearms are advocating for turning to children fresh off a severely traumatic experience for rational leadership along with lowering the voting age, which nullifies any argument they want to make about 18 being too young to buy a gun even if there are valid points to be made in that area.

If we're talking about the so called elites in the government and in the media I would agree and seeing those types of statements from them doesn't surprise me (although I don't think I've seen any elected official publicly make such a declaration.) But when I see those arguments made by average joes who I know personally and some of whom I consider good friends, I would hope that they value freedom and just don't realize theyre making an anti freedom argument, but anymore I'm not so sure about some of them either.

Not coincidental at all. It just blows my mind when I see the gun grabbers say things like"your AR won't help against tanks and nukes" as if that somehow invalidates the 2nd amendment, when really the only implication of that statement is that freedom isn't worth defending.

To me this is perhaps the biggest reason to support the second amendment. If you recognize that the amendment is in place as a safeguard against tyranny, and if you also believe that in a scenario where armed conflict is necessary to defend liberty the deck would be heavily stacked in favor of the oppressors, why would you willingly give up one of the few cards in your favor?

contrary to your declaration in the last sentence of the third paragraph, what you describe in the first sentence of the second paragraph is an assault on the second amendment. the purpose of 2a is to secure our freedom as citizens and our natural rights against those who seek to remove our rights and freedoms, whether those enemies be foreign invaders or tyrannical forces within our own government. Since the purpose of the amendment is to have a ready citizenry in case armed conflict is required to defend our liberties, it stands to reason that the authors intended for us to have access to military style weapons. As an absolute minimum, that should include the same types of small arms we issue the infantry in our own military. As for your gearhead analogy, we don't let them drive as fast as they want on public roads in the interest of public safety, but we don't restrict how fast the car is able to actually drive, and they are welcome to go to to the racetrack in their free time and lay down laps as fast as they please. Similarly, we have laws already on the books about where and under what circumstances a gun is allowed to be fired to prevent accidental shootings in the interest of public safety. I can't target shoot in my backyard because I live too close to my neighbors to do so safely, but that's why we have shooting ranges.