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9 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

Country singer Granger Smith turning family loss into opportunity to serve others and bring comfort to others when they lose a child. 
 

 

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/granger-smith-feels-relief-leaving-country-music-serve-god-surrender

Good article.  I have to admit I was awfully hesitant to read anything from Fox News , but good for him.  I hope it works out for him.   I can’t imagine the pain he and his family had to endure from losing a child. 

It’s great getting local commits.  Anyone know what this kid plays?  What are his strengths?

Maybe our best hope is to lure DR into the "portal" years if GA ends up not being all that he wanted.  Who knows.  It's not over though.

Liberal leaning independent for me.  So, I voted "independent".  Mainly because, IMO the GOP since the 2016 election has been nothing short of a disappointing disaster.  Defend Trump's corruption at all costs, Resist reasonable gun-control, and apply their "morals" onto other people's bodies.  I am firmly against the first two and mostly against the third. I'm not loyal to a party, but I pretty much vote straight DEM these days for these and other reasons previously stated by others.

43 minutes ago, GSG said:

 

 

 

The poster child of today’s Republican Party.   I’ll bet he has an AR too.     

42 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

Received a response to my email from Okla Sen Lankford:

 

 

Thanks for sharing.  I’d follow up by asking why other industrialized countries who also have citizens with “mental health “ issues, broken families, self isolation, etc. don’t even come close to our levels of gun violence and mass shootings?   
 

9 hours ago, teachercd said:

Yeah...you don't need a gun.  No one does.

I went duck hunting once and forgot my shotgun.  So I tried throwing the ammo at the ducks.  I didn’t get any ducks that day.  

58 minutes ago, funhusker said:

Wait…

 

The “government” is going to build “government free” cities…

 

The man has always been this dumb.  How did anyone with a brain EVER think this man was fit for office?

 

 

In a way, he’s smart.  He knows that about 40 million people will believe this just as they believed Mexico would just roll over and pay for the wall.  But even by his standards, this is pretty outlandish.  Getting desperate maybe?

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/jack-douglass-teixeira-charged-leaks-investigation/
 

Hmmm.  Maybe a precedent could be established for prosecuting and sentencing for those charges.  

When was the last time a democrat in congress nonfactually and openly disparaged a prosecutor conducting an active investigation?  Sure seems like a republican thing.  

I think taking out the cartels would risk civilians getting killed and would also just create a vacuum as long as there’s demand for the product.  So the problem never really goes away.   
 

it needs a multi pronged approach.  Supply, demand and enforcement.   Plus it’s not just Mexico.  Huge problem for sure.  A wall won’t solve it, like many Biden critics believe.  

3 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

 

"Republican? White? Hate BLM?  No worries, we'll get you pardoned."  

Today's GOP.

1 hour ago, commando said:

question....does the stand your ground law allow you to shoot people who are not threatening you?   in  this case the 14 yer old girl got shot and had her lung deflated by the guy who wasn't charged.    shouldn't there be an amendment that if you are standing your ground you actually shoot who is threatening you?  or does stand your ground allow you to gun down someones entire family if you feel threatened by them?

I think the rights of the shooter come first.  As long as they are white.  Oh, and Republican.   Everyone else just needs to make better choices, because clearly they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.  

Any of you gun proponents care to weigh in on how guns were good in this situation?https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna78782

I’ll stick with my current one, thanks. 

2 hours ago, Mavric said:

 

Ouch.  “Hi Mr Buffett?  Trev Alberts……”

Is there a more pathetic current member of Congress than Lyndsey Graham?  

3 minutes ago, suh_fan93 said:

Wow.  Attacking the judge already.  Pretty dumb.   But we all know what he’s really doing here and it’s what he’s always done.  Sowing the seeds of doubt that he’ll get a fair trial.  

17 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

If there’s a conviction then I’ll eat those words.  
 

FYI…I hope he gets indicted 4 more times. 

I do agree with you that GA is the most likely conviction.  When it comes down to it, I just want that man nowhere near the WH again.  I'd like to see jail time if he's guilty, but that may be unlikely.  Who knows.

18 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

I mean lotsa people tried to tell you this particular investigation was purely political. Many of them Democrats.  
 

GA is your best bet. 

on the other hand...

NY grand jury just indicted the bastard.  (link won't work)

1 hour ago, DefenderAO said:

I'm not against educating, training, and arming procedures.  But then we're just one psycho teacher away from that being a nightmare.

 

What's a policy that doesn't punish the law-abiding who will never do anything harmful (roughly 13.5 trillion chances to happen this CY and 13.499999 trillion times it did not) and keep them out of the hands of people who a. don't follow laws and b. have sociopathic tendencies? 

Well along those lines, there's also been 13.5 trillion chances this CY that a civilian AR owner could have needed their weapon, but didn't.  

So at the hands of civilians this CY, we have at minimum six dead Christians including three children and zero dead "criminals."  

Describe how the law-abiding are "punished"?  Not being able to buy something is punishment?  Or is the inconvenience of having to fill out a couple extra forms and wait a few extra days or weeks for a purchase considered punishment?

12 minutes ago, DefenderAO said:

The latest mass shooter was dropped by an AR-15.  The good guys were able to end it quickly.  A pistol would not do that; more difficult at range with greatly reduced stopping power.

 

Sadly, when seconds matter the police are minutes away.

 

If we could Thanos-snap AR's away, who still keeps them?  Police and .mil only?  With no snap and hard confiscation attempts, would the criminals abide or care?  

So because the police are minutes away, the teachers should be prepared to whip out a AR to defend their students?   What are you getting at?  
 

Nobody here is opposed to police and military using them and confiscation isn’t happening.  There’s too many out there and it would be too messy.  Ban future sales or at least make it not so damn easy to get one.  Is that really asking too much?

1 hour ago, NM11046 said:

Super interesting article, poll of 400 AR owners.  Some confirmation for me, and lots of more interesting info (for me) on race, education level, military past etc.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/interactive/2023/american-ar-15-gun-owners/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f001

 

This tells me that fear mongering works.  And the gun companies know and profit from it.  I wonder how many of those owners have ever had to fire it in defense of their homes or families.  I’d guess 0.0%

37 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

And it’s very very hard to stop that type of motivated shooter outside of catching their mistake beforehand.

We could make it more difficult for them to get their tools.  It's why they go buy an AR.  It's designed as an efficient military grade killing tool.  Pistols, shotguns--way more difficult if the targets are moving or at distance.  But when we do nothing, like we've been doing, you are right.  It is very hard to stop them. 

41 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

 

I would challenge anyone out there that wants to have a change in gun laws to come up with a plan that will demonstrably achieve getting guns off the hands of criminals illegals first, then you will have a much much easier time getting some common sense folks to give up some gun rights.  
Im not a big owner, but to a man (or woman) every single person who is that I’ve talked to about gun reform, says it’s a non starter for them to give up their guns and the safety they say the guns provide just to have criminals keep them in their possession. 

So when will we know when criminals no longer have guns?  How do we solve that problem?  Tougher punishments for gun crimes--I'm all for that.  Another problem with this whole gun debate (and pretty much every other political topic) is that both sides focus too much on the extremes.  No realistic person should expect any legislation involving confiscating guns from reasonable law-abiding citizens.  It's just not happening.  What can happen is preventing criminals and the "mentally ill", for lack of a better term, from buying guns in the first place.  Longer waiting periods.  More extensive background checks.  Red Flag laws.  None of these deprives these supposedly good citizens of having a gun to protect themselves.  But every one of those gets opposed by the Right.  I hope you're not suggesting we can't do these things that could help prevent the murder of children and other innocents until we come up with the impossible task of removing guns from criminals.