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TXSG8R

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  1. Will be interesting long term to see how Pence is judged. He did the right thing on that day, but still didn’t roll on all the other illegal/unethical bullshit he saw before, during, and after that moment. It’s bizarre to me that so many of these guys who are burned wrt Trump/Maga, still refuse to come clean and expose all of it. Pence is dead politically, why not take a pound of flesh from the guy that buried you? Is there some misguided notion that the “normal” part of the Republican Party is going to come back to the fore and hes holding out for that? MAGA isn’t going away without a civil war.
  2. JFC, Trump and his dumb fucking staff couldn’t even bother to call anyone to give them some air of deniability for just this situation?
  3. I have doubts about the sustained performance of a 3d printed gun using cheap printers and standard materials like PETG, but even if they get stable enough for sustained fire you can still track ammo sales to find a potential shooter. We track fertilizer and other bomb component sales, it’s not a stretch to drive monitoring that direction. Honestly, it’s probably already happening but is limited to brown people with ME names.
  4. IANAL, but I believe the militia as spelled out in the constitution is there to support “the state”, both federal and state. They fall under the president’s control in case of civil war.
  5. Yea, it won’t impact the criminal side of things really, because criminals gonna criminal. I think the age requirement will head off some of the bigger body counts by limiting the output of the weapons they can buy. Generally most people get better at controlling their anger, or at least cooling off before making decisions as they get older. An 18 year old can still kill people with a revolver, or pump shotgun, but it’s a hell of a lot less than he could with an AR or semi auto pistol and a bag full of magazines. All of this would also need to go hand in hand with stricter laws on gun sales. You sell a restricted gun to an 18 yo, you don’t just get a fine. You go to jail, lose your gun sales license, etc. Ramos would have killed a lot less kids if he couldn’t get an AR. I doubt he knows any black market dealers for guns, so maybe he cools off during the mandatory waiting period and doesn’t shoot grandma. Or maybe he still goes forward, but the SRO and other cops aren’t as scared of a kid with a revolver or shotgun, so they don’t wait a fucking hour to engage. None of this stops crime. None of this stops gun ownership. The goal is to reduce body counts and accidental deaths without giving the right the easy excuse to say no because they are taking muh guns away.
  6. So my solution is to treat guns like cars. Categorize weapons, eliminate the gray areas like AR pistols. Different age requirements for different weapon categories. Hunting guns are cool at 18. Semi auto pistols at 21. Semi auto long guns, 25. License to operate based on categorization. Standard hunting weapons like pump shotguns and bolt rifles? Standard license. Semi auto? Class B license, little more work to do, etc , etc. Require refresher training/testing at certain intervals Insurance requirement for weapons. Categorization drives premiums. Risk factors also drive premiums. You want an AR-15, live in the burbs, and have kids in the house? Man that’s like making your 16 year old the full time driver of a red Ferrari. You can do it, but it’s going to hurt. Standard hunting guns, no kids, verified gun safe? Pocket change. Discounts based on safety gear and number of years of accident free ownership. Policy does not pay out if your gun is used in a crime. This goes hand in hand with some stiffer civil penalties if your gun is used in a crime. Registration for weapons. Closes the loop on existing weapons. Enact a sliding scale of wait period based on weapon category, owner age, other factors. Require proof of insurance at pick up. Will this stop someone from illegally owning a gun, that isn’t registered, that isn’t insured? No, just like all our car laws don’t stop someone from driving a car that isn’t registered or without required insurance. It gives gun owners a financial incentive to do basic things like secure their weapons so a kid can’t use them. It gives the police and prosecutors more things to throw at irresponsible gun owners. Trying to take guns away in this country is a pipe dream, so build a structure around them to increase safety. That’s about the best we can hope for.
  7. That’s an even bigger fantasy than the multi magazine home defense shootout. The government will push that AR straight up your ass. You’re bringing a pop gun to a combined arms fight. Why do you think we are feeding Ukraine with javelins, howitzers, and MLRS?
  8. What does a law abiding citizen need guns for typically outside of hunting?
  9. How often does a law abiding citizen need more than 10 rounds to defend themselves? Where the fuck do all these long gun, multi magazine home defense shootouts happen? It’s pure fucking fantasy.
  10. Yea, it definitely got better with some levels under the belt. I found that my confessor/faith character was OP (flies, pest threads, and blasphemous blade wrecks everything). My hero pure strength build was painful as you got into the end game stuff. I had to be carried through Milena on that guy.
  11. Edit: to head off the obvious retort, he did the math
  12. Uvalde shooter used one door…
  13. Should have added, the pistol was a .22 long revolver. He owned nothing semi auto.
  14. My dad did close to the same # of years in the army as a tanker. Only guns he owned were a pistol, shotgun, and bolt action rifle. One was for walking around the hunting property in case he came across a pig, one was for shooting doves and ducks, one was for shooting deer.
  15. TIL there are people that think social media accounts can be traced to people with any serious accuracy.
  16. My post in video form essentially with some extra good takes thrown in.
  17. Sure, and if you catch someone without those things you can make it hurt. Might be more effective than T&Ps.
  18. Automobiles require training to operate, licensing to validate the training, registration, and insurance. Totally on board with doing the same for guns.
  19. Agreed, but the wife isn’t ready. Her parents are still alive and live 10 minutes away. I’m still probably 5+ years away from pulling the trigger, hence the comment about the housing market.
  20. Should have added, my son graduates UT next year and is already planning doing his grad work overseas, preferably Japan. His roommate is doing his grad work in Germany, neither is planning on coming back.
  21. Ideally sell all my shit and head to Ireland, golden visa there is a million euros I believe. Of course that’s assuming I can sell my shit at a decent price. Knowing my luck the housing bubble will pop while the rest of this shit is burning down around us.
  22. It will inevitably lead to some scared teacher shooting a kid to break up a fist fight, or shooting a kid that looked at him/her menacingly. Then we will need to arm the kids to balance all the teachers having guns.
  23. And we expect Kevin to give a bigger fuck about defending kids than actual police officers who have wilted in a couple of these now.
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