xcott
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I own many guns and I'd be ok if any of them were banned.
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I have said the same things for years now, this incident has nothing specifically to do with it.
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Hunting is one of my great passions. I do it every year and I love doing it. Personally I think we can have an assault weapons ban and still have hunting guns. But I would be more than willing to just bow hunt if that were what was called for.
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So much this!
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am I the only one who thinks that Kucher has an IQ of about 8?
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1. death penalty costs more for the state than life in prison 2. I don't like the idea of killing any humans It's a bad premise that his profession should require him to own a weapon. I'm interested in how the australia example is NO EFFECT.
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Hard to find my way with all of these straw men running around here.
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to be a top level athelete you need to have a significant lack of self-awareness. You have to truly believe against all odds that you are better than everyone else. There is a level of delusion to it and you have to completely believe in it. To your point Fowler seems like the kind of guy who has a lot of self-awareness and is like a normal human being with the requisite doubts and realistic outlook.
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Wait, women have a different course rating? That doesn't sound right. A handicap is a handicap, right? You take the HI based on the tees you play and go, right?
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If you're not going out as a foursome, you should expect that there is a liklihood you will be playing with somebody else.
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No we haven't. The rate of fire and capacity of bullets is key. What it looks like is irrelevant. Comparing this to a bolt action is not the same. The mentally ill with a koosh ball are just as dangerous, right? Exactly, which is why we need to ban all assault weapons, not just one brand.
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People can make bombs at home, it's still illegal. They didn't legalize bomb making just because it could be done at home. Whether or not it can be done at home isn't the litmus test for a law. I can easily stab someone in my home while they are asleep, that doesn't mean it should be legal. Why should we make murdering people in their sleep in your home illegal, it's so easy how can we stop it!?!?
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Too many cars can go over 55, speed limits should be eliminated. The fact that it's difficult should not mean that it shouldn't be attempted.
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A highly trained mentally ill person with a nerf ball isn't quite as dangerous. So the gun is kind of an important part.
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Ironic since a trained armed security guard is the perpetrator of this crime we're discussing.
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I don't suffer under the delusion that my family is in any danger from someone trying to kill us. We're more in danger of the police and the security guards than this mythical murder you're thinking of. And even if there was such a killer on the loose trying to kill my family, there is an almost 0% chance that a policeman or security guard would be in a position to stop it whether they had a gun or not. this self defense shooter scenario is just not the reality. It's an interesting video game, but it's just not something I'm concerned about. Not one time in my entire life have I ever thought "good thing that guy had a gun right there" Never. That just doesn't happen. I've certainlly been in situations and known people in situations where it would have been much better if there were NOT guns present.
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I'm sure the gun lobby is making headway everywhere. they've been remarkably good at convincing the general public to fatten their bottom line at the expense of their safty. It's actually remarkable. I'm not sure of a corporate lobby more successful than that of the gun manufacturers.
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" Again, it wasn't the gun that killed all those people." f he had run in there with a can lf Play dough, I bet fewer people would have died.
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" In Northern Ireland, all police officers carry firearms. In the rest of the United Kingdom, the majority of police officers do not carry firearms, that duty is instead carried out by specially-trained firearms officers. " this would be unthinkable in the US, the flat idea that we need to arm and train thousands of police and private civilian security guards is one that should not be taken as gospel. I've downed hundreds of live game and thousands and thousands of targets with firearms of all shapes and sizes. I would consider myself a pretty decent marksman.However that is pretty much irrelevant.
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I think the burden of debt worthiness should lie on those providing the loan. If I decide to loan my deadbeat cousin $100 and he doesn't pay it back, that's my dumb move for giving him the $100 not his for asking.
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I'm for whatever works. Data did show the police confiscated fewer and fewer assault weapons after the assault weapons ban and then after it was repealed it jumped up again. I don't know that private security guards need to carry assault weapons either. Police in london I believe do not carry guns. The assumption that law enforcement and private security must have access to extreme levels of firepower is potentially a flawed one. For example, we know that allowing a private security guard access to assault weapons has potentially caused 50 deaths. How many lives have such access saved? Any?
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Typically though in my experience it's the low handicappers who get their panties in a wad about it not being fair because they feel that they should win more because they are better at golf. I was in a handicapped skins game but the low handicappers would not allow you to take more than an 18 handicap and they required that you par the following hole after a skin to justify your skin. Unsurprisingly the low handicappers cashed out every week. They once let a guy take a 25 handicap, but he won some skins and they immediately changed their tune.
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I'm comfortable with the position that trying to keep mass murdering weapons out of mass murderers hands is a good idea. Not sure how anyone could be comfortable with a different position.
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they remove the strokes from the high handicappers, so tomatoe potato, right? If I'm a 18 and play a 5, there's a few holes where we're playing straight up. I would say that those 5 holes the lower handicap player has a distinct advantage. Some of those middle handicap holes where I get a stroke, maybe I get a bit of an advantage, but overall it should even out.
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The litmus test for laws isn't whether some people will still break them. Otherwise we would have no laws.
