I DON'T go after elk with an AR-15

What size round do you use for Elk hunting?

That's mostly what they do .

Most of mine wouldn't be ideal anyway. .

I always took you for a molotov cocktail kind of guy. Not a thrower so much. But the guy who makes them for others to throw.

The pool comparison is completely independent of your striking similarity to Dana.

It's true that passing a gun around indiscriminately between countless people would make it much more likely for that gun to be used cause harm. Might even make it as dangerous as a pool.

You are cherry-picking statistics and abusing the meaning of words, which are the common tactics of sociopaths.

Haha you're just like Dana with the minor difference that she sticks to "rapist" while you mix it up a little. Two peas in a pod haha.

Government subsidized student loan programs increased demand for higher education and provided guaranteed payments to colleges which removed market incentives for improvement. Increased demand drove up costs. Quality remained steady in the best circumstances. But more broadly, quality decreased to accommodate paying customers who cannot actually consume the higher quality product.

You are lying again.

I said that an individual pool is more dangerous than an individual gun statistically (I got this from Freakonomics). There are far less pools than guns, so they aren't a bigger problem.

A sizable proportion of Americans can never have enough guns

I have the same concerns. But maybe, with an aggressive government redistribution plan, we can solve the issues of gun ownership inequity.

I see you're also concerned about shooting victim inequity. I suppose a government program to redistribute this outcome could also be tried, though I expect it would be less popular. I wouldn't personally support it.

Does the government need to round up all the drugs to make selling drugs against the law?

True. If there was a war on guns it would be about as effective as the war on drugs. Well, even less so because a violation of the constitution would drive demand for guns.

You know who gun manufacturers should be paying? The Democrats. Every time they start to murmur about gun restrictions, gun shops can't keep guns or ammo on the shelves.

I think we have plenty of guns. What we need is equity in gun distribution. As it is, the majority of the guns are in the hands of a relatively few greedy gun enthusiasts.

What we need is a gun ban on more than 1 of the same kind of assault rifle. If you have too many guns, you have to give them to underprivileged, lgbtq, or other populations that are under represented among gun owners.

Alright. I'll stop trolling trolls and go back to the more respectful Amarel. They are better at it anyway. At least nom is.

I've never claimed to be neutral you dumb shit. Pretty typical. "Everything Amarel says is a lie and all his words are dishonest. Therefore I will decide whatever I want him to be saying to justify my inane dribble and pretend it qualifies as a response to what I've decided he said. If he's in a conversation that is beyond my comprehension or vocabulary, I'll just call him dumb."

Irish isn't a race smart one. It's a collection of smelly fisherman and sheep fuckers.

No one here talks about my guns more than you. You're the only one who talks about me being a tough guy. Oh, and the truck attack in Nice killed more than our deadliest mass shooting. The factor is the I'll hatred smart one.

The rest of us learned in elementary not to be mean to our crushes. Alright lass, you bored be again. So long.

...Unless you have something interesting to say about the inferiority of Irish Whiskey to the far superior Scotch.

The Republic of Ireland Act was in 1949. That's four years after Ireland mourned the loss of Hitler.

If you were never under threat, it's because you would happily join whomever won. That's some serious conviction about Nazism there. Run that flag high. Oh, and sorry for your loss.

Did you know Al is a gun owner? I only mention it because I know where you live the thought of an American gun owner makes a wee lass cry.

I didn't know you guys actually flew a swastika AFTER Hitler died. The threat was GONE! Thank the UK.

I guess if Ireland could nut up we know what side they would have been on. Basically your country stayed neutral because they couldn't win for the axis with UK basically owning them.

I wasn't born yet is an excuse for your country huh? Noted.

50,000 were from the bitch Ireland. 70,000 were from UK Ireland.

And yes, the US only got into the war after we were attacked, but Ireland did not a damn thing even after they were attacked. They just made bigger signs letting Hitler's planes know that it's Ireland and please don't bomb us anymore.

Right, from Ireland's brave fighting force, less than 5000 were brave or fighting. You can't get that 120,000 without counting Northern Ireland troops, which were the majority of that figure.

Don't worry, I'm sure there are plenty of Irish authored books for you to quote from to excuse how you stood by while the rest of the world stood up.

Even New Zealand fought in WWII.

If I were Irish, I wouldn't want to.talk about it either. A handful of Irish soldiers ditched their absent military and joined the fight with the Allies. Ireland punished them for it and they never saw a pardon until 2013.

You are really fixated on how many guns I own. Maybe I should have mentioned it more than that one time. One mentioned from me produces days worth of obsessive defensive posts from you.

Oh yeah, and I was providing an example of relatively few people owning more guns than the population. So yeah, I said how many guns I own, but I didn't tell you how tough I am. Your just conjuring a boogie man now lucky charms.

As for the racism, you specifically claimed that my slam on your irishness is because I only like wealthy white religious people...because your a fucking idiot. An idiot from a country that tore itself up like the middle east over religion. It's not my fault you guys were comfortable letting everyone else do all the work for you in WWII. I'm betting we were better off without you.

We just know that consistency isn't to be expected in the political opposition. So, a few years back we gave it up too.

I only ever hear calls for respect for leaders when there is a leftist in power.

Fuck that. Public office by itself earns nothing but sharp criticism and mockery. Left right and center. None earn respect by winning a popularity contest.

With that said, she got her start in politics by fucking her way up the ladder. I think fucking for profit should be considered a right mind you. So I expect to see this admin do great things for expanding the legitimization of sex work.

"Mostly peaceful" was as inappropriate a characterization of riots throughout 2020, as it is in 2021.

Fistfights with cops is what we have come to expect from certain people who don't stereotypically support police. If the people with the blue line flags are now throwing down with police, then what support do police have left?

Dan Crenshaw has a podcast. He made a statement about what happened in a recent episode. I recommend you give a listen to the first 15 minutes or so.

If CD were bigger, CD would be gone. Because Fascists .

If massive public figures like the president don't have a platform for mass communication, how can we hold them accountable for their words to the masses?

If you ensure all the fascists shut up, how do you know who the fascists are?

https://www.salon.com/2021/01/11/maga-approved-social-media-platform-parler-is-taken-down-but-its-demise-may- be-short-lived/

Dude. You have to wait. .

Wow. Nom is pretty consistent with his BS. Some things never change.

Nom banned me from the gun debate.

An Uzi is a sub machine gun according to wiki, so they are already banned. I get that you don't like extended mags, but most regulation targets "high capacity" mags which is a bit more subjective. Often the amount that fits in a normal double stack that is standard with a given weapon will be considered "high capacity". At the same time, one could get a slightly extended magazine on a small handgun and stay well under a given "high capacity" regulation.

As for the supped up semi-auto shotgun, I haven't given it much thought, but I appreciate your clarification.

You mean like the anti-fascist rampart, right ?

Taking a knee cost Kaepernick his job.

Another minor consideration was his...job performance

Despite that, his activism got him some pretty sweet marketing deals.

Liberalism used to mean an ideology based around the following principles:

He didn’t say “used to” liberals, he said liberals. It’s fair to assume he meant whatever Liberal means today, as opposed to the classical Liberal you’re describing.

Saying Libs are more likely to be prey is like saying Cons are more likely to be cannibals. But vegetarians do seem to tend left.

Not bad al. I chuckled .

Buddhism is a religion without a god. Depending on what definition one uses, there may be many such religions, though less recognized as such.

On the other side, various people have provided various perspectives on what they mean by “god”, and sometimes those perspectives do not align with formalized or sanctified teachings of any given religion. Spinoza comes to mind. He was excommunicated from Judaism and persecuted by Christians as an atheist, yet he was described a “god intoxicated man”.

convinced himself that writing in a formal style constitutes an acceptable substitute for a reasoned argument.

If my arguments are not sound, we wouldn’t know it from your responses which are never a refutation but always an insult.

Claiming anti-Semitism is a left wing phenomena is not a reasoned argument.

I merely re-stated the findings of an EU survey of European Jews. It shows that 21% of anti Semitic attacks were from left wingers while 13% were from right wingers. If you think that makes it a left wing phenomenon, then that your own conclusion.

I guess we will just have to rely on the soundness (or lack thereof) of their arguments.

They might appear arrogant if they are talking to someone on the left of the smiley face. Otherwise, no they probably aren’t.

People further right on the Dunning-Kruger graph smart guy. Are you biased against all categories that are right on graphs?

People further right on that smiley face would be confident.

To say that stupid people are confident is not the same as saying confident people are stupid.

You may also observe this in yourself when you’re new to a job. At first you don’t know anything and you know it. Then you get the hang of it and wish to do everything because now you expect you can. Over time you realize there’s still a lot to learn. In the end you can do all relevant tasks but it’s just your work, you don’t feel cocky and it’s nothing to ask for help.

The flip side of the Dunning-Kruger effect is that highly intelligent people are overconfident in the ability of others.

Taxation without representation referred to the fact that the colonies had no representatives in parliament but were still subject to tax. Everyone in the US has reps in the senate and the house (except for the residents of Washington DC, ironically)

He simply believed that what is perceived as liberalism in America is/was not liberal enough.

What he said was that it wasn’t “truly” Liberal. It isn’t that it wasn’t Liberal enough, it wasn’t truly Liberal at all. Faux liberalism doesn’t fail to be Liberal enough.

Just because I say that I can kick your ass on the internet does not mean that I can't kick your ass

There’s 0 risk of finding out. There’s no cheaper talk than that which comes with no risk of ever having to back it up.

He plays the “in real life” game. It’s a trap if you fall into the “in real life” counter to online posturing.

If a guy online says “I’ll beat your ass”, we all know it’s bullshit keyboard warriorism. But if you counter with “no, ill beat your ass first”, you’re playing the internet-tough guy game.

Let them be what they are without becoming them.