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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 1808900)

I'm sure that guy uses similar reasons to why you want an intruder to hear you loading the gun to justify why he wants everyone to see he has a gun

This is strictly my opinion but when a break and enter criminal gets shot to death I just feel bad for the criminal dick move to use a gun as self defense over your ****ing TV or some **** just call the cops

And more heinous crimes are overwhelmingly committed by people close to you not by random break-ins

The **** if I'm waiting around to see what they want.

I've had somebody try to rob me at gun point. I never felt I needed a gun afterwards.

But god damn guns are cool. You could blow somebody's brains all over the place with a gun.

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1808903)

When a person breaks into your home do you stop and question their intentions? If I yell that I have a gun, then cock it, and an intruder decides to still proceed up the stairs? Sorry, but I'm going to be in 100% defense mode based on self preservation for me and mine.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1808929)

The **** if I'm waiting around to see what they want.

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Originally Posted by Paul Smeenus (Post 1808909)

Looks like a Chick Track

I'm guessing you're referring to the late Jack Chick. :laughing:

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Originally Posted by Chula Vista (Post 1808848)

This suppose to be funny.....

https://scontent.fsan1-2.fna.fbcdn.n...ae&oe=59341840

^ This looks uncomfortably close to the truth. And talking of the truth, aren't people worried about Trump's attitude to it:-

(i) Lie to the press:
- as on inaugaration day, when he described rain as sunshine.
- as when he described chaos, confusión and protests over his ill-conceived travel ban as "going nicely"
(ii) Lie about the press:
- as when he says, "All negative polls are false."
- as when he accuses them of writing "fake news." For the record, "fake news" are deliberately fabricated stories to serve as click bait. Even if mainstream reporting is biased or inaccurate, it's not "fake news."
- describing the press as "the enemy of the people". A term like this is a red flag, haha, to anyone familiar with Stalin-era Russia. It's a very sinister, non-specific accusation, which, if unchallenged, allows for all manner of persecution.
(iii) Muzzle the press:
- White House blocks CNN, other news organizations from press briefing - Feb. 24, 2017

Dan Rather is such a famous US newsman that even I've heard of him. Here's what he posted yesterday about the Trump admin's treatment of his profession. For a guy who's been in the business for decades, it's a pretty damning condemnation:-

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The time for normalizing, dissembling, and explaining away Donald Trump has long since passed. The barring of respected journalistic outlets from the White House briefing is so far beyond the norms and traditions that have governed this republic for generations, that they must be seen as a real and present threat to our democracy. These are the dangers presidents are supposed to protect against, not create.

There has been a wall of unbending support from virtually every Republican in Congress, and even some Democrats. Do you maintain that an Administration that seeks to subvert the protections of our Constitution is fit to rule unchecked? Or fit to rule at all?

This is an emergency that can no longer be placed solely at the feet of President Trump, or even the Trump Administration. This is a moment of judgement for everyone who willingly remains silent. It is gut check time, for those in a position of power, and for the nation

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Originally Posted by Lisnaholic (Post 1808945)

Dan Rather is such a famous US newsman that even I've heard of him. Here's what he posted yesterday about the Trump admin's treatment of his profession. For a guy who's been in the business for decades, it's a pretty damning condemnation:-

Dan Rather is an icon and knows a thing or two about being politically suppressed.

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk (Post 1808929)

The **** if I'm waiting around to see what they want.

I'm pretty much with elph on guns here but yeah this is understandable. Maybe more so in your country.

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Originally Posted by elphenor (Post 1808896)

And I half agree with this provided it's regulated to where your right to own a gun doesn't put my right to not get shot in unreasonable danger

I'm not a 2nd Amendment nut either. I don't even know that it needs to be an amendment at all. If it's there so people can arm themselves against the government then the time when that would be particularly helpful probably died with the advent of the tanks and bombers. And if it's just about self-defense then I don't think that is important enough to make it such an inviolate right. I probably wouldn't care that much if it became a state issue.

It is a state issue to many degrees.

Here in California:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_la...#Summary_table

Right next door in Arizona:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Arizona