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Re: “Rodriguez w/Jenny O. at the Ryman, 5/13/13”
To be honest, I thought the band in the movie kinda sounded like dirt, too. There's a lot to be said for not hitting the stage with a bunch of guys you essentially just met.
Perhaps none of the bands he's touring with are getting much rehearsal time with the man himself?
Re: “We Might Be Rednecks, Natalie Grigson Might Be a Dumbass”
You might be a redneck if you don't care that people might think that you're a redneck and you really don't care what outsiders think about your home state or city. I guess I'm a redneck. And all you sniffy little apologizers? Get a life.
Re: “Kermit Gosnell Doesn't Prove Your Abortion Point. Yours Either.”
@Jim Collins: Your guessing identities of anonymous posters is as ludicrous as your logic. Here, have a softball.
Re: “Kermit Gosnell Doesn't Prove Your Abortion Point. Yours Either.”
I like how all topics come back to guns and gays when zermberb is frantically typing, sweat flinging from his face, spittle flying as he pounds the keyboard so that us stupid liberals will just maybe, finally change our points of view to match his.
The fact is, the three killers I mentioned (Aurora, Tucson, Blacksburg) did not seek their guns out on the street. They didn't buy them from some guy's trunk. They didn't steal them from an improperly secured home.
They bought their guns and large capacity magazines legally, through the front door of gun shops. Two of these three were only stopped when they had to reload. Bystanders rushed them and disarmed them with their hands. In Aurora, the gunman's gun jammed, as happens sometimes with large capacity magazines, and he was stopped.
All I'm saying is we need three simple things: comprehensive criminal and mental health background checks, limits on the size of magazines that may be sold, and safe storage requirements for guns that are not in the immediate control of their owners.
These are not unreasonable. They are not an attack on any person's freedom. They won't stop you from doing anything you want to do. You just said, it only takes a couple of seconds to reload smaller magazines. So take the couple of seconds to reload. If it's such a small thing, why not err on the side of what is going to murder less people?
I'll tell you why: zermberb and people who think like him don't care who dies. They lionize people who kill with their guns in our society. They fancy themselves revolutionaries and fully expect that blood should be shed. They don't care to restrict guns because they don't care who dies, or how many, or how often, or where. A lot of money is made by an industry. A lot of people stay whipped into anti-government frenzy and armed to the teeth, just anticipating reasons to start the shooting.
If you think the Newtown shooting was just an OK thing to happen in our society, then you don't want to change anything after it happened.
If you support what happened at Aurora, then you see no reason for stronger restrictions on who can buy guns.
Am I being unfair? I don't really care, anymore. I'm tired of so many innocent people dying because selfish blowhards like zermberb refuse to allow ANY reasonable regulation of guns in our society.
Thousands of people have died even just since Newtown, and they will keep doing so. Zermberb and his cohorts have shown time and again that they do not care, and they see no reason to change this horrifying part of our country.
Re: “Amid Concerns About Heavily Processed Wheat and Gluten, Twin Forks Farm Bread is Worth a Try”
Wow Leslie! Thank you so much. Word is getting out that the gluten intolerant may be able to enjoy long fermented, sourdough breads.
Re: “Kermit Gosnell Doesn't Prove Your Abortion Point. Yours Either.”
Mark Rogers, while I agree Gosnell COULD be considered a serial killer, the pursuit of profits DID add to his motivation for his deeds, hence capitalistic pursuits is a factor. That is NOT to blanket condemn capitalism, but to reinforce the fact that restrictions and regulations MUST be in place to control the greed!
Re: “Steeplechase: Come for the Hat Contest, Stay for the Fistfight”
LOL at the Botnay 500 football helpful bro @ 00:14
Re: “Kermit Gosnell Doesn't Prove Your Abortion Point. Yours Either.”
You appear to want it to say that the 1994 AWB reduced crime significantly, which is not the case.
The fact remains that any new gun control laws will have the same effect as previous ones, which is none.
Re: “Kermit Gosnell Doesn't Prove Your Abortion Point. Yours Either.”
That's what Koper said. I asked what I said.
Re: “Kermit Gosnell Doesn't Prove Your Abortion Point. Yours Either.”
"Koper, Jan 14: In general we found, really, very, very little evidence, almost none, that gun violence was becoming any less lethal or any less injurious during this time frame. So on balance, we concluded that the ban had not had a discernible impact on gun crime during the years it was in effect."
Re: “Rocketown Employee Alleges He Was Fired for Wearing 'I Support Same-Sex Marriage' T-Shirt”
This is the same guy who wrote an article in a local zine talking all about how he used to steal money from the bands he booked. He has been a social media leech for years and i HIGHLY doubt that it's just about a shirt. Way to use a legitimate civil rights fight in order to get exposure for your job that you admitted you used to steal from. Oh wait...maybe that's why he got fired.
Re: “Two Years After the Fairgrounds Fight, Things Are Still ... Awkward”
How so?
What were the figures you estimated they were earning?
Re: “Local Filmmakers' A Measure of the Sin Tonight at Belcourt”
It is especially important in this discussion to recognize the unity of the total process from that first unimaginable moment of cosmic emergence through all its subsequent forms of expression until the present. This unbreakable bond of relatedness that makes of the whole a universe becomes increasingly apparent to scientific observation, although this bond ultimately escapes scientific formulation or understanding. In virtue of this relatedness, everything is intimately present to everything else in the universe.
Nothing is completely itself without everything else. This relatedness is both spatial and temporal. However distant in space or time, the bond of unity is functionally there. The universe is a communion and a community.
We ourselves are that communion become conscious of itself.
-Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth, 1988
A Measure of the Sin
Re: “Kermit Gosnell Doesn't Prove Your Abortion Point. Yours Either.”
I asked first, Zoombah--what is it you think I'm saying? (spoiler alert: I didn't actually say anything)
Re: “Kermit Gosnell Doesn't Prove Your Abortion Point. Yours Either.”
Define "large capacity magazine".
Define "assault weapon".
Re: “Two Years After the Fairgrounds Fight, Things Are Still ... Awkward”
They told me something's fishy.
Re: “Kermit Gosnell Doesn't Prove Your Abortion Point. Yours Either.”
Which is what?
You'll note that the decrease in gun violence was offset by the "steady or rising use of other semi-automatics equipped with large-capacity magazines."
Re: “Caption Contest: Lamb of God Ticket Giveaway! [Updated]”
Kevin Bacon's killers ages 7, 9 and 5.
...sorry that's the best I got. Tickets sure do sound swell though!
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