Beto O'Rourke interrupts Texas Gov. Abbott's press conference: "You're offering us nothing"

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  1. JET3534

    JET3534 Well-Known Member

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    Like I keep telling liberals. Put repeal of the 2nd Amendment on the DNC platform and go for it.

    Perhaps you can answer a question for me. Should the bodyguards of Bloomberg, Soros, etc. be restricted from carrying semi-auto firearms? If not, why not? You are an intellectual fraud if you will not answer this question.
     
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    Why do you discount emotions, they are a part of human life and shape nearly every decision we make in some part.

    How would I feel in your scenarios, I would be angry and want justice, of course. Doesn't mean I will get it, but I would still try. Through legal channels. I don't support rule breaking in anything except very last resort.

    Yeah, despot countries are horrible, so are countries that allow unlimited freedom while not enforcing the responsibility that has to come with that freedom to avoid tragedies like this. You may say there is nothing that can be done, I say there can. We just won't.
     
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    Logically, I feel the same rules we set up should apply to every American, regardless of race, wealth, etc. So yes, it should.

    I haved lived for 42 years without the need to own a gun, as has my family. There are always steps one can take to be aware and lower ones risk of being targeted. Everyone should be employing them.
     
  4. Dayton3

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    My only child is 22. She has a five month old daughter.

    Why do you suggest that this kind of thing is going to be repeated every week?

    You know despite the claims, we haven't had hundreds of actual mass school shootings over the last few years. Generally there is about one mass casuality shooting every year or two. Most of what they call "school shootings" are something like a gang member shooting four other gang members in a school parking lot at 4 in the morning.

    I am upset at this latest school shooting.

    But that still doesn't explain how these things are going to result in the

    I have some feelings. But I don't care to go all maudlin about bad things happening.

    Can you explain why these types of killings will cause

    Or the country really will rip itself apart.
     
  5. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    Then stop using it. I was pointing out that whereas the AAA has tried to stop Drunk Driving the NRA and Republican Party has enabled mass shootings and it has, there is no other way of viewing it; the Republicans want to kill us all (and by all I mean you and me and our families, not some made up spoonful of meiotic cells that not even the Catholic Church agrees is actually a person) and it is time we stopped voting to let them keep on doing it.
     
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    Robert Francis is a feckless little child. He has nothing either. Did he call 911 and try to stop the crime in progress? Did he organize a local big brothers program for the now deceased killer to rely on because folks like Beto encouraged his family to disintegrate around him? It's hard to see what Robert Francis has done, other than to wag his fingers and his tongue. He's a loser, capital L. No one in Tx finds him compelling or useful. Slink back under the bridge Robert Francis. no one is buying your Beto routines....
     
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    He disrupted a state official in the performance of his official duty as governor. In TX, I do believe he can be charged for doing so. Now that would be justice. Send that little beta to prison for being the spineless little nazi he is.
     
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    What gets me about O'Rourke is that his fame and status seems to rest SOLELY on him getting beaten by Senator Ted Cruz (who many Democrats and Liberals absolutely Loathe 'don't know why') but considerably less than many thought he would. There is nothing in his background that justifies the Democrats/liberals venerating him.
     
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    He's only ever said he wants all guns confiscated. Lots of citations should you need one.
     
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    Democrats hate Cruz because he's a conservative minority. That seems to be enough to make him a traitor in their minds...
     
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    It would not surprise me if people are imprisoned in Texas for exercising their 1st amendment rights and/or disagreeing with the government.
     
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    Firearms possession bearing and use should be limited to police, military and people who will submit to stringent licensing qualifications
     
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    Why? Guns are fun. And I've never actually bought a gun.
     
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    And that's what's really concerning :shock:

     
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    Okay. Well, here is another no for you.

    No one is going to be willing to make the cultural changes that would be required to fix this situation either.

    So, I guess we are ALL screwed, huh. Your guns will not save you forever. And things will continue to get worse until the point that so many Americans have died, that the survivors will do anything to make the killing worse.

    When I was speaking of unlimited freedom, I was not talking about guns, I was talking about the freedom that caused the current culture issues in this country.

    But no one will fix those, because it would require work and sacrifice from everyone to achieve, and there are too many on both sides that refuse.

    IMO, that is why it would be easier to take guns rather than change minds. We are all locked in.
     
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    "During my 12 and a half years as a member of this body, I have never believed that additional gun control or federal registration of guns would reduce crime. I am convinced that a criminal who wants a firearm can get one through illegal, nontraceable, unregistered sources, with or without gun control,"
    Joe Biden
     
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    You trust our Government that much :shock:

    You sir are the model citizen the DNC have been worked so hard to develop over the half century!! For started, every firearm I own is linked to my social security number and Drivers License and photo.

    That said, you should turn that excellent plan to be one of the top priorities when you begin disarming the ghetto's, and the thug felons that own and carry illegal weapons...

    I can't wait to see how well that goes ;)
     
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    plus Cruz is Hispanic, another reason for Dems to hate him.
     
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    They tried to arrest this one guy who was saying Abbot was an idiot for divulging State Secrets
     
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    What are those steps? I know personally 4 families who have experienced a home invasion. In 3 of these occasions the target home was in an upper middle class area. In the other home invasion, the target home was a lower middle class home. One of the 4 attacks was deterred by a home security system, 2 were resolved by firearms (no shots fired), and one was resolved by extreme violence that did not involve a firearm.

    I live in a rural area. I have a fence, around my property, a large aggressive dog, and an alarm system. If someone gets past that I will need an appropriate firearm -- which I have and intend to always have -- regardless of what liberals think.

    BTW, I appreciate the honest answer to the question about arming the bodyguards of elite and wealthy liberals. However, as I think we both know, there will never be any firearms restrictions on these people. In many cases the bodyguards of the elite liberals are retired law enforcement who, per Federal law, are exempt from State and local gun laws. Which is why many retired law enforcement often support gun control, i.e., it will never apply to them.
     
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    Ya, the taking will turn to war and in this retarded day and age will NEVER happen in the ghettos, why you ask? Because the DNC will not offend their base and their base will yell RACISM and those pansy ass DNC politician will run the other way..

    The biggest gun hurdle this country faces and has faced is one simple fact, the DNC will not poke their voters hive/ghetto's and until they do they will have no chance of disarming the law abiding Americans..

    It would be moronic to even attempt and they "DNC Politicians" know that damn well :)
     
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    It will never happen. I know it will never happen in the State I live in. Twenty Five States have passed Constitutional carry laws and without about 3 months it will be 26 States. Liberals allowing a Summer of violent riots, anarchy, and demanding the defunding of police has created a record demand for firearms.

    BTW, I saw a plastic semi-auto gun at the range a few weeks ago. Per discussion with the owner it had been made with a 3-D printers and appeared to work fine.

    An educational video for liberals.
     
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    Taking the guns will never work, the few lives lost due to this kind of problem are nothing compared to what you’re suggesting. The cops aren’t gonna go door to door, the military won’t because that’s not their job, and your idea suddenly criminalizes normal people.
    I’ll err on this side all day, that idea is too preposterous to consider for even a moment.
     
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    So you hunt with a spear? Bow and arrow perhaps? Or old school sling? Or you just think everyone thinks and enjoy ONLY the things you enjoy?

    I live in a prime hunting state and every year "forty nine" hunters from all over the U.S. clog the roads with fifth wheels and *Gasp* FIREARMS at a chance to fulfill a dream of hunting Bison, Moose, Elk, Bear, Mountain Sheep, deer, antelope, mountain lion..

    Your way of life is much different then some other, the sooner people realize that the better they will understand both positions.,.
     
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    And that is exactly what Democrats want people to believe which is why they only come out of the wood work when specific types of shootings take place. People aren't stupid. Move on termites.
     
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