Kyle Rittenhouse Storms Off Stage After Being Confronted by Students

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  1. Sleep Monster

    Sleep Monster Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That depends on the state. Colorado is an open carry state, but in the towns and cities you never see them. It's open carry because so many Coloradans are rural, need protection from predators (bears, mountain lions, men, etc.), and/or do a lot of hunting. But since open carry is the law, I imagine it would be legal to stroll down Tejon street in downtown Colorado Springs carrying an AR-15.
     
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    That really doesn't address what I was saying but I suppose yes, it's legal in many areas to carry an AR 15 openly
     
  3. Turtledude

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    why aren't you attacking the BLM protestors who were there to engage in lawless violence. If you oppose that sort of anarchy, you are an idiot to be anywhere near those mopes NOT ARMED.
     
  4. Sleep Monster

    Sleep Monster Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You would think that the fact that we are all allowed to own lethal weapons would seriously deter any attempts to turn us into an authoritarian state. I hope we never need to test that hypothesis.
     
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    Turtledude Well-Known Member Donor

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    assuming facts not in evidence. maybe he was sick and tired of leftwing anarchists looting and burning property and he decided it was time to stand up to that crap. Why don't leftists ever condemn the people causing LOOTING AND ARSON, rioting and destruction? because those criminals are leftists I suspect.
     
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    Turtledude Well-Known Member Donor

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    this is coming from the side that lionizes George Floyd-a guy who stuck a gun in the belly of an expectant mother and threatened to shoot? Yeah he's the hero of the day for the left.
     
  7. LibDave

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    Absolutely. I have 20! Everyone else should also have at least 10,000 rounds for each. I strongly recommend the VR60 and VR80.

    And it doesn't matter what you or anyone else thinks someone SHOULD have. It isn't up to you or them. It is their explicit stated right in the Constitution. Read the Constitution, and the Federalist papers. The 2nd Amendment isn't part of the charter so people can hunt rabbits. It is so they can defend the USC against all enemies foreign and domestic from anyone who thinks they can cherry pick which rights they decide others should be allowed to have. If you are an American you are duty bound to defend ALL of if with your life if necessary, not just the ones you think are prudent.

    As long as they are responsible gun owners with no intent to harm the innocent, why take issue with them?
     
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  8. Think for myself

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    Meh, can't we just have a dance-off instead?
     
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  9. Turtledude

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    you have a modern mini gun? That's interesting because any automatic weapon made after May 19, 1986 is banned from private possession. I didn't say they should be banned-rather that a federal ban is a tenth amendment issue, and I don't think the second amendment protects a mini gun at the state level. As to AR 15s-I've won 5 for starters
     
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    Sleep Monster Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I've never been sure where to draw the line. I had a red line regarding private ownership of things like grenades, RPGs, Bradley vehicles, and so forth, but the ever-increasing mass shootings, especially of children in schools, has my red line in motion.

    Do we rid ourselves of those high capacity, rapid fire rifles? Or do we find some way that doesn't violate anyone's rights to keep them out of certain hands? I don't see either of those as remotely doable.

    On the one hand, the 2nd is what it is. On the other hand, if we mandate that those with a history of mental illness be barred from gun ownership, who decides where to draw that line? Some people, myself included, suffer from genetic, biologically caused, clinical depression. We take anti-depressants, and/or seek help from professional therapists. Does that make our judgment too flaky to be trusted with a gun?

    It's a complex question, not to be asked lightly, especially not as a challenge.
     
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    due process of law-substantive and procedural is always required.
     
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    Why should he hang around and gift the a**holes more notoriety?
     
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  13. Think for myself

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    I don't know. He is a paid performer at this point, correct? TPUSA put him up there knowing full well that the may face criticism. He may as well put on a MAGA themed jester outfit and dance a silly dance for the couple bucks he got.
     
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    IS he? Doesn't mean he has to hang around when the event turns to crap.
    . I doubt he gets combat pay.
     
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    That skateboard idiot who got shot
     
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    I wasn't a part of the mini-gun discussion. I was in the AR-15 discussion.
     
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    aren't those shotguns you are referencing? Yeah I like AR's my favorite is a Faxon in 9mm that I partially rebuilt for speed steel shooting. Got a RRA National match, a couple Colt HBar National match rigs, a really neat Windham Proctor carbine, a bunch I put together, a couple SIGS a DD, and my favorite maker-HM Defense-a billet lower, one of their basic rigs, and one Clay had built to my specs including a Hiperfire trigger etc
     
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    Wow. How incredible.... Not.
     
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    Yes. VR60 and VR80 are auto shotguns in the AR style. 12 gauge.
     
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    So if you have a gun you're just going to lay there and let some idiot try to bash in your skull with a skateboard? Did you miss that part?

    How about the guy sitting there pointing a pistol at him? Those were actions not verbal.
     
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    I did already

    Yiu did not see the videro back then

    They violently chased and attacked him

    The fact that ALL of the video proves his story also proves that yes he was innocent.

    The person attacking him with a skateboard was NOT trying to stop a killing he was attacking with murderous intent
     
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    Wrong

    No one said he was a victim but he was violently attacdked necessetating self defense

    What happened was not of his own tally it is exclusievly on the three he shot who also ATTACKED him
     
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    It was not a protest it was a mindless riot
     
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    WRONG

    That is nogt what you saw

    No one stopped to help him they attacked him

    It was not a protest it was a mindless riot
     
  25. FatBack

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    '' they probably did intend harm but not death " says sleep monster.....

    If you are trying to bash someone's head in with a skateboard you certainly mean great bodily harm and potentially death..... If you're pointing a pistol at someone you certainly mean great bodily harm and probably death.

    Don't bring a skateboard to a gunfight and don't point a pistol at someone unless you're willing to pull the trigger, especially someone who has out gunned you
     
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