Legiondude

IIRC there was also a 1951 or '52 Supreme Court case that does permit grounds to armed revolt, though only if there's evidence of suppressing voting rights by the federal government(i.e. clear evidence of tyrannical government). Similar to the preceding but then contemporary Battle of Athens, Tennessee

Cannot remember the name of it though

6 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

I think the stronger motivation for passing it over is the lack of body count.

Reminds me of a point I saw regarding this incident brought up on one of the pro-gun subreddits. It was a comment made by a pro-gun user (who was recalling an argument they had with an anti-gunner) about the whole "good guy with a gun stops mass shootings" thing, and the definition of mass shootings is flexed in such a manner in the media that by the definition there's a significant amount of victims as the baseline. So incidents like in Oklahoma are just single actors stopping individual criminals, but as school shootings continue the "good guys with guns" will "forever" fail to protect the many children harmed in these incidents. Ergo, gun proliferation in the general population is useless for protecting people.

I liked the first few movies, but this franchise needs to be put out to pasture

3 hours ago, Toxn said:

Lord knows what the gun equivalent of prohibition-era moonshine is

TL;DW - It tried. It failed.

2 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

 

Where is it purported that he wrote for TFB?

The attribution line at the end

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Jon Stokes is a founder of Ars Technica and a former editor for Wired. He writes about guns and technology for TechCrunch, AllOutdoor.com, TheFireArmBlog.com and other publications.

1 hour ago, Priory_of_Sion said:

Sounds like there are structural problems in the capitalist-controlled silicon valley that is rewarding left-wing views in order to pander to a certain market over another. 

Which is why startup minded types are trying to head east of the Rockies and start up a "Blue Collar tech" version in various points out in the heartland

4 hours ago, Scolopax said:

"Four people were killed and four others injured when a man naked from the waist down and wielding an assault-style rifle opened fire at a Waffle House in Tennessee early Sunday morning, police said."

Apparently the guy had tried jumping the fence at the White House last year, so his guns were seized by Illinois police

His dad asked them back nicely and promised he wouldn't let his son get em, and apparently....let him have em anyways

Russia Today is pushing a claim from a Swiss lab that the nerve agent used on that former Russian spy in Britain is actually a US/UK developed compound

Of course, it's Russia Today so...where would you like me to place the jar of salt?

It's AIs all the way down!

Guess we were about due for another civil war

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South Carolina Republicans Introduce Bill To Secede Over Gun Rights

Late this week, a group of Republican lawmakers in South Carolina introduced a bill that would allow the state to secede from the United States if the federal government violated the Second Amendment.

The measure, which was referred to the South Carolina State House Judiciary Committee on April 5, would open the possibility of the state seceding from the U.S. if the federal government began confiscating legally purchased firearms. The bill states:

 

Notwithstanding another provision of law, the General Assembly shall convene to consider whether to secede from the United States based upon the federal government's unconstitutional violation of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, if the federal government confiscates legally purchased firearms in this State."

 

The Hill reports that the bill was "introduced by GOP Reps. Mike Pitts, Jonathon Hill and Ashley Trantham, comes amid an intense debate over the nation's gun laws that was reignited in February after a deadly mass shooting in Parkland, Fla."

The Hill noted that South Carolina was the first state to secede from the Union in 1860 during the time leading up to the American Civil War.

Do they use tracer ammunition to compensate?

In case you come across anyone pointing out former SCOTUS Justice Stevens is a Republican and appointed by one, hand them this chart

1 hour ago, Sturgeon said:

An actual compromise proposal that could probably get popular support.

 

I have proposed similar compromises.

It's been making the rounds on the gun subreddits. /u/kareems is making some clarifications if anyone has criticisms.

Also, allegedly a user on /r/liberalgunowners is claiming some NICS reform was slipped into the spending omnibus bill

1 hour ago, Donward said:

 

LOL.

 

YouTube took down the black dudes in the NRA video you posted.

 

So much for all the advertising dollars the NRA poured into Google/YouTube.

Maybe this one lasts?

Also came up in this conversation

In other news

I wish I could see the source data for that last graph. It's been floating around since the parkland shooting but while there is data on Wikipedia from 2013 that seems like it could back the graph, it places the per capita ownership rate of American firearms much lower which makes it seem less concrete. I would believe the graph for modern per capita ownership, but where on Wikipedia that data came from is unclear.

Voices of a generation.

Fuck.

1 hour ago, Waffentrager said:

Did some looking into, surprised how much law enforcement stateside has had repeated incidents

The day after the Florida shooting, a complete separate deputy from Broward County's Sheriff's Office shot himself in the leg at a private school

She's also a manifestation of the cosmic force like Anakin was, apparently

So now there's grounds she might take the helm in the chosen one prophecy as well

So the explanation Disney is pushing in their new book as to why Rey has such skills with a lightsaber and the force in TLJ is because she basically downloaded them from Kylo's brain when they had Force Skype calls

There's also the fact that the DNC is barely skimming by on campaign funds ATM

Whereas the RNC is breaking records with donations

So, turns out 70% of the draftable populace is unfit for immediate recruitment

1 hour ago, Oedipus Wreckx-n-Effect said:

 

Better watch out

Luckily...

3 hours ago, Sturgeon said:

Like the guy in Scotland who went to jail for teaching a dog the Hitler salute as a joke.

He's not in jail yet, the Crown is still kicking him around the courtroom. His sentencing day has been several dates just this year, and then the prosecution keeps bouncing it down the road.

The basis for one of the arguments against him was that by using his girlfriend's pug's "cuteness" to underscore Nazi related phrases and imagery on the internet, it was like  he was radicalizing entire football stadiums

The "final" court day is scheduled for March 20th currently