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       Re: Firearms
   DIR By: guest55
       Date: May 26, 2022, 2:02 pm
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       The U.S. does not have a firearm problem as much as it does a
       mental health and spiritual crisis problem.
       The following is not an endorsement of Switzerland either, but
       the point of the article reinforces the point I made above:
       Switzerland doesn't have mass shootings despite having a high
       rate of gun ownership
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       > Switzerland hasn’t had a mass shooting in 21 years, despite
       having about 2 million privately owned guns in a nation of 8.3
       million people. In the U.S., gun death rates are now at their
       highest in more than 20 years.
       --- End Quote ---
       
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/switzerland-doesnt-mass-shootings-despite-183409778.html
       Another:
  HTML https://www.businessinsider.com/switzerland-gun-laws-rates-of-gun-deaths-2018-2?ref=biztoc.com&curator=biztoc.com&utm_source=biztoc.com&utm_medium=web
       Seems many False-Leftist types do not want to admit that
       Westerners in general have serious mental health issues, many of
       which stem from what they do to their own minds and spirits with
       their "entertainment" and "media". Westerners literally make
       themselves mental, physically, and spiritually sick. This is
       nothing new and has been occurring in the West since the start
       of the industrial revolution. This has most likely had a more
       dire impact in non-Western America (identity crisis) than it has
       in Western-styled Switzerland.
       See also:
  HTML https://trueleft.createaforum.com/true-left-vs-right/western-civilization-is-a-health-hazard/
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       > 'It’s not about guns, it’s about mental health.’
       >
       > That’s a common refrain conservative politicians typically
       trot out in the wake of any mass shooting in America.
       >
       > It’s one that Texas Gov. Greg Abbott certainly did,
       speculating to reporters this week that the gunman had a ‘mental
       health challenge’—even though Abbott admitted at the same
       appearance that the gunman had no clear history of mental health
       problems or criminality. What’s ironic is that if the gunman
       indeed had a mental health concern, he probably wouldn’t have
       been able to get proper care in the Lone Star State.
       >
       > Just one month before the Uvalde shooting, Abbott cut more
       than $200M from the department that oversees mental health
       programs. His home state ranks dead last out of all 50 states
       for overall access to mental health care, according to the 2021
       State of Mental Health in America report.
       --- End Quote ---
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       The murderer seems to have been bullied. What was Western
       colonialism at it's most primitive form if not bullying?
       Western civilization is one big mental health problem!
       #Post#: 13748--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Firearms
   DIR By: guest55
       Date: May 29, 2022, 3:26 pm
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       U.S. Gun Culture Wasn’t Always Like This | The Mehdi Hasan Show
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       > In today’s America, everyone carrying guns everywhere is seen
       as a hallmark of our exceptional liberty. But it wasn’t always
       like this, even for conservatives. Author and law professor Adam
       Winkler joins Mehdi to discuss how we fight this hardline,
       far-right gun culture that’s left generations of schoolchildren
       in America traumatized and unsafe.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkRlV-FD5sI
       #Post#: 13783--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Firearms
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: May 30, 2022, 1:15 am
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  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-mo-brooks-says-guns-040220710.html
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       > Rep. Mo Brooks Says We Need Our Guns So We Can 'Take Back' The
       Nation
       --- End Quote ---
       We need guns to stop Brooks and his followers!
       #Post#: 13875--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Firearms
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 5, 2022, 9:17 pm
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       Now we are talking:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/kerr-want-end-school-shootings-090018765.html
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       > The answer to bring mass shootings in our schools to an end is
       right there in front of us, but no one wants to say it. So, I
       will.
       >
       > It’s time to arm the kids themselves.
       > ...
       > Kids could report to their classroom in the morning, recite
       their Pledge of Allegiance, and then be issued their gun for the
       day. Just before the final bell, they would turn their weapon
       back in to their teacher to be safely locked away until the
       following morning.
       > ...
       > imagine some would-be mass shooter bursting into a classroom
       only to be faced almost instantly by the barrels of at least 15
       to 20 handguns.
       --- End Quote ---
       I agree.
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       > Naturally. the children would have to be trained in the use of
       their weapon. Target practice on the school shooting range could
       be incorporated into their regular Physical Education classes.
       --- End Quote ---
       Exactly.
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       > Now, we have to be reasonable about this. We obviously don’t
       want kindergartners running around shooting each other
       accidentally with their tiny fingers, so we would have to
       establish a rational age requirement. Say, maybe 10 years old.
       --- End Quote ---
       Disagree. Mass shooters would then just attack kindergartens.
       On the other hand, I propose that any child who has ever hunted
       or who has parents who hunt should not be allowed to have a
       firearm in school.
       #Post#: 13880--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Firearms
   DIR By: Polinc_Socjus
       Date: June 5, 2022, 11:43 pm
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       --- Quote ---
       > It's time to arm the kids themselves.
       --- End Quote ---
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XW_H5s9uzqM
       #Post#: 13958--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Firearms
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 9, 2022, 8:07 pm
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       False Left article:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/what-can-an-ar-15-do-to-the-human-body-a-trauma-surgeon-explains-204850785.html
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       > She explained that “the blast effect, or the cavitation
       effect” that a handgun shot causes is not as wide and
       devastating to internal organs as the one inflicted by
       high-velocity weapons such as the AR-15 and similar rifles.
       “When you see handguns, you often just see a little hole on the
       outside on both sides; shotguns, which are a little bit higher
       velocity, a little bit bigger. But assault weapons, it's much
       bigger,” she said, adding that as a bullet from this type of
       weapon penetrates the body, it typically creates a large cavity
       that can cause significant bleeding from vessels and completely
       destroy soft tissue, as well as organs.
       >
       > “The organs, for example, like the liver or the spleen, that
       aren't very elastic, they can't handle that. They would
       basically rupture,” Naik-Mathuria said.
       --- End Quote ---
       The True Left response is simple. Do you want rightists to
       experience what is described above? If so, then buy an AR-15!
       #Post#: 14117--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Firearms
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 16, 2022, 12:13 am
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       The direction we want:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/hate-crimes-feel-safe-lead-143000387.html
       --- Quote ---
       > Hate crimes, need to feel safe lead to more Black people
       buying guns
       >
       > Georgia resident Destiny Hawkins bought her first gun, a Glock
       43, two weeks after the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington, D.C.
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       But again, handguns are not enough. Rightists have assault
       rifles. We will need to at least match them in firepower per
       person just to stand a chance.
       --- Quote ---
       > Since May 14, the day 18-year-old Payton Gendron entered a
       Buffalo, New York, grocery store and allegedly murdered 10
       people specifically because they were Black, it looks like gun
       sales among African Americans have continued to rise, the report
       contends.
       >
       > One person interviewed noted that he was “stunned” at how many
       other Black people were in line at a Maryland gun shop just days
       after the Buffalo murder spree.
       >
       > “A lot of us have the same idea,” federal employee Michael
       Moody told NBC News. “It’s getting bad when someone specifically
       targets Black people to shoot. We have to be prepared to fight
       back. And you can’t survive bringing a knife to a gunfight.”
       >
       --- End Quote ---
       It is not much better to bring a handgun to an assault rifle
       fight. And don't forget to buy body armour and helmets also.
       --- Quote ---
       > According to The National Shooting Sports Foundation, 90
       percent of gun stores have reported selling more firearms to
       Black people, and gun ownership among Black women is up by a
       whopping 87 percent.
       >
       > “And you wonder why?” asked Moody. “You look at Buffalo and
       the feeling of ‘This could have been me’ is there. We could be
       the next target. And when it’s you, what are you going to do?
       Are you going to run and hide? Or are you going to be able to
       protect yourself? Protect your family? I didn’t want a gun; I’m
       not a gun person. But this world has made me get one. Getting
       one for my wife next.”
       --- End Quote ---
       Those who didn't want a gun should be the only ones allowed to
       have guns. Those who are not gun people should be the only ones
       allowed to have guns.
       But in order to take guns away from the gun people, we need to
       have more firepower than they have.
       #Post#: 14247--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Firearms
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: June 21, 2022, 8:16 pm
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       More encouraging signs:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/body-armor-tactical-gear-becoming-161633572.html
       --- Quote ---
       > Body armor manufacturers are seeing a spike in sales amid
       recent incidents of gun violence in the US, NPR reported.
       Increasingly, they're seeing purchases from leftists and
       progressives of color who "want to have that protection," a gun
       rights advocate said.
       >
       > "It's becoming popular among leftist progressive people of
       color," P.B Gomez the founder of the Latino Rifle Association
       told NPR, adding that they "want to protect themselves at
       protests when they're in situations where they might be
       confronted by far-right agitators."
       --- End Quote ---
       Good! (Next, stop associating leftism with progressivism.)
       --- Quote ---
       > In the wake of racially motivated attacks like the Buffalo,
       New York, supermarket shooting, which targeted a predominantly
       Black community, groups like the Latino Rifle Association have
       argued that body armor is "valid protection from hate crimes."
       >
       > "If you are POC or LGBTQ+, highlight the fact that body armor
       is valid protection from hate crimes, you don't appreciate New
       York's attempt to make you vulnerable," the Latino Rifle
       Association tweeted last month.
       --- End Quote ---
       In reality, however, body armour is not intended to protect
       peaceful people going about daily activities. It is intended to
       protect active combatants who expect return fire. Therefore
       while I absolutely support purchasing body armour, I advice
       using it the way it was intended: put it on prior to launching
       attacks on rightist gatherings.
       --- Quote ---
       > "We often heard the good guy with the gun can stop the bad guy
       with the gun, but in this case, the bad guy with the gun had
       body armor on and the retired police officer, Officer (Aaron)
       Salter, could not stop him," New York State Senator Sean Ryan,
       who is in favor of the bill, told Spectrum News 1.
       --- End Quote ---
       We must become the good guy with the gun and the body armour so
       that the bad guy with the gun cannot stop us!
       --- Quote ---
       > Justin, the owner of a co-op that designs and sells firearm
       accessories with left-leaning views, told Insider a rise in
       right-wing violence "is forcing people to make the choice to
       have to protect themselves."
       --- End Quote ---
       You will not be truly protected until all rightist bloodlines
       have been eliminated.
       #Post#: 14618--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Firearms
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 11, 2022, 1:55 pm
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       This is what we need! Selective confiscation of firearms from
       rightist ownership only! Our enemies complain:
  HTML https://barenakedislam.com/2022/07/10/far-left-german-minister-wants-to-seize-legal-guns-from-law-abiding-members-of-the-conservative-alternative-for-germany-afd-party/
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       > he left-wing interior minister of the German state of
       Thuringia, Georg Maier, wants to withdraw gun licenses from
       Alternative for Germany members, which would effectively result
       in a mass weapon confiscation.
       > ...
       > While the interior minister says that they will target
       “right-wing extremists,” this list also apparently includes
       law-abiding members of the AfD who have never been convicted of
       any crime or shown any sign of participating in terror activity.
       The rule would, for example, target AfD members who legally own
       weapons as hunters or marksmen, according to German news outlet
       T-Online. The letter says that “appropriate revocation
       procedures should be initiated against these in principle.”
       > ...
       > AfD Thuringia is suing against this classification in the
       report as being for the protection of the constitution. AfD
       state spokesman Stefan Möller criticized the actions of the
       interior minister. He accused him of using an adapted weapons
       law in Germany “as a substitute criminal law against law-abiding
       hunters and marksmen in the AfD.”
       --- End Quote ---
       Certainly (and as I have always argued), anyone who has ever
       used a firearm to hunt have proven that they do not deserve to
       own firearms. (It is of course no coincidence that hunters are
       disproportionately rightists.)
       #Post#: 14840--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Firearms
   DIR By: 90sRetroFan
       Date: July 23, 2022, 2:25 pm
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       Every US leftist should own one of these:
  HTML https://www.yahoo.com/news/assault-rifle-being-sold-civilians-105625717.html
       --- Quote ---
       > New assault rifle being sold to civilians is twice as powerful
       as the AR-15 and capable of shooting through bulletproof vests,
       report says
       > ...
       > SIG Sauer's MCX-SPEAR is the civilian equivalent of the US
       Army's NGSW-R (Next Generation Squad Weapon-Rifle), specifically
       created to tear through body armor, The Daily Beast reported.
       >
       > "It'll shoot through almost all of the bulletproof vests worn
       by law enforcement in the county right now," Ryan Busse, a
       former firearms company executive now a senior policy analyst
       with the Giffords Law Center, told the outlet.
       >
       > The gun fires bullets with twice the kinetic energy of those
       from an AR-15 has a longer range, and has a noise suppressor
       that could make a gunman harder to locate, the outlet reported.
       --- End Quote ---
       because every US rightist will soon own one of these, and if
       they have more firepower than we do, they will win.
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