The NRA's proposal compels everyone to own a gun, whether they want to or not, even to the point where the government will buy you guns and ammo if you can't afford them yourself.
THAT GODDAMNED COMMUNIST MOSELEM OBUMMER COMING TO GIVE YOU HIS SOCIALIST GUNS. AND THEY'RE PROPABLY ALL REGISTERED TOO SO HE CAN COME TAKE AWAY YOUR GUNS THAT HE GAVE YOU, THE FILTHY KENYAN SCUM.
Someone who is legally able to own a gun can still acquire one through an illegal method.
Yes, and someone who's legally able to own a gun but still willing to go through the annoyances of acquiring one illegally (hey, it's march harder to find the sketchy truck in the 'hood selling illegal guns than it is to drive down to my local Wal-Mart and pick up a shotgun that I can later saw off) probably doesn't give a rat's ass about safety whether or not they took any safety courses.
My Communications professor recommended we buy his unit reader as it has all the readings for the semester. On purchase the print and copy is so shit that you can't read 2 or 3 words on every line. Refuses to respond on forums or Twitter so I'm going to call him out in front of 320 students.
An old lady nearly hit us driving on the wrong side of the highway from Kansas City to St Louis. Now we're seeing a trail of cars smashed into the median.
I remember trying to make soup out of half a carrot, some wilted celery, and Gravy Master as a kid growing up. I boiled it in a metal bowl because all the pots were dirty and I burnt the shit out of myself.
Incidentally gravy with half a carrot in it isn't soup.
Someone died of a drug overdose at a music festival a few towns over from me. A festival which was denied it's liquor license due to unaddressed safety concerns. Over a dozen have been treated for drug overdoses and 2 are still in critical condition. Keep in mind all of this is going on in a small town generally considered to be a retirement community.
There was some commentary recently about Sex workers and Feminism, namely regarding the industry, and someone had a great attitude - but still had that whole "Oh we're going to rescue those poor deceived darlings, those poor airheads who don't know the horrors of the industry" bullshit that's still a big part of mainstream Feminism's opinion about sex workers. So, I tried to start a conversation, and start saying "Hey, that's a great way to go, but the rescue thing is kinda not the way to go" and it IMMEDIATELY went to deleting sections of comments and calling names, and I start getting private messages implying that I'm a hostile infiltrator and accusing me of being an MRA.
The more I see of feminism, the more I start to think that it's feminism's worst enemy. The movement is eating itself, and it's getting to the point where I'm starting to think that's a good thing, and maybe it should hurry up and finish the meal.
And don't even get me started on White 20-something feminists going around with their "Oh, Frozen has started Feminism in Japan!" bullshit.
I'm kind of reminded by various articles about women who aren't feminists, not because they don't believe that women deserve equal rights, but because they think that the most vocal (if not the most mainstream) feminists have gone totally off the deep end. We're talking about some of the extreme nutters who think that even consensual male/female sex is always rape or who won't allow mothers to bring their sons into battered woman shelters because their sons are male. That sort of thing.
The problem is with determining who's in earnest and who's just stirring shit for the purpose of invalidating/discrediting an ideology. Trouble is, you have lots of earnest, eager newcomers every year to any given forum about these issues and those people tend to band behind the loudest, angriest messages. So.. is it even trolling if you can get a large chunk of a community to stand behind it? I dunno.
I guess the only true barometer is what happens in reality off the internet. Things like Lou said where sons can't accompany mothers into shelters, and actual prosecuted cases of harrassment in the workplace, etc.
But then the conversation gets clouded with claims of unreported malfeasance being X% of the total, and on and on. It's like herding cats. I think it's an area where true rigor is almost impossible, which is why it's been an open issue for so long.
In tangentially related news, I got downvoted/shouted down into a hole on reddit last night for saying that most Libertarians are privileged white males. Shame on me. :P
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Someone who is legally able to own a gun can still acquire one through an illegal method.
On purchase the print and copy is so shit that you can't read 2 or 3 words on every line.
Refuses to respond on forums or Twitter so I'm going to call him out in front of 320 students.
From the credit card thread:
PS: The war on children thing was a joke.
However long you want to make it.
I wonder how tall of a tower of bumming you'd have to make to reach the moon, in terms of participants?
Incidentally gravy with half a carrot in it isn't soup.
Do not click that link if you are at work.
Edit: Maybe this is what's happening
The more I see of feminism, the more I start to think that it's feminism's worst enemy. The movement is eating itself, and it's getting to the point where I'm starting to think that's a good thing, and maybe it should hurry up and finish the meal.
And don't even get me started on White 20-something feminists going around with their "Oh, Frozen has started Feminism in Japan!" bullshit.
I guess the only true barometer is what happens in reality off the internet. Things like Lou said where sons can't accompany mothers into shelters, and actual prosecuted cases of harrassment in the workplace, etc.
But then the conversation gets clouded with claims of unreported malfeasance being X% of the total, and on and on. It's like herding cats. I think it's an area where true rigor is almost impossible, which is why it's been an open issue for so long.
In tangentially related news, I got downvoted/shouted down into a hole on reddit last night for saying that most Libertarians are privileged white males. Shame on me. :P