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spyinthesky

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Story in the media today of two Americans having a Road Rage event which ended up with the drivers (both Fathers) shooting at each others vehicles, injuring both shooters young daughters who were sat in the vehicles.
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badgerx16

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A woman is using Kraft for $5M because the instructions for her ready meal Mac&cCheese states "ready in three and a half minutes", but she contends that this does not take account of the time taken to remove the lid from the packaging or to open the sauce sachet.

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Holmes_and_Watson

Holmes_and_Watson

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  On 01/12/2022 at 18:33, badgerx16 said:

A woman is using Kraft for $5M because the instructions for her ready meal Mac&cCheese states "ready in three and a half minutes", but she contends that this does not take account of the time taken to remove the lid from the packaging or to open the sauce sachet.

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Nice of her not to include the trips to and from the shops, walking to the kitchen, taking it out of the shopping bag, pressing buttons on the microwave, putting it in and taking it out the microwave. And what if it's put in the fridge first? More time spent sorting that out. All while that Mac and Cheese just sits there with it's taunting claims of readiness!

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badgerx16

badgerx16

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  On 07/01/2023 at 08:04, egg said:

A 6 year old shooting a teacher in a "non accidental" situation. What a fucked up country.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64194407

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If only teachers were armed..........

 

( My wife taught that age group and has been punched and spat upon many times by the pupils. Thankfully we live in a civilised country that has learnt, in the main, to do away with firearms. )

 

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Holmes_and_Watson

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  On 07/01/2023 at 08:04, egg said:

A 6 year old shooting a teacher in a "non accidental" situation. What a fucked up country.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-64194407

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"It is unclear how the child obtained the gun..."

In the country where you'd get them from a Pez dispenser or with a Happy Meal, if some folks had their way. Nope, no idea how the kid got their hands on one. That they already had security measures in place for this sort of thing is scary.

  On 07/01/2023 at 09:29, badgerx16 said:

If only teachers were armed..........

 

( My wife taught that age group and has been punched and spat upon many times by the pupils. Thankfully we live in a civilised country that has learnt, in the main, to do away with firearms. )

 

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Yeah, our feral kids air lifted straight in from lord of the flies, at least aren't armed. 🙂

Winnersaint

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  On 07/01/2023 at 09:29, badgerx16 said:

If only teachers were armed..........

 

( My wife taught that age group and has been punched and spat upon many times by the pupils. Thankfully we live in a civilised country that has learnt, in the main, to do away with firearms. )

 

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Over 40 years of teaching. Now retired. Never been threatened, only time I was really sworn at was when I was asked, why the fuck I supported Southampton! 

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farawaysaint

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  On 07/01/2023 at 11:29, Holmes_and_Watson said:

"It is unclear how the child obtained the gun..."

In the country where you'd get them from a Pez dispenser or with a Happy Meal, if some folks had their way. Nope, no idea how the kid got their hands on one. That they already had security measures in place for this sort of thing is scary.

Yeah, our feral kids air lifted straight in from lord of the flies, at least aren't armed. 🙂

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While this is true I am still unashamedly afraid of the gangs of kids roaming the streets 😂

farawaysaint

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  On 13/01/2023 at 03:56, skintsaint said:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-64252337

Here we go again.... bloke coked up, high and running into traffic while resisting arrest dies after being tasered.

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I mean yes, I agree with what you said but I don’t think he needed 4 officers to arrest him or the 10? Taser shots. The officer who initially responded was really patient with him but I do think that perhaps the force to bring him down was excessive.

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badgerx16

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  On 06/03/2023 at 17:34, buctootim said:

The best reasoned, best argued take down of the unrestricted uninfringed right to bear arms Ive seen. Interestingly Twitter will not allow videos on this issue to be embedded...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1631610370887491584

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How does the Second Amendment trump everything else ? I assume this idiot's largest campaign contributor was the NRA or Smith & Wesson.

Weston Super Saint

Weston Super Saint

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  On 06/03/2023 at 17:34, buctootim said:

The best reasoned, best argued take down of the unrestricted uninfringed right to bear arms Ive seen. Interestingly Twitter will not allow videos on this issue to be embedded...

https://twitter.com/i/status/1631610370887491584

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Not sure it's the topic per se...  Seems to be an issue with Twitter....

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-64863450

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Twitter is experiencing major problems with posting some images and links, the second time within a week that the platform has suffered problems.

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badgerx16

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Just watched the whole John Stewart program. At the end of the interview with the Oklahoma Senator he asks "Does training with guns make you safer ?", to which the Senator replies "Yes". JS then aks "And you would remove that as mandsatory ?", "Yes". "So you are making us less safe ?", "No". JS concludes with "Are you familiar with logic ?".

Earlier in the show they say that in States that reduce controls on gun ownership the rate of per capita gun deaths increases, including the rate of civilians shot by Law Enforcement. Yet the answer is more guns and less regulation.

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hypochondriac

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As a Brit, I will never understand Americans who are rabidly pro gun. The John Stewart clip above is interesting. It's a shame he had to bring drag queen stuff into it because you can quite clearly be against children hanging out with drag queens and think that more guns making you safer is insane. 

The Left Back

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  On 07/03/2023 at 11:50, hypochondriac said:

As a Brit, I will never understand Americans who are rabidly pro gun. The John Stewart clip above is interesting. It's a shame he had to bring drag queen stuff into it because you can quite clearly be against children hanging out with drag queens and think that more guns making you safer is insane. 

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Nor me.  My Dad moved there when I was 13.  I had the chance to join him when I finished my A levels.  This was 1980s Wisconsin.  I was put off with the obsession with guns (and drive through banks but that's another story). 

Needless to say I haven't regretted my decision once.

farawaysaint

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  On 07/03/2023 at 13:53, The Left Back said:

Nor me.  My Dad moved there when I was 13.  I had the chance to join him when I finished my A levels.  This was 1980s Wisconsin.  I was put off with the obsession with guns (and drive through banks but that's another story). 

Needless to say I haven't regretted my decision once.

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Eh? 

buctootim

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  On 06/03/2023 at 18:37, badgerx16 said:

How does the Second Amendment trump everything else ? 

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Yep quite, that was Stewart's main thesis - if the Government acts to protect children in other areas, controls immigration for public benefit and requires registration to vote why the hell should guns be unregulated? 

  On 07/03/2023 at 11:50, hypochondriac said:

The John Stewart clip above is interesting. It's a shame he had to bring drag queen stuff into it because you can quite clearly be against children hanging out with drag queens and think that more guns making you safer is insane. 

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His point wasn't really about drag queens, it was a wider one that if you can infringe right to free speech in order to protect children from a non deadly threat why cant you act to protect them from the leading cause of child death?     

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Holmes_and_Watson

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  On 07/03/2023 at 13:53, The Left Back said:

Nor me.  My Dad moved there when I was 13.  I had the chance to join him when I finished my A levels.  This was 1980s Wisconsin.  I was put off with the obsession with guns (and drive through banks but that's another story). 

Needless to say I haven't regretted my decision once.

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Yet when I drive through a bank, with my gun, I'm the bad guy. 🙂

hypochondriac

hypochondriac

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  On 07/03/2023 at 15:39, buctootim said:

Yep quite, that was Stewart's main thesis - if the Government acts to protect children in other areas, controls immigration for public benefit and requires registration to vote why the hell should guns be unregulated? 

His point wasn't really about drag queens, it was a wider one that if you can infringe right to free speech in order to protect children from a non deadly threat why cant you act to protect them from the leading cause of child death?     

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I'd have had a bit more sympathy for that argument if he hadn't made an entire show last year about the problem with white people. It's hard not to see him bringing drag Queens into it as some sort of defence. 

You're right on your first point though. It's unrealistic to expect America to give up guns so at the very least they should be regulated. 

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