(06-16-2016 04:58 PM)TravelerKai Wrote:(06-16-2016 04:30 PM)RexImperator Wrote: The problem with gun control is that it never ends, and the people who enact this stuff usually know nothing about firearms.
Prevent people on the watch list from buying. OK.
Then they can buy from an individual. So you ban all private sales and say it's enacting "universal background checks."
But you still have illegal straw purchases. So then you have get rid of the guns in circulation.
Enact an "assault weapons ban" so people can't have flash hiders or bayonet mounts. But the guns are functionally the same. Plus someone could kill just as many people with several pistols. It doesn't work.
So then...you have to ban all semiautomatics, and people are stuck with 100+ year old technology for defense.
I get what you are saying but it is a little more nuanced than that. In this case, you are trying to control access to legal purchased firearms to known dangerous terrorists. The secret villain on no one's watchlist getting guns is always going to be a problem. The objective should be to close this "common sense" loophole in a manner that won't impede a legitimate citizen from gaining access.
The fact that a guy on a terror watch list, getting radical inside our country, obtained a state gun license because he had no felonies, is an obvious hole in our legal system. His license should have had some action taken upon it or something else. Would it have stopped this killer? Probably not, but that hole still needs to be addressed or filled in some way.
People will always be able to buy hot guns, ghost guns (no serials or fake ones), and other illegal weapons from places like Arizona, SF, etc. from illegal sellers. On paper there are laws for this, just need better enforcement. Once terrorists start using avenues like this, then we are going to have to go back to the drawing board again and address that. Let's get that low hanging fruit first.
Want we do not need to do is adopt a "fuck it" attitude in either direction, for or against gun control. We have not banned cars and drunk driving is a bigger problem. Sometimes laws don't work, but creative incentives might (ie public transportation). Outright banning guns or even all forms of Islam is not feasible. Americans should be able to put some braintrust together and do better than this. When guys think stuff like, "it's just fags, I don't care much." That misses the big picture. Today it's gays, tomorrow it will be some other group the Muslims will hate.
If an immigration ban ends up being the best workable solution, and we just have to constantly wack and track the ones here already, that get radical as they spring up, so be it! We still need to think through all the possible options and do the due diligence to close any holes and outstanding issues.
(06-16-2016 07:14 PM)JacksonRev Wrote: You hit the "hole" in the system: unchecked illegal and legal immigration from places known to be hostile to the US.
The Second Amendment has worked fine for Americans for hundreds of years. We just have to keep America full of American people with American values.
(06-16-2016 07:30 PM)MMX2010 Wrote: The Anonymous Conservative isn't fucking around in this article.
The worst mass shooting incident in history is the only one where the first gay guy to escape barred the back door and then stood there holding it shut while listening to everyone else trapped inside beat on it as they were desperately trying to get out.
This is the first mass shooter incident where the only way out was past the shooter, who was mowing people down left and right. That is why there were 50 dead.
Everyone needs to blame that little gay Mexican as much as the gunman, and point out his complicity is as great as the shooter’s, and far more than the gun’s complicity. I’d call for a ban on little gay cowards who are out for themselves, before we ban any guns, and point out that it would probably have saved more lives in this case.
That is an amygdala hijack which will make any leftist thus confronted not want to talk about it anymore. Either they need to defend a gay guy whose textbook selfish rabbit behavior was wholly indefensible, or they need to acknowledge his behavior, which itself is hijacking to them, because they know they would do the exact same thing. That subtle sense that you are calling attention to the leftist’s innate cowardice is guaranteed to be immensely triggering, and produce an immediate retreat.
It isn’t as satisfying as full on K-selection, but until the Apocalypse starts, it would be enough.
(06-16-2016 02:32 PM)MajorStyles Wrote:
(06-16-2016 07:44 PM)spokepoker Wrote:Yeah but how does a "little gay coward" hold a door closed with multiple people on the other side fighting for their lives trying to push through, kick it down and shoulder ram it?(06-16-2016 07:30 PM)MMX2010 Wrote: The Anonymous Conservative isn't fucking around in this article.
The worst mass shooting incident in history is the only one where the first gay guy to escape barred the back door and then stood there holding it shut while listening to everyone else trapped inside beat on it as they were desperately trying to get out.
This is the first mass shooter incident where the only way out was past the shooter, who was mowing people down left and right. That is why there were 50 dead.
Everyone needs to blame that little gay Mexican as much as the gunman, and point out his complicity is as great as the shooter’s, and far more than the gun’s complicity. I’d call for a ban on little gay cowards who are out for themselves, before we ban any guns, and point out that it would probably have saved more lives in this case.
That is an amygdala hijack which will make any leftist thus confronted not want to talk about it anymore. Either they need to defend a gay guy whose textbook selfish rabbit behavior was wholly indefensible, or they need to acknowledge his behavior, which itself is hijacking to them, because they know they would do the exact same thing. That subtle sense that you are calling attention to the leftist’s innate cowardice is guaranteed to be immensely triggering, and produce an immediate retreat.
It isn’t as satisfying as full on K-selection, but until the Apocalypse starts, it would be enough.
When it was mentioned earlier in the thread, I had just put it off as nonsense. Like some stupid witness horseshit, or something people would say if they were having trouble opening a door.
Someone actually held the door closed, trapping people inside.
That's some serious fucked up shit. Dude needs to be arrested and put on trial immediately! That's the kind of shit that needs to be made an example of, for the good of society.
Quote:Patron: We just started pushing and pushing and then when we got that 10 second break we went to this alleyway which led for only employees and we tried, me and this random guy, tried blocking the door. At that point like I said the bullets were getting louder and closer. So we blocked this door and we did hear banging. I pray it wasn’t anyone trying to escape because I would forever feel guilty.
Quote:The owner of a Florida gun store said he tried to alert the FBI to a "very suspicious" man later identified as Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen after Mateen tried to buy body armor and bulk ammunition from the store.
Robert Abell, a co-owner of Lotus Gunworks in Jensen Beach, Florida, told ABC News today that a man entered the store five or six weeks ago and asked specific questions about high-end body armor. When employees said the store didn't carry the body armor he wanted, Abell said, the man made a phone call in a foreign language, hung up and then asked about ammunition in bulk.
Abell said a member of his staff thought the questions were "odd" and made him uncomfortable, so he turned the man away.
Abell added that they thought the man was "very suspicious," so they called the local FBI office in West Palm Beach and reported the incident. But they didn't have the man's name, since no sale was made, and the only surveillance footage they had was grainy.
"We gave them information and everything that took place, and that was the end of the conversation," he said.
There was a follow-up conversation with agents, Abell said, but the FBI never visited the store or investigated further.
(06-12-2016 09:52 PM)Ingocnito Wrote: The sickest aspect of this event hit me when I watched NBC interviews. Call me crazy, but people in the club and nearby were being interviewed - by multiple reporters - they had a smirk (as in choking back a smile), as in excitement, to either be on TV or thrilled by the insanity of the event (or just that gay they can't hide their "happiness").
(06-12-2016 10:57 PM)Clockwerk Wrote: Can someone explain to me how 200+ people are not able to vacate a club within a three hour time period and allow themselves to be shot?
(06-12-2016 11:19 PM)weambulance Wrote: It's also normal in an active shooter situation for people to just sit there and let themselves get shot. That's exactly how it went for most of the victims at VA Tech, for example.
Quote:Via Daniel Hopsicker’s MadCowNews:
The father of the man who slaughtered 50 people in the Orlando nightclub shooting Saturday night is a longtime CIA asset, whose TV show receives funding from the Voice of America -Dari. Pictured below is Seddique Mateen with California Republican Congressman Dana Rohrabacher.
The identification of shooter Omar Mateen also involved deception. He was said to work for a security company called G4S, which few have ever heard of. However, “G4S” is merely a re-branded “Wackenhut Corporation,” a name with a storied reputation for scandal in the U.S. and around the world.
Rohrabacher has stated that he sees radical Islam as the source of a major terrorist threat to the U.S. Calls to his office today to request comment on whether he views CIA assets relocated in the U.S. as a terrorist threat have not been returned.
(06-16-2016 02:26 AM)Sean Wrote:(06-14-2016 02:23 AM)kaotic Wrote: You realize this affects us all right ? Not just those LGBT.
The fact that some crazy mother fucking Islamist Terrorist blew away that many people in a night club is another wake up call, of what we imported and created.
You should care, you should see how the current administration and media are acting.
This isn't a yawn moment. This is a very critical moment for our country and yours.
Especially with Trump's incoming presidency and Americans being sick and tired of being told lies and fed BS.
You're in this fight whether you like it or not. This isn't something you wave your hand to go away at.
As a practicing, Bible believing Christian, this world means little. If two hordes of those that hate those of us like me get into a gunfight (albeit one sided...), not my problem. ZFG. Both groups involved, Muslims and homosexuals, hate western civilization, hate the Christian morality that made the world west of the Danube, and hate pretty much all 10 Amendments of your Bill of Rights.
You want me to worry about what they think? How many of those killed, Mateen included and his family, do you think voted for McCain or Romney? Losers, both, but not Obama and his entourage. How many do you think would vote to repeal the 1st, 2nd, 4th, 5th thru 8 inclusive amendments if it meant that Christians, Alt-Righters and Republicans would be punished? I'd say north of 85%.
You want me to care about them? Nope, not even a bit. Again, sad they died, human life is precious but anything else? Nothing.
Quote:As the frequency of these attacks increases, so do the common responses. A growing trend among these is that love is the only antidote for terrorist hatred. Certainly, the victims of these attacks need the utmost love and solidarity. However, showing love toward victims is not the only story put forth by commentators.
In his viral speech about overcoming ISIL with love, Waleed Aly said “preaching hate at a time when what we actually need is more love, you’re helping ISIL.”
The notion that each of us is responsible for moderating our emotional response to terrorism lest we increase the risk of more violence, is precisely the attitude that lies at the heart of victim-blaming.
“You’d better be loving and keep quiet or else you might set him off worse than before” is exactly the kind of psychological manipulation used against battered spouses and partners who are held responsible for domestic violence committed against them.
Expecting those at risk of terrorist violence (the general public) to show solidarity with an ideology that is used to justify violence against them is in essence shifting responsibility away from the attacker’s attitudes and onto the victims’ behaviour.
“Why didn’t you avoid this” victim-blaming is usually used against domestic violence victims, and is now being drawn against victims of terrorist violence. “Why didn’t you just leave?” - “Why didn’t Charlie Hedbo just remove the cartoon?”
In recent months there is a growing number of articles that direct non-Muslims to show solidarity with Islam and Muslim people. “Support your local mosque”, one article instructed. Coincidentally, at the time I was staying right across the road from an elaborate mosque in a small Indonesian village.
While I was welcome to enjoy the prayer songs that rung out across the village, I was nonetheless not welcome inside the mosque — along with the rest of the female population. The mosque also directed me to not wear my bikinis — in a sweltering beachside village. The bikini policy pales in comparison to the debate over whether Balinese women can wear traditional long-sleeve lace-adorned Kebaya dress, but I digress.
In effect, women are being held responsible for showing solidarity with a religion that actively seeks to undermine their rights, lest they be denigrated as phobic or inciting hatred and terrorism against themselves.
Expecting women to sacrifice their freedoms for any religion is tyrannical. And to link the criticism of religion to somehow invoking violence is psychological manipulation of the highest form. This is the “she asked for it” of religious totalitarianism.
The assumption behind the “love can cure terror” theory is that a sense of goodwill can placate potential abuse before it starts. Yet goodwill requires an open line of communication, the kind of dialogue that is not often possible in religions that disallow women and other minorities from equal participation.
In fact, open dialogue with leaders of Islam can lead to dire consequences. In a recent interview with Afghan MP Nazir Ahmad Hanafi, VICE interviewer Isobel Yeung respectfully asked the MP’s views on rape within marriage. He responded that he should “give you to an Afghani man to cut your nose off”. Some translators argue that “cut your nose off” is used in place of “rape”. Indeed, in contexts where one’s basic freedoms are under threat, the only healthy response is boundaries for personal safety.
Seeking to offer “love” or rather “tread on eggshells” to avoid backlash in such situations only enables abusers to feel vindicated and further tightens the grip of control they seek to maintain. There is ongoing debate over whether Orlando’s tragic attack was fuelled by Islamic extremism, or pure homophobia — with an obvious connection between the two. What is certain however, is that the Islamic ideology underpinning a growing global scourge of terrorism is not one that supports women, nor gays and lesbians, nor nonbelievers of any kind.
The public is not responsible for placating potential extremists within any ideological, religious or political group. Abusers’ actions are their own responsibility and theirs alone. This is a common teaching of the political Left when it comes to domestic violence; it is time the same thinking is applied to religious terrorism.
Certainly, misdirected anger will not resolve the issue of Islamic extremism. There have been cases of vigilante violence that serve only to exacerbate the issue. In particular, approaching or attacking innocent Muslim women only replicates the misogyny and extremism of terrorists themselves.
Yet, anger — when used in the right way — is a healthy, healing and valuable emotion. The public is justified in their anger, and this energy can fuel the necessary critique and hard questions that need to be directed toward the ideologies, the institutions, the funding bodies and leaders behind this extremism.
It is not blind love, nor well-meaning denial, but intelligent and firm debate that is needed in the conversation on Islamic terrorism.
Laura McNally is a psychologist, author and PhD candidate. Her doctoral research examines the social implications of corporate social responsibility. She provides regular commentary on issues related to gender and social inequality.
(06-16-2016 08:59 PM)ElFlaco Wrote: Pathetic how so many would just wait to die instead of formulating a plan. They had hours. From the interview earlier in the thread with the guy who was holed up with a group in the bathroom, we know that all they did was hide in the stalls...
(06-15-2016 01:10 AM)philosophical_recovery Wrote: WTF
http://archive.is/84dFr
(06-16-2016 05:35 PM)TravelerKai Wrote:(06-16-2016 05:22 PM)spokepoker Wrote: Well, how about the designated driver is allowed to carry in club/bar/etc.? 0% tolerance for b.a.c. if carrying.
At least the bartender should be armed.
Churches allow people to open carry to service, depending on the region you're in, it's treated like an article of clothing. If some of the congress who got killed in that church shooting were carrying, definitely would've been less dead, and the media wouldn't have said shit about it due to a private citizen saving the day with a firearm.
Instead of discussing making areas less safe (banning guns, gunfree zones, restrictions), they should be talking about ensuring safety, ie. arming more people responsibly. Like vaccines, inoculating the community so those who are vulnerable don't get infected.
Well in Texas at least, you cannot bring any gun inside a 51% place. Churches is up to the individual church here. Mine bans open and concealed with pisses me off. It's hard enough to find a good enough church that even Dalrock could approve, I'm not willing to look for another.
I agree with you on the media would not have liked talking about how a person put down an attacker. Local media would like it, but that would be it, they love bragging on local folks.
I fully agree on making pushes and drives to educate and arm folks. As much as the national govt hates that, not every state would be on board either. Even the ones with concealed carry unfortunately.
(06-16-2016 04:58 PM)TravelerKai Wrote: ...
I get what you are saying but it is a little more nuanced than that. In this case, you are trying to control access to legal purchased firearms to known dangerous terrorists. The secret villain on no one's watchlist getting guns is always going to be a problem. The objective should be to close this "common sense" loophole in a manner that won't impede a legitimate citizen from gaining access.
The fact that a guy on a terror watch list, getting radical inside our country, obtained a state gun license because he had no felonies, is an obvious hole in our legal system. His license should have had some action taken upon it or something else. Would it have stopped this killer? Probably not, but that hole still needs to be addressed or filled in some way.
People will always be able to buy hot guns, ghost guns (no serials or fake ones), and other illegal weapons from places like Arizona, SF, etc. from illegal sellers. On paper there are laws for this, just need better enforcement. Once terrorists start using avenues like this, then we are going to have to go back to the drawing board again and address that. Let's get that low hanging fruit first.
Want we do not need to do is adopt a "fuck it" attitude in either direction, for or against gun control. We have not banned cars and drunk driving is a bigger problem. Sometimes laws don't work, but creative incentives might (ie public transportation). Outright banning guns or even all forms of Islam is not feasible. Americans should be able to put some braintrust together and do better than this. When guys think stuff like, "it's just fags, I don't care much." That misses the big picture. Today it's gays, tomorrow it will be some other group the Muslims will hate.
If an immigration ban ends up being the best workable solution, and we just have to constantly wack and track the ones here already, that get radical as they spring up, so be it! We still need to think through all the possible options and do the due diligence to close any holes and outstanding issues.
(06-16-2016 08:59 PM)ElFlaco Wrote: Pathetic how so many would just wait to die instead of formulating a plan.

(06-16-2016 02:32 PM)MajorStyles Wrote:
"The lead singer from the Grateful Dead. Completely unable to let go of their dogmas. The boomer generation truly fucked up the world."
I like the Grateful Dead—much like my conservative counterparts, Ann Coulter and Tucker Carlson. It’s odd to see Bob Weir speak openly about politics, since the Grateful Dead were notoriously reticent for most of their careers: they rarely spoke on stage, unlike political singers such as Bono. But a cursory overview of Bob Weir’s situation is revealing:
1.) Many fans of the Grateful Dead don’t take his current performances seriously. As far as many Deadheads are concerned, the band ended when Jerry Garcia died in 1995. Many of these fans have stopped going to see the remaining members in concert. Other fans of the band will even mock the remaining members for their attempts to continue playing. No doubt this is frustrating for him.
2.) Bob Weir’s solo career, since Jerry Garcia’s death, has been largely unsuccessful. He has released one album in the last twenty years, Evening Moods, which most of his fans were ambivalent towards. Again, must be frustrating.
3.) He has battled a pain killer addiction over the last few years.
In short…I think that SJW behavior is almost always linked to feelings of personal and/or professional frustration. Think of Lady Gaga, who mocked feminism when she was on top; but then, when her albums started tanking, she began touting SJW platforms in her music.
Being a long-time fan of the band, I was kind of bummed to see this video. I always knew they leaned to the left, but I preferred when they weren’t vocal about it.