bylm1-Bernie

If you are concerned about an overthrow, maybe you should start looking in the direction it is most likely to come from. You libs seem to get everything backward.

rumitoid

And the collusion in Oregon with Right Wing Militia groups and the GOP? Coincidence? What direction does that give you?

Seth

Question: if the Son of Sam was a Democrat, does that make all Democrats serial killers?

What about Charles Manson? He didn't seem much like a Republican to me. Bet he was a "liberal." So are all liberals like Charles Manson?

Smedley_buzkill

Ever hear of Haynes v US 1968? I didn't think so. Criminals cannot be prosecuted for failure to register guns or failure to submit to a background check. The people who would obey this law are the ones who would not be committing a crime, background check or not.
Mentally ill and domestic abusers are already prohibited, not that it would make a spit's worth of difference in preventing them from obtaining a gun.
Assault rifles have been heavily regulated since 1986. Oh, you mean semi auto rifles. You mean the ones that are responsible for nearly one percent of the murders per year? That's telling 'em. No magazines over ten rounds? What good will that do? I can change a magazine in less than three seconds. So can almost anyone with a little practice, and the lower capacity magazines are less likely to malfunction. If I was going to commit a mass shooting I would pick a place full of people like you, and small capacity mags would be my choice to reduce the chance of mechanical failure.
There are already excellent programs on firearms safety available. Most are taught by the NRA. The Boy Scouts, who have declined in popularity since openly gay behavior was foisted on them as appropriate, still teaches safe gun handling.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

You tried to answer one question of the four I asked you. Another Federal Agency (besides ATF) to be added to the bureaucracy is what you want? They can't correctly do many of the things they are charged with doing. Several of the things you listed, mandated background checks, a two-week waiting period, ten-round magazines, are already law in many places. Additionally, guns must be stored securely, domestic abusers cannot purchase guns and all the other regulations you want are already the law in many states, yet have done nothing to curb accidental and deliberate gun deaths. Chicago has some of the toughest gun control laws and the murder rate increases. CA even has prohibited Police officers, trained in the use of firearms, from working if they have been convicted of domestic abuse.

Here is the real problem. You want a utopia, and that is impossible to achieve.

So-called gun-free zones invite the nuts. It is like an open invitation. Concealed carry, especially when people don't know who is carrying, curbs gun violence. The synagogue in Poway CA that had one casualty could have been another bloodbath if it hadn't been for the off-duty CBP officer who had his service weapon with him. But your precious media with their gun control agenda doesn't like to report these facts because it goes against the narrative of the left. We are never going to get rid of all guns. If it isn't guns it will be something else. A border patrol officer was hit in the head, this week in San Diego, by a rock thrown through the patrol car door window. England wants to make all knives have blunt ends. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and every other despot, when to came to power, confiscated guns. You are so worried about following the constitution and afraid that Trump will be a fascist dictator. Yet the second amendment is one of the best protections we have against that happening. Leftist never think things through. And like everything else in life, there are tradeoffs. Liberty comes only to those who want it. People willing to sacrifice liberty for safety usually end up with neither.

Iliamna1

Truth is truth. Great post.

Morgan

Are you starting to be nasty for no apparent reason? I just want to know before I answer appropriately to your tone and make a proper response in turn.

I also didn't ask for "a" definition of the word, I wanted to know how you viewed it, I thought I made that perfectly clear, with a parenthesis around the word "your".

I agree, change does not have to mean moving forward, we see it all the time.

Rose42

In His image doesn’t mean He created man to be like He is. That verse about the heart being wicked is for us not Him.

It makes sense. Man’s nature is to rebel against God.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

I think the reason is quite apparent to anyone who has read these posts. You accuse me of being a ERWNJ. Semantics: "I also didn't ask for "a" definition of the word, I wanted to know how you viewed it, I thought I made that perfectly clear, with a parenthesis around the word "your"; therefore, I provided you with a definition because you asked.

dtucker300 Loc: Vista, CA

I'm not right-wing. You need to learn better critical reading. You agree on the obvious and disregard the rest. I gave you a definition based on my viewpoint because you asked. So yes, you did ask for a definition regardless of whatever Orwellian word-play you want to use to deny it.

What makes you think all progress is good?

Morgan

I accused you of being a ERWNJ, really, how so? That somehow passed right by me. You're really dancing around answering this simple question, why? All I'm trying to do here is to see if we're both on the same page on how it is defined.

Morgan

Where did I say all progress was good? I don't assume such things or talk like that.

I absolutely love it when someone tells me what I should do, as if they are some kind of authority, especially one over me. My critical reading or analysis is perfectly fine, I think better than yours.

Really that was "your" viewpoint, why did it read like a definition right out of a book?

Your very overly cautious and very suspicious of my intentions, I'm not out to get you, funny you think that way, is that what you do, try and get people?

You see, when people put things in their own words, it leans more towards their true feelings with some slight differences from an academic definition, which is why I asked.

Morgan

Then what do "you think" created in his image means?

Oh, that is "for" us, and in what way?

Morgan

Not backwards, dead on.

Morgan

Missed this, I consider myself free to choose issue by issue, some coincide with progressive views, while others do not, they are more conservative. For the most part, learning from the past helps us change for the better for the future.