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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostOn this, I disagree, because so many people in the military have family at home, and family blood is thicker than band of brothers blood.
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Originally posted by Adrift View PostI think it's worth the risk. Again, if the choice comes down to banning all guns in order to stop being the most homicidal nation among 1st world/developed nations in the world, or fearing an unlikely, unwinnable, and improbable evil modern military, I say go ahead with the first option. Seems to be working for most other first world nations.
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Originally posted by Cow Poke View PostNot!"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
"Forgiveness is the way of love." Gary Chapman
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Originally posted by Adrift View PostI honestly don't care. It's not scripture holy writ. It's a piece of goat skin written on by very intelligent and wise men, but fallible men all the same. Men that lived nearly 250 years ago. Times have changed. Amendments have come and gone. Perhaps the 2nd one needs to go too.
And exactly one amendment has been repealed."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
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Originally posted by Adrift View PostAgree to disagree. John Milius is a freakin genius, and Red Dawn was a staple of my 80s upbringing. Maybe you're thinking of the crappy remake which I refused to watch.
They lost me with the radiator - went down hill from there.
The fact that none of the guys would stop talking about it for a week has nothing to do with why it's so bad..."He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostAs noted previously the El Paso shooter is a left wing[1] white supremacist (or at least racist since there is no indication that he hates anyone who isn't white). While he may have used one word that Trump has used (invasion), leftists don't exactly take their cue from Trump. According to his manifesto (which never mentions Trump) his influences are the New Zealand killer who is a self-described "eco-fascist"
and Dr. Seuss's environmentalist fable The Lorax. It was his wacko left wing environmentalist beliefs (a need to eliminate what he sees as surplus people) that motivated him. It was his racism that caused him to select Hispanics.
And once again the TDS crowd is deliberately lying about what Trump said. He never said that Hispanic immigrants are invaders. He said that those trying to enter the country illegally are invaders. You guys repeatedly feel the need to conflate legal immigrants with illegal aliens in order to support your TDS.
And btw, what would you call folks who storm border crossings injuring several border agents and force the entry point to be closed by their actions (like what recently happened at the Pharr International Bridge in Texas)?
What do you call people who storm the border throwing rocks and bottles forcing the border agents to fend them off with tear gas and pepper spray (and this happened 126 times when the Obamessiah graced the White House with his presence)?
What do you call people who after forcing their way in celebrate by raising flags from the country they're from?
If it looks like an invader and acts like an invader it is almost certainly an invader.
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The only link between Trump and the El Paso shooter is that they both use the word "invade." You remind me of a nut job who once vehemently argued that Darwin influenced Hitler because both used the word "Struggle" in the title of their books.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostThe only link between Trump and the El Paso shooter is that they both use the word "invade."You remind me of a nut job who once vehemently argued that Darwin influenced Hitler because both used the word "Struggle" in the title of their books.
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Originally posted by Mountain Man View PostHow about blaming the guy who actually pulled the trigger?
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Originally posted by JimLamebrain View Post...we blame Trump for motivating/spurring on the nutcases.Some may call me foolish, and some may call me odd
But I'd rather be a fool in the eyes of man
Than a fool in the eyes of God
From "Fools Gold" by Petra
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Originally posted by Adrift View PostI was stationed on Ramstein Airbase, which I believe is the second largest after Fort Hood. Trust me when I say that there are plenty of armed security forces just about everywhere on that base, and a couple armories within close proximity. And you're right, an armed gunman could walk into a PX or commissary and shoot a dozen people before the MPs get there. That's my point. Even in a heavily armed place like a military base you can kill many people before anyone can respond. Wackjobs are looking for places where there's a lot of people. A military base is the last place you'd go if you're also concerned about armed resistance, so that's not really what they're concerned about."The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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