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At the age of 30, I got rid of my smart phone and switched back to my flip phone. I've used the same one for the last two years. Battery lasts for a week.
7 yrs ago
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At the age of 30, I got rid of my smart phone and switched back to my flip phone. I've used the same one for the last two years. Battery lasts for a week.
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7 yrs ago
I was told Avengers was mind-blowing, the best Marvel movie to date. I hear some stuff happens that fans are upset about though. That may change things for some people.
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7 yrs ago
Meh. I like to bounce around.
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7 yrs ago
Just because I have a Captain America tattoo on my shoulder, that does not mean I'm a manchild. It's my love for juvenile humor and poor decision-making skills that define my manchildness,,,
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7 yrs ago
If you don't like Pinkie Pie as a grown-ass man, then you shut your normie mouth and sit the fuck down.
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I'm 32. Married, 3 kids. I've been roleplaying online since I was 14-ish. Started with chat rooms, then forums in my late teens. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice a few years ago after going back to school online following a disastrous attempt at college (18-20) when I first graduated high school. I spent some time bouncing around crappy jobs, then enlisted in the national guard when I was 22. I deployed to Afghanistan about two and a half years later as an airborne infantryman. I came home in 2011 and bounced around a few jobs. I spent a lot of time working as a security officer for the public school system and mentoring young kids that didn't have much in the way of positive adult male figures in their lives. I'm still enlisted, I now work for the marketing department of an insurance company as I strive to purchase a house.
I like to think I specialize in modern, realistic settings, though I'm open to everything if it catches my interest. I have an enthusiastic interest in most forms of combat and a background in mixed martial arts and self-defense, as well as both the use and construction of firearms. I'm a big comic book enthusiast, particularly a fan of Captain America. I read a lot of Vince Flynn's American Assassin series. I play video games when my family gives me the chance, but nothing very serious. I host Dungeons & Dragons at my house every other Sunday with a handful of friends. If I think of anything else, I probably won't add it, but you can sure ask me about myself anytime you like.
I built this myself from custom parts and had it cerakoted because I wanted my wife to be able to enjoy the hobby as much as I did. Totally worked, btw, but now she's demanding a silencer.
And I feel like the best way to teach kids is to introduce them to things early and educate them about these things so that they aren't afraid of them, but nor do they have a natural curiosity to play with Dad's guns.
And this is my short barrel rifle with a *Dun-dun-duuuuuun*
Silencer.
And it was so EASY. All I had to do was pay an extra 200-dollars for a tax stamp and then wait 9 months for a 7-page form to be submitted and a thorough background check from the FBI to come back approved. Oh, and I had to go through the SAME process to have a barrel of less than 16" on a firearm with a stock, ie, a short barrel rifle.
My opinion is that gun ownership shouldn't be a right, but a privilege, if that. Obviously what I believe doesn't matter so since that's not changing, I've yet to see any real change be put forth in the aftermath of all these school shootings. If I'm mentally ill (bad example because that bill was struck recently), all I have to do is tell my friend to go buy the gun for me and that's it. That's all it takes.
Right, the reason it's easier to buy a gun is because guns are a right, cars are a privilege. I'm very disappointed that you feel that way, but to each their own. What change do you propose being made in the aftermath of these shootings? Everyone keeps talking about how "nothing is being done" but no one has any actual practical propositions that would work.
Straw purchases, ie, your friend buying the gun for you, is illegal. So yes, that's all it takes for you to get a gun if you are mentally ill. But murder is also illegal, and all it takes for that is for me to slit someone's throat, or wrap my arms around their throat and squeeze until they stop moving. There's literally nothing stopping me, except my own values and the repercussions for what happens after. If someone wants to murder a bunch of people, what do you think we should do in order to prevent that?
You talk about buying a gun being extremely easy, and you're right, it is "easy" if you're a law-abiding citizen. A thorough background check is conducted, and some people have to wait several days for the results of the check to come back. Anyone with a purchase permit or a concealed carry permit has already been subjected to a thorough background check as well. If you don't have any legal issues preventing you from buying a gun, then yes, it is easy, though it takes about 6 pages of paperwork to transfer the firearm in addition to the background check, not to mention the price of firearms being pretty high, depending on what you want to buy. If I timed it, and a person came in knowing what they wanted, having all the proper permits, did not exhibit signs of substance abuse, aggressive behavior, or mental instability, they could buy a gun in probably fifteen minutes.
But that means that they have to have a clean background, proper ID, and the necessary funds. For the average criminal, those are not easy.
As for why not insurance for gun owners, again, it's a right, not a privilege. The reason it's a right is so that what happened in Germany in the 1940's can't happen here. The same thing with North Korea, and Venezuela, and any other totalitarian regime. An armed citizenry is extremely difficult to impose injustice upon.
And "must buy insurance for my health" is also a huge bullshit issue I have as well, but they repealed that part of the affordable care act, so it doesn't matter any more. You shouldn't HAVE to buy anything just to be alive- but that's going down another stupid road.
I've heard the 18 shootings thing too. My wife told me someone posted about it on facebook, and I said, "I call bullshit. Source?"
I saw a video on youtube the other day about MD confiscating 30-round magazines, and telling everyone they had "x" amount of days to turn them in before it became illegal to possess them.
One of my favorite conversations is with people that want to ban "black" rifles, or guns in general. We are not Australia, there is no way in hell we could successfully and safely remove the firearms currently in the market even if it wasn't a terrible idea. And turning in your own firearms to prevent gun crime is like giving yourself a vasectomy because your neighbors are having too many kids.
There's not a single thing I could say about the gun debate, that I haven't already said. But if the smartest arguments are "oh look another one" and "handing guns out like candy". I feel like responding is a legit waste of everyone's time.
But, not that it should matter to condemn terrible actions and come to together as Americas to mourn lives lost. But the local authorities/sheriff said he wasn't apart of a supremacist group at all...
What we do know, is the FBI knew about him ahead of time, several times, despite supposedly having no criminal record and nothing was done about him. That and the mental health of this kid was clearly unwell, he abused animals among other things. The only thing I want answered that hasn't been, is did he purchase this gun legally and if so, where? Or more likely, did he steal this gun from his folks or obtain it illegally and if so, where?
I didn't do a lot of research on the story, but I did hear that he purchased it legally when he was 18 and it was kept in his "family"'s locked gun cabinet/safe. If the FBI knew about him, that raises some serious flags about why he was not under investigation, which would have discluded him form buying a firearm.
We don't need gun laws we need mental health laws that forcibly lock people up that are dangers to a society and hold therapists criminally and civilly responsible for when those in their care attack people.
If there are two rooms, one with a gun and nothing else, the other one with a crazy person who has snapped and ready to kill. You are safe in the gun room, unless you are so stupid you accidentally shoot yourself.
Guns do not kill, People are the killers. If someone wants to attack a school, office, park, and they can't get a gun to use they will use something else, sword, knife, bombs, poison, etc.
When a person intentionally runs over a person with their car you don't see people suing the car manufacturer, don't see politicians demanding "common sense" car laws.
Guns are nothing more than a scape goat for lazy stupid people or negligent politicians.
The only way to stop school shootings is to (preferably all): 1. Arm the staff. 2. One entrance period with an armed cop/security guard and metal detectors. All other doors incapable of being opened from the outside. 3. Lock up all crazy people. 4. Figure out what the fuck private grade schools are doing because you never hear of shootings at them. 5. Fire all liberals, socialists, communists from the schools and hire people who want to educate not indoctrinate.
Arming the staff isn't exactly the best solution, but allowing the staff to carry concealed weapons, I think, is. Especially if you include firearms training requirements, conflict-resolution training, and regular mental health evaluations. It's also not a terrible idea to have armed, on-duty cops as school resource officers. I was a security guard for three years in an elementary school in an urban neighborhood. I carried a gun every single day. I was always concerned about "What if..." some psychopath came to shoot up the place, and there was never a doubt in my mind that I'd probably be the first casualty, but I could guaran-god-damn-tee that it'd be near impossible to get past me.
Every door was locked from the inside and the two main doors had controlled entry with either a badge or an intercom system.
Locking up all crazy people seems a little unrealistic.
Private schools have families that have to pay to send their kid there, and a strict behavior policy that boots kids that act up. Most of these kids and families want to be there and take steps to make sure that they can stay. Public schools? Not so much.
Sorry. I'm new here. I don't really know what to do, but I saw this thread and thought I'd see what was being said, and then rant. I do feel better, though, so thank you for that.
This one happened maybe 30 minutes from where I live.
I guess it's the price these poor kids have to pay since guns are handed out like candy.
Where the fuck are they handing guns out like Candy? I would dress up like Woody from Toy Story to trick-or-treat in that neighborhood. Have you ever tried to buy a firearm? Who the fuck are you? Jimmy Kimmel? "We need real laws to keep guns out of the hands of people like this!" LIKE FUCKING WHAT!? Be fucking specific, what do you think congress should do, what law should be passed that would PREVENT this!?
I'm not saying that laws are a bad thing, I'm just saying that we already have laws in place, they just need to actually be enforced.
Now for the NRA to blame the thing entirely on mental illness and yet refuse to translate that into funding for mental health services
I really wish the NRA wasn't the primary mouthpiece of gun owners in America :( I think the National Association for Gun Rights, Gun Owners of America, and the Second Amendment Foundation serve as much better representatives of the people rather than large gun corporations.
TL/DR: Guns have a place in a civilized society, and it isn't all that difficult to come up with a streamlined way to prevent selling to someone that isn't legally able to own one.
What we have here is a society that has stopped disciplining children, been told that the word "No" is harmful, and has given children as old as 8 a device with a touchscreen, a large video display, and wireless internet access- on an internet that is growing increasingly desensitized and more controversial. Children regularly tell their parents that they will accuse them of child abuse if they spank them, and go so far as to scream, threaten, and even strike teachers, parents, and even school administrators when they are told to do something they don't want to do, or aren't allowed to do something they want to.
Everyone wants a quick fix. A band-aid. A piece of legislation they can point at and say, "See, this fixes it." But it's not going to happen. What we need is...
1) An overhaul of the way in which the mental health system operates and the stigma revolving around mental health. If you start giving mental health professionals the ability to take away a person's right to own a firearm, people are going to stop seeing mental health professionals. If you start making it illegal to own a gun if you've been involuntarily committed to a mental health institution, people are going to be much more likely to voluntarily seek out help to prevent that.
B. A simple and easy way to check to see if a person is legally allowed to own a firearm or not. Kind of like a concealed carry permit, with a phone number that can be called and an identification number that can run to see if it's valid or not. And if the person holding it commits any felony or crime of domestic violence, comes under indictment for a felony or crime of domestic violence, gets involuntarily committed to a mental institution, or is deemed mentally defective, an administrator at the mental institution, an official at the police station, or a social worker simply calls a phone number or goes on a website, pushes in the individual's information, like their social security card or driver's license number or some form of identifying number that would be associated with their firearms permit number if they don't have the number itself, and makes a selection that flags them as illegal to own a firearm. If and when this changes, such as the indictment is lifted, they are found not-guilty, or they are deemed to mentally have recovered their competency (I imagine THAT would be a long road), then their rights can be re-instated. Simple. Easy. I don't understand why it's so hard.
And just so everyone knows- it is already illegal to purchase a firearm while you are under indictment, if you have been adjudicated as mentally defective (this means that there is an official, legal ruling that you have enough mental disability that you would be found incompetent to stand trial for a crime), if you have committed a felony, if you have committed even a misdemeanor offense of domestic abuse, if you are under a restraining order, or if you are under the age of 18 (21 for handguns). If you purchase a firearm under the guise that it is for yourself when it is actually for someone else (ie, the background check and paperwork filled out is for you and not the person the gun is actually going to), it is a felony punishable up to 10 years in prison (except some cunt of a judge in GA gave a woman who bought a gun for a gang-banger that shot and killed a cop just 1 year of house arrest, which makes me question why the fuck people want more gun laws when we don't even enforce the ones we have).
This all boils down to parental/social responsibility and the culture in which our society is progressing. It is not realistic to say, "Get rid of guns." And it is not an effective solution to mandate that guns cannot have features X, Y, and Z, or that you can't have a magazine that holds more than 5 bullets or 10 bullets or whatever. That isn't going to stop anyone from getting them. It's not like it isn't already illegal to kill people, so making something illegal with the idea that it will prevent criminals from doing it is fucking asinine.
And banning "assault rifles" or, a more accurate term- semi-automatic, magazine-fed, center-fire rifles isn't the answer either. Neither is banning anything with a pistol grip, or an adjustable stock, or a flash-hider, or a muzzle brake, or a binary trigger. This does nothing but make it more difficult for a law-abiding citizen to own the firearm that works best for him or her. Modern sporting rifles, assault-style rifles, or- my personal favorite term- tactical rifles are actually the kinds of weapons that the second amendment was written for. Not tactical rifles specifically, but rather ordnance that is the equivalent of the most modern ballistic technology available. The reason for the second amendment was not hunting of self-defense, it was to allow the citizenry the ability to fight back against a tyrannical government. And before you moronic liberal hipsters say "That's fucking stupid. The military has drones and nuclear arms and airstrikes to take you out if they want to. How are a bunch of rednecks with rifles going to fight the United States military?" I ask you to look at Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam. The most difficult conflicts the U.S. military has ever engaged in were against civilian resistances armed with little more than small arms. It would be the same if the American government started being dickheads at home.
I also think it's super funny that most people that are screaming for a gun ban are the same people claiming that Trump "is literally Hitler," a comparison I won't argue all that hard against. Why on Earth do you want to give up your ability to fight against a corrupt government that might one day decide to conduct neighborhood raids and throw every Middle Eastern-looking person in an internment camp? or what if we go to war with Korea and Trump gets all sociopathic and wants to put every Korean American in jail too- for their own safety- just like FDR in WWII?
No, fuck that. I'm a straight white dude, with a wife and kids, so I don't feel like I personally have anything to fear, but I do have friends that I would fear for, and I would be the first one to give them refuge and protect them against something as disgustingly illegal and unjust as that, and I know I wouldn't be the only one.
The woman that came to his side was an unexpected mercy that sent a soothing tingling sensation through his body- what he could feel of it anyway. It didn't quell all of his fears, but her tone, her touch, her scent, and even just her presence and the confidence with which she engaged him exuded a sense of ease and calm that he was able to take stock in and help reassess his situation. Memories started to come back to him, but they were still only flashes of barely consciousness, and he couldn't separate dream from reality.
With the nurse's gentle hand moving to the back of his neck and a straw to his lips, the taste of cold water had never been so good.
With the sudden onset of this creature's presence, her hand on him and her voice almost sounded affectionate- softening the harsh reality he was just now starting to understand. Looking up at her face, the concerned expression brought him further back from the edge he had found himself at. She was saying words, but he couldn't put any context to them. With the water down his throat though, he was now able to vocalize his questions.
"I'm sorry, I'm... Where am I? I.. What... What happened to me?"
Yeah, Montana might not be the best idea in the event of a Yellowstone eruption.
Yeah, I'd say maybe Florida, but screw Florida. Arkansas, anyone? Maybe Northern Alabama or Western Georgia?
But like @Raylah said, nowhere would be exactly "safe." I just want to be far enough away that the initial explosion and resulting earthquake/lava flow doesn't incinerate me.
Just saying, I once did a seminary work on the Yellowstone supervolcano while on high school, and if it actually were to explode, most of the states in USA, especially west from the volcano, would never see daylight again and would be covered in volcanic ashes for ages. Same goes for a big part of Europe, as thanks to Earth's rotation, the ashes high up in the athmosphere would spread there as well. So if @Irredeemable is actually going to use that, maybe make it a bit less realistic and bit more survivable, because almost noone would survive the real deal, not in a longer horizon. Oh and I believe it's Israel not Isreal :D
Or screw it and make everyone figure out how to deal with a world without a sun and a new ice age.
I'm 32. Married, 3 kids. I've been roleplaying online since I was 14-ish. Started with chat rooms, then forums in my late teens. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice a few years ago after going back to school online following a disastrous attempt at college (18-20) when I first graduated high school. I spent some time bouncing around crappy jobs, then enlisted in the national guard when I was 22. I deployed to Afghanistan about two and a half years later as an airborne infantryman. I came home in 2011 and bounced around a few jobs. I spent a lot of time working as a security officer for the public school system and mentoring young kids that didn't have much in the way of positive adult male figures in their lives. I'm still enlisted, I now work for the marketing department of an insurance company as I strive to purchase a house.
I like to think I specialize in modern, realistic settings, though I'm open to everything if it catches my interest. I have an enthusiastic interest in most forms of combat and a background in mixed martial arts and self-defense, as well as both the use and construction of firearms. I'm a big comic book enthusiast, particularly a fan of Captain America. I read a lot of Vince Flynn's American Assassin series. I play video games when my family gives me the chance, but nothing very serious. I host Dungeons & Dragons at my house every other Sunday with a handful of friends. If I think of anything else, I probably won't add it, but you can sure ask me about myself anytime you like.
<div style="white-space:pre-wrap;">I'm 32. Married, 3 kids. I've been roleplaying online since I was 14-ish. Started with chat rooms, then forums in my late teens. I graduated with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice a few years ago after going back to school online following a disastrous attempt at college (18-20) when I first graduated high school. I spent some time bouncing around crappy jobs, then enlisted in the national guard when I was 22. I deployed to Afghanistan about two and a half years later as an airborne infantryman. I came home in 2011 and bounced around a few jobs. I spent a lot of time working as a security officer for the public school system and mentoring young kids that didn't have much in the way of positive adult male figures in their lives. I'm still enlisted, I now work for the marketing department of an insurance company as I strive to purchase a house. <br><br>I like to think I specialize in modern, realistic settings, though I'm open to everything if it catches my interest. I have an enthusiastic interest in most forms of combat and a background in mixed martial arts and self-defense, as well as both the use and construction of firearms. I'm a big comic book enthusiast, particularly a fan of Captain America. I read a lot of Vince Flynn's American Assassin series. I play video games when my family gives me the chance, but nothing very serious. I host Dungeons & Dragons at my house every other Sunday with a handful of friends. If I think of anything else, I probably won't add it, but you can sure ask me about myself anytime you like.<br></div>
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