And yet most people consider the good stuff to be food, shelter, healthcare.

How sad that is

Well, that's life. You can protest it all you want, but until you stop doing the same thing, those words are meaningless.

Pointless words indeed

Can't believe I missed that opportunity...

Often people can’t resist telling you the quiet part out loud

Luckily we beat the commies in the civil war

At least capitalists give some exchange for labor. No free lunches

I would imagine they use ar15s from helicopters to dispatch these animals

https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/19/us/ne...rnd/index.html

Avoid confrontation with deranged angry types. And don’t turn your back stay strapped and ready to defend yourself.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/south-car...er-parking-lot

Not sure if that is the best example against gun control

How do you know what a "deranged angry type" is before a confrontation starts?

Anyway, it looks like she'll be getting PW's panacea: free housing, free food, free healthcare, free clothing, etc...

It's not, but if there were 20 hoops to jump through to legally obtain a gun, this woman would have gotten one just as easily as she illegally did here.

It’s an example against the fairy tale world that leftists live in that legal gun owners are the bad guys and all the criminals wouldn’t use a gun to hurt anyone

Looks like the only way to be assured of having all the basic necessities of life is to go to jail.

Maybe that should alert us that maybe there is a fundamental flaw in our current system.

Money works, too.

So, like PW, do you think the government should subsidize healthy, capable adults to chomp on Doritos and play video games all day or perhaps there's some middle ground out there?

Who believes that?

People who wanna ban guns, and take them out of the hands of legal responsible users

Jeff bezos gets income tax refunds but you think it’s the poor persons fault.


Right now the govt subsidizes rich people to do those things. Are you ok w that

So is there not even a 1% chance that it would have been more difficult? And if there were 20 hoops to jump through for a few decades, might that 1% become 10, or 20, or 50?

I think the mistake that is often made with criticism of gun control measures and how they would be ineffective is that they're looked at isolation. The US gun culture isn't going to be noticeably changed overnight, or in one year or five. It will take generations. Looking at any one proposed change and suggesting it won't move the needle means nothing ever gets changed.

And this personalization of things is another mistake. Governing means making difficult choices, and prioritizing some concerns over others. One can try to change the gun culture without believing legal gun owners are "the bad guys".

Im fine with responsible users owning guns. How about we have some system that insures those folks can continue to own them while we take them away from the folks that have no business owning them

In your myopic dont take my gun hard-line stance you've created a country where mass shootings are so common they don't even make the news half the time.

You’re saying we should trust the government to figure out who should own guns or not?

Well, without going down the government is evil rabbithole, yes.

Ridiculous. I haven’t created ****. The founding fathers put the 2nd amendment in for a reason. The actions of criminals and crazies shouldn’t take away law abiding people’s rights.

Maybe the answer is in punishing people harder. More executions and deportations perhaps. Or just lock them up and throw away the key.

You want to lock them up and throw away the key, but if that doesn't happen you want them heavily armed. Makes no sense.