Well, if nothing else, I am beating him on pure volume.

Yea that's the biggest problem I heard with guns too. It's not you, it the others.
I would have pulled my gun a few times I got into am argument. And then what?
Split seconds for you or him to make a.horrible mistake. No, I stay away from this. Trust me
I know myself too well by now.

ho lee shite. fascists ghana fascist.

Character matters whether it’s supposed to or not. If you accept that Mr. Rosenbaum was murdered, and I think he was, then the “active shooter” theory of the prosecution holds and the other shootings were murder/assault as well. If you don’t accept that, Kyle did a good job defending himself.

That’s where character matters because reasonable doubt is not infinitesimally small, but it widens when you’re a rioter and a felon. If Kyle had been an actual cop, no way the jury rules against him.

I wonder too who that TBAB is, there is just too many with that name in it.
Sup Hezbollah comes up, and I read his posts a long time ago imo.

Objection! This is not a tbab thread.

In America that’s bribery. You will be charged. Don’t ever do that.

Some people think selling real estate is a good reason.

I honestly don't trust their judgement but...it's a free country.

Really? That surprises me. You don't seem like someone who escalates. (That's not an insult.)

I know Nima, and washoe is no Nima.

Gun ownership is a serious thing. My parents were occasionally volatile, but even at their most dramatic and intense and drunken points, neither would have ever considered using a gun in anger within our family, even in circumstances of significant betrayal. Nor would I ever consider using a gun if I came home to find Mrs. Treesong in bed with the UPS man, or even one of the lefties ITT. And I've taken a 3-day pistol training course and go to a range occasionally to keep myself fresh. If we had gotten our dogs before I bought my pistol, I'm not sure I would have bought none at all; but Mrs. T is also trained on it and was mildly in favor.

I'm generally against most regulation of any type. My theoretical view is that there are unintended consequences to most regulations, and those consequences are very very shard to predict. But I'm just fine with felony checks or DV conviction limits, and 3-day waiting periods are fine. Those are just examples; I'm definitely not an ideologue on this issue.

That's him. He's an outright fraud that ended up suing Admo in small claims court. I listened to the hearing for the lulz.

This isn't getting enough love.

grocery stores are far more likely to be shot up by cops than by anyone else

tbab is a reactionary right winger. hes more like you than washoe.

I wouldn't. Only when there is no other option. I didn't mean bribing the cops, I meant get it from someone who knows someone.

I think that the prosecutions case holds on merit. I don’t feel strongly either way.

I think this is a good post, but one question that goes begging is whether the negative impact of the unintended consequences outweighs the positive impact of the intended consequences. Of course, this is impossible to know upfront, as they are by definition unintended, but your post would have us draw the inference that any unintended consequence makes regulation a net negative.

'prosecution seems to have botched some of its witnesses and arguments and the presiding judge’s behavior has been erratic and at times betrayed an apparent sympathy to the defense.'

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...it-for-verdict

Because you're thinking about risk in a rational manner.

Guys who feel the need to walk around armed for no good reason just aren't.

Also, a gun ups the stakes. I like a straddle round as much as the next guy but not when the game is a violent encounter.

Unless we have pix we don't know what you're really saying here.

I’m not sure it’s fair to describe him as being erratic but I’ve watched about 12 hours of this and he is undeniably sympathetic. At the same time, he has done a reasonable job of leaving the verdict to the jury IMO.

'Schroder, an avid supporter of gun ownership and 30-year NRA member, said during an exclusive telephone interview with The Post that he’s putting up “hundreds of thousands” of dollars for the bond and the 17-year-old’s legal defense as he awaits trial on murder charges'

What is hundreds of thousand of dollars? Why cant he just say a number?

https://nypost.com/2020/11/24/ricky-...e-rittenhouse/

Or, as our favourite Florida Sheriff puts it:

Nobody saw that coming.

Point taken, and I agree that the unintended consequence issue is fundamentally empirical and also value-laden. My view on this is mostly utilitarian but with the usual limits on utilitarianism -- and thus very hard to figure out as a practical matter.