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Why are RWNJ’s so bad at boycotts? The NRA got its feelings really hurt so lunatics start shooting up their own coolers they already paid for.

It seems their reactions are always to destroy their own property as a boycott. I’m not really sure they grasp the process. Plus Yeti just redid their discount plan and asked the NRA to sign up for the new one. This is a crystallized example of what is wrong with so many people these days.

Perhaps they should have instead acted like a Seattle WTO protester, or perhaps professional sports team fans? I.e. destroy someone else's property...

04-29-2018 , 10:33 PM

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goofyballer

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Originally Posted by Lapidator

Perhaps they should have instead acted like a Seattle WTO protester, or perhaps professional sports team fans? I.e. destroy someone else's property...

Republicans at Trump rallies have physically assaulted liberal protestors because Donald Trump told them to

lmao

04-29-2018 , 11:03 PM

#27053

OmgGlutten!

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Republicans hate to see property getting destroyed. But minorities, not so much.

04-30-2018 , 12:29 AM

#27054

MrWookie

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

Republicans at Trump rallies have physically assaulted liberal protestors because Donald Trump told them to

lmao

Quote:

Originally Posted by OmgGlutten!

Republicans hate to see property getting destroyed. But minorities, not so much.

Yeah, lol. Do you honestly think that Republicans value black people as much as they value their coolers?

04-30-2018 , 04:06 AM

#27055

YohanGretz

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Originally Posted by goofyballer

Republicans at Trump rallies have physically assaulted liberal protestors because Donald Trump told them to

lmao

Andddd thats a complete lie

04-30-2018 , 04:11 AM

#27056

goofyballer

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Andddd thats a complete lie

Nope

Hey what a coincidence, it's morning in Russia and you're back again

04-30-2018 , 06:40 AM

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Victor

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Another self-identified NRA member agreed, saying Friday: “Me personally, I won’t be listening to him speak. I won’t be going anywhere that I cant carry my firearm. It’s essentially the nations largest get together for gun owners and they won’t let law abiding legal gun owners carry guns because someone who’s supposedly pro 2A thinks its too ‘dangerous’? thats liberal logic right there.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/ampht...?noredirect=on

05-02-2018 , 11:03 PM

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master3004

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I assume the fact that this didnt even get a mention in the thread indicates the numbers on this were significantly lower than the other recent rallys.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/02/us/sc...ent/index.html

Lol, just kidding. Obviously it drew less. More power to these kids, but if all you're going to do is draw attention to how badly the numbers were lopsided between other protests and yours, I don't think you're accomplishing what you think youre accomplishing.

05-02-2018 , 11:20 PM

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A new program at Cook Children's Hospital is showing families what can happen when their children are left alone with a gun.

The 'Aim for Safety' program has invited seven families to participate in a test. Real handguns that are unloaded and can't fire are hidden in a playroom, and cameras roll on children and their parents watching from another room.

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Dr. Hamner and Wunderlich said they keep guns in a locked safe in their home, and they have taught their boys about gun safety. But they were shocked what happened when they went through the experiment.

"I didn't think they would touch anything," Wunderlich said.

In the room, though, cameras captured every moment. Just seconds after the brothers were left alone, Jackson found a handgun. With adults still nearby, he didn't say anything to them. Instead, he picked the weapon up and pointed it at himself. He turned it towards his brother while he examined the weapon, sticking his finger down the barrel.
"I was shocked, I was kind of scared. I just wanted him to put it down," said Wunderlich.

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Dr. Guzman said that looking down the barrel is typical behavior for kids in the experiment.

"That's the first thing they do. That's an instinct they have," he said.

https://www.wfaa.com/mobile/article/...source=twitter

05-03-2018 , 09:43 AM

#27060

kerowo

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I'd be interested in knowing when an 'instinct' to look down the barrel of a gun crept into our gene pool...

05-03-2018 , 09:48 AM

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tomdemaine

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Originally Posted by kerowo

I'd be interested in knowing when an 'instinct' to look down the barrel of a gun crept into our gene pool...

There are often delicious things hiding in little holes.

05-03-2018 , 11:34 AM

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Csaba

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There are often delicious things hiding in little holes.

Tarantulas?

05-03-2018 , 12:50 PM

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iron81

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I once looked into a cannon at a historic fort, there was a raccoon in there.

05-03-2018 , 03:07 PM

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microbet

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Originally Posted by Csaba

Tarantulas?

05-03-2018 , 05:01 PM

#27065

master3004

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Good guy with a gun fails again, bad guy with a gun shoots and critically injures someone he was having an argument with in a mall. Aint guns great?

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/03/us/na...all/index.html

05-04-2018 , 10:04 AM

#27066

tomdemaine

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and another story where the headline says it all.

https://www.vox.com/2018/5/4/1731145...watu-salama-ra

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A pregnant black woman is in prison for defending herself. Mainstream gun groups are silent

05-04-2018 , 02:20 PM

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and another story where the headline says it all.

https://www.vox.com/2018/5/4/1731145...watu-salama-ra

Gun nuts: we need our guns to defend citizens against the tyrannical overreach of the government
World: <this case>
Gun nuts: no we meant white citizens

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The Urban Institute found that in “stand your ground” states, when white shooters kill black people, 34 percent of the resulting homicides are deemed justifiable. Only 3 percent of deaths are ruled justifiable when the shooter is black and the victim is white.

05-11-2018 , 03:06 PM

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2/325Falcon

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This thread seems quiet. Almost too quiet...

05-25-2018 , 02:10 PM

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Johnny Truant

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Shooting in a middle school today.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...erupts-n877476

Here is where we are now. An actual quote from a parent:

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"This is surreal," Chad Lancaster, who has an eighth-grade daughter and sixth-grade son at the middle school, told the Indianapolis Star. "This happens in high school, not here."

05-25-2018 , 05:39 PM

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Louis Cyphre

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Onion

06-01-2018 , 12:57 PM

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Effen

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https://nypost.com/2018/05/31/hawaii...reatened-home/

The way he slowly and dramatically aims the gun after clearly realizing "oh **** this guy probably lives here" is the worst part. You're not in a ****ing movie you halfwit.

06-01-2018 , 08:20 PM

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Money2Burn

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Nouman Raja denied stand your ground defense.

06-02-2018 , 03:06 PM

#27073

Money2Burn

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Nouman Raja denied stand your ground defense.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/06/0...imes&smtyp=cur

06-02-2018 , 03:37 PM

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Louis Cyphre

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From the NYT article:

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Although she denied Mr. Raja’s motion to dismiss the case on the basis of Stand Your Ground, the judge said he “remains free to use the defense at trial.”