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Probably anything that could lead to harming other people really that can't fall in the accident category. Something that is premeditated, and you make the choice that you don't care about the consequences.

That's a lot. Drug dealing, manufacturing and construction defects due to cutting corners, participation in gangs maybe, robbery for sure....a lot of death penalty.

11-08-2017 , 02:01 PM

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EddyB66

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Yup. Those the breaks. Nobody is forcing anyone to make those choices.

11-08-2017 , 07:20 PM

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Jiggymike

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I don’t know about life in prison but drunk driving penalties need to be harsher and more consistent Imo

11-08-2017 , 08:05 PM

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Riverman

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Eddy might be on to something, works in Singapore!

11-08-2017 , 09:30 PM

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BrookTrout

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Getting caught with an illegal firearm = getting your trigger fingers cut off. Think outside of the box people.

11-08-2017 , 11:07 PM

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Praetor1an

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One of the points the NRA has made for decades is that we shouldn't pass new laws when the existing ones aren't being enforced. Its nice to see more people adopting this position that we need better enforcement of existing laws. Its also nice to see more people want longer sentences and more death penalties. Lots of common ground being found here.

11-09-2017 , 01:25 AM

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batair

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Stockholders who poison peoples water?

11-09-2017 , 02:20 AM

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microbet

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Stockholders who poison peoples water?

People who invest in gun manufacturers? People who invest in defense contractors? People who work for defense contractors and engage in the sale of weapons to Saudi Arabia? Professional and cynical climate change deniers? Lobbyists for coal mining? Coal miners?

11-09-2017 , 05:46 AM

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UthersGhost

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Originally Posted by microbet

11-09-2017 , 06:04 AM

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dereds

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Driving a vehicle while drunk is the equivalent of walking into a mall and firing a gun. So yeah I'd be fine with the death penalty for that.

No it isn't.

In any case people don't get the death penalty for waling into a maill and firing a gun either.

11-09-2017 , 05:32 PM

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aoFrantic

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11-11-2017 , 12:13 PM

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Victor

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/armed-man-a...ry?id=50704521

wonder how that dude got the money to accumulate all of that stuff and property. the video claims he has like 5m worth of guns and ammo and another 3m with tanks and special weapons. then hes got a ton of property and gun ranges.

11-11-2017 , 12:17 PM

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Victor

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just found this about that guy. https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/23576

"I had some people who came back from the World War II Museum in Louisiana," Mel said. "The government spent $38 million on it. They said mine's ten times better."

"You want to see the Hitler room?" Mel asked. He flicked a switch and our eyes were dazzled by red Swastika flags. Mel has Nazi bicycles, Nazi beer steins, Nazi potato masher grenades. He has a mustard yellow uniform owned by Hitler. Part of the room is reserved for horrific Holocaust artifacts: prisoner uniforms from Auschwitz, corpse tongs from Dachau, soap made from human fat.

11-15-2017 , 02:59 PM

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Shooter in rural northern CA kills 4 and injures 10

standard

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Rampaging through a small Northern California town, a gunman took aim on Tuesday at people at an elementary school and several other locations, killing at least four and wounding at least 10 before he was fatally shot by the police, the local sheriff’s office said.

There were at least seven separate shooting scenes in or near Rancho Tehama Reserve, an unincorporated community of about 1,500 people, Phil Johnston, assistant sheriff of Tehama County, told reporters. The gunman, later identified as Kevin Janson Neal, 44, entered the elementary school but was unable to get into the classrooms because school officials had heard gunshots outside the building and locked the doors, he said.

11-15-2017 , 03:19 PM

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Hot damn, there's some crazy news out there but this takes the cake.

"It's a normal impulse to want to own so much firepower."

"Sure, I own a lot of guns, but no one has ever been killed with them on my property."

"Except for that one time my wife was shot and killed by accident filming a reality TV show right over there."

"Now I talk to mannequins because my other kin were arrested for trying to steal someone else's guns."

Think I'll sign off the internet for today.

11-15-2017 , 06:03 PM

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Shooter in rural northern CA kills 4 and injures 10

standard

WaPo has more details on this one (now 5 dead, he killed his wife the night before). Dude spent 6 minutes lighting up an elementary school:

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Children were still hurrying in when the gunman’s white pickup truck came tearing down the street and crashed into the school’s locked gate. A man later identified as Kevin J. Neal jumped out, wielding a semi-automatic rifle and wearing a vest packing additional ammunition, authorities said.

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Children, school staff and parents huddled inside under desks and in offices. Outside, Neal raised his rifle and began to fire. Police said in the hours leading up to that moment, he had killed his wife and hidden her body before beginning a bloody rampage across this community about 135 miles north of Sacramento.

Neal, who also tried to open doors and get inside, fired at the school for six agonizing minutes, shattering windows and shooting through wooden walls, authorities said. One bullet struck a child, while others were wounded with broken glass. Neal eventually “became frustrated” and gave up, abandoning the school, Phil Johnston, an assistant sheriff in Tehama County, told reporters.

Hey some people need to hunt and stuff so I guess giving children a legit warzone experience is just something we have to live with in USA#1

11-15-2017 , 06:05 PM

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DVaut1

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Responsible parents would arm their children and teach them to fire back.

11-15-2017 , 09:37 PM

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Huehuecoyotl

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Why didn't the teachers return fire, suppress the suspect and flank him? The only thing that will stop a guy with a gun is coordinated military tactics. A Drill Sargent for every elementary school is the only way to go.

11-17-2017 , 04:09 PM

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Man accidentally shoots himself and his wife in a church after talking about safely bringing guns to church following recent mass shootings

can't make this **** up

11-17-2017 , 05:09 PM

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amoeba

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What is the law regarding eyesight and driving? Its pretty surprising that similar standards are not inplace for firearms.

11-18-2017 , 12:57 AM

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master3004

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What is the law regarding eyesight and driving? Its pretty surprising that similar standards are not inplace for firearms.

Some states allow blind people to get a hunting license.

11-18-2017 , 04:26 AM

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They need to increase the minimum of gun ownership of these Rugrats from toddler to elementary school I believe. These three year olds are going wild this year.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.6c332a894b73

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11-19-2017 , 07:08 AM

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sumey

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One of the early comments under that story:

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Headline: Washington Post still lying this year.

Three-year-olds are not "toddlers," at least not beyond the day of their third birthdays.

"A toddler is a child 12 to 36 months old." So, even a day after your 3rd birthday, you're not a toddler.

Why do anti-gunners always find it necessary to lie?