Miscellaneous And Off Topic Subjects

[Da Geezer]

This is why I can't get on board with Red Flag laws. It all depends on who's enforcing that law. "Gender dysphoria is a mental illness... people with mental illness should not be allowed to buy guns" is a logical argument that many people would support. Unfortunately, there are too many on the Left who would say "If you think trans people are mentally ill, you are a transphobe and transphobes can't buy guns."

I don't know Mike. There are norms in society that have developed over centuries, and they are encoded in our laws and customs. Name-calling by the left should not be able to radically change law and custom. But it has, and that is why this is a debate.

I agree that red-flag laws present more problems than they solve, and that is what we were talking about. Mental illness is mostly a discernable line that might be able to be enforced. At least there is some logic to it.

My first wife eventually had to be institutionalized because she developed paranoid schizophrenia. In the later stages, she was seeing things and she was paranoid. But she never acted out like the fat guys who put on a bikini and wave their dicks in front of kindergarteners. At some point, someone has to say, "...that is crazy!" because that is the truth.

During her years in and out of mental institutions, she was in an institution that released a man who had been an in-patient for six months. That man went home and took his wife and two kids to the foundry where he worked and vaporized them in an electric ladle used for melting metal. Sometimes you have to say that someone is crazy when they are.

[Dr. Strangelove]

For those interested

"QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley released early from federal prison, transferred to halfway house - CBS News

BTW, his lawyer (William Shipley) on Twitter says the Tucker Carlson videos played no role in him getting released early. It's all because of good behavior credits he earned in prison.

[Mike]

Thanks for sharing that beautiful story, Geezer. Jesus!

[Dr. Strangelove]

If anyone wants to browse through 300 pages of heavily redacted info about Vegas mass shooter Stephen Paddock.

The highlight (I guess) is an interview with a fellow "high roller" that knew Paddock and said he was very upset at not receiving the same fringe benefits as in the past.

New FBI documents: 1 Oct. shooter was upset at lack of ‘high roller’ treatment at casinos (fox5vegas.com)

[THE_WIZARD_]

Stifle the fuck up, chucklefuck

That may be the kindest insult you have ever thrown my way...

sniff

[THE_WIZARD_]

It's the fuckin guns

A dumber thing outside of the The View may have never been spoken...

[CGVT]

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[THE_WIZARD_]

Guns are not evil. Evil people with guns are evil. Prog love to focus on the tool...not the person. If Progs focused more on holding those accountable for violence rather than virtue signaling to their whacko base we might actually come up with solutions that work.

Soft on crime. Hard on guns. That should be the Dem/Lib/Prog slogan.

[THE_WIZARD_]

So we now now the CGVT, fruit and DSL love trannies who mow down Christians...and drag queens who dry hump young kids...glad we cleared that up.

[CGVT]

Easy access to guns, American gun culture and the type of guns available are problems.

To say that they are not is ridiculous.

[CGVT]

Why does the US have this problem, but other countries do not?

It's the fucking guns.

Make them say it.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Easy access to guns, American gun culture and the type of guns available are problems.

To say that they are not is ridiculous.

...more gun laws have not put a dent into the problem. In fact the states and cities with the most stringent gun laws have the highest crime and murder rates. The core problem is there are evil people in the world and they need to be locked up for a long time. There has always been evil in the world...and they don't have to have a gun either. You are looking at the issue all wrong. I'm not even going to go into our constitutional right to own a gun because you obviously don't believe in it anyway. But if you think if we banned all guns tomorrow (heh good luck with that) it would make no difference...just like Prohibition didn't cure alcoholism.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Other countries actually lock up their criminals.

[THE_WIZARD_]

Citizens had no guns in the USSR or Nazi Germany...that was a lovely time...

[CGVT]

The core problem is that those evil people have easy access to a weapon capable of killing many people quickly.

It's the fucking guns.

Why the fuck don't other countries have this problem?

Must not have evil people, I guess...