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[Teneb]

I like how me whining about gun control turned into a massive discussion about demographics and road maintenance.

Roads are the real guns.

[Graknorke]

because the obvious solution to school shootings is to give all the students guns. nothing could ever go wrong i see nothing possibly wrong with this plan...sssssssssaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrccccccccccccaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean, less people would die if the other kids kill the kid who pulled a gun.

I'd like to see you try shooting someone who pulled a gun without also pulling a gun yourself.

[hector13]

because the obvious solution to school shootings is to give all the students guns. nothing could ever go wrong i see nothing possibly wrong with this plan...sssssssssaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrccccccccccccaaaaaaaaaaaassssssssssssssmmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!!!!!!!

I mean, less people would die if the other kids kill the kid who pulled a gun.

I'd like to see you try shooting someone who pulled a gun without also pulling a gun yourself.

You just get a bit of a flustercluck chain reaction of kids pulling guns and shooting each other for kids pulling guns and shooting each other.

[Lord Shonus]

@Cinder IKR that's what I was sayin
Also I tried to point out that the so-called "gun show" loophole is way more of a problem than properly vetted gun owners.

To break it down, the "gun show loophole" is a section of the legislation intended to reduce the burden on individual to individual sales, like selling a no-longer-wanted gun to your brother or buying you father a gun for Christmas. The same restrictions on ownership apply, and if the courts later determine that you knew they were not permitted to own a gun then you're liable to the same penalties that a gun shop would be if they sold without a background check, but the writers assumed that such transfers would be taking place on an occasional basis between people who've known each other for years and thus would know that Bob is a licensed blackjack dealer or that Carol is a contractor that regularly performs maintenance on nuclear power plants (both of which professions require an extensive background check), or that the last time Dave had anything to do with the law was jury duty, and thus they have no legal bar to ownership. Where it goes wrong is that setting up a booth at a gun show doesn't require a federal firearms dealer license, and it's often a "well, I just sell magazines, but if you want to buy something from my personal collection, why the hell not" cover. The easy solution is to simply put a blanket ban on private party transfers in a commercial establishment, and thus require all gun show sales to be conducted through a local dealer the same way internet sales are.

[hector13]

But mah rights..! /nonsense

[Gentlefish]

Huh. I thought us 'murricans were only allowed to purchase rifles at 18, and handguns at 21.

...Anyway, I'd vote immediately for any politician whom promised state-wide (cities only, of course) free wifi.

And I would gladly be taxed for it, so long connection speeds were good.

[hector13]

In other WTF news, it's s'posed to snow between 4-12 inches over the course of tomorrow afternoon into Thursday.

What's wrong with this country? It's Spring now.

[ChairmanPoo]

Spoiler: "Performance art WTF" (click to show/hide)

[smjjames]

Wuh? Why did the Ameripol thread just get locked? We went past the offtopic bit and nobody was making trouble.

[RedKing]

Ameripol thread just got locked....and it was actually pretty chillaxed in there. 

[TheBiggerFish]

*shrug?*

[Shadowlord]

Yeah, I'm wondering what that's about myself.

[RedKing]

And FJ's offline, so I'm thinking it had to have been the Almighty Toad who locked it.

[Bauglir]

And FJ's offline, so I'm thinking it had to have been the Almighty Toad who locked it.

Where is FootJob when we need him.

... probably asleep for a bit longer, if I'm remembering geography.

[RedKing]

And now the last three pages or so have been wiped out of it.
EDIT: Maybe someone took the joke about the new guy being a mainiac sockpuppet seriously and reported it?