General 14 students, 1 teacher dead following mass school shooting in Texas

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BeardOfKnowledge

The Most Consistent Motherfucker You Know
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“We need responsible gun ownership. … We need background checks,” he said Tuesday. “We need to raise the minimum age to purchase an AR-15 rifle to 21. We need a waiting period for those rifles. We need red flag laws and consequences for those who abuse them.”
Like I said, no solutions. I hope to Christ you aren't hanging your hat on raising the age to buy a single type of firearm fixing this problem. 2 of the things America already has (and clearly don't work as intended) and the other, waiting periods, is clearly not going to be an issue for someone who's actually planning to do something like this. Although I do love the idea of someday reading a president's autobiography and him being like "I came up with an elaborate plan to gun down dozens of people. I'd spent weeks selecting the location, and figuring out how to get where I needed to be. But then, I got told I'd have to wait 2 days to pickup my AR, so I was like "Ah, screw this. I'll go to law school instead."
 

kaladin stormblessed

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Apr 24, 2017
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Bi partisan agreement on gun legislation has supposedly been reached with atleast 10 GOP senators

Is it anything meaningful or just window dressing tho?


View: https://youtu.be/7_JN4EOr2CY

edit: after watching... Chris coons is one of the most corrupt dems. He name dropped a list of some of the most corrupt dems and corrupt rrepublicams. So this is most likely a nothing burger
 
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John Lee Pettimore

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libertarians need to grow up

second someone tells me they are a diehard libertarian, i relegate them to the kids table
Yep, pretty much.

As libertarianism was perhaps a workable system when humans themselves were sitting at the kids table, living in early agrarian societies with small villages and everybody knows everybody else, and nobody knows what or who the hell is three hills over.

But not in a global society where libertarian principles are expected to be effective in governing a continent-sized nation of several hundred million people.

Which, IMO, is shown by a repeating pattern of Internet libertarian types never seeming to be able to actually answer even the most basic questions about how it would actually work in the real world.

Like, if I live by a river and two miles upstream there are 5 factories...... how do I manage to not live in an environment where that river's water is destroyed by the factories dumping their waste into it on the cheap? They have no incentive to not just dump all their waste into the river and forget about it, after all.

??
 
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Filthy

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Yep, pretty much.

As libertarianism was perhaps a workable system when humans themselves were sitting at the kids table, living in early agrarian societies with small villages and everybody knows everybody else, and nobody knows what or who the hell is three hills over.

But not in a global society where libertarian principles are expected to be effective in governing a continent-sized nation of several hundred million people.

Which, IMO, is shown by a repeating pattern of Internet libertarian types never seeming to be able to actually answer even the most basic questions about how it would actually work in the real world.

Like, if I live by a river and two miles upstream there are 5 factories...... how do I manage to not live in an environment where that river's water is destroyed by the factories dumping their waste into it on the cheap? They have no incentive to not just dump all their waste into the river and forget about it, after all.

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your local government would fine and/or arrest them and take their property.

Libertarianism isn't anarchism, and this question was answered the last time you posted it.

FFS.