Jimbeaux

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If you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns.

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This is exactly true, but to a leftist it sounds like a tautology with no actual substance.

They think, “Well of course, by definition, as soon as you outlaw guns, then those who have guns with be defacto outlaws!” But that’s not what we’re saying.

In their Rousseauian worldview, the poor and “marginalized” were pushed to the point of their crimes by a cruel and oppressive system. You can’t blame them for being outlaws, and the guns they use is excusable because they oppose the oppressive system.

Those who benefit from the system, the “normies”, the law abiding successful people, who own guns because they can afford them, have guns to maintain the oppressive system.

So in their view, outlawing guns will turn normies into outlaws, which is what they always were anyway, the oppressors, the hitlers, etc.

What the right actually means is that if you outlaw guns:

- the outlaws will be emboldened to use guns against the unarmed populace.

- the outlaws will turn to gun ownership because they already don’t care about following the law and now it will be even more beneficial for their crimes because the victims are softer..

“Climate change” :lol:

Wasn’t this a plot device in the movie, Departed?

Buuuck- - - Nekids

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If they can offer him something..

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Not just “him”.

As President, Trump mostly negotiates to help the country in the way ge thinks is best. Even at times when it is personally detrimental.

He truly is not the monster the left thinks he is. They can’t actually conceive of how he is motivated.

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We tasked him with fixing our country, not trolling for attention.

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You don’t seem to understand the nature of politics.

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I'm size 14.

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Damn, where do find shoes in your size? It’s difficult to find 12’s most times.

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I'm 34, my parents are boomers, I spend a lot of time online, so I know the discourse even when I don't agree with it. I was still in school during the 2008 financial crisis. I grew up rural so I didn't have access to the internet at all until probably 2003, didn't have broadband internet until 2006, didn't have a cell phone until 2008, and didn't have a smart phone until 2013. Generational stereotypes are stupid and reductive. However, comparing economic data can be useful.

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Thanks for answering my query.

I’m curious to hear your thoughts on the 2008 financial crisis. As a working adult with 3 kids, I was kind of busy.

To me, it was a fubar caused by Wall Street in cahoots with Democrats. Nevertheless, the housing speculation bubble they caused had to bust eventually.

How specifically did this bust affect the Millennial generation?

Kingbob, you seem highly invested in this argument. I wonder, if you don’t mind me asking, how old are you and where do you get your information?

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Extremely niche pet peeve. Mine could not be less important and stupid, I know.

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My pet peeve is the multitude of niche pet peeves that my wife has about my behavior while at the same time being oblivious to her own similar behaviors.

Like how she loads the dishwasher. It’s irrational, wastes space, and leaves many items too dirty, but I say nothing cause it ain’t a big deal. And yet, she frequently criticizes my dish loading technique.

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So you're saying when the Girl Scout troops hit the streets, an Afghan with CIA affiliation, will attack them. Gotcha!

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Kathy Newman? Is that you?