Following the law in NY is like avoiding wearing the wrong color hat if you live in a gang infested neighborhood.
You don't do it because it's right. You do it because criminals will victimize you if you don't.
Personally, I'll take the gang bangers, they're more reasonable than the NY...
That's the real problem. They'll all talk about how they're protecting society from the bad guys, right up until the bad guys are in their gang, then it's protecting the bad guys from society.
Anyone else would have been face down on the floor with a knee on their neck. But that guy they sit...
Malaria used to be one of the top causes of death.
Nobody gets it in the developed world anymore, and it's not because there's a vaccine, and mosquitoes DGAF about your superior hygene.
They killed off so many mosquitoes that the disease lost it's distribution vector and is practically extinct...
Yes, and it killed off more than insects, arachnids and many other invertebrates.
But, it was *very* good at what it did, just a little bit too indiscriminate.
But, the point was it was very safe for mammals, so showing spraying the child with it as a "bad idea" was a bit of fear mongering...
Implementing this is a terrible idea.
But forcing the left to mount the legal fight to prevent it could be genius.
Pass the law, then let them spend tons of money running it up to SCOTUS and setting precedents that will prevent anything like it in the future.
Specifically structure the...
Intercepting a shipment of chemicals from one country to another doesn't really sound like any of the US's business, to be honest.
Imagine if Mexico decided to intercept a shipment of gun parts from Austria to the US because some of the guns would end up illegally in Mexico...
Life is still pretty easy for most people. We have some of the most comfortable lives of any humans who have ever existed.
There are plenty of injustices, but people see them as isolated incidents.
People will put up with a lot of shit if they get to keep their comfortable lives. But there...
The thing about a modern civil war in the US is that it's not a geographical divide. It's ideological, and at most urbal/rural.
That means the divide will run right down the middle of most institutions like police and military.
Nobody needs to agree on anything. Needs no central planning at all.
Takes about 3% of the population to successfully accomplish something like this.
Basically a couple million people independently decide a line has been crossed, and then they independently pick targets of opportunity...
Why would you fight the cops or the national guard or the military ?
You just hunt down the people who sent them, and all the people who voted for those guys.
You don't fight when they show up at your door at 3am.
You don't even fight when you show up at their door at 3am. You just show up...
I wonder what real federal crimes were committed in the process of this that Trump's DOJ could prosecute people for.
When you uncover fraud, you don't just eliminate it, you need to prosecute it.
We're all trapped on this planet so far.
Does the logic change when the city gets big, if it also gets crowded ?
Technology is making it small. Look at the urge to get away. Half the people on this board just want to get away from other people and live a quiet life left alone. But that's...
Need doesn't enter into it. It's coming whether you like it or not.
The alternative to war isn't peace. It's slavery.
And religion is just the excuse. Wars aren't fought over religion. They're fought over control of people and resources. Religion is just the tool used to exercise that...
"...attacked a local man with a machete in a previous attack".
The blood of this father is on the hands of the people who let this psycho back out after the first attack.
We all know that in the past people would have gotten a pass on many of those crimes if they involved the right speech.
This is un-doing that.
Threats *should* be punished. You *shouldn't ever* have gotten a pass because you were burning a flag instead of a cross.
It has been fashionable on...
What did the EO actually say ?
I'm not going to get wound up about what the media claims it says.
A quick skim of the actual order doesn't seem to be anywhere near what the media claim it is.
It acknowledges that on it's own burning a flag is a protected activity. But when conducted as part...
There should just be one season. The whole (and only valid) reason for seasons for hunting is to manage the harvest and thus the population.
The deer population isn't affected one iota by the method used to harvest a deer. The population dynamics are identical if you have to jump on it's...
The first step is recognizing that not all of the letters of the alphabet are valid genders.
In fact, LGB aren't genders at all, and nobody claims they are. They are sexual orientations. Nearly everyone agrees that Lesbians are women. Being a woman is a necessity criteria to be a lesbian...
It *will* be cheaper to make things in the US after this.
Cheaper than it used to be to make them in the US anyway.
Economies of scale and all, the more stuff we make here, the cheaper it is to make stuff here.
Maybe not quite as cheap as it is to make them in China.
But, the whole point of...
If he wanted to really protect them, he would take the fact that gun ownership is a federally protected civil right serioualy and have the DOJ prosecute *any* state or local officials who violate it.
There's even a special federal statute to use when that is done "under color of law".
Don't...
So, only a jury of your peers gets to decide, and only after all due process for a criminal conviction.
That's about the only thing I would accept.
And even then, only for the duration of your incarceration.
The process is the punishment.
That's why anyone who isn't convicted of every charge they are indicted for should be compensated for their time dealing with every acquittal or plea bargain.
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The temporary wound cavity from a .50 will be much larger than most common bullets.
We're talking a bullet with the mass of a 12ga slug moving at the velocity of a .223 round.
If the temporary wound cavity exceeds the cross section of the area of the body they are hit in, then the result is...
Talking *to* imaginary friends is probably OK.
It's hearing voices telling you to do things that gets problematic.
That works with or without a deity involved.
To be fair, those facilities were horrible pretty much everywhere. They probably did all need to be closed.
But that doesn't mean you don't still need facilities to do the work.
Like when a small town police force all gets arrested on federal corruption charges. They all needed go, but that...
No, an overreaction *isn't* better than complacency.
Both are bad, but the overreaction is objectively worse.
Complacency could lead to a slightly increased risk of a criminal victimizing a citizen.
But overreaction leads to a 100% chance of the government doing it.
And government...
I absolutely think the west is behind this.
But at the same time, Putin is the one that ordered the invasion.
He is 100% responsible for every death.
That doesn't mean that the Biden administration isn't *also* significantly responsible.
Responsibility doesn't typically add up to 100%. If 5...
Why do you think they are right ?
I don't trust our government or the media as far as I could throw them. But based on the few facts that nobody disputes, clearly Russia is the aggressor in this situation.
And before you drag out any "that's not how the Russians see it" argument, why does...
Could be a case of "a leopard can't change it's spots".
The one thing that has always been a constant in their culture is a devotion to order and authority.
That's probably enough.