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View Poll Results: How do you feel about gun control laws?
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Current laws infringe on our rights and should be weakened
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Current laws are just fine, thanks. We don't need anything more
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Current laws are not satisfactory, there are "common sense" adjustments that should be made
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02-28-2018, 01:36 PM
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#376
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Is our children learning?
Not if this is representative of who is teaching them. 
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During a Friday evening appearance on CNN, Diane Wolk-Rogers said President Donald Trump’s suggestion that teachers should be armed “horrifies” her. She then wanted to address “the white elephant in the room”—racial injustice.
“If what you’re telling me is that we have trained professionals who weren’t able to follow protocol, then I can’t imagine my teachers—overworked, underpaid, exhausted— carrying a sidearm, and then being able to perform that protocol,” she said. “And I also, I want to talk about the white elephant in the room. Because what we know is that students of color get suspended and get expelled at a higher rate than white kids. So, now, what are we going to say, Mr. Trump? We’re going to say that now students of color are going to be shot at by teachers at a higher rate? It’s absolutely ludicrous. It horrifies me.”
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Since most students that shoot up schools seem to be white, it is unlikely a lot of "students of color" are going to be shot at by teachers.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...a-higher-rate/
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02-28-2018, 01:39 PM
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Originally Posted by FantasticDan
No, you said Dick's did the same thing after Sandy Hook and that the ARs were back soon after. I just pointed out that the Dick's CEO said that would not happen this time.
Dick's stock price actually went up after the announcement, and gun makers went down..
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/28/gunm...fle-sales.html |
Dick's CEO doesn't call the shots. The stockholders do. Dick's marketshare of firearms sales has plummeted and will continue to do so.
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02-28-2018, 01:48 PM
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gelding
Join Date: Oct 2008
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Originally Posted by elysiantraveller
Dick's CEO doesn't call the shots. The stockholders do. Dick's marketshare of firearms sales has plummeted and will continue to do so.
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Seems like sales have also "plummeted" for other retailers too..
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/c...post-trump-win
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02-28-2018, 02:06 PM
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Originally Posted by FantasticDan
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Not now.
Called a local place awhile ago about selling one of my builds and they offered me $350. Called back today and offered $650.
You guys are great at selling guns.
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02-28-2018, 02:12 PM
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Gun and ammunition sales used to routinely spike during the Obama administration every time there was a riot or the media and administration would focus on the problems we have with policing instead of rioters beating people, the looting of stores, and the damage being done to private property. They would also spike if the efforts to ban certain types of ammo seemed legit. They were basically self defense sales.
Now that the focus is more on law and order and people expect that the cops will be allowed to do their jobs to the best of their ability, people feel less of a need to arm themselves.
It was actually kind of ironic that the gun manufacturers were raking in immense profits under Obama because of his policies and the narrative pushed by the media.
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02-28-2018, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by elysiantraveller
Not now.
Called a local place awhile ago about selling one of my builds and they offered me $350. Called back today and offered $650.
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You should let FOX know...so they could correct their future gun-sale articles. 
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02-28-2018, 02:16 PM
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Originally Posted by thaskalos
You should let FOX know...so they could correct their future gun-sale articles. |
I never watch Fox.
Its supply and demand.
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02-28-2018, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by FantasticDan
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Gun sales are very volatile in the short run, and greatly affected by the political winds. The greatest gun salesman in recent history was Obama. Once Trump was elected, it was a given that guns sales would fall off.
Hillary could have given Obama a run for the money in that race, and now Chuck Schumer is a contender. The Dems' reaction to the Florida shooting will pump up sales for a while. A trade-off that the Dems are happy to live with, since the same dynamics result in greater donations to the gun grabbers.
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02-28-2018, 02:31 PM
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Originally Posted by JustRalph
Maybe a better question is why has the current school environment become a breeding ground for maladjusted teen boys?
The same facts re-appear in every instance. These kids have no remorse. I believe this latest shooter is currently sitting in jail internally happy with himself. He got exactly what he wanted, revenge.
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Because their parents drugged themselves legally and illegally, drug their kids for every behavior not sitting right in the middle of the bell curve, don't discipline them, don't teach them right and wrong, teach them that everything is unfair and they are getting screwed instead of teaching them work ethic, and give them a very confusing liberal world view that screws them up further. I'm a pretty passive guy but I'd probably be dangerous too if I grew up now.
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Last edited by classhandicapper; 02-28-2018 at 02:33 PM.
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02-28-2018, 02:47 PM
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Since we communicate in cartoons and memes these days...
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02-28-2018, 02:51 PM
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gelding
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FBI guy looks an awful lot like a certain special counsel.. the cartoonist thought it was worth a shot 
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02-28-2018, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by JustRalph
Dick's went off the gun buyers list after Sandy Hook. Nobody buys guns from them anymore.
They actually tried changing their outdoor sales department name to get sales back. They started calling it “Field and Stream”
It’s all show for Dick’s
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It is all show. “Field & Stream” are separate, stand-alone stores, and the only ones that were currently selling "assault weapons". The company owns over 700 main stores that actually did stop selling evil guns a few years ago. It has 35 Field & Stream stores, which are now dropping "assault weapons". So how many evil guns were they selling out of 35 stores?
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02-28-2018, 03:19 PM
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You've heard of shotgun weddings,.......well
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02-28-2018, 03:25 PM
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Originally Posted by FantasticDan
FBI guy looks an awful lot like a certain special counsel.. the cartoonist thought it was worth a shot |
Cartoon seems accurate though.
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02-28-2018, 03:52 PM
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The Voice of Reason!
Join Date: Mar 2001
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Originally Posted by Clocker
Is our children learning?
Not if this is representative of who is teaching them.
Since most students that shoot up schools seem to be white, it is unlikely a lot of "students of color" are going to be shot at by teachers.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...a-higher-rate/ |
CNN is a breeding grounds for total stupidity.
And the left refuses to abort these dumb-ass ideas.
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