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Mass Shootings and Gun Debate 2019ish

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Because it's fake news.

There's like 10 billion copies of the NZ shooter's rampage despite them trying to purge it from the internet. It's *incredibly easy* to rip a video from the internet so I'm sure *someone* has it, except, they probably took it down and only conspiracy nuts have it as it's probably not reliable footage, and is probably altered.

But, what do I know? And, again, what's the aim of them changing the story? To JUST ban bump stocks? We're not actually disagreeing I'm still actively confused on WHY they lied about the TYPE of gun considering I think both are still accessible in the states where you can buy them right?
 
Captain.Heroin said:
Because it's fake news.

There's like 10 billion copies of the NZ shooter's rampage despite them trying to purge it from the internet. It's *incredibly easy* to rip a video from the internet so I'm sure *someone* has it, except, they probably took it down and only conspiracy nuts have it as it's probably not reliable footage, and is probably altered.

But, what do I know? And, again, what's the aim of them changing the story? To JUST ban bump stocks? We're not actually disagreeing I'm still actively confused on WHY they lied about the TYPE of gun considering I think both are still accessible in the states where you can buy them right?
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This whole thing has nothing to do with "banning bump stocks". Liberals (I'm guessing) simply wanted that because it was "used" (not really) in the shooting. I dont know why they lied? Because they want to ban AR-15s? I have no idea.

You cant buy an automatic m240. You'd need EXTREMELY special licensing to even buy that.

I found a video comparing the two guns (with audio from the shooting).

 
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totally worth it I fucking love how the m249 performs on cs:go and it's such a lovely design
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I absolutely agree. Unfortunately, I don't have a spare 20K laying around, or I would try to get one too lol

Looks like I'll have to stick to Call of Duty (maybe the new one coming out will have it). lol

(sorry I'm back, ended up going to a bad accident. A lady got ejected from her vehicle... not good)
 
Chris42393 said:
I absolutely agree. Unfortunately, I don't have a spare 20K laying around, or I would try to get one too lol

Looks like I'll have to stick to Call of Duty (maybe the new one coming out will have it). lol

(sorry I'm back, ended up going to a bad accident. A lady got ejected from her vehicle... not good)
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dang bro that's awful. You're such a good person for doing the job you are.
 
Captain.Heroin said:
dang bro that's awful. You're such a good person for doing the job you are.
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Haha well thanks brotha :) I THINK she'll be okay. Im surprised she was alive tbh. We flew her out and there is a Trauma Team waiting for her. She's probably already in surgery I'm guessing.
 
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HEY GUYS did you know there's no solution to gun violence and the reasoning is along the lines of why we have observed zero alien species. Intelligent life is inherently self-destructive to itself, and to others.

This is the argument that technological civilizations may usually or invariably destroy themselves before or shortly after developing radio or spaceflight technology. Possible means of annihilation are many, including war, accidental environmental contamination or damage, synthetic life like mirror life, resource depletion, climate change, or poorly designed artificial intelligence. This general theme is explored both in fiction and in scientific hypothesizing. In 1966, Sagan and Shklovskii speculated that technological civilizations will either tend to destroy themselves within a century of developing interstellar communicative capability or master their self-destructive tendencies and survive for billion-year timescales.[81] Self-annihilation may also be viewed in terms of thermodynamics: insofar as life is an ordered system that can sustain itself against the tendency to disorder, the "external transmission" or interstellar communicative phase may be the point at which the system becomes unstable and self-destructs.

A less theoretical example might be the resource-depletion issue on Polynesia islands, of which Easter Island (Rapa Nui) is only the most well-known. David Brin points out that during the expansion phase from 1500 BC to 800 AD there were cycles of overpopulation followed by what might be called periodic cullings of adult males through war and/or ritual. He writes, "There are many stories of islands whose men were almost wiped out—sometimes by internal strife, and sometimes by invading males from other islands."

Another hypothesis is that an intelligent species beyond a certain point of technological capability will destroy other intelligent species as they appear, perhaps by using self-replicating probes. Science fiction writer Fred Saberhagen has explored this idea in his Berserker series, as has physicist Gregory Benford.

A species might undertake such extermination out of expansionist motives, greed, paranoia, or aggression. In 1981, cosmologist Edward Harrison argued that such behavior would be an act of prudence: an intelligent species that has overcome its own self-destructive tendencies might view any other species bent on galactic expansion as a threat. It has also been suggested that a successful alien species would be a superpredator, as are humans. Another possibility invokes the "tragedy of the commons" and the anthropic principle: the first lifeform to achieve interstellar travel will necessarily (even if unintentionally) prevent competitors arising, and humans simply happen to be first.
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SPACE FORCE: MANIFEST DESTINY INDEFINITE
 
if I had faith there was a way to slowly ebb our species away from compulsive, absurd, wanton violence, I'd lay down a plan and it wouldn't just highlight guns.

Taking a small piece of a bigger philosophical conundrum "why does (or, in a liberal's voice HOW DARE) intelligent life tend toward self-destructive/aggressive tendencies?" and bickering with each other over nonsensical platitudes and answers without exploring new policy positions that could pass bipartisan muster in the house and senate are just a waste of time and exactly what the illegitimate Russian Federation wants us to do.

Up next: 50 years of Civil Rights Movement, Part II (This time with transsexuals and gay marriage, because you know, that'll call for another 50 years) so that we are busy doing anything so we are effectively ignoring what the Russian Federation is doing domestically and abroad. That gives them 50 years to bluff (or actually come up with) competing military technological advances/superiority. Cue more nuclear tests in the Arctic, cue more dead sailors on nuclear-powered submarines so when Russia wants to annihilate any continent it wants all it has to do is send a dozen Russians in aforementioned submarine to cut undersea internet cables. Cue more ecological damage and torment to native peoples. Cue election interference in *many* countries to a worse or equal degree than what was attempted in America. Get ready for a whole lot of headaches and heart pain.

We can chew our gum and walk at the same time. We can handle race issues but they need to take a back seat to some of the international occurrences. Tell me white privilege is more important to eliminate before anything else and I'll show you some Syrian war footage and call you a monster. Trust me, there's a lot we need to take care of before petty contrived domestic issues that will likely go away if we ignore them.
 
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