TheEncogitationer wrote:

Unseen,

Italy’s gun laws didn’t stop Mahmet Ali Aga from shooting Pope John Paul II, nor did Italy’s gun laws stop The Red Brigade’s terrorism in the Seventies and Eighties. Not do gun laws stop the Mafia in Sicily or here in the States or worldwide.

Criminals get their guns, law or no law. Peace-loving and freedom…

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Unseen,

Italy’s gun laws didn’t stop Mahmet Ali Aga from shooting Pope John Paul II, nor did Italy’s gun laws stop The Red Brigade’s terrorism in the Seventies and Eighties. Not do gun laws stop the Mafia in Sicily or here in the States or worldwide.

Criminals get their guns, law or no law. Peace-loving and freedom-loving people should have…[Read more]

Davis wrote:

It was about a draconian program to require vaccination. Zheesh, next thing you know, government mandated use of seatbelts will be considered “draconian”.

The major difference being seatbelt use actually is mandated for truckers while vaccines aren’t.

The US has had mandatory seat belts as an issue of constitutionality.

If Trump had come out strongly in favor of vaccinations and how it is our patriotic duty to be vaccinated it would have made a tremendous difference. The same morons who detest the government telling em what to do with masks and vaccines would have been just as pissed about…[Read more]

It was about a draconian program to require vaccination.

Zheesh, next thing you know, government mandated use of seatbelts will be considered “draconian”. You have fallen so far off the deep end Unseen, I cannot take anything, and I mean ANYTHING you say seriously anymore. When you use words like “tyrannical” and “draconian” so casually, it’s…[Read more]

_Robert_ wrote:

China has a long way to go before becoming the world’s reserve bank.

Countries are moving away from America’s monetary teat. Just FYI:

China, Brazil strike deal to ditch dollar for trade | The Straits Times

China and Brazil announced a new trade agreement that will allow both countries to ditch the U.S. dollar. This is big for…[Read more]

@Enco

You and I agree, as the topic of this thread which suggests that guns won’t be banned in the U.S., in my case for the reasons I gave at the beginning: 1) The Constitution, 2) The Senate, 3) The Supreme Court, and 4) anyone can make a gun now, and you for the reasons you give.

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Davis wrote:

Rich, it would seem that when a government reacts to a long, highly disruptive protest at the gates of the democratic institutions, which in part was explicitly under the mission of “getting rid of a democratic government”…

That certainly was one of the oddities of the whole affair. It wasn’t clear what, exactly they wanted fro…[Read more]