To invade Mexico and Canada when you run out of resources?
Those maple syrup hockey addicts have been waiting for their chance for years... it is only a matter of time! And Mexico... is Mexico.
NWSiaCB said:
I remember just reading about how just 3% of Americans own over half the actual guns in the country...
Registered guns probably. Once you go through the process once, you can't help but to buy more! For the rest of the country, their weapons consist of primarily of either unregistered grandfathered, stolen from LE, or 80% built guns if my observations hold any bearing. The problem is that it is hard to get any stats on guns since most gunowners inherently are secretive about their arsenal since it isn't exactly PC. Ghost gun didn't pick up much momentum so the new propaganda is "ultimate buyer" or something like that. I probably am one. kek
Edit: Oh, the term is "Super Buyer" And yeah, I am one. lol.
That study is awfully pathetic though with only 4000 people surveyed, but chances are the stat is probably a good guess considering somewhere around 300 million guns are produced yearly and one third of the population (might be higher now) are registered legal gun owners, most people only have one or two guns they put aside, and then the real hardcore guys have a couple of the various popular models. I am kind of skeptical on why so many articles referenced that survey when it isn't groundbreaking or anything. I suspect it is another anti-gun agenda because news agencies never are pro-2A. Probably trying to link it to the "rich getting richer" kind of argument saying the 1% is bad for some reason (I certainly doubt their goals are redistribution of more guns in the hands of citizens, lol), At this point though, with gunsmithing revived in the US and the CNC metalworking tech brought down to the individual level, it almost doesn't matter what laws are passed anymore, there is always going to be someone making and selling guns to others. If Ca is any example, we have some pretty strict laws, but we are totally saturated with illegal homemade guns (silencers, full autos, "high" cap mags) that in nearly ever marijuana bust you are guaranteed to find an illegal AR or luty lying around somewhere. I remember the Fresno PD investigated a shooting at some airport done by a wacko with a Mini-14 with a drum magazine and full auto capabilities. All already illegal, but that wasn't reported widely aside from local news, hm, wonder why... :P
considering somewhere around 300 million guns are produced yearly and one third of the population (might be higher now) are registered legal gun owners
Actually, the percentage of Americans that are registered gun owners is going down, not up. It's actually what is driving a lot of both gun sales and "gun culture", including the shift towards those so-called "Super Buyers".
Back when people lived on farms, low-caliber rifles for scaring off wildlife were the order of the day. Now, they can't sell to everyone anymore, so it's about needing an AR-15 to scare away evil anti-second-amendment folks who want to take your AR-15.
79248cm/s said:
I remember the Fresno PD investigated a shooting at some airport done by a wacko with a Mini-14 with a drum magazine and full auto capabilities. All already illegal, but that wasn't reported widely aside from local news, hm, wonder why... :P
Must've been a white Christian. It's not terrorism when white Christians do it.
Part of the reason the amount of registered gun owners is going down is that the buying bubble stopped, where people who wanted guns have them (similar to the airsoft bubble that stopped about 4 years ago), and also due to new bans and confiscation, new shooters are no longer directed to register their guns but instead are going the 80% route to not have to register it. At the local ranges I work at occasionally, nearly every AR-15 and a good portion of handguns people bring out there is a home build because it is far easier to go to the hardware store use a drill press and make a receiver from HDPE or aluminum than it is to do the paperwork, background check, and wait the seven days.
People don't have guns for just hunting, they also use it for personal defense and fun. I also assume that you are implying no one wants to take your guns . As far as the shooting, I don't know what you are talking about. Whenever a white person does the shooting they always immediately release the name and picture. Whenever it is a muslim, black, or mexican, the name and/or picture are withheld in fear of being racist. Anyways, my point was more that gun control is pointless because all you have to do to undo it is to just not follow it.
Yes, everyone who wants one owns one. That's part of my point, though. The percentage of the population that actually wants one (or fifty) is what is in question, here. The population is increasingly bifurcated between those who want guns, especially as a "lifestyle choice" or for recreational shooting, and those who see no use for one, with people actually using guns for utilitarian purposes like keeping deer out of farmland dropping sharply.
The people buying AR-15s may not be registering their new weapons, but they are also likely the people who already bought a few that were registered because, again, gun owners are increasingly a minority that support the market by spending more individually for guns. (Sort of like niche anime or VNs being supported when the people who are really into it just pay more for more expensive merchandise...)
And no, the "bubble" isn't likely to be over any time soon. Any time a Democrat gets elected, there's another "bubble" as the same scare machine is pulled out, again. If Hillary gets elected, there's going to be yet another "bubble" because she's going to take away all your guns, no, really, really for reals this time!
Also, WHAT confiscation? On the national level there has been literally nothing done in decades, and the states range from banning FUTURE sales of weapons to outright allowing open carry everywhere BUT where those lawmakers actually work, and giving citizens the right to shoot police, depending on whether it's a blue state or a red state. Nowhere is there actual confiscation, however.
And talk about the black market and home-making firearms all you want, but people only want AR-15s because they are LIKE an M16. Nobody outside the military and well-connected arms dealers have M16s, though because those aren't legal for sale to civilians. The weapons on the black market had to have been legally sold at some point for the weapons manufacturers to make a profit, or they wouldn't manufacture those weapons anymore. That is, the ban on selling M-16s ACTUALLY, DEMONSTRABLY WORKS. If home-brewing a whole pistol from scratch was both cheaper and avoided unwanted police attention while sacrificing nothing in terms of weapon quality, then pistol manufacturing would go out of business, and you'd be seeing a lot more crimes committed with such relatively untraceable weapons. Instead, you have basically 1 or 2% of gun dealers supplying 60% of the black market, at least, according to the ATF.
79248cm/s said:
Whenever it is a muslim, black, or mexican, the name and/or picture are withheld in fear of being racist.
Ah, what a loaded sentence that is...
We are famously never supposed to forget 9/11, but did you even know someone flew an airplane loaded with explosives into an IRS building in Texas in a deliberate attempt to recreate 9/11? Probably not, because that guy was white, and it's not terrorism when white Christians do it. You can hear it on Fox News, only Muslims are terrorists, which is apparently a tautological statement, because otherwise, suicide bombing seems awfully terrorist-y to me! And it's not because that attack lacked efficacy, because some (black Muslim) kid outright fails to light his underwear on fire, and you get wall-to-wall coverage and airlines completely redesigning their security screenings. Oh, and do you still remember the Oklahoma City Bombing? It's OK, nobody else does, either, but please do never forget 9/11, because that's when FOREIGNERS killed Americans, and therefore was scary, even if there are literally millions of deaths more from plain old car accidents every year. Nobody covers the planes that land safely, after all. White Christian domestic terrorism is just too common and routine to cover with the breathless enthusiasm the slightest hint a black guy could have been radicalized receives unless he manages a truly impressive kill count in a school like Sandy Hook. (Fun fact: the most common hate crimes/cases of domestic terrorism are STILL anti-Semitic hate crimes by Christians. Bet you never see that on the 7 o'clock news!)
Finally, the idea that crimes committed by BLACK people are under-reported by the media is just flat-out false. The exact opposite is true. I could spend all day pulling up studies backing me up on that, but I seriously doubt any further links would be followed. "Black crime" is just more sensational for being about "the other", and therefore more reported, as opposed to boring old white Christians shooting up an airport not getting the kind of coverage a crazy black guy with a knife who MIGHT have been Muslim gets, even by your own admission.
I would also add, unless you can construct a wall 2KM deep across all the frontier, you're too naive if you think a simple wall will stop immigrants from crossing the other side. You will only increase the number of clandestine underground tunnels criminal organizations build in months.
Trump is a liar who only says what everyone wants to hear, he also has a huge reputation of discarding everything that doesn't work instead of trying to fix it. That's why he will never win. But I hope if he does, he stays to his word and ejects anyone not Caucasian looking while the rest get deported nor sent to Japanese Concentration Internment Camps just like in WWII.
I recall hearing about that story for a week when it happened.
On Fox News, ironically.
They covered it for a whole week? That's honestly more than I expected, but still not nearly as much as "The New Black Panthers" that apparently consisted of two black guys holding up protest signs. I mostly only bring up Fox News, however, because they are big pushers of the notion that "only Muslims are terrorists," and having covered such obvious acts of terrorism by non-Muslims only highlights what an agenda they try to push.
Regardless, my main point is that the odds that something is a real threat to you is inversely proportional to how much actual news something gets. Any random American citizen far more likely to die of domestic terrorism/hate crimes than foreign-originated terrorism, is far more likely to die of regular crime than hate crimes/domestic terrorism, and is far more likely to die of traffic accidents or heart attacks than crime. It's just that it's easier to sensationalize The Other, and nobody covers the planes that land safely. (Speaking of planes, you know that furor over Malaysia Air Flight 370? While that was going on, it was actually in the middle of one of the best stretches of flight safety on record, that missing flight included...)
@NWSiaCB@rom_collector It seems we overstayed our welcome a bit here, but I would like to continue through PM if you want.
Saladofstones said:
Somewhere, in a hallway within Egypt, a small picture led to the impassioned carving of thousands of hieroglyphics.
Lol. Maybe the Library of Alexandra was really an archive of the first social squabbling. An ancient 4chan archive of sorts. Then some people decided to rage quit the only way they knew how, to burn the place to the ground.
The greeks were the first ones to make giant waifu and husbando statues that everyone would worship... not unlike today. I am sure those statues were white from all the dried ejaculate that those weebs in himations spread while fantasizing about all about their moe waifu goddesses.
79248cm/s said: Lol. Maybe the Library of Alexandra was really an archive of the first social squabbling. An ancient 4chan archive of sorts. Then some people decided to rage quit the only way they knew how, to burn the place to the ground.
The greeks were the first ones to make giant waifu and husbando statues that everyone would worship... not unlike today. I am sure those statues were white from all the dried ejaculate that those weebs in himations spread while fantasizing about all about their moe waifu goddesses.
I mean, wasn't it Aristotle who had a speech that amounted to calling his opponent a child-diddling simpleton? I remember one of the great philosophers ended causing a row among scholars a few hundred years later since they couldn't comprehend one of the greats using such obscene and immature insults
I can't remember it off the top of my head, but there was also that Bishop of Canterbury I think that made a letter addressed to the Scots that included the line "they sodomize the rear of goats for they are unable to tell it from the face of their women" or something to that effect.
I mean, wasn't it Aristotle who had a speech that amounted to calling his opponent a child-diddling simpleton? I remember one of the great philosophers ended causing a row among scholars a few hundred years later since they couldn't comprehend one of the greats using such obscene and immature insults
I can't remember it off the top of my head, but there was also that Bishop of Canterbury I think that made a letter addressed to the Scots that included the line "they sodomize the rear of goats for they are unable to tell it from the face of their women" or something to that effect.
On the offchance that there comes a time where I would need a shuriken, I would be most put out if I did not have one.Nano...I guess if you put it that way, then sure...Because they're strong.desu?Hibiki-chan, why are you making so many shurikens?shiiiiing