If you can kill a classroom of kids in a few seconds, that's heavy weaponry.

#143 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-08-28 12:41 PM | Reply

According to that even a little Marlin .22 from Sears & Roebuck, a child's gun from the 60s, is heavy weaponry. A couple of revolvers does the same thing. We know a little history right and how sailors got around the issue of single shot firearms by preloading many of them? The problem with trying to restrict technology is people are smarter than we give them credit for and easily circumvent systems.

There's fully automatic, belt fed grenade launchers out there in the world.

Every country has lunatics. No intelligent country allows their lunatics to get heavy weaponry.

#109 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-08-28 12:03 AM | Reply

The lowly AR isn't heavy weaponry. You would think it is if you've never been exposed to heavy weaponry, but it's not.

#74 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-27 06:01 PM | Reply | Flag:

10/10 troll attempts.

Cutting to the chase, a war on guns starts in the hood, not with you whites just because one of you occasionally shoots a lot of people for no reason. Good luck with that. You'll need a real strongman like Trump.

Sorry, 19k dead in all shootings that aren't suicide, you ever check the zip codes where people shoot each other frequently?

In your stats, with the 19k dead in mass shootings. You ever both to look into the data. The zip codes?

A War on Guns doesn't get carried out in white zip codes.

Better than that era where the only American team had cars painted as the Russian flag.

#65 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-27 04:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

It's the CDC stats from 2022. When you start off with "someone", and half of them are "the same person", you're intentionally misrepresenting it.

In 2022, 48,000 Americans were killed by someone using a firearm.

#58 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-08-27 04:02 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Someone"

> 50% of those are somebody shooting themself.

Legalize suicide.

in an overall $322 billion budget

#23 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-08-26 12:57 PM | Reply | Flag:

Fed funding is 50% of that budget.

Have a nice succession.

Unless they rug pull everybody in the state on those pensions. That'd save a trillion.

$20b deficit. They lied about the $12b. $1.6 trillion in total debt based on current liabilities.

"Persistent structural deficit"

Like the Fed.

If that sounds familiar, it is also part of Bernie's platform.

Because his voters feel like they've been cheated by globalism.

Have they?

#35 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-26 06:04 PM | Reply | Flag:

Yes.

But like a horseshoe, they're close but not the same. It's not a circle.

#30 | Posted by jpw at 2025-08-26 03:39 PM | Reply | Flag:

Socialists traditionally have a far more massive starvation problem inflected by ideology.

People here in the US that call themselves socialists are just capitalists that want government run healthcare. Real socialists advocating communism, you have to go out of your way to find those.

Dec 11 1941.

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-26 04:21 PM | Reply | Flag:

Just 16 years away from a Centennial Celebration.

When's the last time we declared a war?

With the irony being Libertarians warned of the dangers of Big Gov and the endangerment of personal rights that comes from it. Repeatedly, for years.

Now we're here. Hope nobody lied on their mortgage apps.

Socialism and Fascism is where the horseshoe of economic control of private industry meets. State control, central planning, party compliant unions, autarky & national self-sufficiency, subordination of the economy to ideology, and a market subordinated to state objectives.

What should Free Market Capitalists do?

#13 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-08-25 07:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

Vote Libertarian.

Socialists should show some love now. But they won't.

#1 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-08-24 12:09 PM | Reply

and every Repub that voted against something because of Socialism needs to apoligize.

Trying to verify age over the internet is a fools errand. Sure you can ask the question, require uses to enter their birth dates, etc. In the end, it can all be faked. Would the collection of that information be sufficient to address any and all liability claims if an underage user was able to access the site?

#9 | Posted by FedUpWithPols at 2025-08-24 04:36 PM | Reply

It's an entire industry, that validates real world IDs. Incode, Plaid, Persona, Telesign, Microsoft Entra, iDenfy, ID.me, etc, etc..

Is Bluesky dependent on child signups?

Always knew you were a Ruskie.

#27 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-08-23 09:32 PM | Reply