Best Posts in Thread: Who's ready for WW4 (aka the debate)

Did a 12 year old in middle school social studies class write this thread?

 

It was so intense, they had to skip 3

--- Double Post Merged, Nov 8, 2016, Original Post Date: Nov 8, 2016 ---

This thread reminded me of this now damn it

 

13 year old either regurgitating the views of his parents or whatever mainstream media he watches

 

He said government and his point is very valid. It's a very dangerous and serious business altering the Constitution or how it's interpreted and usually always a slippery slope.

Take for example, in Europe it's illegal to use racial slurs against someone. Do I think using slurs are appropriate? No, but I disagree with being criminally prosecuted for using them because once you start deciding what you can, or cannot, say to somebody what the next stop down that road? Do we make it unlawful to insult police officers, military, etc? What happens if someone get's the idea to extend that idea to politicians? What about if we live in a world where it is unlawful to insult the President, or to speak ill of him? Well that's beginning to look like an authoritarian regime and un-American.

While it's definitely a slippery slope, we've already established the literal language of our civil rights, or constitution, is not an all or nothing type of deal. In America, while you can say virtually anything, you cannot make threats because that is not considered free speech.

People with violent pasts should not own guns, nor should guns be a laissez-faire right, requiring people to show basic competency before they can operate because, despite counter arguments, guns kill people. That is their entire purpose to exist, to lodge metal projectiles into into things, usually living things. Saying guns kill people is not the same as saying that guns only are a negative thing in society, they are not. Guns have a very real and important role in human and American society and that also needs to be recognized, like the sentiment guns kill people. To argue they don't is dishonest and prevents common sense solutions.

tl;dr - The left and right are both wrong about guns, and like most things, the simple common sense solutions lie somewhere in the middle.

--- Double Post Merged, Apr 21, 2017, Original Post Date: Apr 21, 2017 ---

I disagree to the extent the datebase needs to be cross-state. There is no reason that I, if I had a violent history recorded in Florida, should be able to go to Mississippi and buy guns.

 

How does a President take away Constitutional amendments?

Gun policy is pretty simple. You need to take a test to get a license to show you're competent, just like a vehicle, and renew it periodically like a vehicle. If you have a violent criminal history, you don't get jack. If you have violent mental health issues, you don't get jack.

Done.

--- Double Post Merged, Apr 20, 2017, Original Post Date: Apr 20, 2017 ---

Sure, but occupying a foreign nation with a foreign culture is much, much more difficult than occupying a domestic area with domestic culture. Plus, we've seen how rebellions work in this country, they get squashed.

 

When was world war 3 tho???