These bombings are pretty crazy. My sister and nephew are in Austin and they certainly seem to be on edge. His school sent a text warning yesterday that packages shouldn't be opened. I don't know if they had a tip or what.
Really crazy.
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These bombings are pretty crazy. My sister and nephew are in Austin and they certainly seem to be on edge. His school sent a text warning yesterday that packages shouldn't be opened. I don't know if they had a tip or what.
Really crazy.
Woo! good think no guns are involved, eh. No danger there. They're only bombs.
I know....let's ban bombs too!
eh?Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
EH??
Who let the Canadian in here? And why is he talking about guns?
This really reminds me of the anthrax letters after Sept 11. I hope they can put a stop to this soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by johnnylightnin
Ummmm ... We have.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
No, I mean make them illegal. If bombs were illegal, banned! as in no one is allowed to have them, as in "bomb-free" zones at schools, that would be the end of bombs being used by the mentally deranged.Quote:
Originally Posted by Champ967
Yeah. We have that precisely.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
It's why bombs are hard to get, and probably why bombings are few and far between.
Well that makes too much sense.Quote:
Originally Posted by Champ967
We really should give everyone bombs. We would be safer that way.
The only thing that stops a bomb is another bomb.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgonit
Who all is in Austin? I moved here about a year ago but have not run across any other Tech folks! Would love to get together with some other fans in town!
Well then, let's just make illegal drugs illegal and we'll solve this opioid crisis.Quote:
Originally Posted by Champ967
That bomber in Austin was a criminal! He broke the bomb-ban law! Since bombs were already illegal, as you say, how did that kid get 'em? I thought once we declare something illegal, banned, that's it! those objects are forever gone.
But ya know....criminals really don't care about the law, do they.
Illegal activity isn't an either/or proposition. It exists on a continuum.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80
Of course, making a thing illegal doesn't make it magically disappear. But it can make it more difficult and less likely.
Which is why the opioid crisis is so over-blown. Those are illegal, and so no way all those people are dying daily from it. The Washington Post declared that 100+ Americans die each and every day from opioid overdose. That's 36,500+ annually. FAKE NEWS! Should have known being the libtard rag, the Post. Could you imagine the angst if 100+ American school kids were killed EACH DAY by guns! OMG!Quote:
Originally Posted by Champ967
14 Americans die each day due to driving & texting. Can you imagine the outcry if 14 American school kids were killed, each day, by guns! Why....the loonies wouldn't stand for that. I think most states have declared that driving & texting is illegal. A misdemeanor offense, but illegal nonetheless.
I am perplexed, bothered, and bewildered...I thought that simply making something ILLEGAL i.e. banning it, solves the problem. We are told, by the lefties, if we would just ban guns that would solve all the world's problems. For one thing, not a single American school kid would die daily. Unless of course they engaged in other illegal/banned activities :icon_roll:.
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Originally Posted by dawg80
here may be some out there proposing to ban all guns.
But I know a fair amount of lefties, and most of them would be content with a regulatory framework well short of an outright ban.
For now, but socialism is built on incrementalism.Quote:
Originally Posted by Champ967
So are democracy, the rule of law, politics, and civilization.Quote:
Originally Posted by dawg80