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    You guys in Austin doing okay?

    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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    Re: You guys in Austin doing okay?

    Woo! good think no guns are involved, eh. No danger there. They're only bombs.

    I know....let's ban bombs too!

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    Re: You guys in Austin doing okay?

    Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
    Woo! good think no guns are involved, eh.
    eh?

    EH??

    Who let the Canadian in here? And why is he talking about guns?


    Quote Originally Posted by johnnylightnin View Post
    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.
    This really reminds me of the anthrax letters after Sept 11. I hope they can put a stop to this soon.

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    Re: You guys in Austin doing okay?

    Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
    I know....let's ban bombs too!
    Ummmm ... We have.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Champ967 View Post
    Ummmm ... We have.
    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.

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    Re: You guys in Austin doing okay?

    Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
    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.
    Yeah. We have that precisely.

    It's why bombs are hard to get, and probably why bombings are few and far between.

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    Re: You guys in Austin doing okay?

    Quote Originally Posted by Champ967 View Post
    It's why bombs are hard to get, and probably why bombings are few and far between.
    Well that makes too much sense.

    We really should give everyone bombs. We would be safer that way.

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    Re: You guys in Austin doing okay?

    Quote Originally Posted by Dawgonit View Post
    Well that makes too much sense.

    We really should give everyone bombs. We would be safer that way.
    The only thing that stops a bomb is another bomb.

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    Re: You guys in Austin doing okay?

    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!

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    Re: You guys in Austin doing okay?

    Quote Originally Posted by Champ967 View Post
    Yeah. We have that precisely.

    It's why bombs are hard to get, and probably why bombings are few and far between.
    Well then, let's just make illegal drugs illegal and we'll solve this opioid crisis.

    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
    Well then, let's just make illegal drugs illegal and we'll solve this opioid crisis.

    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.

    Of course, making a thing illegal doesn't make it magically disappear. But it can make it more difficult and less likely.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Champ967 View Post
    Illegal activity isn't an either/or proposition. It exists on a continuum.

    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!

    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 .

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    Re: You guys in Austin doing okay?

    Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
    We are told, by the lefties, if we would just ban guns that would solve all the world's problems.
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Champ967 View Post
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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
    For now, but socialism is built on incrementalism.
    So are democracy, the rule of law, politics, and civilization.

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