Re: Re: Breaking News
By: Weatherman to Tracker1 on Wed May 05 2021 04:35 pm

Yes, but the 2nd Amendmend is not about hunting. It's about being able to resist tyranny. Which is why the Left is to eager to explain the 2nd Amendment
away.

I'm glad that someone is tired with the American Left. Liberals claim they want equality but purposely brand their politics around making groups that all hate each other(a fact that the Republican Party can tend to feed into with its "Person living their life touching noone? ATTACKING MUH VALUES" tendencies, admittedly), and the so called "socialists" feed into this. Even Marx had said "Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary." Makes you question whether they read him close enough.

Whether on the left or right wing, anyone that wishes to rob citizens of their ability to maintain privacy and defend themselves is not my political ally, nor should they be yours if you value "freedom".

Here's a starting point: Learn to encrypt your communications. Use PGP for your e-mails, use decentralized platforsm for chat like IRC, XMPP, or Matrix, and encrypt your drive.
Here's some links to get yourself started: https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Encryption https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Anonymizing_yourself https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Fucko https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Communication

You might want to consider cryptocurrencies like Monero(https://getmonero.org) for anonymous purchasing. Unlike Bitcoin, Monero's public record is obfuscated, meaning that transactions can't be traced back to the sender or recipient. This guy tells you how to set up a wallet for yourself: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=qPNxca_KMww

Whether left or right, libertarian unity for the win.

"Freedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party - however numerous they may be - is no freedom at all. Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. Not because of any fanatical concept of `justice' but because all that is instructive, wholesome and purifying in political freedom depends on this essential characteristic, and its effectiveness vanishes when `freedom' becomes a special privilege."
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Re: Re: Breaking News
By: Tortillaretreat to Weatherman on Tue Jun 01 2021 01:14 pm

To what Tortillaretreat posted, I'd like to add that we at IRCNow are building an IRC network for the users by the users. What we do is train users so they can build up their own servers and administrate them in order to be les dependent on service providers. We use basic technologies and aim at owning as much of the software and hardware stack as possible, using code not controlled by "the enemy".

An interview with the mastermind behind the network should hit the newstands around July or August. Don't miss Linux Magazine then :-)

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Re: Re: Breaking News
By: Dumas Walker to DR. WHAT on Sat Apr 10 2021 06:15 pm

Have you contacted your Senators to oppose HR 8 and HR 1446 yet?

Oh, ya. But the Senators from Michigan are both hard lefties. One rode Biden's scam to reelection this last year.

So I have no hope that they will listen to their constituents.

You might remind them that there are a lot of people in Michigan that like to hunt.

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The second amendment has nothing to do with hunting. The are gun enthusiasts known as Fudds that believe only a narrow selection of hunting rifles should e xist because that is what they specifically use. Some Fudds are as worse as anti-gunners because they are too narrow minded to see the self defense and other shooting sports and disciplines as on being any value.

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Re: Re: Breaking News
By: Dumas Walker to DR. WHAT on Sat Apr 10 2021 06:15 pm

Have you contacted your Senators to oppose HR 8 and HR 1446

yet?

Oh, ya. But the Senators from Michigan are both hard lefties. One rode Biden's scam to reelection this last year.

So I have no hope that they will listen to their constituents.

You might remind them that there are a lot of people in Michigan that like to hunt.

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The second amendment has nothing to do with hunting. The are gun enthusiasts known as Fudds that believe only a narrow selection of

hunting

rifles should e xist because that is what they specifically use. Some

Fudds

are as worse as anti-gunners because they are too narrow minded to see

the

self defense and other shooting sports and disciplines as on being any value.

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I have firearms of all sorts, from single shot .22 rifles up to the evil,
scary "modern sporting rifle." Of all of them I have yet to find a
favorite to shoot. Depends on the type of shooting I feel like doing that
day.

The point is... there are a wide variety of shooting types, sports,
activities and disciplines. I enjoy most, if not all of them. It's my
RIGHT to be able to do so, and nobody has the RIGHT to restrict my ability
to enjoy them. As far as I'm concerned, every single firearms restriction
on the law books is unconstitutional. If you want to punish gun crimes,
make sentences more severe for the commission of a crime while using a gun.
If you want to limit a population's ability to protect itself, then you
make gun ownership more difficult...


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Re: Re: Breaking News
By: Weatherman to Moondog on Mon Aug 16 2021 10:55 am

Re: Re: Breaking News
By: Dumas Walker to DR. WHAT on Sat Apr 10 2021 06:15 pm

Have you contacted your Senators to oppose HR 8 and HR 1446

yet?

Oh, ya. But the Senators from Michigan are both hard lefties. One rode Biden's scam to reelection this last year.

So I have no hope that they will listen to their constituents.

You might remind them that there are a lot of people in Michigan that like to hunt.

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The second amendment has nothing to do with hunting. The are gun enthusiasts known as Fudds that believe only a narrow selection of

hunting

rifles should e xist because that is what they specifically use. Some

Fudds

are as worse as anti-gunners because they are too narrow minded to see

the

self defense and other shooting sports and disciplines as on being any value.

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I have firearms of all sorts, from single shot .22 rifles up to the evil, scary "modern sporting rifle." Of all of them I have yet to find a
favorite to shoot. Depends on the type of shooting I feel like doing that day.

The point is... there are a wide variety of shooting types, sports, activities and disciplines. I enjoy most, if not all of them. It's my RIGHT to be able to do so, and nobody has the RIGHT to restrict my ability to enjoy them. As far as I'm concerned, every single firearms restriction on the law books is unconstitutional. If you want to punish gun crimes, make sentences more severe for the commission of a crime while using a gun. If you want to limit a population's ability to protect itself, then you
make gun ownership more difficult...

Regards,
-==*>Weatherman<*==-

The other day I heard there were over 20,000 gun laws at the state level. Instead fo creating new laws, I would advise they look at the exsiting laws that are not working towards making people safe rather than create new laws that hurt legal gun owners. The Second exists as part of our given right to defend ourselves, and that's where it hurts me to hear folks who only believe it was there because the founding fathers liked shooting squirrels or
punching holes in targets.

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Re: Re: Breaking News
By: Moondog to Weatherman on Sun Aug 22 2021 12:40 pm

The other day I heard there were over 20,000 gun laws at the state level. Instead fo creating new laws, I would advise they look at the exsiting laws that are not working towards making people safe rather than create new laws that hurt legal gun owners. The Second exists as part of our given right to

Politicians meassure their productivity by number of enacted laws. That is how they justify their existence to both their peer and their electors. "So far we have passed this and that and that other law. We are working hard. Now we are passing yet another."

This is why the number of laws is always increasing and never decreasing.

I suspect it is also an attempt at artificially inflating the economy. If you have too many people on unemployment you may create a lot of laws that generate the need for extra accounting in firms and families, so they need to hire more accountants and lawyers.

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Moondog wrote to Weatherman <=-

The other day I heard there were over 20,000 gun laws at the state
level. Instead fo creating new laws, I would advise they look at the exsiting laws that are not working towards making people safe rather
than create new laws that hurt legal gun owners.

But you need to remember that the PURPOSE of most of those gun laws is to harass legal gun owners. Criminals don't obey laws (hence, the reason they are criminals), so passing a law doesn't impact a criminal in any way.


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Re: Re: Breaking News
By: Arelor to Moondog on Mon Aug 23 2021 03:59 am

This is why the number of laws is always increasing and never decreasing.

I suspect it is also an attempt at artificially inflating the economy. If you
have too many people on unemployment you may create a lot of laws that generate the need for extra accounting in firms and families, so they need to
hire more accountants and lawyers.

If too many people are unemployed more of them may want to use guns. ;-)

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DR. WHAT wrote to MOONDOG <=-

The other day I heard there were over 20,000 gun laws at the state
level. Instead fo creating new laws, I would advise they look at the exsiting laws that are not working towards making people safe rather
than create new laws that hurt legal gun owners.

But you need to remember that the PURPOSE of most of those gun laws is
to harass legal gun owners. Criminals don't obey laws (hence, the
reason they are criminals), so passing a law doesn't impact a criminal
in any way.

Just one of those things that is common sense so lots of people refute it.




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The other day I heard there were over 20,000 gun laws at the state level. Instead fo creating new laws, I would advise they look at the exsiting laws that are not working towards making people safe rather than create new laws that hurt legal gun owners.

Yes, but apparently it is easier for legislature critters to pass new laws rather than determine whether or not some law they already passed actually works. :(

The Second exists as part of our given right to
defend ourselves, and that's where it hurts me to hear folks who only believe it was there because the founding fathers liked shooting squirrels or punching holes in targets.

Just because someone points out hunting doesn't mean that is the only
reason they believe in 2A. Jumping on them for mention hunting is just as short-sighted as those who think 2A is out-dated.


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If too many people are unemployed more of them may want to use guns. ;-)

And masks! :D


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JIMMY ANDERSON wrote to DR. WHAT <=-

But you need to remember that the PURPOSE of most of those gun laws is
to harass legal gun owners. Criminals don't obey laws (hence, the
reason they are criminals), so passing a law doesn't impact a criminal
in any way.

Just one of those things that is common sense so lots of people refute
it.

Not "lots of people". Only the ignorant Leftie Elites who want to much for their Narrative to be true.


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Dumas Walker wrote to MOONDOG <=-

Yes, but apparently it is easier for legislature critters to pass new
laws rather than determine whether or not some law they already passed actually works. :(

There's an ignorant belief among the politians that laws can make people do things (like act against their self-interest). But there's an old saying:
If the only tool you have is a hammer, all problems look like a nail.

Then you add to that the Lefties will never admit that their solution was wrong, so they will always double down on their failed solution.


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To be clear, I don't jump on the hunting crowd. The few I do debate with are those who do not believe there's any other reason why someone should own firearms. I remind them the last time the US considered strict legislation toward everything except a few simple hunting rifles and shotguns, they were following the success the Germans were having in the 1930's. When registration become confiscation, a single shot goose gun is just as menacing to the eyes of an oppressor.

All of that is true. IIRC, the Brits cannot own much that isn't considered
a hunting arm. When I hear someone who is not 2A going on about how we shouldn't have guns that carry X or more bullets, I think of the Brits and believe I would rather have what we have than that.

Once upon a time I might have trusted our government to leave us alone if
all we had were hunting rifles but that time has passed.


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Re: Re: Breaking News
By: Dumas Walker to MOONDOG on Sun Aug 29 2021 09:46 am

To be clear, I don't jump on the hunting crowd. The few I do debate with those who do not believe there's any other reason why someone should own firearms. I remind them the last time the US considered strict legislatio toward everything except a few simple hunting rifles and shotguns, they we following the success the Germans were having in the 1930's. When registration become confiscation, a single shot goose gun is just as menac to the eyes of an oppressor.

All of that is true. IIRC, the Brits cannot own much that isn't considered a hunting arm. When I hear someone who is not 2A going on about how we shouldn't have guns that carry X or more bullets, I think of the Brits and believe I would rather have what we have than that.

Once upon a time I might have trusted our government to leave us alone if all we had were hunting rifles but that time has passed.

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In the grand scheme of things the difference between a hunting rifle and an assault rifle is the not in the firearm itself, but the intentions of the person aiming and pulling the trigger.

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All of that is true. IIRC, the Brits cannot own much that isn't considered a hunting arm. When I hear someone who is not 2A going on about how we shouldn't have guns that carry X or more bullets, I think of the Brits and believe I would rather have what we have than that.

In the grand scheme of things the difference between a hunting rifle
and an assault rifle is the not in the firearm itself, but the
intentions of the person aiming and pulling the trigger.

Indeed. As you may have heard, lacking a gun, someone went on a stabbing rampage in NZ. They are now apparently looking into banning the sale of assault knives.



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Re: Re: Breaking News
By: Dumas Walker to Moondog on Fri Sep 17 2021 09:12 am

All of that is true. IIRC, the Brits cannot own much that isn't consider a hunting arm. When I hear someone who is not 2A going on about how we shouldn't have guns that carry X or more bullets, I think of the Brits an believe I would rather have what we have than that.

In the grand scheme of things the difference between a hunting rifle and an assault rifle is the not in the firearm itself, but the intentions of the person aiming and pulling the trigger.

Indeed. As you may have heard, lacking a gun, someone went on a stabbing rampage in NZ. They are now apparently looking into banning the sale of assault knives.

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Wait until they bring forth a ban against assault stones. Completely different from stone stones.

I am sure criminals are scared because they have not started about banning assault sticks yet.

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Re: Re: Breaking News
By: Arelor to Dumas Walker on Fri Sep 17 2021 06:03 pm

Re: Re: Breaking News

Wait until they bring forth a ban against assault stones. Completely differe from stone stones.

I am sure criminals are scared because they have not started about banning assault sticks yet.

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I don't know what it would take to eliminate the roots of violent behavior, however I feel eventually we can teach others that blaming knives, sticks or other items for the acts committed by the person using them is ridiculous. Some of the most effective martial arts based on unarmed fighting originated because knives and other items were banned.

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Re: Re: Breaking News
By: Moondog to Arelor on Sat Sep 18 2021 09:55 am

Re: Re: Breaking News
By: Arelor to Dumas Walker on Fri Sep 17 2021 06:03 pm

Re: Re: Breaking News

Wait until they bring forth a ban against assault stones. Completely differe from stone stone

I am sure criminals are scared because they have not started about banning assault sticks yet

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I don't know what it would take to eliminate the roots of violent behavior, however I feel
eventually we can teach others that blaming knives, sticks or other items for the acts committed
the person using them is ridiculous. Some of the most effective martial arts based on unarmed
fighting originated because knives and other items were banned.

There is a film in which some authoritarian regime tries to elimitate violent behavior with drugs
and mind control techniques. Most of the population dies and the rest turns into violent psycopaths
who start killing everybody.

My experience is that you never convince people. The way to push change in the eyes of the public
is to bring people into minoritary hobbies (such as target shooting or knife collection) until
there is enough people in it, with stakes in it, that it becomes resistent to political tampering.

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Wait until they bring forth a ban against assault stones. Completely different
from stone stones.

I am sure criminals are scared because they have not started about banning assault sticks yet.

Or assault minivans and SUVs.


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Re: Re: Breaking News
By: Arelor to Moondog on Sat Sep 18 2021 02:01 pm

Re: Re: Breaking News

There is a film in which some authoritarian regime tries to elimitate violen and mind control techniques. Most of the population dies and the rest turns who start killing everybody.

My experience is that you never convince people. The way to push change in t is to bring people into minoritary hobbies (such as target shooting or knife there is enough people in it, with stakes in it, that it becomes resistent t

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Any change in culture that is effective takes time and is done subtly. Just as many other nations have been whittling away at their citizen's rights to
own firearms, they've been doing it in such a way that people who do legally own and use firearms are viewed as being deviants.

The US has a gun culture, and instead of trying to hide it, safety and responsibility through safety courses and shooting sports are ways to reverse the stigma that guns only have one evil reason to exist.

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I don't know what it would take to eliminate the roots of violent
behavior,

Personal responsibility.

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Re: Breaking News
By: Jazzy J to Moondog on Sat Dec 11 2021 10:02:00

I don't know what it would take to eliminate the roots of violent behavior,

Personal responsibility.

Encouraging biblical morality would be a good place to start.

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Re: Breaking News
By: Sys64738 to Jazzy J on Mon Dec 13 2021 05:23 pm

Re: Breaking News
By: Jazzy J to Moondog on Sat Dec 11 2021 10:02:00

I don't know what it would take to eliminate the roots of violent behavior,

Personal responsibility.

Encouraging biblical morality would be a good place to start.

SYS64738

Sounds good, but even most of us who follow the same book do not agree what each page says.

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Re: Breaking News
By: Moondog to Sys64738 on Tue Dec 14 2021 15:56:00

Encouraging biblical morality would be a good place to start.

Sounds good, but even most of us who follow the same book do not agree what each page says.

Complete agreement is not necessary. There is a general theme of respect, kindness, and responsibility.

Besides that, any two people that totally agree on everything means that one of them is irrelevant. :)

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SYS64738 wrote to MOONDOG <=-

Re: Breaking News
By: Moondog to Sys64738 on Tue Dec 14 2021 15:56:00

Encouraging biblical morality would be a good place to start.

Sounds good, but even most of us who follow the same book do not agree what each page says.

Complete agreement is not necessary. There is a general theme of
respect, kindness, and responsibility.

Put God above all, and treat your neighbor as yourself. The rest is
just details. :-)



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Re: Re: Breaking News
By: JIMMY ANDERSON to SYS64738 on Mon Dec 20 2021 18:15:00

Complete agreement is not necessary. There is a general theme of respect, kindness, and responsibility.

Put God above all, and treat your neighbor as yourself. The rest is
just details. :-)

Sounds like a good start.
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Re: Breaking News
By: Sys64738 to Moondog on Wed Dec 15 2021 08:03:00

Complete agreement is not necessary. There is a general theme of respect, kindness, and responsibility.

But why do those have to be inspired by religion? Respect, Kindness and responsibility are all admirable traits. I don't need a fairy tale to back them up.

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Re: Breaking News
By: K7elh to Sys64738 on Thu Dec 23 2021 07:37 pm

Re: Breaking News
By: Sys64738 to Moondog on Wed Dec 15 2021 08:03:00

Complete agreement is not necessary. There is a general theme of respect kindness, and responsibility.

But why do those have to be inspired by religion? Respect, Kindness and responsibility are all admirable traits. I don't need a fairy tale to back t up.

Eric

While I agree, that comment feels like a cheap shot at moderate Abrahamic religions, heh.

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K7ELH wrote to SYS64738 <=-

Complete agreement is not necessary. There is a general theme of respect, kindness, and responsibility.

But why do those have to be inspired by religion? Respect, Kindness
and responsibility are all admirable traits. I don't need a fairy tale
to back them up.

Don't have to be inspired by religion at all! You'd think being kind
and respectful to your fellow man would come natural, but the Truth
is that the NATURAL thing to do is Sin...




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Re: Breaking News
By: K7elh to Sys64738 on Thu Dec 23 2021 19:37:26

Complete agreement is not necessary. There is a general theme of respect, kindness, and responsibility.

But why do those have to be inspired by religion? Respect, Kindness and responsibility are all admirable traits. I don't need a fairy tale to back them up.

Calling the Bible a "fairy tale" is an awfully large assumption.
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