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jmmengel

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Re: News in General
« Reply #7621 on: February 16, 2024, 06:45:32 PM »

The Kansas City shootings: a Media dilemma

Two minors are in custody after a shooting spree following the KC Chiefs Super Bowl Parade Leaving one dead,many injured.
Keep in mind a few facts reported by intelligent News Sources

By definition, the suspects were not legally allowed to buy, possess, or carry firearms.
A juvenile is a person who is not yet eighteen.
Under federal law, one cannot purchase a firearm until one is 18 (if the gun is a long gun) or 21 (if the gun is a handgun), and one cannot possess a handgun until one is 18 (unless one is hunting or target shooting, neither of which apply here).
In Missouri, it is illegal to recklesslysell, loan, or transfer a firearm to a minor without parental consent, and it is illegal to carry a firearm either openly or concealed until one is 19 (18 if a veteran or in the military).
This was not a  mass shooting in the way that that term is typically used, but was an argument between two illegally armed minors that turned violent.
This is not pedantry,it matters. When determining what to do about crime, it is important to understand the nature of the crime in question.
There is no evidence the aim of the two alleged shooters was not to hurt or kill those around them,  they just did not  care if they did.
That does not describe most mass shooters.
Every single thing that happened here was already illegal
It is illegal for juveniles to possess handguns. It is illegal for them to carry those handguns. It is illegal for them to shoot at each other in a public place.


But predictably Joe Biden called for stricter gun laws!
He should have stuck to thoughts and prayers for the victims
That would have been genuine , not empty political blather.
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« Reply #7622 on: February 16, 2024, 08:12:10 PM »

Tucker Carlson:  Trump knows, just as Putin knows, that in politics sometimes
you have to have someone killed.

A week ago Tucker goes to Moscow to talk with Putin.

Today Navalny is found dead in a Russian prison.

Coincidence?  Only to those who believe in the Easter Bunny.

I was amused to hear a former congressman post that Navalny and Trump are somehow equivalent, that Biden is like Putin, persecuting his heroic political opponent and aiming to have him die in prison.

These two cases seem different to me...ungh, can't quite put my finger on it.

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-compares-trump-navalny-democrats-want-him-die-prison-1870722

Of course, if Biden were following Trump's playbook wouldn't he just get Seal Team Six to eliminate Trump?  None of this prison nonsense!  Who needs a criminal justice system when you have presidential immunity? 
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« Reply #7623 on: February 16, 2024, 08:24:55 PM »

I see how hard these Mexicans work, and it is important for us to make them legal so that they are paid fair and so that they are treated well, and so they can call the police in the case of an emergency, and also so that they can join labor unions, etc. We need to make our immigrants legal like Reagan did in order to bring them out of the shadows.

I see the Elote Woman with her homemade plywood cart selling Mexican Street Corn, she comes every afternoon. There are people who want to punish her for selling Corn, I personally enjoy the corn, and I respect how hard this woman works everyday selling corn and making honest money. She should be allowed to legally sell corn.

I feel more sympathy for a hardworking Mexican, than I have for some rich white asshole who lives on a golf course. We need to make our people legal so they can be citizens instead of living in the shadows.

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« Reply #7624 on: February 16, 2024, 08:50:40 PM »

The Kansas City shootings: a Media dilemma

Two minors are in custody after a shooting spree following the KC Chiefs Super Bowl Parade Leaving one dead,many injured.
Keep in mind a few facts reported by intelligent News Sources

By definition, the suspects were not legally allowed to buy, possess, or carry firearms.
A juvenile is a person who is not yet eighteen.
Under federal law, one cannot purchase a firearm until one is 18 (if the gun is a long gun) or 21 (if the gun is a handgun), and one cannot possess a handgun until one is 18 (unless one is hunting or target shooting, neither of which apply here).
In Missouri, it is illegal to recklesslysell, loan, or transfer a firearm to a minor without parental consent, and it is illegal to carry a firearm either openly or concealed until one is 19 (18 if a veteran or in the military).
This was not a  mass shooting in the way that that term is typically used, but was an argument between two illegally armed minors that turned violent.
This is not pedantry,it matters. When determining what to do about crime, it is important to understand the nature of the crime in question.
There is no evidence the aim of the two alleged shooters was not to hurt or kill those around them,  they just did not  care if they did.
That does not describe most mass shooters.
Every single thing that happened here was already illegal
It is illegal for juveniles to possess handguns. It is illegal for them to carry those handguns. It is illegal for them to shoot at each other in a public place.


But predictably Joe Biden called for stricter gun laws!
He should have stuck to thoughts and prayers for the victims
That would have been genuine , not empty political blather.

Stop 5he flow of weapons into 5he hood. 
When you finish pulling your pud make sure to wipe down 5he keyboard.
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« Reply #7625 on: February 16, 2024, 09:01:20 PM »

The Kansas City shootings: a Media dilemma

Two minors are in custody after a shooting spree following the KC Chiefs Super Bowl Parade Leaving one dead,many injured.
Keep in mind a few facts reported by intelligent News Sources

By definition, the suspects were not legally allowed to buy, possess, or carry firearms.
A juvenile is a person who is not yet eighteen.
Under federal law, one cannot purchase a firearm until one is 18 (if the gun is a long gun) or 21 (if the gun is a handgun), and one cannot possess a handgun until one is 18 (unless one is hunting or target shooting, neither of which apply here).
In Missouri, it is illegal to recklesslysell, loan, or transfer a firearm to a minor without parental consent, and it is illegal to carry a firearm either openly or concealed until one is 19 (18 if a veteran or in the military).
This was not a  mass shooting in the way that that term is typically used, but was an argument between two illegally armed minors that turned violent.
This is not pedantry,it matters. When determining what to do about crime, it is important to understand the nature of the crime in question.
There is no evidence the aim of the two alleged shooters was not to hurt or kill those around them,  they just did not  care if they did.
That does not describe most mass shooters.
Every single thing that happened here was already illegal
It is illegal for juveniles to possess handguns. It is illegal for them to carry those handguns. It is illegal for them to shoot at each other in a public place.


But predictably Joe Biden called for stricter gun laws!
He should have stuck to thoughts and prayers for the victims
That would have been genuine , not empty political blather.

Stop 5he flow of weapons into 5he hood. 
When you finish pulling your pud make sure to wipe down 5he keyboard.
Such as ?
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« Reply #7626 on: February 16, 2024, 09:02:39 PM »

We have been getting a lot of rain here in California, and we can turn all of that rain into food, our whole state is a garden, and we need to make our immigrants legal so that they can join the United Farm Workers and so that they can legally work here. People do horrible things to the illegal immigrants, the women get raped and they are afraid to tell the police because they think they will be deported, etc, and people pay them less than the minimum wage, etc. As we turn this rain into food then we need to treat the farm workers well and we need to make them legal so that they can call the cops in the case of an emergency, etc.

And in the ghetto is where you need a gun, if you live in Saint Louis then you need a gun. Until the crime goes down then I would want a gun if I lived in a bad neighborhood. Meanwhile we can work on education, etc. In Kentucky 25% of the adults do not know how to read, we need to bring in teachers to teach people how to read.

And assholes like Trump need to leave the golf course and go look at Oakland, California, and look at San Bernardino, our cities are ghettos. We have streets full of drug addicts and criminals. And you cannot blame the Mexicans. We have white trash meth dealers and heroin dealers, etc.

We need to build schools instead of prisons. And we need to make our people legal so that they are protected by our laws, etc.

Salute,

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« Reply #7627 on: February 17, 2024, 01:53:23 PM »

Well, AZ has become a pivotal swing state...
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« Reply #7628 on: February 17, 2024, 02:04:31 PM »

The Kansas City shootings: a Media dilemma


But predictably Joe Biden called for stricter gun laws!


Because a tighter restriction on guns overall reduces the probability of such events, even if they can't guarantee a particular event won't happen.  It's a fairly non complicated statistical phenomenon, sometimes known as an overall effect.  Tighter controls reduce the odds, even if only a little, of a disturbed teenager getting their hands on a gun.  And some laws proposed hold parents and other custodial caregivers more responsible for their child gaining access to a gun, which further promotes a society taking responsibility on who should be allowed to have a killing device.  None of these proposed controls harm hunters or others legitimately and responsibly using a gun.
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« Reply #7629 on: February 17, 2024, 03:07:37 PM »

Bambu, we can build you defense satellites too if you want, and we will launch them into space for you. Or if you want a satellite to tell you where the Gold and other Natural Resources are in Australia then we can build the satellite for you and we can launch it into space for you.

Whatever Australia wants on the issue of defense then the USA will help Australia.

Salute,

Tony V.

Hopefully.
And in return be welcomed to use deep water ports, have access to giant telescopes, the clear skies of the outback from where to guide drones (as now from the 'secretive US faciity' at Pine Gap), uranium etc etc etc.
Favourable trade.
etc.
US can't have too many friends in the world today.
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« Reply #7630 on: February 17, 2024, 03:43:01 PM »

Bambu, we can build you defense satellites too if you want, and we will launch them into space for you. Or if you want a satellite to tell you where the Gold and other Natural Resources are in Australia then we can build the satellite for you and we can launch it into space for you.

Whatever Australia wants on the issue of defense then the USA will help Australia.

Salute,

Tony V.

Hopefully.
And in return be welcomed to use deep water ports, have access to giant telescopes, the clear skies of the outback from where to guide drones (as now from the 'secretive US faciity' at Pine Gap), uranium etc etc etc.
Favourable trade.
etc.
US can't have too many friends in the world today.

One can never have too many friends, it is always good to have friends and allies.

And in turn Australia helped East Timor when East Timor needed help. The poor people of East Timor were being ethnically cleansed and Australia stepped in and saved the Roman Catholics in East Timor. It is so important for the good people to be strong and smart, and it is so important for the good people to work together.

California and Australia are close, your actors and actresses come here to make movies at our studios, and we both have the surfing culture, etc, California and Australia have a lot in common.

It is good to have Australia and California on the same team.

Salute,

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« Reply #7631 on: February 17, 2024, 09:13:11 PM »

On the issue of Putin, Vice President Harris is saying that we must stand up against Putin...

That is why we have the United Nations, and the CIA, is so that we can deal with problems when they are small, and so that we can stop evil leaders. The United Nations needs to vote to remove Putin, with China on our team, we need to go into Russia and remove Putin, and then we need to put our allies in Russia in charge of Russia. We have allies in the Space Program in Russia, and we have allies in the Arts in Russia, we need to find allies who we can support in Russia after we remove Putin.

Salute,

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Russia and China seem to be running the UN these days.
With China and Russia being best buddies now, it seems the chance of China doing anything about Putin is very remote.
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« Reply #7632 on: February 17, 2024, 09:25:37 PM »

RIP Navalny.  A light has gone out of the world in Russia. Am very sad to hear of this.

Wondering if Vladimir Kara-Murza is on the same horrible path now.

VKM disappeared from his prison near Omsk a couple weeks ago, so it seems likely he got the Arctic circle hellhole transfer that Navalny got in early December. Special regime colonies, they call them.

Both of them didn't 'read the room' very well.
You just can't go doing things like that in Russia and China.
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« Reply #7633 on: February 18, 2024, 07:01:29 AM »

RIP Navalny.  A light has gone out of the world in Russia. Am very sad to hear of this.

Wondering if Vladimir Kara-Murza is on the same horrible path now.

VKM disappeared from his prison near Omsk a couple weeks ago, so it seems likely he got the Arctic circle hellhole transfer that Navalny got in early December. Special regime colonies, they call them.

Both of them didn't 'read the room' very well.
You just can't go doing things like that in Russia and China.

They decided to disrupt the room. They are heroes and martyrs. Change does not happen by itself.
Some folks have the courage to stand up while others pull the cover over their heads while sucking their thumb.
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« Reply #7634 on: February 18, 2024, 07:02:51 AM »

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