Why?
You said, "Tell us" about the nobility clause, not, "Tell me", so I just wondered how many of you there are.
Since you responded twice, is it two of you?
An amazing case for reducing gun ownership in America
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You said, "Tell us" about the nobility clause, not, "Tell me", so I just wondered how many of you there are.
Since you responded twice, is it two of you?
Hüsker Dü
DA
Of course the stormtrooper doesn't tell you about what t is really doing.
Hüsker Dü
DA
More deflection eh?
Sheriff Joe
DA
We are all Einstein compared to these lefties in here.
"eh"?
Thats not fair.
What Stormtrooper?
Not a big Star Wars fan.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Which one of you douchebags said there are no journalists at Breitbart?
Breitbart’s AWR Hawkins Wins 2019 Journalist of Year
AWR Hawkins/Breitbart News
BREITBART NEWS21 Sep 2019457
1:26
Breitbart News’s AWR Hawkins won the 2019 Journalist of the Year award at the 34th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference.
The conference, held in Phoenix, Arizona, is sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF).
SAF Founder Alan Gottlieb commented on Hawkins’ winning the award by saying, “AWR Hawkins winning this award was truly validated by applause from the more than 1,100 gun rights activists and supporters in the room.”
Hawkins said, “I am humbled by the award. I don’t sit around and type news articles on the Second Amendment and think that awards might be given for it. This is an exceptional honor.”
Hawkins previously won the Journalist of the Year Award in 2015 and 2017 and won Gun Rights Defender of the Year in 2016.
Breitbart’s AWR Hawkins Wins 2019 Journalist of Year
AWR Hawkins/Breitbart News
BREITBART NEWS21 Sep 2019457
1:26
Breitbart News’s AWR Hawkins won the 2019 Journalist of the Year award at the 34th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference.
The conference, held in Phoenix, Arizona, is sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF).
SAF Founder Alan Gottlieb commented on Hawkins’ winning the award by saying, “AWR Hawkins winning this award was truly validated by applause from the more than 1,100 gun rights activists and supporters in the room.”
Hawkins said, “I am humbled by the award. I don’t sit around and type news articles on the Second Amendment and think that awards might be given for it. This is an exceptional honor.”
Hawkins previously won the Journalist of the Year Award in 2015 and 2017 and won Gun Rights Defender of the Year in 2016.
Sheriff Joe
DA
Self-defense via “assault weapon”? Three masked teens open fire on Georgia homeowner — and don’t live to regret it
ED MORRISSEY Posted at 5:31 pm on September 17, 2019
Kudos to CNN for covering this story out of Georgia, especially in this political atmosphere. As politicians insist that so-called “assault weapons” are not legitimate self-defense firearms, one man may have proven them wrong. Police now believe that a homeowner armed with a “semi-automatic rifle” acted in self-defense in killing three teenage intruders after they opened fire on him:
A Georgia homeowner shot and killed three teens as they approached his residence with their faces covered, authorities said.
The masked teens — a 15-year-old and two 16-year-olds — approached three residents around 4 a.m. Monday at the front yard of a home just outside Conyers and tried to rob them, the Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office said.
One of the would-be robbers took out a gun and fired shots at them before one of the residents returned fire, authorities said.
“The victims of the attempted robbery were all uninjured, but the three attempted robbery suspects were all shot during the exchange of gunfire and succumbed to their injuries, one on scene and two at a local hospital after being transported,” the sheriff’s department said in a news release.
So far the exact type of weapon used in self-defense has not been identified. However, a neighbor described the sound as an “assault weapon,” and WSB-TV in Atlanta confirmed itto be a long-barrel semi-automatic:
A neighbor heard the gunfire and ran out to help.
“It was five shots and then it sounded like a handgun. Then I heard somebody have an assault rifle. And it was a slew of shots that came out,” neighbor Carlos Watson said.
Deputies say they still don’t know who owned the two guns they found.
Investigators say three people were at the home, including a woman, when the shooting happened.
The homeowner who shot the masked intruder is a man. Neighbors say he’s a truck driver who owns a semi-automatic rifle and is highly protective of his mother.
This is nothing to gloat about. It’s an immense tragedy for all involved, as the woman interviewed makes very clear. The homeowner is apparently a nice and generous man in addition to being protective of his mother, and will have to live with this outcome for the rest of his life. Three teens who might otherwise have had promise are now dead. Furthermore, police will continue to investigate this for some time, and the details may change significantly. If the homeowner did not act lawfully, we’ll know soon enough.
However, let’s put this tragedy in its proper perspective, at least for what we know at the moment. The three teens started this incident by showing up in masks and opening fire on the homeowner and residents. Regardless of whether they were teens or not, they were trying to rob and kill people. That’s the clear conclusion when people fire bullets at other people, after all. Don’t start trouble and there won’t be trouble — and then you never have to worry about having “ran into a man with a bigger gun.”
The homeowner has the natural and legal right to use lethal force in self-defense to the point where the obvious threat to his life and others is stopped. Despite the angry protests from friends and family of these teens, self-defense is not limited to the same number or caliber of shots fired at victims. Proportionality is calculated to the reasonable threat, not the specifics of the lethal response. Having a more powerful and accurate weapon, whether it can be classified as an “assault weapon” or not, likely saved the lives of the homeowner and residents in this instance — along with better expertise in using it, one might imagine.
The problem with higher-powered and more accurate firearms isn’t that law-abiding citizens own them. It’s that too many criminals get their hands on them, and usually after having been cycled several times through the criminal justice system. We need to focus on the criminals, not the caliber and capacity of common-use weapons and magazines people own — and sometimes have to use — for self-defense.
ED MORRISSEY Posted at 5:31 pm on September 17, 2019
Kudos to CNN for covering this story out of Georgia, especially in this political atmosphere. As politicians insist that so-called “assault weapons” are not legitimate self-defense firearms, one man may have proven them wrong. Police now believe that a homeowner armed with a “semi-automatic rifle” acted in self-defense in killing three teenage intruders after they opened fire on him:
A Georgia homeowner shot and killed three teens as they approached his residence with their faces covered, authorities said.
The masked teens — a 15-year-old and two 16-year-olds — approached three residents around 4 a.m. Monday at the front yard of a home just outside Conyers and tried to rob them, the Rockdale County Sheriff’s Office said.
One of the would-be robbers took out a gun and fired shots at them before one of the residents returned fire, authorities said.
“The victims of the attempted robbery were all uninjured, but the three attempted robbery suspects were all shot during the exchange of gunfire and succumbed to their injuries, one on scene and two at a local hospital after being transported,” the sheriff’s department said in a news release.
So far the exact type of weapon used in self-defense has not been identified. However, a neighbor described the sound as an “assault weapon,” and WSB-TV in Atlanta confirmed itto be a long-barrel semi-automatic:
A neighbor heard the gunfire and ran out to help.
“It was five shots and then it sounded like a handgun. Then I heard somebody have an assault rifle. And it was a slew of shots that came out,” neighbor Carlos Watson said.
Deputies say they still don’t know who owned the two guns they found.
Investigators say three people were at the home, including a woman, when the shooting happened.
The homeowner who shot the masked intruder is a man. Neighbors say he’s a truck driver who owns a semi-automatic rifle and is highly protective of his mother.
This is nothing to gloat about. It’s an immense tragedy for all involved, as the woman interviewed makes very clear. The homeowner is apparently a nice and generous man in addition to being protective of his mother, and will have to live with this outcome for the rest of his life. Three teens who might otherwise have had promise are now dead. Furthermore, police will continue to investigate this for some time, and the details may change significantly. If the homeowner did not act lawfully, we’ll know soon enough.
However, let’s put this tragedy in its proper perspective, at least for what we know at the moment. The three teens started this incident by showing up in masks and opening fire on the homeowner and residents. Regardless of whether they were teens or not, they were trying to rob and kill people. That’s the clear conclusion when people fire bullets at other people, after all. Don’t start trouble and there won’t be trouble — and then you never have to worry about having “ran into a man with a bigger gun.”
The homeowner has the natural and legal right to use lethal force in self-defense to the point where the obvious threat to his life and others is stopped. Despite the angry protests from friends and family of these teens, self-defense is not limited to the same number or caliber of shots fired at victims. Proportionality is calculated to the reasonable threat, not the specifics of the lethal response. Having a more powerful and accurate weapon, whether it can be classified as an “assault weapon” or not, likely saved the lives of the homeowner and residents in this instance — along with better expertise in using it, one might imagine.
The problem with higher-powered and more accurate firearms isn’t that law-abiding citizens own them. It’s that too many criminals get their hands on them, and usually after having been cycled several times through the criminal justice system. We need to focus on the criminals, not the caliber and capacity of common-use weapons and magazines people own — and sometimes have to use — for self-defense.
It is true about the Democrat elitists. I mean, there’s a whole world of ignorant half-wits out there, such as everybody involved with the above article, that gather and vote and stuff, that I just try to pretend don’t exist. What the heck happened to us? Is it the education system? How did so many of us become so damn dumb? I think Fox News has a lot to do with it.Which one of you douchebags said there are no journalists at Breitbart?
Breitbart’s AWR Hawkins Wins 2019 Journalist of Year
AWR Hawkins/Breitbart News
BREITBART NEWS21 Sep 2019457
1:26
Breitbart News’s AWR Hawkins won the 2019 Journalist of the Year award at the 34th Annual Gun Rights Policy Conference.
The conference, held in Phoenix, Arizona, is sponsored by the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF).
SAF Founder Alan Gottlieb commented on Hawkins’ winning the award by saying, “AWR Hawkins winning this award was truly validated by applause from the more than 1,100 gun rights activists and supporters in the room.”
Hawkins said, “I am humbled by the award. I don’t sit around and type news articles on the Second Amendment and think that awards might be given for it. This is an exceptional honor.”
Hawkins previously won the Journalist of the Year Award in 2015 and 2017 and won Gun Rights Defender of the Year in 2016.
Baby steps.
You're right; it must have been over time. When they elected W twice, they were joined by normal people. But their ranks grew and grew, so by the time Trump came around, there were enough of them, including local dumbshit Congresspeople, to really move the idiot ball forward and get the whole Trump thing done.
For those keeping score, I grew up in So Cal in the 70's and had many days when it became painful to breathe after a day of running around. Over the huge objections of the carmakers, CA stood alone in requiring catalytic converters and saved our air. Trump now says we can't do that anymore.
Also this week, although Mueller couldn't prove that Russia's assistance of Trump was helped by T's own people, we now have the possibility that Trump asked Ukraine for assistance. Let's see the transcript!
The catalytic converter was a great idea for the time and technology of the 70s era.
How effective is it today, with the fuel injection technology we have now?
Why is it still mandated?
They reduce oxides of nitrogen (the primary component of smog) back to nitrogen gas, the primary component of the atmosphere. NOx residues are unavoidable when burning things in the available air. Nitrogen + oxygen + heat => NOx.
When I had to have the converter on my old truck replaced a few years back, the NOx numbers went from a little over 600 (just failing) to 1.
I thought its main purpose was to burn the unburnt fuel that was problematic with a carburated system.
Since it decreases fuel efficiency, how effective is it with today's computer controlled, fuel injection systems?
When you add the extra fuel burned, against the amount of smog elimination from a modern system, what is the bottom line?
It depends to some degree on burning the residual hydrocarbons as a source of heat to make the catalysts more effective, but it will also work almost as well just using the heat already in the exhaust gases after the engine warms up.
Another clever idea in modern engine controls is the residual oxygen sensor, which is located in the exhaust stream ahead of the catalytic converter. It feeds its readings into the engine computer which adjusts the fuel injectors so that there is just enough oxygen left over in the exhaust so that the converter will work optimally.
The bottom line is cleaner air.
If the bottom line is burning more fuel for cleaner air, how much cleaner vs. how much fuel is the question.
The "more fuel" that is burning in the catalytic converter would have otherwise passed out the tailpipe unburned.
Do you have an alternative technology to propose?
Bruddah IZ
DA
Hillary’s nomination was The fault of Fox News? “How did so many (3 million) of us (you) become so damn dumb?”
I'll take dweeb all day long....!
Now let's very briefly look at YOUR extended reputation
on just this Forum as a.....
Filthy
Disgusting
Rotten
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Socialist
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Democrat
and.........
Last but not least " One Ignorant SOB "....