Do some research and get back to me…..
And for the record, yes…we need to tighten up the accessibility to firearms.
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And for the record, yes…we need to tighten up the accessibility to firearms.
Might take a while. I can see taking some extra time on the OZ/NZ leg of the research expedition….
kickingandscreaming
PREMIER
The "bat theory" outcome is not damaging at all to the Chinese government. The "lab theory" outcome introduces an immense liability for the Chinese government and will have the effect of chilling investment in virus research in the way that Three Mile Island affected the future of nuclear power. The Chinese government has all the data and is not sharing it. They initially covered up the outbreak and its magnitude and stated the virus wasn't aerosolized. This is a country where citizens disappear when they say the wrong things and have for quite some time. Add to that all the vested interest of many of those "investigating" the origins of the virus, as well as the first impression bias of much of the mainstream media. We have already seen Fauci lie about masks because he didn't believe the public could handle the truth. So, I am not optimistic that the research being will be based on good science. In cases such as this, Occam's razor is good guidance.I don't know where it came from, but the coincidences are hard to ignore. In an abundance of caution I have taken pangolin and bats off my diet.
WHO experts say COVID-19 lab leak theory cannot yet be ruled out as investigation into virus' origins continues
That stance marks a sharp reversal of the U.N. health agency’s initial assessment of the pandemic’s origins.www.usatoday.com
Happened again
SILVER ELITE
Your thirst for the extreme and dramatic is evident. You don't need sand bags and minefields to make schools less easy to access. I wonder when was the last time you tried to get onto a school campus in urban districts with a history of chronic weapons offenses. Pretty "hardened" - metal detectors, one way in/out, police presence. The other places you mentioned are a bit harder to secure...schools..not so much. The impediment to more effective school protection is whiny and incompetent people.
kickingandscreaming
PREMIER
I don't disagree that "Trump speculated repeatedly - without evidence - that COVID-19 was started in a Chinese lab." (see the sentence from the article below) but it does raise a question. What was the evidence for a "bat source" that could be determined to be independent of the lab? The simple fact that we are now hearing that the lab theory can't be discounted after much of the mainstream media "debunked" it - with appropriate race-baiting language - points again to the painfully egregious failure of much of our news media to be focused on finding the truth. The distinction made here without the context of what was being reported indicates this source didn't learn its lesson. Not only did they repeat something without evidence, they wrongly dismissed a theory that they should have actively been investigating.I don't know where it came from, but the coincidences are hard to ignore. In an abundance of caution I have taken pangolin and bats off my diet.
WHO experts say COVID-19 lab leak theory cannot yet be ruled out as investigation into virus' origins continues
That stance marks a sharp reversal of the U.N. health agency’s initial assessment of the pandemic’s origins.www.usatoday.com
Former U.S. President Donald Trump speculated repeatedly — without evidence — that COVID-19 was started in a Chinese lab. He also accused WHO of “colluding” with China to cover up the initial outbreak, citing the U.N. health agency’s continued public praise of the country.
Hüsker Dü
DA
I keep hearing about hardening targets from my friends on the right and was just wondering if that is the answer, to take a defensive position? Security around schools is great for a number of reasons. The elementary a short walk away is now totally fenced off and had been for years because someone somehow set the new at the time jungle gym a blaze. That was a melted plastic mess!
Happened again
SILVER ELITE
leave it to someone like you to make common sense adjustments to protecting kids a partisan thing. When was the last time you went into a corporate building, a court house. Do you lock your front door? Do you have a ring doorbell? your TDS has progressed.
Hüsker Dü
DA
Who’s making this partisan? You are setting up a straw man. Is the absolute right to sell weapons design exclusively to murder humans in the most damaging way a partisan issue? Point is are we prepared militarize our entire society to protect us from ourselves and to protect gun manufacturers profit margin?
Happened again
SILVER ELITE
Uhhh, you repeatedly make it partisan and are overly dramatic.
Common sense gun laws can and should be discussed, outside of partisan lanes. What weapon isn't designed to murder a human? Silly statements like this discredit your position and makes it impossible to take you serious.
There are existing laws on the books that can be brought to bear if, and I say if we want to curb the access to weapons/items we deem to dangerous or unneccesary for the common person. But what you refuse to do is support solutions that can be implemented now, ones that cringy partisan politicians have no choice but to support.
The 2A discussion is an emotional one, one that will not be solved before the next wacko uses a weapon that has been sensationlized by the media and gun manufacturers to kill more babies in schools. Your all or nothing attitude is just as complicit. As complicit as the cops who left their backbones at home, as complicit as the gun manufacturers and their marketing strategy, and as complicit as those threatening to take all guns away. It's a complicated issue, one that won't resolve itself over night - wackos on both sides of the 2A will make sure it takes forever to implement common sense.
Hüsker Dü
DA
Do you understand the physics involved with the rifles in question?
Here’s a basic look
What an AR-15 Can Do to the Human Body
When a patient is shot by an AR-15, it "looks like a grenade went off in there."
Happened again
SILVER ELITE
again, typical emoting on your part. Plenty of articles out there right now that talk about high velocity rounds and their effect on human bodies.Do you understand the physics involved with the rifles in question?
Here’s a basic look
What an AR-15 Can Do to the Human Body
When a patient is shot by an AR-15, it "looks like a grenade went off in there."www.wired.com
Of course necked down higher velocity rounds are going to cause more damage, just like a serrated knife creates more internal damage than non serrated. Matters not to what needs to be done to avoid/limit these types of incidents from happening. A child dies just as easily from a 9mm shot at close range as from a 5.56 NATO round, especially when: Cops hang out in a hall way, doors are unlocked, and access to school grounds is easy. Small bodies tend to bleed out quicker than large ones when just lying there.
The argument isn't whether there are different forensic characteristics of certain rounds...because there are. The argument is how do we as a society, given the current conditions, make incidents like this harder to happen.
But please continue to flock and read articles that don't provide solutions but rather inflame emotions. Asses and elbows but nothing gets done. But go ahead and be offended.
Desert Hound
DA
Funny how this works. It may impair long term immunity to covid.
Now it has yet to be determined for sure one way or another.
But when many here and other places said the vaccines are safe...rational people pointed out there have/had been no long term studies.
Questions such as the one above are typically known prior to widespread use of any vaccine.
But not only did we roll out vaccines, in many cases/jobs there were MANDATED. And what is worse? The vast vast majority of people have not risk to covid.
Now it has yet to be determined for sure one way or another.
But when many here and other places said the vaccines are safe...rational people pointed out there have/had been no long term studies.
Questions such as the one above are typically known prior to widespread use of any vaccine.
But not only did we roll out vaccines, in many cases/jobs there were MANDATED. And what is worse? The vast vast majority of people have not risk to covid.
This is an interesting development.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Kids get three viruses at time as COVID measures harmed immune system
Medical experts are seeing children with a surprising number of different viruses inside them, which they believe is partly due to the children not being exposed to usual viruses, thanks to pandemic precautions.
My jaw's on the floor today from looking at the economic data. I think Michael Burry is right about all this. We're looking at a potentially more severe than 2008 event. A tampon shortage...really?
If we get a hot summer there is also a large possibility for civil unrest. It feels like people are at their breaking point. All it will take is a match, but I have no idea what that match is or if it will come.
If we get a hot summer there is also a large possibility for civil unrest. It feels like people are at their breaking point. All it will take is a match, but I have no idea what that match is or if it will come.
thirteenknots
SILVER ELITE
Don't look for it in any specific area.
It's been lit for quite some time, Joe Biden
is just so incompetent that what he thinks is
gasoline is really his own party's water buckets.
Just remember what Obama said about old Joe...
" Don't underestimate Joe's ability to fuck things up "
kickingandscreaming
PREMIER
If you were in Gotham, I was going to recommend seeing the Man of Steal. However, he seems to be out of that business now and moving in a positive direction. I wonder if there is any lesson in this story?
Exclusive | ‘Man of Steal’ speaks: thief with 46 arrests exploited city’s fears — and jail might save his life
Isaac Rodriguez, who was busted for shoplifting 46 times in 2021, says he exploited his Queens neighborhood’s fears, lax store security and soft-on crime prosecutors.
nypost.com
Things are certainly going to get worse this summer before they get better. You're going to have RvW riots after the final decision comes out and it will get really dicey if we experience brown or blackouts (although I think they will have to change the name since that will be considered racist).
However, I'm cautiously optimistic. You are already seeing a rebuke of progressive policies and Democrats are abandoning Biden. This is evidenced by the Youngkin election, SF school board recall, Boudin recall, likely Gascon recall, a few corporate rejections of woke culture, etc. Reasonable voters can no longer ignore the devastating impacts of progressive policies.
Can we survive the next two years of obfuscation, inaction, lack of accountability and misguided policies? It will be tough, but we survived Carter, we can survive Biden. It is certainly going to be overwhelming for some of our population like near retirees and lower income families. Potentially awful for those kids who can no longer afford college because their 529 is being decimated. F'Biden for what he's done to my daughter's 529.
Maybe the mid-terms will be a wakeup call for the Biden administration that they need to be problem solvers and not pet cause promoters, but I'm not holding my breath.
thirteenknots
SILVER ELITE
Find the " Leaker " of the draft and there will be no
Roe -V- Wade riots.
The leaker will either spill the beans or be Arkancided.
Both scenarios will cold stop the Democrat induced Riots.
I'm not sure the best word for this. "Karma" maybe.
www.dailymail.co.uk
Fauci, 81, has COVID
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who President Joe Biden tapped as the pandemic tsar, has come down with COVID.