Conservatives now want to blame mass shootings on big pharma. That most shooters are on depression meds etc. I don't know that that's true and if it was, is the argument that society and these people would be overall better off without the drugs? I assume they'd never support banning people on these meds from having access to the guns. 2A etc.
Anyway, it's the guns that make somebody who'd otherwise stab a bunch of people, much more efficient killing machines.
Do I really have to go out in this and do a run, horrible I tell yee, but if one of us has to suffer, I'll take one for the team.
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L'Allemagne se réveille sous le choc d'un nouvel attentat au marché de Noël de Magdebourg, à l'Est du pays. En France, Bardella s'est empressé de dénoncer un "attentat islamiste". Sauf que l'auteur présumé est un médecin originaire d’Arabie Saoudite, connu au contraire pour son activisme... anti-islam et il a posté des contenus de l'AfD, le parti d'extrême-droite allemand
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Attaque sur un marché de Noël en Allemagne : le suspect est "islamophobe", selon la ministre de l'Intérieur allemande
alors Jordan, on en dit quoi ?
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Quick guide to installing raspi-config on Ubuntu for seamless Raspberry Pi configuration.
Song of the Day December 21 2024
In honor of the birth of Samuel L. Jackson
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Samuel L. Jackson, Frank Whaley and John Travolta - "Big Kahuna Burger" scene from "Pulp Fiction" (1994)
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Cette posture binaire, conduit inéluctablement les va-t-en-guerre fanatisés des 2 camps à mettre les pacifistes au pilori !
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Sachant que celui qui refuse est mis au pilori du pacifisme
Oui, tant qu'il ne s'agit pas de mettre un signe égal entre les bourreaux et les victimes...
Presentation of Pi-hole
In this blog post, you will learn about the Pi-hole project, a libre software project to monitor and filter DNS requests on your LAN.
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#emdiplomat of the day: Fabio Chigi (1599-1667)
Home of the clouds, so I called you,
The ornament of Westphalia (without hurting you)
I want to say gently...
This is how Fabio Chigi’s #poem about the rain in the city of #Münster begins where Chigi stayed during the #WestphalianPeaceCongress in which he participated as papal mediator. (1/4)
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Papal #emdiplomacy is very unique. One has to differentiate between legations and permanent nunciatures. Papal #diplomats – legates as well as nuncios – differed from other secular diplomats, as it was their task to represent the Apostolic See on a spiritual and a secular level. But just like other diplomats papal envoys’ main tasks were representing, negotiating and of course reporting. As Alexander Koller discusses in his article, the first ever comprehensive summary on the development of papal diplomacy:
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However, Chigi felt sorry for himself during his stay in #Westphalia and did not hesitate to tell his employer about the hardships he had to endure. These expressions of suffering were not only testimonies of a #emdiplomat’s feelings but also served a communicative purpose. By reporting on and emphasising his own hardships, the #diplomat was able to present himself as a loyal servant of his master who gave everything to fulfil his mission. This in return could strengthen his relationship with his master, advance his career or lead to other favours. To make his reports more vivid, he even enclosed a slice of pumpernickel in one of his letters.
If you want to read more of Chigi's thoughts, you can find his diary from the #WestphalianPeaceCongress within the Acta Pacis Westphalica series:
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I made a free coloring page for your enjoyment, happy holidays!! 🎉🎊🎉🎊
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OneEyeKing
in reply to william.maggos • • •william.maggos
in reply to OneEyeKing • • •they do it pretty well in other countries by lessening everyone's access to guns.
but maybe in the US we could do it differently. mandate that every gun is insured for damages caused. call them militias. private entities that oversaw all purchases and tracked them. the govt wouldn't know where the guns were, only that the militia was responsible for it. if they were needed to end a federal dictatorship, the legal responsibility would go out the window anyway.
OneEyeKing
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in reply to OneEyeKing • • •william.maggos
in reply to FourOh-LLC • • •@FourOh-LLC @OneEyeKing
so we should be able to buy cyanide, poison gas and nukes on Amazon? lots of shit is banned. the real world is a complex mix of smart and dumb laws made with good and bad intentions, imperfect enforcement, different levels of demand etc. decent people with different experiences and worldviews. it's not just megalomaniacs who reject your libertarian utopian bullshit. get off your high horse. progress is made with good faith conversation and compromising.
FourOh-LLC
in reply to william.maggos • • •You CAN buy cyanide, explosives, nuclear fuel. All you need to do is build the industrial-grade consumption infrastructure, academic or scientific instruments, and so forth.
But you are not a scientist, not even an engineer, so you would not understand this. For you the world is "complex" because you are involving yourself with issues way over your head.
Authoritarian megalomaniacs always try to fix things ain't broken, or permanently broken. Maybe you should spend some of your efforts to ban assault cars committing mass murders, because guns are MADE to kill living things, everybody knows that.
But how do you separate one car that is going to be used in bombings or in mowing into a crowd, hm?
Do not start a fight you cannot win.
william.maggos
in reply to FourOh-LLC • • •@FourOh-LLC @OneEyeKing
you started the fight. a debate about changing laws (which is what free people are supposed to do) became megalomaniacs wanting to ban everything. I assume because you're a libertarian absolutist who sees slippery slopes everywhere.
my militia proposal above is a compromise. I want more gun control but I'm also trying to accommodate gun rights arguments. that should be obvious. but it's ignored. you jump in full asshole. what are you here for?
FourOh-LLC
in reply to william.maggos • • •There is no such thing as "gun control". Can you schedule your expiration date by a gun assailant? Yes, no?
I accept the fact that people going to shoot other people regardless what you believe could alter the fact.
You are "controlling" people who OBEY the fucking laws, like myself who check the laws in every state I visit, and when visit Iowa I leave my arms at home, when I visit Wisconsin I conceal-carry, etc.
What more laws you need me to obey? Please tell me, and get personal. What is it you want me to do, and what is it you do not want me to do to conform to your risk level when it comes to getting shot in the head while grocery shopping, walking the dog, or during any ordinary civic activity.
As I wrote, you do not have the slightest idea what you are getting involved here.
FourOh-LLC
in reply to william.maggos • • •Oh, I am here for you, to tell you that I admire what you do with your radio, but sometimes you are way over your head. Criminal do not obey laws, so you need to accept ridicule every time you bring up "gun control".
Violence, war, weapons are with Humanity since day one, and going to be with humanity forever. The best I hope for is that when someone takes a shot at me will miss, and I am going to have the chance to shoot back. @wjmaggos
FourOh-LLC
in reply to william.maggos • • •Regarding the "militia" - we HAVE a Constitutional State Militia, and its called the National Guard. Its commanded by the Governor, and when the Governor is a Tyrant the National Guard is obeying the Tyrant.
Are you suggesting we more of the same disaster, bastardized and NOT being able to protect citizens when the Governor whats mayhem on the streets? Like in the last four years, where ANTIFA running free setting our cities on fire?
Maybe let ANTIFA control our "rights to own arms"? Trust me, that was the plan. For ANTIFA replace the Metropolitan, Unionized, trained and qualified police force.
You have no idea what you are involved here.
FourOh-LLC
in reply to william.maggos • • •I will propose something - basic firearm training for kids. Introduce competitive shooting, hunting, gun smith and engineering, muzzle-loaders.
Investigate the PARENTS who try to "protect" their kids to experience the reality of weapons, and their uses. I used to be a teenager, and I thought I was invincible. But I never-ever believed I was bullet-proof.
OneEyeKing
in reply to william.maggos • • •Despite of how you paint yourself with your oversimplified definition of empathy, we established that you're just an authoritarian looking for your version of a "compromise". Infringing on people to push your childish version of the world. The way you ignore questions is the way you conveniently ignore reality. Because in your world reality doesn't matter. Again..... how do we take the guns away from the gangs?
@FourOh-LLC
FourOh-LLC
in reply to OneEyeKing • • •Precisely. More laws criminalizing-law abiding US Citizens will not do it.
Some of us are asking you, on the Fediverse, to come up with any proposals BUT more laws criminalizing law-abiding citizens (red-flag laws).
Because this is OUR network, and there are no "censorship" here. We own our nodes, and we are not going to sue ourselves for writing something out-of-line.
FourOh-LLC
in reply to OneEyeKing • • •Drugs and Gangs are rightful and necessary part of Humanity.
"The School of Hard Knocks" discipline is real. A lot of good comes out of it besides the bad. Ivy League graduates produce bad results so there is some symmetry.
So, I boost and see some solution regarding how we take guns away from gangsters?
OneEyeKing
in reply to FourOh-LLC • • •This is reality.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=m5s87F9L…
FourOh-LLC
in reply to OneEyeKing • • •Laws created this. The same Laws some people think are their protection.
The only protection you have is gun, ammo and skills. I recommend high skills, some ammo and a revolver with P+ of the recoil you are actively training to handle.
FourOh-LLC
in reply to william.maggos • • •The leftists retards keep parroting the "libertarian utopia" for decades - because they are terrified of it. How do you KNOW that its a "utopia"? The fact is, for a leftist to lose total control is end of it all, its Armageddon. Authoritarian fuckers are in a permanent monkey-trap, gripping power to their last breath, literally.
Its not terribly difficult to find the morons who always try to "create a better, more loving world", until everything falls apart and then they blame everyone but themselves.
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in reply to FourOh-LLC • • •Libertarianism has one foot in the conservative world and one in the liberal.
It believes in a self-organizing society; this is a liberal notion based on wanting to become herd animals like lemmings.
It recognizes that there is no Utopia; this is a conservative notion based in the recognition that perfection like truth is a human construct.
FourOh-LLC
in reply to ≠ • • •That's right, not everything leftist is "bad". But everything bad is demanded by self-appointed experts who are too stupid or too lazy to get a training in the professional field, like the climate-change activists. Everything bad is coming from the smart but criminal who exploits the ignorant leftist, knowing they are too ignorant or stupid to care.
Our Civilization, our Humanity is evolving, we do not need these 5x vaxxed and boosted triple-mask wearing morons to tell the rest of us about their opinions.
OneEyeKing
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you're ok with regulating guns and the use of them like cars in the US? deal.
OneEyeKing
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FourOh-LLC
in reply to OneEyeKing • • •This guy is trying to make guns "normal" part of Civilization. He cannot get it in his fucking skull that people shooting other people are not doing it by following some Laws.
Wars do not break out with full agreement of all parties involved.
Is there a name for what is wrong with this dude?
william.maggos
in reply to OneEyeKing • • •@OneEyeKing
I love how the people who say we need guns to fight back against a corrupt govt also say nobody needs guns to kill people. they are efficient weapons. we can't stop everybody from wanting to kill people. they will also find other weapons. but do less damage. the whole point of my OP above.
OneEyeKing
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in reply to OneEyeKing • • •The semi-auto promotes unwarranted confidence, and most shooting ranges forbid rapid-fire like what this idiot did there. I have never seen on these vids or in real life where changing mags made any difference from the first few rounds.
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OneEyeKing
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in reply to OneEyeKing • • •I started shooting with 22 LRs in Hungary, at 14, around 1984. I was incredibly fortunate to have access to fire arms since Hungary was under Soviet occupation at the time - and Socialists do not allow firearms in the hands of the citizenry. But I was a top track and field promise and I had privileges.
The .22 is way under-estimated. Even at the lighter grains when it hits bare skin its devastating, and when it hits bone its pretty much lethal. There is no recoil, so its the perfect training round.
I always loved the .22 rounds.
Illinois where I live is shockingly "liberal" when it comes to gun laws, its only Chicago where everything is banned and those darn gangsters are not OBEYING THE LAW! / sarcasm.
OneEyeKing
in reply to FourOh-LLC • • •FourOh-LLC
in reply to OneEyeKing • • •OneEyeKing
in reply to FourOh-LLC • • •That revolver is tiny.
22 as a round will do alot of damage by bouncing around but not sure about a stopping power on a biger animal. Cute gun! @wjmaggos
FourOh-LLC
in reply to OneEyeKing • • •Its a double-action and it is supposed to be used at zero distance. You cannot hit anything with this even 5 yards out. I press into the ear of critters and it gets it done. .22 magnum rounds are kinda rare, and in this particular gun they do not have the full benefit, not even the LR has the full benefit as the barrel is not rifled for a range.
At my age I am only and NRA level 2 shooter, and I know it and I deal with it. This is why I carried the stub nose .38, I would never take a shot over 20 yards out, I would just split.
This is also why I like my belly-gun, pressing against even a heavy winter coat still going to leave a mark :D
OneEyeKing
in reply to FourOh-LLC • • •@FourOh-LLC 20 yard in the city is a long shot. Backstop has to be there when people are around. Most shootings are at point blank anyways. Kids will run up to you and try to get one off. Adults don't mess around with nonsense unless it pays big.
@wjmaggos
FourOh-LLC
in reply to OneEyeKing • • •Just recently the Illinois State Police switched to a different system, and those already with valid CCW no longer need to take the training and range qualification to renew the license.
In years back I was able to do well over 25 yards with the .38, but today I am more limited. I am a 57 yo strong 6'1" guy, I still have 20/20 but my confidence level is dropping. As you wrote, most shootings happen in a few feet or closer, so I stopped training for over 20 yards.
I did not need to qualify for the last 3 years at least, so I am not sure if I could still hit the 25 yards, and I am not wasting ammo on that.
OneEyeKing
in reply to FourOh-LLC • • •@FourOh-LLC It's good news about relaxed regulations. I have a range membership and enjoy shooting, but when I'm short on time or like to test my ability to hit a moving target I use this invention. It paid itself off in the ammo I saved while being able to dry fire and practice magazine changes.
nextleveltraining.com/shop/
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FourOh-LLC
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