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Post by glennkoks on Jul 9, 2022 2:18:48 GMT
Nothing about this guy indicates he was part of a "well regulated militia"...
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Post by walnut on Jul 9, 2022 3:44:10 GMT
I took Intro to Psychology as a senior in college. Did not much care for the professor. But he said one thing that made a lot of sense. Something like the farther removed consequences for bad decisions are, the less they will deter bad decisions. That was when i changed my opinion on the death penalty. I am not apposed to it, but I am opposed to carrying it out 20 years after the crime. I don't have a time limit in mind, but I think even 10 years is too long. I also think the burden of proof needs to be higher than "beyond a shadow of a doubt" for capital punishment. Having said that, it should not be easy for government at any level to sentence somebody to death.
I met this guy at a party in Arlington, Texas just shortly I guess after he had strangled that doctor. He walked up to me and shook my hand. I thought that the meeting seemed a little odd at the time. The police came and picked him up at the party later that night.
"At one point, Foust pointed at an officer and said, "When I get out, I'm going to kill you." " - Actually he was pointing at my friend who had pointed him out to the police.
"Soon as I got here, I found out I could drop my appeals," he said. "So I wrote a letter to my attorney and the judge."
"Foust's time on death row - just shy of one year - would be the second-shortest among the 173 condemned killers who preceded him to the Texas death chamber. "
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Post by Sigurdur on Jul 10, 2022 0:35:30 GMT
When you diminish life, this is the result you get.
Everyone knows abortion kills a baby.
Killing someone else doesn't seem like a big deal.
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Post by code on Aug 7, 2022 15:12:07 GMT
When you diminish life, this is the result you get. Everyone knows abortion kills a baby. Killing someone else doesn't seem like a big deal. Well...we can debate what is a baby till the cows come home. Some, the Jewish faith, for example, doesn't impart humanness until one achieves consciousness which doesn't happen till after birth. Some (not pointing fingers here Sig) suggest an embryo moving is a sign of consciousness, or that a formed hand is a sign of viability. Abortion prevents develop of what might be a potentially viable birth. The term baby is often loosely, and incorrectly, thrown around to represent different stages of development. Abortion stops development. As to killing, yes it does that. Is it killing a baby? No. I do not believe so. |
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Post by code on Aug 7, 2022 15:13:18 GMT
Excellent comment. www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/08/06/us/uvalde-funerals.html"How many children's deaths, deaths of people in churches, and other gathering places do there have to be in order for our country, and especially our political class, to understand that we must change our gun laws radically? We are no longer pioneers living in a wilderness where families must fight off bears and shoot deer for food with a rifle. We are not on a battlefield in some terrible war where AR15s protect soldiers. We are a mixture of city folk and country folk living in different settings, but not settings where these weapons are needed. The Second Amendment must be amended and rewritten to reflect today's needs, or its original meaning adopted-- e.g. to permit governmentally established, well trained groups like the National Guard to carry arms appropriate to the danger in question and step up when needed to defend our country... and not to attack it as the extremist groups did on January 6th. Moderation and common sense will save lives, including our children's." |
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Post by Sigurdur on Aug 8, 2022 22:16:40 GMT
1. The person has no concept of the importance of the 2nd amendment
2. The person has no concept of an AR15. It isn't used on the battle field.
3. More children die from drug overdose.
4. A well regulated militia means an armed population.
5. A nation that embraces killing 60,000,000 babies via abortion has no moral standing.
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 9, 2022 0:18:21 GMT
Sorry Code. Gotta agree with Sig. It's not what's in the hands of mankind that makes the difference, it's what's in their hearts. There are always going to be bad men and she-men in the World and occasionally they go a little funny in the head. A civilization has the right to defend itself just as much as an individual. And that means responsible citizens armed to defend themselves and the structure of their Republic (the Constitution). No way around it. We have a union of free and independent States assembled either with or against the occupants of the current central government. We agree because it mostly works. But we will not agree to have our State's existing laws molded for us. And as far as standing goes, ya know it's true.
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Post by dej on Aug 9, 2022 18:09:05 GMT
Code, So much for moderation. The left has just declared war on conservatives by attacking Trump. Moderation by hiring 87K IRS workers. Wonder who they will go after??? I'll put my money on Conservatives and not on Billery or the Bidens.
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 9, 2022 21:25:00 GMT
Anyone want to make an argument that this WASN'T political. I think that support for the FBI just dropped "a little". NO chance for turning in those guns now.
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 9, 2022 22:10:47 GMT
To be fair I suppose that the Left should now demand that cars be eliminated because some people can't be trusted to drive them ... even the electric ones that they want to saddle us with. One could ask, how the hell you keep your license after 13 car wrecks. Her insurance must have been astronomically expensive. But hey ... she had a Mercedes. Must have been a hell of a nurse.
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Post by Sigurdur on Aug 11, 2022 18:34:06 GMT
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Post by blustnmtn on Aug 11, 2022 18:43:45 GMT
This is exactly the push-back needed to re-assert Federalism in this country. States must tell the Feds to "Shove It"...politely of course  |
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Post by walnut on Aug 11, 2022 18:48:45 GMT
Sorry Code. Gotta agree with Sig. It's not what's in the hands of mankind that makes the difference, it's what's in their hearts. There are always going to be bad men and she-men in the World and occasionally they go a little funny in the head. A civilization has the right to defend itself just as much as an individual. And that means responsible citizens armed to defend themselves and the structure of their Republic (the Constitution). No way around it. We have a union of free and independent States assembled either with or against the occupants of the current central government. We agree because it mostly works. But we will not agree to have our State's existing laws molded for us. And as far as standing goes, ya know it's true. It's really not up for debate, as far as our side is concerned. Civil war trigger issue. |
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Post by missouriboy on Aug 11, 2022 19:59:54 GMT
This is exactly the push-back needed to re-assert Federalism in this country. States must tell the Feds to "Shove It"...politely of course Eric Schmidt will be a Senator soon. And of course we will be polite. Captain Parker was polite too ... in his own way.  The Captain would fit nicely in our times. The Federal Government's powers stop exactly where the Constitution says they do.  |
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Post by code on Nov 24, 2022 16:31:38 GMT
This is exactly the push-back needed to re-assert Federalism in this country. States must tell the Feds to "Shove It"...politely of course Eric Schmidt will be a Senator soon. And of course we will be polite. Captain Parker was polite too ... in his own way. The Captain would fit nicely in our times. The Federal Government's powers stop exactly where the Constitution says they do. I actually have an ancestor, direct line back from my father, and his father, etc., etc., etc., who was a Minute Man and went on to serve in the Continental Army. |
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The Captain would fit nicely in our times. The Federal Government's powers stop exactly where the Constitution says they do.