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It would not. If the wife does not need to use the gun that night, then she gets the background check approved and all is well. If the wife needs to use the gun that night, the DA looks at the situation (wife applied for background check but did get approval yet) and most likely decides to not file charges. On the off chance he does then the case goes to court, wife presents an affirmative defense, jury agrees and the wife walks.

And if you make a practice of hiring based on the person looking/talking/acting like you (or your white CEO, or your Asian hiring manager) your workforce gets dumbed down even more. I am in favor of not dumbing down the workforce. DEI helps prevent that from happening.

So Strasser, the leader of the German Socialist party, was assassinated by Hitler - and you figure that makes Hitler a socialist. Logic isn't your thing, is it. You've decided that Hitler was a socialist because the party he hijacked had the word "socialist" in it, because you hate socialism. But you've decided that North Korea is not a democracy, because you like democracy. Having "feels" about a word is not really all that solid a basis for deciding what reality is.

There are. You can get an H-1B visa if you are good enough. Since I am part of that process for several co-workers, I know how rigorous it is. Most illegals - like Melania and Elon - don't bother; they just break the law and do it illegally. It's SO much easier that way, especially if you are white; you can do it for years and feel no repercussions. Yet specific enough to be cause for mass deportations, according to republicans. If you are now saying that being illegal is NOT sufficiently specific enough to result in deportation - great, we agree, and the illegal immigration problem has been solved. You're thinking of Trump.

5G NR is weaker and doesn't penetrate human tissues as well as 2G/2.5G, at least here in reality. Sure. Heck, I'll even rent them space ON my property for, say, $1000 a month - as long as they disguise the tower well. A bargain for them! Of course, every time I go outside I will be in danger, threatened with cancer and eventually death. But that threat comes from the biggest killer (in terms of radiation) that any of us are exposed to - the Sun. It hits you with thousands of times the radiation that any cellphone tower will. And unlike the nonionizing radiation that comes from cell towers, the Sun emits deadly cancer causing ultraviolet - ionizing radiation. So if you clutch your pearls over that cellphone tower a quarter mile away, but think nothing of going outside during the day - your threat assessment is all f*cked up. 5G came from two companies - Qualcomm and Huawei. It's no more "military grade" technology than a Cessna 182 is. Which I'm sure you'd consider to be military grade - just like an F-18 - because they both fly.

OK, so to be clear - If illegal aliens score well on standardized tests they should be allowed to stay, even if they are criminals. That's your position?

Well, no, since that's neither what I said nor what I meant. But hey, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest. So feel free to misinterpret it to your heart's content.

?? Simple. If you lend someone a gun you have to get (and save) the results of the background check. If you fail to do so, you go to jail.

For the final update for this thread, figured I'd update it for this year - "There IS a problem with global warming - it ended in 1998 2010 2014 2015 2016 2023 2024!"

I am sure that you thought so.

Personally I would replace the laws on who needs to get a background check with a simple statement - EVERYONE who gets a gun needs one. Period. Buying a gun a Big 5? Background check. Gun store? Background check. Borrow your buddy's gun? Background check. Estate sale and you see a cool handgun? Background check.

But it's a great salad. With some weave croutons and Gish dressing even.

He would not have met the standard when he was an illegal alien, using a fradulent student visa to work in the US. She would not have met the standard when she was an illegal alien, using a tourist visa to let her work in the US (which of course is illegal.) Now, if your argument is that we should let illegal immigrants stay because they MIGHT be the next Melania or Elon, then I am all for that.

Statistically you are at more danger of being shot and killed if you have a gun in your house. You can prove that statistic; statistics, of course, do not mean anything for individual cases. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/07/guns-handguns-safety-homicide-killing-study Let's say you have saved yourself from certain death once. I very much doubt that, but let's go with that for the sake of argument. BillyVance used his gun to kill his two young daughters, his wife and himself. And he used exactly the same arguments you make - he needs his guns to defend himself and his family. So based purely on you two, guns are significantly more likely to kill you or your loved ones. Now multiply that by millions - and you have that statistic.

Ah yes, the "it's always been this way" argument. Reality: