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Contact Rob Rhyno, he lives there.

https://nyti.ms/2FUXkNh Pretty reasonable analysis, and let’s hope we do not send Americans to die there. Hope is a terrible management strategy.

And you have reliable sources of secret Israeli intelligence I am sure to back up your claim.... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/world/middleeast/israel-iran-nuclear-netanyahu.html proclaiming there is no evidence at all. and from the Israeli pro right wing media.... https://www.timesofisrael.com/mossad-chief-100-percent-certain-iran-still-seeks-nuclear-bomb/ proclaiming a gut feeling neither of which actually offer any form of proof, or reports from other govts. Other than stating that Britain, France and Germany all think this is a bad idea. I will put my ante in the same pile as those three over Israel, thanks Israeli has been playing the USA for decades.... they enjoy the support and the attention, and they know that the rapture is not actually going to happen but they get billions every year from the USA by perpetuating the rumor that Jebus is coming back.

sanctions to accomplish what exactly? To get Iran to stop developing nikes? They already have as per the existing deal. delusional.

I expect KJU wants all encompassing power over the universes

after reading a bit, yes, I think they do not want it, but for economic reasons, not necessarily social or cultural reasons.

If the entire country was a gun free zone, then there would be a large reduction in gun violence methinks. But because you can have a gun free zone and right next to it a gun show that gives away AR-15's to anyone that wants one, the idea of the gun free zone actually becomes ineffective. Like trying to keep the dandelions out of you yard, or the fire-ants.... if the neighbor is not doing the same as you, then there is only so much you can do. Funny, we have no mass killings by death ray lasers..... and that is because there are no death ray lasers readily available to anyone to use.... The world is a death-ray-laser-free zone and it appears to be working.

is it unenforceable due to constitutionality, money, unwillingness or a host of other reasons? Any law is enforceable, but generally there are ways to stop laws that are on the books. The common way to do it is to defund the enforcement side of it Which is a sign of irresponsible govt. Should be obvious that if you are going to pass a law, then you MUST fund the enforcement of that law. Another political game that we let our elected officials get away with and I am sure the Constitution allows it as well. Do not call lists come to mind. It still exists but there is no money to enforce the violators with the penalties. SO you get 6 calls a day because no one gives a shit.

simple solution. background checks move to law enforcement and LEO's act as an escrow for all gun sales. period. all of them. no transaction happens without going through LEO directly to complete the purchase. the gun, the money, the bill of sale and the tracking and background checks. yes that creates a black market for guns, but that arguably already exists, as demonstrated by the article. But it eliminates the lack of background checks for private sales and removes the compliance from the dealers. LEOs, many of them, are elected officials, so the burden of compliance goes back to the people in some way shape or form to choose the people that will supervise the system. Society does not see a gun dealer whose sells a handgun without a required check as a 'criminal', especially if they are a white, local good-ol-boy local gun shop. He's just one of us, he made a mistake, he's not really a bad guy, so the system is not enforced for a lot of societal and cultural reasons, not just legal reasons, and he criminal justice system does not reward LEOs for going after this guy. LEOs get rewarded for going after low level drug offenders of color. Put the gun sales and checks directly in the hands of LEO and increase the penalties. ATF can then focus on that black market, as they should. Track all guns sales so that when a gun shows up at a crime, we can find out where it came from and how it got there. i.e. who was the last person that had this before it went to the guy that committed the crime. I am pretty sure all those 'legal gun owners' as we like to call them, will think twice about selling that gun under the table because they know it might show up someday at a crime scene and they will be held responsible for it. As it stands today in most places, that private sale is not tracked nor is it required to be. therefore there is no criminal aspect even if the buyer walks across the street and shoots someone in the face right after they buy it. http://www.governing.com/gov-data/safety-justice/gun-show-firearms-bankground-checks-state-laws-map.html this is a glaring loophole that easily puts guns in the hands of people that most Americans would agree should not have them. And then we claim that 'we are not enforcing the existing laws'. The existing laws are fundamentally ineffective. go ahead and enforce them, it will only make a minuscule difference.

I think it is all good, but sure, a dozen or more intentions or placations may be playing out. 1. offering to end the war, is symbolic. They war has effectively ended for decades now. So moot to say that you are going to end the war and somehow it will be different because we signed this piece of paper. I expect the USA is not closing the bases and going home just because they sign a document, and I doubt the north is going to suddenly disarm the border either. 2. KJU could be playing Trump as so many others already have. work towards something that looks great, makes Trump look great (you KNOW that Trump is going to take credit for it all) in exchange for a better deal for his country and sanctions etc. 3. We still know little about their nuclear program or what they have, so stating things like "we are going to shut down programs" could be symbolic depending on the stockpiles they already have, or as others have stated, their programs were stopped anyway due to shortages of materials, or the inability to operate the facilities for any number of dozens of technical reasons. For all we know they might have executed or imprisoned their top scientists.... "We are shutting down the program voluntarily" when are the inspectors going in? Probably not anytime soon. I think it is all great that N/S are talking, I believe that all Koreans probably want a unified country, just like Vietnam did, and I also doubt that this will only be resolved by the Koreans and not us, and last, they are millions of miles apart on any social/cultural/political system that might be mutually cooperative or actually work. But great that they are talking and shaking hands. It cannot do any harm I think.

the lack of posts has little to do with the progress of an investigation. It's not like the FBI is on leave or something. Last time I checked, there were still dozens of indictments, and several people up on charges, loads of guilty pleas, and even one sentencing already. It's not like Manafort is going to trial tomorrow or anything like that. But he IS going to trial, and he MOST LIKELY is going to jail. I am patient, and I will wait for the investigations to conclude, and I am not interested in your trolls prodding why nothing appears to be happening. there is plenty happening. it is just really boring investigative work.

all good common sense ideas, however, common sense does not prevail here. lobby interest groups and hype prevail, and it is working for the gun lobby and always has. requiring laws that guns be secure and locked up conflict directly with open carry and defending ones property and person, since you cannot get to the gun if you are attacked, or so the relentless (yawn) narrative goes. And yes, we will find money to buy more cops in schools, arm teachers, offer training, better doors and security features, and still NEVER find the money for better programs, materials and teachers. Until Americans wakes up tot the fact that they are being duped, I doubt much will change. But it is also what they want. They WANT common sense background checks, better gun laws, but they WANT to be able to shoot AR-15's on a Saturday afternoon and unload 100's of rounds of ammo at a pile of whatever junk in their back yard as well. Present all the facts you want, all the data you can, it's the best you can do, but America has departed fact-based ideology for decades now and we are paying the price for it in many many ways, not just guns.

Problem is that we keep 'looking at it' but doing absolutely nothing about it... or the 'other 80%' either. We do nothing. That is not good enough for the 'greatest country in the world'

that is cool shit - and quite the achievement. Congrats.

incorrect on many counts. people do stupid things. And for a variety of reasons and sometimes no reason at all. "I don't like Mondays" To make this assumption is also to assume then that anything someone does to cause the death of another would therefore be a sign of mental illness. what sort of mental illness does one have when the ONLY thing they ever did that would be considered heinous in their lives was a mass shooting? Were all the death camp executioners and officers in Germany, Poland and Russia also dealing with mental illness? sounds plausible, i get that, but obviously not if no one ever showed any sign of a mental condition prior to engaging in a mass shooting. So people snap, and they get frustrated at life, they kill themselves, sometimes they kill others, sometimes they just punch a wall. We can effect the outcomes of these incidents - not by pretending that we are going to magically find anyone suffering from any mental condition and then magically and perfectly treat it in time before they act.... or we can look at the risks to society involved with having hundreds of millions of weapons of war laying around with easy access and perhaps put some limits on them to make that access more difficult. Reality is that we can do some of the former and a whole bunch of the latter. But we doing neither.

WIC's funding is stagnant at best, and declining in some areas, and certainly not keeping up with inflation

http://www.newsweek.com/russian-hackers-us-nuclear-power-847267 no action or response from the commander-in-chief or congress

No one said scum, but yes, you are allowed to question peoples upholding of whatever beliefs when they seem to contradict other things they say or do. So while you disagree with some of the NRA decision and positions are you actually doing anything about it? Did you write letters or call them to object? Or are you happy with the rhetoric as long as you get what you need out of the organization - which is a fairly common flaw in humankind. Catholics that are still going to church when the organization allowed and condoned sexual assault on a grand scale for decades, if not centuries is one grand example. your position would be solidified if you also provided an example of something you personally did you demonstrate your objections to what the NRA does/did, otherwise, yes you are seen as a supporter, if not enabler of their more-shitty policies. And people will criticise you for that as hypocrisy and/or paradox

^^Bingo not only the culture, but on top of that the easy access to weapons that allow people to fulfill the fantasies. Lots of countries have cultural issues and fantasies, American violent movies, video games and their own violent movies... The fantasy cannot be fulfilled because the weapons are restricted.... it remains a fantasy, unfulfillable.

California also has the largest population - so the odds of being in a mass shooting there are 1 in 2.5 million. Probably a lot LESS than in other states, but I do not have the data to compare. stop talking about mass shootings and start talking about gun violence in general and the ways to prevent and reduce all of gun violence - mass shootings will likely follow.

why are we only talking about school shootings? What about all the other shootings which far outnumber the school shootings every year. How about we address gun violence and stop compartmentalizing things much to the enjoyment of the NRA and pro-gun lobby. They love it when we distract ourselves from the real issues. Address gun violence as a whole, solve gun violence and eh school shootings will most likely be resolved as well.

I did thousand of jumps and probably a thousand tandems since then

https://youtu.be/FANMMPWkJfM This park was fun

they will not cremate us, they will recycle us....

Thanks sir, it’s a moonshot but I’m gonna go for it