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Thanks guys, nice to hear.
Sometimes I am like Donald in one aspect; I blurt stuff out brashly without regard, as long as I feel I’m right. But there is a better, more tempered way. After all, I am among friends here, not political adversaries. Gun control is a touchy subject. It’s just that guns will never go away. No amount of laws will work against a criminal whose intent is to hurt others. Like drugs. Every law known to man has been passed, yet drugs remain relatively easy to obtain. Anyway, thanks for the great start to my day.
American gun laws do suck. There should be less of them.
Lol. Love it.
The first person a gun control advocate calls when there is a shooting? A cop. Why? He has a gun.
Do I still have any friends left?
And while we’re at it:
According to data from the FBI’s uniform crime reports, California had the highest number of gun murders in 2011 with 1,220 — which makes up 68 percent of all murders in the state that year and equates to 3.25 murders per 100,000 people.
The irony of such a grisly distinction is evident when you look at which state was named the state with the strongest gun control laws in 2011 by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. You guessed it — it was California.
It should be noted, though, that California is also one of the biggest states in the country, with a population of about about 37 million. Therefore, it might make sense that it would have a high number of murders but its murder rate is still high as gun control has had a seemingly inconsequential impact. In comparison, Texas has a population of about 25.6 million and saw 699 total gun murders in 2011 — nearly half that of California — and a firearms murder rate of 2.91 per 100,000. And Texas is a open-carry state.
In 2011, Utah, the state that the Brady Campaign determined had the least gun control, experienced just 26 gun murders and a firearms murder rate of 0.97. Utah has a population 2.8 million.
And about “Gun Free Zones”:
mgalbrai wrote:Of the hundred or so polls, one being Fox News, I found, all but three show Clinton beating anyone currently on the Republican ticket by a comfortable margin. The closest is Rubio and he is not that close, but things can change.
There was an interesting political cartoon is the national papers today. It showed Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate leader having a nightmare. His nightmare: The next president appoints Obama as Supreme Court justice.
That is a Republican nightmare.
Sometimes I wonder why people are so upset with Obama. Stock market at all time highs, unemployment the lowest its been in almost 20 years. Not fighting in any major wars. 22 million people have health insurance that did not before ObamaCare. I find it odd that most of the people howling about the government bailing out big companies and banks are driving huge Chevrolet pick up trucks. Without the bail out, they would just have Fords now.
Rubio would probably be OK, but he’s not extreme enough for the folks who have split the Republican party.
Mike
Some fun facts:
Sure the stock market is up (right now), but most investors attribute that to ‘quantitative easing’, you know, printing more money.
Unemployment lowest….you know they changed the definition, right? If you’re out of work longer than 90 days, you’re dropped from the statistic. Look around you. There are more homeless people now than there ever has been. By hundreds-fold. Go to the big cities. It’s pathetic.
Not fighting any major wars. Lol. The biggest one is here and it came to us. ISIS.And:
Median household income is down by 5k or so.
Home prices have climbed.
Gas prices were LOWER than they are right now back in 2008.
Government debt was 50%. Under Obama it is now 75%.
Americans on food stamps ALMOST DOUBLED. it is now at 46 million. That’s almost 1/6th of Americans.
Economic growth at a paltry ~2% for the entire administration.
National Debt was ~10 Trillion……under Obama it is now >18 Trillion. The answer? It’s easy! Just print more money!! At some point the house of cards WILL collapse.
Racial division has never been so high. Not even in the 50’s and 60’s. And I don’t think most ‘BLM’s’ are Republicans.And Trump is doing exceedingly well. As of today, he has 82 delegates to Cruz’s 17 and Rubio’s 16. If Donald wins the nomination, he will decimate ‘Hillary, the lying politician.’
Good news? Gun sales are waaayyy up under Obama. He is the greatest gun salesman in America.
Feeling better now?* Source: CNN
Gaj wrote:The poster of the two quotes I included above asked how they were relevant. My point being that they just threw up their hands when Gilead tried to make them use the Gilead system. Didn’t try to change it or protest it or challenge it in court or anything like that. Just walked away! Went overseas and sourced from there.
And then criticises others systems.
You must resent my political affiliation to the point of personal attacks on the forum. Which is a shame, because we started out as friends on a parallel journey.
1. “Just threw up their hands when Gilead tried to make them use the Gilead system. Didn’t try to change it or protest it or challenge it in court or anything like that. Just walked away! Went overseas and sourced from there.I didn’t just ‘throw up my hands’….You’re right. I came here. I utilized the free-market capitalism system to acquire my own meds and paid for them myself. Now I am trying to help others achieve that same goal.
2. Court challenges!!?? Are you serious? I haven’t the time, or resources for that. I have no insurance, remember? And I am protesting it….right here, and on LG’s thread.
3. “And then criticizes other systems”. Of course, that is how change is brought about……….
4. “I posted the below in another thread and suggested a new thread be started rather than detract from that thread which carried some useful information particularly for our UK members, as the other party didn’t follow through I thought it more appropriate to migrate it over here into a more relevant section of the forum.” These are personal digs. Not sure of their contributional value.
It’s kind of funny; The left calls for free speech and diversity. Unless of course, those are diverse ideas, or speech they don’t like. I believe if you look back, I never made it personal against you. I hope everybody can see that.
I have a friend in Southern California who owns and operates a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. It is fairly large, and he has ‘lots of customers’. I have made him aware of my new situation regarding alternative treatment options and he is excited to share the info I provided to help his clients. That and my liver specialist here as well. So trying to get the word out and helping others get cured even if it means ‘going around the system’.
