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(...) IKR So much has changed since LUGNET came online. I'd like to debate you, but I'm afraid that we see eye to eye on a lot these days. VERY AFRAID. (URL) JOHN (11 years ago, 13-Nov-13, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) It's been so quiet in here for so long that I felt like I had no one else to talk to. Dave! (11 years ago, 13-Nov-13, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Are you engaging a debate with a worthy adversary, namely yourself, Dave!? JOHN (11 years ago, 13-Nov-13, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) So... Since Dan Rather was fired for going on-air with false information about Bush, when can we expect CBS to fire Lara Logan for going on-air with false information about Obama, specifically about Benghazi? (11 years ago, 13-Nov-13, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Wow--we agree. Nice Dave K (11 years ago, 6-Feb-13, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote: (snip) (...) Works for me, with one modification. Lift "sovereign immunity". You're an agent of the government, and you misuse a gun? ... you can be found *personally* liable so it's not just the (...) (11 years ago, 6-Feb-13, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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Because I really have been thinking lots about this lately... As an aside (and before I begin) we actually did not drive through the states ON PURPOSE to get to the NovaLUG show in New Brunswick JUST because of your gun issues down there. So here it (...) (11 years ago, 5-Feb-13, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) How regulated are automobiles? how insured? How licenced? And we're now comparing accidents to mass murder?? When was the last time a guy took out a school full of kids with a car?? I haven't seen that headline. Shit happens and 26 people are (...) (11 years ago, 28-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Not where I was going at all--you jumped there. No fallacy. We must do something rational, proven and/or educated. I've demonstrated that other countries, other scenarios, other well-educated persons, have 'done something' and these (...) (11 years ago, 28-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Y'know what else sucks? Firefighters responding to a house fire getting shot at in Rochester, New York. So instead of putting out the fire and saving a home for a family, 1 (maybe 2) firefighters are in the hospital from gunshot wounds, and at (...) (11 years ago, 24-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Are you sure of that? As you are making an assertation which cannot be proven. If it was me, I'd just follow the logic of it, "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear (...) (11 years ago, 22-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Roger that... Note: We're *already* not happy. NDAA sucks. (11 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) On a completely different note, I miss this. Life changes and moves on but lugnet was good times that I'm sad seem to be history. This is just a good throwback to what once was Anywho as usual you're not changing my mind and I'm not changing (...) (11 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I was just thinkin' the same thing!!! KIDDING. (11 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Logical fallacy alert... "We must do SOMETHING!!!!" "THIS is 'something'" ... "therefore we must do THIS" Often, the right thing to do is, "nothing", that is, don't change the system as a whole in response to a minor upset. Also, I am reminded (...) (11 years ago, 20-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Dave: thousands of people die each year in auto accidents. We have traffic laws, but sometimes they don't work. Often, in fact. Is the solution to ban the automobile? The sad fact is that shit happens. (...) It's more of a pragmatic issue. (...) (11 years ago, 18-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Mental health issues? I think that comes with wanting to own assault weapons that the marines and law enforcement would have some trepedation of using. But that's ust me. And since many americans don't want to invest in universal health care (...) (11 years ago, 18-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Really?? The system worked??? I know 26 families that would beg to differ (...) So because the cause, even though it's just and best for your society, isn't worth the undertaking because it's too difficult? Wow, you Yanks have come along way (...) (11 years ago, 18-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Again, no one said completely. (...) That's bs, selective interpretation, and just plain idiocy. (...) this 20 yr old was 'able bodied'. Should he have had access? He did, so where's your argument? See, this is where your whole argument falls (...) (11 years ago, 18-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote: <snippage> (...) Editorial in today's (maybe yesterday's... I am reading the asian edition in Jakarta so who knows) WSJ has it right... the last 4 out of 5 tragedies have had a common factor.. mental (...) (11 years ago, 18-Dec-12, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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