Comment Re:Party! (Score 2) 180
Personally, I am waiting on Tau day; June 28, 3185
On a side note, does anybody know a good cryogenics lab?
Personally, I am waiting on Tau day; June 28, 3185
On a side note, does anybody know a good cryogenics lab?
From Diablo 2...
The secret cow level.
90% would follow those orders, and imprison the other 10%.
There is a reason enlisted people are usually transferred away from their home states and have very little ties to the community they live in.
If this is a joint military/police exercise, then it isn't the US Military, it's the National Guard. These are people from the local area.
20 years ago this sort of exercise would get top brass court marshaled. Today anything is possible in the name of homeland security.
Very true, sadly unless the mainstream media starts demanding answers as to why they are conducting drills with machine gun fire over populated areas, this will become the norm and vastly more dangerous to society as a whole.
Yup, just like the Military fell to hell after Kent State.
You sir, are a delusional fool, who refuses to learn from history.
Red Herring. The military wasn't asked to continue doing the same at more universities after the Kent State incident. As somebody mentioned earlier, the first incident that puts the military in a bad press will kill the common soldiers will to continue. It might even take more than one indecent, but I can guarantee that eventually moral in the military deteriorates with bad press.
If you really want to learn from history, take a look at what happened with the Berlin wall. The East German soldiers had orders to kill anybody trying to cross into the west. Yet because the soldiers moral was so low, they put down their rifles and let people cross, eventually the government conceded and changed the soldiers orders to accommodate the population's wishes.
Also, remember that the US military isn't the uneducated military of the past. Many enlisted have college degrees. All have at least a high school education. Upper leadership in today's military has to show how their orders benefit society. If those orders start to conflict with the mainstream press, it won't take long at all for the moral to disintegrate. With the most likely outcome being mass desertion.
Ah, yes... the nuclear red haring...
Kind of stupid to use a nuke for self defense.
A dog is way more effective than a gun for keeping the home secure.
A dog will almost always be deterred with a piece of steak. Better yet, a tazer. Having dogs is good as part of your crime deterrent package, but should not be solely relied upon.
lol... no prosecutor would take any case ever again.
First, the second amendment doesn't protect you from unjust laws, it never has and it never will.
True, It is't the second amendment that protects us from unjust laws... it's the armed population that does.
The day this country is disarmed (barring exceptions like hunters) is the day the US is one step closer to a civilised country.
Let me fix this one for you...
The day this country is disarmed, is the day the US becomes ruled by a tyrannical government with the citizens unable to overthrow that government.
I seem to recall that the mother who owned the guns in the Sandy Hook shooting was held accountable... Long before the law got involved.
It's called a plug, not a clip, but yes. These are required in many states for shotguns that hold more rounds than allowed.
No, no they should not!
. I'd rather have a hillbilly with a M-16 and the stars and bars hanging in a window living next to me than have The Man start confiscating guns "for our own good", that's for sure.
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Limit the amount of people that you can kill
Last time I checked, there was already a legal limit on how many people you can kill... Unless you are in a situation of self defense, it's zero.
I know, I know... you are referring to limits on technology, in which case this law does nothing to limit the amount of people that you can kill.
Enough guns already in circulation is one thing.
Enough guns??? not sure what that means.
Guns have been in circulation since long before we were a nation.(I know US centric) We seem to have been doing quite well with them. In fact, according to the government, gun crime has been steadily dropping since the mid 90's while gun ownership has been increasing. No, enough guns in circulation isn't the underlying problem... Failure to address mental illness is.
No criminal will dare violate the law now.
Most rampage killers are common citizens until the day they do the unthinkable.
So now you want to treat the average citizen as a criminal as they "may" do something unthinkable?
"Why can't we ever attempt to solve a problem in this country without having a 'War' on it?" -- Rich Thomson, talk.politics.misc