Then you don't understand the argument.

It's not just the NRA, it's gun stores, gun clubs, gun ranges and other gun owners. If you were to take a look at everyone who called a gun store, gun club, target range and known gun collectors over the past 5 years, you'd have a pretty good idea of who owns guns in the country. That's the creation of a backdoor registry and since creation of a registry is already forbidden under federal law, the NRA's point is a salient one.

The NSA can retain metadata until the political winds shift enough to allow the creation of such a registry.

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That doesn't make a difference. They're mine and no matter what the justification for wanting to take them away, you can't then claim that no one is after our guns. They and you clearly are.

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How about video?

She said it.

SHE is after our guns. SHE admitted. WE know it. YOU are either lying or ignorant.

And Here's a source for Cuomo's statement.

Yes. He was looking at confiscation or forced sale, which is just compensated confiscation.

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When you say "our country", I certainly hope that you don't mean the USA. What's wrong with the USA is that we have far too many cop groupies and Stockholm-syndrome types. The police are not there to enforce the law. The police are there to enforce order. The police are there to keep the poor, the politically unimportant and the people who are feared by the politically connected in line.

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You, sir, are either dangerously naive or simply an upper-middle class white guy with no perspective. Law abiding citizens of color or lower economic status have plenty to fear from law enforcement.

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You don't understand the issue. It's not an AK-47 or an M4 that you hunt an elephant or a rhino with. Those bullets are far too small and have too little kinetic energy to reliably take down the animal. You get something BIG and because you don't want to get too close, you get something accurate at a reasonable range. I can't speak from personal experience, because I have only hunted North American land game but I'm thinking .338 or bigger. You're not going to find that in an assault rifle.

I have no idea what Australia's gun laws are like, but I can only assume that there are some hunting arms allowed. That's what a poacher would use.

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Look at it this way, high blood pressure and arthritis runs in my family. Though I may pwn you with regards to caffeine, eventually it'll catch up to me.

I met a friend of a friend of a friend a couple of years ago who was a serious caffeine junkie. She drank coffee constantly, as well as keeping a stash of caffeinated candy in her purse and used the caffeinated soap.

By the way, what is BC powder?

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I'm not buying it either. I drink 2-4 cups of coffee every work day. I don't have a single cup on the weekends. I'm just finishing up a 7 day vacation and in that time I have had precisely one cup. No headaches, no jitters, nothing.

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No need. The point remains. I still have CDs from 14 years ago that will install Red Hat onto a 386 with no problems at all.

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The 386 is a 32 bit processor. Yes, even the 386 sx is a 32 bit chip.

If they've dropped i386 support, they should name their packages differently. For example, Mandrake is the first distro that I ever used that required a Pentium or better and their packages were "i586" to indicate that.

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I get pushed more and more into being "the old geek".

I still have Red Hat 4.2 CDs that were intended to run on 386 and up... Why is this noteworthy?
Seriously.

Haven't you people ever seen an RPM? Do you know what that "i386" in the filename means?

I'm not impressed.

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Not having a party affiliation doesn't make you independent, it makes you indecisive.

And you are a hypocrite. The crosshairs weren't a suggestion to go out and shoot people, they were to indicate that those areas were to be targeted for a campaign push. Whip up the votes and defeat the opposition at the polls. If you understand that Obama wasn't *REALLY* talking about bringing a gun, why can't you understand that you can target someone for defeat in an election without targeting them for termination?

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Is it time for Obama to talk about bringing a gun to a knife fight?

Like this?

No, of course it's OK when it's your guy using colorful rhetoric, it's only a problem when the opposition does it.

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Yeah that's it. You hypocritical cocksmoking faggot. Why is it not an issue when one of your brethren at the daily kooks puts a bullseye on her district? Like this...

But never waste a crisis. Never pass on an opportunity to act like all of the world's problems are caused by your opposition. Do it enough times and it'll almost seem reasonable when you propose a...final solution to the problem.

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