I don't think that anyone suspect *that* scenario to play out but it's a bad idea to give the government a monopoly on force. The level of that government's corruption has a proportional relationship with the danger.

LK

I would support that wholeheartedly.

I would also support a 7 day "Cooling Off Period" between scheduling and obtaining an abortion.

LK

I have a great reason.

To fulfill Bill Clinton's vision.

In August 1996, Bill Clinton stated that abortion should be Safe, Legal and Rare.

Medically, it's about as safe as it can be. It's been legal for 41 years. The only way for us to be sure that it's rare is to keep full and accurate records.

LK

Pride, when poked becomes petty.

Another question that works just as well is

"No sales tax, right?" private sellers don't charge sales tax either so there's pretty much a one to one relationship between background checks and sales tax.

Solves your dilemma, right?

LK

That's not necessarily true.

I can pass a background check. I have passed a lot of them.

I still understand how someone could like the idea of the government not having a record that they own a gun.

BTW, that's what opposition to "Universe Background Checks" is about. It would create a backdoor registry.

LK

Well yes, Captain Obvious. Facebook would be within its rights to block firearm discussions, included in that would be sales.

Do you think they want to open that can of worms?

They have to do a little math. Will they lose more users by keeping the current policy or by imposing a new one?

This isn't just Zuckerberg's plaything anymore. There are investors to whom they must answer.

LK

If it were illicit, yes that would be stupid.

These sales are usually some guy selling his SKS to get enough money to buy a new-to-him Mauser or something like that.

LK

Liberals find every black person terrifying if they are not actively pandering to said black person at that moment.

LK (A big black guy)

The Tenth Amendment.

"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."

Any other questions?

LK

You are missing my point.

I immunized my children because it was the best way to protect them. There may be the added benefit that they will be less likely to infect your immune compromised granny with some communicable disease but that was and is not my primary motivation.

LK

Let me know if you'd rather live as a female in the United States or Afghanistan under the Taliban.

You still haven't answered the questions. Is your name John Kerry perhaps? You seem naive enough about geopolitics to be our Secretary of State, though I'm guessing not, since your posts aren't ten paragraphs of rambling gibberish. :D

You can't put NATO/EU "observers" in harms way without answering some really hard questions that you're glossing over. You've also glossed over the political reality in Europe and North America, which is presently disinclined (to say the least) to engage in interventionism of any kind.

So, why isn't it your friend's sibling's fault for failing to get a booster vaccination?

I have and will most likely continue to vaccinate my children because I prefer the tradeoff of that risk over the other but it's everyone's choice. The primary responsibility of the parent is to the well being of the child, not to the society. I spend a lot of resources on my own offspring and not on the offspring of everyone else. It's in my and my offspring's best interest for me to do that even if it's not necessarily in society's.

Herd immunity is less important to me than keeping my kids from being crippled by polio.

LK

You can't put boots on the ground in the Ukraine without answering the questions I posed to you in the previous message. Actually you need to answer a lot of questions beyond those, but that's beside the point. What happens if you deploy them and Putin seizes more territory? Do they engage the Russian forces? Call Washington/Brussels/wherever and ask for instructions? Have you given this any thought at all besides "Since not even Putin is crazy enough to do that"???

Excellent idea by the way, rolling the dice on war with a nuclear armed state, relying on the sanity of Vladamir Putin to keep things from escalating out of control. What could possibly go wrong?