Guns are simple technology, they want to try to make them more complicated. Do you know what the simplest repeating firearm to make is? An open-bolt submachinegun. Everything needed can be bought at any decent hardware store. The Uzi and Sten were both designed to be manufactured in small shops using common tools and materials. There are even videos on how to make your own rifling benches using common materials. There are active underground craft gunsmiths in the Philippines and Pakistan, making firearms from raw steel using mostly hand tools. 3D printers are being used to produce firearm receivers (the part legally considered a firearm in the US, every other part can legally be purchased without any background checks or paperwork). The same can be done with a benchtop milling machine if you want to make it from metal. Hell, one guy even made an AK receiver from a shovel (yeah, the one in Fallout 4 was based on a real project).

There's no "purportedly" about it. The contract and state law both allow for it. Ever heard of a "mechanics lien"? Basically the same thing. One Hunter Biden failed to pay for the repairs and pick up his laptop within the specified time, the laptop AND IT"S CONTENTS became the property of the store owner. Making an image copy before starting work is fairly standard practice. Reporting to law enforcement when potential evidence of illegal activities is found during the course of such work is also standard practice and usually legally required. It was only that the FBI was sitting on what he gave them, so he turned a copy over to Trump's attorney, which was his legal right. Twitter, by falsely claiming it was "hacked material" in order to suppress reporting on the story not only defamed him, they engaged in further election manipulation, and should face the maximum penalties allowed under Federal law for election interference and unlawful campaign contributions.

You mean like Dan Rather and the "fake but accurate" forged memorandum claiming that President GW Bush had dodged his National Guard duties? Or how about all of the times the major media have broadcast audio of machineguns firing, or even footage of them firing, when discussing laws about semi-automatic firearms? Remember Journolist? Do you REALLY think they stopped collaborating on how to present the news when that particular method was uncovered? You can look at the various MSM outlets the day after Trump says or does something and they're ALL using the same descriptors about it - but when you actually look at what Trump said or did, those descriptors don't match. Pretty bad when people have to look at news sources outside the US to get a better idea of what is actually happening inside the US, because there's a revolving door between the DNC and the mainstream media.

Many of the students from the squalid schools have been raised in a community that not only doesn't encourage education, but actively disparages it. Making things worse, the school districts pushing such policies generally don't want the appearance of unequal discipline, so they allow those students to get away with disruptive behavior that would not be tolerated in students from other groups. Leading even more parents to pull their kids out of the public schools due to the increasing disruptions to education and even personal safety concerns.

Trump was accused of being racist when he instituted travel restrictions, first from China and then from Europe. Nancy Pelosi made a big deal of going to Chinatown in San Francisco and encouraging everybody to do so, DeBlasio/Wilhelm did the same thing in New York City. Trump had a coronavirus task force meeting daily while the House of Representatives was more concerned with trying to impeach him over a phone call.

Maybe the fact that as President, Trump really has NO CONTROL over what happens in the states. Federalism. The Federal government has limited powers (which they routinely go beyond). A significant chunk of those deaths came from poor decisions by state governors, particularly those that required that nursing homes admit patients who were still symptomatic with Covid-19, which spread it to the other patients since nursing homes are not set up with isolation rooms and protocols. Something like 40% of US deaths are from such actions, if not more.

Even after having two cities nuked, the Japanese general staff was still arguing to keep fighting. You can't even suggest WHAT we should have done, just that there MUST have been something else we could have done. While our men were dying every day, and we anticipated tens or hundreds of thousands of men killed if we had to invade the Japanese home islands, based on our experience on Okinawa. The other big option was take out all of the railway system in Japan, if we'd done that, millions of Japanese would have starved. As it was, they were on starvation rations for several years until food production and distribution were built back up.

Until Amazon uses some mechanism to track goods by both supplier and SKU, they'll continue to have problems with counterfeits.

Because the Sherman Antitrust Act doesn't allow that sort of monopolistic behavior and Amazon could be broken up the same way AT&T was.

Some products just can NOT be safely purchased from Amazon, due to their mixing SKU's from multiple vendors in the warehouses. Lots of counterfeit tourniquets, firearm products, etc... Until Amazon does a better job of tracking where an individual item enters their supply stream to identify the sources of counterfeit products, they can not be trusted as a source for anything critical.

Their supply chain management lumps all products with the same SKU together, so that if supplier A provides 100 of an item to warehouse X, and supplier B supplies 100 to warehouse Y, a customer who is closer to warehouse Y who orders from supplier A will actually receive the products shipped from supplier B. A LOT of counterfeit products enter Amazon's supply chain this way, there are some products that can NOT be safely ordered through Amazon as a result (tourniquets are one example where this is known to happen, the preferred tourniquet is the CAT, counterfeits with cheaper materials that can fail in use are common on Amazon, literally risking lives). Not to mention the problem of returning counterfeit items in a box for the real item, so the customer who gets shipped the allegedly unopened item receives a counterfeit item. On top of the issue of Chinese manufacturers producing excess name brand materials and selling them on their own to grab the profits, instead of the company who developed the products and contracted for their manufacture. SHOT show is coming up, there will be a LOT of Chinese there trying to take detailed pictures of products to produce counterfeits, some will be sold as "airsoft" parts, but others will be sold as the name brand item by sellers who don't look closely at their suppliers.

This is a strong argument for more limited government. I'm well aware of the government bureaucracy and the steps they'll take to distract elected or appointed officials away from what is happening inside the bureaucracy. A common one when dealing with appointees is to just fill their calendars with public appearances and meetings, they won't have time to actually walk around the agency and see what's really going on, and have to rely on the bureaucracy for any information they receive.

If you stick to the common view, no discoveries are made. As for climate change in particular, the survey that purports to claim that there's a 97% consensus view on anthropogenic climate change had a low response rate and misleading questions. There is a growing body of scientific evidence showing that solar patterns are more significant variables for our climate than man-made emissions, particularly CO2, which is necessary for plant growth. Look at the discussions on the Grand Solar Minimum and predictions that we may be entering one right now. Oh, and science doesn't allow for adjusting data without notating that such data has been adjusted, why, and what the original data was. Let's not forget that several prominent advocates of the "global warming" scare have admitted that it's really a vehicle for increasing government control and forcing changes to our economic system, in favor of socialism.

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