GOD, COUNTRY, LIFE, AMERICA, HOME BATTLEFIELDS....

[HitRed]

The Trucker Law

[saxitoxin]

We also have a Red Flag law but I'm hoping it will get struck down in a court challenge as soon as a case becomes available.

I actually don't, fundamentally, have a problem with Red Flag laws if they were written so that only an immediate family member could initiate a Red Flag petition, instead of immediate family or a law enforcement officer. Also, our Red Flag law allows the Superior Courts to rule on the petition and we elect Superior Court judges. A SC judge would never have anything to gain by approving a petition but everything to lose by declining one if the subject ends up going berserk. Ergo, even the most flimsy petition will get approved.

[jusplay4fun]

U.S. Senate Republican leader backs gun violence bill

WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday he was "comfortable" with the framework of a bipartisan gun violence bill unveiled earlier this week and would vote for it if it is not changed substantially, adding momentum to a compromise that could pass the Senate as early as next week.

"The heavy lifting is done," Senator Chris Murphy, the lead Democrat on the bill, told reporters.

Republican Senator John Cornyn, the lead Republican in the effort, said negotiators could finish writing the bill by the end of this week, clearing the way for a possible vote next week.

McConnell's support is a significant boost to a growing group of bipartisan lawmakers who are expected to back the finished legislation. The bill needs 60 votes to advance in the evenly-split 100-seat chamber, including 10 Republicans.

Crafted in the aftermath of last month's massacres at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas and a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, the framework is far less ambitious than proposals offered by President Joe Biden and other Democrats.

The plan, lauded by Biden, includes support for state "red flag" laws keeping firearms from potentially dangerous people, tougher criminal background checks for gun buyers under age 21 and a crackdown on "straw purchases" by people buying weapons for others who could not pass a background check.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/gun-control-bill-could-be-ready-coming-days-us-senate-debate-schumer-2022-06-14/

[jimboston]

Bitchin’ about school closings in 2020 (due to Covid).

Next thread using the fact that there were no schools shootings in 2020 because the schools were closed to “win” some bullshit argument he doesn’t care about.

= Typical Saxi

Don’t you all lovehow Saxi ignores good points… and focuses his replies on the swiss-cheese posts of people like JP4?

= Typical Saxi

[jusplay4fun]

Breaking down Mass Public Shooting data from 1998 through May 2022: Info on weapons used; gun-free zones; racial, age, and gender demographics

May 29, 2022 |

While the majority of mass public shooters are white, they are much less than their share of the US population. Including people of Middle Eastern descent, about 76 percent of Americans were white over this period, but 63% of the mass public shooters were white (just 55% are white if you exclude people of Middle Eastern descent). About 3.7 million are Arab Americans and 6.5 million are Jewish Americans, so while 8% of shooters are of Middle Eastern Arab descent, they make up just over 1% of the US population.

With all the discussion about having another assault weapon ban, only 14% of mass public shootings are done solely with any type of rifle. Twenty-nine percent involve only a rifle or a rifle in combination with a handgun and/or a shotgun. Among the other findings, about 9 in 10 of the attacks are in gun-free zones (though over the longer period from 1950 94% of the attacks are in gun-free zones), half of the shooters are over age 30 and over 80 percent are at least 21 years of age. 97% are male and 55% are white. Still, for many, it might be surprising that such a large percentage of these attackers are minorities and that most are much older than K-12 or college-age shooters. Earlier work that we had done showed that the vast majority of these killers have no religious or political views. 48% of the mass public shooters were seeing mental health care professionals prior to their attacks.

https://crimeresearch.org/2022/05/breaking-down-mass-public-shooting-data-from-1998-through-may-2022-info-on-weapons-used-gun-free-zones-racial-age-and-gender-demographics/

[jusplay4fun]

At least 3 dead after shooting at Indianapolis-area mall
A lawfully armed "good Samaritan" shot and killed the suspect, the mayor said.

At least three people were killed and two others were injured in a shooting at an Indianapolis-area shopping mall on Sunday evening, police said.

Multiple people called 911 at around 6:05 p.m. local time to report an active shooter at the Greenwood Park Mall in Greenwood, Indiana, some 14 miles south of Indianapolis. An unidentified gunman had walked into the mall's food court and opened fire, according to Greenwood Police Chief Jim Ison.

Olivia Harding said she was at the Old Navy in the mall with her mom when they heard four gunshots and initially thought the nearby carousel was breaking down. But then they heard six more shots.

"I told my mom instantly to get down," Harding recalled in an interview with ABC News on Sunday night.

A person who was lawfully armed -- identified as a 22-year-old man from Bartholomew County -- shot and killed the gunman, according to Ison.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-casualties-mall-incident-indianapolis-police/story?id=86984262

[jusplay4fun]

US Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, wants to visit Taiwan, claimed by the Communists in China as theirs, BUT NOT in actuality. For those that forgot, the Nationalist fled there in 1949 to escape the Chinese under Mao.

Now the Communist tell Pelosi to stay away or RISK WW3.

FOREIGN POLICY

Pelosi to leave for Asia amid Chinese threats over Taiwan stop
Visit to the island still possible as U.S. military preparations get underway.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi is set to leave this weekend on a trip that includes Singapore, Japan and South Korea — and possibly Taiwan — even as a Chinese state media commentator suggested Friday that Beijing could shoot down any U.S. military plane she takes to Taipei.

Pelosi has declined to confirm specifics of her expected swing through Asia, citing security risks. But she is scheduled to lead a small delegation of lawmakers, including House Foreign Affairs Chair Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), to Pacific countries beginning this weekend, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/29/pelosi-taiwan-china-00048749

Published July 29, 2022 3:19pm EDT
China once again threatens Pelosi trip, but Taiwanese don't anticipate war over potential visit
Locals tell Fox News Digital they are used to hearing threats and warnings from China

https://www.foxnews.com/world/pelosi-visit-taiwan-threats-china-like-other-day-locals

[ConfederateSS]

-----------Threats from China....Let us see ...Maybe Statements...Facts...
---------------1) Told The U.S. lead U.N. forces...to stay out of North Korea...Or China would get involved...The U.S. did...Boom 100's of 1,000's of screaming Chinaman poured into North Korea, pushing the U.S. lead forces out of North Korea...
--------------- 2) India...
--------------- 3) Hong Kong
--------------- 4) Tibet , many more
--------------- When China speaks...That you do what they say...Unlike , The bumbling Biden Administration...Thanks to Obama flooding our Military, with 100's and 100's of Unqualified Generals/Admirals...Today's military is to weak to take on China........Sure woke this, pronoun to that...
---------------- Clinton was Impeached...He should have been shot...In His 1996 A.D. Campaign... Re-election...The Chinese donated alot , alot , alot.... Clinton gave our Stealth Technology to the Chinese....We were they only ones with it....The Rosenbergs were executed for less...Mrs. Rosenberg was just Mr. Rosenberg's wife...Ouch.... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...

[jusplay4fun]

Associated Press

Farmland where Civil War battle occurred to be preserved

VARINA, Va. (AP) — Growing up in Varina in the 1940s and ’50s, Howard Eberly played on his family’s farm, swam in the creek and found “treasures” on the land. Turns out, some of those treasures are significant historic artifacts.
(...)

Howard Eberly, 4th generation owner of Four Mile Creek Farm in Henrico County, Va., shown on Friday, July 22, 2022, is donating 28 acres to Capital Region Land Conservancy so the land will be protected forever against the threats of development. The Battle of New Market Heights was fought on the property. (Alexa Welch Edlund/Richmond Times-Dispatch via AP)

(...)

Four Mile Creek Farm is a core part of the New Market Heights Battlefield and the scene of the battle on Sept. 29, 1864, when the U.S. Colored Troops broke through Confederate defenses for their greatest victory of the Civil War. The battle directly led to the fall of Petersburg, and then Richmond. The National Park Service has deemed the property among the highest priorities for preservation.

In just over an hour into the battle, approximately 800 men died. Fourteen African American soldiers received the Medal of Honor, which is significant given that in American military history, only 16 Army Medals of Honor were awarded to Black troops during the entirety of the Civil War.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/farmland-where-civil-war-battle-occurred-to-be-preserved/ar-AA109slv?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=46dee0e4fb5247209faa60b15d419d30

[jusplay4fun]

WNBA
Brittney Griner, Brianna Turner call for WNBA to stop playing national anthem this season

July 28, 2020 at 8:55 a.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/28/brittney-griner-brianna-turner-call-wnba-stop-playing-national-anthem-this-season/

Now the country she wanted to DISRESPECT is asked to come to her rescue. Well Done, Brittney. You are NOT a hypocrite, are you?

[jimboston]

of course… from her point of view asking to stop the National Anthem isn’t about “disrespecting the country” (whatever that means). It’s a political statement intended to draw attention to serious inequalities in our system… with the ultimate goal being to make us live up to our stated believes, and maybe actual make the country ‘better’.

… but f*ck that…way too nuanced for you to grasp.

Shithead.

[jusplay4fun]

of course… from her point of view asking to stop the National Anthem isn’t about “disrespecting the country” (whatever that means). It’s a political statement intended to draw attention to serious inequalities in our system… with the ultimate goal being to make us live up to our stated believes, and maybe actual make the country ‘better’.

… but f*ck that…way too nuanced for you to grasp.

Shithead.

More BULLSHIT from you and Griner. Go to Russia and have FUN living there, jimmie boi.

[jimboston]

of course… from her point of view asking to stop the National Anthem isn’t about “disrespecting the country” (whatever that means). It’s a political statement intended to draw attention to serious inequalities in our system… with the ultimate goal being to make us live up to our stated believes, and maybe actual make the country ‘better’.

… but f*ck that…way too nuanced for you to grasp.

Shithead.

More BULLSHIT from you and Griner. Go to Russia and have FUN living there, jimmie boi.

So peaceful protest like asking to stop playing the National Anthem is BULLSHIT?

OK… good to know.

You might try to compare Ralph or Saxi to Fascists, but you seem to have no time or put no value in our First Amendment Right.

Who’s the fascist now?

[jonesthecurl]

WNBA
Brittney Griner, Brianna Turner call for WNBA to stop playing national anthem this season

July 28, 2020 at 8:55 a.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/28/brittney-griner-brianna-turner-call-wnba-stop-playing-national-anthem-this-season/

Now the country she wanted to DISRESPECT is asked to come to her rescue. Well Done, Brittney. You are NOT a hypocrite, are you?

This puts it at least as well as I could...

Criticizing our own country is fundamentally American and protected by our constitution; one could argue it’s even patriotic. You know what isn’t patriotic? Siding with Russian autocrats.
***
The State Department has declared Brittney Griner as being wrongfully detained. There is every reason to believe her arrest and detention are for geopolitical reasons and that she is at high risk due to her identity. We must continue to fight for her release.

[jusplay4fun]

WNBA
Brittney Griner, Brianna Turner call for WNBA to stop playing national anthem this season

July 28, 2020 at 8:55 a.m. EDT

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2020/07/28/brittney-griner-brianna-turner-call-wnba-stop-playing-national-anthem-this-season/

Now the country she wanted to DISRESPECT is asked to come to her rescue. Well Done, Brittney. You are NOT a hypocrite, are you?

This puts it at least as well as I could...

Criticizing our own country is fundamentally American and protected by our constitution; one could argue it’s even patriotic. You know what isn’t patriotic? Siding with Russian autocrats.
***
The State Department has declared Brittney Griner as being wrongfully detained. There is every reason to believe her arrest and detention are for geopolitical reasons and that she is at high risk due to her identity. We must continue to fight for her release.

No disagreement; I still find her attitudes and statements rather hypocritical and her desire NOT to respect the National Anthem as hypercritical.

[jonesthecurl]

I don't see what that has to do with her being wrongfully imprisoned in a country that convicts 98$ of arrestees, where innocence and guilt take second place to political expediency.

[jusplay4fun]

Griner is a political pawn; no doubt. She is still a hypocrite and hypercritical.

[jimboston]

Griner is a political pawn; no doubt. She is still a hypocrite and hypercritical.

So it’s hypocritical to make use of your First Amendment Right in the USA?

Then after you use your First Amendment Right, it’s not proper to ask for the protection and support of a country;
*You were born in…
*You pay taxes to…
*Of which you are a legal citizen…

We (as a country) should only support our fellow citizens if they are in lock-step agreement with YOUR political views?

Even if that person’s “protest” was 100% peaceful and consisted of;
*Requesting that a song NOT be played….
or
*Refusing to sing along and stand at attention when said song is being played…

Again I ask… who’s the fascist now?

… also please explain how she’s “hypercritical”.
It seems to me that you “find her to be hypercritical” because your views are different.
Is it not possible that as a gay black woman maybe she’s had some life experiences that vary from yours… and thus her gripes might have some basis from which you cannot easily related?

Oh shit… that’s too deep for Mr. Vanilla to fucking comprehend.

Idiot.

[ConfederateSS]

--------- ...Not from Covid....In Philadelphia where America started... Because of all the kids shooting each other....The grave diggers can't keep up...They are over loaded in work...That says it all... Today's American Battlefields....You know it's bad...When the grave diggers start complaining...... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)...

[jimboston]

“America” started in Boston.

[jusplay4fun]

“America” started in Boston.

Incorrect, jimmie-boi; you are wrong AGAIN. Jamestown, Virginia, 1607. (Or, some may argue that was in St. Augustine, by the Spanish, in Florida.) The English did not settle in Massachusetts, in Plymouth, until 13 years later. Boston was settled even later (1630). So two strikes there, jimmie boi. I see you slept through those lessons in American History.

Go back and re-read History, before posting, please. Otherwise, people may want to assume that you are a dumbass.

[mookiemcgee]

“America” started in Boston.

Incorrect, jimmie-boi; you are wrong AGAIN. Jamestown, Virginia, 1607. (Or, some may argue that was in St. Augustine, by the Spanish, in Florida.) The English did not settle in Massachusetts, in Plymouth, until 13 years later. Boston was settled even later (1630). So two strikes there, jimmie boi. I see you slept through those lessons in American History.

Go back and re-read History, before posting, please. Otherwise, people may want to assume that you are a dumbass.

When I was list in St Augustine they said 'f*ck jamestown, bunch of posers'.

[jusplay4fun]

“America” started in Boston.

Incorrect, jimmie-boi; you are wrong AGAIN. Jamestown, Virginia, 1607. (Or, some may argue that was in St. Augustine, by the Spanish, in Florida.) The English did not settle in Massachusetts, in Plymouth, until 13 years later. Boston was settled even later (1630). So two strikes there, jimmie boi. I see you slept through those lessons in American History.

Go back and re-read History, before posting, please. Otherwise, people may want to assume that you are a dumbass.

When I was list in St Augustine they said 'f*ck jamestown, bunch of posers'.

Were "they" all from Boston and were they named jimmie?? Our resident jimmie-boi loves to drop F-Bombs as often as he can.

[ConfederateSS]

-------- That's Funny....Jimmy B....Thinks ...
---------- INDEPENDENCE HALL is in Boston.... .... The Declaration of Independence was signed where Jimmy B.???.... INDEPENDENCE HALL, PHILADELPHIA ....By John Hancock....As President of The Continental Congress.... Making John Hancock the 1st President of The United States of America, the Minute the Declaration was signed,The USA was born...Where Jimmy B. ???.... PHILADELPHIA....Not Boston Jimmy....The United States of America Started in Philadelphia..... "Boston"... ... ConfederateSS.out!(The Blue and Silver Rebellion)... .....Boston.... ....I wonder why America's Birthday is JULY 4th,1776 A.D.... Someone should tell Jimmy B....He probably thinks it's British Insurrection Day/The Boston Tea Party... December 16th, 1773 A.D....not a country yet Jimmy B., just a bunch of Insurrectionists.... ....I know you Liberal Democrats have your made up History....Get it together Jimmy B.......

[jusplay4fun]

You notice the only response from jimmie-boi was the F bomb as he is caught with his pants down and made another mistake, this time about American History. jimmie-boi is a sad, stooopid, weak little man. No wonder he so often lashed out in anger. He reminds me of a Mexican chihuahua, constantly yapping at the wind. SAD, very sad.