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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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 Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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A lot of the buying has been related to rumors of the ammo tax going from 11% to 55%. I've even overheard some people say they're buying it now as an investment to sell for a hefty profit at a later date, since they can't make any money on stocks. 
I bought some more buckshot the other day after my parents' home was burglarized. |
At least you can defend your property.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/04/09/cgy-farmer-theif-alberta.html |
The guy would've gotten arrested down here too.
There's a guy in my hometown who was arrested a couple of months ago because he came home to find a thief loading his truck up with some loot from his house and promptly beat the shit out of the thief in the driveway. However, if the thief had been inside his house at the time of the fight, he could've legally killed the thief. |
As I remember, RJjr is basically right. You have a lot more options if they break into your house. But if they're just taking your loot, you have some ability to recover property, but you cannot shoot at an unarmed thief. |
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ManintheMiddle
Joined: 20 Oct 2008
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Ya-Ta Boy imagined:
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| Note the publishing date--less than a week after Obama came into office. The report had to have been written under Bush. |
Let me clue you in yet again: both reports were commissioned by the Justice Department under the Bush Administration, however...
focus now
...it is the current Justice Department officials which has chosen to call attention to the supposed risk posed by returning veterans.
Got it now? Good boy. |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 4:52 am Post subject: |
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And the worst insult of all was the insinuation in that many returning war veterans would be susceptible to right wing extremism. Yet again we see the ignorance of liberals when it comes to the military.
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Is this assertion what you are refering to?
It's my judgement that the military is roughly a reflection of American society, with (private) political views more or less spread across the spectrum. If you are claiming that service in the military immunizes all from betraying their country, may I mention two names? Benedict Arnold and Aaron Burr. |
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ubermenzch
Joined: 09 Jun 2008
Location: bundang, south korea
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| Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2009 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| Hater Depot wrote: |
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| Before 9/11 the worst terrorist attack on American soil was from these militia nutjobs. |
That is true. And the Kennedy bros were killed by left wing nutjobs. |
Sure. And there was the Weather Underground etc. But given recent history in Oklahoma City and Binghamton, it seems worth keeping an eye on these folks. It simply happens to be that the fringe right is now more dangerous than the fringe left. |
i think this is exactly true, and seems to me to be a perfectly reasonable statement. one tires of this constant "but when bush was president".. "the left wing did so and so" moaning. only the dullest among us need to have this pointed out to us every time a legitimate complaint or fear is brought up about the right-wing (notice i did not say the republican party), or in this particular case a very small number of extreme conservatives. i will agree without reservation that the DHS report should be viewed with a lot of skepticism due to its questionable motivations, but i don't see how kuros can be taken seriously when he dismisses the very real potential threat (harlowethrombey provided just a sampling of evidence and if requested i'm sure i could provide more). timothy mcveigh did not emerge out of a vacuum. this decorated infantryman saw himself as striking back at an oppressive federal government. am i wrong in feeling a sort of nervousness when it comes to the current domestic climate and the way an admitted minority in the right-wing are reacting to it? it seems to me that while it is right and proper to question the validity of the DHS report itself, to dismiss the threat of extremism currently coming from the right -wing is irresponsible. |
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