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  1. Bignugget
    Can you provide a link to all these times they have ruled on these restrictions? While not all this should get you started: http://rense.com/general17/supremecourtrejects.htm http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/07-290.ZS.html http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/09pdf/08-1521.pdf Several State Supreme Courts have also ruled on the issue http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_22219025/denvers-assault-weapons-ban-withstood-test-time-court
  2. Bignugget
    A lot less than would starve to death without govt. assistance in times of need.
  3. Bignugget
    So we can assume you have no idea how much oil is in the US? Good argument in concept, bad example to use though. I'd have gone the South Africa/Diamonds route maybe? All I know is what Wiki tells me, I am not an oil driller personally. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_proven_oil_reserves 2 Saudi Arabia 265,405 - 267,017 13 United States 20,682
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    I watched it....Im not surprised. Dangerous as hell to have all those people armed in the middle of a natural disaster and all packed together in a small area..... Only reason I (as supreme commander of LA) wouldn't have been issuing the order to disarm people with guns is I would have already restricted them so heavily almost no one would have one. You are talking in circles though. If they don't care whether it is legal.....then they don't need to wait for a ban to come storm troopering in.... They were operating under the assumption that it was legal. When the court issued the injunction did the seizures stop? If so it seems like they do care about the legality. You can't have it both ways. Either they didn't care and proceeded to operate unilaterally with disregard to the law. Or they listened to the court, stopped seizing guns, and returned the ones they had seized (broken apparently) but that is a civil issue (sue the city).
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    Which hail marys got overturned out of curiosity? passed by democratic process. That is the only way laws get passed in the USA, An executive order is part of the democratic process. If a law was passed banning all your guns, it would be before SCOTUS well before it came into effect. Just like "Obamacare". That is their protection. There is no protection for the people who had their guns unlawfully seized. They should have fought back and not let the govt. take their guns. Obviously none of the people saying they won't give their guns up were from New Orleans.
  6. Bignugget
    I think he was pointing out it would be hard for New York to duplicate Texas, since they don't have massive oil reserves. It's kinda like saying, "Hey, Saudi Arabia has tons of cash and no problem paying their bills, why can't the USA just do that?"
  7. Bignugget
    Rambo is not a B movie. Take that back.
  8. Bignugget
    You know where else it's happened before? Germany. I can't remember if it was because of a hurricane or what, but I know I read something about it. What confuses me is this is talking about a completely unlawful confiscation of the guns. What is currently being debated is the passing of laws by democratic process. How are those 2 related? I guess the real fear should be what if the gun control guys don't get the laws they want passed. They might just send the SWAT team around to break grandmas shoulder and steal her revolver. You guys should be supporting some more "useless laws" it will calm the gun control guys down and you won't have to face the Fourth Reich.
  9. Bignugget
    .... No...I never said anything of the sort. A) SCOTUS doesn't ban anything, they simply decide if laws (that ban things etc.) are constitutionally sound. B) They HAVE ruled SEVERAL times that WEAPONS restrictions of varying types are allowed under the constitution.
  10. Bignugget
    It doesn't state any/all or any variation thereof. That's why SCOTUS has ruled that other types of restrictions may be placed on the 2nd amendment. Such as automatic weapons restrictions. You don't have to agree with my reading of the Constitution. That's why we have a SCOTUS. You don't have to agree with SCOTUS. But they don't give a shit. ETA: You will notice nowhere in the 2nd amendment does it mention felons being excluded from firearm possession or the mentally ill. But those people have had their rights restricted. SCOTUS has said you can also have yours restricted.
  11. Bignugget
    But.....this is nothing new.... Just a little education for you: http://www.usgovernmentspending.com/spending_history Its been sustainable for 100 years or so.
  12. Bignugget
    Owning a weapon is a constitutional right. A drivers license is not. It is a privilege that we enjoy and can be taken away for a number of reasons. So I cant see the comparison being valid. Owning "a" weapon might be. Owning every type of weapon is not. Where in the Constitution does it say that? "keep and bear arms" not "keep and bear all arms" Which is why SCOTUS has upheld other restrictions of the 2nd amendment.
  13. Bignugget
    "Heart Disease: 53351 Cancer: 44882 Tobacco: 28548 Obesity: 25040 " Im with you brother but you think taking away peoples guns is hard.....try taking away their cheeseburgers and smokes. Watch Speakers Corner then.
  14. Bignugget
    Lol, really its more like By the normal standards I am not an economist.i don't actively study the economy...but I am more qualified than you in that sense. (I know what makes up GDP growth for instance, it doesn't seem like you have a firm grasp on that) But what I have opined here is not even MY opinion. Government spending is part of GDP growth...that isnt opinion...its math... How much of the spending pie should be made up of govt spending is opinion....and people way smarter than me seem to concur that when private sector spending dives off, the govt should step in as a stopgap. I was really just repeating their opinion. I don't think I am qualified to speak about how guns work. I certainly have never spoken to that. I don't know what any of the 5.65x735 means and you won't see me offering opinions about it.
  15. Bignugget
    Lol, I am sure of that. I don't think you believe much of anything people say. But for kicks, I have a double bachelors. BS Economics and a BSBA finance, minors in accounting and math. Ive worked in several financial jobs currently i work as an analyst for a major mortgage firm. (thats all a lie btw, i copied it from obamas birth certificate)
  16. Bignugget
    Now you do. Finance and economics are my fields of study and practice. Hmm Tell me where you advise so I never make a mistake and come there you probably already do business with us, knowingly or not.
  17. Bignugget
    Now you do. Finance and economics are my fields of study and practice.
  18. Bignugget
    But I bet you don't live in a hut in the forest. So you really prefer the world you are in. You might not like everything about it, but you aren't moving to a hut in the woods anytime soon are you?
  19. Bignugget
    I didn't know you were an economist! Why is no one listening to your opinion! It's BS we are still experiencing a sluggish "economic recover(y?)" when people like you had the solution all along. But as already said: Govt. spending is a vital part of GDP when the economy is not spending in the private sector. When credit markets dry up and no one is lending money it becomes hard for business to SPEND money. SO the govt. steps in. They don't HAVE to of course. But they really don't want to see another great depression so they do their best despite master opinions like yours. Spending does not keep the economy down. Spending is the economy.
  20. Bignugget
    There is no ongoing burden of proof. You just wouldn't be covered when you got lung cancer from smoking after claiming you don't smoke..... They aren't coming around doing lung tests. If you want to add drinking to the list go for it. People who claimed they didn't drink wouldn't have their liver transplants covered when they drink it to death....that's all it means.
  21. Bignugget
    Probably when tall people start affecting the rest of us in this way: "The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says smoking also kills more than 440,000 people in the U.S. annually while costing the economy more than $193 billion each year in lost productivity and health care expenditures. And it says secondhand smoke costs -- from healthcare expenditures as well as illness and premature death -- amount to another $10 billion. "
  22. Bignugget
    +1 to that! Ill be outta here soon enough!
  23. Bignugget
    I sent the email to have some fun.... I didn't expect her to LISTEN to my suggestion that she quit the State House and become a can collector..... I don't know why you are so hung up on it tbh. The lady is dumb as hell. There isn't much more to it beyond that. The law serves 0 purpose since gun ownership is currently federally protected and there have never been any cases of it happening. Her voting against workplace rights for LGBT people serves a purpose. It allows employers to fire people for sexual orientation without fear of litigation, of which there are dozens of in state examples. Er go, she's dumb as hell. She feels the need to defend gun owners rights, that aren't being violated....but does not feel the need to defend LGBT people whose rights are being constantly violated. ETA: exactly Andy. The backwoods ass rednecks in her district would be in 100% support of firing the gays, and making sure no one can ever do anything to their guns.
  24. Bignugget
    Lol. I didn't complain she never responded. I didn't expect her to reply and say "wow you are right, im retarded!" hahahah I am quite certain I am not the only one who sent her emails asking her to quit. She's as dumb as they come. The sad thing is she convinced enough other dumbasses to get the thing passed. lol.
  25. Bignugget
    An interesting aspect of skydiving I had absolutely 0 idea existed before I started jumping this winter. Male obsession with sewing machines. I think Home-EC teachers everywhere coulda seen such better male attendance if they had marketed it right. How much does the thing weigh??? That pic doesn't make it look that big but scale is always hard to determine in those kind of pictures.