brenthutch

Thank you for your concern, but I just want you to know that my participation in this forum is not out of boredom but rather is a labor of love. Sometimes it feels that I am the only one preventing Speakers Corner from devolving into a progressive/liberal circle jerk. I know it knots some knickers when I share data that is counter to the leftist world view, I know that it doesn’t make me popular yet it is a burden I feel I must bear. Again thank you for your kind words.

The Biden administration stated gun control goals have DIRECTLY lead to increased gun sales. The Democrat support (tacit or otherwise) for open boarders, BLM, ANTIFA, Defund the Police and other such nonsense have INDIRECTLY lead to more gun sales. Biden is crushing Obama in the more guns in America contest.

No need for Occam’s Razor when you have NPR. https://www.npr.org/2021/04/26/989699122/1st-time-gun-buyers-help-push-record-u-s-gun-sales-amid-string-of-mass-shootings “These buyers are white, Black, Asian and Latino and come from all political beliefs. And they're being driven by uncertainty, fear and a need to feel safe. Gun sellers across the country said the pandemic and civil unrest over the past year have pushed customers to feel they must take control of their families' protection. Fears of Congress passing new gun control legislation in the wake of a rash of mass shootings since March are also adding fuel to the buying craze, industry insiders said.”

When asked, gun buyers cite; the threat of future gun restrictions, civil unrest, and skyrocketing crime as reasons for their purchase. All either a direct or indirect result of Biden administration policies. No mention of pools or Mr. Cage

We never should have gone there in the first place. If we wanted to attack the country where the 9/11 attacks were planned we should have invaded Germany.

Biden administration motivates three million+ more June gun purchases shattering all previous non-covid records, many first time buyers, women and minorities. https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year.pdf/view

From what I understand, this has nothing to do with his guilt or lack there of, he was released on a technicality.

And Wendy with the red herring. Nobody was discussing rabies or the lottery.

No but saying; large caliber semi-automatic rifles with high capacity detachable magazines have been available to the general public long before they were adopted by our military, IS a simple truth. One that others on this forum refuse or are unable to address. Instead they resort to name calling (Kallend and SkyDekker) or obfuscate and set up straw men (you and BilV). The same thing applies to the existential threat of AGW, the fantasy of net-zero/GND, and the whistling past the graveyard when it comes to China and the developing world with regard to CO2 emissions. Another example is when Kallend claimed we were in a recession late last year, I claimed otherwise citing two consecutive quarters of GDP growth. Although the NBER has not declared an official end date, yet. Most economists expect the end of the recession to be dated late summer 2020. Once again a simple truth.

You have a good point, I would say my contribution can be distilled into just one thing, the truth. The circular nature results from the inability of others to deal with that simple fact.

Give me just one example of how I have ever celebrated violence. If you can’t then you are engaged in unsubstantiated personal attacks. The only high fiving over a death around here was when Ashli Babbitt was killed. As usual when lefties accused others of malfeasance, is because they are engaged in it themselves.

You have no idea what I would be doing.

They are both illegally protesting because they didn’t get their way. The difference is the magnitude (admittedly a large one)

Good point, no protesters at the White House were killed.

Your name calling belies the weakness of your argument

I would say they are no different than the protesters from the Sunrise Movement that surrounded the White House because American democracy did not give them the results they demanded. Let’s see if Pelosi creates a commission to investigate THAT attack on one of our most cherished democratic institutions

So when a person of color robs, rapes and murders another person of color, it is because he is upset about the white patriarchy?

Banning weapons to prevent murder would be like banning penises to prevent rape.

If an onslaught was in the making, it would have happened by now. I think the truth bomb I dropped has them on their heels. (Now that I have kicked the bushes, I would expect some caterwauling to ensue)

“A hundred and twelve years ago, in 1907...our great grandparents were first able to buy the rifle pictured. The semi-auto Winchester Model 1907. This is a gun they could buy from a Sears catalogue and have delivered via US Post. It was/ is a semi-automatic, high powered centerfire rifle, with detachable, high capacity magazine. About 400,000 semi-automatic rifles were produced before WW2. Civilians had hundreds of thousands of these for 40 years, while US soldiers were still being issued old fashioned bolt action rifles. The 1907 fired just as fast as an AR15 or AK47 and the bullet (.351 Winchester) was actually larger than those fired by the more modern looking weapons.. The ONLY functional difference between the 1907 and a controversial and much feared AR15 is the modern black plastic stock. The semi auto, so-called "assault rifle" is 110 years old. It isnt new in any way. The semi auto rifle was not a weapon of war. The government MADE IT a weapon of war 40 years after civilians had them. The semi-auto can be safely owned by civilians. The proof is that literally 3 generations of adults owned and used them responsibly and no one ever even noticed. Want to fix the horror of mass shootings? Fix the things that have changed for the worse in the last 50 years. Family Values, Prayer from Schools, Ten Commandments from court houses, Spanking Kids, Morals, What is socially acceptable, Confusion on Genders, Left Wing Liberalism, Socialism, ect. Cause the rifle technology in question was here long before this insanity. GOD SAVE THE USA.” #spreadlove

Like Elon Musk Here is a quick video of “the more successful ones”

“Those who say the blood of lib — ‘the blood of patriots,’ you know, and all the stuff about how we're going to have to move against the government,” Biden said. “Well, the tree of liberty is not watered with the blood of patriots. What's happened is that there have never been — if you wanted or if you think you need to have weapons to take on the government, you need F-15s and maybe some nuclear weapons.” “Those who say the blood of lib — ‘the blood of patriots,’ you know, and all the stuff” is my favorite part. During the same speech he falsely stated, at the time the second amendment was written private citizens could not own cannon. Not only could civilians own cannon, they could own a battleship with lots of cannon. A broadside of 18 pounders with grape shot could do far more damage than an AR15.

They just have to wait a year or two. The rains and snow of 2019 ended the previous drought and filled their reservoirs and lakes. Drought is and has always been a feature of the climate in the Southwest.