NS8401 wrote:That's because he's a rank amateur...

Yet the race is still a dead-heat.

I think everybody here would agree that comparative stats can be used inappropriately. "There's lies, damned lies, and statistics" - I'm not disputing that. But you're essentially advocating for relying on anecdotal evidence over compiled evidence - in other words, a sample size of 1 vs a sample siz...

Did you like Melania Trump's speech? Or did you like it better when Michelle Obama gave the same speech? This was a really big blunder, and upon reading a CNN article about it, it is unclear who is responsible. You have campaign sources saying that Rick Gates is responsible for overseeing the speec...

It is all about perception, and to the extent this is being covered in the 24/7 news cycle, that is what the rest of the world is seeing. Not to mention, President Obama has been making a big deal out of this. And I do think that these events, as isolated as they are, are damaging race relations in ...

Of yeah. I'm sure all you modern day gun slingers fancy yourselves heroes. Never a gun owner who accidently shoots and kills a friend, family member, or yourselves. Perish the thought! Not you puffed up, crack shot, crackpots. Of the 31,513 gun deaths in 2010, only 600, or just under 2 percent, wer...

You all can say what you want about Trump, but his last several tweets are, albeit a bit exaggerated, far closer to how I feel about what is going on that anything Hillary or Obama are putting forth: We are TRYING to fight ISIS, and now our own people are killing our police. Our country is divided a...

Sounds more like "here's why the guy did it... If we could rebuild the trust between the community and the police we could alleviate this problem"... I didn't see any blame there... The problem with that is the way Obama is speaking, the BLM crowd will interpret his words as justifying the killing ...

Paul Ryan posted a selfie with over 100 interns, most of whom are white. http://www.people.com/article/paul-ryan-selfie-interns-white?xid=rss-topheadlines Seriously, who the hell cares? I didn't hear too many people on the left complaining about the fact that every major democrat candidate for Presi...

As to the original point, make no mistake about the fact that Obama's recent speeches are all designed to pander to the black community. Ben Stein hit the nail on the head back in 2014: What the White House is trying to do is racialize all politics and they're especially trying to tell the Africa-Am...

“As a society, we choose to underinvest in decent schools,”

On a side note - why when liberals spend on education it is "investing," but when they talk about spending on the military, it is "military spending" ? Has anyone ever heard a liberal talk about "investing in the military" ?

Statistically speaking, as I pointed out in another post on here, a black person with a gun is 8x more likely to murder you than a white person with a gun. Stats further skyrocket specifically for black males in their 20s. So if I saw a young black male openly carrying a gun, I'd probably go elsewhe...

I want to know when we as a country are going to have a serious discussion about the racial component of gun violence. According to the FBI, there were 5,723 murders in 2013, of which 47 percent were committed by blacks. Of those murders, roughly 70 percent were committed by a gun. https://ucr.fbi.g...

NS8401 wrote:Depends on several other factors... How are they behaving, what do they look like etc. if the guy seems normal enough then he probably is harmless...

This. I'm sure I'd do some profiling of my own before making a decision.

So you admit killing people is a purpose? Good because it's not a trucks purpose under any circumstances... For the record, I believe that the only time a gun's legitimate purpose is to kill is suicide. I believe in the right to end one's own life, and how you choose to do that, so long as you don'...

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audiophile wrote:Killing deer, rabbits, turkeys...

I'm not gun nut, but there is a legit purpose.

So it's not intended to kill people in any way?

The original context was Bryce saying MURDER WEAPON, and even capitalized those letters.

Not all killing of people is "murder."