Politics Easy Question: You ok with this, or not?

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Do you support this? Yes or no? (rationale in comments below, if you choose)

  1. Yes

    70.0%
  2. No

    30.0%
  1. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    I'm against it. But I couldn't request law enforcement when I know it's legal. In other words, I don't have to like it.
     
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  2. MARIS61

    MARIS61 Real American

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    You are right in that both parties accept support/voters anywhere they can get them from anyone no matter how vile they are.

    It's one of many reasons I support neither party. The 2 parties are both funded and run by evil anti-American sociopathic billionaires.

    I voted for Bernie in the Dem Primary and Trump in the Final mainly because neither belonged to either party.
     
  3. MARIS61

    MARIS61 Real American

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    How could I not like these guys?

    They're obviously Joni Mitchell fans!

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  4. Chris Craig

    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    Wait, your a Democrat?
     
  5. julius

    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Ha! gotcha!
     
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    julius I wonder if there's beer on the sun Staff Member Global Moderator

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    IRL, I'm sure the person who plays Maris61 is a democrat. Much like Carrol O'Conner played a bigoted racist xenophobe on All in the Family, but in real life he was very liberal and progressive.
     
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    Chris Craig (Blazersland) I'm Your Huckleberry Staff Member Global Moderator Moderator

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    I see
     
  8. oldmangrouch

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    If a way could be found to legally ban the practice across the board, I would be all for it.
     
  9. MarAzul

    MarAzul LongShip

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    No it is not just you. The intimidation part is spot on. The guns are not really the issue. It the attempt to intimidate in an election.
    Who would want to live in a place like that where jack booted fuckers want to take the aura of peaceful elections away from American Citizens.

    In a rare instance of agreeing with Lanny, it is menacing, so off to jail with the assholes.
     
  10. BrianFromWA

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    Here's where I respectfully disagree...whose basis is it "intimidating"? There was an instance a couple of years ago (IIRC) where a man in Portland just open carried his long arm (can't remember if it was a rifle or shotgun, but it wasn't a pistol) outside of a school zone. Multiple people called the police on a guy just exhibiting his rights. Those teachers and parents, I'm sure, felt "intimidated" but it would've infringed on this guy's rights. In this case, once you make it subjective you're at the whim of whoever happens to be the arbiter, and once it's not the Law, you're going downhill, imo. "Shall not be infringed" seems key.

    In this case, I don't feel that these folks are intimidating people. And at least they've done some homework.
     
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  11. MARIS61

    MARIS61 Real American

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    Former Democrat, 1973-2015.

    Pretty much Libertarian now.
     
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    I've always been extremely socially-liberal, more so nowadays than in my youth. Peruse my early Obama-era posts and you'll see I voted for him and defended most of his social policies.

    I have all kinds of friends from all walks of life and I defend their right to be whomever they want to be. It's the American Dream, and it's the definition of Personal Freedom.

    I am not a progressive. The word progressive means "step by step change" which is how overthrows of free countries happen.

    The Constitution is the most liberal document of rights ever written, and the Dem party's attempts to weaken it are "progressive".
    It's one reason I left the extremely oppressive Dem party and voted for the more liberal Trump.

    I'm also a non-interventionist and a proponent for limited government, as the Constitution intended. This is why I reject both parties.
     
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    Intimidation is solely in the mind of the "victim" and therefore cannot exist without acceptance.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko boomer maniac Staff Member Global Moderator

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    In my opinion not a great idea to run around armed, and if I were king it would not be an option, but I'm not king, have no plans to be king, and do not play king on TV.

    barfo
     
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    agree 100%.
    Id rather have these guys doing this and being civil within their rights, than anarchist harassing kids and setting the flag on fire and busting windows because they hate cops and America.
     
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  16. Lanny

    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Oh yeah, I believe that.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    Here's where we differ, I aspire to be King. I'm King at the dinner table and my wife gave me permission to say that.
     
  18. MARIS61

    MARIS61 Real American

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    That might work in a Monarchy such as GB, where the enslaved cower in obedience.

    King is just another word for slave master.
     
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    Lanny Original Season Ticket Holder "Mr. Big Shot"

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    When staring down the barrel of a loaded gun, there is existential intimidation.
     
  20. barfo

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    Yes, Queen Elizabeth is such a horrible tyrant.

    Thanks Captain Thesaurus!

    barfo
     
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