Random Politics & Religion #38: The 38th One

Meanwhile in Alaska!

https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/alaska-villagers-pay-airfare-effort-172728293.html

You complained for months that I wouldn't go to Shiva then I do now you are still complaining !

Latest outrage is people blaming the hurricanes on Trump. Not the aid or the response, but the actual hurricane.

Take THAT Blumpf!

AHEM! YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE LEVELING A CHAR TO PLAY WITH US!! IT DOESN'T TAKE 8 MONTHS TO CREATE A LEVEL 1 NOOB!!!!

I'm already level 2...if this pace keeps up who knows !

Oh, so the government should stop subsiding drug R&D?

The government should do the minimum of what it needs to operate.

The last thing we need is more bureaucrats

Don't tell that to a bureaucrat Fone.

You will be filling out forms in triplicate if you do.

Odessa gunman bought weapon through private sale: Sources

Which is why the vast majority of Americans and a large majority of gun owners favor universal background checks.

Generally? Yes!

A large majority of non gun owners might want UBCs. Tell a gun owner that leans to the UBCs, what a UBC really does and they tend to think differently.

Don't know where you got you "Majority of gun owners" part, but I sit monthly with many gun owners who oppose UBCs. Ones that do, don't tend to know the details of what it entails. I know even liberal gun owners that are against UBCs.

Last I checked, failing a NICS background check was prosecuteable. It's a felony to lie on the NICS check. Why wasn't he prosecuted? We already have another law for that Chanti? Why didn't the police go to him then and arrest him and put him in jail? Why make another law punishing lawful gun owners? Your side cries for stuff that won't do a damn thing. How bout enforce the current gun laws? Tell that messiah of ya'lls, Beto, to go flail his arms at the police, not gun owners.

Fun Fact: I Myself would not be opposed to a BAN on personal sales of firearms. Like a sale from me to Fone or whatever. I disagree with it on HOW it would be enforced and the PRINCIPAL of someone telling me what to do with my property, but more or less ok with it since, I don't plan on selling my firearms and I ALWAYS go thru a Background check when buying my guns.

Democrats don't care about kids. If they did they wouldn’t let people abort almost 1/2 million of them every year.

For the record, do you agree with the Act Elizabeth Warren proposed? I quoted it and provided a source on the previous page.

Critics are out in full force over Chapelles mew special. The lefty elites have deemed it not funny, and if you disagree then you’re a nazi.

I don't think its a felony to fail a background check as long as you are truthful on the application.

Well I did say to purposefully lie, but yes, false failures on NICS checks can be fixed.

Which begs the question, why didn't the police look into it? Perhaps he knew or didn't know that he was banned from having firearms. Police could have looked into that.

He failed the check in 2014, according to AP.

Anything stating that the police checked on him since he failed the check?

No, he had been clean since 2001, failed the background check for a "mental health issue," thats it.

They should have followed up. Chance he could have NOT known about his mental condition, but police should have checked. Maybe taken him at his word, but at least they would have done the effort. That is, until police they say they DID go to him and check it.

Skull, I got that from polls which consistently put general acceptance for UBCs at well over 70% and among gun owners at over 60%.

For perspective a lifelong best friend is a second amendment fundamentalist and is against UBCs and red flag laws. So I am familiar with the anti arguments.

I am not familiar with Warren's proposal despite your noble attempt to educate us on it.

I respectfully disagree with that and or those polls. Like who are they polling, Canadians???

That's good. Glad you have some friends with a good head on their shoulders. :) Hope is not lost!

Meh, I merely pointed in the direction.

I don't know what you mean by "followed up?" As far as we know, this was just a normal guy living his life. How were the cops gonna justify checking on him?

Currently the audience approval on Rottentomatoes.com is at 99%. My guess is that another purge is imminent.

He failed the NCIS. The background check. Why shouldn't law enforcement look into that?

Even if they did, that was 5 years ago. I'm not sure what the proper procedures are after a person fails the check, other than not being able to purchase the firearm at that time.

There is a part on that document that you sign, that basically says everything is correct and lying is a felony. Fair nuff he MAY not have been lying. But after it failed, 5 years ago, they SHOULD have looked into it then. We have local police, and two federal agencies that can look into this. Why don't they?

Would you like me to link a PDF of the paperwork filled out for the NICS?

It doesn't matter how people get guns legally or illegally.

This guy was probably going to kill people regardless.

Gotta get rid of those right wing trolls after all.