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  Any X JWs in the Monmouth County area of NJ?

  by ttdtt in

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  looking for friends, since i have lost them all.message me if you are..

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  freemindfade

  You can hit me up if you want to talk about anything other than gun control

  I'm sure we must have some common interests/ground

  How about how terrible the road system is in New Jersey??
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  London murder rate overtakes New York for first time ever after spate of fatal stabbings and shootings

  by freemindfade in

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  april fools?

  while london remains substantially the safer city overall, with less than half the homicides of new york last year, according to a new report a recent spike in knife crime meant february was the first month the uk capital was home to more murders than the us city.london has endured a significant increase in knife crime, with 15 dying in february, nine of whom were aged 30 or younger.

  meanwhile 14 were killed in the big apple..

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  April fools?

  While London remains substantially the safer city overall, with less than half the homicides of New York last year, according to a new report a recent spike in knife crime meant February was the first month the UK capital was home to more murders than the US city.
  London has endured a significant increase in knife crime, with 15 dying in February, nine of whom were aged 30 or younger. Meanwhile 14 were killed in the Big Apple.
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  Three Simple Reasons Why an Assault-Weapons Ban Is Bad Policy

  by freemindfade in

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  i keep saying this is a bad place/policy to put all the time, energy and resources if you really do in fact care, or if you are just riding the agenda bandwagon: .

  an assault-weapons ban is irrelevant to suicide deaths.

  the large majority of gun deaths are suicides, and there is no credible argument that an assault-weapons ban will have the slightest effect on suicide.

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  I still think it's fundamentally bizarre for a populace to arm itself to the teeth because it's afraid its government is conspiring to prevent it from arming itself to the teeth.

  And I think its fundamentally bizarre that a country like the UK would send someone to jail for saying something mean about a religion on facebook.
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  Three Simple Reasons Why an Assault-Weapons Ban Is Bad Policy

  by freemindfade in

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  i keep saying this is a bad place/policy to put all the time, energy and resources if you really do in fact care, or if you are just riding the agenda bandwagon: .

  an assault-weapons ban is irrelevant to suicide deaths.

  the large majority of gun deaths are suicides, and there is no credible argument that an assault-weapons ban will have the slightest effect on suicide.

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  freemindfade

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvAbophptmM&feature=youtu.be
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  Three Simple Reasons Why an Assault-Weapons Ban Is Bad Policy

  by freemindfade in

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  i keep saying this is a bad place/policy to put all the time, energy and resources if you really do in fact care, or if you are just riding the agenda bandwagon: .

  an assault-weapons ban is irrelevant to suicide deaths.

  the large majority of gun deaths are suicides, and there is no credible argument that an assault-weapons ban will have the slightest effect on suicide.

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  freemindfade

  The relevance of the Second Amendment was mooted by the the completion of the Westward Movement and the end of the Frontier.

  Really? The idea that the second amendment was to ensure the governments right to arms is insanity, it's not what it means at all, and it didn't have an expiration date on it because the founding fathers knew, that at any moment then and into the future, a government could become tyrannical. You think that has magically gone away?

  Sheep....
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  Three Simple Reasons Why an Assault-Weapons Ban Is Bad Policy

  by freemindfade in

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  i keep saying this is a bad place/policy to put all the time, energy and resources if you really do in fact care, or if you are just riding the agenda bandwagon: .

  an assault-weapons ban is irrelevant to suicide deaths.

  the large majority of gun deaths are suicides, and there is no credible argument that an assault-weapons ban will have the slightest effect on suicide.

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  This is a forum for those who wish to escape a high control religion and you want to use it as a forum to forward a political agenda? Really?

  The beauty of being out a cult is the ability to exchange ideas, even when you don't agree. You should try it instead of just whining.

  The fact is is that assault rifles like the AR-14 can psychologically influence people to use these guns in massive attacks against the general population in public places.
  

  Ie. Sandy Hook School Massacre, Las Vegas Massacre, Florida's Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
  Don't listen to FreemindFade because he doesn't have mind or a heart

  Fink you are a poster child for how the left no longer discusses issues using thought or evidence, just "saying shut up and you're bad". Keep it up, you are making everyone on this side of the issue look much better.

  Tell me, what evidence do you have that this gun can (magically) make you do its biding? Yea... I am the crazy one...

  imagine having something happen to you in traffic that makes you really mad. OK. Now imagine that you have a pistol on the seat next to you. It changes your perspective.

  Well it does change your perspective, but you sort of have it wrong. See I carry, and most people in the state I live in do as well it seems, yet you don't have gun fights breaking out in the street over traffic incidents. You see with that responsibility to carry comes a lot of weight. You are probably actually less likely to engage in useless road rage because you realize the consequences of escalation. If you have a black belt do you just go around kicking everyone's ass that pisses you off? Or do you exercise more control and discipline because you hold that power??? Think about what you are saying in the context of the real world.
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  Three Simple Reasons Why an Assault-Weapons Ban Is Bad Policy

  by freemindfade in

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  i keep saying this is a bad place/policy to put all the time, energy and resources if you really do in fact care, or if you are just riding the agenda bandwagon: .

  an assault-weapons ban is irrelevant to suicide deaths.

  the large majority of gun deaths are suicides, and there is no credible argument that an assault-weapons ban will have the slightest effect on suicide.

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  And how is that affecting gun violence in Maryland?
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  Three Simple Reasons Why an Assault-Weapons Ban Is Bad Policy

  by freemindfade in

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  i keep saying this is a bad place/policy to put all the time, energy and resources if you really do in fact care, or if you are just riding the agenda bandwagon: .

  an assault-weapons ban is irrelevant to suicide deaths.

  the large majority of gun deaths are suicides, and there is no credible argument that an assault-weapons ban will have the slightest effect on suicide.

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  freemindfade

  and then...

  When all the guns have been banned,

  When all the words have been censored,

  When all the history has been erased,

  When all the freedom has been taken,

  only then will you discover why our right to bear arms was so high on the list...
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  Three Simple Reasons Why an Assault-Weapons Ban Is Bad Policy

  by freemindfade in

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  i keep saying this is a bad place/policy to put all the time, energy and resources if you really do in fact care, or if you are just riding the agenda bandwagon: .

  an assault-weapons ban is irrelevant to suicide deaths.

  the large majority of gun deaths are suicides, and there is no credible argument that an assault-weapons ban will have the slightest effect on suicide.

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  freemindfade

  The worst part about a ban on assault rifles would be the sense in many that we've taken some reasonable action to address the issue and would reduce the likelihood of "common sense" (i.e. keeping guns out of the hands of people that are obviously at risk of using them unethically) action being taken.

  Exactly the point!
  
  
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  Three Simple Reasons Why an Assault-Weapons Ban Is Bad Policy

  by freemindfade in

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  i keep saying this is a bad place/policy to put all the time, energy and resources if you really do in fact care, or if you are just riding the agenda bandwagon: .

  an assault-weapons ban is irrelevant to suicide deaths.

  the large majority of gun deaths are suicides, and there is no credible argument that an assault-weapons ban will have the slightest effect on suicide.

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  freemindfade

  I keep saying this is a bad place/policy to put all the time, energy and resources if you really do in fact care, or if you are just riding the agenda bandwagon:

  1. An assault-weapons ban is irrelevant to suicide deaths. The large majority of gun deaths are suicides, and there is no credible argument that an assault-weapons ban will have the slightest effect on suicide.
  2. An assault-weapons ban is statistically meaningless to homicide deaths. Rifles of all kinds kill fewer people annually than knives or even feet or fists. An assault-weapons ban (really a ban on future sales; proposed laws would not take a single so-called assault weapon off the streets) would be aimed at a firearm that is rarely used to kill.
  3. There’s no evidence that banning assault weapons would prevent mass shootings. This is a key point. The post-shooting debate is often conducted as if folks think that if a mass shooter can’t get an assault weapon, he won’t shoot at all. Blocking access to a new AR-15 is not remotely the same thing as stopping a mass shooting.

  The move to ban AR-15s rests on the notion that the ban will possibly decrease the lethality of any given mass shooting. Aside from the most unusual circumstances (such as the Las Vegas shooting), this is speculative. After all, the history of mass shootings demonstrates that men wielding handguns are capable of inflicting terrible losses, and handguns are generally the weapon of choice for mass killers.

  An assault-weapons ban represents the worst form of gun control. It would burden the self-defense rights of law-abiding Americans without meaningfully addressing the problems it’s purportedly designed to address. We know it wouldn’t impact overall gun death rates. We don’t have evidence it would prevent mass shootings. Given that reality, it looks much less like rational policy-making and much more like legislative emoting — a moral gesture with the primary impact of diminishing American constitutional rights.

  Written by David French, a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom