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  Is it a Gun Issue or a Mental Illness Issue or Both?

  by minimus in

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  we have had another shooting.

  many are blaming trump and the republicans and the nra.. is it because of guns that there are so many massacres or could it be that these killers are mental?.

  do you think guns should be removed from our society so that these atrocities never occur again?

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  The NRA is relatively small potatoes anyway. Less than a million a year in contributions to candidates.

  https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/summary.php?id=d000000082
  

  It's not a big lobby moneywise.

  But it's funded by millions of small contributions (it has millions of members).

  The NRA is probably the one best example out there of a group of citizens getting together and making sure their voices are heard and respected by people in office.

  Activists just single out the NRA because they need a target.
  

  As for the pols many won't get re-elected if they go and support a sweeping gun control bill.

  Of course, over 90% of NRA money goes to the GOP.
  

  It used to not be that way. The NRA is non-partisan. But it so happens that the great majority of pro 2nd-Amendment pols are in the GOP these days.

  I am sure Republicans are hoping Democrats make this a campaign issue for November.
  
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  Is it a Gun Issue or a Mental Illness Issue or Both?

  by minimus in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  we have had another shooting.

  many are blaming trump and the republicans and the nra.. is it because of guns that there are so many massacres or could it be that these killers are mental?.

  do you think guns should be removed from our society so that these atrocities never occur again?

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  Julian Assange asks an interesting question.

  https://twitter.com/TheRealJuIian/status/964706059184033792
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  There Is No Road in the Desert

  by compound complex in

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  there is no road in the desert, yet you chance upon my friendless camp.. was it stars that led you to me or two yearning hearts become conjoined?.

  i envision a most lovely you, but you're just a dream of what i once knew.. remote i remain in my desert abode while stars and your spirit sail on by..

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  I've been through the desert on a horse with no name

  It felt good to be out of the rain
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  Motorcycle talk: run what you brung

  by _Morpheus in

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  so i saw vander posted a pic of himself on his bike and recently pm’d with another member who rides (i will let him speak for himself if he wishes) and it seems like a thing for some of us, so... whatcha got?

  post a pic of your ride.....

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  As does this...

  
  
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  Motorcycle talk: run what you brung

  by _Morpheus in

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  so i saw vander posted a pic of himself on his bike and recently pm’d with another member who rides (i will let him speak for himself if he wishes) and it seems like a thing for some of us, so... whatcha got?

  post a pic of your ride.....

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  Like I said first bike but I've got an itch lately to get a bigger bike.

  BMW R nine T looks interesting.

  
  
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  Motorcycle talk: run what you brung

  by _Morpheus in

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  so i saw vander posted a pic of himself on his bike and recently pm’d with another member who rides (i will let him speak for himself if he wishes) and it seems like a thing for some of us, so... whatcha got?

  post a pic of your ride.....

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  That Commando's got a nice look.
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  Motorcycle talk: run what you brung

  by _Morpheus in

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  so i saw vander posted a pic of himself on his bike and recently pm’d with another member who rides (i will let him speak for himself if he wishes) and it seems like a thing for some of us, so... whatcha got?

  post a pic of your ride.....

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  2017 Honda Rebel 500...my first bike.
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  Motorcycle talk: run what you brung

  by _Morpheus in

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  so i saw vander posted a pic of himself on his bike and recently pm’d with another member who rides (i will let him speak for himself if he wishes) and it seems like a thing for some of us, so... whatcha got?

  post a pic of your ride.....

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  Has Justin Trudeau Finally Eaten Too Many Tide Pods?

  by freemindfade in

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  curious what the canadian take is on all this .

  i also understand he compared islamic state terrorists to greek, vietnamese & italian migrants?

  that one i haven't confirmed yet but sounds wacky if true.

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  A crisis of scientific reproducability

  by Outahere in

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  https://www.nature.com/news/1-500-scientists-lift-the-lid-on-reproducibility-1.19970.

  more than 70% of researchers have tried and failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments, and more than half have failed to reproduce their own experiments.

  i didn't know it was so widespread...but it's a big problem in biology/medicine..

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  Here is an interesting article on bogus science.

  I am fascinated by those whose lives have been devastated by a cult, who then run toward anything characterized as "science" and swallow the next idea with equal fevor and gullibility.
  

  
  Real science is good stuff, it's just not done nearly as often as we would like and certainly is easily confused with bogus science by most.

  
  In the 20th century, tobacco companies paid millions and receive peer reviewed papers showing scientifically how cigarette smoking was not linked to cancer. We are starting to see the same results oriented studies about marijuana smoking since its regional legalization.

  Before you comment on bogus science Perry...

  ...comment on the age of the Universe in light of the speed of light.

  In light of the speed of light, Perry.

  THE SPEED OF LIGHT.

  https://www.jehovahs-witness.com/topic/192529/perry-most-distant-known-object-universe