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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I think I just read someone saying prison should be better if there are more white people on them. That's sounds a half-bit racist to me.
Look man, I will tell something about constitutions. Don't change them too often. People must have faith on them. They must believe we aren't changing the rules on a whim to satisfy our momentary interests. If we change something, it must be through a equilibrated and rational debate, not screaming like a child until you get what you want.
Otherwise you will look like that kind of government and nation that is about to fall in a dictatorial state of things.
edited 2nd Oct '15 1:21:20 PM by MeetTheNewBoss
You claim that God is opressing us, but I see you opressing others without needing a God.
As opposed to the current situation, which targets blacks and Hispanics to fill out the private prison population?
Don't try to pull a slippery slope argument on us. We aren't interested.
edited 2nd Oct '15 1:37:30 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"
At the same time, none of the "Bill of Rights" amendments has ever been touched, save for various restrictions on how far-ranging they are ("Fire" in a crowded theater, incitation to violence, etc.)
Modifying, yes, but not Amendment-level modification.
edited 2nd Oct '15 1:59:22 PM by ironballs16
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"I'm of the opinion that the US need more practical, standardized requirements for gun ownership, though I agree that will not address the root of the issue.
Now, I believe I saw an article here that explained how the church shooter from a few months ago should not have been able to get the guns he got due to miscommunication between the people/departments required for approval. And nobody knows the situation with the recent school shooter's guns, as far as I know.
So, if we have a system that doesn't (always) work, do we fix it, or do we get rid of it? (and presumably replace it with something else)
If it weren't so broken, we wouldn't be in this situation, so certainly that's an issue. Regardless of how strictly we handle licensing and education and purchasing rules, someone will slip through the cracks. That is an argument in favor of a total ban, in fact.
Still, we are so near the bottom as it is that any particular "up" will be quite an improvement, relatively speaking.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"More or less. There might have been a reason to be concerned about the need for a revolution to take the country back from its government at one point in time, but at the moment the only reason to be concerned is that the right wing, which is the side most in love with its guns, might shut out all democratic voices, and the left wing isn't about to rise up in armed revolt.
It is rather tragically ironic that the totalitarian regime that the Right fears is most likely to be instituted by its own leaders. We might all look back at 2016 as the year we elected King Donald I.
edited 2nd Oct '15 2:22:39 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"They have access to guns, but not on standard duty.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"While that level of centralization would really help things I think we're waaaay to big for that to be an option.
Some things ultimately must happen at the State level if only because the US is just too fucking huge for it to be otherwise.
The problem is of course getting to States to realize the Federal Government has the final word in any discussion and complete sovereignty over them.
edited 2nd Oct '15 2:14:28 PM by LeGarcon
Oh really when?That's a feature of all totalitarian regimes. They always try to spin things to make it look like everyone but them is the totalitarian one somehow. "Life is worse everywhere else" is one of the lies a totalitarian regime depends on.
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I don't really see the point in federalizing local police and guard units. Maybe that's where we're headed, eventually, but there is a certain purpose behind the decentralization of power in the United States: specifically, as a protection against a tyranny of some sort. If it should happen that some power-mad psycho gets elected President, I would not like to have all of the nation's police and military at his instant command.
edited 2nd Oct '15 2:17:17 PM by Fighteer
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Must be because of all the Death Squads that have happened around you. The history of the U.S does not have as many government abuses. It was founded allegedly for them. But in its history as a modern nation it has done more fascist shit to other countries than it has to itself.
Basically, they (lucky for them) have had the luck of not yet facing a true dictator or fascist in their government. But they live and were created with fear and paranoia of it ever happening.
The problem as Garcon points above is that too much centralization makes it so that one mistake no matter how little, becomes huge. And too much descentralization leads to too much separation, as it is right now.
edited 2nd Oct '15 3:05:48 PM by Aszur
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes

When a child grabs a knife and threatens or attempts to stab another kid, it is important to address the behavior that led the child to wanting to stab another child. It's important to teach the child that this behavior is unacceptable and that there are better ways to get what they want. It's important that the child understands how to manage anger and accept disappointment in those cases where the child cannot have what he or she wants.
But the first thing you should do is take away the knife.
edited 2nd Oct '15 1:18:03 PM by TobiasDrake
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