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LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#105826: Dec 3rd 2015 at 8:16:42 AM

You don't necessarily have to go to Utah and buy the gun yourself to bring to California. Have someone over there buy it for you.

Oh really when?
Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
A suitable case for treatment
#105827: Dec 3rd 2015 at 8:18:24 AM

Still got to get it across state lines though.

Look upon my privilege ye mighty and despair.
LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#105828: Dec 3rd 2015 at 8:21:00 AM

Toss it in the trunk of your car and drive off.

I can drive from here to New York in a day and never have to leave highways. It's pretty easy.

Oh really when?
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#105829: Dec 3rd 2015 at 8:21:19 AM

Which is trivially easy. It's not like we have checkpoints at our state borders.

Canid117 Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
#105830: Dec 3rd 2015 at 8:23:20 AM

Well California does but they usually just wave you through.

They might get pissed if you bring in an unregulated Banana though...

"War without fire is like sausages without mustard." - Jean Juvénal des Ursins
Kostya (Unlucky Thirteen)
#105831: Dec 3rd 2015 at 8:26:20 AM

Wait, California has checkpoints? Why?

AngelusNox Warder of the damned from The guard of the gates of oblivion Since: Dec, 2014 Relationship Status: Married to the job
Warder of the damned
#105832: Dec 3rd 2015 at 8:26:45 AM

[up][up]"30 Round STANAG mags. Check", "Bushmaster AR-15s. Check ", "Glock 17s. Check", "Mossanto GMO Bananas? Hold it right there!"

edited 3rd Dec '15 8:26:54 AM by AngelusNox

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Canid117 Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Hello, I love you
#105833: Dec 3rd 2015 at 8:27:48 AM

[up][up]Agricultural regulations

At least the border between California and Oregon has one.

edited 3rd Dec '15 8:28:15 AM by Canid117

"War without fire is like sausages without mustard." - Jean Juvénal des Ursins
TobiasDrake (•̀⤙•́) (Edited uphill both ways) Relationship Status: Arm chopping is not a love language!
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#105834: Dec 3rd 2015 at 8:29:00 AM

Well, one positive note I have to add is that the police apparently acted with extreme professionalism throughout the whole event. And I suppose we can bestow CNN with the faint praise of not running off with every idiotic tangent and reporting wild speculation as fact.

As I understand it, idle hands are a major component in police bullshittery. When they start picking fights, it's partly because they're bored. They're restless. They have nothing to do and they're itching to do something. Historically, that has been a recurring problem with peacekeepers for millennia.

These cops aren't bored and they're probably not going to feel restless for a long time. This is exactly the kind of incident that reminds responders why they became cops in the first place.

edited 3rd Dec '15 8:29:58 AM by TobiasDrake

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FieldMarshalFry Field Marshal of Cracked from World Internet War 1 Since: Oct, 2015 Relationship Status: THIS CONCEPT OF 'WUV' CONFUSES AND INFURIATES US!
Field Marshal of Cracked
#105836: Dec 3rd 2015 at 9:08:11 AM

I have never understood that, do people really expect god to step in and help them? or solve all their problems? cos that is fucking delusional

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Aszur A nice butterfly from Pagliacci's Since: Apr, 2014 Relationship Status: Don't hug me; I'm scared
A nice butterfly
#105837: Dec 3rd 2015 at 9:10:44 AM

I think they figure it is more useful than just denouncing the acts. It provides more peace for a person to pray than for a person to feel angry.

Good intentions, however, pave the road to hell. Sometimes, you have to get angry.

It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes
Skycobra51 A suitable case for treatment from The US of A Since: Nov, 2013 Relationship Status: Only knew I loved her when I let her go
A suitable case for treatment
#105838: Dec 3rd 2015 at 9:10:54 AM

[up][up]There's probably no right answer to that kind of question that wouldn't offend anyone.

Outside the forum anyway.

edited 3rd Dec '15 9:14:35 AM by Skycobra51

Look upon my privilege ye mighty and despair.
Ogodei Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers from The front lines Since: Jan, 2011
Fuck you, Fascist sympathizers
#105839: Dec 3rd 2015 at 9:20:51 AM

Frankly having Muslim Americans go on a shooting spree is more likely to lead to better gun laws than anything we've had so far, sad as that may be.

Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#105840: Dec 3rd 2015 at 9:29:40 AM

If any god could or/and wanted to stop this, it would have been done the last few hundred times a mass shooting happened.

Using religion as shield and bait to defend a system that has nothing to do with it(no firearms in the Bible, ya know. They kinda need time to get invented and such) is nothing but dishonest quasi-moralism.

It lets you do nothing and let the inconvenient truth of current legal and cultrual situation not working take lives once again, and when you get criticized for it, you can raise your shield with Jesus attached to it like an Egyptian cat, then shout "So you attack me for PRAYER??? How dare you??? I am offended!"

Conveniently shutting down action too. Aren't crocodile tears of self-pity fun? Fuck the lost lives, it's the feeling of being useful without actually being useful that matters here, amrite?

A random person praying? Fuck it, go ahead. It's not like a random Joe/Jane off the street could do anything else, so knock yourself out. But lawmakers whose rampant obstructionism of anything that might help in desperate need to keep the current situation going - they're directly at fault, their "prayers" are crocodile tears and any god worth their salt has adblocked those long ago.

edited 3rd Dec '15 9:33:20 AM by Luminosity

TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
No longer a forum herald
#105841: Dec 3rd 2015 at 9:35:06 AM

Welp, it's pretty much official. Farook was confirmed to be in contact with suspected international terrorists, both by phone and social media.

Hoo boy.

edited 3rd Dec '15 9:39:56 AM by TotemicHero

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
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Luminosity Since: Jun, 2012 Relationship Status: Lovey-Dovey
#105843: Dec 3rd 2015 at 9:39:58 AM

Can't wait for every other shooting in history right up to the death of Franz Ferdinand to be retconned as Muslim fault.

Greenmantle V from Greater Wessex, Britannia Since: Feb, 2010 Relationship Status: Hiding
V
#105844: Dec 3rd 2015 at 9:39:58 AM

[up][up] It had to happen eventually. No doubt there are others.

edited 3rd Dec '15 9:40:09 AM by Greenmantle

Keep Rolling On
FFShinra Since: Jan, 2001
#105845: Dec 3rd 2015 at 9:40:58 AM

Now both parties have a shooting to go crazy about. How swell.

TheHandle United Earth from Stockholm Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: YOU'RE TEARING ME APART LISA
United Earth
#105846: Dec 3rd 2015 at 9:43:12 AM

That's a lot of shootings.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
TotemicHero No longer a forum herald from the next level Since: Dec, 2009
No longer a forum herald
#105847: Dec 3rd 2015 at 9:43:26 AM

I think we should move discussing the shooting itself over to the global terrorism thread from here on out, with this new evidence.

The political implications can still come up here, of course.

Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)
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Hodor2 Since: Jan, 2015
#105849: Dec 3rd 2015 at 9:49:32 AM

Congratulations, President Trump.

LeGarcon Blowout soon fellow Stalker from Skadovsk Since: Aug, 2013 Relationship Status: Gay for Big Boss
Blowout soon fellow Stalker
#105850: Dec 3rd 2015 at 10:40:45 AM

The narrative currently being presented on Fox is that they he wasn't American and was living here on a Pakistani visa and using his home as a "bomb making factory."

Oh really when?

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