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Thanks for the cheap adolescent insult, which only indicates your inability to construct a cogent argument. And you prove my point... pro-gun just as much if not more than pro-control folks will not discuss reasonably, only retreat to their corner and sling feces.

Like a simian.

Yeah, that's another empty remark. Your true colors seem to be those of an entrenched fanatic who can't listen to anything not expressed in your favorite key words and in total agreement with your dogma.

That's not how democracy works. To you anyone who disagrees with anything you think is probably a "communist". That thinking isn't even worth arguing with.

Yet again the elementary playground attention getting rants...further demonstrations of your perceptions of reasoned discourse...

Barros your cred is sinking fast...
 
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hummm...where to begin..
1. Declaration of Independence quote,
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. unquote

2. I pick India, Pakistan, Iran, Iran, the rest of the *stans associated with the Soviet bloc...you were saying?

3. This is civil.... ”You deserve an obscene response for that insult...” so much for reasoned discourse...
Oh, so you reversed yourself and retained "pursuit of happiness" instead of changing it to "property". Right, that's what I said,

You picked former colonies, poor countries, and the 3 you mentioned were not in the "Soviet bloc". You are avoiding the fact that the SOCIALIST (not communist) countries of the world are the developed ones, with superior conditions to those of the USA, hamstrung by Reaganomics and conservative corporate-shill policies. So my point stands, demosocialism is superior to what we have for the most part in the USA, which is what Ron Paul called "a corporate state".

Yes, being civil, I refrained from answering you as you deserve for your cheap insult. I'm attempting to discuss things seriously, which is difficult with dogmatic cultists.

I'm wondering what we CAN do to stop all the gun violence, such as today in Sta. Clarita, CA. I do not want measures enacted which will inhibit my ability to own and carry guns. But with the intransigence of the NRA and its followers, the reactions we will get will not be to the liking of gun owners. It's time to engage in dialogue, on this and many issues. There was a time when we could do that, but the reasonable Republicans like Goldwater, Dole, McCain, Dirksen, etc., are no longer in government. Now we have a garbage scow full of corporate yes-men.
 
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Yet again the elementary playground attention getting rants...further demonstrations of your perceptions of reasoned discourse...

Barros your cred is sinking fast...
That's an interesting observation from someone who's saying nothing.

You exemplify our national problem, so polarized you can't even converse, just call names and spew insults.

I'm reading nothing about issues or possible solutions, just the usual hysterical circling of the wagons.

This country used to be better than that, when we could get things done, when everyone could discuss issues and seek solutions. How nice if that ambience would return, but you're not helping that happen.

Everyone but those who agree with you is a "snowflake", right?
 

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That's an interesting observation from someone who's saying nothing.

You exemplify our national problem, so polarized you can't even converse, just call names and spew insults.

I'm reading nothing about issues or possible solutions, just the usual hysterical circling of the wagons.

This country used to be better than that, when we could get things done, when everyone could discuss issues and seek solutions. How nice if that ambience would return, but you're not helping that happen.

Everyone but those who agree with you is a "snowflake", right?

sorry Barros, I’ve called you names and spew’d insults towards you ~ really?

as you have once again engaged in yet further grade school stomp’g up and down in a tantrum to get someone‘s, I mean anyone’s, attention...tisk tisk reasoned discourse seems to be fail’g and slipping from your grasp.
 

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Oh, so you reversed yourself and retained "pursuit of happiness" instead of changing it to "property". Right, that's what I said,

You picked former colonies, poor countries, and the 3 you mentioned were not in the "Soviet bloc". You are avoiding the fact that the SOCIALIST (not communist) countries of the world are the developed ones, with superior conditions to those of the USA, hamstrung by Reaganomics and conservative corporate-shill policies. So my point stands, demosocialism is superior to what we have for the most part in the USA, which is what Ron Paul called "a corporate state".

Yes, being civil, I refrained from answering you as you deserve for your cheap insult. I'm attempting to discuss things seriously, which is difficult with dogmatic cultists.

I'm wondering what we CAN do to stop all the gun violence, such as today in Sta. Clarita, CA. I do not want measures enacted which will inhibit my ability to own and carry guns. But with the intransigence of the NRA and its followers, the reactions we will get will not be to the liking of gun owners. It's time to engage in dialogue, on this and many issues. There was a time when we could do that, but the reasonable Republicans like Goldwater, Dole, McCain, Dirksen, etc., are no longer in government. Now we have a garbage scow full of corporate yes-men.

my cheap insult?

thank goodness they are either dead but otherwise out of the govermental lime lite...yes an advocate for term limits...👌

so what actual activities, except stalk trespassers or want to take out a neighbour in NM, have you participated in to advocate for the country’s citizenry for firearm advocation?

hummm the rest of the ‘stans weren’t part of the Soviet bloc...
KAZAKHSTAN
KYRGYZSTAN
TAJIKISTAN
TURKMENISTAN
UZBEKISTAN
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You just claimed I reject USA principles. You deserve an obscene response for that insult, but I'll try to be civil, considering that likely you're just too fanatic to use reason.

The line is "...and pursuit of happiness". You just changed the words, while claiming I reject basic principles! If the founders meant "property", they would have said so. Thanks, but I don't think we need you to change the Constitution of Declaration for us.

No, your screed about liberals is ultra-right nonsense. Talk like that makes you seem like far more a danger to our freedom than any liberal. Oh you name poorer countries, but no, other developed nations have a higher standard of living than we do. All the stats confirm this. In the USA we have to work harder, are more stressed, receive fewer benefits, and end up with less money left over after we've paid for all the things covered by their higher taxes. I lived in Europe and did observe any of this "lacking" of which you speak.

No, that jingoistic nonsense that the USA is uniquely wonderful is cliched and not supported by the facts.

We just had another school shooting. Interesting that that sort of thing is not rampantly occurring in those other developed nations as it does here. We have a far higher % of the population incarcerated (so are USA people more criminally-inclined than in other countries?). We have a huge areas with rampant poverty such as you do not find in those countries. We have an unhappy and angry populace.

Do some research on those countries and then tell me how terrible they are. Take your pick: Canada, France, Japan, NZ, Denmark, UK, Germany.

We are backwards, and the cause is Reaganomics and all the misguided corporate-serving policies enacted since by the corporate-shill faux-conservatives who now comprise the GOP, along with the bought-and-sold Democrats who go along with them.
Of course you reject "USA" principles. Your words clearly indicate this to be true

The principles of individual liberty are not USA principles, by the way, but principles of our human condition, individual liberty is a gift from God...of course, if you do not believe in God...

The 2A is the singular example that our rights to life, liberty, and happiness are preexisting to any formation of a nation state. The Founders enshrined property in Constitution as the penultimate right of happiness...if your were interested to delve deeper into The Founders reasoning on private property rights contained in the Federalist/Anti-Federalist papers you would read that this is true...read the DoI and the Constitution.

No man can be "happy" if he is deprived of his private property...then again, perhaps there are a few folks who are fine with state granted property permissions.

In other words, private property is the foundation of our human existence. All humans seek to acquire the private property of their choosing without state interference. Our European cousins do not enjoy private property rights as we enjoy them here in the USA.

They are not permitted to own firearms for SD. You claiming to have lived in Europe must know this and yet you hold up Europe as the shinning castle on the hill where prosperity is concerned...typical of liberals and nothing but a distraction to avoid the difficult discussion of individual liberty.

The Founders created a document, that you apparently know little about, or know a great deal about but reject its fundamental tenants. I suspect the latter is the case rather than the former.

It is obvious to all who read your words that you hold individual liberty in low regard and you hold the state to be above the individual.
 

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sorry Barros, I’ve called you names and spew’d insults towards you ~ really?

as you have once again engaged in yet further grade school stomp’g up and down in a tantrum to get someone‘s, I mean anyone’s, attention...tisk tisk reasoned discourse seems to be fail’g and slipping from your grasp.
Individual liberty discussions are predicated on the acceptance that your fellow citizen may do whatever he desires within the confines of the law...and, that he does not violate your rights.

Liberals hate this concept because it is counter to their desire to hold you to their perceptions of societal norms.

Ignore the liberal who enjoys the benefits of our constitution while extolling the virtues of countries that deny our fundamental human rights...IOW, if Europe is all that and a bag of chips liberals are free to travel to their promised land of choice.
 
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sorry Barros, I’ve called you names and spew’d insults towards you ~ really?

as you have once again engaged in yet further grade school stomp’g up and down in a tantrum to get someone‘s, I mean anyone’s, attention...tisk tisk reasoned discourse seems to be fail’g and slipping from your grasp.
I'm calling names? I'm advocating discourse, and you run from it, apparently unable or afraid to discuss anything.

I'm throwing no tantrum, I'd like to discuss tactics and policies.

Apparently if you're so deep into your dogma that you're unable to think, you will not be able to do that.

You exemplify what is wrong with this country today. What is your plan, just start shooting Democrats?
 

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I'm calling names? I'm advocating discourse, and you run from it, apparently unable or afraid to discuss anything.

I'm throwing no tantrum, I'd like to discuss tactics and policies.

Apparently if you're so deep into your dogma that [1] you're unable to think, you will not be able to do that.

[2] You exemplify what is wrong with this country today. What is your plan, just start shooting Democrats?

ok basso, so far the only tactics I seen brought up by you is you're staking of trespassers or stating the police informant neighbour should be shot or you stating you are going to enter the public shooting fracas with gun drawn and a blazing. Oh and you are scared of getting taken out by the responding LE's due to your entering a public shooting fracas with gun drawn and a blazing.

I shouldn't forget your childish grade school insults towards myself and other members.

Tho basso...i so love your talk on a public forum of instigating sedition...oh is that the policies you wish to discuss...sedition?
 

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Basso, how did one of your respondents reply to one of your posts on Nazi logic on a different forum...oh ya...

quote: You need to put your crack pipe down… its affecting your thinking… unquote

to which you responded...quote
No argument, little boy?

You can’t even defend your notion that cops should execute people in the street even for non-threatening behavior… yes, that’s fascism. If you support it you’re a traitor. Now go read the Bill of Rights, and if you can’t get your little mind around democracy, leave. unquote.

cite: https://medium.com/p/87068b82b4bb/responses/show

much more insulting tirades on the site.

oh basso please tell this forum's membership me about this bravado ~ quote: Some of my friends were tortured and killed by fascist death squads, so talk $hit to me, eh? or What happened to my friends and my experience living under a fascist government...unquote

wow i truly recommend members visit the cite and go to the comments and read this members violent name calling rants towards others as well as get an unfiltered view of this member's view of our country.

 
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That's correct. We are a Constitutional Republic.
Are we, really any more?

I don't see a whole lot of the limited powers covered by the Constitution and the Supreme Court is more than willing to support expansions of the State.

(wickard vs filburn, obamacare ruling, ect. ect)
 

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For "their" benefit? I think they are thinking about all the victims of mass shootings, an issue which concerns me as well. Doing nothing in response to this epidemic is not an option.

I don't believe that "they" can't be reasoned with. But, tell me, are the pro-gun contingents willing to talk, to be reasonable? With both sides exhibiting intransigence, nothing will be accomplished.

This is like most issues today in this country, and I think whichever side one is on on whichever issue, we have to find a way to communicate, cooperate and compromise. Just look at Congress! They get NOTHING done in the current climate. This has to change, for everyone's benefit.

I'd bet productive conversations could occur if it were set up so that both sides could talk, rather than scream at each other. I'm not saying this only in the context of the 2nd-A issues, but regarding everything.

Otherwise, what shall we do? Have another civil war? Oh that would be fun...

Actually doing nothing is the only option you controllers have.

No gun control law has EVER accomplished a damn thing but burden the law abiding.
You will never stop anyone who really wants an AK , AR, bazooka or bomb from getting one. That's been proven for near a century now of failed gun control laws.

All you and your kind is going to accomplish is start a war when and if the gov is stupid enough to try what you propose.

There is no middle ground to talk about. The RTKABA existed before this nation. And the constitution. Thd 2A grants nothing. It simply protects in one clear sentence that preexisting right to have, carry , use, any and all weapons that exist if one can acquire them.

Repeal of all gun regulation is ALL that is acceptable, or permitted by the constitution.
 

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Yeah, that's another empty remark. Your true colors seem to be those of an entrenched fanatic who can't listen to anything not expressed in your favorite key words and in total agreement with your dogma.

That's not how democracy works. To you anyone who disagrees with anything you think is probably a "communist". That thinking isn't even worth arguing with.
You do not live in a democracy. That is a basic fact you liberals need to learn before moving on to attempted tyranny 101.
 

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er, uh, hummm ghost you known barros hasn't beeb out here for almost a month and ping'd john pierce to be unenrolled from the forum?
 

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er, uh, hummm ghost you known barros hasn't beeb out here for almost a month and ping'd john pierce to be unenrolled from the forum?
That's what I thought but this thread pops up as having new posts . Must be my phone clitching .
 
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