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Sandra bullock saved herself with little to no help from NASA. It takes a Matt Damon to kick off a ground based attempt at rescue, and frankly we're much more like to spend money on him

Sandra Bullock would get killed by the next presidential funding cuts. Matt Damon is priceless.

* Hook 25th Anniversary Reunion @ https://www.facebook.com/22Vis...
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* Hook cast (1991): Where Are They Now? [Video]
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- EXCLUSIVE: 'Hook' Turns 25! The Lost Boys Reunite and Remember Robin Williams [Video]
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- 'Hook' Turns 25: Lost Boys Reunite For Photo Shoot, Remember Robin Williams
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- EXCLUSIVE: âHookâ(TM) Turns 25! The Lost Boys Remember Robin Williams on the Second Anniversary of His Death
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- Lost Boys to men! Hook stars reunite in emotional picture 25 years on... without their leader Robin Williams
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All the amendments are necessary and to varying degrees they all protect us and each other. Without the 4th amendment it would be trivial to quell free speech. Same with the 5th. Etc. They all matter. Before the 13th amendment black people were not protected by the 1st amendment and the 2nd actually worked against them. Before the 15th amendment women didn't enjoy full rights of the 1st amendment. They all matter.

The fact that black people were barred from owning firearms is one of the reasons the 13th amendment was passed.

The notion that the 2nd amendment is what protects your constitutional rights is a tired and idiotic argument. First, there are plenty of other thriving democracies that have far more restrictive gun control than the US.

Yeah, look at what a wonderful police state the rest of the world is turning into.

There is nothing special about the US that requires civilians to own guns to protect their rights. Guns are demonstrably not required to protect your civil rights. Furthermore the most successful civil rights movement in the US during the last century was largely a pacifist one. Guns would were mostly counter productive in securing and retaining civil rights. If you want to see what the civil rights movement in the 1960s would have looked like with lots of guns and weapons, see the Israeli/Palestine conflict.

Yet Martin Luther King Jr. almost always had people with guns around him for self-defense.

See the recent shooting in Dallas for an example of how counterproductive guns are in "protecting" your civil rights.

There were several armed protesters in the group who didn't shoot anyone.

Second, if the government decides they want to force you to do something, your little pee shooter isn't worth anything against a real army or police force. Individually it provides no meaningful protection.

Collectively they are not needed - get enough people together to protest and you don't need to shoot anyone.

Yes, that worked well in Tienanmen Square.

If you want to own a gun I'm right with you. I own firearms myself. But the only argument that makes any sense is that you own a gun because you like to own a gun... You aren't going to protect your family or property from real or imagined criminals.

Except when you do.

You don't need a semi-automatic or full automatic gun for any practical purpose. You own a gun because you like to shoot and/or hunt. Occasionally people need one for pest control. Nobody is going to take your gun away.

It sounds as if you would like to take semi-automatic or full automatic guns away from people. Several entertainers recently have advocated for Australian Style gun control which was enforced by mass confiscation.

Arguing against reasonable measures to keep guns out of the hands of crazy people and criminals is indefensible.

If someone is too dangerous to own a gun, why are they on the streets?

Don't forget Ashton Kutcher's recent admission to smoking out the Bush twins!

"Ashton & the Bush Twins Party On!"

...the actor's guild on strike against beings that do not exist. That will be a triumph of surreal/dada-ism.

Already done.