It would have been declared unconstitutional so fast, it wouldn't even be funny. Mind you, the fact that a bill is clearly unconstitutional on it's face has never really stopped a fair number of Congresscritters (or state legislators) from trying to pass bills.
I am not so sanguine about that. Heller was a 5 to 4 decision and Scalia is dead.
How much of your guns helped out in Orlando? Or any other mass shooting?
By definition a civilian with a firearm will never stop a mass shooting because if they did, then there was not a mass shooting and if they did not, then they failed to shop a mass shooting.
Federal law forbids the use of the military for domestic purpose.
Given how law enforcement is equipped and operates today, this does not matter however there are exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act including drugs, riots, and national disasters which conceivably swallow the law. The drug exception allowed the military to be used during the initial Koresh raid and the military had no problems helping with the confiscation of firearms during Katrina.
Wouldn't 'long waiting lists' mean that they're actually unsuccessful, in that they're not meeting demand? Not to mention that "the projects" have a long history of extreme violent crime rates and other criminal activities?
But long waiting lists mean that these policies *are* successful for those who control the market. Many cities, New York included, have among other things exported their crime by limiting the low income housing market.
I always had problems because if water got onto the hot exhaust manifold and piping, the steam would get into the distributor, condense, and short it out.
You had a crack in your distributor cap, or old crappy wires.
It was the inside of the distributor cap which was shorting out do to condensation and never the wires. I did regular tune ups and changed the distributor and rotor several times and they all had the problem. For whatever reason, the design was just not sealed well enough.
I always had problems because if water got onto the hot exhaust manifold and piping, the steam would get into the distributor, condense, and short it out.
You get water in the points, which are inside the distributor, and that will definitely shut you down until they dry out.
A little bit of water dispersal solvent, formula 40, sold under the brand name WD-40, usually helps get you running again.
I know someone who did exactly this because water got into the distributor cap and when he went to start the engine, residual fumes from the WD-40 detonated blowing the distributor cap off.
Law enforcement officers shoot more bystanders than lawful carrying civilians do when defending themselves and others. There is a good reason for this however; law enforcement generally shows up in response to an incident while someone on the scene before the incident has more context and a greater potential for situational awareness.
Law enforcement officers are also less law abiding than civilians who are licensed to carry but maybe they have more opportunity to be convicted of crimes.
I have an old Farnell paper catalog somewhere and it dwarfed the contemporary Digi-Key, Mouser, and Newark catalogs although about the same size as the Allied catalog. I was always a little envious of people in the EU who could buy from them because they carried parts which I could have used that were available in the US only with great difficulty.
It's a world filled with shambling, mindless monstrosities, totally incapable of logic, forethought, or fulfilling anything but their most base needs. Also, there are zombies.
- They started using components with non-standard dimensions. In particular, the PSUs in their desktop cases did not conform to any standard set of dimensions, so if you had a wonky PSU (and Alienware PSUs do not have fantastic reliability), then you were either scouring eBay for a replacement and hoping you weren't getting one that had already failed for somebody else, or making use of Alienware's own support. This all felt like an attempt to push the (very expensive) warranty services, by making self-repair of systems harder.
Dell used to use power supplies with the same dimensions as ATX power supplies and the same connector but with a slightly different pinout resulting in catastrophic destruction and fires if a standard ATX power supply was used to replace a Dell "looks like an ATX power supply but is not". At least with non-standard dimensions, this will not happen.
Of course they are still being jerks by using non-standard parts and it *is* a money grab.
So you can carry in a bar in these states as long as you don't drink? Sort of like a designated shooter? That doesn't sound right. How about "designated gunman"?
It is more like a designated responsible adult. I do not visit bars for alcohol but to be social and the same law which would make it unlawful for an armed citizen to drink applies outside of bars just like drunk driving laws.
Most but not all states forbid it of course making establishments which serve liqueur just another victim disarmament zone and soft target. Of course there is no legal requirement for them to accept responsibility for this in any way. It must be nice to pay with the lives of others.
It's not the absence of gun laws that bother me so much as a culture that has such an obsession with guns that we're even having this discussion. And I say that as a gun owner for more than 40 years, and someone who's qualified (in the past) as both a Marksman and a Sharpshooter. But I guess that makes me an old man who grew up in the US before there was an individual constitutional right to own guns (prior to the pro-active NRA era, which started with the Reagan Administration and culminated in the Heller decision).
The NRA woke up to the political problem after gun owners were screwed over by Congress and especially by Reagan and the misleadingly named FOPA of 86; it was hardly surprising that Reagan signed it since he supported gun control as governor of California. There was every reason to expect legislation by slices until the gun control people had complete prohibition.
As far as the courts go, there was a coordinated effort to corrupt the original meaning of the 2nd amendment going back to at least US versus Miller. It extended even as far as the ACLU being founded with the provision that it never defend and 2nd amendment which was decades before the NRA got involved. It continues with the recent ruling from the 9th court of appeals.
If Hillary wins I expect the collective rights interpretation to be upheld and Heller overturned after she replaces Scalia and a suitable test case can be produced. US versus Heller was a 5 to 4 decision so it will take her a few years but she can accomplish everything needed to begin implementing prohibition.
Tomorrow, he'll be highly confident, this lone gunmen sent encrypted messages to, well, somebody, anybody; which is evil and must be countered by installing back-doors.
Or the lack of detected communications, encrypted or not, will indicate that sophisticated steganography was used which must be countered by active monitoring of all civilian computers.
Just handle it the way California handles concealed weapon permits; require "good cause" and then deny everybody except those with political connections. The courts just ruled that fine.
The gun owner who committed this act was licensed, had background checks run, and his firearms were effectively registered. Did you have a suggestion which would have made a difference in this case?
... it's really a shame that no one in the staff (save for one guy at the entrance) had a concealed firearm on them. This could be over in minutes with fairly minimal casualties.
Let's assume the best case in that the person with the concealed firearm stopped the guy before he injured or killed anybody and no bystanders were shot. In that case, nobody except the presumed shooter was injured or killed so in retrospect the situation was not very dangerous at all and the result of someone with a concealed firearm is just another firearm injury or death. Tails they win, heads we lose.
Yeah. It would be such a good idea to have a club filled with drunk armed people. This never leads to bad consquences.
Too bad the only alternative is to have drunk people with firearms. Why isn't everybody who drives away from the club arrested for driving while under the influence?
Some states allow people to carry firearms in establishments which serve alcohol. I guess that explains all of the drunk firefights they have.
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It would have been declared unconstitutional so fast, it wouldn't even be funny. Mind you, the fact that a bill is clearly unconstitutional on it's face has never really stopped a fair number of Congresscritters (or state legislators) from trying to pass bills.
I am not so sanguine about that. Heller was a 5 to 4 decision and Scalia is dead.
How much of your guns helped out in Orlando? Or any other mass shooting?
By definition a civilian with a firearm will never stop a mass shooting because if they did, then there was not a mass shooting and if they did not, then they failed to shop a mass shooting.
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Given how law enforcement is equipped and operates today, this does not matter however there are exceptions to the Posse Comitatus Act including drugs, riots, and national disasters which conceivably swallow the law. The drug exception allowed the military to be used during the initial Koresh raid and the military had no problems helping with the confiscation of firearms during Katrina.
Wouldn't 'long waiting lists' mean that they're actually unsuccessful, in that they're not meeting demand? Not to mention that "the projects" have a long history of extreme violent crime rates and other criminal activities?
But long waiting lists mean that these policies *are* successful for those who control the market. Many cities, New York included, have among other things exported their crime by limiting the low income housing market.
I always had problems because if water got onto the hot exhaust manifold and piping, the steam would get into the distributor, condense, and short it out.
You had a crack in your distributor cap, or old crappy wires.
It was the inside of the distributor cap which was shorting out do to condensation and never the wires. I did regular tune ups and changed the distributor and rotor several times and they all had the problem. For whatever reason, the design was just not sealed well enough.
I always had problems because if water got onto the hot exhaust manifold and piping, the steam would get into the distributor, condense, and short it out.
I know someone who did exactly this because water got into the distributor cap and when he went to start the engine, residual fumes from the WD-40 detonated blowing the distributor cap off.
So what Elon Musk is saying is that if Democratic senator Ted Kennedy had driven a Tesla Model S, Mary Jo Kopechne would have lived?
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Law enforcement officers shoot more bystanders than lawful carrying civilians do when defending themselves and others. There is a good reason for this however; law enforcement generally shows up in response to an incident while someone on the scene before the incident has more context and a greater potential for situational awareness.
Law enforcement officers are also less law abiding than civilians who are licensed to carry but maybe they have more opportunity to be convicted of crimes.
Which part of the NSA is it which sabotages encryption standards?
Maybe they were afraid of being sued by Oracle.
I have an old Farnell paper catalog somewhere and it dwarfed the contemporary Digi-Key, Mouser, and Newark catalogs although about the same size as the Allied catalog. I was always a little envious of people in the EU who could buy from them because they carried parts which I could have used that were available in the US only with great difficulty.
The ship sinks.
It's a world filled with shambling, mindless monstrosities, totally incapable of logic, forethought, or fulfilling anything but their most base needs. Also, there are zombies.
A microwave oven works for this also.
Dell used to use power supplies with the same dimensions as ATX power supplies and the same connector but with a slightly different pinout resulting in catastrophic destruction and fires if a standard ATX power supply was used to replace a Dell "looks like an ATX power supply but is not". At least with non-standard dimensions, this will not happen.
Of course they are still being jerks by using non-standard parts and it *is* a money grab.
It is more like a designated responsible adult. I do not visit bars for alcohol but to be social and the same law which would make it unlawful for an armed citizen to drink applies outside of bars just like drunk driving laws.
Most but not all states forbid it of course making establishments which serve liqueur just another victim disarmament zone and soft target. Of course there is no legal requirement for them to accept responsibility for this in any way. It must be nice to pay with the lives of others.
The NRA woke up to the political problem after gun owners were screwed over by Congress and especially by Reagan and the misleadingly named FOPA of 86; it was hardly surprising that Reagan signed it since he supported gun control as governor of California. There was every reason to expect legislation by slices until the gun control people had complete prohibition.
As far as the courts go, there was a coordinated effort to corrupt the original meaning of the 2nd amendment going back to at least US versus Miller. It extended even as far as the ACLU being founded with the provision that it never defend and 2nd amendment which was decades before the NRA got involved. It continues with the recent ruling from the 9th court of appeals.
If Hillary wins I expect the collective rights interpretation to be upheld and Heller overturned after she replaces Scalia and a suitable test case can be produced. US versus Heller was a 5 to 4 decision so it will take her a few years but she can accomplish everything needed to begin implementing prohibition.
Maybe he had service through AT&T and was thereby prevented from communicating with anybody.
Or the lack of detected communications, encrypted or not, will indicate that sophisticated steganography was used which must be countered by active monitoring of all civilian computers.
Just handle it the way California handles concealed weapon permits; require "good cause" and then deny everybody except those with political connections. The courts just ruled that fine.
The gun owner who committed this act was licensed, had background checks run, and his firearms were effectively registered. Did you have a suggestion which would have made a difference in this case?
Let's assume the best case in that the person with the concealed firearm stopped the guy before he injured or killed anybody and no bystanders were shot. In that case, nobody except the presumed shooter was injured or killed so in retrospect the situation was not very dangerous at all and the result of someone with a concealed firearm is just another firearm injury or death. Tails they win, heads we lose.
Too bad the only alternative is to have drunk people with firearms. Why isn't everybody who drives away from the club arrested for driving while under the influence?
Some states allow people to carry firearms in establishments which serve alcohol. I guess that explains all of the drunk firefights they have.
"Sir, you have increased the budget for the security forces tenfold but cut social services to nothing."
"Yes, and when the revolution comes, I will be ready."