The most dangerous place in any airport is the massive, serpentine line of people waiting for the bullshit security theater obedience ritual. We've known ever since the invention of hand grenades that bunching up is fucking dangerous.
I would guess that the secret service objects, since their usual protocol is to forbid privately-owned firearms anywhere near anybody they're assigned to protect.
Since Reagan's time (actually well before then if you look at far-right groups like the John Birchers) there has been a mass movement to deregulate businesses.
Regrettably, this turns out not to be the case. The rate of piling on regulations slowed a bit during the Regan years, but the major de-regulations like ending AT&T's government-granted monopoly, and deregulating air travel and interstate trucking predated him.
Regulations on activities like medicine and banking ran amok, resulting in the healthcare crisis and the Great Recession.
Since your parents obviously failed to teach you right from wrong, I'll point out that theft is when you take another person's money or property by force or the threat of force.
Tell Facebook to quit begging for my phone number. You don't need it, and I don't want to give it to you. Every time it happens, I see Zuck as a clingy bitch.
Nokia didn't go out of business because of accepting large orders for handsets. They went belly-up because they were slow to react to innovation by their competition.
A gun is a vital piece of emergency equipment. I hope you never need one, but if you're not responsible enough to be prepared, then I hope someone better than you is on hand to save your smug ass.
One thing that's very clear to me is that if everything Al Gore claims is true, then we're going to need free markets to cope with it. Imagine if we really did have to evacuate our coastal cities: can you imagine having incompetent organizations like FEMA running the operation?
Bernie's never had any power before, and the things he's said in praise of dictators like Castro, Chavez and Ortega don't give me any confidence that he would refrain from abusing power if he got it.
Not only that, the language of the second amendment doesn't even presume to be granting the right to self-defense. It acknowledges it as pre-existing, and forbids the government from infringing it.
the SCOTUS has been fucking us more and more recently with bullshit like Citizens United.
You haven't been harmed in any way at all by the CU decision. It's a rare example of the court getting something right.
The first amendment prohibits the government from forcibly shutting people up, or stopping them spending money to get their message out, whether they're acting individually or in groups, and whether or not that group is a corporation.
Reality is 57% of hate crimes are still against Jews, ..and that's why I can't fathom why so many Jews still come down on the wrong side of this issue. As the JFPO says, "never again!"
Get off your fucking high horse. The long and short of it is, shit happens, and it's better to be prepared than unprepared. Go try telling any Korean shopkeeper in Los Angeles that they shouldn't be armed because dipshits like you think guns are icky.
This would be a good time to remind people that the NRA was founded by a group of Union Army officers shortly after the civil war to fight against southern sheriffs who were stealing guns from the freedmen. A gun is a very handy device for stopping a lynching.
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The most dangerous place in any airport is the massive, serpentine line of people waiting for the bullshit security theater obedience ritual. We've known ever since the invention of hand grenades that bunching up is fucking dangerous.
-jcr
So why does anyone object?
I would guess that the secret service objects, since their usual protocol is to forbid privately-owned firearms anywhere near anybody they're assigned to protect.
-jcr
Please explain why this isn't suitable for Slashdot,
It's a standard consumer scare story. Does the phrase "stuff that matters" ring any bells with you?
-jcr
What the FUCK is this doing on slashdot?
-jcr
Your own idiocy is thinking that non-coercive government can exist.
When did I make any such claim?
-jcr
iPads last a long time, and as fast as they sold initially, it's not surprising that most of the people who want one already have one.
-jcr
You don't know shit. Quit pretending you do.
-jcr
Since Reagan's time (actually well before then if you look at far-right groups like the John Birchers) there has been a mass movement to deregulate businesses.
Regrettably, this turns out not to be the case. The rate of piling on regulations slowed a bit during the Regan years, but the major de-regulations like ending AT&T's government-granted monopoly, and deregulating air travel and interstate trucking predated him.
Regulations on activities like medicine and banking ran amok, resulting in the healthcare crisis and the Great Recession.
-jcr
We overthrew our king in 1776, in case you hadn't noticed.
Now run along, I'm sure you have some boots to lick and asses to kiss.
-jcr
Since your parents obviously failed to teach you right from wrong, I'll point out that theft is when you take another person's money or property by force or the threat of force.
Taxation is theft, QED.
-jcr
If you don't like rent you pay
The country is not the property of the government, and neither am I.
-jcr
tax is a debt owed to the government
No, taxation is theft.
-jcr
This country's debt and overspending problem are too big to solve by a few rich people sacrificing themselves for public accolades.
Bill Whittle does a good job of explaining the scale of the problem here.
-jcr
Tell Facebook to quit begging for my phone number. You don't need it, and I don't want to give it to you. Every time it happens, I see Zuck as a clingy bitch.
-jcr
If the numbers work out, I could see buying a couple of autonomous cars myself and vending them to the public through Uber.
-jcr
Nokia didn't go out of business because of accepting large orders for handsets. They went belly-up because they were slow to react to innovation by their competition.
-jcr
The 100% White Population of the Western Frontier
What's your next guess, sparky?
-jcr
A gun is a vital piece of emergency equipment. I hope you never need one, but if you're not responsible enough to be prepared, then I hope someone better than you is on hand to save your smug ass.
-jcr
One thing that's very clear to me is that if everything Al Gore claims is true, then we're going to need free markets to cope with it. Imagine if we really did have to evacuate our coastal cities: can you imagine having incompetent organizations like FEMA running the operation?
-jcr
Bernie's never had any power before, and the things he's said in praise of dictators like Castro, Chavez and Ortega don't give me any confidence that he would refrain from abusing power if he got it.
-jcr
Not only that, the language of the second amendment doesn't even presume to be granting the right to self-defense. It acknowledges it as pre-existing, and forbids the government from infringing it.
-jcr
the SCOTUS has been fucking us more and more recently with bullshit like Citizens United.
You haven't been harmed in any way at all by the CU decision. It's a rare example of the court getting something right.
The first amendment prohibits the government from forcibly shutting people up, or stopping them spending money to get their message out, whether they're acting individually or in groups, and whether or not that group is a corporation.
-jcr
Reality is 57% of hate crimes are still against Jews, ..and that's why I can't fathom why so many Jews still come down on the wrong side of this issue. As the JFPO says, "never again!"
-jcr
Get off your fucking high horse. The long and short of it is, shit happens, and it's better to be prepared than unprepared. Go try telling any Korean shopkeeper in Los Angeles that they shouldn't be armed because dipshits like you think guns are icky.
-jcr
Or disenfranchised citizens.
This would be a good time to remind people that the NRA was founded by a group of Union Army officers shortly after the civil war to fight against southern sheriffs who were stealing guns from the freedmen. A gun is a very handy device for stopping a lynching.
-jcr