If they can prove beyond reasonable doubt that you sold bullets and a gun to a person you believed was going to use them to kill someone, then yes, you could be charged with a crime.
Since there are so many legitimate uses for guns, and the gun lobby is so powerful, and it's nearly impossible to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you thought whoever you were selling a gun to was going to use it for non-illegal means, it's very unlikely for this to happen.
To this day I have nightmares about the Chryssalids. It's like an Alien Zombie apocalypse rolled into one nightmarish black killing machine. Science can't save us, nothing can save us, we're doomed, DOOOOOMED!
There comes a time when you realize you can't just hide out in your own little clique, you have to be able to interact with other people. Now, as you grow older, physical violence becomes less and less acceptable, to the point where anyone throwing a punch in their late twenties or later is justifiably scorned.
However, growing a backbone when you're young, and having the knowledge that if something came down to a physical confrontation (even though you know it never will) you'd be able to hold your own gives you a confidence that many people who spent their youths hiding from conflict or avoiding it will never possess.
There's very little difference between the confidence needed to stand up to, say, a bully on the schoolgrounds, and your boss being abuse with their authority over you.
I was usually the weaker party while growing up. For me, it was pretty motivating to work harder to become one of the stronger parties. In retrospect, getting picked on or even beaten up once in a while is a whole lot more effective at motivating you to grow a spine than any amount of coddling.
Eh, there's a very real fear that nuclear weapons, if acquired by Iran, would lead to Nuclear war.
Either the leaders believe their own propaganda and really thing israel should be wiped off the map - or else Israel will believe the threat of Iran with nuclear weapons is too great, and order a pre-emptive strike which will THEN provoke Iran to launch them.
It's very hard to tell how much of what comes out of Iran is just saber-rattling propaganda, and how much is really batshit-crazy religious belief.
Even under Bush, pulling out of Iraq has been scheduled for "about a year from now" for the past couple years.
I spent a few years in the military watching the lack of progress first-hand, and hearing about promised pull-outs. I'm out now, and the G.I. bill is pretty sweet, but I'm still a little bitter on the whole issue is all.
Historically, politicians are pretty shitty deciders of military policy. Let the Generals have a great deal more free reign, and we're likely to see better results.
Unless you're talking about how he hasn't followed up at all on all those promises to get us out of Iraq he made during the Campaign. That's a pretty legitimate complaint.
The University of Maryland != the University of Maryland University College.
UMUC has an administrative campus in Maryland itself, and satellite campuses on military bases all around the world (Germany, Japan, Iraq, Afghanistan, probably even more) - they provide educational opportunities to servicemen who would otherwise have none, but they're about on par with a community college as far as academics are concerned.
Came from a relatively poor family; not poverty stricken, but poor enough that if I wanted to go to college, I'd have to pay for it myself. Dicked around too much in High School to qualify for a full ride scholarship, being in debt 'till I'm 30 didn't appeal to me, so the military it was.
I was smart enough to do my research, spent four years in an Air Force Communications job, spent my time in the desert chilling in a concrete bunker for 12 hours a day, and came out with the next four years of my life paid for.
I'm well aware most military actions are wasteful bullshit, the war in Iraq is all about war profiteering, and Afghanistan was only barely justified when we went in, to say nothing of these days. I just don't care.
Remember back in high school, where you could sleep through class and still get an 'A' because the courses were so easy all you had to do was be conscious for the tests?
That describes your average UMUC class.
I've been in 'real' school on the G.I. bill for about a year now, and the change in quality of education and difficulty of classes is very noticeable.
When I was in the military, the most prominent college available on base (stationed overseas) was called "The University of Maryland University College"
It's as much of a university as, say, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic.
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try harder.
sorry, I wanted to say either non-legal or illegal, and ended up combining them both to make utter nonsense of that statement^
If they can prove beyond reasonable doubt that you sold bullets and a gun to a person you believed was going to use them to kill someone, then yes, you could be charged with a crime.
Since there are so many legitimate uses for guns, and the gun lobby is so powerful, and it's nearly impossible to prove beyond reasonable doubt that you thought whoever you were selling a gun to was going to use it for non-illegal means, it's very unlikely for this to happen.
The USA is the only country in the world.
Everything else is just a proxy state.
Explain the human history of eating meat pre-20th century.
Sometimes people are just deliberately fucking with you
Don't worry about it so much.
Language isn't immutable. If a word is used "improperly" over a great deal of time, it eventually acqires that "improper" meaning.
To this day I have nightmares about the Chryssalids. It's like an Alien Zombie apocalypse rolled into one nightmarish black killing machine. Science can't save us, nothing can save us, we're doomed, DOOOOOMED!
There comes a time when you realize you can't just hide out in your own little clique, you have to be able to interact with other people. Now, as you grow older, physical violence becomes less and less acceptable, to the point where anyone throwing a punch in their late twenties or later is justifiably scorned.
However, growing a backbone when you're young, and having the knowledge that if something came down to a physical confrontation (even though you know it never will) you'd be able to hold your own gives you a confidence that many people who spent their youths hiding from conflict or avoiding it will never possess.
There's very little difference between the confidence needed to stand up to, say, a bully on the schoolgrounds, and your boss being abuse with their authority over you.
Not really.
I was usually the weaker party while growing up. For me, it was pretty motivating to work harder to become one of the stronger parties. In retrospect, getting picked on or even beaten up once in a while is a whole lot more effective at motivating you to grow a spine than any amount of coddling.
Communists aren't really people. C'mon, you know this one already.
I for one look at porn more frequently when I'm having relationship issues.
The correlation is there certainly, but the causation, at least anecdotally for me, is that not having sex in real life makes me frustrated.
(in before no-one has sex on /.)
Eh, there's a very real fear that nuclear weapons, if acquired by Iran, would lead to Nuclear war.
Either the leaders believe their own propaganda and really thing israel should be wiped off the map - or else Israel will believe the threat of Iran with nuclear weapons is too great, and order a pre-emptive strike which will THEN provoke Iran to launch them.
It's very hard to tell how much of what comes out of Iran is just saber-rattling propaganda, and how much is really batshit-crazy religious belief.
This is why I never buy arguments about why dressing well is so important.
Odd, this seems to prove that dressing is important.
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Even under Bush, pulling out of Iraq has been scheduled for "about a year from now" for the past couple years.
I spent a few years in the military watching the lack of progress first-hand, and hearing about promised pull-outs. I'm out now, and the G.I. bill is pretty sweet, but I'm still a little bitter on the whole issue is all.
Some people are "not in favor if having the government run health care"
Some people "Use the word obamacare"
The groups overlap somewhat, but they're not equivalent. You fail at logic.
Historically, politicians are pretty shitty deciders of military policy. Let the Generals have a great deal more free reign, and we're likely to see better results.
Unless you're talking about how he hasn't followed up at all on all those promises to get us out of Iraq he made during the Campaign. That's a pretty legitimate complaint.
Yeah, that wasn't there when I posted the comment.
Oops.
a friend of mine made up the article for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javier_Arroyo
and it's been there for about a year now.
The University of Maryland != the University of Maryland University College.
UMUC has an administrative campus in Maryland itself, and satellite campuses on military bases all around the world (Germany, Japan, Iraq, Afghanistan, probably even more) - they provide educational opportunities to servicemen who would otherwise have none, but they're about on par with a community college as far as academics are concerned.
G.I. Bill mostly.
Came from a relatively poor family; not poverty stricken, but poor enough that if I wanted to go to college, I'd have to pay for it myself. Dicked around too much in High School to qualify for a full ride scholarship, being in debt 'till I'm 30 didn't appeal to me, so the military it was.
I was smart enough to do my research, spent four years in an Air Force Communications job, spent my time in the desert chilling in a concrete bunker for 12 hours a day, and came out with the next four years of my life paid for.
I'm well aware most military actions are wasteful bullshit, the war in Iraq is all about war profiteering, and Afghanistan was only barely justified when we went in, to say nothing of these days. I just don't care.
Remember back in high school, where you could sleep through class and still get an 'A' because the courses were so easy all you had to do was be conscious for the tests?
That describes your average UMUC class.
I've been in 'real' school on the G.I. bill for about a year now, and the change in quality of education and difficulty of classes is very noticeable.
When I was in the military, the most prominent college available on base (stationed overseas) was called "The University of Maryland University College"
It's as much of a university as, say, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is democratic.
by having the party, they're committing a couple of crimes. Tresspassing, breaking and entering, etc.
Because it's impossible to hold the party without committing an illegal act, it's an illegal party.