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Posted 6 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: •Explosive possessed by Stephen Paddock may have been used in NYC bombing• http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/las-vegas-shooting-bomb-stephen-paddock-car-ammonium-nitrate-ingredient-latest-a7979796.html The parallels to Anders Breivik, Norway is quite similar. Tannerite comprises a combination of ammonium nitrate and/or ammonium perchlorate (oxidizers) Ammonium nitrate is also used as a fertilizer and easily accessed. When mixed with a fuel, primarily aluminum powder, you got yourself a bomb! And it's used in solid rocket boosters. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30KSt4Iy9Q8 |
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Posted 5 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: Most of the Governments of Europe have disarmed their citizens, so when the crazies and terrorists attack with hatchets, autos, and trucks there is no one to stop them. One citizen with a concealed weapon that knows how to use it, could have saved a lot of people. Utter nonsense! How many in Las Vegas with concealed weapons could have stopped Paddock and saving a lot of people? None! 22,000 people are expected to have been at the festival when the shooting began. In addition, more than 500 people were injured by both bullets and the panic that broke out in the public. And no one was shooting back!!! |
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Posted 5 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: There is no man, born, alive or dead who can talk with absolute assurance about abortion for the simple fact, they are not female. YET they are the ones making the laws, Arrogance or Hypocrisy? When it comes to legislation. Where are the females? Trump Signs Anti Abortion Law ![]() |
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(Message 1893454)
Posted 5 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: Beginning of human personhood ![]() https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beginning_of_human_personhood The beginning of human personhood is the moment when a human is first recognized as a person. There are differences of opinion as to the precise time when human personhood begins and the nature of that status. The issue arises in a number of fields including science, religion, philosophy, and law, and is most acute in debates relating to abortion, stem cell research, reproductive rights, and fetal rights. |
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Posted 5 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: Squirrels eat a lot. In just a week's period, they can eat their entire body weight in food, which is about 700 grams. |
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Posted 5 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: Trump wont discuss the issue of tougher weapon laws in the country after what happened in Las Vegas. But now other Republicans have opened to ban bump stocks, an accessory that the shooter can use to fire more shots per second with their semi-automatic weapons. "That is something that is obviously worrying," says the republican senator John Cornyn, according to AP. I don't think that ban will work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0KKuxg_Q3Q Oh. There is a retailer in Sweden that have Bumb Stocks for sale. But now it seems that they have withdrawn the product:) https://www.brownells.se/AK-47-BUMPSKI-BUMPFIRE-BUTTSTOCK |
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Posted 5 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: Quite amazing. The rats are trained to recognize to smell TNT and they find it very fast. Perhaps even faster than a dog. http://www.repubblica.it/r2-fotorep/2017/10/05/news/ecco_i_topi_eroi_che_salvano_la_cambogia_dall_incubo_mine-177420570/?ref=RHRD-BS-I0-C6-P4-S3.6-T1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0swUc492hU |
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Posted 5 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: One could posit our culture is self destructive. Here most shootings are between criminal gangs. Perhaps soon there will be no criminal gangs anymore :) |
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Posted 5 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: You are totally barking up the wrong tree with your fixation on 'militia'. Arf Arf:) But I do have a problem with the Militia in many countries. Militia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militia In Europe it's very easy to get all kind of weapons you like from the Balkan, Russia and Ukraine militias. |
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Posted 5 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: Looks like they're only going back to 1984. Looks like 'recent' history to me. The context is in the chart. Of course it's "recent" history. Is that not enough? |
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(Message 1893298)
Posted 5 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: "A well regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free State". In the Nordic countries there is no thing like a Right to Bear Arms. It's regulated by laws that are not directly connected to our Constitutions. However since there are many who hunts here, many in the countryside have rifles and shotguns. Rifles and shotguns are of course illegal to bear in public spaces. Handguns and assault rifles are very restricted here and are illegal when used outside a shooting range. Weapons like AR15 is OK to use on a shooting range though ![]() Not the Carl Gustaf that the US have purchased:) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WrQ_I4Ewcs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjF3LMdDLTo |
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Posted 5 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: Because no one is saying the Vegas shooting is the largest in American history. They are saying it is the largest gun massacre in recent history. ![]() |
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Posted 5 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: As to 'well regulated'... So you would say there is no difference to rephrase it to these two sentences. "A well regulated Militia is necessary to the security of a free State". "The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed in a well regulated Militia". |
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(Message 1893259)
Posted 4 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: I haven't touched on the Unorganized Militia (essentially all men in the USA between ages 17 and 45, and in some cases 64). Perhaps. But the the unorganized militia consists also with the Private militias that are armed military groups that are composed of private citizens and not recognized by federal or state governments. http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Second+Amendment |
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Posted 4 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: Seems to just be a sloppy job by SCOTUS missing a plural that is in the Constitution.Even sloppier that an ex-police officer/teacher not knowing the difference :-) Well. There are MUCH more thoughts how the 2nd amendment should be interpreted. Read this and and make your own judgments if it should be singular or plural. https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/554/570 |
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(Message 1893213)
Posted 4 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: tRump watches the show like a Roman Emperor at the circus as they fight and claw for the needed items. 3.4 million people do not have access to clean drinking water in Puerto Rico. And Trump throws paper towels at the people there!!! The US territory has been reeling since the Category 5 storm struck the island, but it's doubtful those paper towels will do much to serve the 95 percent of the island's population still without power and 55 percent without clean water. |
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(Message 1893193)
Posted 4 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: As law is being quoted, please note that the emboldened & underlined clearly states a firearm AND NOT firearms. Hmm. I guess the English Wikipedia got it wrong. The District of Columbia against Heller is a case that the United States Supreme Court brought up in 2008. The case determined citizens' right to own weapons for private purposes.Note. Plural in the Swedish Wikipedia. |
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(Message 1893190)
Posted 4 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: I reiterate, that's the most insulting thing I have ever seen a president do in my short 72 years on this earth. Have you seen worse? Reminds me of Bread and Circuses:( |
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(Message 1893187)
Posted 4 Oct 2017 by ![]() Post: I haven't touched on the Unorganized Militia (essentially all men in the USA between ages 17 and 45, and in some cases 64). Unorganized Militia? Is that "a well regulated militia" as the 2nd amendment stipulates? Since you mention ages I guess you mean conscripts. I was also a conscript between 17 and 45 but that didn't mean I belonged to a militia allowed to keep and bear arms. |
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