There’s nothing market based about how California’s housing market works! Between rent control, zoning, NIMBYs, and a whole host of other things I’m sure I’m over looking, there’s no reason for anyone to even TRY to build low income housing! They can’t! Where would they put it? Any time they talk about tearing down an…

Well the last time they tried to catch people out like that, they got thoroughly embarrassed and ended up going to the dark web to finally find someone willing to make them a sale.

And yet another perfect example of why gun owners don’t trust when anyone says “no one is coming for your guns”.

Ok, now what stops criminals, and more specifically, the people who do mass shootings, from ignoring all of that and continuing to kill each other and us? Which of these things would have been a significant burden to any of mass shooters you can think of off the top of your head?

Perhaps I was too vague in saying it’s about control. Yes obviously gun control is about controlling guns, but that’s simply a means to an end. The greater control of people and being able to wield power is the larger aim. If it was simply about keeping guns out of the hands of bad people, we’d have moved on from…

You might be right, but I think in this case it may also be apt to compare it to what happened with the Affordable Care Act. They could have passed a better bill than what they actually did, but there’s some evidence that they purposely passed a worse bill in order to speed along the push for single payer. Basically,…

If your contention is that only a Democratic candidate can defeat Trump, then you should be begging for as many people as possible to run in the primary, as this will accomplish the following:

I think the main point is more likely that because rents can double in ten years under this system, they will double. Because why wouldn’t they?

Man, good thing you’re here to solve the reason behind all crime.

I’m as ardent a 2nd Amendment defender as they come, but I see no issue with saying that with a right you bear a certain amount of personal responsibility, and if failing to bear that responsibility adequately causes another’s rights to be infringed upon in some way, there should be repercussions for that. I’m all for…

https://www.quora.com/Can-a-foreigner-buy-a-gun-in-the-United-States

As much as I don’t personally care for the idea of government controlling healthcare, I do have to concede this point. It would give more people access to mental health resources, which at this point I’m starting to believe is desperately needed.

You’ll get no argument from me on that. If your negligence causes harm or death to another, you should be responsible for that under the law. 

There are or should already be penalties for such negligent acts, but obviously it depends on the laws in your state. A suspension of their concealed pistol license for a period of time would seem to be the minimum necessary punishment.

How would you ever enforce universal background checks without one? You’d have no way to know when or how many guns changed hands on the private market if people don’t self report.

They were hoping you weren’t going to ask that question.

You mean people might not want their names on a list for fear of retribution from the government later? You don’t say.

Won’t pass the Senate, and background checks on private sales is entirely unenforceable. But hey, gotta signal that virtue! Too much to ask that they take steps that would actually reduce gun crime. And before anyone asks, here are some things they could do that would have imminently more effect:

I seem to recall the ISI being involved with various terrorist groups a decade ago when I was still studying this stuff in college, can’t remember if JeM was around back then or if it was someone else, but it all sounds very familiar.

Isn’t nationalism just religion by another name? Believing that being born in one arbitrarily delineated geographical area over another is superior is just as dumb as believing that one sky being is better than the other.