Many on the pro-gun side view bump stocks as a necessary sacrifice, which isn’t helped by the fact that they’re much more of a novelty item than a performance enhancing attachment. Basically the fact that they’re a dumb device that Fudds use to go waste a bunch of ammo out on the range. What really galls me is that,…

So you can solve that problem easily by prosecuting the dealers and private sellers selling the guns. You don’t have to go after people already obeying the law in any way. Very few people are ever prosecuted for lying on a background check form or dealers for violating Federal firearms law. Step this up and you dry up…

Not so, here’s several changes I’ve suggested previously: https://splinternews.com/1837153047

I mean, I get what you’re saying, but if you have to “earn” it, it’s not really a right. It’s a privilege. Think about all the other rights we have. We don’t require people to earn any of them. I understand the nuance that a gun is something inherently more dangerous than say, your right to not self-incriminate, but I…

Because as much as I tend to disagree with things around here, I’m not interested in trying to argue with morons over on Stormfront or whatever. Occasionally it’s possible to have some rational discourse on this site. Besides, I thought the left was supposed to be better than the right? So why stoop to their level and…

I’m not sure that an approximately 3% change is what I would call significant, and if as you say, it’s not going to stop most gun deaths, or affect the mass shootings that, as you correctly say are also relatively uncommon and make up a tiny portion of gun homicides, what the point of putting an additional burden on…

While I’m all for people pursuing any and all training they can get, I have a hard time with making it mandatory. Making it mandatory creates a barrier to entry that I’m not sure I’m comfortable with. Someone can be reasonably proficient with a firearm and not have taken any formal courses. Obviously tax benefits for…

Funny you should ask, I do! https://splinternews.com/1837153047

The “gun show loophole” is the ability for people to freely sell their firearms in a private transaction. That’s it. Any dealer table you go to at any gun show is going to run a background check, and if they don’t, they are 100% breaking the law and should be reported to the ATF. But please, go to a gun show and tell…

Yup, I don’t know where people got the idea that it should be easy for government to create new laws, but it’s asinine. Our whole system is designed that it should be as painful as possible for the government to pass laws unless they’re widely accepted to be a good idea, though occasionally bad ideas that are popular…

Because the United States Congress has abdicated as much power as possible to the Executive branch over the years in an effort to A) Get things done and B) Not take any direct responsibility for those things when they either end up being bad or the Executive decides to use that power in a way they didn’t anticipate or…

As cathartic as it may be to say “punch a Nazi”, or actually punching a Nazi, ultimately it solves nothing. It certainly doesn’t deescalate, rather the opposite. And as much as I detest Nazism or any other form of white supremacy or authoritarianism, it would go against my belief that violence is only justified as a…

Nah, just violent anarchism and nihilism instead. Clearly better.

Hey, do me a favor and fuck off. I’m not doing anything of the sort. What I’m saying is when you roll in the mud with a pig, the pig likes it. These right wing piss babies WANT leftists to show up and brawl with them. They’re counting on it. If that doesn’t happen, it undermines their narrative that the left is a…

There are better ways of opposing them than putting on masks and beating them up with tire irons or batons. For one thing, right wing fascists are way better at violence. They are looking for an excuse. Speak the truth, hold your own rallies, if you have to engage them do so in a non-confrontational matter, but…

The KKK had virtually collapsed in this country by the 90's and it sure wasn’t because you read about them in the news every day (you didn’t). When you combine the always-on 24 hour news cycle, record low trust in both the news media and institutions, instantaneous sharing of information across multiple platforms, AND…

Most of the people who show up to counter protest the handful of white supremacists that are at these events aren’t “antifa”. They’re people with leftist views, usually some sort of anarchists, who like anonymous violence against people they don’t like. I mean, everyone who isn’t a fascist is technically antifa in…

The difference here though, is that people who hide drug addiction or homosexuality usually don’t have their own personal islands devoted to doing those things. His private island has literally been referred to as a “sex island” for years, and his initial charges a decade ago would be enough to clue anyone in that was…

This was only ever going to end one way. Even if he had actually been murdered, which honestly I’m more along the lines of nobody was motivated to make sure he didn’t kill himself, did anyone honestly expect anything else besides his death being ruled a suicide?

It isn’t so much that anyone close to him believed he was innocent. There’s no way they didn’t know what he was up to. It’s just that they justified it away, or, legitimately didn’t care. I don’t know which is worse.