Ahh yes, because trying to change the rules of the game has never come back and bitten the Democrats in the ass before. 

Fun thought experiment: Who among us would gladly get paid to be a crummy head coach of a crummy professional football team for two years and change? Show of hands?

I’d wager very few people in Congress want anyone taking too close a look at their finances. People earning less than 200k/yr ending up millionaires within a few years. Nothing shady about that at all, right?

Especially when there are already products on the market that do exactly that. It seems silly to leave that feature off when you’d think that would be something your target demographic would want.

Oh I make no claims that hoping DNF would be a good game wasn’t incredibly naive, frankly it’s a miracle anything even came out at all. It went through, what, 3 or 4 game engine changes over its development cycle? That should’ve been a sign that the game wasn’t meant to be released right there.

Clearly you weren’t one of the few that had hope Duke Nukem Forever would actually be a good game.

Oh, undoubtedly. Bump stocks never were, and never will be an actual problem. The anti-gun folks talk about wanting compromise, but what they really want is death by a thousand cuts of private gun ownership. And every time gun owners have buckled and compromised on something, it has generally not been for the better.

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.