The Goat Pen

eCat wrote:

Tree wrote:

but in reference to Tree " we should have a system where everyone is a winner"

Not sure how you were able to miss my point that badly. It was not pro-"everyone wins" but anti-"millions must lose". Try reading slower? IDK

its pretty easy to miss your points. I keep trying to connect them with reality. Maybe that's my mistake

I couldn't help but notice your information processing abilities dropped to the level of a small intoxicated child. I was starting to wonder if you and Prof had switched names as a joke.

Outside your safe space, are millions of Deplorables like me and eCat. We’re actually about half the country. We love invading your safe space and terrorizing you with our contrary opinions.

Considering all your whining and complaining, about pretty much everything, I'd say you're the terrorized one. As always, you criticize in others what you most despise about yourself...

Whining and complaining? I’m giddy. The Left just keeps getting weirder and weirder, making themselves more and more repulsive to flyover country (especially the Midwest), and thereby making a Trump re-election more and more likely. I’m loving every minute of...

RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA STORMY STORMY STORMY AVENETTI AVENETTI AVENETTI IMPEACH TRUMP IMPEACH TRUMP IMPEACH TRUMP OPEN BORDERS OPEN BORDERS OPEN BORDERS PROTECT MS 13 MEMBERS PROTECT MS 13 MEMBERS PROTECT MS 13 MEMBERS REVOKE THE TAX CUT REVOKE THE TAX CUT REVOKE THE TAX CUT DISARM THE POPULACE DISARM THE POPULACE DISARM THE POPULACE etc etc etc

The Democrats’ agenda is doing to their 2018 and 2020 prospects what Kaepernick did to the NFL ratings and Bruce Jenner did to ESPN’s ratings. This is a golden age.

In other news, I see that the Senate voted to save Net Neutrality. I am not an expert on this subject, but I am under the general understanding that this is a good thing. My millennial kids are certainly happy about it. For further elucidation, I now yield my remaining time to the Gentleman from Paducah...

"I am not an expert on this subject"

You need to preface every post with that...

Another school shooting. You gun idiots must be very pleased to see another demonstration of second amendment rights.

Dont worry Cletus, it's Santa Fe, TX so probably like 95% of them are kids of white Trump voters. So I'm sure they deserved it.

Also, like I was saying a while back, an assault rifle is definitely not a requirement to kill people in a school.

The kid who apparently did the shooting was too young to buy a gun in Texas. We need a law that makes it illegal to not follow the law.

What weapon did he reportedly use?

IEDs (pipe bombs?), pistols, shotgun from what people are saying, I havent seen anything official released though.

Those IEDs should be banned.

A news station here is claiming that a house being searched in Alvin (hometown of strikeout king Nolan Ryan! Get your Nolan Ryan's All-Natural Beef at area Kroger Supermarkets.) is the location where this kid grew up and...:::ominous music:::... that this house has been searched in the past by the FBI. I kinda hope thats bullshit.

You hope that you can't get Nolan Ryan all-natural beef at Kroger?

At least the FBI actually bothered to search the house. Their usual protocol is to ignore such things unless somebody has a Russian surname. Then they bring the pimp hand and swarm the place.

AlabamAlum wrote:Those IEDs should be banned.

And, like in the vast majority of the cases, these IED's didn't do shit. It's a good thing explosives that work are either illegal or quite difficult to come by and construct. Imagine the damage these idiots could do if they could get grenades and land mines at Walmart? Maybe one day people in this country will come to their senses and treat guns the way we currently treat grenades.

Making a pipe bomb or other similar explosive is not hard and they work quite well. Ask a few soldiers driving the road to Fallujah, or anyone who dealt with the IRA, or the people who have been mailed these things (or had them put in their cars) for decades. Most recently the mailed explosives sent to various addresses in Austin. And they are all very illegal. Just like it was illegal for this kid to buy the guns he had, or bring them to school, or, you know, shoot people with them.

We will never, ever agree on the need to remove a constitutionally protected freedom because a relatively small number of people do bad things; therfore, a continued discourse on this subject would like me trying to talk sense to prof in regard to Trump. So, hope your golf game is good. I have lost my short game. Going to club now. Have a good one.

Around 40,000 people died in auto accidents last year.

The solution to this senseless carnage is clear: ban automobiles.

Until we, as a country, finally come to our senses and ban automobiles, I hope all of you who still use automobiles enjoy killing 40,000 people just to pursue your hobby.

Moron

Automobiles have stringent regulations for buying, using, and selling, dipshit. Now if we have that for machines used for transportation, don't you think we should probably have it for machines that were made for killing people?

Cars also have stringent regulations for buying, using, and selling. Thousands of them. Like cars, guns have legitimate uses, like hunting and self-defense.

Murders are to guns what DUI deaths are to cars - both legitimate products that are misused by some. About the same number of people are murdered by guns as die in DUI crashes. Except nobody is hyperventilating about banning cars.