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I would like to know a couple things from yesterday... I want to know which stripe of nutcase blew up the Georgia Guidestones, whether it was because it was a globalist monument of the NWO, jews, aliens, etc or because it was "the satanic 10 commandments!"

Secondly, I would love to know what the idiot(s) with more money than sense who paid for the thing in the first place think today that the monument they designed to be a message to the world after a nuclear holocaust got blew up before it could survive to post-apocalypse.

aTm wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 10:32 am

WTF. They have to throttle the heat in July!? Gonna be a good winter.

yea, that's pretty concerning. My assumption is they are getting people used to the idea of throttled gas in July so they'll be prepared in January.

I would also assume now would be a good time to invest in space heaters.

National Review ....


On Monday, in the city of Highland Park, Ill., a deranged goblin of a man opened fire on a July 4 parade, killing seven innocent people and wounding three dozen others. After an intense search, the culprit was apprehended and taken into custody. Yet again, a mass shooting has sullied America.

And, yet again, it is unclear what lawmakers can do to prevent the next one. Just weeks ago, the Senate passed a gun-control bill that Chris Murphy described as “the most significant piece of anti-gun violence legislation in nearly 30 years.”


Today, posturing as if nothing has been done recently, Democrats are asking for more.

But what, exactly, does that mean? A red-flag law? Illinois already has one. A permitting system for the purchase and ownership of guns? Illinois has that, too. “Universal” background checks? That’s already Illinois law. What about “assault weapons” and “high-capacity” magazines? Highland Park has banned both since 2013. Concealed carry? That was prohibited at the parade under an Illinois law that renders it illegal to carry firearms at “any public gathering held pursuant to a license issued by any governmental body.” Straw purchasing? That’s already illegal, and, besides, the gun was obtained legally. Can the courts be blamed, perhaps? They cannot. In 2015, the Seventh Circuit upheld Highland Park’s ban on “assault weapons” and “high-capacity” magazines, and the Supreme Court then declined to take up the case. As for Heller, McDonald, and Bruen — thus far, nothing that has flowed from them even intersected with this case............



Absent a set of reforms that would gut the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments, there is no way for American authorities to keep tabs on everyone who comes across as a little weird.

But if states are going to institute systems designed to keep guns out of the hands of dangerous people, it is not too much to ask that they use them. In the aftermath of almost every mass shooting, we learn that the suspect was “known to authorities” — which, in almost every case, means that the shooter was known to his community, too. And so it was here. The Highland Park shooter did not spring ex nihilo from the shadows; he repeatedly telegraphed his intentions. In one video, uploaded in August 2021, he foreshadowed his attack on the July 4 parade. In another, he dramatized a school shooting. In a third, he fantasized about getting into a shooting war with police. Per officials in the city, local cops had interacted with him twice in 2019 — once when he attempted suicide, and once when he threatened to “kill everyone” and had 16 knives, a dagger, and a sword confiscated as a result. Illinois has a broad “red flag” law in place, and it requires gun buyers to have a current permit. Why, we must ask, did these incidents not trigger prophylactic action?

Americans would do well to set incidents such as this one in their proper context. Random acts of violence are, indeed, terrifying, but they are terrifying because they are so rare. When allocating our limited time and resources, we ought to remember that while the most spectacular criminals garner all the attention, a devastating attrition continues unabated in the background. On the day before the shooting in Highland Park, 15 people were killed in Chicago. Thus far in 2022, there have been 250 murders in Philadelphia, 175 murders in Los Angeles, and 102 murders in Washington, D.C. Bringing down those numbers will take hard work, intelligent policing, a willingness to enforce the laws already on the books, and a commitment to engaging with the problem in its most common form — and not just when it provides clicks, outrage, and a chance to poke one’s political enemies in the eye.

aTm wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 10:37 am I would like to know a couple things from yesterday... I want to know which stripe of nutcase blew up the Georgia Guidestones, whether it was because it was a globalist monument of the NWO, jews, aliens, etc or because it was "the satanic 10 commandments!"

Secondly, I would love to know what the idiot(s) with more money than sense who paid for the thing in the first place think today that the monument they designed to be a message to the world after a nuclear holocaust got blew up before it could survive to post-apocalypse.

I read about that and initially thought it was some civil war memorial, then when I found out what it really was, who blows that up?

I can't believe I'm the guy posting this one first on here. IB, this is an Arizona guy?

eCat wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 11:25 am I can't believe I'm the guy posting this one first on here. IB, this is an Arizona guy?

Don't know too much about him. My congressman is David Schweikert.

"WTF. They have to throttle the heat in July!? Gonna be a good winter."

They used to be such a hearty people...

They can always burn more Jews.

"I can't believe I'm the guy posting this one first on here. IB, this is an Arizona guy?"

Democrats in Klan suits??

Dry heat

hedge wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 12:05 pm "I can't believe I'm the guy posting this one first on here. IB, this is an Arizona guy?"

Democrats in Klan suits??

The GOP is always talking about how the Democratic Party of 70-150 years ago was the party of slavery / racism / segregation.

They tend to forget the last sixty years...

They also forget that "In God We Trust" is nowhere in the Constitution.

In God We Trust is a Unionist civil war slogan, so I guess very Republican

hedge wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 12:05 pm

Democrats in Klan suits??

the GOP guys love hearing that shit

Something to be worried about next summer as 24 gets closer and the Republicans become more desperate.

https://ballotpedia.org/Moore_v._Harper

hedge wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 12:05 pm "I can't believe I'm the guy posting this one first on here. IB, this is an Arizona guy?"

Democrats in Klan suits??

of course

The democrat party was the party of slavery, the party of racism, and the party of the KKK. Everyone knows that. If you were a Klan member, you were a democrat.

DooKSucks wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 12:41 pm

hedge wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 12:05 pm "I can't believe I'm the guy posting this one first on here. IB, this is an Arizona guy?"

Democrats in Klan suits??

The GOP is always talking about how the Democratic Party of 70-150 years ago was the party of slavery / racism / segregation.

They tend to forget the last sixty years...

Now you are the party of murdering unborn babies

Is that better DS?

Much better...

It would be much better if they had murdered you.

Looks good over here!