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Jul 8, 2022 12:12:55 GMT -5
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 8, 2022 12:12:55 GMT -5
What does that have to do with having an AR15? I'm inferring that you're implying that a gun death in a place with strict gun control laws means that it's pointless to implement any such laws elsewhere. If you're not, never mind. No, that would be comparing Japan with Democrat run cities that defund police and refuse to seriously prosecute criminals they do manage to catch.
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Jul 8, 2022 11:46:35 GMT -5
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 8, 2022 11:46:35 GMT -5
Apparently he didn't need it in a country with strict gun control. False equivalency, or something like that. Someone more inspired than me can pull up gun deaths per capita in the US and in Japan and compare. What does that have to do with having an AR15?
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 8, 2022 9:21:58 GMT -5
Too bad he couldn't get an easy AR-15. He coulda taken out the whole cabinet. Apparently he didn't need it in a country with strict gun control.
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 8, 2022 9:20:17 GMT -5
Congrats! Next you can step up to the real dark side. (Finally got a picture of her yesterday) That looks like the Whammy Bar from Hell. What is that, a early Kahler model? Washburn. How's that for upgrading the obscurity level?
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 8, 2022 7:30:16 GMT -5
Congrats! Next you can step up to the real dark side. (Finally got a picture of her yesterday)
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 7, 2022 10:01:35 GMT -5
Here's another set of statistics that I think is pretty good if anyone is still interested. Violence in America
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 7, 2022 8:26:50 GMT -5
As Dub said, solid wood planks with strings are pretty much guaranteed to be a bit weighty depending on the wood.
Never actually weighed my S1, but I'm guessing it comes in the same as a medium sized pitbull.
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 7, 2022 6:26:00 GMT -5
I think the box Dub posted looks great but I have an honest question. Doesn't the Bose thing have either some tone controls on it or some kind of small add on mixer that will do that. And doesn’t the Taylor have controls that can be tweaked?
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 6, 2022 21:19:23 GMT -5
Wasn't Lonnie's guitar a strat with some other pickups swapped in for really broad tone versatility? (bridge was a humbucker?) That's one of the pluses of a Strat over a typical Gibson. Under the pickguard is basically a big hole. You don't have to rout anything. Just cut up the pickguard as needed and screw in whatever pickups you want. And while you're at it, rewire at will. And then just screw the pickguard down again. A lot easier than cutting up a wood body.
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 6, 2022 14:51:10 GMT -5
If what you're saying is that if nobody had guns, nobody would be dead I'll remind you, this is Chicago where nobody is supposed to have guns due to the strict gun control protocols (6th strictest in the nation, again, check the references I posted) and in Chicago, this isn't even a particularly bad weekend. That's not my "if." And the bolded proposition (the one nobody I know holds) is, of course, a debater's tactic, and not a particularly effective one. As is the strictest-gun-control line, as is the false comparison between gun violence in general and shooting up a holiday parade from a rooftop. I'm not nailing jelly to a tree, I'm calling out bad arguments and providing, um, ammunition for those who have to respond to similar stuff. Great, I look forward to seeing some of that.
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 6, 2022 14:46:14 GMT -5
Illinois neighbor Indiana has some lax gun laws. You go down there to buy them at a gun show. Sure. That's always an option. And the black market always seems to work for more sophisticated criminals.
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 6, 2022 13:59:26 GMT -5
I see I need to edit this: Bruce, and Peter: your ability to chase the wrong rabbit is impressive. Latest news I can find reports that the gun was a S&W M&P 15--here's the manufacturer's page the current version: www.smith-wesson.com/product/mp-15-sport-iiIt's a semi-auto .223/NATO-chambered with a 30-round magazine available, "Compatible with most standard AR15 components and accessories." I have not yet seen anything on whether the gun was firing .223 civilian or the NATO more powerful NATO round. I don't care what the model number is, what sloppy descriptor gets applied by non-gun-enthusiasts, I care about the specifications and capabilities of the weapon and who gets to acquire it. Listen to the audio I posted and tally up the number of kills and injuries against the time expended. Then equip the shooter with a bolt- or lever-action deer rifle and see if you can match the damage in that time frame. An edged weapon can kill, but the range that starts with a Swiss Army knife and ends with machete or a cavalry saber offers a considerable range of damage-done. Oh, you got me there. It was not an AR15 as I never claimed it to be. It was an AR15-like gun like all the early news reports said, including the one I posted. Nice catch. A Smith and Wesson AR15 comparable gun. Yep, got me there. Regardless, it's probably a real nice hunting rifle just like an AR15. And you're still full of it. 80 rounds from a semi-automatic. Sounds about right. Regardless, if he's on the roof and still managed to evade capture for 7 or 8 hours, he probably didn't need to worry about getting his shots off quickly (and 80 rounds at 8 seconds per is a smidge over 10 minutes. Not world class by any means, but fast enough for his purposes). And at that range the scarier sounding "NATO" round would probably have made no difference even if he could get them (my understanding is those are military spec bullets that probably aren't that common in your local gun shop). Anything he hit square, the damage would be the same. My daughter carries a S&W .380 (that's bigger than .223) and her fiance carries a S&W 9 mm (also bigger than a .223). So what? If what you're saying is that if nobody had guns, nobody would be dead I'll remind you, this is Chicago where nobody is supposed to have guns due to the strict gun control protocols (6th strictest in the nation, again, check the references I posted) and in Chicago, this isn't even a particularly bad weekend.
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 6, 2022 12:16:56 GMT -5
And if the gun the asshole has access to is a bolt- or lever-action deer rifle with a five-round limit? And you think that somehow this kid just woke up that morning and decided to go on a shooting spree with whatever he had handy? No, these things are usually well planned out ahead of time. Most of the time the story's always the same. Loner, creepy social outcast and mentally ill guy plans a way to go out in a blaze of glory (the ever hungry-for-gore all pervasive media has a lot to do with this- look for it to be repeated sooner than later) crafts a plan over months and acquires the tools to do it (hand gun, rifle, knife, crock pot, etc). If he didn't have access to his weapon of choice, he'd work it out and find another way to go about it.
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 6, 2022 12:05:01 GMT -5
Just one of those gun-facts niggles, but if the audio I heard is authentic, the rate of fire in the Highland Park shooting is a lot faster than a bolt-action deer rifle can manage--more like a semi-auto. And I wonder whether there's a standard deer rifle with the 20-25-round magazine capacity necessary for what I hear. nypost.com/2022/07/04/video-reveals-rapid-fire-gunshots-in-highland-park-parade-shooting/Gun advocates love to fuss over nomenclature--"That's not an assault rifle"; "That's not full-auto"; "That's a magazine, not a clip." And accuracy of description matters. But that does not excuse them from facing the facts about what various kinds of firearms can do, what purposes they fulfill, what dangers they represent. And gun cowards (sorry, the best I can come up with for the opposite of gun advocates) are notorious for not knowing the barrel end of a gun from the butt end. Simply, semi-automatic means it reloads itself every time the trigger is pulled. However, the trigger must still be pulled each time it's fired. Technically faster than say a bolt action, but I think if you're good a bolt action can still crank one out about every 8 seconds- still pretty quick. Fully automatic is a machine gun. It will keep firing until you let off the trigger or it runs out of ammo. Whatever the magazine/clip (technical and boring distinctions) capacity is, it's to cut down on having to reload. If you're a hunter, a 20-25 round magazine means you may not have to reload all day. If the bullets are not used the magazine/clip can be unloaded and the bullets saved for next time. And what kind of "facts" do you think we need to face? Guns can kill? That's why most gun owners train to make sure that if killing is needed, it's quick accurate, and contained. The purposes that guns fulfill are pretty simple- they're fun and entertaining and if needed, they can kill. Gun owners are well aware of the dangers they represent. That's why there's usually a lot of thought and maybe some cash that goes in to storing them appropriately. And since most criminals target weakness, having guns available tends to reduce crime and promote civil respect. There are literally millions of gun owners in this country (hell, I think there are six of them on my block here in Rubesville Virginia). Many of them will never have a reason to actually fire a gun outside of a range. But you can't beat the peace of mind of knowing that in any crowd, there's probably an armed, good shooter within 50 feet should any nut job decide to go postal. Makes 4th of July fireworks with the family all that much more enjoyable.
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 6, 2022 10:25:46 GMT -5
It is my opinion that there have always been and will always be sociopaths in every society. But American-made sociopaths can easily obtain military assault rifles and act on their impulses. And maybe America is the leading producer of sociopaths. Hard to tell for sure. You can't do a background check on "Sociopath". The only real solution is to ban assault rifles. The sociopaths will always be around, they just won't be able to kill as many people. It is also clear that banning assault weapons is not in the cards for the near future. So the real tragedy of Highland Park is that nothing will change to keep it from happening again. Sorry to burst your bubble (sorry Marshall, someone else on the forum answered my original question. You can tell him to fuck off just for a change of pace) but Highland Park/Chicago/Cook County already bans " assault weapons". The real problem with doing that is that you're banning mythical things. AR15s and AK47s aren't "assault weapons". As Bruce pointed out, you've got to go through ATF to actually get one. And the kid bought his weapons legally despite a couple run ins with police. He had the magic card in Illinois. See, that's why I asked. I knew it would shortly come down to banning guns despite the absolutely dreadful record of local liberal politicians doing anything about the rampant crime in their streets. The only reason this is big news appears to be that the kid is white.
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 6, 2022 7:27:36 GMT -5
Pine Knob. That's the local venue (along with Cobo Hall) of my misspent youth. Actually saw Santana there probably 40 years ago.
I wish him all the best.
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 5, 2022 16:50:25 GMT -5
Please don't block quote me. Then how would anyone know specifically which statement I was questioning? Just in case, you know, someone else had the answer.
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 5, 2022 16:41:42 GMT -5
The 'liberal world order' has been with us since WWII. President's of either stripe and leaders of democracies the world over have supported and built up it's institutions. With the United States as a lynchpin for 70 or 80 years, it has never been welcoming to or popular with fascist and authoritarian states. warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/liberal-world-order/So are you saying the current problems of the US are that the Liberal World Order is what's collapsing under Biden's progressivism?
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 5, 2022 13:36:22 GMT -5
Just heard on Varney that in response to the court's hit on EPA, EPA is taking 40% of the Permian Basin oil field off the market (no drilling) which should raise oil to over $200/bbl. The greenies will freeze to death in the dark this Winter, finally. Unfortunately, they'll take you and me and everyone else with them, the bastids. In all seriousness, this is and has been the problem with EPA for pretty much forever. They, unlike most government agencies, only employ 2 kinds of people- true believers and the general kind of sort of middling bureaucrats that won't rock the boat and are waiting to retire (once you've got your first year in with the government you're pretty much guaranteed to never lose your job). They are unlike any other agency I've ever run into in that there's an almost cult-like level of indoctrination. My job as North American Director of Environmental stuff which I started in 2007 literally meant that I did almost nothing else aside from deal with "Climate Change". It was the hottest ticket in town then. EPA had just lost EPA v. Massachusetts. Well, "lost" is probably not the right word- more like deliberately threw because, you know, that just means bigger budgets and all the things that go with that anyways. DC could already smell blood in the water with Climate Change TM and were busy debating how to make the most of it. Used to have a great paper put together by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) that outlined the whole issue and what the options were for solving it. As they noted the mechanics of CO 2 production were as follows: The amount of CO 2 in the atmosphere equals the population times an economic activity factor. Solving it meant killing economic productivity and thus large portions of the population. There were 2 ways to do that that the government could use- Cap and Trade or turning EPA loose. Cap and Trade meant that all the economic players in the country were issued a certain allotment of CO2 that they could produce. At first this would be allotted based on the current economy. Then the government would start reducing the number of total permits available and the "trading" part of the scheme would come into play as folks were forced to bargain for their lives. This actually came up as a bill in Congress in 2009 called Lieberman Warner (named after the 2 main sponsors). It failed resoundingly as folks could actually read what the hell these idiots were planning- basically Stalin style government command and control of the economy only on steroids. The other way to do it was to turn EPA loose to do it's thing. This was actually widely recognized at the time as an even shittier option if you can believe that. The sales pitch for Lieberman Warner was literally "you REALLY don't want EPA to do it". Now somewhere along the way somebody realized that NHTSA in DOT already had a CAFE program in light duty. Maybe we should just expand that to medium and heavy duty also and let DOT figure it out. Heck, they've been doing it since about 1975 already and so far there's been no great screaming and rending of garments. So they added a simple piece to a budget bill in 2009 that instructed NHTSA to do just that, I got one of the 2 positions they advertised for and the rest is history. After spending the better portion of 11 months touring the country trying to figure out how to regulate what had never been regulated before, EPA called us up for a meeting and laid out their plan to take over the whole light duty thing through the regulation of CO2 and we'd just invert the standards to handle our end of it and put out exactly the same thing. Nobody (even me) could come up with a counter argument so that was agreed to. Easy peasy. Then on the Thursday before my one year anniversary, my boss retired and took Friday as a vacation day. Then at noon on Friday the guy who had hired in with me called me down to HR and told me I either had to quit or be fired. I quit, got about 45 minutes to pack my stuff, was escorted out, took the Metro (carrying my heavy box) to Vienna where my wife had to leave work early and come pick me up in the rain. The end result was about a year and a half of unemployment and eventual bankruptcy. And despite loud mouthed idiot liberals without a brain cell in their bodies, there still isn't a physically workable solution to Climate Change TM and EPA is still on the warpath to enhance their careers through genocide. Any wonder why so many real people loathe them?
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Post by aquaduct on Jul 5, 2022 12:23:25 GMT -5
4 days off in a row. I didn't even put pants on for two of them. I was on my way to join you for your party but a little voice in my head whispered, "day'um, dudes got no pants on". Scared me enough that I turned around right after I finished throwing up.
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