I don’t have thyme for puns.
…well aren’t you a dill…
Not always possible for parents to control their children. You can drive your child to school, escort him to his class and assume they are at school until you pick them up. Doesn’t always happen. So what do you do about it?
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Rosemary agrees, but not Olive.
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Distressing for whom?
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Not clicking on links, but is he a genuine chance for a Darwin Award?
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Good
I put it in the Darwin Awards thread as I thought it was a classic.
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No helping some people…
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Bridget McKenzie has gone quiet on wanting them exempt here.
Farking bizarre to me that the SC determines that the FF’s had Any concept of advanced weaponry.
There Has to be a third option.
Beyond, yes…this is what the people who wrote the constitution wanted, and no, it’s not.
But…they simply had no concept of it and any opinion they had is worthless and can and Should be ignored, leaving it to current State and Federal elected officials (no-one alive voted for James Wilson) to figure out.
Edit: Is that what it takes?
A referendum to decide whether the people believe James Wilson ever considered the AK47?
Edit: edit: 10 (I will not say rounds) bullets per second…ffs…
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Agreed.
And I will say a big Fark You to those Blitzers who put ■■■■ on me back in the Trump years, saying that SCOTUS would of course have no intention of being bound by what the “Founding Fathers” had in mind. At the time Blind Freddy knew that was their platform and it has become even more obvious since then.
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The most influential framer of the 2nd amendment was James Madison, born 1751, died june 1836. Madison was born into a prominent slave-owning planter family in Virginia. He kept slaves at the family estate all his life.
By treaty or through war, Native American tribes ceded 26,000,000 acres of land to the United States under Madison’s presidency.
The 2nd amendment, the right to keep and bear arms was ratified in December 1791.
The American war of independence with Britain only ended in 1783. The westerly expansion of the USA had just reached the Mississippi in 1791, with anywhere west of the Appalachians still being “wild country”.
The visionary Madison, a man of some repute, brought up in a time of godfaring men with muzzle loading muskets. Him. Yeah, Madison, he writes a (233yo to date) binding no-argument document allowing a now godforsaken, gullible, oft ill-educated, and oft drug crazed populace, the right to keep and bear fully automated assault weapons.
What could possibly go wrong?
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Anytime I think of guns in the US I just see Jim Jefferies.
Such a good bit.
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Because you can never know when you need more ammo.
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If you have ever been to a gun show in USA, it is amazing how many bullets are sold to anyone without any ID or other checks, just cash and carry.
Not that it isn’t easy to buy a gun, but there are some rules.
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The town next to ours has a famous annual gun show. One of my daughter’s friends mum wanted to invite our daughter and her friend to spend the day there. We said no. She went “are you sure? They also have axe-throwing!”
FML
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