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Example: You are frequenting (as US citizen) every second day a MacDo shop, every day a Starbucks - except Sunday
and every 3rd day a Subway shop...
Of course there are many possibilities in each category. Count for your own - please.
Do you know how many Weapon Shops are in USA comparing with those eating shops mentioned above?
Have a look:
There are MORE weapon stores in USA than Mac Donalds, Starbucks and Subway shops TOGETHER!
Think about - a weapon does mean more in USA than something to eat - as US citizens are not cooking themselves anyway.
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I don't think so, When I was playing the atari and NES in my dorm in the 80's they weren't any these types games around.
POV shooter games Call of duty in (2003 looked it up) and they get more realistic every year. Columbine was 1999 and the shootings are happening are more frequently. It is no excuse but these teenage boys live and breathe these type games, at least my 16 nephew does.
There are mass shootings around the world, more frequently in the US.
How did protect citizens while limiting someone else freedom that's tough. I would be for enhanced background checks waiting periods, but there are more 300 million + guns in America so getting yours hands on weapon would take little effort. Assault rifles ban sure there are estimated 10 millions plus of those though
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I think you find that gun ownership spans the gambit liberal, conservative democratic, republican.
I notice one post earlier made a several blanket statements regarding someone that supports gun ownership and received several likes. I think everyone wants try to classify people or identity politics, It contributes to the problem polarizing people.
I know it is hard because that is the way our brains are design to work, to classify things and people. But I think you find someone that supports gun ownership can be a democrat that adamantly supports Net Neutrality, and gay rights like myself.
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Preservation of capital is the most important concept for those who want to stay in the trading game for the long haul. - Van Tharp
gun ownership would definitely span many people. but i see that as a red herring. if you ask about tighter gun control, which is what people are actually debating, you will get partisan answers.
are you saying there is a debate about whether people should be able to own guns at all? thats pretty extreme!
The post I responded to mentioned "take ammunition of the market"
A gun has no use without ammo other than a paper weight and would essential limit someone ability to bear arms ergo the second amendment.
The historical setting for the second amendment does have meaning, during a time period when America was formed from a tyrannical ruling authority. Does that have meaning today? You betcha, imagine the US government imposing tyrannical rule on people with 300+ million weapons. Well good luck with that
Volatility is good for the market and trading.
Preservation of capital is the most important concept for those who want to stay in the trading game for the long haul. - Van Tharp
i see. i guess gun and ammo are interlinked. so in reference to ammunition, is someone suggesting to remove all ammo from sale?
and even if noone is proposing that, are you are indicating that you want not just 'some' ammo, but as much ammo as you want, in case of a civil war?
just FYI, this civil war argument, if that is the base of your stance on gun control, is actually a good example of what i was saying earlier where it actually does split 100% by democrat/republican.
Have you seen Syria? That's how assault rifles and significant foreign intervention fares against conventional, aerial bombardment. Our federal government has, at its disposal, thermonuclear warheads, cruise missiles, aircraft equipped with radar and infrared evasion, unmanned weaponized drones, none of which an AR-15 is effective against.
I agree with your sentiment and would suggest instead that we should allow private ownership of Patriot missile systems. A Patriot missile also makes it a lot more difficult for a mentally unstable person to kill a whole classroom of children, because you can't just drive a Patriot battery to a school without alerting law enforcement; you need at least $2M to buy one; it actually requires proper operator training; and it's easier to regulate legal ownership of it. Moreover, it's completely safe to keep a Patriot missile system at home in your backyard where it belongs, and no one should stop you from going hunting with a Patriot missile or using one for self-defense.
Imagine asking a policeman or a soldier to go round up 300+million legal weapons in the US without complete destroying the whole country. I think they would say take this job and shove it.
Syria has been ruled by Assad with a heavy hand and doubt that was very little gun ownership among the common people (looked it up decree, Number 5 limits weapons, ammunition and fire crackers to governmental bodies.)
Look what happen during the rise of the communist countries USSR, first thing they did was make it illegal and round up the weapons. The wanted total control of their people. That's history lesson that doesn't need to be repeated
Volatility is good for the market and trading.
Preservation of capital is the most important concept for those who want to stay in the trading game for the long haul. - Van Tharp
Not a civil war. The framers were very smart having lived through tyranny, and they knew that without the ability for someone to protect himself and property, it would leave open the possibility of authoritarian ruler coming along.
The first step the communists took were to round up the guns and make it illegal. The government has total control without any fear of repercussions
Volatility is good for the market and trading.
Preservation of capital is the most important concept for those who want to stay in the trading game for the long haul. - Van Tharp