Do you believe in Common sense laws YES/NO

[Jay Walk]

Laws like locking up a strangulation suspect before he assaulted those two 80 year old's in Portland recently?

Yes.

 

[ma96782]

Common Sense.
Thou shall not kill (commit murder).

As for the Gun Laws? Rrrrrright......see above.

The trick is.......
How do we ensure that the message is sent?



BUT, But, but.....
Maybe YOU'LL like it. Or, maybe YOU won't. LOL.

Aloha, Mark

PS.....well, things are starting to move (for some).

MSN

 

[jackrv]

Common sense would be enforcing laws already in the books.

Common sense would be seriously looking at all the gun laws and doing away with the ones that are proven NOT to work.

 

[bradsteen]

Common sense would be seriously looking at all the gun laws and doing away with the ones that are proven NOT to work.

Or the ones that are outdated, such as the NFA. It's pathetic that our firearm definitions (pistol, rifle, etc) haven't been updated in the last 90 years.

 

[SonicBlue03]

I had ignored this thread based on the subject line, but being bored between meetings I decided to click on it. OP did not disappoint.

 

[shibbershabber]

How about we enforce the laws we already have to the fullest extent the law allows.

as time goes on, that argument isnt a good one.... there are so many new gun laws added all the time... I dont want current laws enforced, I want them repealed.

 

[Diamondback]

as time goes on, that argument isnt a good one.... there are so many new gun laws added all the time... I dont want current laws enforced, I want them repealed.

Remember what Lincoln said, though, "the best way to get an unjust law swiftly repealed is strict enforcement."

 

[sobo]

as time goes on, that argument isnt a good one.... there are so many new gun laws added all the time... I dont want current laws enforced, I want them repealed.

I'm just guessin' here, but I think @Tlock was referring to enforcing laws pertaining to the prosecution of perpetrators of violent crimes, not gun owners. But I could be wrong.

 

[unclejerr]

We put the fun in dysfunction!

See! I can't even spell the damn thing right let alone know what the definition is. Just an old dumb guy from Oregon.

 

[Tlock]

I'm just guessin' here, but I think @Tlock was referring to enforcing laws pertaining to the prosecution of perpetrators of violent crimes, not gun owners. But I could be wrong.

Yes I was.

 

[Diamondback]

OP appears to be a troll, going by this thread being the only thing that comes up in username search and hidden post-history. @Moderators , it's Take Off & Nuke From Orbit time.

 

[sobo]

OP appears to be a troll, going by this thread being the only thing that comes up in username search and hidden post-history. @Moderators , it's Take Off & Nuke From Orbit time.

"It's the only way to be sure..."

 

[Kruel J]

OP appears to be a troll, going by this thread being the only thing that comes up in username search and hidden post-history. @Moderators , it's Take Off & Nuke From Orbit time.

Nope. OP has 34 positive transactions here and a member since 2010. His OP is facetious.

 

[American123]

Nope. OP has 34 positive transactions here and a member since 2010. His OP is facetious.

Longterm plant.

 

[sobo]

Longterm plant.

I wondered about that myself. I have noticed in the past 3 or 4 months or so, starting early this past spring during the run-up to the WA mag ban vote, that a lot of "older" accounts suddenly became quite active. These people that had been dormant for years suddenly rose up and were being quite antagonistic of the pro-2A folks here, engaging in snarky, anti-2A tête-à-tête with the regulars here. I would view their profiles and see that they had been members for 7, 8, 10 years or more, but when I tried to see their older posts, the list ran dry pretty quickly. I started to wonder if one of two things was possible...

1) These are, as American123 suggests, sleepers and plants within the fold, awaiting times such as these to come out and troll us, or
2) People who have a particular set of IT skills to seek out and find older, inactive accounts of members gone by, hack those old accounts' passwords, and hijack those accounts for their own nefarious purposes here.

While #1 certainly seems easily doable and suggests a long game approach, do you all think that #2 is possible, short of being a member of the hacktivist group known as Anonymous? What end would the expenditure of such mental and temporal resources serve? Just to piss us off? Is it that much fun for them to waste that much effort on infiltrating this site?

 

[Diamondback]

I think it is possible... unless Joe has things set to lock an account after a certain number of fails, the classic "Dictionary Attack" still works.

I can also tell you that if I were an infiltrator, I'd be hoovering up as many people's data as I could via Marketplace transactions to target for Red Flagging or other ratting out to Big Brother later. Hence my longstanding advisory about "be very selective who you do deals with."

 

[CamoDeafie]

1) These are, as American123 suggests, sleepers and plants within the fold, awaiting times such as these to come out and troll us, or
2) People who have a particular set of IT skills to seek out and find older, inactive accounts of members gone by, hack those old accounts' passwords, and hijack those accounts for their own nefarious purposes here.

While #1 certainly seems easily doable and suggests a long game approach, do you all think that #2 is possible, short of being an member of the hacktivist group known as Anonymous?

I vividly remember a member here whose account got hacked and the hacker trolled in several threads before being found out; and the original acct owner had to get Joe involved and posted about that experience?

 

[sobo]

I vividly remember a member here whose account got hacked and the hacker trolled in several threads before being found out; and the original acct owner had to get Joe involved and posted about that experience?

Before my time? Or did I just miss that thread entirely?

 

[Diamondback]

IIRC it was within the past couple years.

 

[sobo]

I musta missed it, then. Have the offending threads been expunged? Does The Dude still abide?