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Come to think of it I suppose they're both sort of right, but continuous pressure on the trigger delivers repeated shots so really it is effectively full auto.

If a bump stock is effectively full auto then this is more clearly full auto, the fact that the disconnector is automatically reset, and there's a delay, makes it closer to controlled full auto than anything else, I think.

People die in the drug supply chain, but 'drugs augment or change an experience' so thats OK?

I'm sure plenty of people have been murdered thanks to drug-induced rages, MDMA not being the only drug people use, I mean, weren't you taken down while high and threatening people with a knife?

But they do go into murderous rages with ice, crack and cocaine no?

And don't drug users tend to commit crimes when they're off drugs, because they need their next fix?
Police officers I know say stoners who've gone without for a few days are some of the hardest people to deal with.

How is it that 80% of people get along fine without needing illegal drugs, but people like you can't?

*checks distribution chain violence, deaths during prohibition of alcohol*

uziq wrote:

War Man wrote:

Enjoyment of rapid firing a weapon at a range to feel better, considering we live in a depressing world. I think that is a public good.

your way of alleviating depression and boredom is to ... fire lots of bullets very rapidly? a 'public good'? LMAO.

maybe read a book mate?

Why not both?

Dilbert_X wrote:

I'm sure 20% of people will admit to speeding in the last year.

Driving fast is fun, you get a buzz out of it, clearly we should remove all speed limits and let people do what they want. Freedom!

uziq keeps plugging the same arguments, everybody takes drugs no they don't drugs are good for you, lots of health benefits not for the average person outside a medical environment no.

i have literally never said drugs are good for you. i’ve said that alcohol is bad for you, in fact, and that a good number of recreational and scary-sounding ‘illegal’ drugs rank below it on a scale of harm - both individual and social.

the fact you can’t parse this simple fact after years of it being presented to you, and the fact you still try to twist my statements, just shows how deeply in denial you are. weird for a clear-sighted ‘man of science’.

i have always spoken about drug use as an informed decision, accepting tolerable risks in the same way one does when they drink, drive a car, or play with guns. a much more mature approach to drugs than getting hysterical about them and talking ominously about ‘illegality’ and ‘drug-crazed loonies’.

i have pointed out that many research groups around the world are looking into the medicinal or mental health benefits of psychoactive drugs which you declare ‘illegal … for morons’ etc. how many research groups are researching the health benefits of alcohol? i wonder why. possibly because it’s a harmful poison?

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I would love to hear about the events leading up to that. Video starts with the young guy acting defensive and the old guy set on being a narc (for weed, ugh). Then the old guy gets into some diatribe about how he wants to be able to walk up to neighbors and get them to help him with something?

Is there context, or is he just a Karen? Like I could understand if it was a condo thing and you were smelling your neighbor's grass and they were making a big escalating deal out of you bringing it up while you were on the way to buy some Ozium?

I think when you shout "you have no idea who I am" at someone, that could be construed as a threat.

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

I would love to hear about the events leading up to that. Video starts with the young guy acting defensive and the old guy set on being a narc (for weed, ugh). Then the old guy gets into some diatribe about how he wants to be able to walk up to neighbors and get them to help him with something?

Is there context, or is he just a Karen? Like I could understand if it was a condo thing and you were smelling your neighbor's grass and they were making a big escalating deal out of you bringing it up while you were on the way to buy some Ozium?

I think when you shout "you have no idea who I am" at someone, that could be construed as a threat.

Reddit doxed him. It turns out he is a drug counselor who lost his license because he was being too hard on the recovering addicts. Telling them they are losers, ruined their lives etc.

lmfao it's literally dibertus XI.

uziq wrote:

safe operation of a book requires two hands. i wouldn’t recommend trying it at the same time war man.

I like how you took me literally, when I wasn't referring to doing both at the same time.

How funny, if he'd used a gun everyone would be screaming that the gun laws should be changed, but no he used a knife so having foot-long knives accessible in your average shopping centre is still OK

New Zealand supermarket stabbing: Government to toughen anti-terror laws

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-58446260

it's pretty hard to argue against having, er, kitchen knives in a homeware store or supermarket. a knife has an everyday function. you could maybe put them in locked display cases or something but it hardly seems feasible. you need to be hellbent on violence to go on a stabbing spree. it's a lot more strenuous – and personal – than lighting up a theatre with an assault rifle.

an awful thing to happen, and perhaps the counter-terrorism forces in NZ had him on too long of a leash, but it's really hard to devise effective laws to prevent this sort of thing. an IS nutjob is going to get behind the wheels of a van and mount a pavement, or grab a knife or dining table set and go postal, if they really want to.