Comments by "Jack B" (@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing) on "VICE News"
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I don't care to hear another word about the life or motivations of Paddock. Ever. He deserves not one iota of remembrance. What I do want to see is at least a few minutes each day about every person we lost in Vegas and in Puerto Rico. Who they were, their yearbook and childhood pictures, what they did both good and bad. I want to have a REAL FUCKING THOUGHT for victims, Media. No more lip service, no more victim-mandala pictures and-then-move-on bullshit.
Stop saying thoughts and prayers when you have no idea who to pray for when you have not one name in your thoughts. Jeremy Christian's name is forever known for the stabbing of three men who stood up to his Nazi ass on a train for two scared girls, but people have to google THEIR names. Ricky Best, dead. Taliesin Namkai-Meche, dead. Micah Fletcher, who survived. But all people will know is Christian's name.
Stop giving perpetrators their 5 minutes of fame, and start spending it on those we lost, Media.
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I could spend millions of dollars.
OR I could google the predicted fallout maps for my area, have a plan, and head to a non-targeted area with prevailing winds that push all the fallout away from livable land.
Assuming survival from a first strike, the sanctuary area for me is the Oregon Coast, not a bunker. And it's about a 30 minute drive with lots of rural highway routes to choose from through the mountains. Powerful constant winds push all the fallout the opposite direction, precipitation coming from the ocean, fish, timber, no major targets, almost entirely public land that won't have entitled, crazy, gun waving nuts "standing their ground".
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When Americans are the ones growing and shipping the opium, then I'll point the finger that way. Stick to the hard facts and stop trying to impress everyone with your conspiracy theories.
1. Afghans grow Poppies because it's 7 times as profitable as food. The US tried that trick already, and Afghans aren't known givers of fucks about what they do to others when they can line their pockets.
2. Iran, known to nab anyone the moment they get within a kilometer of their border, is somehow, inexplicably, being flooded with Heroine making it across the line that a gnat couldn't sneak across.
3. The US isn't known for "final solutions", such as sowing the fields of Afghanistan with salt. They simply aren't hard-core enough to take the harsh actions necessary to stop this, probably because they would be perversely condemned even more (if such a thing were possible) by everyone for it. If a country's major export were Chemical Weapons, would you still have the same reservations about destroying that economy? Is it really so far off?
4. Historically, Afghan poppies were shipped East to be refined and shipped out of the Golden Triangle. If it's going West instead these days, it's because of either a change in Chinese/Triad policies, or a spike in other markets.
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@RebornLegacy You really missed the point. They all started out as legal guns, that can be found anywhere. What starts out legal doesn't take much to move into Illegal. Sold, traded, stolen, uncontrolled and untraced. The number of legal gun sales is intertwined, and inseperable, with the number of illegal guns. But there's a difference: You slow the sale and lethality in new, legal guns and you exponentially reduce the dangers of illegal firearms making the rounds. Because as time ticks on, and illegal guns get confiscated, they become an endangered species compared to legal guns, which do not get confiscated, if you can stop them from breeding on the factory floor. And the more endangered a hot gun gets, the more it's black market value goes up, which means it will trade hands even less.
England already figured this math out in 1996 after a school massacre. You can sit there and deny that, and you will, and talk about knives and trucks, but they don't have our gun problems. The only massacre they had after that? By a legal gun owner. In 2010. 23 years, and only a single mass shooting that killed 12. And it happened because they let that guy have his guns LEGALLY. Here, in 'Murica, we could almost envy those kinds of rookie numbers.
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