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The conspiracy theorist in me thinks this was a ploy to get the VA mess out of the papers.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 30, 2014 -> 04:46 PM) Can we at least all agree that the dudes (and it's pretty much always dudes) who make a big show of carrying long guns into public places are weird and creepy? Those crazy NRA assholes issued a statement on this: http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/06/02/n...-chipotle-beef/

QUOTE (Tex @ Jun 3, 2014 -> 09:41 AM) What rule was broken? The President is supposed to give Congress 30 days notice of the release of any prisoner from Gitmo. They had no notice. The law is potentially unconstitutional though.

Oh s***! Poor Taj. http://thebiglead.com/2014/06/02/taj-gibso...-new-york-city/

QUOTE (IlliniKrush @ Jun 2, 2014 -> 12:17 PM) Hey if it was a gun she likely would have been dead. Wait maybe that's not it. If she had a gun she could have defended herself? That's it. Who's advocating that 12 year olds should be allowed to have guns?

If anyone is reading up on the net neutrality stuff, this is an epic response by John Oliver:

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 2, 2014 -> 12:21 PM) Come on, you are citing the Hollywood reporter. The kid felt entitled, shamed, jealous, rage etc. he perpetrated a terrible crime for a lot of reasons, but Judd Apatow and Seth Rogen and Rom Coms are an absolutely terrible cop out. I'm not saying we should blame them, i'm just saying the reason people think male entitlement is a problem is that it's being reinforced by our "culture." Movies, TV, music, etc. all play a part in that. That same "culture" also reinforces the entitlement mentality for women and how they view men. The problem here isn't this guy's desire to have women like him, or the expectation that women SHOULD like him, it's that he thought by just being a man he could get panties to drop all around him, and when that didn't happen, murder was the appropriate response. The extra step is the problem, not his mindset. Here's another example of, IMO, a misplaced argument: http://gawker.com/this-teen-girls-short-sh...inst-1584801191 High school girl wears shorts to school that are too short. She gets suspended for not changing as the shorts violate a school rule. Presumably the rule is there because she has 15-18 year old boys looking at her and not paying attention in school. In other words, she's becoming a distraction to sexually crazed teenage boys. This is a sensible policy (although I could see an exception being made in hot weather). To her, it's the boys being misogynistic assholes for looking at her as an object. To me, they're not being misogynists, they're not being anti-women, they're being 15-18 year old teenagers who would f*** a couch if it had a hole in it. And the school knows this, so they instituted a rule accordingly. But of course this is labeled as a story that highlights the problem with how men see women in our culture.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Jun 2, 2014 -> 12:09 PM) People have just lost their minds... http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/2-Gir...lFlowFB_CHBrand Obviously we need more regulation to prevent 12 year olds from obtaining dangerous knives.

I'm not saying it is totally, but where else would a "culture" of entitlement come from? Entertainment sources are going to be at the top of the list.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Jun 2, 2014 -> 11:30 AM) Really? A rom com? let's next discuss nuclear responsibility because Godzilla You know someone actually blamed Seth Rogen and Judd Apatow (and Hollywood generally) for this tragedy because in their movies the guy always gets the hot girl, there's a frat mentality, etc., right? http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/seth...m-critic-707117

I have to point out that it's ironic that people complain about male entitlement in this situation, yet every f'n rom-com in the last 40 years is about a woman who is deserving of a good guy because she's got a good personality, she's successful, she's quirky and different, she bloomed later in life, etc. etc. How is that any different than a man thinking that he "deserves" a female? Part of this stuff is, IMO, 100% natural. It's the way we're wired. We want to mate, which necessitates the participation of the opposite sex. edit: Obviously this guy took it to the extreme. I'm not suggesting he was "ok" or that the extent to which he felt entitled was ok. But this is twice now i've read a paragraph or two where someone in an article is trying to link this tragedy with a general problem with male entitlement, and I just don't buy it.

Glad it wasn't Illinois. That's a no win series for them, but a good one for NW.

QUOTE (Reddy @ Jun 1, 2014 -> 05:48 PM) And thus the easily terminated cycle continues. Again, point me to all of those posts you've written about the poor black kids of Chicago who are gunned down every weekend. I'm sure you think, write and advocate about that issue 24/7 right?

I think they said his health was starting to get really bad. He was losing a lot of weight. But yeah, it's weird that when you read up on this, some are calling him a POW, some are calling him a deserter, and apparently the admin/Pentagon won't talk about it. I hope they implanted some kind of chip in these terrorists they're letting go to track them. Maybe this was just a long con to obtain more intel.

QUOTE (Rowand44 @ Jun 1, 2014 -> 09:49 PM) This sport is too f***in much. +1

Also, I just watched this assholes last video. Jesus, if this isn't proof of the bulls*** entitlement culture we have these days. "I can't have you, so now I'll kill you." The world owes me everything.

Yes.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 30, 2014 -> 04:34 PM) An overwhelming majority of people in this country are ok with more restrictive gun laws, it's just that it's much easier to organize those that are really, really opposed along a single line of opposition. The recall elections in Colorado several months ago are a perfect example of that. Side note: if no amount of laws is going to stop people from killing other people, doesn't that undermine the whole "deterrent" argument for capital punishment or a harsh retributive justice system in general? Deterring people isn't really my main reason for being pro-capital punishment. And to be clear, i'm sure those restrictions would help some. I'm just saying their impact will be small with regard to these mass murders committed by pyschos. For the few they may prevent, you're infringing on a LOT of other people in the process. At some point you have to look at the risk-reward here. Obviously someone like Balta or Reddy, who see zero value in guns at all, couldn't care less about that. Me, and others, who have guns and use guns for hobby/sport, strongly disagree (and i'm not even a gun nut. I own some shotguns and rifles for hunting every few years).

QUOTE (Soxbadger @ May 30, 2014 -> 04:24 PM) No one has gangs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakuza http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilian_Mafia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triad_%28underground_society%29 http://www.irinnews.org/in-depth/70038/28/...re-in-cape-town Because that's what I said? But please, show me the evidence that the gang figures are similiar. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_population And that's not even accurate since in 2009 the FBI found that the US alone has 1.4 million gang members, and growing.

QUOTE (StrangeSox @ May 30, 2014 -> 04:23 PM) So why shouldn't we care about restricting the availability of guns to gangs? If it's harder to buy legal guns, it's harder to funnel them to gangs. Short of confiscating a bunch of guns, you'll still have a huge supply for a while, but at least it wouldn't constantly be making matters worse. And I think people on this board and generally people in the country are ok with restrictions generally and more restrictions than we currently have. But criminals are criminals and crazy people are crazy people. No matter the amount of words you put in big legislative books, they're going to still kill people. And while tragic, these events are INCREDIBLY rare in comparison to the amount of guns and gun owners in this country. And hell, more people die from alcohol related deaths than guns (http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-alcohol-related-deaths-years-lost-sxsw-20140313-story.html). At some point, this anti-gun stuff just becomes a bunch of fear nonsense.

Lol, West Germany. That's not a country any more. How old is that? Regardless, as has been pointed out, you're comparing apples to oranges. We're a different breed than the rest of the world. Plus you can't discount the role gangs play in this. No other country has gang problems like we do. And they make up the vast majority of gun murders. In Chicago, 80% of the murders were gang related. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/29/c..._n_2378073.html

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QUOTE (Balta1701 @ May 30, 2014 -> 12:47 PM) Neither the parents nor the police actually had the right to do anything about him having a gun. The parents literally couldn't have known since he was an adult, and I'll admit I don't know if the police who went to his door would even know that information. Given how our gun laws are written by people paranoid that the government is coming to take their guns, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the police who went to his address had no idea he was armed. As I noted though, there is now a proposed law in Cali that would have covered this case, allowing a family member or acquaintance to request a "firearms restraining order" for a person who is believed to be at risk. Of course, then we'd have the problem of it being impossible for the family to know that they needed to do so because there's no published information on who is stockpiling weapons, but in this case, that proposed law would have had the potential to stop it. Potential. No guarantee. And once the proposed law is passed and some other pyscho shoots someone you'll be screaming that there needs to be more regulation to stop it.

Since Watch Dogs sounds like a bust (maybe I'll get it at $20-25), I decided to buy the Last of Us expansion DLC, Left Behind. Anyone else play it? Only a couple hours in, but it's very reminiscent of the original game, which is a good thing. I got sucked back into that world pretty quickly.