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Post by laklak » Mon May 21, 2018 11:22 pm

I remember "duck and cover" drills well, I started 1st grade in 1961. Always wondered what that wooden desk was going to accomplish when a couple of megatons of Soviet thermonuclear hell detonated 1000 meters over my head. At the time we lived in Dover, Delaware, just down the road from Washington D.C. and home to the Dover Air Force Base, I think we were probably a primary target.
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Post by Brian Peacock » Mon May 21, 2018 11:36 pm

During my youth I lived half a mile from where the Scorpion tank was made. I figured that if we got the three minute warning I had just enough time to get on my bike and cycle down the hill to the factory. Even at that age I realised it was better to be vaporised in an instant than to burn to death in the shallow graves the government were urging us to dig under the banner of 'Protect & Survive'.

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Post by laklak » Mon May 21, 2018 11:41 pm

That's my take on it. I don't worry now, if they decided to kick off The Big One I'd be disassociated atoms in a heartbeat, what with all the military presence just up the road in Tampa.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Tue May 22, 2018 9:05 am

My dad joined the Civil Defence Corps in the 60's. A propaganda machine. The pamphlets were mad. Making shelters etc.
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Post by rainbow » Tue May 22, 2018 10:02 am

Seabass wrote:
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Now the Republicans are blaming doors
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Post by Sean Hayden » Thu May 24, 2018 3:04 pm

Houston police chief battles NRA in vicious Twitter feud amid school shooting fallout
The hard-charging publicity arm of the National Rifle Association is engaged in an increasingly vicious Twitter battle with Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo, as the firearms organization struggles to contain fallout from yet another mass shooting.

The result has been a multi-day social media battle between Houston's top law enforcement official and a prominent and outspoken NRA personality. On Tuesday, the dispute escalated to include threats of legal filings, references to Nazi Germany and suggestions of inappropriate surveillance.

After last Friday's mass shooting at Santa He High School in Texas, which left ten people dead and 13 wounded, Acevedo posted a desperate and emotional plea on his Facebook page to do something about gun violence.

“I know some have strong feelings about gun rights but I want you to know I’ve hit rock bottom and I am not interested in your views as it pertains to this issue," Acevedo wrote. "Please do not post anything about guns [not being] the problem and [that] there’s little we can do."

“This isn’t a time for prayers, and study and inaction," he continued. "It’s a time for prayers, action and the asking of God’s forgiveness for our inaction.”

He followed up the comments on CBS News' Face the Nation, calling on the public to vote out lawmakers "that are doing nothing" on gun violence.
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Re: Texas School Shooting: 10 dead

Post by JimC » Thu May 24, 2018 9:05 pm

Sean Hayden wrote:

--if you didn't know, the NRA are scumbags...
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Post by Svartalf » Thu May 24, 2018 9:28 pm

scumbags? I thought they cared only for ammo pouches?
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Post by Brian Peacock » Fri May 25, 2018 12:23 am

I see what you did there. :D
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Re: Texas School Shooting: 10 dead

Post by Seabass » Wed May 30, 2018 8:34 am

Now we can add grocery store porno to the list:
Tennessee lawmaker says pornography is a 'root cause' of school shootings
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/29/politics ... index.html

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Well, we can add abortion
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/20/us/texas ... index.html
and trenchcoats
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2018 ... ats/220263
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Seabass wrote:
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Now the Republicans are blaming doors and Ritalin.

So, to blame for America's gun violence:
video games
movies
rap music
rock music
not enough god/jesus
not enough armed teachers
not enough good guys with guns
not enough guns
immigration
liberals
mental illness
divorce
schools with too many doors
Ritalin

NOT to blame for America's gun violence:
guns
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Re: Texas School Shooting: 10 dead

Post by laklak » Wed May 30, 2018 2:29 pm

Wanna take bets on how long till that dude gets caught with a rent boy?
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