Put blame where it belongs
ATF decided it could not regulate bump stocks during the Obama administration.
It that time," the NRA wrote in a statement. "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
The ATF and Obama admin. ignored the NRA recommendations.
We've know for the last 50+ years that Russians have been screwing with us in various ways ....and I'd venture to guess so have several other countrys..... were you still in the darkness....
Other than some sketchy monetary dealings, foreign shenanigans on our social media and news media are nothing burgers and hype....both our political parties and partisans of all shades, online and in print, do the very same thing...conspire and hype issues of all kinds, to influence the gullible among us....its a common a air.....
Its very visible right now in the whining about guns on both sides of that issue....
Put blame where it belongs
ATF decided it could not regulate bump stocks during the Obama administration.
It that time," the NRA wrote in a statement. "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
The ATF and Obama admin. ignored the NRA recommendations.
Darth Omar (02-19-2018)
That's a lazy response. Basically amounts to "we know the Russians are always going to try to undermine the U.S., so it doesn't really matter, and we shouldn't spend any time on it. Whatever."
I mean, really? It will be nice w/ the Trump-spell breaks and you guys can think clearly again.
Wrong as usual...its a direct referance to your post, "We're better off knowing what happened. Why would anyone want that kept in the darkness?"
I'm certainly not in any darkness....
A little history for you...we've had more problems with domestic nuts in the near past....not Russians..
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Excerpts from various articles on anti-US violence in the US…
Modern left-wing terrorist groups in the United States developed from remnants of the Weather Underground and extremist elements of the Students for a Democratic Society.
In the 70’s and 80’s…
the Symbionese Liberation Army was responsible for, committing bank robberies murders, and other acts of violence. Most notably, the group kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst.[11]
In the 1980s both the May 19th Communist Organization (M19CO) and the smaller United Freedom Front were active. A 2001 study found "Leftist extremists were responsible for three fourths of the officially designated acts of terrorism in America in the 1980s." After 1985, following the dismantling of both groups, one source reports there were no confirmed acts of left-wing terrorism by similar groups
The Brink’s armored car robbery at Rockland County, NY’s Nanuet Mall. Carried out by the remnants of the Black Liberation Army (a hyper-violent fragment of the Black Panther Party) and a few ex-members of the Weather Underground, the crime left two police officers and a security guard dead.
But today there is no equivalent threat from left-wing extremists. Small bands of masked protestors periodically indulge in a bout of window smashing or throw rocks at the police and arson of local stores….In January 2009 DHS warned of increased cyber attacks, which “are attractive options to leftwing extremists who view attacks on economic targets as aligning with their nonviolent, ‘no-harm’ doctrine.”
The crimes listed in the DHS report include disrupted email accounts at laboratories (usually in relation to animal rights), which allegedly cost the targeted companies millions of dollars. Contrast that with the Aug. 24, 1970 bombing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Sterling Hall, …. the physics department in the building’s lower levels was badly hit, wounding several students and a security guard and killing a researcher ….
In more recent history, its been the far right wingers that have been active, but its
Usually loners of one or two attacking abortion centers or bombing black churches.
The most deadly terrorist attack on U.S. soil before 9/11 was carried out by Timothy McVeigh, who was steeped in hard-right-wing ideology.
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You're probably too young to remember any of this but shouting day after day, "the Russians are coming, the Russians are coming" don't scare me at all.....
Last edited by NOVA; 02-19-2018 at 03:19 PM.
Put blame where it belongs
ATF decided it could not regulate bump stocks during the Obama administration.
It that time," the NRA wrote in a statement. "The NRA believes that devices designed to allow semiautomatic rifles to function like fully-automatic rifles should be subject to additional regulations."
The ATF and Obama admin. ignored the NRA recommendations.
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