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But you chose to identify only the NRA's lobbying number, not its overall spending. [I'm not saying you were "dishonest," David. No one would ever do THAT in these threads!
in How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment-“A fraud on the American public" Comment by Bill_Coley March 2018
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I'm curious as to why you chose 2017 "lobbying" data to report what the NRA "spent in politics" (see your previous post in this thread). in How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment-“A fraud on the American public" Comment by Bill_Coley March 2018
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However off track our discussions veer, David, I can count on you to toss in an "apples and oranges" or "stupid" to remind me who's on the other end of the forum thread from me.
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And yet again you evade the question, David.
Russia - not "other countries" - interfered in our 2016 election, according to our intelligence community, with the intent to help elect Donald Trump. To my knowledge, no other count…
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Whether I - ONE person - have "ever" talked to a Russian is not at all the issue here. The issue is MANY people connected to ONE political organization (the Trump campaign) having MANY contacts with people from ONE country (Russia) ove…
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You have every right to that opinion.
As for your claim that there is "no evidence," I hope you will answer the following questions directly:
As I have shown in previous posts, from information that's on the public reco…
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In other words...
- In your view, there was "loads of evidence" against Hillary Clinton that justified the conventioneers' shouts of "Lock her up!" So be it.
- I believe there is sufficient evidence - I don't know wha…
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Assume Person X wants to comment on what he or she believes is the potential criminality of a president's conduct. Your argument SEEMS to exempt Person X from the "innocent until proven guilty" limitation on such comments if "ACTUAL ev…
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FWIW, from what I've read, "innocent until proven guilty" is a term of art specific to the judicial system, and doesn't apply to online forum political conjecture such as ours. Similarly, the Trumpsters who, at the 2016 GOP convention …
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I'm sure you're right, David. In fact, I can't remember a single presidential campaign since the Cold War began - either the winning or losing side - that didn't have AT LEAST 20 people make AT LEAST 70 contacts with Russians as happen…
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CORRECTION: I've just come across the fact that four people, not three, have pleaded guilty to lying to the Mueller probe. The fourth person is Dutch attorney Alex van der Zwaan, who had previously worked with Paul Manafort and Rick Gates. He ple…
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Three people have pleaded guilty to making false statements. Flynn, yes, but also Rick Gates and George Papadopoulos.
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I don't understand the relevance to the Mueller probe of what you deem our "every day" law-breaking. How is lying to Federal officials at all related to our "every day" jaywalking, for example?
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But do we all lie to the FBI or Federal officials "every day without realizing it"? The Mueller probe is not everyday life.
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A stickler for word choice, I can't help but notice that the statement DOESN'T say Russia didn't use chemical weapons against Sergei Skripal.
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I'm not equipped to argue the details of the international consensus on Russia's involvement in the Skripals' poisonings. From what I've read about the father's imprisonment in Russia for treason, his freedom granted as part of a spy …
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As I have observed in other posts, Wolfgang, your politics on these matters are much different from mine.
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Glory be! Following a lengthy and unexplained absence, "stupid" returns to your posting vocabulary, David, and does so via a surprise partnership with "nonsense." THAT'S what's called a discussion-stopper.
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So in your view, when people who ARE firearm eligible, obtain their firearms LEGALLY, and are NOT among those who fall through "the cracks of the system" shoot people, it IS members of the "militia" shooting each other, as long as thei…
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The end result of the exchange my assertion prompted, it seems to me, is that you agree that when (firearm-eligible) Americans shoot each other, "technically" it's members of the Second Amendment's "militia" shooting each other. (I'll …
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As the quoted previous posts above report, the subject of my statement was the distinction between "armed citizens" and "unarmed citizens," a distinction which assumed that both groups of people complied with firearm ownership age requ…
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Your critique of someone's "know(ing) all the private things Trump says to Putin" is more accurately directed to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I hope she's encouraged when you tell her how "honest" you think she is "for telling the rest of …
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The number of Russian diplomats expelled by the Trump administration DID surprise me until I remembered that the cause for the expulsion was the Kremlin-commanded poisoning of two persons on British soil, and the collateral damage to t…
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That you like or dislike the color yellow is a matter of your personal opinion. There's nothing objectively true or false about your opinion of the color yellow. I might disagree with your opinion of the color yellow, but I won't say y…
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But prior to their becoming either "criminals" who killed or victims of said killing, weren't those Americans eligible for the right protected by the Second Amendment? In the language of the amendment, weren't they parts of the "well r…
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It seems to me, David, you have previously posted that the Second Amendment refers the nation's preparedness for war, that the amendment intended to make weapons of war available to American citizens. Doesn't that make armed citizens …
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I think this is an insightful point, Dave. How "well regulated" can a "militia" be when its members shoot each other?
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The "investigation" has already shown that crimes were committed. My taken on media reports about the probe is that additional crimes will be alleged/confessed in forthcoming indictments and guilty pleas. In my view, that's justice, no…
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Could be. OR, the students might have a voice because the Parkland shooting was a galvanizing moment in the history of guns in this country. Whereas previous school shootings prompted alarm, but no organized student response, the Parkl…
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I don't know WHERE I got the idea that the students who took on the NRA and members of Congress during their Saturday marches in dozens of cities around the world did so as part of their stand against gun violence. Thanks for setting m…
