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Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

November 5, 2018 05:33 AM Forum: Politics

Synagogue Massacres Solved By A Melvin!

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Gun store owner Melvin Bernstein has decided to provide the perfect solution to protect you and your yarmulke the next time you visit your synagogue.
All ya gotta do is have your rabbi take him up on his offer of a free AR-15! That's right, he'll arm your rabbi with a brand new off the shelf AR-15, gratis! 
Now, Melvin's tee shirt in the image states, "full auto, automatic weapon" so I don't know if he's tweaked 'em or not but, being a rabbi and all, I'd suppose the state would given them special dispensation and allow tacit approval for their use without prosecution, should something happen.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/colorado-gun-dealer-offers-local-rabbis-free-ar-15-rifle
Leave it to a Melvin!... 

November 10, 2018 10:27 AM Forum: Politics

WSJ Breaks Story: Trump's Involvement In Hush Money

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Originally Posted by Richard Davis

This is a new story that the WSJ has "broken".  Sounds like this is old news.  What is new about it?

It is called a Non disclosure agreement and it is done all the time.  The NY Attorney's office has been trying for over a year now to attach charges to Trump of campaign finance violations.  It isn't a violation when you use your own money.  

So then, are you ready to indict John Conyers on his "hush money" payments to the women he sexually harassed?

Are you also ready to indict all the other Congressmen in Washington who were paying off women they sexually harassed over the years, with taxpayer money to do it?

I'm sure you're not, but I thought I'd check your response anyway.  
Oh, ok lawyer and insider Rich Davis. The WJS should have consulted you first...

November 10, 2018 09:50 AM Forum: Politics

WSJ Breaks Story: Trump's Involvement In Hush Money

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Maybe they can get the lying SOB on campaign finance law violations:
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/09/politics/trump-cohen-payments-women/index.html

November 11, 2018 05:53 AM Forum: Politics

An Inconvenient Truth For The NRA

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Let me see,
Homicides: 5.1 per 100,000 people. US leads the 15 industrialized countries globally. And that doesn't include the assaults where somebody pulls a gun on somebody.
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/21/17488024/gun-ownership-violence-shootings-us
PER capita, it rises to to 10.6 putting it on par the Dominican Republic.
I previously referenced a study where kids in red states with loose gun restrictions are far more likely to die from guns than those in blue states with more restrictive gun restrictions. Oh, I forgot, guns don't kill kids, kids kill kids, right?
And as far as the inane and ludicrous comparison to abortions is concerned, I'll simply state the obvious, abortions performed legally are just that and not "murder"...

November 11, 2018 06:06 AM Forum: Politics

An Inconvenient Truth For The NRA

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer
Whatever excuse that allows you to live with yourself right Rod? lol

GREAT post Fred Lusk!!!!
Let me see,
Homicides: 5.1 per 100,000 people. US leads the 15 industrialized countries globally. And that doesn't include the assaults where somebody pulls a gun on somebody.
https://www.vox.com/2018/6/21/17488024/gun-ownership-violence-shootings-us
PER capita, it rises to to 10.6 putting it on par the Dominican Republic.
I previously referenced a study where kids in red states with loose gun restrictions are far more likely to die from guns than those in blue states with more restrictive gun restrictions. Oh, I forgot, guns don't kill kids, kids kill kids, right?
And as far as the inane and ludicrous comparison to abortions is concerned, I'll simply state the obvious, abortions performed legally are just that and not "murder"...

November 11, 2018 07:34 AM Forum: Politics

An Inconvenient Truth For The NRA

Posted By Rod Kaufman
I still don't see Fred, Rich or Greg addressing the initial post of this thread, especially with regards to Fred's "excellent post", the one in which he calls the murders by gun violence with the particular set of stats he refers to as "statistically insignificant." But nowhere in Fred's "excellent post" did he reference gun violence related to assaults, wounded, maimed or paralyzed patients, the same kinds of patients modern medicine saves and who would otherwise appear in Fred's "statistically insignificant" numbers. You know, the very ones the trauma surgeons are talking about in the post. 
And the NRA's response to all of this? "Stay in your lane"...
Geez.. 
Oh"
"But when it comes to gun deaths per capita, the U.S. ranks 20th, at a rate of 10.6 per 100,000 deaths — putting it on par with the Dominican Republic. Many places with high gun death rates had fewer deaths than the U.S. because of smaller populations."
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/theres-a-new-global-ranking-of-gun-deaths-heres-where-the-u-s-stands

November 11, 2018 08:47 AM Forum: Politics

An Inconvenient Truth For The NRA

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Originally Posted by Mel Maki

I know if the US stats were fifty percent better than they are the same anti-gunners would be saying the same things. Also, people that aren't comfortable using guns don't want anybody to have them. A lot of people have decided they are sure they will never be in a situation where access to a gun could help them. And they are sure they will never be able to acquire the ability to own and care for a gun without something terrible happening. But they don't worry about it because they have decided if they don't think about it, it can't happen. They are probably right. They probably have only two days of food, also.
Mel,
I won't even bother with Rich's BS but I'll respond to yours:
Here are the recent stats:
"According to the website Gun Violence Archive, more than 12,000 people have been killed by firearms in the US so far this year, including about 3,000 people under the age of 18.
That number does not include an annual estimate of 22,000 suicides via firearms."
Mel, that's a lot. Victims of the Las Vegas shooting were present at the Thousand Oaks Bar and Grill shooting this past week. One of them was hit and killed. His mother said this:
"I don't want prayers, I don't want thoughts, I want gun control"
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46150847
The shooter's mother said the same thing. And that's still not addressing those who were assaulted, wounded, paralyzed or otherwise disabled by firearms, ie the same ones not addressed by you or anyone else here, ie the same patients the traumas surgeons are talking about. The NRA's response remains the same "stay in your lane" and refused invitation for air time on CNN to respond... 

November 11, 2018 09:50 AM Forum: Politics

An Inconvenient Truth For The NRA

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Rich Davis said:
"My brother thinks I'm nuts because I have 4 guns."
It isn't just your brother...

November 10, 2018 11:49 PM Forum: Politics

An Inconvenient Truth For The NRA

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Another study, another round of BS from wingnuts...
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/11/10/nra-tweet-doctors-react-brian-todd-dnt-vpx.cnn

November 13, 2018 09:54 AM Forum: Politics

Fires In California

Posted By Rod Kaufman
Originally Posted by Darian Rachal
I'm wondering if the massive extent of the fires in CA isn't due to their extremist environmental policies. I'm under the impression that they do not allow management of the forests in such a way that would prevent fires of this magnitude.unsure

Perhaps someone a bit more knowledgeable about this subject can elaborate on this.
No it is not. Read what. the fire captains said about Trump's ludicrous "tweet" yesterday. They said hwas was just plain "wrong". Now, Trump himself has finally come around to reality for a change and declared the regions affected as disaster areas deserving of federal funding...

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