*breaking news* Boston Marathon explosions

bitslice said:
Depends how you look at it, if I take your SA rifle and let you buy an excellent potato gun instead, how am I not infringing your 2nd Amd right?
Or as they call it now, giving you a reasonable concession.
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You have created a straw man fallacy with that statement. So I'm not going to respond to it. My original statement is sound and valid.

bitslice said:
Correctly rejecting stupid, unenforceable, badly worded and ineffective nonsense - some of the morons making these laws don't even realise that you can reload a magazine :rolleyes:
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I fail to see how you can assert this without reading the proposed legislation in it's entirety. Have you read it ?

The idea behind smaller clip sizes is actually a positive step in the right direction. The only 'morons' were the people who rejected the idea. I suspect no matter how well worded it is, today's Congress will always reject it.

bitslice said:
Are you reading that correctly?
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Read it correctly but wrote it wrongly in my post. What I should have said was:

Also, the 2nd Amendment was drawn up during a period when people wanted protection and formed an armed militia.

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed
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Can't believe it really, sends a big lump down your throat for when we have some major events, things are going to be critically tight in the UK with regards to security I'm hoping

Those poor people :( i know a few people who do these marathon trips.
 
Given the amount of cameras in the area, particularly those on the shops next to the blast, I'd be shocked if the bomber wasn't caught on CCTV.
 
A female US News Presenter has gone to the FBI and told them she interviewed a brown-skinned man called Mohammed a couple of weeks back posing as a Marathon runner, she was made suspicious by his strange British accent and the fact she'd never heard of him before.
 
I feel like killing myself knowing these people are walking the streets...

Megan Wood McGuigan They're Arabs. They don't enjot the rights of the US Constitution. They simply have the choice to obey the laws or be kicked out.
posted by Scott Weideman

Really? 9/11, the 1993 WTC bombings, the Bali, Madrid and London subway bombings, the bombing of St. Mark's Church in Cairo, the Beslan school massacre, the New Year's massacre in Nigeria, the USS Cole bombing, the murder of Theo Van Gogh, the murder of Pin Fortuyn, the failed Times Square bombing, the shoe bomber, the failed bombing of plane over Detroit. Just last week there was a massacre of Christians in Nigeria and Egypt and a massacre of Buddhists in Mynammar and Thailand. So when someone sees non-stop muslim violence around the world towards any non-muslim, homosexual, ethnic minority and even among fellow muslims, one can say that muslims should be considered suspect #1.
posted by voos3434

I am certain that there is more to this story than simply the fact that those dirty Muslims were speaking Arabic.
posted by Kurt Steinberg

@ Megan, it is thinking like yours that is responsible for more bloodshed. You talk about 2 white men committing terrorist acts...in what...the last 20 years or so! How many terrorist acts have been commited by Arabs in the last 10 years? I think we Americans must PROFILE.
posted by Shalimar Backman

Megan Wood McGuigan you need to really come out of your world into reality; english is spoken almost on every street in the world however I don't see us strapping bombs on kids or blowing up churches on a day to day basis; if you have a society that treats other wrongly and suppress them than those need not apply to this country......
posted by Richard Bowersock

Megan Wood McGuigan you are going to tell me, as an American, in THIS current world we live in, that you would feel 100% comfortable sitting on an airplane a couple seats back from 2 middle eastern men talking in their native language? Really? It doesn't matter how liberal or progressive you are, you're still human & you're not an idiot. Don't be a hypocrite.
posted by Shanon Dallke Mendes

Hey Megan.. Great points but I am of the belief that you must be a citizen to 'qualify' for those civil rights. I don't blame the people on the flight. And being your sitting at a computer and not in the hospital with the other less fortunate people in Boston, gives you a different prospective. If you were in Boston and witnessed this event, you would have had different emotions on this flight. If you're human that is..
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Is it any surprise given the sort of drivel some of the American media outlets are spouting that Megan Wood McGuigan has the opinion that she does.

Malleable-minded Megan and her cohorts sadly are eligible to vote, that's the really scary thing.
 
randal said:
Is it any surprise given the sort of drivel some of the American media outlets are spouting that Megan Wood McGuigan has the opinion that she does.

Malleable-minded Megan and her cohorts sadly are eligible to vote, that's the really scary thing.
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I think Megan was someone who was calling people out for being Xenophobic ***** and the posts that mentions her are in response.
 
Interesting development - the FBI is saying that the bomb "used a pressure cooker packed with metal"; see this article here.

Now, I happen to know, given the news story of the recent conviction of 4 terrorists in Luton (link to article here), that an Al Qaida magazine called "Inspire" had an article within it (published 3 years ago I believe) called "Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom" (mentioned in the article).

Now here's the kicker - within this article the method of using a pressure cooker with metal inside it is given and outlined. Therefore, this is some evidence towards the attack being carried out by Al Qaida. Very interesting.
 
It is possible though that someone in no way connected to Al Qaeda got hold of a copy of that magazine, probably fairly easily found online and used that method to carry out the bombing, whatever their motives and so forth.

Hell, perhaps even the mighty AQ copied that method from somewhere else in the first instance.
 
The Funktopus said:
It is possible though that someone in no way connected to Al Qaeda got hold of a copy of that magazine, probably fairly easily found online and used that method to carry out the bombing, whatever their motives and so forth.

Hell, perhaps even the mighty AQ copied that method from somewhere else in the first instance.
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True, but I still find this compelling evidence (some of the only evidence we have so far) for an Al Qaida linked attack.
 
PhysicsMan94 said:
Interesting development - the FBI is saying that the bomb "used a pressure cooker packed with metal"; see this article here.

Now, I happen to know, given the news story of the recent conviction of 4 terrorists in Luton (link to article here), that an Al Qaida magazine called "Inspire" had an article within it (published 3 years ago I believe) called "Make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom" (mentioned in the article).

Now here's the kicker - within this article the method of using a pressure cooker with metal inside it is given and outlined. Therefore, this is some evidence towards the attack being carried out by Al Qaida. Very interesting.
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So you're saying that it could have been you, or anyone that read the magazine, or anyone that spoke to anyone that read the magazine?
 
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