Frankly, I make solid six figures and still have a hard time even contemplating buying a new car. With how much value is lost short-term it's like just burning cash.
I think the best vehicular investment I've ever made was a moderately-used Chevy Volt for, like, ~14k. That thing is a tank and still gets some EV / efficiency cred.
Unless I'm missing something, that graph indicates the rate was consistently below 7% - often significantly - from ~1860-1970. How the heck do you define slightly?
If we can’t devise quote “effective” gun control legislation (whatever that means to you, to me it means no guns at all), let’s just let everyone have access to guns, per their constitutional right.
Or, phrased so as to correctly highlight where the burdens lie, if a restrictive firearm measure isn't directly tied to a facet of firearm violence as an attempt to address a specific problem supported by an abundance of data and reasoning - aka well-justified - it should be resisted as yet another ineffective measure that can only serve as an incremental move toward defacto bans.
As we've covered, the same charge I look forward to the court clearing him of next month. If you're still having trouble with the concept beyond this, I'm going to leave it to you to figure out.
The same charge pending judge review due to its inconsistency with having acted in self-defense?
Colie’s defense attorney, Adam Pouilliard, said the conviction on the firearms charge is inconsistent with the law, given Colie’s acquittal on self-defense grounds. He asked the judge to set aside the conviction. A judge will hear arguments on the issue at a hearing next month.
To be clear, the court has already said he was perfectly justified from the self-defense perspective. I look forward to it clearing him of the "firing indoors" nonsense.
When we're just casually disregarding pesky things like definitions, how can you actually expect any form of genuine conversation to take place? You're playing pretend from the start.
"approached" - you seem to be performing Olympic-tier stretching to reduce this aggressive harassment and intimidation to "approached".
This is incredibly disingenuous - it's hard to take anything you say seriously through such. It's also clear you aren't actually here for any form of conversation, aren't here to understand what happened as shown by video and conclude from that, and are instead here to just shill your anti-firearm point of view.
If one abstains, there is no impact: Either candidate has 50/100 = 50%.
If one votes Candidate C, there is no impact: Candidate A and Candidate B are now both at 50/101 = 49.5%.
There is no spoiler.
It’s no coincidence. This is the means by which the establishment perpetuates itself. Doesn’t mean both parties are the same.
Sure, and I'm not saying both parties are the same.
I'm saying one isn't obligated to vote for Party A for them merely being less awful than Party B - that doing so perpetuates the awfulness of either party; that trying to convince voters to do so is to perpetuate the awfulness of a given party.
That particular user likes to ignore the actual linguistic and cultural analysis behind that amendment in favor of a rich history of interpretations of the amendment as some sort of explanation for what it meant, which is a bit like trying to explain the origins of Christianity through reference to only the New King James version to the complete and intentional neglect of the OG Hebrew.
I wish you the best of luck in reasoning with one so insistently unreasonable.
Then the question still applies: in what way would a spoiler increase the count of either establishment candidate? My understanding of basic math is that it cannot.
It would be more irrational, because if the “shoot me in the leg, I guess” party loses, everyone dies, and nobody gets to have opinions about anything ever again.
That's certainly one opinion on the matter... coincidentally one perfectly aligned with a partisan propaganda viewpoint and, thus far, is nothing but alarmist hyperbole.
I think we can both agree that voting to avoid bad outcomes rather than to select good ones is fucked.
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Frankly, I make solid six figures and still have a hard time even contemplating buying a new car. With how much value is lost short-term it's like just burning cash.
I think the best vehicular investment I've ever made was a moderately-used Chevy Volt for, like, ~14k. That thing is a tank and still gets some EV / efficiency cred.