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1 hour ago, uttradit said:

Where do you live?

I live in a village filled with cannabis smokers, yaba and kratom users. 11 yrs. Also lived in Phuket for 7 yrs. Never locked anything. 🤷‍♂️

6 hours ago, Hanaguma said:

 having no guns is the best option, I challenge all the gun grabbers to put signs in their front yards proclaiming "THIS House Is A Gun Free Zone".  What better form of protection could there be?

How to say I'm a yank terrified of my own country without saying I'm a yank terrified of my own country 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

6 hours ago, KhunLA said:

All silly 'what ifs' as only a true idiot tries to rob a house with a dog, and a gun owner, when they are there.

And yet "idiots" do idiotic things. And when that happens people lose their lives over a TV. And the people losing their lives aren't always the perpetrators, just as often it is innocent bystanders and children.

8 hours ago, KhunLA said:

I carried a gun for 25 yrs there, and never needed,  Lived in crap areas, and ventured into even crappier areas.   Stop watching MSM.

 

Did you ever feel the need to carry a gun, while in the USA ?   Violent crime is actually down, almost every year, with a few exceptions.   Same with the murder rate.

Violent crime rate is a nice deflection. Care to post death by firearms rate? 

45 minutes ago, steven100 said:

not in Australia ....  and certainly not at my hometown

Just out of curiosity, was your home in Aus featured in the flick "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert"? 

1 hour ago, steven100 said:

DRUGS are wrong ....   I don't care what you try to preach.

Apparently you conflate "preaching" with "reality".

4 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Good one, even though you know I was speaking of your health.

You need to be more clear. From your post and response, it seems most folk, including me, thought you were referring to yourself.

2 hours ago, EVENKEEL said:

you're suggesting we should keep mayorkas in his position regardless of the damage he's causing by his dereliction of duty.

No, we are suggesting they don't continue with performative non-governing farces which have no hope of passing the senate. A waste of everyone's time and money for ZERO actual change. How about passing new border laws? 

Jesus Christ. Kids shooting kids and you cannot legislate ANY SOLUTION. Freaking feeble government. In fact is there a functioning government? 

16 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Perhaps time to adjust medications.

You'll get it right eventually. 😃

23 minutes ago, EVENKEEL said:

Mayorkas wasn't voted in, what election are you talking about? 

Uh, the freaking presidential election. I case you were unaware the Prez gets to name his own cabinet. Or are you worried the border scam isn't working, again? 

Small village in the South. We have the absolute pleasure of having a very talented Thai/Italian chef. Of course I would. And do 😋

8 hours ago, pacovl46 said:

Right! Like prohibiting alcohol in the US totally got rif of alcohol!

No one is asking for another prohibition. It doesn't work for alcohol, cannabis, or guns. That is well established, as you noted. 

But you, and many others, fail to take the next logical step - what did and does work? 

Surprise! When alcohol prohibition ended, laws and regulations were enacted to control the industry. 

Do you currently feel overly restricted in purchasing alcohol in the USA? 

Is there a logical reason the same solution won't work for guns? 

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

Sounds like you'd prefer they wouldn't have this right? Why would that be?

Dig as deep as you want to confirm your bias. You won't find it on this forum or anywhere else. Why do you feel the need to be accusatory, immediately, without reason? 

Anyway, I'm a realist. The ICC can do very little to nothing to the actual perpetrators of the raid - they fled back to Gaza. Israel needs no help from the ICC in either tracking, or bringing to justice, the Hamas leaders. 

It is politically demonstrative and toothless, just as was South Africa's action. 

1 hour ago, Bkk Brian said:

I take it you've got a problem reading the OP. They have taken the case to the ICC, not the ICJ. The ICC can issue arrest warrants for the leaders of Hamas. 

 

Yes, I'm sure sitting on the naughty step is all you'd wish for.

The ICC has NO enforcement arm. They must rely on the cooperation of sovereign nations national police to enforce any warrant they issue. Hamas IS Gaza's government AND police force. 

Do you see the problem with your statement?

Also very possible it was a typo by the poster you responded to. Why so agro?