Let’s make it really easy.
Person A owns a gun. He wants to sell it. He goes to a gun show to sell it. Person B shows up at a gun show and buys the gun. The checks that person A is required to run are not nearly as vigorous as a licensed gun is. There is no wait time either. The sale is immediate.
Person B can either use this gun to commit a crime (murder his wife, or shoot up a public place) or Person B can sell this gun outside of a gun show to Person C.
Person C can be a criminal, and as long as Person B claims that he has no idea whether or not Person C is a criminal, this deal is completely legal for person B. It’s imoossible to prove that this was a “straw-man purchase”. The agreement may have been made between person B and person C elsewhere. Moreover, Person B doesn’t even have to know Person C. If Person B Pays $500 for a gunat a gun show and is offered $1,000 right outside the gun show for the same gun, it is 100% legal for person B to sell a gun to person C WITHOUT any background check.
This is a problem of both private sales and gun shows.
Absolutely. Voting should require a valid ID and proof of citizenship. If convicts are not allowed to vote, then there should be an ID that proves both citezenship and the right to vote.1) He doesn't have to go to a gun show. He can go to Chucky Cheese and do the same thing. He can do it on his front lawn. A gun show isn't part of the equation. For it to be a "gun show loophole" you have to show that the gun show is the differentiating factor that allows said loophole to exist. It clearly doesn't when you can do the same exact thing, anywhere else. The fact that you might choose to do a legal private sale at a gun show parking lot, does not in any way make it a gun show loophole. I don't understand why you don't get this and are determined to repeat a lie.
2) You have a problem with private sales, not gun shows. So argue your point on THAT, if you want...
3) Do you want background checks and paperwork, ID's, etc for other Constitutional Rights? How about voting?
Absolutely. Voting should require a valid ID and proof of citizenship. If convicts are not allowed to vote, then there should be an ID that proves both citezenship and the right to vote.
Absolutely. Voting should require a valid ID and proof of citizenship. If convicts are not allowed to vote, then there should be an ID that proves both citezenship and the right to vote.
I do have a problem with gun shows. I live in GA, and GA doesn’t regulate gun shows and treats them like private gun sales.
I’m sure other southern states do the same. So, in this case, the gun show is a big problem because that’s exactly where legally purchased guns transfer to the black market in completely legal transactions. One would wonder why even conduct background checks at licensed gun dealers, whereas one can get a gun at a gun show without a license or background check.
You need a source? You can’t independently derive it from the fact that a person who sells a gun at a gun show can sell it to someone who will resell it at the black market with no check required?Ok, I can at least respect you being consistent on that. Most aren't. LOL
[doublepost=1544473709][/doublepost]Just pulled up iTunes, and N.W.A.'s Greatest Hits, including F*CK the Police is still there available for purchase...
If they want hate speech and stuff that depicts violence, etc...gone... How are Apple going to reconcile pulling 50% of the rap songs off of the platform, without fear of being called racist?
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I am also in GA. LOL
Gun shows themselves are not regulated, but most of the people AT gun shows are FFL holders and being at a gun show doesn't exempt them from having to do all the same paperwork and NICS checks... I know, been there, done it many times...
But just because the show is not regulated in that it doesn't require an FFL to participate, it doesn't change the fact that you can legally buy or sell a gun privately, anywhere in the state, and in most states. A gun show is simply one of a literal million places this can happen.
Your claim that this is where illegal guns make their way back to the black market is not supported by any source that I have seen. Where are you getting that from?
[doublepost=1544473903][/doublepost]Meaning, guns shows tend to be traveling dealers and they gotta follow all the rules. Now, you could purchase a table as a show as a private citizen and sell some guns. Of course, there are still laws around it, and if you do it regularly you are in danger of being a felon as an unlicensed dealer...
Hate speech is protected in the USAI don’t care what the US constitution allows. Hate speech existed before the US constitution was written, and it has existed all over the world. How does the US constitution have any bearing on hate speech?
Go to down town Baltimore - you can go to areas of the city where you can purchase any type of fire arm you would like.You need a source? You can’t independently derive it from the fact that a person who sells a gun at a gun show can sell it to someone who will resell it at the black market with no check required?
The reason why gun shows are a problem is because one has a much wider choice at a gun show than trying to locate a private seller outside of a gun show with the exact gun that one wants.
Private sales are no less problematic besides the fact that there’s not as much choice.
The black market will never cease as long as guns can be purchased legally without a background check. Even if by magic, all the black-market firearms are confiscated tomorrow, by the end of the week the black market will thrive again because of the leakage of gray-market guns into the black market.
Private groups can set membership how ever they want but when you open your group up to the general public it is more difficult to ban people for any reason.So if the macrumors forum becomes 20% anti-Semitic and racist memes, the moderators shouldn’t step in? What if a user is harassing others by posting a picture of a monkey in reply to every message by people of a certain race, or an antisemitic meme every time a Jewish person posts?
What if I start a local meeting around a hobby of mine, and someone is saying that black people should be banned. Can I not kick that person out of the group?
No, thanks. I will not go to downtown Baltimore. If I wanted to visit a war zone, I would go to Baghdad, where I can at least rely on police to attempt to protect me.Hate speech is protected in the USA
Until someone breaks a law by taking action on speech it is perfectly legal to say anything you wish about another person ect.
Sorry but unless you are offended every day by what others say you are not free.
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Go to down town Baltimore - you can go to areas of the city where you can purchase any type of fire arm you would like.
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Private groups can set membership how ever they want but when you open your group up to the general public it is more difficult to ban people for any reason.
You own your phone, but you don't own Apple's online services. Again, it's hilarious to me that what I'm consistently seeing is that the majority of pro-hate speech conservatives here apparently can't be bothered to understand the basics of how a smartphone works, and what the internet is.I own my phone. I should be able to install whatever software I want. I should have any app I want to have on it. No one asked Apple or anyone else to "curate the content" for me and thus "restrict what I can access." And if they want to do that then I should absolutely be able to use "a different app store" for my phone's software. It is a dumb device. I also think the ban on porn is censorship. A new word, for a new kind of business, that has a new kind of censorship.
Yet, if you use your definition, then every single major news organization is guilty of hate speech against, for example, Trump because he is attacked and labeled just because he is white, heterosexual, male, and believes in America. There are no facts to back these attacks up or he would be in jail. Yet the hate speech continues unabated and unchallenged because that's all his opponents have.
And you and I both know this action by Cook, while not mentioned right now, because it's too new, would be the perfect way to slowly abolish all news of Trump or any other non-politically correct person. Hopefully, someday, you will realize that you just made hate speech political by classifying ALL right winders as hateful and terrible people and exactly made my point why it's nothing but censorship. Unfortunately, too many people think like you do.
So here is some living proof. Living here in the midwest we still have people that don't bother to lock their doors at night. All of these right leaning hateful and terrible people (I can say this because everyone I know is much further right than left) don't seem to cause problems.
Hate speech isn't diverse. Anyone is capable of it. It's not allowed in a lot of places for the same reason death threats are not allowed. Because we live in a civilized society and have rules on conduct.Diversity in though eh... is that why you need the government to crack down on opposing opinions? because you enjoy that diversity so much?
Why can't we be together?
Could you love me? Don't hate me
I don't see, why can't we live together?
Maybe we can get it on, people, we can get along
Should be our destiny
There's a cold streak living inside us
There's no rainbows, just bullets and bombs
And if you want to rise up, we got to stick our love inside us
We can make this hate stop (It's all the same, all the shame)
Now don't you want to rise up?
[Chorus]
We been giving hate a chance
(We got all this love to give, you know)
And the love will be running out for us
Can you feel the dream's alive?
We're hoping we can still survive
As the wind carries every dove away
[Verse 2]
So why do we see these colors?
It's only skin deep, don't mean a thing
So clear, underneath this, we're all brothers
Can't you see it's killing us, can't you see it's killing us?
Can't you see it's killing me? Trigger happy fantasy
So stand up and be so strong now
Freedom is not so far away
If you know you want to rise up
(We've wanted to rise up for so long now)
We can make this hate stop
Now don't you want to rise up?
[Chorus]
We been giving hate a chance
(We got all this love to give, you know)
And the love will be running out for us
Can you feel the dream's alive?
We're hoping we can still survive
As the wind carries every dove away
[Bridge]
The wind carries every dove away
The wind carries every dove away
Every dove away
(Dove, dove, dove, dove, dove, dove, dove)
Now you've been taking our dignity for too long
I want to save this sanctity that we hold
And who's right and who is wrong?
We're not so different anyway
Words are in this song
Can't we stop the fighting?
[Chorus]
'Cause we been giving hate a chance
(Don't give this hate a chance, we got all this love to give, you know)
We have all this love to give
And the love will be running out for us
I feel the love is gonna run out for us
Can you feel the dream's alive?
We're hoping we can still survive
As the wind carries every dove away
[Outro]
(The wind carries every dove away)
Don't give this hate a chance
We got all this love to give, you know
(The wind carries every dove away)
That this dream's alive, we'll still survive
Until no more people have to cry, I said
(The wind carries every dove away!)
Don't give this hate a chance
(As the wind carries every dove away!)
We got all this love to give, you know
(And the love will be running out for us)
That this dream's alive, we'll still survive
Until no more people have to cry
(Give yourself a break, amen!)
Don't give this hate a chance
(Just because you know you can!)
We got all this love to give, you know
That this dream's alive, we'll still survive
Until no more people have to cry
You own your phone, but you don't own Apple's online services
No, what's hilarious is people like you who don't understand that the phone I paid for should do whatever I say, and that I should be able to create, access, or install any software or service I choose. Where is my non-Apple controlled app store if Apple wants to "currate" their store? No? It doesn't exist because Tim & Co. don't see the value in freedom.You own your phone, but you don't own Apple's online services. Again, it's hilarious to me that what I'm consistently seeing is that the majority of pro-hate speech conservatives here apparently can't be bothered to understand the basics of how a smartphone works, and what the internet is.
Ah never mind. If you believe this then there's no point in conversing with you.And suggesting that Tim Cook should be forced to support hate speech on his private platform, in violation of his rights, is nothing but censorship to further the right-wing political position.
go for Android. You can install anything you want.No, what's hilarious is people like you who don't understand that the phone I paid for should do whatever I say, and that I should be able to create, access, or install any software or service I choose. Where is my non-Apple controlled app store if Apple wants to "currate" their store? No? It doesn't exist because Tim & Co. don't see the value in freedom.
Maybe you can make a real argument as to why I can't, no shouldn't, be able to install whatever software I want?
Ah never mind. If you believe this then there's no point in conversing with you.
Again, you own your phone, but you don't own Apple's online services.I thought that when buying apple devices, you also get apple’s free software and services, or something along those lines.
Nobody said you couldn't. That's a strawman argument. That said, you own your phone, but you don't own Apple's online services. The authoritarian pro-hate speech conservatives out there should not be able to force Apple to violate their constitutional rights and should not be able to force them to support hate speech on their private platform, in the same way a religious baker should not be forced to bake a cake depicting the marriage of two men for a gay couple.No, what's hilarious is people like you who don't understand that the phone I paid for should do whatever I say, and that I should be able to create, access, or install any software or service I choose.
Oh geez, these threads are always filled with misinformed people talking about free speech and censorship.
Apple isn’t the government, they can “censor” (quotes because it isn’t real censorship) anyone they please.
The first amendment doesn’t apply here.