Well said snafu. Rpr does that anti-tank rifle make you feel a big man then? s in Northern Ireland. I can’t speak for others but I doubt you will impress them one bit.

My, my such a childish retort.
I do not know what that fellow did but that is not an anti-tank rifle unless you are shooting at plastic models.
It made me understand the the work, complexities and fear that being so undergunned as soldiers found out, by the time of the war in Africa, WWII, such beautifully made anti-tank rifles were worthless, made you.
At the same time the effort to haul such a weapon around by the soldiers who had to carry them around was a task any who have never carried one, or its ammunition would never understand until you have had to move one even a short distance.
The gentleman who brought these weapons to the gathering, was a true gentleman and former soldier.
He is now deceased but I have known few more polite and civilized people, yet he made his living sell and restoring such arms for civilian ownership.
If you are suffering PTSD you have my sympathies but I do not think you are, I believe you are just an arrogant person who likes to condemn people who are none of your concern because it make you feel more of a man.

Ah, the old ‘I have a black friend’ argument. Jesse Jackson is 74, you complete moron.
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Try harder. It isn’t simply a matter of disagreement. Read RpR’s wilfully ignorant posts, and his pathetic, inflammatory debating style.

Debate?
There is not debate.
I live over here; I have a sister who spent the past near fifty years among blacks, including some genuine ghetto trash.
Ghetto trash — how dare I say that.
I have been among them, I know those trapped in those holes and those who leech and thrive off of them; you are an incipient little boy thousands of miles from that which I lived with spewing ignorant indignation on a keyboard about that of which you are asininely ignorant, therefore; let’s see, I have persons of color nephews and nieces and now their children and their friends and families in my life but then how many dozen black persons who live in the U.S. of A. have you spoken with in past ten, twenty, thirty or forty years, repeatedly ?

Or are you just leeching onto Snafu’s response to me responding to Paul178?
That would make you a bit of a thread lackey now would it not?

Even though I ended with a question, end of discussion.

What has Obama’s education got to do with anything, other than to point out that only the rich can truly progress in the ‘land of the free’?
What sort of education did Bush and Shrub have – or Trump for that matter – and in what way did theirs differ from Obama’s? You say that there was no oppression in Hawaii, but there is plenty of documentary evidence to be found about oppression in the rest of America; I never experienced the Nazi oppression of the Jews but that does not mean that it did not take place or that I should feel it doesn’t affect me because I am not a Jew nor did I see it with my own eyes. And what makes you believe that there is none at Harvard, or outside the gates of Harvard? —- What does the NRA have to do with the Texas shooting.
Obama was the one verbally trashing cops, starting with Missouri and not stopping, not the NRA.

He would, you believe? Why? You think he’d have wanted black people to be killed in higher proportionate numbers to whites by the police? — I have spoken with many mature blacks, who thought highly of King but have a very low opinion of the people the press lets speak for the black community.
If you ask them what King would think of the situation they, in part, say he would condemn it as it is totally opposite of what King’s speech was.

Blacks commit a greater number of crimes, period so the number will be higher, period.
Simple mathematics.

How brave of you. — Asinine statement based on moronic ignorance of my life.

Have you spoken to younger black men or tried to see life through their eyes? Love him or hate him, Jessie Jackson is still a black man standing up for black rights – your politics will not let you believe that he is anything but evil. —- Yes including the father of three of my nephews and nieces who went to prison for armed robbery.
Also two of the three black fathers of her other three children and many of their friends and relatives.

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Martin Luther Kings Speech

50 years later what has really changed in the hearts of the American people? Yes more citizens accept integration and their is a black President who is blocked at every turn by the Republican s who back the NRA
—– Oh yes a mixed blood president who spent most of his life with his very rich Grandmother who sent him to a private high school that costs 19,000 dollars a year to attend in Hawaii where black suppression never existed so he what knows anything in the continent is by what his professors at Harvard, schooling paid for by his grandmother, told him.
The NRA hmmm, they are involved in race relations in the country how?
Oh I suppose you could not think of anything good to say about Obama due to his recent rhetoric about policemen in which he blamed them for killing a criminal in Missouri who was guilty of ever single thing the policeman who was prosecuted said he was so you throw out the liberal sound byte NRA — BRILLIANT.

What would Martin Luther King say about today’s America had he not been shot by a Remington Gamemaster rifle on April the 4th in 1968? — He would condemn everything the NAACP and other supposed black leaders have done since he died.-
I have spoken to elderly black gents and they condemn what the “young punks” today are doing especially Jessie Jackson.

Is it not now time for American to take a good hard look at themselves and dislike what they see? —- They have and do which is why Washington insiders are considered loathsome people.
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Come on America stand up and say enough and step out of the shadows of fear and hatred.[/B]

My, my brave words but words of complete ignorance of what is actually happening in this country outside of certain big cities where liberal press controls the news you get so it will be looked on as statement of one who is given a false bill of sale by the press.

Here is part of an article on the Starfish blast that showed how devastating and far reaching an EMP is.:

Taking the pulse of a nuclear weapon

But the effects were far more than a simple light show. When the bomb detonated, those electrons underwent incredible acceleration. When that happens they create a brief but extremely powerful magnetic field. This is called an electromagnetic pulse, or EMP. The strength of the pulse was so huge that it affected the flow of electricity on the Earth hundreds of kilometers away! In Hawaii it blew out hundreds of streetlights, and caused widespread telephone outages. Other effects included electrical surges on airplanes and radio blackouts.

The EMP had been predicted by scientists, but the Starfish Prime pulse was far larger than expected. And there was another effect that hadn’t been predicted accurately. Many of the electrons from the blast didn’t fall down into the Earth’s atmosphere, but instead lingered in space for months, trapped by Earth’s magnetic field, creating an artificial radiation belt high above our planet’s surface.

When a high-speed electron hits a satellite, it can generate a sort-of miniature EMP. The details are complex, but the net effect is that these electrons can zap satellites and damage their electronics. The pulse of electrons from the Starfish Prime detonation damaged at least six satellites (including one Soviet bird), all of which eventually failed due to the blast. Other satellite failures at the time may be linked to the explosion as well.

The overall effect shocked scientists and engineers. They had expected something much smaller, not nearly the level that actually occurred. Because of this, later high-altitude nuclear tests made by the US as part of Operation Fishbowl were designed to have a much lower yield. Although the explosion energies are still classified, it’s estimated they ranged from a few dozen to a few hundred kilotons, a fraction of the 1.4 megaton Starfish Prime explosion.

Ripples downstream

The long-term physical effects from the explosion died down after a few months, but the ramifications live on today. In 2010, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency issued a report called “Collateral Damage to Satellites from an EMP Attack”, and I highly recommend reading it if you’ve gotten too much sleep lately. It details the effects of a high-altitude nuclear blast, and how one could be used to disable an entire country in one blow.

I am of the opinion that knowing is better than not knowing, even when the knowledge is terrifying. In this case, forewarned is forearmed. This EMP knowledge has been out there for decades, so the more we understand it, the better we may be able to use it to prevent damage from the bad guys from trying something like this.

And if I may distance myself from the horrifying political and dark human aspects of all this, there was much science learned. EMPs are fascinating, and don’t need nukes to occur. The Sun blasts out high energy particles and light during solar storms. In much the same way, these can damage our satellites and harm our astronauts in space.

Learning about them from Starfish Prime increased our understanding of the physics of EMPs, and also gave us insight into mitigating the effects. Interestingly, a nearby supernova or gamma-ray burst (a kind of super-supernova) would also have very similar effects, and could even directly affect our atmosphere. The good news is there are no potential supernovae or GRB progenitors close enough to hurt us. However, as our Sun orbits the galaxy, there may have been a time when one did go off nearby, millions or billions of years ago. There’s some thinking that the Ordovician extinction 440 million years ago – when the trilobites died out – may have been due to a nearby GRB. The evidence is sketchy for sure, but intriguing.

My bias? — Yes sir.

I ask again: just how old is the constitution? Does it apply to now, or is it something that was written a long time ago with little relevance to today – sort of like the bible, but with less science fiction.
For example, in this day and age does it really need to be said that the military must not force householders to lodge troops in their property without their consent? — Yes.

And capitalism is…what, to you? Men with (lots of) money trying to exploit those without (much, or no) money to make more money? Capitalism is slavery, unless you are on the top of the dung pile you will forever be trying to climb to the top while the head ‘kahuna’ reaps the reward. There is little (or no) incentive to look out for other members of the community, the sick, the elderly and those unable to work cast aside like the broken machines the top ‘dog’ believes them to be.
Maybe you’ve never been shafted by your boss, but at least here is the ‘Socialist Republic of UK’ we can complain about what the boss did, take our complaint to a tribunal and have the complaint investigated independently without the boss being allowed to lean on the complainant to back down, without the boss being able to bribe the tribunal, and without the boss victimising the complainant, or even the thought that the boss might send someone over to shoot us in revenge… — If your boss committed a crime in the U.S. there are many laws to alter the situation and U.S. lawyers love to sue whether there is a reason or not.
Fortunately new laws have been passed that put onus for frivolous lawsuits on person that is suing. It took a long time but judges are ones who finally said these frivolous lawsuits had to stop.
If you simply do not like the way the boss runs his company, go work somewhere else.
NO one forced you to take that job.

Democratic Republic, the US? What, like East Germany was? With a US equivalent of the Stasi, children informing on their parents, phones tapped, etc? I think someone is pulling your leg…

That last comment of asinine ignorance speaks for itself.

Obviously there has to be politics in this for you, people don’t matter. Have you thought that maybe the government should control this matter,

NO.

That is what you and people in other countries where government rules their lives simply are incapable of understanding as they have never had the freedom we had and still have to a lessor degree.

Think the quote you are mangling up was by Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) in Gone With The Wind (1939): Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn. That was a revisionist film that glorified slavery – somewhat appropriate I suppose. — No as usual your self-righteous bias gets in the way of the truth.
The theme behind the movie is how during times of survival– standards, ways of thinking and modes of life are — gone with the wind.
But why look for truth when you can let your bias rule

when others put forward ideas to prevent the needless deaths of innocent people you are happy to knock their suggestions – if their suggestions involve anything to do with your guns: your agenda, maybe? — When others start trotting this, that or other things that ignore the Constitution this country is founded on, they are treated with as much respect as they deserve.
To attack the Constitution without a indepth knowledge of life in the U.S. beyond the major cities which is really all those overseas ever hear about, is foolish ignorance.

Do you know what socialism means?

Oh quite well really but here it is just for you.

a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.

To cut to the chase theoretically it is majority rules, which is how slavery managed to survive in the South.
In reality it is a few kahunas who tell the masses when to drop their pants and squat.

As an aside do not give some babble about a democracy as the U.S. is not a democracy and never has been, it is a Democratic Republic.