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Originally Posted by FordGT90

Except that's how it already works, just with more bureaucrats in the process. HSAs are a mostly automated thing. No bureaucrats involved once it is established.

I don't know how many time I have to repeat this: HSAs only help the more well-to-do and do nothing about those who were without insurance prior to Obamacare.



Except Republicans didn't have a filibuster-proof majority. Nothing could happen in the Senate unless they ram-throated it, which McCain, Collins, and Murkowski refused to participate in. Collins and Murkowski especially want a replacement; they will not support a skinny repeal. McCain didn't want his legacy to be throwing health insurance into disarray and his party (GOP) taking ownership of all the subsequent failures.

The Senate is a fantastic institution because a simple majority often isn't enough. It filters the terrible ideas coming from the House.

What those three voted against was the attempt to repeal Obamacare. Good for them. They didn't want to take millions off of health insurance. The Repubs didn't have a replacement.
And blaming it on the Dems is just lame excusing. The fact is that the Repubs and Trump never had a program in the first place. And if they did make up a plan, then it is up to them to sell it to the American people so that the people will put pressure on the Dems to vote for it. The fact is that the Repubs just don't care if millions lose health insurance without a replacement. No plan. Just criticism. That goes nowhere.



We are not living in Minority Report. We only punish those that act irresponsibly. Thought crimes aren't crimes at all. Actions are if the statues say it is and the jury unanimously believes in the defendant's guilt.

Look up the stats on weapons that were covered by NFA. 60 rounds a minute? M60: 550+. M2: 450+. Glock 18: 1200. MP5: 700+. M16: 700+. AKM: 600+. M134: 2000+. If it isn't already abundantly obvious, the difference in fire rate between full auto and semi is huge. The guns above that are slower (like M2) are only because they're firing really large rounds (e.g. .50 caliber) that have enough kinetic force to destroy an engine block.

Larger magazines have the cost of reduced handling and increased weight which leads to quicker fatigue unless it's mounted.

Again, you are trying to obfuscate. I'm not talking about "full auto". I'm talking about the assault style weapons that have become the choice of mass murderers since the Repubs repealed the Clinton ban on them. They have blood on their hands, the blood of hundreds.


"Murderers?" Why don't you fixate on that instead of what tool they choose to use to do it? The goal needs to be prevention through consoling and intervention; not deprivation of rights unless they earned it.


The 2nd amendment makes no judgement claims. Whether a person uses a gun to kill a deer, a target, a trespasser, in service to the city/state/federal government, or just plain old air, it makes no difference. If there was belief of wrongdoing, that's what the judicial branch is for: find the facts, prosecutor states charges, argue the case for and against, and let the jury decide the fate of the defendant.


No one repealed the Brady Bill. It had a 10 year sunset provision written in to it. The sunset provision was the only way it could garner enough votes to pass in the Senate.


A "gun death" is counted by the CDC regardless if it was justified or not. The more guns there are, the more gun deaths there will be relative to the total number of homicides and suicides. Doesn't at all mean they wouldn't have happened by other means.

Ummm, yes it does. A mass murderer normally can't use a knife to kill ten or twenty or sixty at a time with no more effort than pulling a trigger. Only a gun can do that. Guns are made for one primary purpose: to kill. Rifles to kill animals and handguns have the primary purpose of killing other humans. And the assault style weapons have the primary purpose of killing LOTS of other humans very quickly. It's just that simple.