I gather that he isn't going to be able to command $100 for his account anymore. 

       All this example demonstrates is that attempting to impose gun regulation on the municipal level is rather ineffective. All one needs to do to circumvent the law is purchase your gun at a gun shop outside of the city limits. The city of Chicago also shares a border with the State of Indiana... Gun regulation on the national level would be harder to circumvent. AFAIK, both Mexico and Canada have even stricter gun regulations than the USA ever will. Therefore, circumventing a federal regulation would require efforts greater than just crossing a border.
      However, I do not see any serious federal regulation coming down the pipe until 2021 at the soonest. And since the Supreme Court justices have lifetime appointments, I suspect any meaningful legislation would be ruled unconstitutional.
     
       

Well to chime in, Flying Hellfish just deleted a couple posts of mine that strayed a bit off topic, now that I look at in retrospect. One of the posts basically had me calling Trump a bombastic asshole and hoping that he would rage quit. I noticed that he deleted a reply made by another leftist as well. So it appears that he is applying the rules consistently.    

Wow, good guys with guns who are also drinking. What could possibly go wrong?  I guess drunk vigilante justice is better than drunk driving. 

Have any of the DT2 members added Lauda to their trust list? Wouldn't that make Lauda level 3? I have my trust up to level 4, so her ratings would then appear as trusted by me.

I'm glad that where you live there are great sharp shooters who can hit their intended target in a dark and crowded bar. 

I am not aware of the government issuing an injunction or indictment on CNN or any other news outlet. Since my partner is a news addict, I can still hear them shouting quite loudly 24/7; especially when they put together a panel of 12 lefties and one righty to issue their opinion. If the Trump administration is truly making a concerted effort to silence the media, they are failing miserably.  

Yet, many lefties cheer when the social media moguls censor someone from the right. (ie nutjob Alex Jones) Granted, private corporations are not obligated to grant free speech. However, aren't the lefties being somewhat hypocritical? What ever happened to "When they go low, we go high?" Or is Michelle Obama's strategy too complicit for us lefties now?

     Well, unfortunately the USA now has a petulant brat for a president, and ~40% or so give it their stamp of approval. At least the president didn't have the secret service tackle the guy to the ground and beat him up. After all, the intern the president had remove the microphone was really petite. It wasn't like a typical bar bouncing situation. If Jim feels that his 1st amendment rights have been infringed, then he should proceed to Federal court, ASAP, and settle this civilly. (If he hasn't already done so.)
 

Meh, it was obvious that Jim was trying to bait the president(and succeeding to some extent.) There were other reporters waiting to ask questions too. He should have just handed over the mic when prompted to, with no resistance. There is always another day to get your f**ing "scoop."

Judging by the way many of them post, they don't even read much of the other posts in the threads they are posting in. I'm not even certain if they even read and comprehend the posts that they proceed to plagiarize. 

I'm not denying that the USA is way higher. I'm just keeping it real by pointing out that mass shootings are not unheard of in other rich countries. I absolute despise it when people on the left or the right use blatant untruths and hyperbole to bolster their point. Quite frankly, CNN with all their stupid panels gets unwatchable much of the time. Not as unpalatable to me as Fox news, (I think my record for watching them is 5 minutes, if that long, except the Sunday morning show with Chris Wallace.) With CNN and MSNBC, I find myself rolling my eyes a good amount of the time.

   That is not an entirely accurate statement. Mass shootings do happen in other "rich" countries, but with much less frequency. I mean according to this Wikipedia article, 3 have happened this year in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Canada If you are not "hearing" about it, maybe you are not paying enough attention.

Bitcoin ABC is supported by Bitmain and Ver. Bitcoin SV is supported by Craig Wright and Calvin Ayre (coingeek.) The there will also be Cobra's fork. currently Bitcoin Unlimited supports the abc rule set but are working on making it compatible with Sv fork as well.

     What time do you suggest we are going to use as this new "time?" UTC? That would mean in Japan, the new day would began in the morning. (about 9:00 am currently.) In New York, the new day would begin early in the evening. (7:00 pm standard time currently.) In Hawaii, the new day would begin in the early afternoon. (2:00 pm standard time currently.)  Also, if the world decides to pick UTC, wouldn't that be Eurocentrist? 
     

     What the f**k are you talking about? I'm a merit source and I have only earned 156 merits, which is less than what you have earned. I hardly consider the amount of merit that I earned an "abnormal amount."  I only have 250 extra merit a month to give. I can't possibly hunt the whole forum and give merit to everyone who deserves it. I'm really getting sick and tired of people complaining on how we merit sources are doling out the merit. What on earth do you people want? We are trying to combat all of the shitty posting done by signature spammers and account farmers. Want to go back to the old way, where someone just has to post a couple of shitty posts a day to rank up? Furthermore, a person with very non-mainstream views, can rack up a bunch of merit. For example, Anunymint earned 127 merits in 40 days before he was nuked. If someone with unpopular views starts spouting off, they are going to attract fanboys. Especially if they know how to put together a good argument.
    

     I think if the government can run a program similar to Medicare, that would be good. This will include the option for people to enroll in an "advantage" program. (Medicare part C.) They can opt to have a private insurance company handle it for them and give them different benefits if they so desire.  The reason that I believe in some form of socialized medicine is because it will probably be a necessary cost for practically everyone. Furthermore, when the major consumers are the sick and the dying, it's hard to make a free market that is trying to eke out a profit. In the past, the churches used to run the hospitals as charity.  
     I think part of the problem with higher education is that the government is in the business of backing student loans. I'm not certain that I want the government to offer free higher education either. Not everyone wants or needs a higher education. I don't think we need to socialize that cost.
    I really would like to see even more younger people involved in the Government. As long as they are qualified.

I don't want him to run. He isn't really a democrat. I really don't want to help pay for everyone's free college education.  He's way too far to the left for me.

No need for new technology. We just need to somehow restore our rainforests.

AFAIK the NRA is "non-profit" too. Since they are the ones most devoted to the cause, are they the ones who aregoing to be running this mandated co-op? Furthermore, just because a group is non-profit doesn't make it immune from corruption. I really think a government mandated "non-profit" co-op would be ripe pickings for someone "benefactors" to line their pockets.