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Ahhh. So not, by any reasonable lights, stupid, then? ;)

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Hey! I hope you're not calling my recruiting record into question :0036:
I was batting a thousand in my career. Until I had to find a really niche IT skillset
of which there were only a few in Ireland and all on six figure salaries.
Never mind the thousands of high performing people I found for great roles
in the companies I worked for.
Its the one vacancy that I couldn't fill that will haunt me to my grave :(
 

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Hey! I hope you're not calling my recruiting record into question :0036:

Good god no! Why would I be doing that? My point was solely around the simplistic view that people that support gun ownership (as I would assume your putative CEO) are 'stupid'

Trump likewise. Whatever one may think about his grip on reality based on his stated view, I think it would be hard to argue that he's stupid.

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Good god no! Why would I be doing that? My point was solely around the simplistic view that people that support gun ownership (as I would assume your putative CEO) are 'stupid'

Trump likewise. Whatever one may think about his grip on reality based on his stated view, I think it would be hard to argue that he's stupid.

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I honestly don't know what Trump is. I believe that he spends so much time and effort pretending to be something he's not. That over time, he's developed a seriously flawed personality. That's an incredible understatement. More correctly possibly. There are several opposing or complementary psychological illnesses fighting for supremacy at any given moment. From what witnesses have written, who have been in the Oval Office, while national security briefings have been conducted. He will suddenly blurt out a comment on a subject completely unrelated to the briefing. Something that he's fixated on, in that moment or on that day.
His IQ is moot. Because he has absolutely no interest in anything that isn't directly related to his standing in the polls and his becoming President again in 2024. That's why Trump is in Houston. If the Democrats choose to make the 2024 Presidential election about gun control. Trump will ride the massive opposing wave right back into the Oval Office.
I believe that the states that voted him into office in 2016, had valid grievances about why they wouldn't accept the status quo. He was only nominally a Republican. He adopted the GOP like a virus taking over a host.
From the rust belt, through the corn belt. Through the Tennessee River Valley and down to the Mississippi Delta.
All of the states that Trump carried in 2016 were not coincidently states that had been hollowed out, partly or mostly by trade with China. States that really struggled to move up the value chain or couldn't.
The Cold War with Russia lasted most of my lifetime and has returned. But, now the real threat is a belligerent China and China will remain the most serious threat to democracy for the rest of my lifetime and beyond.
 

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Not a rant but an observation.

I'm sat having lunch at a corner café watching the world go by but can't help noticing the amount of drivers picking up their mobile phones whilst queueing.
Too much of a distraction or just a sign of the times...
 

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There are lots of reasons not to touch your phone when driving, the 6 penalty points would focus most peoples minds let alone the safety aspects.
 
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Yet if you told someone that they're liable for 6 points and a fine, they'll tell you where to go
....and if you told someone that in thirty seconds, they will hit a pedestrian crossing at a
zebra crossing. Tossing the woman up into the air. To fall down onto the road. Barely conscious.
Gripping the hand of the first stranger that reaches her. Asking what happened. Then murmuring.
Then gazing up at the sky overhead. Sightlessly. The light in her eyes slowly fading. Her skin
greying. Leaving behind an adoring husband and suddenly lost daughter.
They would laugh in your face and call you a nutter. But it happens every day of the week.
In every city across the land.
Six points and a fine. If they're very, very lucky. And manage not to kill someone.
 

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Most modern cars are now designed primarily to be as much like a giant mobile phone as possible. Pretty much all car advertising is only about their ‘connectivity’. Plus nearly all tactile switches/dials/buttons are replaced with touchscreens, so it’s just like your smartphone.
It’s total b@llocks. No wonder they have to fit all sorts of auto braking, sensors and electronics that appear to be a replacements for human eyes. It’s because they fitted all sorts of cr@p that distracts the ‘driver’ in the first place!
 

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burger king don't take cash anymore ffs and can normally wangle a couple of sweet curry dips when collecting but seems they've clamped down on the 20p extra for the dips, but seriously what about folk that only have cash, kids etc
 

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burger king don't take cash anymore ffs and can normally wangle a couple of sweet curry dips when collecting but seems they've clamped down on the 20p extra for the dips, but seriously what about folk that only have cash, kids etc
Our local chippy doesn't take card, cash or bank transfer
 

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I think your parsing is somewhat suspect. There are two statements
  1. A well regulated militia is necessary to the security of a free state.
  2. The right of the people etc etc
Two is not, IMHO, dependent on one.

The idea is that the raising of a militia may be required at any time and thus, ones citizens had better be armed to facilitate that.

(Just for the avoidance of doubt I'm not a huge fan of guns for all)

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Sorry to be late to this, but the 2nd Amendment is very clearly a statement of the intent of the right being given, followed by the right itself, separated by a comma. To read it as an irrelevant non-prequitur, followed by a completely separate unqualified right makes no sense at all.

But I agree that it could be interpreted in a historical context as, 'a militia is a citizen army, where the citizens usually bring their own guns, so they should be able to have some'.

So yes, there is probably a constitutional right for 'the people; in general, to be allowed have the sort of arms you would bring to the rally-point when you join a militia. But like most other constitutional rights, this does not have to be viewed as absolute or universal. For example, regulations preventing an evidently unstable 18-year-old from buying two AR-15s and 1,600 rounds of ammunition would not, in my view, necessarily infringe this constitutional right, any more than, say, a right to free assembly is infringed by a maximum capacity limit on a venue.
 
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