adam lanza used an assault rifle

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  1. dujac

    dujac Well-Known Member

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    so you admit you're wrong about the definition of insanity?

    a simple yes or no would be most concise
     
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    Hoosier8 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Oh, absolutely not. The fact that you don't know that one does not surprise me.
     
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    dujac Well-Known Member

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    so tell me who first said it
     
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    Danneskjold Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yeah, they're obviously doing something right.
     
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    The Wyrd of Gawd Well-Known Member

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    Those are some hilarious quotes. They make some great jokes.

    *****
    "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
    - Thomas Jefferson
    "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them."
    - George Mason
    *****

    A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government."
    - George Washington
    "The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
    - Thomas Jefferson (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria)
    *****

    These are people yapping about having guns to defend their freedom while holding others in slavery under those very guns.
     
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    Hoosier8 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein

    I suppose he is not smart enough for you.
     
  7. dujac

    dujac Well-Known Member

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    it's a lot easier in a country with a population that is about 2% of ours


    when will you stop being so easily taken in by misinformation?
     
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    Hoosier8 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    LOL, now you have gone off the deep end. It is becoming apparent that you only believe the voices in your head.
     
  9. dujac

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    you're like a child that doesn't understand how to verify information sources


    The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

    Variously misattributed to figures also including Benjamin Franklin and Mark Twain. The earliest known occurrence, and probable origin, is from a 1981 text from Narcotics Anonymous.

    http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein

    http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/in-therapy/200907/the-definition-insanity-is

    http://www.climateers.org/eng/phpModules/googlesearch.php?act=url&q=http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/07/26/insanity-albert-einstein-was-wrong/&sa=U&ei=edzTUPKJGKuZiAeOm4DABw&ved=0CD0QFjAI&usg=AFQjCNGALiHnNW8Cub8N4LinkmhIdhmGpQ
     
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    Hoosier8 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    LOL, first you use Wiki, then the next link
    then this,
    Man, can you double down or what?
     
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    dujac Well-Known Member

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    what are you talking about? the point is that einstein didn't define insanity

    you were 100% wrong, again
     
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    Stupid game of semantics going on in here!
     
  13. dujac

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    no, the fact is that it doesn't


    Insanity Is Repeating the Same Stupid Cliche Over and Over

    Posted on July 31, 2008

    One of the worst cliches is the claim, frequently though most certainly incorrectly attributed to Albert Einstein, that “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” This is, of course, false and trivially false at that.

    Whenever I hear people say something along those lines, I wonder what they expect to happen if they flip a coin. Say, they flip a coin once and it comes up heads. Do these folks expect all future coin flips to come up heads until the end of time?

    In fact there are so many counterexamples to this particular claim, that its hard to understand how it ever became popular cliche (unless the attribution to Einstein was sufficient).


    http://brian.carnell.com/articles/2008/insanity-is-repeating-the-same-stupid-cliche-over-and-over/
     
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    But the rate are less. You can't argue that.

    The only fundamental difference between us and them is our culture.

    If you want the killing to stop taking guns away is not going work.

    Our culture needs to change. We live in a county that has been killing people who (*)(*)(*)(*) us off since it's inception. It starts there, video games are a result, Hollywood is a result, Mass shootings are a result. So are 9/11 and Oklahoma City, and many many others.

    It's so much deeper then guns or a type of gun. If you focus on the gun, take them away, people will still die, you won't solve the problem.
     
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    no, that's not correct
     
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    ..yep. 'bout sums up liberal progressives........insane as a red-headed bluejay
     
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    what a joke, your nut case posts are the epitome of insanity
     
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    Danneskjold Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    What is it then?

    Are you here to debate or just tell people they're wrong?

    If you're argument is population density, Newtown, Connecticut and Switzerland are about the same.
     
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    i've already said that their population is about 2% of ours

    that fundamental difference makes it much easier to control everything

    the bottom line is that switzerland isn't comparable to the united states
     
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    Danneskjold Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Dude,

    "If you're argument is population density, Newtown, Connecticut and Switzerland are about the same."

    If you want to sway me explain that.
     
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    my argument isn't population density, it's total population

    newton isn't an island, do you wan't me to explain that?
     
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    Danneskjold Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Yeah I do. Why does it mater how many people are in a population?

    The more people I would think more services? More money? More everything. The ratio is what matters not the amount.
     
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    have you ever ridden a horse or driven a team of horses?
     
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    Danneskjold Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    It's not the same.

    A more correct analogy would be one man controlling a hose or many men controlling a caravan of horses.
     
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    the point is that switzerland is obviously much more homogenous and more easily controlled

    so it's not comparable to the united states
     
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