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#1 Jul 15 2016 at 3:08 PM Rating: Good
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20 days ago I rented a 28' box truck to move some stuff from one house to another. No background check, no waiting period, no nothing. Just, "Sign on this line, sir, and here's the keys." What kind of country do we live in where we can just take a deadly weapon like a box truck and go around endangering innocent people's lives?

Who could possibly need a 28' long box truck anyway? There is no need for anyone to use anything longer than 10' and certainly with no high powered turbos or quick change hitches where you could add another trailer onto the truck and increase its' capacity, all in a matter of moments. I propose that we ban black trucks with plastic parts, nothing allowed over 10 feet in length, 250 cc four cylinder engines only, and absolutely, positively it must be a manual transmission with a single gear-- although the tranny can identify as a carburetor or bonnet any time it feels like it is one. No reverse, because we are all in agreement here that everything must be Progressive.

I don't care if they're nice trucks. Or Nice trucks. The framers of the Constitution never intended for us (su'p, Jophiel?) to drive around in anything except trucks that Henry Ford took hunting.
#2 Jul 15 2016 at 3:11 PM Rating: Excellent
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I'm willing to bet they took a copy of your driver's license, which shows that the DMV did the appropriate licensing tests, as well as confirmed your identity.
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#3 Jul 15 2016 at 3:16 PM Rating: Good
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Trucks have a non defence use. Guns don't, really - and you can get a hunting license even in the UK. Banning guns doesn't harm you in the slightest, banning trucks makes the country grind to a halt.

That said, most of the gun restrictions proposed in USA are absurd in that they won't achieve anything more than mildly inconveniencing a few random people.

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#5 Jul 15 2016 at 3:20 PM Rating: Good
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Sure, but how is that going to stop somebody from interrupting your local Bastille Day celebration? The only real solution is to BAN all 28 foot long trucks immediately and introduce legislation which will require a cooling off period of two months for renting or owning any truck over 10 feet long. Furthermore, a 2 gallon gasoline cap should be introduced to prevent out-of-staters from making straw man purchases of fuel to load onto illegal trucks.

This is serious business, people.
#6 Jul 15 2016 at 3:25 PM Rating: Good
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My gun has a non-defense use: I use it to stir in cream and sugar into my coffee. It makes for a very ergonomic utensil for stirring.

Next bogus argument to try to derail common sense laws to prevent needless deaths? Give 'me to me. My truck-fu is stronger than yours.
#7 Jul 15 2016 at 3:29 PM Rating: Excellent
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So what you're suggesting is that people pay a certain amount of money to get trained on certain trucks and along with paying a certain amount of money for insurance to use the truck they'd also have that information on a license they carry that decides whether or not they can use said trucks? That doesn't sound so bad, I guess.
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#8 Jul 15 2016 at 3:29 PM Rating: Good
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Just use your dick like a normal person.
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#9 Jul 15 2016 at 3:33 PM Rating: Good
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Use for and designed for. Two different things!

HA!

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#10 Jul 15 2016 at 3:33 PM Rating: Excellent
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If we ban everything larger than 10' trucks someone will just kill a person in a 9' 11" truck, or rent a minivan, or hijack a go-cart and start running people over.

It's inevitable! Wake up people!

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#11 Jul 15 2016 at 3:40 PM Rating: Good
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Hey, Mr. KaveKKK, I'm using my Alabama Black Snake as it was meant to be used-- prolifically and promiscuously. Best watch yourself, I might have to get my dusky hued brethren to activate and protest against someone of such obviously racist tendencies. Black Snakes Matter!

Back to the truck thing. Yes, licensing and registration (how many times have I heard that from racist cops?!?) are solid steps to take, but we've seen how ineffectual these steps have been. We need to build on them and introduce new laws that further restrict people's abilities to drive these deadly vehicles. What we've got just isn't working. I'm thinking of mandating a new type of truck which is no larger than those Smartcars, but could not go as fast or carry as much. Bad fuel economy to prevent them from going far and sloooooooooow. Make it so people have plenty of time to get out of the way.

Think of the children!!
#12 Jul 15 2016 at 4:16 PM Rating: Excellent
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Ok, we'll ban 28' box trucks and guns. Now everyone's happy.
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#13 Jul 15 2016 at 4:19 PM Rating: Excellent
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Now what am I going to do with my collection of 28' guns? Smiley: mad
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Freight train, obviously.
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#15 Jul 15 2016 at 5:08 PM Rating: Decent
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Sure, but how is that going to stop somebody from interrupting your local Bastille Day celebration? The only real solution is to BAN all 28 foot long trucks immediately and introduce legislation which will require a cooling off period of two months for renting or owning any truck over 10 feet long. Furthermore, a 2 gallon gasoline cap should be introduced to prevent out-of-staters from making straw man purchases of fuel to load onto illegal trucks.

This is serious business, people.


No, no, no... you are thinking too small. Ban all people. Problem solved.
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#16 Jul 15 2016 at 5:20 PM Rating: Default
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It's funny to see people act like we don't ALWAYS implement laws, practices and procedures when people abuse freedoms.
#17 Jul 15 2016 at 5:29 PM Rating: Decent
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It's funny to see people act like we don't ALWAYS implement laws, practices and procedures when people abuse freedoms.


I don't ALWAYS use it, but I like having a right to potentially abuse it. That a fair amount of people on this planet are not very bright, you need not remind me.

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#18 Jul 16 2016 at 9:33 AM Rating: Good
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Hey, Mr. KaveKKK, I'm using my Alabama Black Snake as it was meant to be used-- prolifically and promiscuously. Best watch yourself, I might have to get my dusky hued brethren to activate and protest against someone of such obviously racist tendencies. Black Snakes Matter!


Ah, the GOP PC-speech brigade has come to silence me, as expected.
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