The head of the FBI says that white nationalism/white supremacy poses the greatest threat to our security. All other indications tell me he is right.

In the Orlando massacre, it was LGBTQ people of all races who were targeted.

You are conflating killings that were crimes of passion with hate crimes. Neither is good, of course, but mass shootings of a group of people just because their ethnicity deserves its own special category.

I think black folks have every reason to be sensitive about police killing unarmed civilians of color. What happened to George Floyd simply would not happen to a white guy. And there have been many other cases recently. And going back further, there is that whole ugly history of lynching. And massacres of blacks, and razing of entire towns.

Hey JacarC, stop watching Fox News!

And the fda was WOOOOONNNNGGGG.... Every time.

When it comes to excessive government spending, my company got nearly $100K in COVID relief that I didn’t even ask for from the Trump administration. I got $0 from the Biden administration. Also, as soon as Trump unleashed his trade war metal prices went through the roof along with just everything else my business consumes going up as well. There’s plenty of blame to go around here for this current situation.

@Trajan61 The higher fuel prices are not due any shortage. It is price gouging. The evidence is the record-breaking profits the oil companies are raking in.

Spending has been out of control for decades. We pissed away trillions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Fed practiced quantitative easing all through the Trump Administration. So don't try to lay it all on sleepy Joe.

@Trajan 61 On a different subject (one that we have discussed at length in the past), what kind of gun did the Buffalo shooter use to kill 10 people at the Tops market? AR-15!!!

@Flyingsaucesir Just because you have one misguided idiot who misuses an AR15 is no reason to penalize AR15 owners nationwide.

@Flyingsaucesir Your chances of being shot by a mass shooter are less than your chances of being struck by lightning. Mass shooting are actually very rare but you’d never know that listening to the MSM hysteria.

@Trajan61 Tell that to all the families of the people who have been murdered with AR15s.

@Trajan61 The thing is, there should be NONE! Now we have multiple mass shootings every week in the USA. Compare that to other developed countries, where there are almost none, and they have sensible gun laws.

@Trajan61 Remember who you're talking to: country boy, longtime gun owner. You never answered my question: why would you want to shoot a pig with an AR15? Don't you eat what you kill? AR15 bullets tumble and fragment, and cause massive tissue damage. That is by design, because the weapon is meant for killing people. You could do a much cleaner job with a bolt-action hunting rifle. So what's the deal?

@Flyingsaucesir That’s just a myth about the smaller caliber 5.56 round doing more damage than larger calibers.

@Flyingsaucesir Besides I don’t eat wild hogs.

@Trajan61 Heh heh, we got a little off track here. The issue is not really what kind of rifle you use to shoot wild pigs. (However, if you don't eat them, why would you shoot them? That sounds wasteful to me.) The question is, should military style assault rifles be readily available to citizens in a civil society?

There is no question that AR15 rounds, whether .223 in. or 5.56 mm, cause horrific wounds. And the AR15, being a spin-off of the M16, is capable of accepting large magazines holding high numbers of cartridges. I am arguing that neither of these characteristics is appropriate for availability on the open market. They are all about killing people. The AR15 is an offensive weapon, not for home or personal defense. That's what is meant by the term ASSAULT RIFLE. Assault is offense, not defense.

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@Flyingsaucesir Wild hogs are very destructive and damage crops. I plan on keeping all of my AR15 and AR10 rifles and high capacity magazines. You can give yours up or refuse to buy one. I don’t care. Just leave us law abiding gun owners alone.

@Trajan61 Would you at least agree to tightening up the gun laws, so that assholes who shouldn't have them don't?

@Flyingsaucesir We are already required to pass a background check to purchase a gun. That background check did not stop the Buffalo shooter. He should have been flagged as he had problems to prevent him from passing his background check to purchase a gun.

@Trajan61 Exactly. He should not have been able to buy the gun. But he was.