Top 10 Reasons You Should Own An AR-15

[nmoore63]

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[C-Mag]

Well, now you're conflating wanting some restrictions on gun ownership with banning guns.
Not very honest and a terrible starting point for any debate.
/shrug

Was I, I didn't think so, did not intend to ?

The point of the post is that Venezuelans are having a lot of regret for not having a stronger personal firearms culture that would have allowed it to resist the current Filthy Collectivist Tyranny.

[brewster]

There's a reason no one says, ' ya know when I retire, I want to move to a studio economy apartment in the center of the city'

Untrue, at least excepting the "economy studio" part. Plenty of retirees are moving from the burbs into the cities for a culturally rich, walking friendly lifestyle. I know a number of them. You guys live in a bubble where you tell comforting lies to each other. Like colonial cities being Loyalist. Boston and Philly were was NOT Loyalist.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/arti ... dependence

The city of Philadelphia was, in addition to being the largest city North America at the time, the spiritual heart of Revolutionary America. Philadelphia's Independence Hall played host to the Continental Congress. It too was where the Declaration of Independence was signed....The city never contained much support for the Loyalist cause, and the [British occupying] soldiers did little to ingratiate themselves to the locals.

[Speaker to Animals]

It's not like it used to be, though. Elderly have to move out of Chicago, for instance, more often than not these days because they cannot afford the property taxes on their homes due to falling social security income in real terms.

There are elderly who like the urban life quite a lot. I don't think it fair to say that people who live there want to get away first chance they get. There are benefits to the city, especially for the elderly. It's just that the costs are starting to add up pretty badly in recent years.

[brewster]

It's not like it used to be, though. Elderly have to move out of Chicago, for instance, more often than not these days because they cannot afford the property taxes on their homes due to falling social security income in real terms.

There are elderly who like the urban life quite a lot. I don't think it fair to say that people who live there want to get away first chance they get. There are benefits to the city, especially for the elderly. It's just that the costs are starting to add up pretty badly in recent years.

I would say a lot depends on wealth, especially whether you owned property for the last 20 years. In my city there are elders sitting in $2m townhouses complaining they can't pay their 1.6% taxes without tapping their equity. Boohoo. They can pay their taxes and live quite well on that till they croak. Some of the retirees I know sold their suburban house and are now renting in the city, since the numbers favor renting in this market.

[Speaker to Animals]

It's not like it used to be, though. Elderly have to move out of Chicago, for instance, more often than not these days because they cannot afford the property taxes on their homes due to falling social security income in real terms.

There are elderly who like the urban life quite a lot. I don't think it fair to say that people who live there want to get away first chance they get. There are benefits to the city, especially for the elderly. It's just that the costs are starting to add up pretty badly in recent years.

I would say a lot depends on wealth, especially whether you owned property for the last 20 years. In my city there are elders sitting in $2m townhouses complaining they can't pay their 1.6% taxes without tapping their equity. Boohoo. They can pay their taxes and live quite well on that till they croak. Some of the retirees I know sold their suburban house and are now renting in the city, since the numbers favor renting in this market.

That is their home. Property taxes like that are evil as fuck.

[heydaralon]

Urbanites have no home, because they have no heart, and they fought for the British during the War of Independence. They don't even love their own children, so rootless is their cosmopolitanism. They are empty vessels, and into which govt sewage ideology is poured. Pity the city.

-Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[C-Mag]

. Boston and Philly were was NOT Loyalist.

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/arti ... dependence

The city of Philadelphia was, in addition to being the largest city North America at the time, the spiritual heart of Revolutionary America. Philadelphia's Independence Hall played host to the Continental Congress. It too was where the Declaration of Independence was signed....The city never contained much support for the Loyalist cause, and the [British occupying] soldiers did little to ingratiate themselves to the locals.

Philly was not the heart of the revolution. The heart of the revolution was in rural lands and small villages. Philadelphia and the Continental Congress didn't start the Revolution. Rural villages and farmers did, April 19th, 1775. Philly and the Continental Congress not only did not support the early revolution, they petitioned King George for peace. When that was rejected, they got on board and co-opted the revolution.

Urbanites have a lemming herd mentality. Someone tells them the revolution was about Philly and Bean town and they jump on the bandwagon with a Head Start understanding of the war. There would have been no Revolution, no Constitution, no Bill of Rights without the superior rural intellect and courage.

[Speaker to Animals]

The Constitution was a shit show foisted upon rural America by those cities. I would not couple that with the Revolution.

[heydaralon]

Brewster's mind has gone soft from spending all his time with scumbags and deadbeats who do little more than manipulate weakminded social workers into giving them benefits that are sold for 50 cents on the dollars to buy cigarettes and drugs. That sort of environment is not conducive to patriotism of any kind, and Brewster displays his Loyalist sympathies like a badge of honor. His ancestors were the ones who ratted out Nathan Hale to the british and helped erect the scaffolding.