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> gotta love clean air.

I've seen the sky in vancouver look exactly the same, it's called overcast. They have blue sky there too….

yes for a while I was, I just sold it and my new commuter bike is now orange

Posted by: heckler

Posted by: Stuminator

Can you create a new user name & rejoin?

and lose all your rep points?

wait a minute...

I have an idea...hear me out...maybe we could review each other except instead of 5 stars it could be 5 bikes. Like..we could give eachother a score out of 5 bikes.

If our score goes below 3 bikes we can no longer post

Your out loud wonderings were tenuously related to the topic at best. Probably would have done better on the thread you already have going r.e. epistemology 

Anyways some news that's definitely related to this topic

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/twitter-musk-lawsuit-1.6468024

Maybe we could just have a separate unmoderated hidden forum that only the old NBR gang has access to?

Posted by: three-sheets

Posted by: tashi

Half of me wants a Sausages part 2, half of me thinks it was perfect and should be left alone…

Wasnt that Tom Green?

https://youtu.be/3ChvxsVgT8c

I get that this is a mountain biking site. I mountain biked when I first joined this forum in 1999. I haven't mountain biked since 2003 but I would be a little sad to get booted from the first online community I ever joined because I don't ride anymore.

Posted by: syncro

The right to own firearms is so engrained in these people that they will exhaust all other options and considerations before they will consider any significant form of firearms restrictions legislation. They view this as an all or none situation, that any introduction of restrictions is the path to firearm bans; there is no rational or logical thinking on the issue. In recent polling only 1/4 of Republicans support tighter firearms laws, and what's worse, 1/4 of Republicans want looser firearms laws. The only thing that seems certain is that Americans are going to continue killing each other with the guns they seem to love more than life itself as it is part of the greater American psyche.

The irony of it is there are literally thousands of firearms related regulations in the US and there's no federal standard so it's different from state to state. It also comes as no surprise that most of the recent regulations came in when groups like the black panthers started to exercise their 2a and collect guns. So gun control already exists in some form in every state to varying degrees but because state rights it's impossible to enact any kind of standard at the federal level.

It might be hard to believe but there are shotguns that are categorized as unrestricted and legal in Canada to PAL holders that aren't legal anywhere in the US due to their short length. We're also allowed to transport firearms across provincial lines provided the firearm is unloaded and trigger locked.

What really impressed me about the Canadian process was how my spouse and two people who have known me for over three years had to sign off on the application. In addition directly below the fields was a phone number they could call to place an anonymous concern/tip about me owning a firearm in the case they were filling it out under duress. If I have gone through a job loss, divorce, bereavement etc.. it's a crime to not report it on my application with the possibility of a phone interview occuring regarding the matter.

tl;dr by applying for the right to own a firearm I am volunteering to have my mental health scrutinized and I think that's a good thing and it would have totally prevented what just happened in Texas.

Posted by: XXX_er

make america more happy/ less fucked up so they don't want to kill people

I think it's fair to also point out that kid in Texas would never have acquired guns if he was Canadian.

Posted by: syncro

You could have asked for clarification instead of jumping to a negative conclusion.

Sigh...

Could you please communicate more clearly so I don't jump to the incorrect conclusion? 

Thx in advance

Posted by: Madman

There's another board I read that's pretty much the antithesis of NBR. They think arming teachers will solve this issue 100%. Also, signs to warn that the staff is armed.

Perfect. Cops get a call there's an active shooter at a school and all the teachers have guns. That's gonna make it way easier for them to shoot the right person...

Posted by: syncro

Edit: lol, looking at your comment in the critical thinking thread you're waaaaay off base F.O.

Of course I'm off-base. I'm not a mind reader and if you hadn't noticed you didn't actually say anything leaving us to make guesses.