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jcarlsoniv
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States27922 Posts
October 02 2015 15:01 GMT
#47321
On October 02 2015 23:57 Jormundr wrote:
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On October 02 2015 23:51 Plansix wrote:
On October 02 2015 23:46 Buckyman wrote:
That graph inappropriately uses a biased trend line, which has the side effect of making high gun ownership countries look worse.

And its also fact that the countries with higher gun ownership have problems gun violence. So they do look worse based on the raw numbers, the US being the highest.

Not true, Switzerland has super high gun ownership and they're fine.
I mean they don't let people have ammo but hey it's LITERALLY the same as America.


I generally hesitate to jump in on gun control debates, but this is pretty fascinating. What's the point of having guns if you can't have ammo? Are there high occurrences of pistol-whip related violence?
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Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
October 02 2015 15:04 GMT
#47322
On October 02 2015 23:57 Jormundr wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 02 2015 23:51 Plansix wrote:
On October 02 2015 23:46 Buckyman wrote:
That graph inappropriately uses a biased trend line, which has the side effect of making high gun ownership countries look worse.

And its also fact that the countries with higher gun ownership have problems gun violence. So they do look worse based on the raw numbers, the US being the highest.

Not true, Switzerland has super high gun ownership and they're fine.
I mean they don't let people have ammo but hey it's LITERALLY the same as America.

They also have better controls over the guns. Like laws that address mental illness and they track the weapons from buyer to buyer. They have real gun control. So if people are looking for that as an example, please line up for your waiting periods and government databases of handgun owners. And you need a reason to carry a fire arm in public beyond "I want to".
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KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42642 Posts
October 02 2015 15:05 GMT
#47323
On October 03 2015 00:01 jcarlsoniv wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 02 2015 23:57 Jormundr wrote:
On October 02 2015 23:51 Plansix wrote:
On October 02 2015 23:46 Buckyman wrote:
That graph inappropriately uses a biased trend line, which has the side effect of making high gun ownership countries look worse.

And its also fact that the countries with higher gun ownership have problems gun violence. So they do look worse based on the raw numbers, the US being the highest.

Not true, Switzerland has super high gun ownership and they're fine.
I mean they don't let people have ammo but hey it's LITERALLY the same as America.


I generally hesitate to jump in on gun control debates, but this is pretty fascinating. What's the point of having guns if you can't have ammo? Are there high occurrences of pistol-whip related violence?

They don't have gun ownership in the sense that Americans understand. They have a national militia with mandatory national service for the male population. Following the completion of your national service you take your rifle home but the ammo for it is kept in the armoury at the barracks. Rather than restrict possession of guns they have restricted possession of ammo for the same result. Switzerland actually has pretty strict gun control if you assume that a working gun is one that has ammo.

Basically the entire Switzerland thing is misdirection by the right.
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Sermokala
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States13924 Posts
October 02 2015 15:18 GMT
#47324
The too many guns are around argument only really works if you agree that even if you get a national gun registry you'll have guns that will never be registered and the problem you had at the beginning won't be effected at all. Switzerland is just a red and a cheap debate line.

Ironically the mental illness response is actually pretty smart by the NRA. They can deflect the gun control argument by blaming a side issue at the same time. The best thing control advocates can do going forward is push for more mental health laws and options because they won't get far with actual gun control in america.

Democrats have shown themselves surprisingly incompetent at the issue which doesn't help anyone.
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Falling
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada11349 Posts
October 02 2015 15:19 GMT
#47325
I would like to take this moment remind people that we do have a dedicated gun control thread. Please use that one so we don't turn this one into a second thread of the same nature.
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{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
October 02 2015 16:27 GMT
#47326
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Thursday that he regrets remarks he made about Hillary Clinton and the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

"This committee was set up for one sole purpose: to find the truth on behalf of the families for four dead Americans," the California Republican said in an evening interview with Fox News' Bret Baier. "Now, I did not intend to imply in any way that that work is political. Of course it is not. Look at the way they have carried themselves out."

The mini-firestorm started when McCarthy on Tuesday bragged to Fox News’ Sean Hannity that “everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi Special Committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.”

The comments undermined House Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy’s (R-S.C.) efforts to keep his panel’s work focused on the Benghazi attacks in 2012 and stay above the political fray. Multiple Republicans on Thursday tried to contain the fallout, and clarify the committee's intent.

McCarthy said on Thursday evening that he had spoken to Gowdy and expressed the view that they have rightly conducted their work in an apolitical way. "No one questions Trey's integrity or this committee. It was never my intention to ever imply that this committee was political, because we all know it is not," he said, while acknowledging that he should have come out right after he made the remarks to clarify.


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aRyuujin
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States5049 Posts
October 02 2015 16:32 GMT
#47327
On October 03 2015 01:27 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Thursday that he regrets remarks he made about Hillary Clinton and the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

"This committee was set up for one sole purpose: to find the truth on behalf of the families for four dead Americans," the California Republican said in an evening interview with Fox News' Bret Baier. "Now, I did not intend to imply in any way that that work is political. Of course it is not. Look at the way they have carried themselves out."

The mini-firestorm started when McCarthy on Tuesday bragged to Fox News’ Sean Hannity that “everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi Special Committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.”

The comments undermined House Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy’s (R-S.C.) efforts to keep his panel’s work focused on the Benghazi attacks in 2012 and stay above the political fray. Multiple Republicans on Thursday tried to contain the fallout, and clarify the committee's intent.

McCarthy said on Thursday evening that he had spoken to Gowdy and expressed the view that they have rightly conducted their work in an apolitical way. "No one questions Trey's integrity or this committee. It was never my intention to ever imply that this committee was political, because we all know it is not," he said, while acknowledging that he should have come out right after he made the remarks to clarify.


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Wonder if this is significant enough to alter the speaker race
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Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
October 02 2015 16:34 GMT
#47328
On October 03 2015 01:32 aRyuujin wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 03 2015 01:27 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Thursday that he regrets remarks he made about Hillary Clinton and the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

"This committee was set up for one sole purpose: to find the truth on behalf of the families for four dead Americans," the California Republican said in an evening interview with Fox News' Bret Baier. "Now, I did not intend to imply in any way that that work is political. Of course it is not. Look at the way they have carried themselves out."

The mini-firestorm started when McCarthy on Tuesday bragged to Fox News’ Sean Hannity that “everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi Special Committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.”

The comments undermined House Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy’s (R-S.C.) efforts to keep his panel’s work focused on the Benghazi attacks in 2012 and stay above the political fray. Multiple Republicans on Thursday tried to contain the fallout, and clarify the committee's intent.

McCarthy said on Thursday evening that he had spoken to Gowdy and expressed the view that they have rightly conducted their work in an apolitical way. "No one questions Trey's integrity or this committee. It was never my intention to ever imply that this committee was political, because we all know it is not," he said, while acknowledging that he should have come out right after he made the remarks to clarify.


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Wonder if this is significant enough to alter the speaker race

Doubt it. The he seemed well liked enough and letting their true intentions slip about Benghazi isn't going to change that.
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{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
October 02 2015 16:39 GMT
#47329
A bipartisan group of senators unveiled a bill that would make sweeping changes to criminal justice in the US, including a long-awaited scaling-back of mandatory minimum sentences.

Introducing the bill at the Capitol on Thursday, Republican senator Chuck Grassley called it “a landmark piece of legislation”, and praised its bipartisan nature. “This is a bill we can be proud of,” he said.

“Today is one of the finer days in Congress, especially when you compare with what’s happening along the way [in the House of Representatives],” said Democratic senator Chuck Schumer, who also spoke at the announcement.

If passed into law, the Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act will reduce the mandatory life without parole sentence for a third drug or violent offence and the mandatory minimums on drug and gun possession.

Notably, it would also expand the “safety valve” exception, which allows non-violent drug offenders with non-serious criminal histories to escape mandatory minimums. It would also allow some prisoners to earn time credits on their sentence to complete rehabilitation programmes.

In an effort to reduce the disparity in sentencing between drug and violent offences, it also creates new mandatory minimum sentences of 10 years for interstate domestic violence resulting in a death, and a new mandatory minimum of five years for providing weapons for terrorists.

The bill was introduced by Grassley, the chair of the senate judiciary committee, and the second-ranking Democrat, Dick Durbin.


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DarkPlasmaBall
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States44276 Posts
October 02 2015 17:44 GMT
#47330
On October 03 2015 01:27 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Show nested quote +
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said Thursday that he regrets remarks he made about Hillary Clinton and the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

"This committee was set up for one sole purpose: to find the truth on behalf of the families for four dead Americans," the California Republican said in an evening interview with Fox News' Bret Baier. "Now, I did not intend to imply in any way that that work is political. Of course it is not. Look at the way they have carried themselves out."

The mini-firestorm started when McCarthy on Tuesday bragged to Fox News’ Sean Hannity that “everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi Special Committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? Her numbers are dropping.”

The comments undermined House Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy’s (R-S.C.) efforts to keep his panel’s work focused on the Benghazi attacks in 2012 and stay above the political fray. Multiple Republicans on Thursday tried to contain the fallout, and clarify the committee's intent.

McCarthy said on Thursday evening that he had spoken to Gowdy and expressed the view that they have rightly conducted their work in an apolitical way. "No one questions Trey's integrity or this committee. It was never my intention to ever imply that this committee was political, because we all know it is not," he said, while acknowledging that he should have come out right after he made the remarks to clarify.


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A perfect example that correlation does not imply causation; this'll be great for my statistics students. Thanks!
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{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
October 02 2015 18:19 GMT
#47331
A year ago, when Tennessee passed a bill allowing women to be charged with assault if they use narcotics while pregnant, health advocates warned that the law would deter women from seeking vital medical care out of fear of being prosecuted. Their concerns are now coming true.

“We are getting lots of anecdotal information about women not seeking critical prenatal care, and avoiding going to the hospital to give birth, because they are scared of being arrested and having their baby taken away,” said Allison Glass, state director of Healthy and Free Tennessee, a nonprofit women's advocacy group. “Not only does the current law do nothing to help those who may, in fact, need treatment, but it’s actually having a negative public health impact.”

The controversial law, which went into effect in July 2014 despite vocal opposition from leading medical groups, was passed in response to Tennessee’s growing opioid epidemic. Over the past 10 years, the state has seen a nearly tenfold rise in the incidence of babies born with "neonatal abstinence syndrome" (NAS), a group of symptoms that can occur when babies are in withdrawal from exposure to narcotics.

Babies with NAS may be irritable, have trouble feeding and sleeping or suffer from vomiting and diarrhea, but medical professionals stress that the condition is treatable and hasn’t been associated with any long-term negative consequences.

Critics of the Tennessee law contend that incarcerating mothers and separating them from their babies leads to far more severe health outcomes than NAS, and that it flies in the face of medical consensus.

On Friday, national and international experts on NAS, public health researchers, clinicians, reproductive health advocates and drug treatment professionals are descending on Tennessee to try and convince the state of just that.

A two-day national symposium on pregnancy and neonatal abstinence syndrome is being held in Nashville. The location of the event is no coincidence: As the only state in the country thus far to explicitly criminalize drug use during pregnancy, Tennessee has become ground zero in the debate over how to treat pregnant women who struggle with addiction.


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m4ini
Profile Joined February 2014
4215 Posts
October 02 2015 18:26 GMT
#47332
On October 02 2015 23:57 Jormundr wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 02 2015 23:51 Plansix wrote:
On October 02 2015 23:46 Buckyman wrote:
That graph inappropriately uses a biased trend line, which has the side effect of making high gun ownership countries look worse.

And its also fact that the countries with higher gun ownership have problems gun violence. So they do look worse based on the raw numbers, the US being the highest.

Not true, Switzerland has super high gun ownership and they're fine.
I mean they don't let people have ammo but hey it's LITERALLY the same as America.


This is actually wrong.

Men between 20-30 basically get to take their military grade rifle home, but not the military grade ammo. However, they're allowed to buy compatible ammo, and at the end of their military career, they get the option to keep the gun/rifle (full automatic rifles get retrofitted though) - obviously, only if your track record, mental health etc is fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland

Nice overview.
On track to MA1950A.
Cowboy64
Profile Joined April 2015
115 Posts
October 02 2015 18:40 GMT
#47333
On October 01 2015 10:44 zlefin wrote:
You can choose your own opinions, you can't choose your own facts. That's kinda the point of this; there's a difference between things that are truly a matter of opinion, and intentionally misrepresenting the facts.

Policy proscriptions are never factual. Is it a "fact" that women should be allowed to have abortions? Is it a "fact" that gun-control is desirable? Is it a "fact" that the rich don't pay enough taxes?

You might think that these things are true, you might even have some facts that could be seen as supporting evidence, but the policy itself is based entirely on opinion. Ethics and moral are not facts, and that is the realm of politics.

Further, who gets to decide what is "fact" and what isn't? Much of what is offered as "fact" is actually not fact, it is usually just a relatively well-founded theory based on the evidence available. Global warming is a perfect example. Much of the evidence suggests one thing, so we (rather lazily) call it "fact" when it is certainly not. Just because our current evidence might suggest a thing does not mean that thing is a fact. So in those times where the facts are under contention, or there is disagreement with the policies being offered according to the facts, who gets to decide what is allowed and what isn't?

It is very easy for you to say: "We shouldn't let people misrepresent facts!" but it will be much harder for you to find many facts that are not themselves subject to the murky waters of opinion and bias. Hence my worry when such statements are offered so easily, that we will upend the system in order to satisfy your desire to see only the sides of the argument that you approve.

This ties into a discussion I had earlier concerning the motive behind the opposition to Obama. It seems that the very popular political tactic of the modern day (from both sides) is to demonize the opponent. If they disagree with a specific person, it must be sexism, or racism, or bigotry, or radicalism, or some other nefarious goal. If there is argument over what "facts" are really facts or not, then it must be a willful misrepresentation. There is no room in society anymore for good-faith disagreements, and this more than anything else has caused the "gridlock" that we see in all facets of governance. The well has been so thoroughly poisoned that neither side can even begin to compromise with the other. (For good evidence of such, there was a discussion on this very thread where a person asked where Democrats would be willing to give honest compromise and the resounding answer was basically: 'we will not compromise, you must compromise')

I feel that there is little to be gained with further discussion, however, because it seems that your mind is relatively made up. So I shall bow out, leaving only this warning: If one side engages in a certain tactic, the opposition will almost certainly respond by using that same tactic. This is true in combat, sports, and in politics. Beware the desire to "get rid of the troublemakers" for one day you might find your own opinions on the chopping block.
{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
October 02 2015 18:50 GMT
#47334
A new rule from the Obama Administration aims to further reduce the main ingredient in smog. That might sound like good news if you live in a city where smog is a problem. But after the rule was announced, there were plenty of complaints about it.

Technically, the Environmental Protection Agency is reducing the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ground-level ozone limits from the current level of 75 parts per billion (ppb) down to 70 ppb.

Ground-level ozone is linked to respiratory illnesses and it can worsen diseases like emphysema and asthma. It's created when pollution from cars, factories, power plants and other sources chemically react with sunlight. It's primarily a problem during the warmer months of the year.

"Put simply — ozone pollution means it hurts to breathe for those most vulnerable: our kids, our elderly and those suffering from heart and lung ailments," said EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy.

The EPA was under a court-ordered deadline to issue a rule today. A year ago, a scientific advisory committee suggested the agency set the standard between 60 and 70 ppb. Environmental groups are critical of the EPA for setting the new limit at the upper end of that spectrum.

While acknowledging the tighter standard will provide health benefits, John Walke, senior attorney and director of the Clean Air Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, says the EPA missed an opportunity to set an even lower level, closer to the 60 ppb.


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TheTenthDoc
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States9561 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-02 19:02:55
October 02 2015 18:56 GMT
#47335
While there is a murky line between what some consider fact and others consider opinion, there are things that are facts because they are demonstrably verifiable. When you contradict those, you lose credibility and should have it flung in your face.

Here are a few facts everyone should be able to agree are not opinions and can be verified as true or false:

-The only scientific study suggesting a causational link between vaccines and autism was debunked. No study has shown that "spacing out" vaccines is any more or less harmful, or would do anything but increase the infants' risk of deadly childhood diseases you are postponing vaccinating them for.

-Mexico has birthright citizenship.

-Current legislation expressly forbids federal funds from paying for abortions barring specific exceptions (and that's through Medicaid anyway).

-The Planned Parenthood tapes were edited by the people releasing them to remove key points by the speaker and even after editing there was no scene like Fiorina described.

-It is legal to accept compensation in the United States for transport costs while donating organs.

When people in power spew falsehoods it is even more poisonous than when they present their opinions as fact.
Plansix
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States60190 Posts
October 02 2015 19:12 GMT
#47336
And its fact that the majority of american's do not want abortion to be illegal. And the planet is getting warmer.

The idea that we can diminish every "fact" to "opinion" so then all views, no matter how stupid, are valid is one of the worst parts of politics today. That anyone can argue that the nation would be better off with abortions being illegal is foolish.
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ticklishmusic
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States15977 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-10-02 19:19:55
October 02 2015 19:19 GMT
#47337
The day before Pope Francis met anti-gay county clerk Kim Davis in Washington last week, he held a private meeting with a longtime friend from Argentina who has been in a same-sex relationship for 19 years.

Yayo Grassi, an openly gay man, brought his partner, Iwan Bagus, as well several other friends to the Vatican Embassy on September 23 for a brief visit with the Pope. A video of the meeting shows Grassi and Francis greeting each other with a warm hug.

In an exclusive interview with CNN, Grassi declined to disclose details about the short visit, but said it was arranged personally with the Pope via email in the weeks ahead of Francis' highly anticipated visit to the United States.


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{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
October 02 2015 19:32 GMT
#47338
Oklahoma’s top criminal court agreed Friday to stop all executions indefinitely after confusion over a lethal injection drug shipment led to a stay for an execution, although officials maintained their refusal to divulge the identity of the state’s lethal drug provider.

Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin issued the stay on Wednesday just before the scheduled execution of Richard Glossip, whose case has garnered international attention, after the state’s corrections department received potassium acetate instead of potassium chloride from a pharmaceutical provider. The shipment of wrong drug arrived hours before Glossip’s scheduled execution.

The state’s Court of Criminal Appeals on Friday accepted Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s request for a stay of three executions set for the next two months while authorities investigate the circumstances around the shipment of the wrong drug. Pruitt’s office declined to identify the pharmaceutical company that had sent the shipment, explaining that Oklahoma law protects the company’s identity for its safety.

State officials said the shipment of potassium acetate — instead of the potassium chloride mandated in Oklahoma’s lethal injection protocol — was not a mistake, although they acknowledged that the drug was outside their protocol.

“I don’t think it was a mistake, because we were told potassium acetate is medically interchangeable with potassium chloride,” Corrections Department spokesman Alex Gerszewski told Al Jazeera.


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{CC}StealthBlue
Profile Blog Joined January 2003
United States41117 Posts
October 02 2015 21:11 GMT
#47339
Wow...

A day after a massacre on a U.S. college campus, Jeb Bush said "stuff happens" but that does not mean gun restrictions should be tightened.

"We're in a difficult time in our country and I don't think more government is necessarily the answer to this. I think we need to reconnect ourselves with everybody else. It's very bad to see," the former Florida governor said. Then he added: "Look, stuff happens and the impulse is always to do something and it's not necessarily the right thing to do."

His comments came during an appearance in Greenville, South Carolina where the 2016 candidate was discussing gun control and urging caution before pushing laws and new regulations. He first said that in Florida "we believe that concealed weapons permits is a proper thing."

"All sorts of rules that are appropriate for Florida may not be appropriate for other places but the basic right is embedded and it's a personal right to bear arms but that shouldn't be infringed," he said.

Bush also said the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, that left nine dead and seven injured was "just heartbreaking."


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Gorsameth
Profile Joined April 2010
Netherlands21665 Posts
October 02 2015 21:16 GMT
#47340
On October 03 2015 06:11 {CC}StealthBlue wrote:
Wow...

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A day after a massacre on a U.S. college campus, Jeb Bush said "stuff happens" but that does not mean gun restrictions should be tightened.

"We're in a difficult time in our country and I don't think more government is necessarily the answer to this. I think we need to reconnect ourselves with everybody else. It's very bad to see," the former Florida governor said. Then he added: "Look, stuff happens and the impulse is always to do something and it's not necessarily the right thing to do."

His comments came during an appearance in Greenville, South Carolina where the 2016 candidate was discussing gun control and urging caution before pushing laws and new regulations. He first said that in Florida "we believe that concealed weapons permits is a proper thing."

"All sorts of rules that are appropriate for Florida may not be appropriate for other places but the basic right is embedded and it's a personal right to bear arms but that shouldn't be infringed," he said.

Bush also said the shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, that left nine dead and seven injured was "just heartbreaking."


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Do we really need to link the Onion article again?
Really Jeb?
It ignores such insignificant forces as time, entropy, and death
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