Sineater - Yank questions :)

[lobs211]

Sineater - Is "Yank" like racial vilification? Is that politically incorrect?

Anyway - trying to take my mind off my business in other thread and I have some questions 🙂

ok so I really wanna know: Do black Americans have a connection with Africa? Do they consider it home? Do they like go back and find their people/ tribe/ families?

Can they trace that? And do they identify by tribe? So eg) If Oprah met Obama - do they talk tribes? Areas thier people from or do they just consider themselves American?? and have no connection to country?

I really wanna know this - thanks 🙂

[j*oono]

Thanks.  I just googled black panthers myself.

[j*oono]

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@isgodnu wrote:

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@j*oono wrote:

At least you still have gun laws.

Oops!  No, you don't do you?

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We have over 20,000 gun laws. Federal, State and Local Ordinance.

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I edited my post so you probably didn't see it.  Why is it that this 'right to arms' thing can't be changed.  The US mass murders are mostly by young adults and even kids with guns.  Is the gun lobby seriously that powerful?

[jimmy*part4]

The KKK had been sued into oblivion. Now there are militia groups, many with like minded people.

Don't click the links within. I used to be able to get rid of them!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Dees

SPLC lawyers used this legal strategy to hold the Klan accountable for the acts of its members. In 1981, Dees successfully sued the Ku Klux Klan and won a $7 million judgment for the mother of Michael Donald, a black lynching victim in Alabama.[8][9] Payment of the judgment bankrupted the United Klans of America and resulted in its national headquarters being sold to help satisfy the judgment. All funds secured in this manner were paid to the family of the deceased.

A decade later, in 1991, Dees obtained a judgment of $12 million against Tom Metzger's White Aryan Resistance.[8] He was also instrumental in securing a $6.5 million judgment against Aryan Nations in 2001. Dees' most famous cases have involved landmark damage awards that have driven several prominent neo-Nazi groups into bankruptcy, effectively causing them to disband and re-organize under different names and different leaders.

[j*oono]

Interesting Jimmy.  Morris Dees did a darn fine job.

[isgodnu]

It can be changed. But it's a Constitutional Right and would therefore require a Constitutional Ammendment.  The procedure to do so would require a Constitutional Convention. The process would not be simply directed at our Second Ammendment which guarantees us the right to keep and bear arms. It would open the door to the opportunity to ammend any and all parts of the Constitution. Abortion rights, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, taxation, executive priveledge, etc., etc., etc. Everybody would be subject to changes in the status quo. Not just those who promote the banning of the right to bear arms. Nobody is willing to take the chance that it could infringe upon one of their rights before it was all over.

[j*oono]

It's just a question that everyone in Australia asks when there is another mass shooting.

Things have to be worked through one step at a time.  We have the same stuff here with gay marriage but our government wants to go the wrong way and will likely step back to anti abortion as well.  It sounds like we have the same problems but whilst gun laws prevent one in the house I'm happy with that.

[isgodnu]

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@j*oono wrote:

  It sounds like we have the same problems but whilst gun laws prevent one in the house I'm happy with that.

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We believe that would be the home owner's responsibility, not the government's.

We also believe that criminals pay no attention to laws. Therefore if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.

[j*oono]

I really don't agree with that.  When gun shops are closed down then it will make it harder for criminals to buy them. Shut down gun stores and three quarters or more of the problem is gone.

How many kids in Australia can get their hands on a gun?  In my area, probably zilch.