Okay, help me wrap my head around this...

[TexanStar]

One who thinks Tide Pods are explosive has shared his expertise.

Explosive as in the contents are expelled outwards, not explosive like a landmine. This is clear in my post.

There are videos on youtube of people breaking them if you would like to entertain yourself. The contents spurt out as soon as the seal breaks.

 

[LittleBuzzSaw]

Explosive as in the contents are expelled outwards, not explosive like a landmine. This is clear in my post.

There are videos on youtube of people breaking them if you would like to entertain yourself. The contents spurt out as soon as the seal breaks.

Yes. They release. They are NOT “explosive”.
Any washing machines blow up yet?

 

[LittleBuzzSaw]

I would be very curious to know just what they were calling "low capacity magazines" ??

STANAG 20 round mags ???

10 rounds. The limit put on by the left that they said would make such a great difference.

 

[Industrialsize]

10 rounds. The limit put on by the left that they said would make such a great difference.

I live in Massachusetts. We have strict gun control laws. They were upheld this week by the Federal District Court using Scalia's take on the Heller decision. Assault weapons and high capacity magazines are banned in Massachusetts. Massachusetts has the LOWEST rates of gun deaths of all 50 states.
Massachusetts

• Firearm deaths per 100,000 people: 3.4 per 100,000
• Total firearm deaths 2016: 242 (suicides: 140, homicides: 89)
• Violent crime rate: 376.9 per 100,000 (23rd highest)
• Permit required to carry handgun: Yes
• Poverty rate: 10.4% (9th lowest)

 

[phonehome]

I have seen no pics of the mags in question and found no media reports that state the capacity of them, just that he had "multiple mags totaling 100's of rounds"

The AWB era 10 rounders are pretty much never seen sine the AWB was allowed to expire and beeing they look just like a STANAG 20 rounder I would not be surprised to find that those are what he had and are being called "low capacity mags"

 

[LittleBuzzSaw]

Explosive as in the contents are expelled outwards, not explosive like a landmine. This is clear in my post.

There are videos on youtube of people breaking them if you would like to entertain yourself. The contents spurt out as soon as the seal breaks.

They

I live in Massachusetts. We have strict gun control laws. They were upheld this week by the Federal District Court using Scalia's take on the Heller decision. Assault weapons and high capacity magazines are banned in Massachusetts. Massachusetts has the LOWEST rates of gun deaths of all 50 states.
Massachusetts

• Firearm deaths per 100,000 people: 3.4 per 100,000
• Total firearm deaths 2016: 242 (suicides: 140, homicides: 89)
• Violent crime rate: 376.9 per 100,000 (23rd highest)
• Permit required to carry handgun: Yes
• Poverty rate: 10.4% (9th lowest)

Glad that you enjoy living there, and the low gun death rate you tout makes you feel safe/comfortable. You can keep your stupid gun laws. I’ll stay down south and keep my guns.

You could always move to London where guns are all but illegal. .......

But they have a knife homicide rate set to possibly surpass the homicide rate of New York City.

 

[Industrialsize]

They

Glad that you enjoy living there, and the low gun death rate you tout makes you feel safe/comfortable. You can keep your stupid gun laws. I’ll stay down south and keep my guns.

You could always move to London where guns are all but illegal. .......

But they have a knife homicide rate set to possibly surpass the homicide rate of New York City.

2017 was record-low for homicides in New York City, with NYPD logging lowest number in nearly 70 years
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/2017-record-low-homicides-new-york-city-article-1.3729733

 

[LittleBuzzSaw]

2017 was record-low for homicides in New York City, with NYPD logging lowest number in nearly 70 years
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/2017-record-low-homicides-new-york-city-article-1.3729733

Another place I refuse to live because of their stupid gun laws.

 

[LittleBuzzSaw]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.4607737

I call for a knife ban

 

[StormfrontFL]

Another place I refuse to live because of their stupid gun laws.

If we all take up a collection will you move somewhere to the wilderness and never interact with normal people again?

Oh, look. Isn't someone trying to get a refill from the soda machine after they first left the food court? This looks like a job for mall security!

 

[Klingsor]

Glad that you enjoy living there, and the low gun death rate you tout makes you feel safe/comfortable. You can keep your stupid gun laws. I’ll stay down south and keep my guns.

Maybe not the best pitch to attract tourists.

 

[TexanStar]

Maybe not the best pitch to attract tourists.

It's fairly iirelevant to it. Texas is 2nd biggest state by population and #4 US state for inbound tourism (only the Disney theme park states and Vegas are higher).

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-most-popular-us-states-for-tourism-2014-10

I'm not defending a lot of the stupidity we have enshrined in law here (especially around reproductive freedom and LGBT rights), just noting that availability of firearms isn't something that keeps tourists away (some googling actually has some anecdotes for the opposite... tourists curious if coming to Texas would give them opportunity to fire types of guns that aren't available in their home states / countries).

 

[Klingsor]

It's fairly iirelevant to it. Texas is 2nd biggest state by population and #4 US state for inbound tourism (only the Disney theme park states and Vegas are higher).

Like they say, a nice place to visit, but . . .

(And yes, I *have* lived there).

 

[TexanStar]

Like they say, a nice place to visit, but . . .

(And yes, I *have* lived there).

It's not horrible, but there are definitely other states I'd live in if RL stuff lined up to make it happen (Minnesota's at the top of that list),

It's probably in the middle somewhere if I were to rank all the states. A lot of the old south and a huge chunk of the midwest and west are definitely worse.

 

[TexanStar]

Minnesota has a higher rate of gun ownership than Texas, by the way. That's not why I want to live there, just something to note.

 

[keenobserver]

Maybe not the best pitch to attract tourists.

Other than the Alamo in Texas, I don't think Southerners like tourist coming in - from anywhere. That is why there is a Cracker Barrel Restaurant at every interstate exit in the North. It gives the potential tourist a "taste" without the need to travel very far.

 

[TexanStar]

Other than the Alamo in Texas, I don't think Southerners like tourist coming in - from anywhere.

Why would Texas be the #4 state for tourism if that were the case? Why would Texas be the state that took in more Katrina refugees than any other? Why would Houston, on track to edge out Chicago as the 3rd largest city in America be the most racially and ethnically diverse city in the entire USA?

There's a metric assload of gulf coast beach destinations, major cities all with their tourism draws (Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, Houston, San Santonio, etc). NASA's here, yadda yadda.

It is in the bible belt and that religiosity in government affects reproductive and LGBT rights in the state, some anti-muslim attitudes, etc. But there's not really any animus against out of state tourists for any racial reasons. And although the state government passed a ban on sanctuary cities, the reason for that is because almost all of the major cities in the state did, or were in the process of declaring themselves to be sanctuary cities. Dallas, Austin, and Houston all did (3 of the 4 largest). Point being... in the kinds of places you would actually travel to Texas to go on a vacation, people aren't any more racist than people in other states.

 

[TexanStar]

This guy... Obituary for Benjamin Douglas Morrow

You read his obituary and you're like awww, poor man, I'm sorry for his family's loss, he was taken too soon

Except....

That guy is this guy: Unsealed search records show Beaver Dam bomb maker had interest in white supremacy

This guy was building up an arsenal of weapons and bombs in his apartment, had white supremacist literature strewn about the place, and exploded himself while building a bomb. There were so many bomb making chemicals on his property that the police had to set fire to the apartment building and burn it to the ground as the only safe way to dispose of it.

But...

he's barely in the news. I mean, usually when people complain about lack of news coverage you can just hit google news and prove them wrong, but if you go there now, all there is are two tiny little local news stories. There are 0 major news outlets covering it.

WTF?

Let me quote the reporter and one of the detectives...

Reporter: So even though you found white supremacist literature, and you know he was making explosives, and there were firearms, you can't really jump to conclusions.
Police Lieutenant: That's correct. We don't want to make any conclusions at this point. It would be misleading and unfair.

I don't like having to talk about privilege. I think that language can create a distance for your audience, but I really don't know what else to call it when the press and law enforcement are taking such a measured response to a white supremacist terrorist who was building up an arsenal of destruction because he's young, white, male, and Christian. His picture isn't scary enough to fit the narrative about who's coming for us?

The police even kept all of this quiet for a month with sealed records, claiming it was to avoid alerting any potential co-conspirators, but I'm just not buying that.

What is this shit and why isn't in the press more than it is?

It's been a week since I posted this, but looks like national media finally bit into it. Article went up on the Daily beast this morning and Fox News later today.

CLOSE CALL?
Suspected White Supremacist Died Building ISIS-Style Bombs

Wisconsin man suspected of being white supremacist killed after building ISIS-style explosives

 

[Redwyvre]

If he had killed someone other than himself he probably would have gotten more press.

 

[Redwyvre]

If the press had to cover every sick fuck in this country...