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orangecrush

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22. Yes and no

Reply to Hotler (Reply #17)

Mon Aug 14, 2023, 01:30 PM

Aug 2023

Good to own a firearm if you have the proper background and get training, if you are untrained.

Bad to buy a firearm with the preconceived idea of using it to kill anyone, especially members of any specified group of people.

I sympathize with your feelings, but de-escalation of the possibility of any armed confrontation should be priority.

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Clearly Harvard hires very smart people to be their professors [View all] RAB910 Aug 2023 OP

This needs to be on billboards everywhere SouthernDem4ever Aug 2023 #1

Say it, Doctor Levitsky! John1956PA Aug 2023 #2

KnR...We are being warned clearly and repeatedly. MiHale Aug 2023 #3

Yes, we are. n/t KarenS Aug 2023 #5

+1 2naSalit Aug 2023 #18

To believe otherwise is to live in denial. Duncan Grant Aug 2023 #23

Corporate media has no idea what this learned man in politics is talking about! Alexander Of Assyria Aug 2023 #27

Well, at least one intelligent professor. Wonder Why Aug 2023 #4

Oh come on... Duppers Aug 2023 #16

The thread is about HARVARD professors, not generic professors and teachers. Wonder Why Aug 2023 #20

I don't know, and I doubt that you do, either. ShazzieB Aug 2023 #26

Alan Dershowitz is an Emeritus Harvard Professor, and he's nuts. nt pnwmom Aug 2023 #28

So all we know is that of two Harvard professors, in this two prof race, Wonder Why Aug 2023 #30

Big woo ExWhoDoesntCare Aug 2023 #38

The OP made a broad general claim which is disproven by a single counter example. pnwmom Aug 2023 #39

Nuts, but not stupid Polybius Aug 2023 #40

His logic lately leaves a lot to be desired. nt pnwmom Aug 2023 #41

If you'd bother to go to their faculty web page ExWhoDoesntCare Aug 2023 #37

K&R Thanks for posting. n/t TeamProg Aug 2023 #6

Great Post!!! wolfie001 Aug 2023 #7

Yup. The GOP is a FAR-RIGHT authoritarian party by consensus of experts Hortensis Aug 2023 #8

Kick. N/T Upthevibe Aug 2023 #9

yep llashram Aug 2023 #10

Keep in mind many MAGAS are fine with an authoritarian govt. Irish_Dem Aug 2023 #11

The smear campaign against such blasphemy (NOT) is going to be brutal. NoMoreRepugs Aug 2023 #12

K&R n/t Alice Kramden Aug 2023 #13

The gops audience is so easy to deceive BOSSHOG Aug 2023 #14

The propaganda machine convinces them they are the victims when in reality they are the villians RAB910 Aug 2023 #15

If you don't own a firearm I'd get one. If they get an opening they will come for us. Hotler Aug 2023 #17

Yes and no orangecrush Aug 2023 #22

I hate to disagree with the professor here but... Yavin4 Aug 2023 #19

It's also American media who leech off the Repuke donor class FakeNoose Aug 2023 #35

MEGAKICK orangecrush Aug 2023 #21

and yet most of the media Quanto Magnus Aug 2023 #24

TRUTH Skittles Aug 2023 #25

Kick dalton99a Aug 2023 #29

GOP response: Hire dumber professors. Sneederbunk Aug 2023 #31

Ha ha heh...IMHO, isn't this what the GOP is doing in some southern states, by driving away their SWBTATTReg Aug 2023 #32

K&R Blue Owl Aug 2023 #33

To take liberties with the work of a Harvard prof... Whatthe_Firetruck Aug 2023 #34

Actually, they do ExWhoDoesntCare Aug 2023 #36

And that detestable excuse for a political party has to be left in ruins. calimary Aug 2023 #42

I agree with his statement 100%. Old Crow Aug 2023 #43

No. Cornel West. betsuni Aug 2023 #44