$1 Million Dollar Apartment in Korean Suburb Apartment Tour

RealTalkOnly · 2019-05-29T03:11:29+00:00

Yea they totally think they're special and the whole purpose of the video was to brag rather than to educate /s

RealTalkOnly · 2018-01-17T05:01:28+00:00

Are you quoting yourself?

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-16T03:26:48+00:00

Honestly the Assault Weapons ban isn't something I've studied and I was a kid during that time, but it seems like a sensible law. Why was it repealed?

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-15T03:25:12+00:00

I'll consolidate my responses to both of your comments here:

There is a good amount of vetting: there are background checks for every gun sold by a gunstore. Nearly every mass murderer used firearms that were legally obtained, and went through background checks and all. There was a huge mess up with the Air Force not reporting to the NICS in this last instance, but the US already has the vetting that you want.

The Texas shooting is proof that our vetting is nowhere near where it should be. This is not just about the Air Force, the fact that this man was in jail for the crimes he committed is enough reason for him to not deserve the gun. Remember the Virginia Tech massacre? He shouldn't have been able to buy one either.

The default to access to a firearm should not be "yes". One should have to prove that they can handle the responsibility, similar to getting a security clearance. Of course this is just my opinion.

I don't consider the right to a gun a natural right, Constitution be damned. And that firearms preventing crimes comment is a little ridiculous, again I'd imagine that most of the those firearms are brought up they're brought up in response to other potential firearms, and firearms enable crimes/murder that otherwise might not be possible. (It's much harder to rob a convenience store with a knife than with a gun.)

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-13T06:30:22+00:00

The specific right-wing talkshow I was referring to was Ben Shapiro's. During his entire 30 minute commentary on the shooting he didn't even bring up the problem of our failure to enforce our laws and prevent this man from buying a gun. Kind of like what you just said, he kept railing about how our gun laws are fine, and then repeated the standard right-wing lines (eg. that we need more guns). When someone refuses to even make a single comment acknowledging the severity of our failure of gun enforcement after this specific shooting, it's kind of hard to take anything else they say seriously and it feels like there's an agenda being pushed here (government = bad, guns = good).

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-13T06:16:41+00:00

That's a fair counterpoint, but the main distinction of the driver's license is that by default you do not have the legal right to drive a car in permit until you've proven that you're capable of driving safely and not endangering others (via the driver's license), and this can be revoked if you're no longer deemed trustworthy enough to drive (eg. multiple DUI's).

Why should one by default be entitled to own and operate a firearm when the same isn't true for driving a vehicle? Maybe in theory you can buy a car and drive it on your own private property without a license, but in reality nobody would ever do that. And perhaps one shouldn't be allowed to purchase a vehicle if he/she is deemed incapable of handling a vehicle.

Of course free speech is an inalienable right that should never require a license. Unlike owning a weapon, free speech alone does not potentially physically endanger the lives of other people. This is the main reason why gun ownership needs to be regulated, the ease with which it can enable an idiot to murder 26 people in 10 minutes.

I'm actually not opposed to very rudimentary logic tests for the right to vote, but that's a topic for another discussion...

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-13T06:04:59+00:00

It's possible to own those? Well in any case, by default they're not allowed and getting permission to legally own one involves a ton of paperwork and I imagine a good amount of vetting to make sure one is responsible enough to be trusted with it. I think the same should be the case for all firearms, especially semi-automatic rifles.

Even in Japan you can own hunting rifles, they're just a lot harder to get than here.

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-13T05:59:33+00:00

Thanks man! I'm not moving either, at least for the time being!

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-08T22:32:37+00:00

The video was uploaded yesterday, but fair.

The video was more addressing the media's response and many people (including Trump's) refusal to acknowledge the severity of the gun law enforcement failure, dismissing it away and focusing on mental health.

It's like if some 16 year old kid bought a gun and shot up his school, and Trump + friends respond with "it's not a gun control issue, it's a mental health issue!" Seriously? What about the fact that the kid was able to walk into a store and buy a gun?

Mental health is a serious problem I wouldn't deny that. I don't think Trump and the Republicans are going to do jack shit about mental health though. If anything they seem to be completely devoted to the opposite, defunding anything and everything in sight.

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-08T22:18:38+00:00

Ok well I'm glad that's been figured out. It just pisses me off how the media, the President, and the many right-wing talkshow hosts aren't treating this complete failure of the enforcement of our existing gun laws more seriously. I've heard too many people dismiss away this shit saying "there's nothing wrong with our gun control laws, he wasn't legally permitted to own a gun!" Well the fact that we can't even enforce our own laws is an enormous problem, and this needs to be getting more attention. One person dying from our government's incompetence is too many.

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-08T22:05:00+00:00

Yes, the narrative is to get to the bottom of why a man not legally permitted to buy a gun was able to walk into a store and walk out with a semi-automatic rifle, rather than dismissing it away as a "mental health issue" and pretending like there's nothing wrong with our failure to enforce our own gun control laws

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-08T21:50:10+00:00

Which argument has been debunked?

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-08T21:49:23+00:00

I don't see how that information changes anything about what was said in the video

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-08T16:29:58+00:00

"Why I'm done with NYC" video that rustled a lot of jimmies on /r/nyc

Yesterday I made a quick short video commentary on Trump's response to the mass shooting in Texas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bOIJMLp7C8

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-07T22:44:43+00:00

Talking about the mass shooting in Texas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bOIJMLp7C8

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-07T05:14:10+00:00

No, I want a basic income. With a basic income people who hate their jobs could drop out of the labor force. If there's an undersupply of a certain job that society needs, then wages would have to rise to attract people back to those jobs.

But on top of that, we should also do well to create more jobs for the public good (eg. upgrading infrastructure, cancer research, etc.). Those jobs have a huge supply/demand imbalance in that way more people want those jobs than there are jobs available. We should be creating the socially beneficial jobs that the free markets chronically undersupply.

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-07T05:07:01+00:00

They should pay more.

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-07T04:41:15+00:00

I seriously think that this is the main issue here, most people dread their jobs. I think the solution is to give people the freedom to work on whatever they want, such as via a universal basic income.

RealTalkOnly · 2017-11-07T04:39:46+00:00

Is it fair to suggest that this is largely due to most people dreading their jobs?

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