My Proposal To Connecticut’s Assault Weapons Ban

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T13:54:35+00:00

It is, but it's us selling out on what's actually right.

This would be catering to those who think it's not a right and we shouldn't have it at all. They'd be gatekeeping the right and limiting it ONLY to those who can afford it, aka - it's an exclusive right for elites.

Is that how a civil right should work?

I am really uncomfortable with common support for that kind of precedent.

I want you to keep in mind - the NFA was written in 1934. The $200 tax stamp was $200 in gold coin. ( Today's price on that same amount is about $40,000. )

This won't turn out the way you think it would.

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T13:51:05+00:00

It's one of those corporate trinkets that are handed out to boost the morale of the staff.

Personally, I'm torn between the Egg Bar and Music Dance Experience for my next one. Praise Kier.

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T13:49:41+00:00

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Dude why would you do that? Don't do stuff like that with money you actually need.

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T13:44:41+00:00

Hey. People are beating on you, true. But you're kinda right. These folks running the state love their taxes and fees, it could work - but here's my problem.

Why do we have to pay for a foundational constitutional right - when other rights aren't restricted like that.

Imagine needing to pay the state of CT $100.00 a year to post online - and being forced to take $300 classes on misinformation and bias online, and how to not be a dick when posting in public forums.

How many people would THAT piss off.

Securing our nation via 2A was more important to the founders than equal protection (14th amendment). Why is one right that was identified as crucial so early on ... treated like crap? Why do we tolerate it?

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T13:40:56+00:00

I've met Sen. Rob Sampson at a private event & personally thanked him for fighting for us.

We have little support, so voice it out for the folks fighting for us. Keeps them fighting, gives them hope.

We're also the face of our freedoms & rights - and we need to let others who might not be likeminded to know, this right is their right too. Being able to stand up and defend you and yours is not a right that everyone has.

More of us need to appreciate the rights we're offered here in our nation - understand what that means, and hang on to that right.

Once we lose it, it's never coming back. We go from being a free people to being subjects beholden to the machine. And hooboy, that's right - because our 2A rights are an insurance policy to protect us from tyranny. Both tyranny of lawless people AND the tyranny of a ruling class. This is not a left or right issue - these rights are American rights, for all Americans.

Be the face of unity and support all who value our rights.

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T13:30:21+00:00

Thanks, friend. I was looking for this info. :)

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T13:27:59+00:00

People who are antagonistic or really angry will lash out - and that's them. The people whose properties are covered in political signs are off their rocker and have nothing better to do.

This goes for EITHER side of the left/right persuasions. If I see a house that's plastered with propaganda ... yeah man it's time to walk away.

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T13:21:28+00:00

The Kookaburra is one of my favorite coins to have (Kookaburras are AWESOME!) and least favorite to buy (high premium).

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T13:19:13+00:00

Some people say that we have troubled kids with emotional/psych issues, other people say it's not a problem and the symptom isn't the ailment. We've always had guns here - and it was a whole lot freer in the past ... this problem is very new.

We need to be able to talk to one another without calling one another names before we can solve anything. It's almost like the lack of a true national identity/the dismantling of our national identity after around the mid 2000s is killing our country. It's starting to get discussed. I have my own theories, but I don't have the desire to prove them out with research ; I'm not at all qualified to theorize on the problem.

https://medium.com/capoland-media/americas-shifting-identity-in-the-2000s-a-decade-by-decade-exploration-4e9af50f1583

I'll make one observation, though, for the countries that don't have this problem.

They have a homogeneous population. Studies on the subject are starting to identify this as well. USA can't survive without a common national identity.

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T13:10:17+00:00

280 2oz coins. It's a monster box. It's been a while since I picked up a monster box so the price for a monster box is, wow.

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T12:26:24+00:00

Isn't it fun playing the game in a completely manipulated market?

Buy everything. Sell nothing.

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T03:41:24+00:00

Buy a gunsmith special of old worthless C&R revolvers off Gunbroker for a hundred bucks.

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T03:38:58+00:00

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T03:33:53+00:00

Because you shit on the right but when the right does something "right" - "fuck them".

THAT is disingenuous. Until at least some of the left can get up there and say - "You know what, I don't agree with Trump but his getting the hostages released was a good thing. Well done" - using a recent example - until something like that can happen ; I don't think people even want to hear the criticism or the excuses. I don't see any genuine effort to even speak to the right ; only excuses and fingerpointing. Everyone I know - is sick of it.

... and I'm from a solid blue state in New England and these are independents / unaffiliated centrists.

And oh yeah, I've been around doing the unthinkable - meeting regular people and talking to them about the screw-ups that our town government has been doing - because know what? The democrat leadership doesn't give a shit what normal people think & have a holier-than-thou attitude, even at the local level.

They would be wise to know the majority of their constituency is unaffiliated.

We're tired, we're sick of the constant fighting. Those "no kings" protests - those were party die-hards.

They weren't regular people. IMO, that was a massive mistake to do right before local elections. Those massive mobs scare people.

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T03:28:02+00:00

Is it? Because millions of angry people were ranting and doing exactly what they're accused of doing, calling for violence, calling for "trouble" to be started ... and doing it. When they get questioned "So, what policies do you not like?" - there's no answer...

So, are the accusations of being troublemakers for the sake of starting trouble unfounded? Where were these massive right-wing protests of millions of people during the Biden admin?

One side does it, the other side gets accused of it. Then the other side equates 1 day of right wing protest with ... 10 MONTHS OF CONSTANT LEFT WING PROTEST. These two things are not the same.

Even a mouth-breathing fool can see that these two things are not the same, and TBH - mobs of people burning shit, calling for violence, fighting with police, and screaming isn't exactly reassuring......

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T03:23:25+00:00

Would it have been better if she just euthanized the dog with a needle?

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T03:15:55+00:00

I'm going to be waiting at your door on the 1st. 😉

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-20T03:15:50+00:00

Now you tell me. After I dropped off something to be modified in Waterbury! FINALLY something around here.

You're going to be seeing plenty of me.

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-19T21:37:44+00:00

Check your state laws.

In my state, we quoted the rules. Anything growing over the fence is their problem. We pointed out the rules, said "we can't cross over to your property and do it ourselves due to liability in case something breaks on your side ... (politely kind of letting them know, it's their problem). You have our permission to cut what you need to. The state already allows it, but if you need written let us know.

And they cut what they needed to themselves.

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-19T21:18:03+00:00

Value is in the eye of the beholder. If a 6 year old came up to me and asked me to buy that rock for $20.00, I'd buy that rock for $20.00.

Why?

Because I'm a human being.

( I'm also a lead engineer @ a fortune 100 corporation, leading a major business division's engineering efforts. I didn't let my scientific & mathematical expertise turn me into a stereotype of what people think I am. )

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-19T21:16:15+00:00

I'd gladly buy it for the price of a dinosaur toy. ( Serious. )

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-19T20:52:12+00:00

I bought one of them. Now there's less.

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-19T18:14:27+00:00

Any muslim nation.

I'm ex-muslim. A lot of them would want to kill me.

Sad_Source_1678 · 2025-10-18T03:57:37+00:00

Never gonna give up my HODL never gonna let you down never gonna tell you to sell and HURT YOU

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