Nope.

I'm not your only or last friend, mercy. I am civil to you and I strain to understand and accept your points of view. But you're beyond me. If you care to clarify your point of view, have at it. I might get it, I might not.

But I'll tell you this, you might not be stupid, but you post stupid a lot of the time.

Trying to avoid the ad hominems for a minute, is it legal to offer a gun as a raffle prize? What if the winner is mentally ill or a convicted felon or some such?

ETA: you may now resume your scheduled personal abuse. You fuckers.

Generally speaking, it would be the convicted felon's responsibility not to have (get caught with) a gun. And there are many states that do not have laws against the mentally ill having a gun. There is an age limit in most places, but there is also a gambling age limit preventing them from participating in raffles. Depending on where they are, the winner may or may not have to go through some standard waiting period before actually retrieving his new weapon from the retailer.

I cite Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) as a counterexample. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) as an example of one who seems... rather off. Past the Sell-By date.

Waters is the kind of gal the TEA Partiers vote against. Though her constituency... deserves her. Pelosi, being of the Great Big Government spend-the-money-you-don't-have persuasion -- gotta keep the bread and circuses going regardless -- is another, being fiscally irresponsible in the largest humanly possible way.

Voting oneself the treasury isn't much good if you're inflating the currency. This is one reason I think Democrats are such dopes.

Dude - seriously? The R's have done more of both than the D's.

Dude, it's kind of hard to beat obligating to a 14 trillion dollar debt. This is astronomically irresponsible.

Not being thrilled with the Republicans' degree of fiscal discipline either is why I often vote Libertarian instead of anything from the Big Two.

But the Democrats -- they've taken it to an absurd scale. Unsustainable. And uncaring also.

ok. Define what makes up that debt.
Have you considered the amount for the wars which were not accounted for under the last administration? Y/N only please.
How much was that?

He's harmless. Didja notice the Y/N part.. ")

So was UG advocating not honoring our debt, while the world economy teeters? Ron Paul used to talk about how a transition to a less active/intrusive government had to be incremental to avoid unnecessary suffering and trauma. As far as labels go, I wouldn't call any of these Republicans, accept for Paul, libertarian at least not in the social realm.

The press seems to be giving Huntsman the Ron Paul treatment, maybe because he is close enough to center to be electable?

Correct. Otherwise you are a tool! :lol2:

file = tool? Or am I reading too much into it?

In Vermont, 10 minutes drive away, a Vermont resident can walk into a gun shop and buy a handgun with only a brief phone call by the dealer to the ATF. In New York state there is an expensive and lengthy permit process that can cost a few hundred dollars and take up to 15 months.

It depends on the state and as CF points out it probably has as much or more to do with the laws governing lottery and prizes. That may have something to do with the 125 ticket limit.

[ stares in wonder ]

After the port Aurthur massacre in 1996, we made a law that crazy people aren't allowed to have guns.

I guess over there that would disarm half the population. ;) ;) ;)