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Louisiana calls for a United Ireland

  • 09-09-2013 02:57AM
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    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,547 ✭✭✭


    Yep, you read that right. Or at least their State Senate did at any rate, and they're not the only ones.

    It seems the yanks, not content to throw money at extreme "pro-life" lunatic campaigners, also wish to stick their noses into the NI issue too.

    No doubt they will be doing so with full regard to the complexity and nuances of the subject at hand :rolleyes:


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    That's nice of them I guess, not quite sure what they can do about the situation though seeing as their remit is limited to something slightly above deciding who gets to be dog catcher.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,990 ✭✭✭longshanks


    Do you say Louise E Anna, or is it Looz Iyana with a southern drawl?

    It's option 2 for me.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29 nunchuks


    Very considerate. Pity no one thought to tell the taliban to get along with the americans


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,356 ✭✭✭✭briany


    It's just a pledge of support, something that looks good on paper and a bit of a fashionable cause. It'd be the same thing for Tibetan independence or establishment of permanent moon bases by 2040. Handy things for the politicians because they're non committal but still gather a few nice political brownie points. Happy days.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 6,924 ✭✭✭wonderfullife


    Foxhound38 wrote: »
    No doubt they will be doing so with full regard to the complexity and nuances of the subject at hand :rolleyes:

    To be fair at a base level it's not that complex or nuanced a situation.

    The little squiggly line that's drawn across the map of Ireland shouldn't have ever been there. So i'd agree with their motion :pac:

    Obviously it's a wee bit more complicated than that now.

    Spain - Gibraltar, Argentina - Falklands, Ireland - North.........

    Sure the Brits are even in dispute with Chile and Norway over parts of Antarctica, and the last time i looked at a map they're not exactly 10 minutes down the road from Antarctica.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,356 ✭✭✭✭briany


    nunchuks wrote: »
    Very considerate. Pity no one thought to tell the taliban to get along with the americans

    Maybe the reason they're showing all this support for a UI is because of their debt of gratitude to the IRA for wiping out the Taliban a couple of years back......

    ...in a car park.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,162 ✭✭✭Augmerson




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,639 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    And we support you Louisiana in eventually rebuilding New Orleans
    *hugs*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17 OPENROAD7


    They should concentrate on sorting out their gun issues first imo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭TheBrewMeister


    OPENROAD7 wrote: »
    They should concentrate on sorting out their gun issues first imo

    What gun issues?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,149 ✭✭✭✭Zebra3


    Foxhound38 wrote: »
    .It seems the yanks, not content to throw money at extreme "pro-life" lunatic campaigners, also wish to stick their noses into the NI issue too.

    You should read up on how they want to stick their noses into Syria....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17 OPENROAD7


    What gun issues?

    Gun violence, open carrying of guns allowed.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    OPENROAD7 wrote: »
    Gun violence, open carrying of guns allowed.

    I'm fairly sure we've had a bit of gun violence over the whole border thing here.

    Does Louisiana have a particularly high gun crime rate? (High for the States?)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭TheBrewMeister


    OPENROAD7 wrote: »
    Gun violence, open carrying of guns allowed.

    What's wrong with open carry?

    I don't guns as the problem, I see the people as the problem.

    Would Ireland be free of British rule without arms???

    Would the US be free of British rule without arms?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭TheBrewMeister


    I'm fairly sure we've had a bit of gun violence over the whole border thing here.

    Does Louisiana have a particularly high gun crime rate? (High for the States?)

    LA does not have a particularly high gun crime rate as a whole. Certain areas do though however, and that's a people problem, not a gun problem.

    The problem with the statistics people use to push anti-gun propaganda is that they don't take into account where the gun violence is happening. Chicago for example has the strictest gun laws in the States. Guns are illegal there. Yet, they have the highest gun violence in the whole country. But, that doesn't mean that the nice people that live outside of Chicago are all gun-crazy murderous people.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17 OPENROAD7


    I'm fairly sure we've had a bit of gun violence over the whole border thing here.

    Does Louisiana have a particularly high gun crime rate? (High for the States?)

    It does, among highest, one thing that has shocked me about living in the States is the gun culture, one thing that worries me is that my little girl will grow up in that culture.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,239 ✭✭✭✭WindSock


    And it will happen on a Wednesday! And there will be much rejoicing. And celebration. And our new national holiday will be named Dé Cajun.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭TheBrewMeister


    OPENROAD7 wrote: »
    It does, among highest, one thing that has shocked me about living in the States is the gun culture, one thing that worries me is that my little girl will grow up in that culture.

    If youre in an area full of thugs, then I suggest you move away from that area.

    The TRUTH is, the areas in the US with the HIGHEST levels of legal gun ownership are the safest in the country.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭TheBrewMeister


    I bet the Native Americans would still be around if they had guns...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17 OPENROAD7


    If youre in an area full of thugs, then I suggest you move away from that area.

    The TRUTH is, the areas in the US with the HIGHEST levels of legal gun ownership are the safest in the country.

    I am not living in such an area, but the statistics prove otherwise.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    LA does not have a particularly high gun crime rate as a whole. Certain areas do though however, and that's a people problem, not a gun problem.

    The problem with the statistics people use to push anti-gun propaganda is that they don't take into account where the gun violence is happening. Chicago for example has the strictest gun laws in the States. Guns are illegal there. Yet, they have the highest gun violence in the whole country. But, that doesn't mean that the nice people that live outside of Chicago are all gun-crazy murderous people.

    Just had a quick oul Google there.

    Per 100,000, Louisiana has a hell of a lot more murders, and gun murders than Illinois. However, as you said, IL does have far more restrictions on guns than LA.

    I'd be interested in seeing how many, in all states, were from legally held weapons.

    I used to be of the opinion that gun ownership in the States was crazy, but now I don't know. I'm not sure where I stand.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭TheBrewMeister


    OPENROAD7 wrote: »
    I am not living in such an area, but the statistics prove otherwise.

    No they don't. Get away from the coasts, to the center of the country and you'll find the highest gun ownership per capita, and, the LEAST amount of crime.

    So, apparently guns aren't killing people. People are killing people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭TheBrewMeister


    Washington DC has the MOST restrictive laws in the country, it also has the LEAST amount of gun ownership (3.6%). It has the HIGHEST gun-murders in the country (16.5% per 100,000 people).

    Wyoming has the highest rate of gun ownership (60%) and among the lowest gun-murder rates in the country (0.9% per 100,000 people).

    So explain this.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 24,639 ✭✭✭✭Cookie_Monster


    Washington DC has the MOST restrictive laws in the country, it also has the LEAST amount of gun ownership (3.6%). It has the HIGHEST gun-murders in the country (16.5% per 100,000 people).

    Wyoming has the highest rate of gun ownership (60%) and among the lowest gun-murder rates in the country (0.9% per 100,000 people).

    So explain this.

    DC has the highest number of politicians hanging around per head as well, we can easily infer that an increase in politicians directly leads to more murders.
    Just kill off all of them and there'll be no more murders.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,061 ✭✭✭PickledLime


    Washington DC has the MOST restrictive laws in the country, it also has the LEAST amount of gun ownership (3.6%). It has the HIGHEST gun-murders in the country (16.5% per 100,000 people).

    Wyoming has the highest rate of gun ownership (60%) and among the lowest gun-murder rates in the country (0.9% per 100,000 people).

    So explain this.

    The national average for gun murders per head of population in the US is still a ridiculous figure that's clearly a product of the ease of procurement, so your point is moot.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,995 ✭✭✭Sofiztikated


    No they don't. Get away from the coasts, to the center of the country and you'll find the highest gun ownership per capita, and, the LEAST amount of crime.

    So, apparently guns aren't killing people. People are killing people.

    District of Columbia has a really high population density, low % gun ownership, but the gun murders per 100,000 is stupid high.

    So yes, it is people that are the issue.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 17 OPENROAD7


    Just had a quick oul Google there.

    Per 100,000, Louisiana has a hell of a lot more murders, and gun murders than Illinois. However, as you said, IL does have far more restrictions on guns than LA.

    I'd be interested in seeing how many, in all states, were from legally held weapons.

    I used to be of the opinion that gun ownership in the States was crazy, but now I don't know. I'm not sure where I stand.


    Well apparently in the case of mass murders it is close to 3/4 owned legally.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,109 ✭✭✭Cavehill Red


    Thank you, Louisiana.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭TheBrewMeister


    The national average for gun murders per head of population in the US is still a ridiculous figure that's clearly a product of the ease of procurement, so your point is moot.

    What's a ridiculous figure?

    We've established that the guns aren't murdering people, that the people are murdering people, so it seems that my point is not moot - as you say.

    My point is, that Americans are violent F***s. Take away the guns, and we'll just murder each other with knives or bats or bombs, or poison.

    I'll tell you this much, I will not give up my guns (until I arrive in IRE), because who is going to protect my family and myself from these murderous F***s? The police sure aren't.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 168 ✭✭TheBrewMeister


    OPENROAD7 wrote: »
    Well apparently in the case of mass murders it is close to 3/4 owned legally.

    Mass murders? What mass murders?
    I'd like to see the source of this.


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