Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard Doubles Down: Ban Private Gun Sales

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Would you shop at a store that sponsors their tour?

would you listen to a radio station that paid them to play their song?

Like I said...

...I make sure that I don't promote them at all and would never pay a dime to support them in any way.

 

[hoosierdoc]

But paying other people who support them is ok?

if planned parenthood gets $100m from feds and that allows them to move $100m of general fund to abortion funding, did the feds just pay for abortions?

just curious where the moral line here is. Honestly I don’t care how you listen or what concert you go to.

 

[Hohn]

The term you're looking for is, "Bro Country". Nothing more than Southern frat boy music.



Hank sure didn't do it this way.

I was thinking it was more like autotuned NashVegas mass market crap that the typical consumer laps up without even bothering to ask if its any good. They buy it and listen to it because they are sold it.

 

[Hohn]

But paying other people who support them is ok?

if planned parenthood gets $100m from feds and that allows them to move $100m of general fund to abortion funding, did the feds just pay for abortions?

just curious where the moral line here is. Honestly I don’t care how you listen or what concert you go to.

This is the crux of the matter. For example, lots of anti-gunners are invested in firearms companies and don't even know it, or if they know they don't care. Vista and Freedom group are held by many, many mutual funds.


There is no purity in this kind of thing. You can say you're boycotting something or someone, but you're not likely to move the needle unless a lot of people and the peripheral concerns also help you. In that case, it's not a boycott, it's the market voting-- see also, Dicks Sporting Goods.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

House Democrats Ready Bill to Criminalize Private Gun Sales - Breitbart (Archive)

In 2013, Tom Coburn tried putting forth a record-less NICS check proposal for private party sales.

And the Democrats rejected it specifically because it wouldn't keep a record of private gun sales (registration).

Only way to deal with this if they actually get it passed? Not comply.

The only way to enforce compliance is through registration. Otherwise there is no way possible to tell when a gun was transferred between individuals, because of limited paper trail past the first owners 4473.

Good ****in' luck.

 

[KG1]

Looks like the incoming House Dems are ready to start a ****storm on many levels. They've been chomping at the bit to get the majority back.

 

[bwframe]

Sean Hannity going to pick a new tune for the intro to his satelite radio program?

He had John Rich on his show today. He should use them

I don't listen to Hannity much, but caught the beginning of his show after Rush today.

"Comin' To Your City" led off the show...

[video=youtube;d5LlkvWexvA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5LlkvWexvA[/video]

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

But paying other people who support them is ok?

if planned parenthood gets $100m from feds and that allows them to move $100m of general fund to abortion funding, did the feds just pay for abortions?

just curious where the moral line here is. Honestly I don’t care how you listen or what concert you go to.

One good reason to not get all morally outraged over one aging hipster choosing to shop at dicks.
It IS kind of tough to draw the line, and we all have to do it for ourselves.
If I dis associated myself from any of my friends who's political views I disagreed with I'd have even fewer friends than I do now.

 

[rhino]

One good reason to not get all morally outraged over one aging hipster choosing to shop at dicks.
It IS kind of tough to draw the line, and we all have to do it for ourselves.
If I dis associated myself from any of my friends who's political views I disagreed with I'd have even fewer friends than I do now.

The thing is, it used to be a lot easier to maintain those friendships. In the past few years, some people have chosen to express their political views in overtly hostile ways that makes it challenging to stay friends. At some point, it becomes apparent that their socio-political religion is more important to them than the relationship, so you then have to decide whether to hang on for nostalgia or misplaced loyalty, or protect yourself.

 

[actaeon277]

The thing is, it used to be a lot easier to maintain those friendships. In the past few years, some people have chosen to express their political views in overtly hostile ways that makes it challenging to stay friends. At some point, it becomes apparent that their socio-political religion is more important to them than the relationship, so you then have to decide whether to hang on for nostalgia or misplaced loyalty, or protect yourself.

Hard to remain friends when they call you racist, sexist, ageist, ableist, nazi?
I find that hard to believe.

 

[rhino]

Hard to remain friends when they call you racist, sexist, ageist, ableist, nazi?
I find that hard to believe.

The first was when a former friend tried to convince me that the Black Panthers were not racist (the topic arose because the Ajabus were in the news), with the primary evidence provided that it was not possible to be racist if black (she of course used the term "African American"). When I would not concede based on her convincing rhetoric, she informed me that I was racist and a white supremacist (based solely on my refusal to accept her assertion). When I questioned how the latter was likely due to the fact that I was (and still am) half "not white," she retorted that I only made that claim when it was convenient for me. I thought about that for a while and realized I couldn't be friends with someone who was that disrespectful to a friend and also because I try to avoid people who are that stupid. It wasn't a bad choice of words thrown at a moment of anger or other stress, but what she really had inside of her. I was done.

I have some leftist, socialist-statist, and cultural Marxist friends, but the number has diminished significantly as people chose to become more overtly hostile and spiteful solely because I would not accept their thoughts and words as my own. Not once did I try to "convert" or proselytize and I rarely debate (because I hate it), but I also would not (and will not) abandon my principles, morals, and ethics upon which all of my socio-political opinions are built.

 

[DeadeyeChrista'sdad]

The thing is, it used to be a lot easier to maintain those friendships. In the past few years, some people have chosen to express their political views in overtly hostile ways that makes it challenging to stay friends. At some point, it becomes apparent that their socio-political religion is more important to them than the relationship, so you then have to decide whether to hang on for nostalgia or misplaced loyalty, or protect yourself.

I am reminded of Washington's letter to the loyalists.
I have, regretfully, narrowed my circle when faced with such behavior.

 

[Mongo59]

You have always heard, "You can always tell a German, but you can't tell him much..."

I am a living example of that, without trying I might add. But I am working on it.

Rhino, I admire your restraint. If someone thinks it is easy to do what you do, then just have them look at me...

 

[actaeon277]

The first was when a former friend tried to convince me that the Black Panthers were not racist (the topic arose because the Ajabus were in the news), with the primary evidence provided that it was not possible to be racist if black (she of course used the term "African American"). When I would not concede based on her convincing rhetoric, she informed me that I was racist and a white supremacist (based solely on my refusal to accept her assertion). When I questioned how the latter was likely due to the fact that I was (and still am) half "not white," she retorted that I only made that claim when it was convenient for me. I thought about that for a while and realized I couldn't be friends with someone who was that disrespectful to a friend and also because I try to avoid people who are that stupid. It wasn't a bad choice of words thrown at a moment of anger or other stress, but what she really had inside of her. I was done.

I have some leftist, socialist-statist, and cultural Marxist friends, but the number has diminished significantly as people chose to become more overtly hostile and spiteful solely because I would not accept their thoughts and words as my own. Not once did I try to "convert" or proselytize and I rarely debate (because I hate it), but I also would not (and will not) abandon my principles, morals, and ethics upon which all of my socio-political opinions are built.

Groupthink is becoming more common.
Not that the right is exempt from it.
But the left seems to be heading towards a repeat of history.

 

[rhino]

Groupthink is becoming more common.
Not that the right is exempt from it.
But the left seems to be heading towards a repeat of history.

And the story I related was from the mid-1990s!

 

[Mark 1911]

It's gotten so bad (how bad is it?) that when somebody unfriends me on Facebook, I feel vindicated, I must have been doing something right!