Gun control
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Started by mcfarmer - March 21, 2019, 9:38 a.m.

Reading articles about the New Zealand shooting and subsequent gun control measures.


Ran across this statement by a representative of a gun advocacy group regarding the banning of military style semiautomatic weapons:


"This will not be popular among some of our members but ... we believe this is the only practicable solution”


Can you imagine anyone, left or right saying that in this country ? I don’t know what “practicable” is though. I’m off to look it up.


Well what do you know, learned something today. Am I the  last to know about this word ?


Practicable

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By GunterK - March 21, 2019, 11:35 a.m.
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you asked ". Am I the  last to know about this word ?"

No. I was the last

By mcfarmer - March 21, 2019, 12:01 p.m.
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My son, a part time reviewer of  technical journals said:  “maybe not the absolute last, but far from the first.”


They do have substantially different meanings.


Kudos to the NZ fellow for knowing how to use it.

By metmike - March 21, 2019, 1:28 p.m.
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"you asked ". Am I the  last to know about this word ?"

No. I was the last"


You're not the last anymore Gunter (-:

By mcfarmer - March 21, 2019, 3:26 p.m.
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We had a teacher that continually used the word “irregardless”. Just couldn’t convince him it wasn’t a word.


Anyway, back to the statement. Can you imagine anyone here saying such a thing ?


As in, I’m going to catch hell for this but it’s the right thing to do ?

By cutworm - March 21, 2019, 9:54 p.m.
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Anyway, back to the statement. Can you imagine anyone here saying such a thing ?


As in, I’m going to catch hell for this but it’s the right thing to do ?

No one here but 

Someone promised he was going to stop illegal immigration and he is catching h377 for his efforts

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By joj - March 21, 2019, 10:18 p.m.
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I'm last now.  So cool to learn a new word.

By kermit - March 22, 2019, 11:57 a.m.
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