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I don't represent criminals. I represent defendants in civil suits, protecting the insurance companies' money. I don't represent the little man. I rep...
May 21, 2020 at 20:51
You cannot get the virus through your skin, but can only get it through your mucus membranes. That would include your eyes, nose, and mouth, and your ...
May 21, 2020 at 18:32
I don't wear a mask and don't own one. I've never worn one that I can recall. Mask use frequency is directly related to the number of miles one is fro...
May 21, 2020 at 15:56
You wouldn't ban someone for holding to a pseudo-scientific belief they didn't advance here though. If I believed that HIV did not cause AIDS but I di...
May 21, 2020 at 12:22
Ad hom.
May 21, 2020 at 11:27
These doctors say the shutdown or worse than the disease. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doctors-raise-alarm-about-health-effects-of-continued-coron...
May 21, 2020 at 00:43
You'll acknowledge that is your assessment. Others may assess differently.
May 17, 2020 at 03:01
Some questions. Answer, ignore, or ridicule as you see fit: If Arbery could have avoided the altercation, do you believe he was required to, or do you...
May 16, 2020 at 15:50
You're trying to impart legal significance to "brandishment," a term not used in the Georgia statute of aggravated assault. An assault is threatening ...
May 16, 2020 at 13:07
The question is whether he assaulted him with a weapon. Carrying a gun is not an assault, which is why the allegation by Baden he was "waving the gun ...
May 16, 2020 at 12:22
Motive.is distinct from intent, and intent must be proved, but not motive. If I kill my wife because she cheated on me, that's my motive and the jury ...
May 16, 2020 at 12:13
You make 2 comments: (1) whites are prosecuted less, and (2) it's due to racism. Neither comment is addressed by the cite. My comment was that whites ...
May 16, 2020 at 11:53
You do realize that you're now arguing for the controversial "stand your ground" law instead of the law you must retreat if possible But Georgia does ...
May 16, 2020 at 02:37
That's not the way it looked, so I don't know why you say this. He came toward the threat that was not being waved at him.
May 16, 2020 at 02:27
Of course he could. I think he was pissed and kamikazed toward the shotgun. That's what it looked like to me.
May 16, 2020 at 02:23
That didn't look like self defense to me. You think he was in reasonable fear for his life at the time he ran around the truck toward the gun? I'd say...
May 16, 2020 at 02:14
Nice imagery! You do have a way with words. Sometimes gotta take a compliment from who'll ever give it
May 16, 2020 at 02:09
Y'all weren't actually responding to questions. Y'all were just sitting in an echo chamber hearing your own voices bounce out of each other's mouths.
May 16, 2020 at 02:07
Sorry to interrupt your convo with the gentleman from down under. Carry on.
May 16, 2020 at 02:02
Sure seemed like it, but we don't convict people for being pieces of shit. If we did, few would avoid conviction.
May 16, 2020 at 02:01
Yeah, but who cares what psychoanalytic musings you arrive at? It's not like it's based on anything. We Americans are as varied as the next bunch, jus...
May 16, 2020 at 01:55
That's not what happened. But, hypothetically, no. This is a legal question, not a moral one. They.were not in violation of the law to be there. They ...
May 16, 2020 at 01:52
Prolly right. Let's stereotype while trying to figure out why people stereotype.
May 16, 2020 at 01:44
The question was whether you'd convict, not whether they were racist. If a racist is having his shotgun wrestled from him, does that change his right ...
May 16, 2020 at 00:43
You were referring to a hypothetical shooting? If my post were irrelevant, then why spend several more posts responding to it? And yet the next severa...
May 16, 2020 at 00:10
The sandwich shooting: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/oct/09/st-louis-police-officer-shoots-dead-black-teenager-off-duty The ballistics test...
May 15, 2020 at 22:50
The numbers don't support this claim. More whites are killed by blacks than are blacks killed by whites and more blacks are killed by blacks than eith...
May 15, 2020 at 17:26
The cover up was fucked up. There's now a new DA assigned who has no political connections to the area, so we'll expect all avenues to be explored.
May 15, 2020 at 17:17
As some additional video indicates, Arbery had been trespassing onto a construction site, had been noticed by two neighbors, who then called the polic...
May 15, 2020 at 16:29
I live in Georgia, and, anecdotally speaking, it's pretty uncommon. I can't recall the last one actually. It's for that reason it makes the news. My t...
May 12, 2020 at 20:29
Some attorneys have argued that the 2nd Amendment relates only to your right to protect yourself against the government and not against your fellow ci...
May 12, 2020 at 19:22
If we take the definition of "natural law" as "a body of unchanging moral principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct," then I would see natu...
May 12, 2020 at 14:30
Which must mean you don't have the Constitutional right to kill someone with a gun solely because they have a gun. From whatever the 2nd Amendment suf...
May 12, 2020 at 10:34
It's not a legal document. If someone were to sue claiming that their rights under the Declaration had been violated, they'd be suing without any lega...
May 11, 2020 at 21:01
Certain rights are being declared absolute and therefore no government has the right to impede them . The reference to the creator is not a reference ...
May 11, 2020 at 16:14
The restrictions in public college are fairly limited and it's not at all uncommon for students to openly express their religious beliefs when taking ...
May 11, 2020 at 15:29
Did you go to college in the US? This is just categorically incorrect. I took religion classes at a state school and some private colleges even specif...
May 11, 2020 at 04:24
Why wouldn't lawyers be permitted to read something about God? Is that a rule somewhere? I don't follow anything you've said here. Even if you can cit...
May 11, 2020 at 03:27
I understand the approach of supporting the ideology but not the person. You can logically be a good person and vote for a bad person. It really comes...
May 10, 2020 at 14:57
Don't hedge your bets here. If it works, it works. Don't try to say it must've been because us Georgians behaved ourselves if it does work. We're goin...
May 10, 2020 at 01:20
So you think the best way to find a candidate with personal integrity is to just have more parties to increase the odds one won't be a piece of shit i...
May 10, 2020 at 01:14
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/georgia-reports-lowest-number-covid-patients-in-a-month Looks like the Georgia experiment was the correct course.
May 10, 2020 at 01:00
Only if it means Trump might not get reelected.
May 10, 2020 at 00:16
Where I live, it's the same. Any pocket of affluence requires very little government oversight. Such is Sweden. If you have one homogenous class, no w...
May 10, 2020 at 00:08
Because their population is absurdly responsible and competent. Being a politician there is like coaching a team of all stars. They're going to win re...
May 09, 2020 at 23:34
This is the Swedish Fallacy, a logical fallacy I've discovered. It's the argument that since it works in Sweden, it can work anywhere. The truth is th...
May 09, 2020 at 22:34
Everyone doesn't think it's wrong. The deeper point for it, and for all you want to know and more and retributive justice: https://plato.stanford.edu/...
May 09, 2020 at 19:45
She has no bias due to her being a Democrat and lifelong Biden supporter, but those factors also point to her having no brain. I'll call those a wash,...
May 09, 2020 at 17:22
The mysticism I have a limited introduction to is kabbalah, which entails finding hidden meaning in biblical texts. The study is typical of other Juda...
May 09, 2020 at 12:30
Don't politicize the end of the war! Just go out in the street and throw off your top hat beneath the ticker tape.
May 09, 2020 at 00:58