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Originally Posted by BillJasper
I'm far more afraid of some American who owns a gun going off and killing me or someone I love than I am of a terrorist attack. But try mentioning a database to track all gun owners and see what kind of response one gets.
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Originally Posted by Dutch
And for what? Have you ever been to a ghetto or a trailer park? Why add more people to this? Especially right now when ISIS is actively exporting Jihad fighters through the deportation of their poor people.
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Why American Landlords Love Refugee Tenants - Bloomberg Business
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“I’ve never had to evict a refugee family,” says Anderson, 36, who built his apartment portfolio after serving in the U.S. Marine Corps. “When they come here and get a quality house, they take care of the stuff that they’re provided.”
Keith Raynor, who has rented apartments in Utica, N.Y., for three decades, also prefers to sign leases with refugees. “There was less turnover, which helps with the bottom line,” he says. “I’m not doing this for charity.”
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Originally Posted by Dutch
*Known* terrorist databases exist. But we have no idea how good that DB even is and we sure dont know all the new recruits.
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So your solution is to increase the size of a data set that the government has already shown they can't properly assess (despite the billions we've thrown at the NSA for this very purpose)?
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Originally Posted by Dutch
I'd be more concerned with a bunch of "brown people OMG!" coming over here thanking America and then the "southern white hicks OMG!" drive their trucks with their Confederate flags around the refugees and then the refugees just say, "Fuck it, I'm with ISIS."  |
Easy solution: get rid of the southern white hicks.
Dumb Hicks Are America's Greatest Threat
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Originally Posted by Solecismic
OK. We're really way, way off topic here.
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No we're not. Refugees and keeping them out of America has become the GOP's top sound bite since Paris.
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Sign of the times? Edwards (D) defeats Vitter (R) rather easily in the Louisiana governor's race.
While Vitter was a flawed candidate, any kind of D win in the south these days is the anomaly.
Probably why Jindal dropped out of the presidential race. What does it say when you're so unpopular that your party can't hold your seat in an area where you should be winning?
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Turns out the GOP electorate finally decided to hold one of their elected officials accountable for their "family values" schtick.