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kasaron:

I want to be clear.

The total banning of firearms can be performed, given the right situations.

I do not dispute that it can occur; but what I will note to you, reader, is that it will come at a cost, in blood. I do not mean in the chest-thumping, macho-man Molon Labe sense of that; I mean in the much more minute, smaller sense. 

I mean the sense in which, that in order to remove the roughly 300 million firearms in America today, extreme measures would have to be taken.

Each house, in turn, would need to be searched, by armed soldiers. Each home would need to be checked from top to bottom, in a sweeping line across the country, at least once, more likely more than once, as part of a coordinated interstate effort.

We do not have enough armed soldiers to perform this task; so such a task would likely be delegated, at least in part, to police.

Police such as those in Ferguson. Police such as those which have already show a track record for excessive use of force. Police which, will be told to consider any resident resisting to be armed with a firearm.

Then the next logical query is, after this sweep, which undoubtedly will occur with some level of bloodshed, either at the hands of those who refuse to give up their guns, or at the hands of police who go too far; those arrested will have to be processed, charged and jailed.

Even assuming only 10% of firearm owners refuse to surrender firearms, or are caught with illegal ones, that is a total of 10,000,000 (10 million) people.

I doubt our justice system could manage a sudden influx of 10 million or so people and still try them fairly; not to even mention possible secondary arrests for other illegal things found during a house search.

If the minimum sentence is 5 years, this comes out to a total of 50 million years behind prison, in total.

Ignoring the effect of this police action on the GDP, it’s actual financial cost (which would be astronomical), and the logistical cost of then destroying (or possibly selling) these firearms, you are losing 50 million years of work form the GDP. This doesn’t even mention the fact that this 50 million years also comes at an additional loss due to costs to maintain the prisons.

Lets break it down.

Assuming average lifespan of 78 years, 641,025 lifetimes lost in prison.

Assuming 20 hours a week of work, at $8.50 an hour, $442,000,000,000 (442 billion dollars) lost (only including lost labor).

Assuming all firearms are gathered and destroyed, with the average price being about $800 (lowball number) per gun market price, $240,000,000,000 (240 billion dollars) of personal property destroyed, not including ammo, optics, accessories, or the like.

This is the price, paid in blood. Paid in time. Paid in money. 

And this is a low estimate.

To anyone who is proposing that we ban all guns and then everything will be all sunshine and rainbows after that, please read this.  Then read it again.  And one more time just to make sure it’s sinking in.

Also don’t forget all the AWOLs, mutinies, and secessions that would occur, espescially with most members of the police and military being staunch believers in the Second Ammendment.

At best, our government and economy would be strained to the breaking point as huge chunks of our nation and GDP is slashed from us.

At worst, a rebel military march on the capital will sink the country into chaos as a full blown civil war errupts. One that I’m pretty sure the left would have a hard time in seeing how much of a delusional view they have of war and weapons.

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ambris:

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mylittlenanaki:

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foxsgallery:

Never forget to bring this up when someone tries to defend IGNs credibility.

They scored a literal dumpster fire higher then the MLP movie.

The mlp movie isn’t some brilliant work of art, but it’s a fundamentally competent production. The emoji movie is nothing. This is outrageous.

MLP is a feel-good movie.

It’s the sort of thing you watch and get a warm and fuzzy nostalgic high off how much it pays tribute 80s and 90s animation where the roots of MLP are.

Not ground breaking but a solid 8/10 at the least and a blast to sit down and enjoy, especially with the high-quality animation and music.

It was also one of our last bastions of hope regarding 2D animated mainstream movies. It was fucking *gorgeous* with that animation and movement.

What did The Emoji Movie offer us? Nothing. Nothing original, insightful, or even visually interesting.

THIS

The movie was gorgeous and will forever respect it had the balls to use more traditional style 2D animation at a time when full CGI still rules big-budget animation.

Pinkie’s cuteness alone makes me want to finally see it.

They did a beautiful bringing out her character with expressions that are somehow both over-the-top and cute at the same time

Personally Tempest Shadow’s performance/animation just sold this movie for me.

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Originally posted by mylittlenanaki

I was told that the models for this movies had a RIDICULOUS amount of frames for each turn around.  Rather than just sliding the features around on the face to give the illusion of 3 dimentions the characters had individual face shapes to flow between to make the turns SUPER smooth on every angle.

Having seen the movie I believe this 100%.  Was it overkill?  Possibly, but damn it looked GOOD.

It’s funny. I remember Lauren Faust one time commenting about how media targeted specifically for women or young girls are criticized more harshly than those made for boys. And here we are.

Also of note, it’s unknown officially what the exact budget for the film was but it’s said to be around 8 to 30 million dollars, the usual minimum budget for a theatrical animated feature these days is around 50 million to 65 million dollars. The fact that they managed to make the movie look this good on such a small budget is an amazing accomplishment (also the animators worked overtime through 7 day weeks towards the end of production to get the film finished on time).

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There’s also the fact that while the film does include celebrities voicing the newer characters, the main cast from the show have all their original voice actresses/actors from the TV series, something that is extremely rare for big screen cartoon adaptations as they usually just recast the main characters.

I know everyone is entitled to their opinion and that this film isn’t perfect, but come on! It at least deserves more respect than The Emoji Movie!

All of this ^

Seeing the Emoji movie get rated high is genuinely making me pissed the more I think about it.

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thunderboltsortofapenny:

simonalkenmayer:

Tomorrow, a children’s book by Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to be released. Pence’s book, “Marlon Bundo: A Day in the Life of the Vice President” is a children’s book about the life of the VP, through the eyes of his pet rabbit. The above link is not for that book. The above link is for the book funded by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. It is the story of Marlon Bundo, the “BOTUS”, who falls in love with a boy bunny named Wesley. All the proceeds of this book, available right now, go to the Trevor Project which provides at risk LGBTQ youth with counseling and suicide prevention, as well as the AIDS foundation. You can obtain a free ebook copy of the book by donating $11 to the Trevor Project, or you can purchase the book directly at the above link.

Why should you do this? Why fund one book instead of a children’s book that innocuously discusses the Vice President’s job? Because I would rather assist LGBTQ youth and thumb my nose at the man who worked so closely with Focus On The Family, a well known homophobic group that supports conversion therapy, than spend one dime advocating for this administration.

It might interest you to know that Focus On The Family headquarters is a book tour stop for Marlon Bundo: A Day In The Life Of The VIce President. Yes, you heard me rightly.

So if you want to piss off Mike Pence and support LGBTQ Youth, please donate or purchase the book above. You can watch the episode of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver as of this evening on HBO or find the relevant broadcast on YouTube tomorrow.

Please reblog to support this book.

FYI it’s currently outselling Pence’s

Nothing against this book, but the vile attitude that so many people here have against Vice President Pence is ridiculous. Fact check: he doesn’t hate gays(check out the details of the bill the media uses as proof, it only provides for voluntary treatment, no one was being forced), the original book wasn’t written by him (his daughter wrote it and his wife illustrated it), and if you’re one of the people who left negative and mean reviews on the original book because of your political beliefs you should be ashamed. John Oliver needs to tell his followers to knock off the bad behavior (and maybe start being funny again, seriously what happened?). No one wins if you stoop to being terrible to each other.

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ponies-n-things:

merrypaws:

Might as well confess to my being brony trash.

Crossposted from my Deviantart.

pfft xD poor sunbutt

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lessoninfutility:

when ur high af and someone does a magic trick

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cooketimm:

Dana head turns from the Batman Beyond opening credits designed by Darwyn Cooke. Shane Glines drew the original head turns, which were then xeroxed and hand colored by Bruce Timm.

Source: comicartfans.com

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demonforni:

Right?

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rebeccasugar:

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cartoonnetwork:

YOU GUYS…Cheeseburger Backpack is real!!! Reblog if you would rock this. 🍔Pre-order now on the Cartoon Network Shop! http://bit.ly/1RfZPZB

Even the cheese is a pocket!

So excited this is finally coming out! We’ve had one in our conference room for a while and it’s really something. It’s a fully functional backpack and it’s really big, too!

Thank you to everyone who grabs one of these, I really really appreciate your support for the show!

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