# The pre-emptive thread seeking to **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [July 15, 2016, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942 "2016-07-15T00:34:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/21 "2016-07-15T02:00:22Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > No, probably just a moron. Guessing he doesn’t get to fuck much, at least non-commercially. There are some things prostitutes just. will. not. do. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/22 "2016-07-15T02:17:05Z")
Dude, I’m pretty conservative for this board and I really can’t figure out wtf you’re on about other than being classless. That much, at least, is obvious. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/23 "2016-07-15T02:26:25Z")
**Stringbean** is the guy [who claimed](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=754390) that Hillary used “demographic fairy tales” and “demographic warfare” in her campaign, but never did explain what the hell he’s talking about, even when asked multiple times. Not surprised that he comes up with another incomprehensible political thing. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/24 "2016-07-15T04:06:20Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > **Stringbean** is the guy [who claimed](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=754390) that Hillary used “demographic fairy tales” and “demographic warfare” in her campaign, but never did explain what the hell he’s talking about, even when asked multiple times. And also [pushes](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=19429264) the “crisis actor” conspiracy theory about the families of the children murdered in Newtown. ---
**Author:** ![Iggy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iggy/32/3364_2.png) [@Iggy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iggy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/25 "2016-07-15T04:10:15Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > He used a truck. He used a truck and gun(s). Far too early at this point to know how many deaths and injuries can be attributed to gunfire. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/26 "2016-07-15T04:13:03Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > There are some things prostitutes just. will. not. do. Then you hire a lawyer. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/27 "2016-07-15T04:13:38Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > Based on what happened last November and now tonight it would seem the Americans have much to aspire to. > > Which is why France needs sensible gun control to stop these massacres. You are a fucking asshole. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/28 "2016-07-15T04:16:34Z")
Who in the world would ever descend so far as to fuck him? ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/29 "2016-07-15T06:17:32Z")
**SlackerInc** probably would. Those two fuckwits are made for each other. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/30 "2016-07-15T10:19:59Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > There are some things prostitutes just. will. not. do. That’s why we have illegal immigrants; they do the jobs Americans won’t do. ---
**Author:** ![Not\_Carlson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc79bd/32.png) [@Not\_Carlson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Not_Carlson)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/31 "2016-07-15T14:57:49Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > No. I’ve seen too much blood spilled already. Too many grieving families. > > The time for France to enact gun control is NOW. Tears and prayers are not enough. This is not clever. It is ugly and contemptible. For shame. ---
**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/32 "2016-07-15T14:58:00Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > strawman the Nice terror attack into a referendum on gun violence to distract the public. > > If only France would join the rest of the civilized world and institute gun control they could stop the violence. > > This has got to stop. Tears and prayers are not enough. We need ACTION. > [@Stringbean](#): > > No. I’ve seen too much blood spilled already. Too many grieving families. > > The time for France to enact gun control is NOW. Tears and prayers are not enough. > [@Stringbean](#): > > Based on what happened last November and now tonight it would seem the Americans have much to aspire to. > > Which is why France needs sensible gun control to stop these massacres. What are you getting out of thinking and saying things like this? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/33 "2016-07-15T15:04:01Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > What are you getting out of thinking and saying things like this? :dubious: I could say, but Pit rules prevent that kind of speculation. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/34 "2016-07-15T15:04:13Z")
> [@Stringbean](#): > > No. I’ve seen too much blood spilled already. Too many grieving families. > > The time for France to enact gun control is NOW. Tears and prayers are not enough. Oh, you were SERIOUS? That makes you an even bigger idiot than I thought, which is hard to do. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/35 "2016-07-15T15:47:06Z")
**Strinbean** , your life has reached the point of self parody. Do you even know when you’re trying to be serious anymore? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/36 "2016-07-15T15:52:34Z")
Major Dude Kurt Vonnegut famously says “You are what you pretend to be.” Which is not strictly true, but close enough for rough guidance. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/37 "2016-07-15T16:20:56Z")
Then **Stringbean** is a major idiot. But then, we knew that already. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/38 "2016-07-15T16:22:59Z")
Lucky for us that Muslims are all the same, and not all divied up into Presbyterians, Methodists, Catholics and such like Christians are! Whew! Lucky break there! ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/39 "2016-07-15T16:39:30Z")
Okay, astonishingly there are people like **running coach** and now **Boyo Jim** who are taking **Stringbean** ’s disingenuous, disrespectful and classless bullshit posts at face value. Cluetip for you sweetly naïve people: **Stringbean** is a harsh rightwing gun-fetisher. He is very much anti-gun control. He knows damn well that France has gun control laws. His thinking, such as it is, is something along the lines of: “YAY! MAN KILL PEOPLE WITH TRUCK! NOW ME CAN WIN POINTS BY USING TRAGEDY TO SAY GUN CONTROL IS WORTHLESS BECUZ IT CAN’T PREVENT EVERY KIND OF MURDER! ME SO HAPPY, ME CAN’T RESIST USING VILE METHOD TO PROVE a totally bullshit POINT!” So stop “correcting” him. He is one of the most revolting people on this board and this just continues his almost perfect record of worthless, offensive, dumbass posts. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2016, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942/40 "2016-07-15T17:06:30Z")
A lot of people weren’t killed by guns in a country with gun control. So doesn’t that show gun control works? Did the OP just lose an argument to his own strawman? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-pre-emptive-thread-seeking-to/759942.md?page=3)