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Joined: January 26 2008
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Posted: January 12 2011 at 14:59

Your score is...

131

Time always wins.

The T

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Posted: January 12 2011 at 13:34

Your Libertarian Purity Score

Your score is...

93

What Your Score Means

0 points: You are not a libertarian by any stretch of the imagination. You are probably not even a liberal or a conservative. Just some Nazi nut, I guess.

1-5 points: You have a few libertarian notions, but overall you're a statist.

6-15 points: You are starting to have libertarian leanings. Explore them.

16-30 points: You are a soft-core libertarian. With effort, you may harden and become pure.

31-50 points: Your libertarian credentials are obvious. Doubtlessly you will become more extreme as time goes on.

51-90 points: You are a medium-core libertarian, probably self-consciously so. Your friends probably encourage you to quit talking about your views so much.

91-130 points: You have entered the heady realm of hard-core libertarianism. Now doesn't that make you feel worse that you didn't get a perfect score?

131-159 points: You are nearly a perfect libertarian, with a tiny number of blind spots. Think about them, then take the test over again. On the other hand, if you scored this high, you probably have a good libertarian objection to my suggested libertarian answer. :-)

160 points: Perfect! The world needs more like you.

Edited by The T - January 12 2011 at 13:34

The T

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Posted: January 12 2011 at 13:17

Damn... I'm taking it. I realize my biggest problem with pure libertarianism is on the side of welfare, medicare, workers' safety and education.

Edited by The T - January 12 2011 at 13:19

Equality 7-2521 View Drop Down

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Joined: August 11 2005
Location: Philly
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Points: 15784

Posted: January 12 2011 at 13:04

Try this one instead T:
http://www.bcaplan.com/cgi-bin/purity.cgi

Your Libertarian Purity Score

Your score is...

160

"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "

The T

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Posted: January 12 2011 at 12:45

I just took a rather minimal test in the libertarian website:

Your PERSONAL issues Score is 100%

Your ECONOMIC issues Score is 70%

According to your answers, the political group that agrees with you most is...

Libertarians support maximum liberty in both personal and economic matters. They advocate a much smaller government; one that is limited to protecting individuals from coercion and violence. Libertarians tend to embrace individual responsibility, oppose government bureaucracy and taxes, promote private charity, tolerate diverse lifestyles, support the free market, and defend civil liberties.

Confused

Edited by The T - January 12 2011 at 12:45

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Posted: January 11 2011 at 21:18

The T wrote:

This was an idiot. A very idiotic one. End of story.

QFT

The T

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Posted: January 11 2011 at 20:36

False. Of said law had passed, Cheney's friend wouldn't have been shot, thus robbing me of countless hours of gokd and bad tv comedy and jokes...

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Posted: January 11 2011 at 20:31

Epignosis wrote:

Wait, so would this mean that these elected officials can no longer go hunting with their buddies? Shocked

Shame this law wasn't passed before Dick Cheney shot his friend.

"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "

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Posted: January 11 2011 at 20:27

At least in the gun issue, I am, as Exitthelemming would say, a converted person (though I never really had a firm position anyway, just asked questions and went with the flow.)

It's embarrasing how news networks have the photo of the lone idiot 24/7 now. What do they want? Do we really need to learn every feature of his face? Are we supposed to now be scared of every average person who walks around? "See, the face of fear. Could be next door. Specially if we allow him to be too free." Now they will use his case to promote banning of books, guns, music, and the immediate institutionalization of weird teenagers who write too much bullsh*t about death. Yes, some come to be murderers like this one, but just a very minor percentage (even among paranoid schizophrenics, one of the most delusional kinds of mentally insane people).

This was an idiot. A very idiotic one. End of story.

GaryB

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Posted: January 11 2011 at 20:15

There are already hundreds of gun laws on the books and more laws will not change anything.

I own several firearms but I am also a strong believer in gun control. I know, and have known many people that I never want to see armed.

To legally purchase a gun you must answer "no" to every question on the application.

The Arizona shooter was able to purchase a gun because he had never spent time in a mental institution. Even though he was unstable he could answer "no" to the mental question because he was never a "mental patient".

Are there holes in the system? Of course there are.

He could just as easily have driven his car into the crowd (or, used a kitchen knife like O.J. did).

Banning guns will be extremely difficult to do and the powers that be know this.

But keep in mind the fact that the bad guys pay no attention to the law and will obtain firearms no matter what.

Epignosis

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Posted: January 11 2011 at 15:02

Wait, so would this mean that these elected officials can no longer go hunting with their buddies? Shocked

Shame this law wasn't passed before Dick Cheney shot his friend.

https://epignosis.bandcamp.com/album/a-month-of-sundays

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Posted: January 11 2011 at 14:58

I wonder if this law gets passed, if the legislators' bodyguards won't be able to pack heat anymore. Big smile

Oh wait, no...the royalty must have their armed caravan while parading through the streets of us dregs and animals.

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Posted: January 11 2011 at 14:51

The T wrote:

There you go Pat and Robert. Republicans are so much more for freedom than democrats? D

If they really have to do that, don't you agree that expecting mothers/chilrend/nameit would be as deserving of this protection as government officials?

When did I ever say such a thing?

The law is a joke firstly for the same reason that all gun control laws in the face of a shooting are.

The bigger joke with this one is what you point out though T. This guy thinks he's some sort of royalty. He wants the peasants disarmed in his presence for his safety. He's not upset that people died from the shooting; he's upset that a mere mortal had the audacity to assault a member of government.

"One had to be a Newton to notice that the moon is falling, when everyone sees that it doesn't fall. "

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Posted: January 11 2011 at 14:45

Right, because Jared would have obviously been deterred by such a law had it been in place before he murdered six people, including a 9-year-old girl. Ermm

Of course, such a proposal may be the result of cowardice...

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Posted: January 11 2011 at 14:38

There you go Pat and Robert. Republicans are so much more for freedom than democrats? D

If they really have to do that, don't you agree that expecting mothers/chilrend/nameit would be as deserving of this protection as government officials?