Edit:. Don't feed the troll

The global warming scare is psuedoscience and has more to do with preserving a euro and us centric economic hegemony than it does with saving lives.

Technically, everything IS better. We have the lowest levels of violence in known human history/archealogy. People have a higher standard of living, preventable diseases are at all time lows, etc.

No illusions of a full out on the field battle. But was I in charge, when I sent the infantry in, if they met with too much resistance, I'd just pull them out and bomb the area, problem solved, all the guns, legal or illegal, wouldn't mean jack. The idea that citizens would have to protect themselv...

Sadly, the recent example of Syria sits before us. A president and a military more than willing to bomb, gas, poison and starve its own people. They won,, with the help of the Russians. It was the air power specifically that gave them the edge, despite majority opposition. Would America's guns prev...

An excellent example of stupidity there.

We don't make people criminals "with the stroke of a pen". They are only criminals if they choose not to comply within the 6 month or 12 month grace period or whatever it is. As far as I'm concerned I'm not worried about taking anyone's guns away. I say give everyone one calendar year to ...

https://media.midwayusa.com/productimages/880x660/alt3/450/450925.jpg This is legally a "pistol". You have to be 21 years of age, have a pistol purchase permit, etc to buy this. But it's a "pistol" https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EuRvq51TXvI/maxresdefault.jpg This is a Short Barreled Rif...

If you make the possession of semi-automatic rifles illegal, then you either have a lot of people turning in those rifles(which are not cheap), or people continuing to illegally possess them. Hence the statement of making "criminals out of law abiding citizens". People who had, until that ...

The fifth and last auxiliary right of the subject, that I shall at present mention, is that of having arms for their defence, suitable to their condition and degree, and such as are allowed by law. This is England, excluding Northern Ireland, circa 1800, from something allowing protestants to be ar...

We have had a 39% decrease in gun violence since 1993. We are at historic lows for gun violence. For only 10 years of that historic downturn, have we had a restrictive policy on firearms. We continued to see declines in firearms violence after that law expired. And yet, we apparently need to "f...

It's become a perennially frustrating topic. If only the cops had actually done their difficult job, we might not have had another tragedy this week. Once again, I posit the attempt to compare pineapples to tangerines. Colt and Remington invented the idea of the way the west was won, and with which...

Poverty, Crime, Racism, Sexual assaults, are really big, complicated issues. Controls for experiments are hugely challenging, and legislation that attempts, especially through the passage of a single law or set of laws can be pretty much guaranteed to fail. To talk about crime in general, violent c...

You didn't say deaths increased, you said there was no evidence of impact while leaving out the fact that gun deaths and overall homicide rates did in fact decrease. I also said it's possible that the two were not related (correlation/causation). I felt like you were intentionally leaving out menti...

Gun deaths AND overall homicide rates are actually down significantly in Australia since 1996. That's easily verifiable. http://www.factcheck.org/2017/10/gun-control-australia-updated/ Is it because of their 1996 gun laws (in whole or in part)? Maybe, maybe not. I would say it played a role, but ma...

Apparently, you misunderstood me. So I'm going to try this again: our legislation regarding vehicles has been based on reality, on measurable data. Our legislation on guns, on the other hand is not. Hence me trying to make the metaphor there. That apparently confused the point I was making. Banning ...

Things, cars, guns, are relatively susceptible to jurisdiction. They can be bar coded. They can be inspected. Of course, lots of people drive drunk, steal cars, all the illegal things, despite long standing and often reasonable laws against those behaviors. Perhaps having no punitive restrictions a...

Here's the thing: it seems like the best way to reduce gun violence isn't related to the number of guns in this country, but to poverty, youth, and male inhibitions regarding violences. Which suggests that we should work to reduce poverty, possibly providing a living wage, better social support netw...

Not real thrilled about the #MeAt14 thing. Hearts maybe in the right place but execution very poor. Some 14 year olds look 22, and there's a long-standing problem of 14 year old girls AND boys of color more likely assumed to be adults or much older than they really are, and then subjected to violen...

The only way to administer something that's so entrenched is to approach it indirectly. That's part of what Colt was negotiating. Like cars, everyone needs gun insurance. We likely can't figure out who owns everything, and some folks will choose to be self-insured, but if people are held liable for...