Yes we should go back to the time before guns, you know, when you were much more likely to die from an axe in the head than to live to be 80, and despots had absolute power over their subjects because they could afford professional killers and wrap them in metal impervious to the pathetic weapons that a peasant could…

If guns are only to kill, why does the state want a monopoly on their ownership and use?

Yeah.

Being able to kill is what makes guns useful and important.

170 million people were murdered by their own governments in the 20th century.. after their governments took away their guns.

400 million guns in this country. Only a fraction of a fraction of a percent of them are ever used in a crime of any sort, and it…

How many mass shootings have background checks and licensing stopped? (protip: zero)

In the last 100 years more people have been killed by democide than all the crime and wars combined.

More like Truck No!

Gatling’s gun came out just in time to be used in the Civil War. One of the larger ones, mounted in a mobile armored chassis, could have been profound.

I don’t think a large cannon on a civil war tank would have been required or desirable.

A Hotchkiss 5-barrel revolving cannon firing 1-pound or 3-pound shells from 10-round magazines would have been devastating on a platform like this, though came 10 years too late, a .50 caliber or 1-inch caliber Gatling gun could…

Yeah but he didn’t finish a race upside-down and on fire like Clint did. Extra points for doing that in the Jack Daniels car.

Javelin Catcher is a dangerous job.

Was he watching a Harry Potter movie too?

“I more so pointed out that it’s stupid to get something for self defense with out knowing how to use it.”

[citation needed]

Because you, and everyone else at gizmodo, have been drinking the progressive kool-aid for far too long.

Nursing is a stressful, gross, underappreciated job.

But at least you get groped multiple times a day, so there's that.

You think that's bad, he was using the selfie camera the whole time.

Talking about Gundam, they were really subtle about it, but from the original on forward, public-use autonomous cars were pretty much the standard in the O-Neil colony cylinders. You'd just get into one, swipe your ID and go.

At first I thought the pic was the cockpit of a Subaru XT.

On second look, it’s not that different.

Oh man Hamsterbeard is just NOT working.