Japan is not even comparable to the US, in any way. The US has been partially built on the right to bear arms... so what does that mean? That means 40-45% of all households in the country have at least one firearm. If Japan had that kind of gun distribution before making guns illegal, it never would have worked.

Brian is attacking Joe Hollenbach on Twitter for [correctly!] respecting the loss and magnitude of the tragedy that has happened in Connecticut. Try to imagine, for a moment, that you had to deal with a loss like this [if any of us can actually imagine what it's really like] and then imagine that someone immediately…

Brian, I can't say I've ever seen such a 'troll worthy' article on Gizmodo before. The reason this shouldn't be discussed TODAY is because it's disrespectful both to those who died and those who are dealing with the loss. I can understand your perspective if you're entirely apathetic to what happened, or perhaps…

Of course they did..., just ignore them, it means nothing and they don't know what they're talking about anyway.

Hah, man, you could have stuck your head in an outhouse and stirred up less shit than this. Funny this is you're right.

Wasn't Electra King the name of the female Bond villain in The World Is Not Enough?

Hah, I just commented on the same thing. I think it's a History Channel thing - they must tell him to call everyone a "buddy", because it seems like a lot of his buddies seem to end up with shows of their own on History Channel [American Restoration, American Pickers, etc.].

You mean "Rick has a BUDDY who's an expert on storage units".

Mmmmmm. Huh? Where you saying something? Excuse me, I need to... umm... go... somewhere... now... immediately... bye.

What Acura? All I see are glow sticks and lightsabers. Evil lightsabers.

No, no, no; you're all wrong. It's Clarkson... obviously!

This happened to me with my 1999 Accord a couple times. I put the car into 1st gear but didn't pull the parking brake. The next morning, I came out to find my car had rolled into the concrete wall 20 feet away.

That's a good point, as well. In the earlier Bonds, or even the Roger Moore era, it wasn't that big of a deal to kill 50 guys at once [I'm looking at you, Christopher Walken]. These days, however, the directors don't take death as lightly, even though it seems to occur more often.

Makes perfect sense, actually... no one comes to a movie to hear a narrator and they very rarely add anything except clarification, which should have been shown on screen, not spoken by a non-character.

In the journal article it says that "each time the perpetrator, action or target changed, a new instance of violence was counted". By that definition, Walken's massacre would only count as 1 or a handful act(s) of violence [depending on how the camera followed the 'targets' perhaps... I don't recall the scene well…

Well, it doesn't help that whoever created the chart doesn't know what the hell they're doing. The x-axis is inconsistent and the y-axis is too 'squished' to be able to see the trend. However, they are still oversimplifying the issue, because it's not a pure linear trend, there are some dips and jumps but a small…

I guess the assumption they are making is based upon the fact that Bond is the only(?) movie that has been running consistently for 50 years, but it really doesn't matter. The Bond franchise has reinvented itself every few years, so the data really isn't homogenous enough to create a time series from.

Nice catch, I didn't see it! In my job, I just assume everyone knows to set your axes correctly, but clearly the rest of the world doesn't. Also the y-axis should be more extended, as it's too squished too show the trend clearly.