whilst, as the saying goes, “I feel you on that”...I also see where the responsible thing to do is pretty much never to advocate that a bunch of freewheeling armed citizens head on down to involve themselves in a situation where an armed police force is looking to contain an active shooter...particularly when most if…

when I was a kid & the IRA (the pre-internet one) were looking to blow shit up the police in London still didn’t get to have guns & nobody got to have garbage bins on public transport...although you could still smoke if you picked the right seat...

not to step on your punchline...but I believe if you crunch the numbers then the suicide thing is the most probable way that a gunshot kills someone & where there are more guns more people use them for that purpose...so the sad fact is that whilst it hasn't had any discernible impact at a macro level they will…

I'm not saying you’re batman...but I've never seen you & batman in the same room...

that is indeed how I understand it to work...the bit you quoted was directed more generally at the folks above the line since I believe it was one of the weekend crew (who seem more inclined as a rule to read these comments) that did me that particular service last time they were on deck...

well, if that figure means a gun for every four people I think I must a missed the part that redefined “per capita”...

ol’ maxi is a middling fair contrarian at the best of times & generally more than a little logically-challenged in my experience...so no surprise in that being the tack he’s taken...

the consistency with which the salient points are inevitably the bits these sorts of commenters “misconstrue” in their responses to having their willful ignorance delineated is certainly one of the stronger arguments I’m aware of for a degree of skepticism regarding the question of if they can really be as dumb as…

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the BBC had a David Tennant Hamlet on iPlayer a while back which was pretty good...but it's hard to top the casting in that Richard III...

I wouldn’t worry overmuch...if an unintelligible moron considers your reasons to be unguessable it’s perhaps the most meaningless thing they managed to say in a series of comments that strongly suggest they don’t even understand what they themselves said...

no need to apologize, although I appreciate the sentiment...I have a bunch of family in both the UK & the US though...so I’m honestly not sure from day to day which situation is the greater source of grief from a personal perspective...or liable to prove to cause the most lasting damage...

the “all” might be a little harsh...I mean, yeah the ones that voted for it are by & large exactly as stupid as you suggest but there aren’t as many of them as there were...

Not having been there, or knowing much about there, why would a hard border between the Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland potentially bring about the Troubles again?

I’d have to take your word for Mr Brooks’ prowess on the field...I’m kind of a heathen where sports are concerned...but I doubt he’s as cromulent as this Aaron...

de nada...

pretty sure I probably still ought to be grey but since I’m not & your point about John Major questioning the legality of Boris actively sabotaging the ability of Parliament to fulfil its obligations is (imho) an important & telling one...

given that the whisper-thin majority boris currently has is contingent on the militant unionists of the DUP it seems clear that a lot of this is specifically because he hasn’t got the votes in the house to make this happen & is running scared of farage fucking him over in a general election the same way he did to…

the deal with the Queen is that essentially she has to go along with what her government (in the form of its prime minister) proposes since she’s traditionally not meant to take sides or even offer opinions as to her actual view about what they propose...

boris himself claimed only a week or so ago that no deal was a million to one chance (& that this stunt isn’t about steamrolling the thing through against the will of the house & -whatever bullshit they continue to spout to the contrary - the will of the people to a significant degree) & now wants to upgrade that to a …