I’ve had a few of those business dinners. Lots of shots.

“his son was in high spirits.”

My understanding is those are just poor Wakandans. It is a highly stratified society (see Patrilineal Monarchy). Based on the ruling structure, you are going to have some serfs.

No. They shouldn’t be offering subsidies because they convinced an entire generation of Germans to buy diesel only to tell them they now can’t be used. They haven’t fixed a problem. They have just created another problem.

What do they have a monopoly on?

I defer to Ben Franklin on most issues of civil liberties, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” That being said, I would be fine with more substantial background checks (as that doesn’t violate the liberty of people without mental…

“But how many of those deaths are gang related, family in-fighting or something like that?”

Well if your goal is to stop gun violence, hand guns would be the first to go. They account for most of the murders. If you are just worried about not hearing about gun violence, you should ban large magazine semi-automatic rifles because they make the news.

You are adding an N to a name that doesn’t have one. Patera doesn’t = Pantera. Also, there are tons of guns that aren’t semi-automatic. Revolvers, lever-action, bolt action, pump action, and break barrel to name a few of the more popular ones.

Most handguns are semi-automatic.

Nobody says that though.

So like a not fun jet ski? I could spend $1500 in craigslist right now and have more fun.

I am not pro banning guns so I generally haven’t thought about it. I own a bunch of different guns. The only change I would make is mandatory gun safety classes for ownership.

Here is a link to Canada’s Suicide Prevention Website for any of the Canadian readers. I know you take your hockey seriously, but don’t take it too seriously.

Weirdly, some percentage of those are basically forced memberships. To be a member of a trap shooting club (sporting clays), you needed to be an NRA member. That was in PA. My uncle is a member of one in Washington state and it is a similar deal. While I would definitely like to be a member of pretty much any trap…

You are mostly right, but what they should be doing if they want to keep the discount is write letters saying they will use whatever service keeps the discount, not support the businesses that are cutting it. If they take a hit, the companies will bring it back.

This appeal to authority is embarrassing when many preeminent biologists, psychologists, and evolutionary biologists all cosign that it is mostly accurate. For fuck sake, you can’t even read what is written honestly. You literally keep lying about what was written. If you are an “expert” in the field, I weep for…

What field? Gender studies? Or evolutionary biology?