It’s so much better to have people avoid seeking help because you’ll take things away from them if they do. FFS, we just unfucked this exact situation with pilots, don’t go fucking it up again.

CA has plenty that would (or would make it unusable if she did have it). NC had a great one (their pistol permitting system) until the NRA brought it down, it wouldn’t have “outright” denied her, but she’d have to show up at the local sheriff’s office and have the sheriff attest to her “good moral character”. You can…

That’s not really true. Look at CA, with the “safe” handgun roster that merely won’t ever have anything added to it ever again (no, that’s not a ban on all handguns, merely unsafe ones. We only define all handguns as unsafe now). Or the attempts to ban all semi-auto rifles, one of which just passed the Assembly :/. Or…

Here in SoCal, people split at up to/including highway speeds, and it’s remarkably civil. Hell, I see several people splitting at/above the speed limit on my daily commute (typically only 10-15mph faster than traffic, but high absolute speed) and most drivers not only see them but let them through.

The HR2612 I’m seeing (https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-con…) hasn’t passed, and is to provide $10m/yr more to CDC to do said research. They do get money, and have produced studies in 2010, 2013, and 2015 so far. They are expressly prohibited from using public funds to advocate for gun control, but they can study…

So, exactly how did this one: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/9/1… happen then?

You’d lose that bet, but hey, you do you. They’re not prohibited from studying the matter (and indeed they still do that: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/9/1… ).

Except this is no big deal, and didn’t result in an outside-the-tank leak (you know, as the article, but not the headline, stated).

Uh, the state of California would like a word with you. Well, three words, “Assault Weapons Ban”.

It’s also basically never prosecuted here.

We call that “Tuesday” up on Mulholland. Seriously, every time I’ve been up there, it’s been a superbike/supercar drool-fest. Last time (weekday morning, ~10am), I saw several S1000RRs, R1s, etc; a Ferrari, an RS8, and a few 911s.

I can, sadly. Mine had a shooting, a fair amount of hard drugs, and some pretty serious violence I wouldn’t expect a teacher to step into. I’d prefer we not need them, but I can certainly understand why they’re there (oddly, my middle school never got an officer stationed there, but the boring, white-bread high school…

That’s been argued in cases of eco-terrorism too (SUV’s getting torched, ski resorts, etc). The basic argument is “well, we only hurt the property, and violence requires a human/animal victim”. It’s complete crap, of course, but it’s not uncommon.

Where in Hades are you paying $1/kWh?? I live in CA, and even our residential pricing is “only” up to $0.36/kWh.

You really missed the point there. Once you remove gender (as they do in the pivot table, because it’s nearly solely men committing this crime), white people commit this crime at ~average rates, which is not shocking as they are the majority. Calling out a racial group for a crime they commit as often as the average…

Whites are the majority; you’d expect them to commit a majority of the crime (of any given type), by race, they’re slightly underrepresented here. That was my point; why call out the majority as committing the majority of crime (as if it’s something bad) when the per capita numbers make the opposite point?

She-bagging, or so I’ve heard.

White people are ~70% of the US population, so what exactly is your point? They’re marginally underrepresented in mass shootings (and significantly underrepresented in homicide in general).

I like living in California (am USian, but not from the west coast), as I do now. I enjoyed southern China (rural village) quite a bit, and would’ve happily stayed there much longer aside from working for the world’s most dickish project manager; great food and very friendly people (also incredibly safe, traffic…

Not the guy you’re replying to, but I was there around the same time (and living on Yas, in the Radisson, no less). I was over there with the company I worked for, working on a (less exciting) major civil infrastructure project as an electrical engineer. Talked to a few guys working on Ferrari world and the waterpark;…