1) That is an INCREDIBLY unlikely scenario and I am willing to take that risk because statistically, it rarely ever happens.

If this is sarcasm, I would point out that it does work well for things that are not easily manufactured. We’ve got a pretty good handle on controlling Sudafed, for example, thanks to a national registry. It’s hard to control things like drugs, because drugs are either fairly easily manufactured in the US (meth, weed)…

We don’t need to make laws that bar every potential criminal from owning a gun. We just need to make it difficult and annoying enough to get a gun that the majority of potential criminals are deterred. For example, we could make it mandatory to attend classes before you’re allowed to even touch a gun (like we do with…

This is what I don’t get. I know SO MANY people who are like, “But what if my house is being robbed!” and I’m like, “You could...not shoot anyone and call your insurance company the next day?”

Well, we know the rate of gun accidents (not even homicides here, just accidents) is way higher than the rate of crimes “stopped” by guns. It’s not just that somebody might develop a serious mental illness and kill their children, it’s that many, many people do not take proper care of lethal weapons.

So essentially, the treaties and such that compose the “Irish peace” predated the EU, but abiding by the Irish peace was required to join the EU. The Tories for whatever reason (I’m not super clear on why) do not like the peace and wanted to redo those treaties but could not while the UK was in the EU. Now that the UK…

Look out on Ireland because part of the peace is tied up with the EU.

Lohan can apparently actually name places in the UK other than London so I think she might be beating Trump there.

It doesn’t help that DC likes to meddle with it every few years.

Ugh. Surely in a free country, we should be able to choose. :P

I dunno, we got pretty good science out of a bunch of guys who were essentially the paid lackeys of capricious nobles a few hundred years ago. I guess I hope that the people funding this sort of thing are smart enough to know that it probably isn’t aliens.

I think all people are entitled to the same rights, so I fail to see where you’re getting that from.

That, and the line that Bruce in BvS crosses (branding human beings) is a level of despicable that can’t be swept away with a nice little speech at the end of the movie. There were several things I liked about BvS, but I really hated Bruce’s uneven characterization.

Yeah, jfc the woman is dead, take 10 seconds to proofread.

Is this to me? I am against drafting people into military service. I think forcing people to support the killing of others is abominable.

Because these are adults with legal workplace and wage protections. I also don’t think that sweatshop labor technically qualifies as slavery either, because those people are not literally purchased. Slavery (in which a human is bought and used for labor without compensation or consent) does exist still, but I think it…

I believe in self-defense. I don’t know how anything I said above negates that. Raping someone is not “bodily autonomy,” its assault. I also don’t think you can compare warfare and rape—generally soldiers who agree to go to war agree to assume some risk to their person.

I don’t see what your point is. You keep repeating “war is bad” as if that somehow equates to “women are not equally capable as soldiers” when it doesn’t. Your experience is not universal, or even representative. If you’re middle-aged, you have probably never experienced US women in equal combat roles, so how the fuck…

Anecdotes are not data.

And we seem to have an adequate number of volunteers.