Did you read my entire reply? I understand if you didn’t, it’s a long one. But, I addressed that point.

You didn’t, I was just using the extreme end of the spectrum to illustrate a point.

Okay, so there’s no national database on police shootings. You know what is documented? When the body goes to the morgue and the cause of death is determined. At which point, it will be reported as a death by gunshot wound.

1.) Yes my mistake. But, 0.0048% is not even a rounding error. It’s literally by the book not statistically significant.

There are roughly 16,000 murders by gun in the USA every year. This includes justified killings (self defense, cops shooting criminals, etc.). But, let’s pretend that all of the 16,000 murders are guns being illegally used.

Oh wow

oh god wat is my life

I don’t care what my colleagues say, the VQ V6 sounds cool and burbly.

Hoo boy, you’re special, aren’t ya? The article you linked, and the quote you used, is from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Not the Supreme Court.

Citation on the Supreme Court stating at assault weapons are not protected under the 2nd amendment?  And what constitutes an assault weapon, anyways?  Pistol grip?  Magazine capacity?  How scary the gun looks?  Please tell me.

The vaping ban has strong parallels to the gun control debate. A statistically tiny number of people illegally misuse something, people die, and then there’s sweeping bans.

I don’t believe that I need an AR-15 for self defense. My semi-automatic 9mm pistol is plenty for that. I’m just barely smart enough to know that firing an AR-15 anywhere inside my house would probably render me deaf for the rest of my life. No thanks. By the way, police response time virtually anywhere is too long.…

Because the reasonable thing to do when you fear the regularity of gun violence is to give up your means to protect yourself from said gun violence.  Lol

I’m perma-grey because my political views fall somewhere in the middle, as opposed to over-the-horizon left.  But, this specific statement from Beto has pretty much sealed the deal that I will vote republican this time around.  I voted for Obama both times, and Jill Stein last time.  This is where I draw the line. …

There’s a lot wrong with what you’re saying here. It’s clear to me you don’t have much, if any, experience in hand to hand combat; much less armed combat.

Interesting with an institution paying what (or part of what) it owes. What is the suggestion for reparations to descendants of slaves owned by individuals?

Is the Android market really this convoluted, or is this some kind of typo?  What’s the Galaxy Note 10 vs. the Samsung Galaxy Note 10?

What I think a lot of people aren’t understanding is that with the founding of the United States, the right to keep and bear arms was what’s known as a “natural right”. This means that in the US, the right to have a gun is not something that is granted to you by the government. It is a right that each person is born…

One-in-1.4 million event, to be exact.  But, good point regardless.

I just explained to you how I don’t think that *me* having a gun is going to save me in the event that the government decides I shouldn’t exist any more. So, we agree on that, right?