Best comment ever.

"The deals on Boxing day and on Dec.31 are exactly the same except for "door busters" which very few people actually go for because while getting a HDTV for $100 is amazing, they only ever have 10 of them so not much point (and at least they say how many will be there in flyers ahead of time)."

If that's your definition of trying "so hard to sound smart," then... oh, nevermind.

Go read up on institutional racism. There is, in fact, a difference between systematic racial discrimination and mild poking-fun of people who don't usually try to rap. I'm no sheep and I take real problems seriously. Your offense is not a real problem.

Nice work!

That's not what I wrote at all. I just like to poke fun at hypersensitive folks getting upset at "reverse racism" when it's really not even that offensive compared to what most minority groups actually have to go through. But I'm sure playing the victim is much more self-satisfying, so continue on.

Cassettes are back in, duuuuuude. Retro-flavor!

first world problems

Put on some Gang Starr or KRS-One to re-up your manna, dawg.

This needs to be promoted.

Hey, you won't see me disagree with your points here, and thank you for being respectful in your replies, as that's not always the case in discussions revolving around controversial subjects. I do still don't feel 100% comfortable with the idea of allowing weapons on the campus of an institution, but I think…

You asked the question "How many students would all of a sudden decide to carry and get trained to shoot accurately enough to be able to respond adequately to a situation in which they may have to protect themselves and not shoot bystanders by accident?"

Good points. I think 10% might be overly optimistic, but if you were right, then I'd say there might be some protective effect.

Correlation does not equal causation (and your link didn't prove it either) and there are other factors to explain why cities like DC have such high violent crime rates (i.e. it's not just because they used have very strict gun laws). That would be a very naive assessment of a very complicated problem.

I don't think your gun shop/gun show analogy is comparable at all, given the different contexts.

I didn't say "every student" in my post and my point still stands. Some people are always going to be uncomfortable owning, carrying, and possibly using guns, and I don't think there's going to be a large difference in the number of students obtaining concealed carry permits should the laws change. However, I'm just…

I do understand the difference as I have taken courses in statistics, and I also understand that correlation does not equal causation. It's not necessarily the case that violent crime per capita is lower in places that allow concealed carry BECAUSE they allow concealed carry; other factors may be involved to explain…

What's the alternative? Even if you allowed guns on campus, how many students would all of a sudden decide to carry and get trained to shoot accurately enough to be able to respond adequately to a situation in which they may have to protect themselves and not shoot bystanders by accident, thus making the situation…

Yep. It's not like shootings don't also occur in areas where more than a few people might possess weapons of the deadly variety. There are a lot more sociological factors involved in the occurrence of violent acts than a simple explanation based on political beliefs.

That's kind of insensitive. Are you seriously justifying your tactless take on the violence in the US because you think the commenter hasn't done enough to "clean up the shit in [our] country"?