A. My right to own guns isn’t conditioned on whether you think I need them.

Well, in the words of the students themselves who complained about clear backpacks, “All of us don’t deserve to be punished for the actions of one person”.

Your personal liberties need to take a back seat to the common good.

Terrorists in France managed to get AKs and explosives. Think their laws kept them safe?

Cars as delivery devices for explosives continued into this century, with the 2000 bombing on the USS Cole

Ultimately, it’s these ramming attacks that serve as a reminder that the only way to truly prevent terrorism is to address its underlying causes. We can never truly be safe from terrorism until the issues that spur people to commit these acts—which can be as complex as thousands of years of global history and as…

lol, you cite personal responsibility and then want automated law enforcement How about this for personal responsibility. I am going to speed. If I cause a traffic crash, I will take responsibility for it. Until then, my speeding has caused no harm by which preventative punishment should be justifiable.

Maybe because street racing can lead to killing innocent people, while flipping the finger and having a radar detector cannot.

Fuck off, fascist bootlicker.

and all Rosa Parks had to do is to move to the end of the bus...

You know what makes you a douche? Everything you’ve said.

Can you name a single authoritarian policy enacted by the current administration?

Your argument is valid and cogent with one exception: Artificially low speed limits.

Fuck speed cameras.

Or you can dislike speed cameras as the craven, revenue generation devices they are, while also understanding that speeding may cause you to get a ticket.

The last Brit who actually understood where all this goes was Orwell. He even wrote books to warn about it, but they seem to have interpreted them as instruction manuals.

Don’t worry about creeping authoritarianism, Britons. You have a new aristocrat to celebrate!

Whenever anything like this happens all I can think is,

I hope your real life persona is kinder and better than this; or that at least you only know kinder and better people so that on your death, you are treated better.

It’s amazing just how well good pilots operate. It’s as if in an emergency they shut down all the extraneous parts of themselves, and only the analytic and expert stuff comes out. It’s not like they’re machines - quite the opposite, they make decisions and improvise in ways machines simply can’t - but rather, as if…

“We have part of the aircraft missing so we’re going to need to slow down a bit.”