Hey, North Koreans - a lot of us are pretty nice people and would like to get along with you.

I agree - that's largely arbitrary and pointless. Honestly, as a liberal, that's the most frustrating part about this to me - the White House seems to be focusing on meaningless token victories instead of trying to tackle any substantive I-would-imagine-bipartisan projects that might actually help with day-to-day gun…

Ha! Thanks for talking with me - I feel like we've made some sort of cross-the-aisles compromise (or maybe it's just the euphoric mania of coffee).

We're clearly not meeting the Switzerland, or even Canadian, level of firearm responsibility any time soon, though. Drastically reducing the flow of illegal guns for the current generation probably needs to happen before we've renovated the educational system, economy, and social services networks to stave off…

If the App would install but let me opt out of that entirely, I'd have no problem with it. There's enough spam on Facebook without me enabling it further by the games I choose.

Nothing turns me away from a FB game like requiring the permission for 'this app may post on your behalf'

They don't mention it because states and cities don't regulate their borders. Restricting something in an area with insecure borders just creates a stronger black market in that area for that thing. Which, incidentally, is precisely why gun advocates should be pushing for stronger gun control, not weaker - as if the…

Thank you for putting that so succinctly - its one of the most pervasively ridiculous arguments brought up in this conversation.

Sure, though they do have a pretty sizable statistical basis for those claims, at least in a relative sense. I have a friend from New Zealand who's legitimately terrified she'll be shot within moments of entering the US due to the international stigma about American gun culture. I imagine it's hard to look at Chicago,…

I agree - no argument from me there. We can't talk about handguns without everybody freaking out, though, so we debate meaningless measures like restricting magazine sizes.

I'm not sure where you're getting your data from. There are 63 million people in the UK and about 53,000 violent crimes reported each month, so ~636,000 annually, or 1.01% of the population. In the US there are 314 million people and about 6 million violent crimes reported in 2011, so ~1.91% of the population.

Anecdotal fallacy.

Uh, the British and Revolutionaries had the same weapons, no?

We have crime stats from all over the world to support it, though. London, Australia, Japan, Italy, etc.

The higher violent crime comes from the decrease in deaths - they are proportionate. It's not MORE crimes, it's less lethal violent crimes. The best comparison is NYC and the Greater London area - both around 8 million people, both had record low years for murders last year, London had 89, and NYC had 414.

While I'd agree that magazine sizes and gun model types are a waste of time to regulate, we have objective data that less guns leads to less death from those crimes. Yeah, criminals will find a way to rob people - when I lived in Dublin where they ban guns and knives they had a rash of people using hypodermic needles…

Beautifully put.

It mean's it's a haven for first party games. The 'Nintendo-faithful' are the people who will buy a Nintendo platform for Mario et al and not be terribly concerned that the platform gets the occasional AAA leftovers from other platforms. If you want Nintendo properties, you buy Nintendo platforms - with the huge…

I'm not disagreeing with that, but noting that outside of Wii-levels of success, Nintendo is a Gamecube-scale company.

To gaming enthusiasts who like Nintendo properties, sure, but it's not headed towards the mainstream of parents and grandparents like the Wii did, and even with that massive install base 3rd party devs struggled for attach rate and were hampered by last-gen tech, which certainly seems to be happening again. Nintendo…