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A gun doesn't do very much against digital oppression, but it does do a lot when someone comes to take your wallet or separate you from your family. Consider that a lot of social media technology arises from the US, where our people and our press feel it is their fundamental right to express...

The National Guard is sort of like a hybrid between a state-level militia and a reserve unit for our national armed forces. They serve at the behest of our state Governors (the highest state-level executive authority) until they are activated and deployed by the US Military. They are commonly...

I agree with Willis. It looks designed to fit a very narrow niche within both the Federal and some state definitions of restricted firearms. Looks cool, though. I will say that the grip design is what is known as a 'Shellix' or 'Birdshead' grip, and contrary to initial assumptions, it is a...

Based on nothing more then your parameters, I'd say it would have three immediate effects: You would instantly criminalize the previously law-abiding behavior of a significant portion of our population, even if you assume it is only 25% of Americans who own firearms. You would have instantly...

While gun control and party politics are somewhat inextricably linked in my country, and I could talk and listen at some length about them, I don't want to move this thread too far off topic. So I will try to limit myself in this response. Let's say we somehow took gun control completely out...

I have a large pile of guns. I don't particularly think of myself as crazy. Many people in this thread disagree with me on many positions. I don't think they are crazy either. Perhaps for your own health, you should disengage for a moment, take a deep breath, and relax. You are very...

Very nice. I am more of a fan of the old-school RAS myself. However, my taste in stocks has evolved a little bit. I've recently had a bunch of trigger time on a K gun with a B&T folding stock, and while it is not as sexy as the Choate folder, it is pretty damned comfortable in use.

Republican is a party and conservative is a philosophy, and they are both pretty broad. There is a lot of crossover between libertarianism and the Republican party at the margins. The libertarian candidate for US President was a former Repubican governor. Libertarians like small government...

I'm standing right here, easily found. Amongst the many other components that make me who I am as an individual instead of a national stereotype is that I am married to a black woman and have two half-white children. I believe racism still exists, both individually and institutionally. I...

A lot of folks like to follow the reductio-ad-absurdum philosophy with regard to firearms as a tool against state-level tyranny. If you put the full weight of the state's monopoly on sanctioned violence in direct confrontation with the armed citizen, the citizen is going to lose. I don't know...

I don't think it is entirely bleak, but it would require that we stopped looking at it as a binary issue and aligning ourselves into tribes around the most reductive arguments. It would mean looking at the other side and acknowledging that it's not that I am right and you are wrong, but that we...

Perhaps that is true. But it will still be a smaller percentage of our population that die from either suicide or homicide via firearm then die by their own hand in your country. Perhaps that is an avenue in which your zeal for humanity could have some real positive effect.

Aside from the fundamental cultural differences (#745), it cost the Australian government something like $500 million to buy back less then a million turned in guns. To remove a significant portion of the 300 million or so guns in private hands in my country, even at a fraction of market rate...

And none of them are this one, which has access to firearms as a right baked into our supreme legal charter. Just think of how much more efficient this thread could be if we simply referred back to the arguments and counterarguments we've all made again and again by post number.

I've watched all the Netflix series, and probably enjoyed the second season of Daredevil the most out of all of them. I am also looking forward to seeing what they can do with the Punisher. Other then Daredevil, I liked much of Luke Cage and parts of Jessica Jones were brilliant. However, the...

I enjoyed Wonder Woman well enough for the $8 I spent on the ticket. Certainly more then most of what Marvel or DC have had to offer of late. I think the whole super hero thing peaked for me with 'The Dark Knight' and 'Winter Soldier' for DC and Marvel respectively. Everything else has been...

There are few places in the country who have firearms restrictions as tough as Chicago. Although New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, DC, are three others. - Again, Crni, you seem like a nice enough guy, but page after page of your posts have been pretty much nothing but stereotyping and...

Cmi, guns aside, there are certain things about the nature of the American people I think you just do not understand. Or at least you misunderstand the magnitude. No guns involved, our cultural heritage is at it's core very different then the European standard. We are a young nation, founded...

There is much you have said that I can agree to, and some that I don't, but it is a step towards finding some common ground. I am given the most pause by the use of guns in suicide, as those figures far outnumber other instances of gun violence. The range I shoot at most often has suicide...

If you believe a life lost to intention is greater then a life lost to accident, regardless the scale, it's a position I can understand, though I disagree. If your point is that to believe one thing is to the exclusion of all other things, such that I can believe in using a firearm without being...