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Britain and Australia seem to be doing fine with their red, white and blue sans guns... I'm going to go ahead and quote this again... See my last post for better examples of means of self-defense that don't work as well as means of aggression.

There's actually a good case to be made that in fact it is the opposite; see Freakonomics. While it is obviously more complicated than the following, it is compelling nonetheless: what happened in the early 1970's that would have reduced the population of the most violent demographic in the...

Emphasis added: Guns and control are an issue, but as dirk says, they are not the issue. Truly, truly a fucked up situation. One the US seems sadly inclined to repeat over and over and over... I agree with the first point, but for the second, I'm not sure it applies to many of these...

The research says this is false. Dangerously false. What helps spawn more terrorists is a foreign occupation*. Seriously, read the book. Muslims are not out to get all non-Muslims. Repeat this in your head until it sinks in. * Let's put it this way (this is again in Pape's book): take every...

I do believe there's a book highlighted in my post... It doesn't matter why or how the US got involved in the beginning. For the best intentions or not, our presence there fuels their extremists leaders' ability to garner support against us. Research (hey, there's that book again) has shown...

If you care about American safety, of course it matters. If you don't, carry on. We've been fucking around in their backyard for decades. Boots on the ground = support for terrorism. That's naturally simplified, but that's the bottom line. It doesn't matter if they've been doing it to...

Pick any given year and your rare cases are dwarfed by people ****** with guns in the US. This isn't the avenue you want to argue with - and anyway, it's not what I'm addressing. Guns make ******* people easier. This is undeniable. Would many people be ****** if guns weren't there? Of course...

I disagree with your first statement and naturally accept the second (it's a fact, after all). It's not specifically concerning guns that I put the question to, though - more the state of mental health*, which is connected to the larger healthcare situation in general as well as our rather ill...

The better question is how many will it take before we start seriously questioning why they **** us. It isn't because 'they **** freedom', that's for sure.

These things really don't happen in Portland often; growing up, I didn't feel all that uneasy walking through even the most 'crime-ridden' of neighborhoods. When they do, however, they seem to always happen at one of the two big malls... I don't think any tangible amount of blame can be placed...

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Careful; your post referred to was full of conjecture up for debate, not 'demonstrably true'.

Not stupid, per se; he just has a radical distortion of reality. Take all his statements, realize he very likely believes them and notices none of the contradictions (in his own articles), and there's only a few possibilities: a) he's trolling (which I don't believe; he's too consistent and been...

I read this first as 'Moron Church calls for...' and then realized it said Mormon. And then realized... My disregard for the world's newest most successful cult aside, I'm always glad to see a move away from outdated thinking, even if it's only a symbolic step. I'm more glad to see more than...

Agreed...mostly. 'Defense' plus implied elsewhere 'boots on the ground' is a bit of an oxymoron to me, and I think less boots is another thing that needs cutting. Where I live in Germany, for example, there are one or maybe even two US Airforce bases nearby. Totally unnecessary. Countless other...

Ah, it's a shame my links with the aforementioned debate with georges aren't any good any more. In lieu of, here are a couple and an amendment to my last statement*: Criminals and violent offenders getting older and older… not “younger” And: http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/teens.cfm...

It's a shame we have to wait for a generation or two to die off to speed up progress, but it's nonetheless true. It is happening, though - as my one or two attempts at having a real discussion with georges showed (lesson learned), our generation (that is, mine and Harley's, not to assume anybody...

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This +100. I'm sure the United States can get by only spending say, 40% of the world's defense budget rather than 50%.

And if it becomes a far less violent venture for it, why is that a bad thing? Forgive me if I'm wrong, but you've frequently been in the 'not our country, not our problem' side of debates, no? Regardless, it would take away cartel business because there are 'private' growers all up and down the...

Complaints about the poor and welfare will always fall on my deaf ears until proportionate to the cost complaints about corporate welfare start coming from the same people (I'll give you hint: one costs the government a hell of a lot more than the other).

Here, have a looksee - I don't know what is or isn't feasible on a board like this or what sort of downtime such a thing entails, etc., etc.: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=181626 http://www.lampwrights.com/showthread.php?t=84

I was doing a short search on vBulletin ignore features; apparently there's a plugin which can be installed (this would be by the forum administrator(s)) that makes it so when you ignore someone, they're gone. Their posts don't show up. Their threads don't display. None of this 'you're ignoring...

So is *******. Ah, sorry. I'm impatient... I'm almost certain this is medically false, but I admit no expertise. Not so much the liberals, but libertarians, no? Oregon voted against legalization. I disagree with the first sentence 100% - the war on ***** is a far bigger negative resource...

I disagree with you here - I favor sales taxes over income taxes because sales taxes give me some control over how much tax I'm paying. I have to earn money, but I don't have to buy X or Y thing. If I didn't have to pay any income tax and essential items like food weren't taxed (yeah, I know...

This is false. Over 60% of 'true Americans' (or citizens, at least) do not have the blue book in question. And neither parent need be American for citizenship (whether one thinks that shouldn't be or not is of course separate from how things are). I sort of applaud some of you for engaging...

It seems logical that you'll find the most deviant behavior in the most repressed of individuals...no?

I heard that the human brain remains switched on for up to three seconds or so after. That's enough time to watch yourself roll away from yourself. ...though I doubt that's ever been experimentally proven. :rolleyes:

Very much agreed! Alas, like finding a perfectly benign dictator, how often do you think you'll find this quality in a politician (or people, for that matter, considering they vote in who they vote in)? The country is rife with people trying to legislate their religious beliefs onto others as...

Oh, sure - I mean to say, I think it'll be better once most don't have a religion to swear on. After all (to, admittedly, take an extreme - though perhaps not as much as we'd like - example), how much good legislating is one going to do if, say, one believes that the apocalypse needs to hurry up...

:clap: Don't have to wait long... :1orglaugh You know Sam, this will be the one and only time I address you, seeing as 100% of the time - and I mean that, 100% - I click to view one of your ignored posts, I see nothing of any value. So I just want to say: the world will be a better place when...

This is what I tried to tell everyone months ago.

I've read that if you factor in all the costs of oil - which include things like this - people would be paying anywhere from $8 to $15 a gallon. $15. People complaining about $4 a gallon should just be happy government(s) are subsidizing the hell out of their lifestyle choices.

Among the bitter stream of charged posts I've found this morning from you, this one alone I agree with! I think they especially need them in the UK. I ran into sooo many people studying subjects that to me seemed like they had no place has a university subject and then I'm sure many of them...

In theory, I'd say nothing, at least without looking into the specifics on a state-by-state basis. In this case, the problem is that the people don't want to - these petitions represent a less-than-1% minority jumping on a publicity-stunt bandwagon to make sure everybody knows they're upset.

I, like many of the others here, would happily say good riddance to the petition signers - which, let's be clear, contrary to the misleading news headlines, is not the States but a tiny minority of disgruntled people in each state. Oregon, secede over an Obama victory? Hilarious! Why would I...

:nono: Sociopath. No joke - look up the clinical attributes. He fits a lot of them. As for my two cents for the topic on hand...well, in theory, when people don't have to shell out as much for health bills, they've got the extra 17 cents to spend on pizzas, no?

Even when an innocent is put to death? Or even if an innocent person were to be ******** (a statistical guarantee, were such measures put into place)? I used to agree with you here; in principle, I still do. Alas, the reality of false positives stays my agreement. In any case punishment after...

Indeed, why not? If one wants to destroy themselves in the comfort of their own home with X or Y ****...why not? No, it can't - and anybody who tells you otherwise is practicing a thinly veiled bigotry. Because the line is very simple and very obvious: between consenting adults. There is one...

Interesting that this came from Fox Business News. I would look to verify these, although from what I've seen historically, Democrats always pick up more of the educated vote. ...which somehow certain folk spin as a bad thing. I'll come back to that in a moment. You know the beauty of being...

I'm totally okay with this.

I was told the largest reason why Canada hadn't legalized it already was really pressure from the Bush administration; I was told further that this was one of the points where the Canadian government began to distance itself somewhat from the US which might explain, perhaps, why Canada came out...

"...because that's how he sees poor people already." :1orglaugh Agreed.

Consider it constructive criticism; an admittedly less-than-tactful way to tell Ace (for the second time) that if he's to be taking seriously, his language is a problem. I'd like to think that my use of 'sound like' leaves a window of wiggle room one can use to improve and therefore distance...

I especially like how you still sound like a moronic partisan hack. :rolleyes:

I thought there was another thread that already went over this... As much as I understand the school-boy satisfaction in revenge against the 'other team' (having been a school-boy myself), it underscores a big problem in American politics. I will say that, in my opinion, only if it meant...

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Just realize that he is also getting off from the attention - whether in some masochistic-while-frothing-getting-off or whatever. No matter what the reaction appears to be, you're getting him off. ...and we can all agree, that's gross.

Some of you guys are slipping up. You can do better!

I've also always found it strange; what other mammal consumes another mammal's milk - especially at such prodigious rates? That said, I think I'd find living without dairy difficult - I did away with milk for a long time (tried all the alternatives and settled on rice milk as my favorite), but...