I'm using the term loosely: there are many ways to restrict guns that don't involve preventing hunters and sports shooters from practicing their hobbi...
As I've said, there's no doubt most gun owners in the US just have them in their closet somewhere and don't give them a second thought. It's that smal...
The meme analyzed by Snopes is typical of the misuse of statistics and outright lies propagated by the NRA and similar organizations. The fact that de...
Like I say, I don't think guns are very interesting or useful tools (except for committing mass murder and occasional hunting). Young adult males get ...
No, it's not. But I won't get in your way of using bad statistical analysis. It's something of a gun nut tradition. It's like comparing the Greek econ...
This is poor analysis. You have to compare big countries with big countries. Big samples are very different from small samples when it comes to regula...
Oh, yeah, Ryan has a cool head and uses soothing conservative rhetoric in facing crises. Jeez, once you believe in gun culture, you can believe ANYTHI...
Of course you are correct about many people owning guns and not being nuts. Most people who own guns just have them sitting in their closet, where the...
No, let's ban guns and keep bows and arrows. You just argued that they're as deadly as guns so you shouldn't mind. Stock up on bows and arrows. Ah the...
Once you call out a gun fetishist, all he can do is sputter and blubber. As I pointed out the NFA is effectively a ban. John is being disingenuous. Bu...
The sense here is either counterfactual or irrelevant, depending on what you mean. In fact those who want to inflict harm don't always find a way. The...
I'm simply following the logic of gun advocates, and it leads to forcing citizens to militarize. If the proposed way to fight crime is to carry a gun ...
Begging the question: Why? Why limit gun ownership and possession one case and not another? If gun advocates really believe the 2nd Amendment doesn't ...
Then your point is even more attenuated. If you think that a guy with a saw and lye can cause as much death as a man with a gun, then you shouldn't mi...
Fortunately gun nuts aren't skillful maniacs -- that's why they use guns. And that's why we need to ban them. But thanks for pointing out that explosi...
There's a difference between a society with a police force and a militarized society where everybody is primed to engage in gun violence. One differen...
Your argument reduces to a claim that gun restrictions can't be perfect; therefore why have them? Do I really need to rebut sophistry like that? Let m...
Oh, dear, this gun fetish meme. Fireworks are probably more regulated than guns in the US. In any case, if you think fireworks are such great weapons ...
Looks like the armed polite people have struck again, killing 14 in California in another gun massacre. I'm glad they didn't have knives! http://www.n...
If that were true then you shouldn't mind guns being banned, since you can cling to "cold weapons" just as desperately. But of course you're talking n...
Not to put too fine a point on it, but I don't care what Finland does. But if you think you're going to hold off Russia with hand guns, I think you wo...
Yes, there is in fact a mass gun killing about once a week in the US. Sometimes more, sometimes less. But we have mass killings every week. It doesn't...
"It's really hard to shoot a man, especially if he's shooting back" - Little Bill, Unforgiven. Yep. The notion that "armed citizens" untrained and unr...
In the US there's an "ugly incident" about once a week, so this is off base. Here's a concept: if knives are so effective, let's ban guns and everybod...
Wrong question. The question is (a) how much more likely is it that the 40 armed citizens will include a mass murderer intent on a gun massacre? And (...
All people are reckless under stress. Stress happens. Therefore people carrying guns are dangerous to me. Guns need to be banned and then those who ke...
"I am very curious as to why the association is made between Americans legally owning firearms and the idea that the gun owner would overreact to anyt...
Just a tangential note: until Iceland lost its independence in the 12th century, it was as violent and filled with intrigues as Rome, though on a smal...
I see you can click on the name of the poster who is being quoted and that takes you to the original post quoted. A useful feature most sites have, bu...
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