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Hanaguma

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  1. Other possible solutions? Perhaps interdict the Mexican coastline to stop the precursor chemicals coming from China?
  2. Care to provide some of these "splendid options"? Generally the sitting VP is the choice, but it seems that few people would be happy if she were the nominee. Like I wrote on another thread, a centrist like former Senator Tester of Montana could help bring the party back to the center and peel off some GOP votes.
  3. I dont think that is quite the win that you think it is. Homicides were decreasing BEFORE 1996, strangely stayed level for 5-6 years after, then resumed the previous decrease. This shows that the law had no measurable impact on murder rates in Oz.
  4. Many Americans point to the supposed results of the Australian experiment in trying to remove guns from citizens. The two are often compared.
  5. I meant the one in the US that some politicians are trying to revive. And yes I have been to Oz on three occasions. Brisbane, Sydney, and Tasmania.
  6. Getting on an over crowded boat after paying a scumbag human trafficker for the privilege? I would call that foolish.
  7. No argument here. Oz was a poor choice and ran a very lackluster campaign. I pity the good people of Pennsylvania for having to choose between the two of them.
  8. Funny thing happened after the assault weapons ban lapsed- the murder rate kept going down. Almost as if the ban had no impact...
  9. How about we look at my link? According to it, the homocide rate in Australia flatlined after the gun control legislation (your link shows that as well), before resuming the downward trend that already existed BEFORE the laws. and overall violent crime (including robberies and armed robberies) actually INcreased. https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/lbrr/archives/cnmcs-plcng/cn32226-eng.pdf Seems no relation between the law and crime in general at all. Rates for most crime went up until years later.
  10. Blah blah blah. The story doesn't even say where the passengers were from, so how can you make that judgement? Plus, Italy hasn't been in the colonial business for a long while.
  11. Trump too. That's why I said I want BOTH parties to choose new candidates. Also perhaps why so many Democrats want to dump him as candidate. The only think keeping him remotely in the picture is the dread spectre of Kamala Harris getting the nomination. Perhaps Joe's best decision was installing her as VP. What a great insurance policy...
  12. OK, then educate me. What impact did the restrictions have on crime, murder, etc?
  13. No it doesn't. The murder rate is the important number, not the manner in which the murders occur. As in most places, the horrible crimes that make headlines have very little impact on the raw statistics. Reducing mass shootings while not impacting the overall crime rate is no accomplishment.
  14. The problem isn't the stutter, it is the obvious cognitive decline. Look at Joe in his VP days compared to now and tell me he hasn't visibly deteriorated.
  15. The DOJ study was from 1997, just three years after the bill was passed. Far too soon to be able to measure the results.
  16. How about new faces on BOTH sides? Biden's recent interview at Easter was an embarrassment. He could barely string two phrases together without coming unglued. All in the face of that tough questioner, Al Roker of the TOday SHow...
  17. What a surprise, you do it once and suddenly it happens again. How about taking them back to where they came from and leaving them on the shore there? People who foolishly put themselves in danger should not be rewarded for their actions.
  18. Senator Feinstein? Not exactly an unbiased source. Rand Corporation disagrees. Inconclusive, according to them. https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/ban-assault-weapons/mass-shootings.html
  19. No, I am saying the place to start is not simplistic and ineffective things like calling for bans on certain guns. You are right, it is a thorny problem and will require long term and stubborn thinking. Mental health awareness, training, and if necessary hospitalizing people before they can cause havoc. Longer and mandatory prison sentences for crimes committed with firearms or even illegal possession of them. And yes, I would be a fan of background checks too.
  20. Unless you ban every firearm (which no country on earth has done to my knowledge) then "banning" certain types of firearm will do nothing to alleviate the problem. A shooter who is deprived of an AR15 would simply use 2 or 3 extra pistols (same weight to carry) and also easier to use indoors. So removing the AR does nothing to remove the problem. It DOES deprive millions of people their safe and legal property though.
  21. Again, five murders at once or five murders over five days, the same thing. One gets headlines but both are equally bad. City of Chicago had 20 shooting victims this weekend, 21 last weekend, but somehow gets no headlines.
  22. Mass murders, though tragic, are meaningless statistically. Ten individual murders are just as heinous as one mass murder of 10 people. No evidence that the limited ban and buyback in Oz stopped any deaths. The murder rate by firearm had been decreasing before the ban, and continued to decrease at the same rate after the ban.
  23. IF you are the one holding the gun, it sounds like an orgasm. If you are the scumbag burglar crouching in the kitchen of a house, not so much.
  24. There is perhaps no sound in the English language more scary than hearing the "click SNICK" of a shotgun shell being racked.
  25. In the US that horse has long left the barn. How many of the 8 million Americans who own AR rifles do you think would voluntarily surrender them to authorities? Never mind the tens of millions of others with handguns, shotguns, etc? Banning and confiscation are not the answers, they simply won't work.
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