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This study focused on the period between 2000 and 2022, and by "public" mass shootings they limited it to circumstances where there was the intent to simply cause mass murder of random people, as opposed to say, a target gang shooting that killed a bunch of people. However, you're right; I was...

I would agree, but then the deeper and much harder to answer question is: does widespread gun ownership naturally lead to idolization of gun use in crime/murder/mass shootings?

The government isn't concerned about public safety, you're right. It's concerned with the perception of public safety. You're never truly safe; while walking down the road, you could be killed in an instant without any warning by a driver. However, we function better as a society if we feel...

Ok, data it is: There were 109 public mass shootings in the United States and 35 public mass shootings in 35 other economically and politically comparative countries between 2000 and 2022. The United States makes up 33 percent of the combined population of these 36 countries; however, it also...

I think I might have already shared this dit somewhere else on this site. Not sure if it's true, but it's a story told by a US observer who was stationed at one of the "safer" German run bases in northern Afghanistan. They had what appeared on camera to be a group of Taliban fighters setting up...

I've sat through a LOAC/UNCLOS/San Remo briefing like... 5 times now. And I've participated in counter piracy/smuggling. Does that count?

Don't forget that to the pro-Trump crowd, laws are a bug, not a feature. The ends always justify the means, and honour and morality are vices.

Good for you. I can fire 30 rounds in about 6 seconds from a semi-auto, and there's less chance of me coming off aim from taking my hand off the trigger to cock the bolt. Also, you've got tons of experience. Can someone with less experience and practice pull off the same? Oh well I guess since...

Protected B information is not "classified" information, and a secret clearance is what is needed for "classified" information.

Honestly, maybe, but what I really meant was that PolySeSouvient's official policy is that there should be an exception on a potential SKS ban for indigenous hunters and that if there was a mass shooting on a reserve with an SKS, they would change their tune (or not... they might not give two...

I went on the PolySeSouvient website last night just to learn more about them (they don't have a great "policy objectives" section), but I was surprised by their apparent OBSESSION with the SKS. Until there's a shooting on a reserve with one...

Yea but, couldn't they have made it logical? I mean, instead an extremely long and silly list of specific weapons, couldn't the OIC have just said "no semi-automatic rifles or shotguns (or maybe just say "long guns"... does a shotgun count as a "long gun"?) and no pistols"?

Who's got TDS now. 🙄

And hence the handgun ban.

Huh. I thought they banned all semi-autos. I see now it was just "assault style" weapons which includes a lot (if not most) semi autos. And that Celik Arms Chimera looks even more Assault Style then the Brownings! (It's name even makes it sound like an assault rifle)

I don't want to wade too hard into this. But! I just read the detailed step by step account of the Quebec City mosque shooting. I am confident (though not fully convinced) that if he was limited to a bolt action rifle, the death toll could have been lower. The rifle (let's say a 308) would have...

Less regional expertise. Slower decision making.

Aren't you kind of making/validating @IKnowNothing 's point here? Kind of an apples and oranges example here. Baker stopped because he'd finished killing all the people he had a beef with.

Lol. I don't think actually spelling out "LGBTQ" would be the part of your post that would get you accused of being a bigot.

What the heck are alphabet and letter groups?