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But that's not the facts. At all. - The facts CLEARLY show that countries with more restrictive gun laws have less gun related murders, less gun related accidental deaths (in 2015 there were 43 gun incidents involving TODDLERS!), and less occurrence of overall gun related crime by multiples...

No one has argued that mental health issues don't have a role in repeated mass shootings. The issue is that these people have easy access to high power weaponry. As infantryman noted, countries such as Canada, Australia, Great Britain, France, and other nations with gun control seem to have...

More people are killed with guns than knives in the US. https://www.snopes.com/four-times-more-stabbed-than-rifles-any-kind/

It does hold up and for the reasons noted. Easy access to semi-automatic rifles has repeatedly been shown to have exacerbated situations involving mass killings. That a 65 year old could take out the equivalent of 2 PPCLI in a few minutes should be cause for consideration. Yes, other weapons...

My bias against reading about mass shootings in the US constantly and thinking that some actual action should be taken to include (but not solely) elements of gun control? You got me. The "Criminals don't follow laws" is a poor argument. In Australia, where there is high gun control...

I have previously shown numerous statistics that show that the instrument does matter. The terrorist attack in New York killed 8 with a truck. If he had a semi-automatic rifle he could have killed 26, like this idiot did, or 58 like the last one. Your argument absolutely does not hold up under...

Shockingly, another mass shooting with a semi-automatic rifle. At this point, the only way that the gun lobby will be convinced that some restrictions are necessary (despite mountains of evidence and counter-intuitive arguments) will be when it's one of their families caught up in this horses*&t...

The M109 wasn't a bad gun, but had limitations that were too ponderous. The first was the maintenance required to keep the systems going. Tracked vehicles are always expensive, and the M109 fleet wasn't in especially good shape when they were retired. Towed howitzers tend to be less...

I think he was talking about the probably literate current resident of the white house. Trump doing things like going to the UN and called Kim Jong-Un "rocket man" make Trump look like a buffoon. It's the sort of thing I would expect from an 8 year old.

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In Australia,  one of the corrolaries to enhanced gun control was that the price of black market weapons jumped exponentially to the $45,000/ weapon range. This controlled even criminal weapons as they out priced low/med level criminals (ie- anyone breaking into your house outside of you being a...

Or not. There's no rational way of making that conclusion. One could put up one of those "this house doesn't call 911" signs I suppose but would the criminal, if desperate know there was actually a gun or take a chance that the sign was just there? What if the criminal thought there'd be a gun...

Lol. Solid pick up of a typo... you've really added to this discussion

I don't think there was any big hand small map, at least not intentionally.  I stated that criminal acts and combat are different and have different controls. As for any assertion that giving your wallet, etc if a gun was pulled on you means you wouldn't be a good soldier, I disagree. The...

Comparing reacting to a crime to combat is a poor comparison and academically. In the army there are clearly defined drills and doctrine which define the reaction to a situation and the violence is defined by national/transnational goals and leadership. If a platoon is on an advance to contact...

Why would you have to assume that they're going to shoot you in the face? Moreover, if they had a gun pointed at you, woudn't pulling your own gun just result in you actually being shot in the face?

I acknowledge that Marshall's methods have been attacked if not completely discredited. That said, part of the reason that Marshall’s ratio of fire is still quoted is that there has never been much evidence from the Second World War to either corroborate or disprove his ratio of fire theory. The...

A debate/discussion on the political spectrum is, tbh, sorely needed in the political threads. I believe that it is a simplistic model that many many many people take too literal and use it to choose "sides" rather than to understand political nuance. As for the poll by Mr. Granatstein, I...

I think that most people in Toronto and urban Ontario don't care about pipelines, per se, but see them negatively. A small portion of environmentalists are anti-pipeline, but the bulk are in the "I think they're bad, but if they dont affect me than I'm neutral" category. That said, I think...

I think the point was that the majority of people in Quebec and Ontario (particularly Toronto) don't really care about pipelines in any practical way since there's only a minor impact on them directly. Same as I'm sure people in Alberta don't care about the auto industry or the Irving shipyards...