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Unless the person committing the crime also has a gun and it results in a shoot out. The studies show that ~90% of soldiers in combat prior to Vietnam wouldn't fire their weapon due to personal and social factors. If general society is the same (no training on target desensitization) than...

Actually, if you go into the political spectrum theories, right-wing pers tend to be more nationalistic, which explains why more people in the military are right wing vs left wing. Members largely join the military with their belief systems already established, so the "near-universal gift of...

Social media only allows people to "out" themselves, though some of the younger people coming through seem to think the internet is a punishment free zone. We need to look no further than the airborne Regiment to know that racism has existed in the CAF in some capacity longer than social media...

Unrelated, but just saw the new Andrew Scheer commercial about changes to the small business tax laws. I dont know who his PR team is, but the end makes me think of Ray Zalinsky from Tommy Boy (Dan Akyroids character...).... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRHULPFE3zo

You are right- people will have political beliefs and the army tends to be right leaning. However, as a leader, it is our responsibility to form and build effective teams to accomplish a goal. Part of the "art" of leadership is being able to meld people from different backgrounds, beliefs...

Raw numbers are not of much use only when groups, say, the NRA, fund such measures as the Dickey Amendment. For those that have never heard of it, the Dickey amendment was passed in 1996 and essentially banned the CDC from conducting studies on gun control in the US. The amendment, "...ordered...

True, the US is larger than Canada. There's varying statistics that have been quoted. If we go by the Wikipedia article for fire-arm related deaths/100,000 people we see that the US is at 10.54/100,000, with homicide related to guns being at 3.6/100,000. Canada, by comparison is 1.97/100,000...

And that's why the cycle of mass shootings will continue.

I've put my completely rational position about gun control, which neither blames guns nor gun owners, but argues for a degree of gun control for the US as a means of stopping mass shootings. I dont care about guns in your house- Canada does not have a gun problem evidenced by our 173 gun deaths...

The holding people accountable would be the "individual" part of the equation. Guns are an instrument. If the Vegas shooter didn't have 23 semi-automatic rifles perhaps he wouldn't have killed or wounded the equivalent to an infantry bn though. That's the argument- limit the tools to limit the...

Condescension and tone? You started "swing and a miss", correct?

Not bullocks. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/guns-and-suicide/

The self defence argument is silly. Who are you defending yourself from, ze Germans?  The fact they're locked up means that they're not of much value in self defence, unless the threat gives you time to get them. The threat then being someone coming to kill you? Also living in a rural area, the...

Great video on gun arguments... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0

The one who refuses to see that massive amounts of guns + individuals = mass shootings? As a meme I posted said earlier, if someone was able to kill 52 people and wound 500 with knives from 1200 feet I would absolutely call for knife control.

But you can say the same thing for the NRA and gun supporters who came out with the "its not guns fault" almost immediately after the shooting. Neither side has a monopoly on using tragedy to push a narrative.

Depends if you agree with the statistical analysis of people firing weapons, which is the weakness of this whole argument. If you read "On Killing" and "On Combat" than you will see that historically the vast majority of soldiers (90% in some studies) never fired their weapons or fired them...

Clearly people can own semi-automatic rifles without going on a killing spree, so "swing and a miss" back at ya. They are unnecessary for self defence or hunting, so I don't know what your point proved. I have shown statistically that guns and access to them increase suicide. Shown that gun...

While I generally agree with the protest, by definition the players are in the wrong according to the Flag code. According to the Flag code of 1923, section 8 "No disrespect should be shown to the flag of the United States of America; the flag should not be dipped to any person or thing...