ben_cog

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by ben_cog 2y ago
Dell UltraSharp 43" 4K (@60Hz) Monitor. Have been buying them for years, will likely keep doing so.
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by ben_cog 2y ago
Guns are used defensively significantly more than offensively. This simple and obvious fact "disarms" any gun "control" arguments.
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by ben_cog 2y ago
> I can think of at least one high-profile counter-example to this, specifically with guns, within living memory. Which genocidal dictatorship are you thinking of which banned guns? Doesn't matter, because the idea is entirely stupi
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by ben_cog 2y ago
> If you take the lower end of the estimate, another way of saying it would be "nearly 40% of the interactions involving this product are used illegally." We strongly regulate things that have a much smaller chance of causing h
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by ben_cog 2y ago
My neighbor just had a police officer move into his spare bedroom full time. I don’t understand why anyone wouldn’t want the police to have another tool to reduce shootings, which this clearly does. It's not like the cop has a personal
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by ben_cog 2y ago
Guns do save lives when carried by responsible, law-abiding individuals (and almost all are). Lawfully owned and carried firearms are used defensively something like 10x more than in the commission of crimes. From the CDC: "Almost all
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by ben_cog 2y ago
That's hardly the problem. There are millions of people who legally carry concealed firearms in the USA without an issue daily. The "gun" violence is not committed by those people; in fact they are something like 10x more lik