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by hga 10y ago
Perhaps you're right, and we need to treat our countries addiction to freedom in addition to trying to reduce the supply of liberty. Fixed it for you, as my side sees it.
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by hga 10y ago
This so called study still has plenty of dollars chasing it, with Bloomberg's billions now stepping up to the plate, the problem is with that "so called" detail. The major medical journals such as the NEJM are quite willing
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by hga 10y ago
gun rights are at a sort of apogee in this country I don't think it's quite that simple, for it's rather binary. In what I call the free states, it's still climbing, with e.g. 2 states going Constitutional Carry (no l
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by hga 10y ago
You don't see a trade-off in our allowing effective self-defense, which by data collected by gun controllers decades ago happens a minimum of a million times a year? Or the difference between citizens, who are traditionally defined as
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by hga 10y ago
On the other hand, if he does not put sufficient effort into his own interests, how long before he's replaced by someone who does? I.e. Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy.
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by hga 10y ago
Nope, you're thinking of noble freedom fighters, as alluded to by mgarfias in this sub-thread, not mass murderers. As for your additions including " It's pretty hard to have sensible discussions with someone who resorts to th
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by hga 10y ago
What is the 1986 law which says "No searchable database of America's gun owners"? The Firearm Owners Protection Act, this referenced part: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearm_Owners_Protection_Act#...
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by hga 10y ago
And the peoples in the "sandbox" who have or whom are out waiting us.
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by hga 10y ago
In the US, how many times has a child picked up a gun and killed someone by accident? More times than grandmothers have defended themselves, or less? Easily less, there are only ~600 accidental firearms fatalities a year, and we managed t
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by hga 10y ago
Heh, something like the Baptist and Bootlegger's alliance? From someone who's been in this fight since the early '70s, nope, the gun manufacturers' lobby, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF, http://
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by hga 10y ago
It's not the gun industry that's powerful financially, or more important, electorally, which I'll note is represented by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), it's the population of gun owners, only a fraction
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by hga 10y ago
Mein Kampf , periodicals like Der Stürmer , The Communist Manifesto and the many other books like What Is to Be Done? , they were part of vastly more leveraged ways to end up killing people with guns, gas, or starvation/overwork
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by hga 10y ago
Democracy is all about compromise Can you tell us what you are willing to give up to gain any of your goals? Compromise does not mean only we give up something, but not quite as much as was asked from us at the beginning of the process
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by hga 10y ago
5.56 NATO was derived from the .223 Remington cartridge developed for the original AR-15, which was derived from the .222 Remington varmint cartridge and intended to be between it and the .222 Remington Magnum. My father's primary hunt
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by hga 10y ago
I'll add to the other commentators that we manufacture more than 12 billion rounds a year, and import quite a few more (especially as of late more .22LR, rimfire production is pretty much fixed at 3 billion per year due to manufactur
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by hga 10y ago
Australia comes to mind. You can add California, SKSes due to an AG reinterpretation of the law, New York state, and right now Massachusetts is going through such an event due to their AG. And as you note, it's not like there's
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by hga 10y ago
Echoing nickff, obviously they're going to seek out the lowest tax rate they can find for the greatest amount of money they can put there. But surely you can see that 35% is so high a rate they'll focus more on tax avoidance than
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by hga 10y ago
If someone in power is so stupid to do it, companies will stop operating on their country It depends, for we have a state level test of this, Washington State and Boeing, which has a very boom and bust pattern of profitability. Of course
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by hga 10y ago
The US has sales taxes in most places, and there's a bewildering number of them, e.g. in my home town that I've retired to, I could be paying the state sales tax, I'm sure some states allow counties to do it, the city sales t
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by hga 10y ago
Currency pegging was used in Venezuela too and that story ended in disaster. Which period are you referring to? Venezuela's biggest problem right now, besides the drought which has hit their electrical supply, is that the government
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by hga 10y ago
Or this is a establishment politician with a weak hold on power who has not necessarily got his facts right, or if he's talking about absolute numbers vs. rates is probably lying through his teeth, but knows bashing foreign companies i
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by hga 10y ago
And/or it can deal with that it comes across. A thin package of screws and nuts, e.g. Home Depot sells a line where a huge selection is like $1.83 or $1.18 (e.g. each package will have a certain balanced set of nuts and bolts, or a fe
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by hga 10y ago
Part of this makes an intuitive sense, a sausage stall has one trivially accessible "throat to choke", whereas Austria's access to e.g. Jeff Bezos is much more difficult. Starbucks, though, I'm assuming they've go
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by hga 10y ago
The ground clearance might pose a problem in a hardware store. Every time I visit a Lowes or Home Depot the floors have debris. Some aisles will have products scattered on the floor (the screws/bolts/nuts aisle specially). This
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by hga 10y ago
The usual data massaging wasn't enough, like ignoring 19 of the 30 existing studies as of then, so they changed the confidence level required from the standard 95% to 90%. Look up commentary on their 1993 "Respiratory Health Effe
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by hga 10y ago
That's a maxim for computer data backups as well.
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by hga 10y ago
Formally, there's the Civil Reserve Air Fleet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Reserve_Air_Fleet and in general these planes can be used in emergencies. The transport planes the US military tends to buy have a
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by hga 10y ago
Well, the honey bees are an invasive/domesticated species that goes feral a lot, so the above is a bit like worrying about a bunch of pigs getting killed including "wild" boars. I'd be more worried about the many other
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by hga 10y ago
Also, Roundup has some big advantages in inherent safety. It's a competitive inhibitor of an enzyme that's necessary to synthesize aromatic amino acids like L-tryptophan ... and only plants can do this, we animals have to get o
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by hga 10y ago
I strongly suggest reading The E Myth: Why Most Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It , ( https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Most-Businesses-Dont-About/dp/08... ) or perhaps it's updated The E-Myth Revi

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