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by vor_ 12y ago
> They even say in the article most of the gun deaths are by suicide. It says "suicides, accidents or domestic violence." These are all vital statistics in determining the deadliness of guns. Gun advocates have been arguing her
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I believe the point is that if the chance of suicide is very small, and the mentally ill are forbidden from owning guns, it would seemingly be at odds with the claim that "over half of all quoted gun deaths" are suicides.
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This article is a comparison of deaths caused by vehicles and guns as well as a comparison of the amount of government regulation between the two, not an argument to ban the 2nd Amendment. One point in the article is the lack of oversight o
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Easy access to an effective suicide method is one more impact of the pervasiveness of guns in a modern society. It's an important factor in determining gun deaths. In determining the deadliness of drugs to a society, should suicides be
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Emission controls on modern vehicles make it difficult to die from carbon monoxide poisoning these days.
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Gun ownership has been in decline for decades (along with hunting). In response, the industry shifted from hunting and home defense toward civilianized combat weaponry like the AR-15. There's a large accessory and customization market
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> Let's remove suicide from the discussion and talk about violence. Why? This is the second time I've seen that suggestion in these comments, and I don't understand why suicides should not be counted as gun deaths.
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> Including suicides seems unfair. Why?
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Guns are a political issue for American conservatives. Attempts to regulate guns are seen as an attack on their freedoms. The more extreme members maintain a fantasy of government overthrow (see the Cliven Bundy standoff).
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Monopoly of force is necessary to maintain order in a state.
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Republicans have an abysmal approval rating. The recent election was the 2008 wave election self-correcting, with Democrats defending seats in red states that voted for Romney. 2016 will see the same correction but for the 2010 election, wi
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Carbon applications are deprecated, but there are C-based APIs still in use that fall under that umbrella term, such as Keychain Services.
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> Of course, that was 6 years ago... so why should Brendan Eich be ostracised in 2014 for donating money to a campaign which was quite popular back then? It's wrong regardless of when it occurred. > At what point did Mozilla&#x27
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I'm not prepared to declare the App Store a psychological and ideological threat because of the rejection of this calculator widget.
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> The burden is on you to prove that the show hasn't changed. I've never been a regular viewer of the Simpsons, so I have no position on this issue, but that is an odd statement. The burden of proof in this case is on those a
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John Siracusa is certainly aware of Windows, at least visually. The only reason for you to suggest pointing out any little thing that's not "Apple-original" is out of some sort of pointless OS defensiveness. Aero Glass was a
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Intel pulls equality ads in response to anti-feminist pressure(theverge.com)
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The previous time this was submitted, it was deleted, so I guess I'll post this again: Over the years, I saw many presentations from Steve that I thought were bland or off in some way. Pointing out Steve's statement that nobody wo
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Well, Apple is known for referencing Microsoft and PCs in its keynotes. I recall many references to competitors over the years. Even their commercials, with references to Intel and PCs.
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I remember when Steve gave an interview and said that nobody wanted to watch movies on an iPod. The next iPod came out with video playback, and films came to the iTunes Store.
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Over the years, I saw many presentations from Steve that I thought were bland or off in some way. Pointing out Steve's statement that nobody would want a big phone, implying that a big iPhone isn't something Steve would have allow
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Many Android users are noisy after an Apple media event, but they have been particularly loud this week. I don't really care what operating system your phone uses, but I do wonder why the iPhone 6 seems to have put so many in such a pa
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I wasn't aware that hitting 1.0 means all development ceases.
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He's getting down voted because his assertion that the attention paid to Swift is driven entirely by hipsterism is Slashdot-esque nonsense. People who make a living writing Objective-C will be making a living writing Swift.
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It couldn't be the quality of the language or the popularity of the platform. Just "hipsters".
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CoreGraphics uses points, not pixels. Experienced Cocoa developers know to make sure their drawing is done on pixel boundaries to avoid blurry edges, and there are APIs to help with this.
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid vows to defend net neutrality rules(nationaljournal.com)
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One issue I have with many of the flat designs I see posted online is that they're so simplistic and desaturated that they look like cheap, generic clip art. OS X Yosemite's system icons retain appropriate bevels and shadows for d
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> Note, I'm not suggesting that any of the above applies here, but as a general practice, avoiding prejudgement in the absence of all the facts is a bad way to approach gossip. This isn't gossip . The text messages in the comp
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Tinder has confirmed the messages. Here they are: http://www.buzzfeed.com/sapna/tinder-sued-for-sexual-harassm...

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