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Goddamn you are dense. OBVIOUSLY racism and ignorance is the problem, which I stated MULTIPLE TIMES, even in sentences you quoted. However, in a population that isn't diverse, it doesn't matter if there is racism (at least in relation to crime).

You must have a serious chip on your shoulder about something to think that is at all what I was trying to say.

How can you not understand that a more diverse country leads to more racial strife? I'm not fucking ENDORSING racism. Im saying it exists in humans, jesus.

Dude, can you fucking read? Let me quote myself, maybe you will read it this time "You can't ignore the history of racism in this country and the legacy of slavery and discrimination. You can't ignore these when comparing countries.". Hell, you even quoted that part yourself when responding, did...

The legacy of the drug war has absolutely devastated mexico and has resulted in a flood of illegal immigration into mexico as people try to get a better life. You think it is racist to say that? Are you completely fucking stupid? I am not characterizing racism as a problem of diversity you...

First of all, urban centers... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...es_urban_areas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...tres_in_Canada Then immigration. Yes Canada has immigration, but it doesn't have the issues we have with mexico in relation to the drug trade. The drug war and its...

How in the fuck is what I said racist? I listed facts about the population in the US compared to Canada.

The US also has way more diversity, immigration problems and more urban centers. But please, continue trolling.

Yeah, I really like volokh.com.

All those rulings you link can be interpreted in different ways and have been by gun control and pro-gun activists. Certainly in the distant past it was seen as an individual right. For a different take on those rulings and some understanding of how in the 1930s the media and some judges...

Sorry, I thought this was a thread about how to address gun control and gun violence, not a theoretical discussion of shit that will never happen this century. Saying the constitution is mutable completely ignores how it is almost impossible to pass a constitutional amendment of any sort, let...

Jesus Christ.. Give up on the banned bullshit already. Armor piercing ammo and assault rifles? Do you realize that even if you managed to ban both of these things it would do NOTHING to the homicide rate? I mean, really, you bring up armor piercing ammo as if its a big deal. Please tell me...

Too bad the banning of guns goes directly against the 2nd Amendment. Now to your next idea?

He may have destroyed the gun control talking points but in the end Piers Morgan won the "debate" because he doesn't come across as a total nutjob. We really need some ambassadors that are more from the shooting sports/hunting and less from the fringe conspiracy theory nuts.

Well, I also don't think that the difference between a clip and a magazine is that big a deal. At least not until they talk about banning one vs the other or something (in the current legislation its both). I had an even more ridiculous version of the clip vs magazine snobbery when I bought my...

You are of course correct. You shouldn't have to be an expert. However, knowing what the technical definition of an assault rifle is from how the media uses the term isn't "expert" knowledge. It just requires a basic understanding of the terminology. After all, the bills we are mainly talking...

Well, I don't think anyone is really advocating that position. Certainly many people wouldn't feel comfortable with it and forcing people to do so would be a bad idea. However, states with concealed carry laws have not shown any increase in violence after passing those laws. So I don't think...

I certainly feel that way. Having the right to bear arms in this country guarantees that collectively we have the ability to guarantee all those other rights won't be taken away. Even separate from that is the concept of always having the right of self-defense. Without firearms suddenly...

I don't know if you watched the video or just hate Fanaskin or what, but the video makes a perfectly valid point. If all you care about is the life of humans, then you end up advocating extreme positions like wanting to ban all automobiles or wanting to ban swimming pools. After all, they arent...

Of course it's hard to monday morning quarterback, but wouldn't you want someone in the theatre armed if it happened while you were in the theatre? If the answer is no, then I guess we just see things completely differently. Maybe you are smarter than me or something, I don't know. I just know I...

I constantly see people say that the Dark Knight shooting was an example of where CC holders wouldn't have helped, but I just don't get it. It isn't as if the guy killed 12 people and injured 50+ others instantly. It took him some time and he switched guns several times. All of which could have...

Yes, I believe the current US military would not have a chance in hell of pacifying the entire US if somehow our entire government turned into a tyranny (not that I believe that will happen anyway). We couldn't pacify Iraq without local help. The US military would be in an even worse shape...

Why oh why does this keep being said? It is flat out absurd. Look at, oh, any of the 100s of guerrilla wars all around the globe. Having large numbers of armed civilians is going to have a HUGE effect on how easy it is for an insurgency to form up against oppression.

I wonder if PRX will be going to a different game now. Can't really do much else more in the game atm. Brought servers to the top in both brackets and no new real changes for awhile.

Ending of Eight Below. Having a really old dog at the time, I weeped right at the start of that scene.

It almost surely isn't about being pushed, its about doing the most fucked up thing possible to get media coverage.

You think that list is shit? Pretty much any actor would die to have such a list of movies he stared in. Look past his silly religious beliefs and evaluate the movies on their own merits. Collateral was awesome. Minority Report was a great sci-fi movie. Valkyrie was good. All the MI movies...

Ah well, I am simply not secure in the belief that all countries act rationally in their own self-interest. Plenty of countries have done incredibly dumb things that fucked themselves over afterwards.

So you think its 'MURICA' beliefs to think its a bad idea for NK to have nukes? Can't wait for Japan and SK to become our 51st and 52nd states then.

Bayonetta, so many people have said it is a can't miss game, but it was so over the top and silly that I just couldn't get into it.

I am guessing it is because Gavinrad is the one with the rampaging ignorance. I recommend people check outNothing to Envy. While primarily a book about defectors and their stories, it does talk at length about how the Great Leader and the Dear Leader managed to fuck up their country over...

A Fire Upon the DeepandA Deepness in the Skyby Vernor Vinge. A Fire tied for the Hugo in 1993 and Deepness won in 2000. Absolutely incredible books set in the same world but essentially completely stand-alone. A Deepness wrestles with the idea of space empires set where it is impossible to...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._th...l_(video_game) I was 8 when the movie and this game came out and I absolutely LOVED the movie. Was so motivated for this game, and it wasn't just me, the entire family was. Played it for a few minutes and we were all just in shock about how horrible...

Why would you ban them? I thought you said on MN that you wouldn't ban them since they wouldn't have any power.

Which is why its pretty hard to get worked up with how shitty the port was. Yeah it was lazy. Yeah you had to download mods and use a controller. Yet if you did so you got a BETTER experience than the console version of Dark Souls, which was already one of the best games of the decade.

Don't despair, Girls s2 premieres in january! Uggh, March can't come soon enough.

I'm bothered by the lyrics but he has had to apologize for them. No reason to stop him or start some silly boycott performing a charity event. Maybe this whole event will show how silly the anti-US sentiment is in SK.

Everyone bashing the port are 100% right. It was super fucking lazy in every way.However, use a controller and the resolution fix mod and suddenly it is a superior experience to the console version. That isn't even counting all the other mods you can mess with for Dark Souls. If there is a...

That rubber band has to hurt.

Agreed, how many threads does he have to shit up? All he is doing is trying to derail any thread by a dev.