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Comment Re:Wow (Score 2) 1198

It's the toxic idea that everything is the result of social attitudes and can therefore be optimized through social engineering. Such people will claim "race doesn't exist", "men and women are the same", "everyone deserves a comfortable wage" etc. with a straight face. Which is actually the same delusional mindset of Rodger, who wanted the government to make sex illegal.

Comment Re:Stupid question (Score 1) 483

Not much of a difference. Psychopathy is a terminal illness, committing premeditated murder involves deciding to waive your own right to life, and it's not even unusual for convicted murderers to be eager to be executed. Your stats are from one Swiss clinic that isn't the only one in Europe, and I can't seem to find a total, but the point is that it's a lot more than are executed. A company that is happy to sell drugs to a doctor to put down a sick kid, but refuses to sell them to a state to put down a murderer is on some shaky moral high ground.

Comment Re:...but that doesn't explain... (Score 1) 584

There is little doubt that without the NRA lobby assault rifles would have been banned federally. A good chance that there would have been no grandfathering and you would have had to turn yours in. The next target would probably be "automatic handguns" as a class. We're talking about Feinstein being a given a free hand! If anything the NRA is too conservative, too reactive; the anti-2nd Amendment lobby is limited by nothing except the size of their dreams for a progressive future where government makes anything possible. .

Comment Re:...but that doesn't explain... (Score 1) 584

The idea that a person might have to be shown to be mentally competent and capable of owning and being responsible for a firearm isn't radical.

Wouldn't you first and foremost want to make being mentally competent and responsible a requirement for voting? Or are you a radical fetishist who believes that no one should even have to show an ID to vote? Or maybe we can assume that everyone over the age of 18, not incarcerated in a penal or mental institution, is actually a...wait for it...citizen.

Comment Re:Lack of demand, not capital, not labor is the k (Score 1) 182

Sounds like you want tough negotiations with oil production corporations getting tax breaks...so you can dump piles of tax money on construction corporations dreaming up scam "public works" projects. The only way to get government to spend tax money better is to make sure it has hardly any.

Comment Re:This is a solution in search of a problem. (Score 1) 765

Millions of children are aborted by their parents, the deaths of "innocents" are 100% meaningless, and this method actually would have a eugenic affect. Of course sometimes the kid shoots a friend, the best strategy is to make sure there are even more guns in the houses of stupid people to increase the odds that kid will be shot to death before he can involve a non-relative.

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