In general your breathing is not conscious
It is now, jerk!
You could greet an American female colleague with "hello, gorgeous" with very little chance she'd be offended.
I am not an American, but my assumption is that you work in a strip club.
In that time, the IRS approved perhaps dozens of applications
Ok not that I'm really following this story, I'm sure there are better numbers elsewhere, but in this quote: "perhaps dozens"? What does that even mean? Perhaps thousands? Perhaps millions? Perhaps none? This implies they don't actually know any numbers.
Until someone can prove that the referendum was done under duress, or the vote was rigged, why will no one accept the Crimean's decision?
I would consider my country's government being occupied by foreign military forces a pretty good sign of being "under duress". Also if the occupying force held a referendum where status-quo was not an option, it would be pretty easy to argue that I am being forced to go down one of two paths that I do not want.
Maybe things look different from the perspective of the Crimean populace, and maybe this really is what the overwhelming majority wanted. But from outside it certainly doesn't seem legit.
But what is the point of mandating that police use it? Nobody on the selling side of this product is advocating forcing this gun on the populace. This is a private company selling a particular product to a particular market. That market is probably gun owners who have young children.
Nobody is forcing anyone to buy electric cars today either.
The brilliance of two-thirds of the world's web servers
FTFY.
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