Hmmm, perhaps people should be forced to pass a Fundamentals of English Grammar course before being allowed to post on Slashdot on topics concerning English writings, especially ACs.

Except all the statistically reliable and valid studies on the subject cannot find any medium correlation between gun availability and suicide rate. The vast majority don't even find a weak correlation.

Eh, he's a Packers fan, almost certainly from Milwaukee or Madison. His opinions can safely be ignored.

Assuming you are within 7 yards and remotely have a handle on using a knife, bringing a knife to a gunfight isn't the completely losing situation you make it out to be. It's certainly not optimal, but it is feasible.

Um, no, they went from full-auto to burst because the gas impingement system at the time was crap and fouled very very easily. Also as a cost saving measure with ammo. From a tactical standpoint, having everybody with the ability to properly lay down suppressive fire would have been more useful than not but the political and mechanical limitations at the time ruled that out.

Wow you're pretty damn ignorant aren't you. Contrary to Hollywood unreality and the pulp westerns put out by book publishing companies at the time that were sensationalized to, and this part is key, sell books, the Wild West was not wild because people were being gunned down like rabid dogs left and right. In point of fact, they were safer from being shot than most medium to large cities today.

As for your twelve years of EMT work, were you even in a city where at least 30% of the of age law abiding populace owned guns? Somehow I seriously fucking doubt it. Seeing as less than 10% of mexican crime guns come from Non-governmental US sources, what in the nine hells do you fucking think that banning guns would do in the US given our porous borders. We can't even keep things as large as containers of people slipping through.

If by developed you mean stole from Schmeisser with effectively slave labor then yes.

If the groups were large enough, you might have a point. However, the small groups combined with a rat that has an abnormally high cancer rate means the SNR is way to low.

The study was rejected because it's signal to noise ratio was crap and they didn't use enough rats. I don't know about you, but as someone who occasionally reads science literature, knowing such matters is kind of fucking important as to how much weight I give a particular study..

Meh, true, but at the same time, may threaten the foundations of democracy, unless very explicitly defined somewhere later in the document, is vague enough to be utterly meaningless. A very, very few governments will use it as intended while the vast majority will only block the most egregious of the violations. And given the lack of specificity, both interpretations would be correct.

Moving to different jobs when a company fails wouldn't be such a big fucking deal if the War Labor Board hadn't given tax breaks to companies who provided health insurance in the 40's as a way of easing the effect that government mandated wage controls were already having. Then the tax benefits were never rescinded after the war at the behest of the UAW a and car companies mainly. Thus you have the current day problem of employees losing health insurance almost any time they change jobs.

Every country that could actually defend itself from an army of Frenchmen led by a male member of that country which called itself socialist has become a prime example of the monstrous lengths government can go to. Of course, according to all the ivory tower morons, none of those countries were actually socialist. The only time socialism works even remotely is when a population is very homogenous and the vast majority of defense spending is done by someone else.

Because Japan's tent cities have nothing to do with the fact that they forced 2 decades of stagflation upon their population or the massive real estate boom prior.

However those markets are not banking, car manufacture, healthcare, or tanning salons.

Correct, they do. Did you know that the US knife murder rate is almost double the UK's entire murder rate? That's right, Americans murder each other at twice the total rate of the UK just with knives. Or they used to anyway. Since American violence stats have by and large continued to go down and UK stats gone up, that may have changed recently.