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Comment Re:now they can concentrate on ignoring mentally i (Score 1) 350

If you want to have gun control - there is 1 legally valid solution - amend the constitution & redact the second amendment. Anything else is illegal.

This is the most important... the only important argument in this thread. There is no honest reading of the constitution that allows banning firearms. The only way to restrict gun ownership without a constitutional amendment is to simply ignore the constitution.

And that is honestly worth many, many deaths to prevent. A Civil War magnitude of deaths to prevent. Losing our constitution, is condemning ourselves and our descendents to tyranny.

If you want to amend the constitution to ban guns... let's talk. There's reasonable arguments on both sides.

Comment Re:Um... (Score 4, Interesting) 268

I would speculate that those who pretend spending is the only problem probably ignore much of the past 15 years of government action.

You mean the last fifteen years where spending has gone from 1.6 trillion to 3.7 trillion? Where total tax revenue is still at the highest it's ever been? Where we would have an instant surplus if we could simply bring the federal budget down to where it was in 2004?

Comment Re:Confusing summary (Score 1, Troll) 93

Scientific American is a shadow of its former self. It was a great and respectable magazine 20 years ago; now it is barely more than a 'Discovery' or 'Popular Science'... more parts marketing and fluff than science. I loved it when I was a kid, and now I just feel sad whenever I see a 'Scientific American very special theme issue' on the shelves.

Comment Re:What are you worried about? (Score 1) 333

Holy crap. You prompted me to check their stock prices. I had thought that smart people were going to begin divesting themselves soon; hadn't realized it had already started happening.

I don't think Apple is in severe trouble; they've got the money and resources to survive for years and years. However, they are going to be re-evaluated down to a rational level, and that's going to be a huge shock for some people.

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