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Comment Re: Liberty is the only thing in danger here. (Score 2) 550

Tell that to the Jews or the peasants of the Germanic States during the 30 Years War. Hell, tell that to the Indians, either kind. Let's not forget the millions of civilians slaughtered like cattle at the orders of Mao and Stalin.

Ignoring the horrors perpetrated upon civilians by governments for the moment, and of course forcibly disregarding the lack of slaughter happening in Switzerland, it is well known that homogeneity of population leads to peacefulness and that Europe has utterly abused any non-homogenous population it contains within for hundreds of years *cough*jews and romany*cough*.

Comment Re:Liberty is the only thing in danger here. (Score 2) 550

Actually, while he may be able to find locations where the murder rate when down after GC laws were passed I do not believe there are locations that beat the national average decline that occurred at the same time. Which would be the first step, and only the first step, to showing any correlation between a decline in crime and the passage of GC laws.

Comment Re:Liberty is the only thing in danger here. (Score 4, Interesting) 550

OTOH, the ONLY movie theater within 20 miles witrh a ban on guns that had the force of law behind it in Colorado was the exact movie theater that the Aurora shooter chose. It was not the biggest, closest, or most popular. Instead it was the only one that banned guns.

Comment Re:New possibilities (Score 3, Informative) 333

Erm, no. First of all, the Kalashnikovs were based off of the StG 44. As in the russians 'granted asylum' to the maker of the 44 and then Mr Kalashnikov miraculously created the 47 with 'no' input from Hugo Schmeisser. At least until 2009 when Kalashnikov admitted that he 'helped' create the 47.

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