There are valid circumstances to fire a gun there. AFAIK there are no valid circumstances for firing a normal pistol in an airborne airplane.

Imagine having to wait while the guy attempts to jimmy it into an overhead compartment, I cant imagine it'd fit well.

Why arent you talking to your lawyer here, and why are you assuming the cop has information on how the sentencing goes?

The cop isnt your legal counsel. Dont treat him as such.

Yea, thats not how it works. There is no situation where it would be legal for a cop to lie, but illegal for a civilian to lie.

They arent under oath, by what logic would you make that statement?

Cops arent lawyers, and they arent your lawyer, so I hope you arent expecting valid legal advice from them, and I certainly hope you arent talking to them without valid legal advice.

The shipping container is different in that it can be hooked up to a truck and driven off.

Is anyone confused by the fact that cops can lie in the course of their work? Because thats something everyone should be crystal clear on: they can.

Or maybe people dont understand that things you share with a cop, even "off the record", can be on the record. That, too, is a myth that should be dispelled.

The same thing that stops someone from 3d-printing a nuclear warhead and blowing up a city: the fact that it molds material, it doesnt transmute materials.

You're right that I did get them confused. I honestly have no idea who Sarkesian is, other than (apparently) an activist feminist who is for some reason involved in gaming.

Im (also) still not clear where the relevance to the real world is here.

On the flipside, 80% of the people arguing against them really just want to be able to run red lights with impunity.

My gosh people said that? On the internet? What a shocker that that would happen in the gaming community!

Anyone-- regardless of gender-- who has been in online games for any length of time has heard this crap so many times you would expect them to dismiss it out of hand.

Not only that, but its pretty weak to try to justify the position that sexism is endemic in the gaming community by pulling up a single, generic, non-gender-based threat aimed at a controversial figure. I suppose we must have a problem with racism towards old white guys because of the number of threats George W Bush got, right? Maybe instead we should recognize that vocal minorities-- like people issuing abusrd threats about assault rifles and pipe bombs which would make 4chan proud-- are not typically a good representation of anything. If someone wants to make the case that we have an actual issue here, maybe we can get some actual statistics or empirical evidence-- something which I recall being absent from all of these discussions.

But of course these discussions were never about a level-headed approach to identifying a problem, they were about pushing political correctness to new extremes.

No, the real problem is that I actually read the story way back when, understood the issues apparently better than you did, but because Im not agreeing with you you're painting me with a broad "privileged white male" brush and dismissing my viewpoint.

The issue I had if you must know is that 95% of the criticism leveled at Sarkesian-- such as her generally unprofessional (ie intimate) relationships with reviewers of her games, her apparent pathological lying, and the fact that she makes unremarkable games and somehow gets airtime because shes a woman (and possibly because of the first issue)-- were accurate. But because they were leveled at a woman, people decide to pull the sexism card and label all men as trash; you may not have done this, but its the vibe that oozes out of every one of these topics.

The whole political correctness BS is absurd. If Sarkesian wants to make a game and wants to be in the industry thats her business, and I'll expect her games and her opinions to stand or fall on their on merits-- not on some misguided attempt to "normalize" the gender ratio by pandering to feminist BS.

The reason I dont care? Fundamentally this entire thing is people trying to play the victim card and claim that the world is ending because other people said mean things about them. I deal with far more substantial issues in the tiny kingdom that is my office every day. This stuff isnt newsworthy, its drama worthy of a GameFaqs messageboard or perhaps 4chan.

You missed the part where its apparently completely true that she has had a closer relationship with reviewers of her game than would be considered professional, and apparently has the empathy of a shark.

Not that thats really newsworthy or anyones business but hers-- but lets not paint her as a saint here.

If you're getting up in a tizzy about some dumb comment made by some angsty teenager on some forum, you should probably just sign off the internet now. Didnt Jon Gabriel have a pretty concise theory explaining this behavior somewhere?

I would argue this point but then I realized that-- just as OP says-- noone including myself cares. I dont even really know what half of the people here are talking about with "pro-gamergate" and "anti-gamergate" because I stopped caring about halfway into the second article on the issue. Fact is that theres a lot of sleazy people and Im not really clear why an article on it is news, or why Yet Another Sexism Accusation against gamers is news either.

Noone cares because both sides are being dumb and generating drama for drama's sake. Everyone needs to get over themselves, neither side is being persecuted-- theyre just playing the victim card.