Gun control is gun control. Some of what you state is true, while some of it is just so much spin.

http://www.nationalreview.com/...

"In 1931, Weimar authorities discovered plans for a Nazi takeover in which Jews would be denied food and persons refusing to surrender their guns within 24 hours would be executed. They were written by Werner Best, a future Gestapo official. In reaction to such threats, the government authorized the registration of all firearms and the confiscation thereof, if required for “public safety.” The interior minister warned that the records must not fall into the hands of any extremist group."

So, yes, the Weimar Republic did indeed pass the laws which made it possible for criminals to threaten and intimidate law abiding citizens.

"In 1933, the ultimate extremist group, led by Adolf Hitler, seized power and used the records to identify, disarm, and attack political opponents and Jews. "

Hitler's party took full advantage of not only a generally disarmed citizenry, but he also took full advantage of the database to identify his potential opponents.

The Republic committed the initial evil, and Hitler simply built upon that evil. The end result being, gun control is demonstrably WRONG!

Actually - yes I am. I watch people avoiding the police. I watch people saying "Yes sir" and "No sir" to the police. I watch people groveling in front of the police.

I address police in one way, and one way only. I address them as equals. I am a free man. Cop says "Stop!" I say, "What for?"

Delusional, you say? The numbers support my view. The cops don't come out into the rural parts of the country, and throw concussion grenades into cribs, killing little babies. They only do that in the cities, where hoplophobes have passed laws prohibiting peole from having weapons of their own. Tamir Rice wasn't executed in rural Kentucky, or Arkansas, or Texas. He was executed in a liberal stronghold, Cleveland, Ohio.

Delusional. Liberal gun control policies are most definitely a failure in the United States of America. Do a Google search for US cities with the highest crime and highest murder rates. All of them have very strict gun control laws.

Russia had gun control when Stalin was busy killing off - what? 20 million people?

China had gun control while it experienced it's revolution, also while it suffered the Japanese occupation, and during the time the Communists were killing off yet more millions.

Hitler enjoyed the benefit of gun control laws.

Pol Pot didn't have to worry about an armed citizenry.

I think the numbers support the necessity of gun rights. The difference between a free man and a slave is the right to bear arms.

That seems to be changing. Have you watched 'India's Daughter' yet? No, I'm not from India, so I can't verify anything, but I do read the news.

I think this is the full movie - I have it on hard drive, but I routinely delete history, and can't remember where I downloaded it from.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No, the point is, you have no point. Let us consider women. There are some women - we might even say many women - who feel like their gender holds them back. At the same time, there are many women who don't see things that way. And, there are millions of women who don't WANT to work in the work force, at all. These are mainly "home makers". Obama made a mindless speech not many months ago, in which he told those home makers that he doesn't WANT them to be homemakers! These women are being pressured to enter the workforce, so that their labors can be monetized and taxed.

Gubbermint looks a community, sees that there are approximately half the population is female, and in all it's glorious presumptive arrogance, ASSumes that half the workforce should be female? WTF? And, we have large corporations buying into that thinking? YOU are buying into that thinking? Really, I have to demand, WTF?

Other segments of the population are more difficult to understand. Blacks, Latinos, rural people of any race or culture - many of them simply don't WANT to be part of a Google world, or an Apple world. You can't force them into that world at gunpoint.

People are DIFFERENT. People are INDIVIDUALS. They don't have to conform to corporate expectations, or government expectations.

It is enough that the government and corporations remove any roadblocks that might prevent a woman, or a Black, or a Latino from choosing to follow a path that ends up at Apple, Google, or a government job. You can't FORCE THEM to follow that path. Leave 'em the hell alone.

You may argue and I may argue round and round - but let me ask you. How often does an entire neighborhood in some city just depopulate, overnight? Some suspect comes to the police' attention, and everyone who has had any contact with him just disappears. Today, the FEMA camps still stand empty. We are dangerously close to becoming a full fledged police state, but if you think we are there already, then you lack understanding and imagination.

Mmmm - yeah. But then, not all nations spend a fraction of their GDP on spying. And, you know, that whole Five Eyes thing basically pits "us" against the world. You may be right - but I see the whole damned thing as immoral and unethical, not to mention that it's a violation of all sorts of treaties, understandings, and agreements.

Tamir Rice? You need to get a grip on reality. Please note that I am not, nor have I ever defended Michael Brown. But there are dozens of young black men who have been killed by gung-ho ass-wipe cops out to make a name for themselves. Babies killed during police break ins when they toss a grenade into an occupied apartment. A decorated Marine veteran killed because he refused to take some medications. Some retard killed on his own front porch, because he didn't want to get in the car to go to a doctor's appointment.

I repeat - more Americans have been murdered by police than have died due to terrorist activity.

It isn't YET a police state. We are close, but we haven't reached the point of no return. When the US actually becomes a police state, it will become illegal to even question authority. I can still question authority without going to prison. And, that is what all the "terrorism" bullshit really is. We are some indeterminate distance from two or three laws finally being passed that permits the local prosecutors to set up a kangaroo court, declare us to be terrorists, and have us shipped off to the FEMA camps that the militia groups are so concerned with. It's one thing for the feds to do it in rare instances, and cover it up. It is quite another thing for local prosecutors to do it brazenly.

More American citizens have been killed by police officers than by terrorists this year. How do you explain that? You go ahead and run around in circles, worrying about terrorists making the sky fall. I'm far more worried about what my own government is doing. Mohammed Camelbreath has to swim a couple thousand miles to poase any threat to me. The bastards in Washington merely have to pick up a telephone to fuck me over.

I think it is probably safe to assume that the cryptography was cracked. Throw enough resources at a encryption problem, it becomes a matter of time until it's cracked. I believe that both Russia and China were willing to throw massive resources at the encryption. So, whether the story is accurate or not, I'll presume that the encryption is compromised.

I see a lot of that foreign spying as just as wrong as the domestic spying. Nations such as Germany are hosting our troops within their own borders, and we repay them with what? Spying on their internal as well as foreign affairs? We are really shitty guests when you get down to it.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
        Benjamin Franklin

You may of course do some searches regarding this quote. Some argue that the quote is applied improperly in most cases. Others argue that today's world is far to complex for the quote to have any meaning. Whatever interpretation of his words you choose to believe in, I assert that reading the words in their plainest meaning applies.

In short, only damned fools are willing to concede any right or any freedom or any liberty for the sake of safety.

Agreed, 100%. And, I'll add that if the NSA and top government officials weren't such dickheads, Snowden probably never would have acted in the way he did. Government apologists tend to forget that a very large percentage of the NSA's spying is simply UNCONSTITUTIONAL. The NSA possesses all the tools to turn the US into a police state in short order. They are abusing those tools pretty badly. Who knows what the hell is going to happen in the next year, or ten years, if no one stands up to them now?

Partisans are quick to point out that Obama (or Bush, or Clinton, or whoever) would never do anything like that. The partisans are idiots, because THERE ARE people who would do all of that, and worse. I'm quite certain that General Alexander rationalizes how important his work is, and if he were allowed to act without fetters, he WOULD INDEED turn the US into a police state.

Exactly. Another unused key. I have a Ctrl key, and all the F-keys. I've never, ever, EVER used the stupid assed Windows key, even when I was running Windows operating systems. Today I have a low-end "Gaming" keyboard. The only "special" keys I use are the ones that adjust the backlighting on the keyboard. I use all the same keymappings that I've always used, and never reach for the F-keys at the bottom of the keyboard. It would take more time and energy to re-teach my fingers to reach for those special keys than I could ever regain in saved time. Decades of muscle memory trump special doo-dads scattered around the board.