Agreed!

Hello kitty AR-15!

That home invasion type scenario is so remote in probability it is not worth worrying about.

It depends where you live. When I lived in a nasty neighborhood in a certain midwestern city it wasn't uncommon. That being said you can keep a fully loaded revolver in a LOCKED table top gun safe on the nightstand with reasonably quick access. Especially if you've got a model with the finger tip controls and the combo locked into muscle memory.
I'm a fan of the pump gun though..

Plenty of smart people own guns, unless you are defining smart people as people who agree with you.

This is Slashdot. Of course (s)he is.

"The purpose of gun control is to guarantee the right of 110-pound women to fistfight with 210-pound rapists." - the net

You think anyone in our government fears a mob with guns? Recall, this is the government that has a fleet of robots that roam the skies looking for people to bomb without ever risking a life.

*snicker* I've got some friends in units such as the 82nd Airborne that fear insurgents living in mud huts with shitty stamped AK-47s and improvised explosives.

Perhaps it depends who you are trying to stop. If you are trying to stop drug lords and mass terrorists who have many people in their organization who can easily disable the technology, then you're right, it probably won't stop them.

Kids root their own cell phones and circumvent DRM. Why would you think that it would take a major effort to disable this stuff? Not trying to be an asshole about it, just saying there will be a FAQ on the topic in about 12 milliseconds after that model of weapon is released.

Multiple assailants, failure to stop, ammunition malfunction, etc.

Have you ever fired a handgun?

Paradigm.. paradigmish.. paradigmons.. paradigmez.. paradigment...
Sorry.. couldn't resist...

Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with this. The stinging irony is that your PhD is going to scare folks off despite that it demonstrates that you've got quite the noggin on your shoulders. Unless you're willing to omit it from your resume (which some MAY consider lying by omission) along with some creative verbage about what you were doing during that time, doing your own thing as the parent suggests may be the path of least resistance.

A friend of mine has a PhD in Chemical Engineering and an MS in Computer Science. He always takes the risk and omits the PhD as he was getting no love from employers otherwise.

Assuming that your statistics are true, all that means is that CCW licenses are currently strictly limited. Once we make them more common and widespread, you'll see the rate of violent crime go up.

Strictly limited? As in a background check to ensure that yu're not a felon and that you take 12 hours worth of coursework? And suicide.. is it really any of your business if the person is of sound mind? And please, don't tell me you're spamming your blog in here with weakass reasoning like the unfounded assertion above.

You have absolutely no idea how my leftie coworkers talk about the conservatives in the office.. and we're (the conservatives) centrist Democrats. I find that many of the science and engineering types tend to be well reasoned and objective, while many of our liberal arts types tend to be much more emotive and subjective. That's why I asked for the stats in the first place. I'm just getting tired of getting an unsolicited earful since they know a couple of us are into sport shooting and also have concealed carry permits.

No flamage intended, do you have a cite for that? There are some libruhl assholes that need clobbering with this in my workplace.

Get a nice 16 gauge pump shotgun. Just aim in the general direction and you are gonna hit something with one shot.

Yeah, maybe your kid if you're that inept to believe what you just wrote.

I couldn't let this one fly just in case somebody reads this and takes it seriously. The shotgun does not throw a basketball-sized ball of death down the fucking hallway. At 3-4 meters it's more than likely going to be the size of a tennis ball depending on the ammunition used, as well as the choke and other aspects of the weapon in question.

And if you don't think that double-aught buckshot can't burn through an interior wall and whack little Timmy, I've got a bridge to sell you.

In addition, the whole First Amendment issue: I've got friends of mine in the NRA and other firearms organizations who are receiving death threats from left-wing morons. Thoughts on inciting violence? Hmmm??? Was the purpose of the article to inform or inflame? You mentioned that many interpretations are valid. I think the article was written for sensationalism and page hits.

Wally-word. I like that! :) I was at Fort Dix, otherwise known as Fort Disneyland.

Oh, we were fed the same line when I was in the US Army. Snopes says 'no', and to be honest I think any suppression was due to exhaustion from four hours of sleep and twenty hour training days.