Automatic weapons are already rare and tightly controlled in the United States, and their "effectiveness" is questionable in these types of situations. No, you don't need anything fancy like that to create such a tragedy. A simple hunting rifle or handgun are all that one needs.
One of my friends is a teacher in a school about 15 miles away from this incident. He tells me that the gunman carried one of these besides the hand guns.
I agree, lets go the Switzerland route and actually require able bodied individuals to own and be trained in firearms. That way, the US too can have one of the lowest firearm crime rates in the world.
You do realise that:
Wouldnt you be better off buying from Amazon and writing a check to the tax man. If you buy from the local store, they get about 5-10% in tax. If you buy from Amazon and send a check, they could get 44% of the price. I am sure the tax man will agree with me.
You assume that I am in America and hence paying sales tax. I am not. There is currently a significant amount of bad feeling in the UK about companies like Amazon, Google, Starbucks and Asda (Walmart). Their turnover is in the billions of pounds but by means of some fancy accounting they pay little or no tax. In the end this is a cost to society, the independents go under, people lose their jobs, where these companies do employ people locally it is mainly unskilled work at the minimum wage. It affects our town centres, which lose all sense of vitality. In essence the "fuck you" attitude of these companies cost society and the people in it, even if it saves individuals a few pennies.
Fuck that. I'll buy from the vendors offering the products I want at prices I agree to. This "buy local" horseshit is nothing but guilt-tripping. Customers aren't property, and if local retailers can't compete, then they shouldn't be in business.
-jcr
Whereas I prefer to shop from companies who actually contribute back to the local economy by paying their taxes and not stashing them away in tax havens. If companies have sociopathic policies I try to avoid them.
So,they've managed to patent using statistics? Is anyone actually doing their job in the patent office?
Nah, they have managed to patent a logical fallacy.
Read some old testament "stone naughty children" verses then when they pull out the line about how Jesus makes the old testament obsolete show them Matthew 5:17-20
Don't forget the holy attack bears
23 And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.
24 And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And there came forth two she bears out of the wood, and tare forty and two children of them.
2 Kings 2:23-24
to some groups, disagreeing with their religion is, by definition, insulting it.
As a friend of mine (and Richard Dawkins) says "'Take offence at the drop of a hat' is the unwritten eleventh commandment".
It's popular to conflate Stalin's insane need to kill people who were "out to get him" with atheism in general. Apparently he killed no atheists, had a sober mind, and his people weren't terrified of whether they would be the next ones to be dragged off to gulags.
Ah, so no members of the NKVD, the army or the politburo were purged by Stalin, only the religious.
If you wish to point claims of revisionism, you first have to stop revising history yourself by using logical fallacies.
So who taught you logic?
the fallacy of the complex question.
I don't think that means what you think it means, if you think my quandary qualifies.
I was actually taught logic, unlike many who make claims to logic. As to complex question, it is explained here.
Assuming you're aware of the behavior, what are your thoughts regarding the fundamentalist-like fervor exhibited by many of your followers, as well as the irony of their penchant for elevating you to a god-like status?
Why don't you ask him whether he is still beating his wife while you are at it? Rarely have I seen such clear examples of the fallacy of the complex question.
This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance. - Steven Wright, comedian