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Comment Re:Somebody's got to say it (Score 1) 2987

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.

Comment Re:It is time. (Score 1) 2987

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:

  • The Swiss have a conscript army, which is why people have guns (but not ammunition) at home.
  • That the members of the militia do not own their guns
  • That otherwise gun control in Switzerland is very much like other European countries and
  • That Switzerland has one of the highest gun death rates in Europe, twice as high as that in its neighbours Austria and France, and 5 times higher than in its other two neighbours, Germany and Italy

Comment You too can have a body like Charles Atlas (Score 1) 716

Isn't this all rather a hasty generalisation. You may be able to point out a small number of people who have dropped out of college and been successful, but what about those who drop out and end up picking goods for the owners of Microsoft and similar? I am sure that there must be people who have bodies like Charles Atlas without doing any workouts, but I suspect they are few and far between.

Comment Re:Paying taxes (Score 1) 430

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.

Comment Paying taxes (Score 4, Interesting) 430

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.

Comment Holy attack bears (Score 2) 1152

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

Comment Not a yacht (Score 1) 438

In Britain this would be called a "gin palace", designed to be shown off in the harbours of Monaco and the south of France but rarely taken to sea except by ship delivery companies.

Comment Re:Dawkin's is a piss poor social scientist (Score 1) 862

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?

Comment Another loaded question for him (Score 1) 1142

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.

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