Read more than one source.

You asked essentially how many violent crimes were presented by gun owners. Kleck did the best study to date on it and published in a peer review journal. The media doesn't bring these statistics into the conversation, which is why you wouldn't have heard about it.

Kleck conducted a national survey in 1994 (the National Self-Defense Survey) and, extrapolating from the 5,000 households surveyed, estimated that in 1993 there were approximately 2.5 million incidents in which victims used guns for self-protection, compared to about 0.5 million gun crimes as estimated by the National Crime Victimization Survey.

https://www.google.com/search?q=kleck+gun+control&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en&client=safari#itp=open0

Google National Self Defense Survey. 2.5 million preventions a year

The biggest thing that pro gun control people do is misunderstand stats. Democide (death by governmeny) killed over 250 million people in the 20th century - all on populations that were unarmed. Ill take my increased chance of accidental discharge, etc to prevent my government from deciding to cleanse my entire town on a whim.

We'll strip mine the other planets later.

This. So much this.

Epic is a steaming pile with inconsistent interfaces.

And it's listed as one of the best out there.

I use it daily and it is not intuitive, not user friendly, has a horribad UI, and not user modifiable.

The biggest problem is that Epic doesn't sell simplicity. They sell parts and each site gets to decide what parts to use. It would be like buying a Ford Explorer but only getting a parts bin and asking a local mechanic to put it together.

There are tons of user screens, small buttons, buttons that use similar names, case studies in pop-up fatigue, poor work-flow, poor UI design overall. My inbox has multiple different categories and each category screen has similar buttons that do different things. Sometimes I can route a quicknote, sometimes I can't. It's a cobbled-together piece of UI crap. Think of the first linux GUI you used and add a layer of microsoft cruft on it.

Exactly. The turnout wasn't because the owner said he was for the Biblical View of Marriage.

Everyone knows Chick-Fil-A is a Christian company. They're closed on Sundays. Was it really news that the CEO stated that he supported the Biblical version of marriage? No, it wasn't.

The reason there was such a response was the media putting words in his mouth combined with the threatened tyranny of mayors trying to bully Chick FIl-A.

And good for the ACLU.

It appears that government is stronger than the individual in this case.

And it isn't even Ixtoc I * 0.01 at this point.

That would put it on par with Ixtoc I, which went on for 9 months and didn't kill the gulf.

It isn't as bad as the Ixtoc I spill that went on for 9 months and didn't kill the gulf. That was 30,000 barrels per day for 9 months.

a right winged pigeon from outer space.