Not really. Stalin starved far more than anyone has shot.

The problem with your argument is that guns were only used for two of those. The one with the most casualties used a bomb, not guns.

So... The people who support the civil right to be armed argue that just because people misuse the technology doesn't meant that it should be illegal. The anti-arms people argue that your rights should be strictly limited because some people abuse it.

Then some idiot abuses her free speech civil rights, and those who support the right to arms point this out. Suddenly, the anti-arms people complain that if you do something about this abuse, then you are overreacting and threatening all free speech rights.

Have I got all that right?

You mean, government vs McDonald's?

20+ school kids have only been killed by a rampage killer 3 times in history. Frankly, it's so rare that its not even statistically significant. School busses kill more kids at once, more often than rampage killers.

Government and armies, on the other hand, kill 20 or more schoolkids at once far more often. That's why we have the 2nd amendment.

These are known as Dyson Swarms and Dyson Bubbles, and would have similar characteristics.

There's no chance that the Muslim world will see this as anything but censorship. First of all, let's be clear -- they are right when they see it that way. That's what it is. He would have never come to the attention of anyone had the state not been embarrassed by this.

Second, these are people who are protesting about a youtube clip that the vast majority of them haven't even seen, and only know of by word of mouth. That sort of Telephone game is never going get that sort of nuance across, even if it were true, which of course, it isn't.

He wasn't arrested for parole violations. He was arrested for embarrassing the state. The alleged violations are just the excuse they happen to be using. If they didn't have that, we would be hearing some BS about child porn on his computer instead.

Setting aside all the off-topic death penalty trolling, this seems like open and shut prior restraint.

A wider range would likely include all of the above -- including MREs.

There's also a convenience side to it. You absolutely can put together your own freeze dried and wet pack long-storage food that is tastier and as calorie dense (or more, in fact.) But think about the people that end up with MREs -- most of them are not hard-corps outdoorsmen or emergency preparedness geeks. They are folks who heard, "you should have some food on hand that you don't have to cook on the stove in case there is an emergency", and they have a couple of choices. The can do a lot of research, go to a bunch of different places, gather it all up, prepare some parts of it in advance, and reseal it... or they can google "MRE", order a case from a camping supply, and be done with it.

A lot of people are just going to order the MREs... and these are the same people who frankly would burn out halfway through the other part and wouldn't have any food on hand when an emergency hit. I would rather they do something to help themselves than just say, "eh, that's too much work" and go back to American Idol.

I'm well aware of the Four Fingers of Death.

The reason to have MREs is right there in the name -- meals ready to eat. You don't have to heat them, but if you have the time, you can using the included heater. Canned food often requires you to heat it, using some sort of stove and fuel. It's also, like others said, very calorie dense and much lighter, meaning that if you are stuck walking, it is much easier to carry.

Of course, they taste terrible, which is a selling point for me. I will actually wait for an emergency before I eat my MREs, rather than gobbling them up simply so I don't have to go to the store.

So it's bogus because it's from Africa? How does that make sense? The only ones I've seen calling it bogus are the rabid deniers, with no other evidence than "well I have a foreskin and I think it's great." Here's the footnotes from the section:

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Contradicted in the study reported in this thread. RTFS.