You are absolutely right about that, unfortunately your missing the point that its still some crazy person trying to kill 30 people not the gun. While its easier to sit and fire 30 rounds into the crowd I could just as easily run around slashing people with a knife thankfully there are good people with the ability to contain the bad people because they have the same if not better force/weapon/abilities.

Bad guys will always always always find a way to get what they need (guns, drugs, whatever) regardless if its following the law or not (thats why they are called bad guys). I for one want to make sure the good guys continue to have the same if not better weapons/abilities.

Imagine what would happen if we banned guns? well just look what happened when we made certain drugs illegal. Did those drugs just disappear and nobody was able to get any of them? no. But it made it so the good guys could throw the book at them when people where caught with them. We already have laws that are in place for people that have real assault weapons etc. What more do you want?

How? Please explain. I don't see any reason why banning them would prevent bad guys from using them to bad things, bad guys don't follow the law already!

I'm not sure where you live but in the US I can't just go use cocaine legally whenever I would like, yet it is everywhere. The same concept applies to gun control, the only people your going to stop are law following citizens.

What is it you think banning guns will do?

Did banning illegal drugs actually stop them from being used and people over dosing on them?

Personally I don't think banning will do anything productive in relation to gun violence etc. I grew up in a farming community and we were taught how to use and treat guns from an early age and because of that we did just that. Right now I think its better for us to focus on educating people about guns and best practices then just blindly banning all guns.

I, personally (and yes i realize you might disagree), would want a hand gun to defend my family if an intruder were to come into my house AND I, personally, really enjoy taking out my AR-15 (not an assault rifle by definition), XD-m 40, 12 gauge, or any gun I can get my hands on and having some fun practicing AND I, personally, enjoy hunting with the various firearms for food for my family. Of course all of my gun use is done using correct safety precautions. I'm very very very careful with who i bring with me and I always make sure that they really do understand gun safety even if they say they already do. There has been more then one time when I've had to correct people because they just want to do what they've seen in movies instead of actually being safe and that is the real problem, idiots. To put it in a more gently people who are uneducated about guns and gun use.

Now gun control biased moderaters fire away with your -1's

to bad there isn't a mod depressing ... i would of given it to you as you rained on my "yay for no MS" parade I was having. The truth sucks.

You were wrong dad, you were wrong.

crap you got me beat! I've only been using since 3.11, but then again I always exited and went to DOS anyways.

But my grandma (who is the person that will eventually have windows 8) only uses her select programs and every time something new happens her brain cant handle it and it requires many phone calls/written down tutorials of how to navigate until she gets used to it. Honestly I'm just selfishly not wanted to have to support/explain that with all my "non-techie" family members because they always call me for anything relating to the computer, regardless if its something I can "fix" or not.

"yes grandma, click the blue 'e' ... now type in the address bar ... the bar at the to... no the one that says something like 'www.' something ... ahhh screw it I'm just going to install a screen sharing program, be over in a couple of minutes"

But you can actually do sub repos , albeit I think they are a pain in the a$$ but yes you can do it.

You make it sound like you have to buy an IBM mainframe just to host a git server ... i bet my 386 could do it ... maybe a little slow, but it would get there eventually. Just setup a old desktop computer as a "server" and let it run :)

because people being able to intuitively use an OS isn't that important? windows 8 and gnome 3 FTW!

but seriously I had the hardest time getting used to windows 8 ... now that I kinda have the hang of it I don't think it is that bad. Just takes some time to figure out how your actually supposed to use it.

Thats what I thought! but to be fare it was only for a few assignments then we switched to oracle etc.

The one that immediately comes to mind is my DB class requiring Access for one of the projects ... if I sat down and thought about it I could probably come up with more.

+1 to above

I'm the college kid, with the macbook pro, in the computer science class.

Surprisingly macbooks are becoming more popular yet our teachers still insist on using MS products and languages. I know in the *real* world there are a lot of MS jobs etc, but there are also a lot of cross platform jobs too (i'm a php developer, dont judge). Drives me nuts when I have to spin up a VM just to use a program thats Windows specific because the requirements for the project/program/lesson are for a windows machine. Some teachers are willing to accept alternatives, but not all.

oh this made my day ... specially if you go read the blog and listen to the phone calls!

you mean restart?

But when we buy our server hardware we buy them blank and install linux ourselves ... does it account for that type of situation? If not then revenue certainly would be skewed to M$ (that and in my experience it doesn't take as much hardware/$ to get similar performance from a linux server)