I've seen universal battery extenders. basically just batteries with a USB power only port on them and a way to recharge themselves.

Mycroft

It was stated as more, not more per capita, if something other than what was said was meant it should have been stated that way.
  Also I had just replied to someone deliberately giving totals that make knife crime look worse in the US when the per capita numbers show the opposite.

Mycroft

The second amendment is no more defined by the technology of the time than the first.
      The first does say press, the second only says arms, this is a close to reference technology as either gets.
In the first they clearly meant the recorded word, in the second they meant "every arm of the soldier, however terrible".

Mycroft

Mycroft

Apparently it is hard to understand. It's seems a lot of people mistakenly believe it's a limit or excuse to limit the second rather than a singularly important reason and encouragement it is. These same people also seem to fail to understand the meaning of militia (every able bodied free man of sound mind), or of arms ("Every sword of the soldier, however terrible").

Mycroft

Probably false assumptions: 1) That 100% of the US army (or an effectively high enough percentage so as to make no difference) will side against their own.
2) That small arms and guerrilla tactics are useless against a better armed army, history says otherwise.
3) That none(or effectively none) of this superior armament would wind up captured or otherwise in the possession or use of the citizens (we dropped single use handguns into occupied France durring WWII with instructions on how use them to do just that) .

Mycroft

Mycroft

Look into the history a bit more. A militia is the people, and well regulated means well trained. And arms is 'every arm of the soldier, however terrible'.

Mycroft

Arms refers to every arm of the soldier however terrible according to the founding fathers. It most assuredly includes fire arms, as well as clubs spears swords and so on.

Mycroft.

And LESS than a quarter the population.

Mycroft

But not less violence, what is your malfunction that you can't understand that? Are people killed by guns the only ones killed? Is every other death and assault somehow not real to you? Or are you just trolling?

Mycroft

Wrong, the issue is violence and crime, if you reduce one avenue is it not logical (and supported by evidence) that others will be used?

Mycroft

Bullshit. The primary excuse used to try and grab guns is to reduce violent crime and deaths. The other means for criminals and violent people to act on their violent urges are very germane, as these are the means people will turn to. This deceptive attempt to avoid the unpleasant reality that removing peoples ability to defend themselves may not make them safer (In the us crime in general goes down the more people are allowed to own and carry firearms).
    You keep trying slant and restrict the argument in your favor with these poor attempts at deception and derailment.

    Mycroft

Not forgotten, just understood, unlike what those who would trample on the rights protected by the second amendment.
    The founding fathers saw the militia as the entirety of the free adult male population, The first congress passed as one of it's first laws a law making that clear.
    The modern "militia" in the form of the national is significantly different from what a militia was intended to be initially, primarily in that one has to sign a contract to be involved, and undertakes a wider scope of activities and duties.

Mycroft
 

The population of the UK is STAGGERINGLY less than the US as well. Per capita they had more knife deaths than the US (using your numbers and the population of both countries) of course I'm assuming you meant UK by England, If you actually meant just England, then the difference is even bigger.

Mycroft

Two falsehoods, 1) the us is NOT Germany we collect statistics differently just to start with, and 2)in the U.S. strict gun laws usually precede increase in violence and inverse, liberalization of gun laws, is followed by decreased violence.
      I have no clue why hoplophobes insist on comparing the U.S. to different countries with different reporting and statistical methodologies, different cultures, and various pretty clear warning signs against attempting the simplistic comparison the always use. Especially given the wealth of data here in the US that is much closer to an apple to apples comparison. Other than the obvious reason that it usually argues strongly against their biases.

Mycroft

Yes because every time a group of people are slurred it has a basis in reality.
    I'm sure Goebbels said the same thing.

Mycroft