Undeniable positive results? Like skyrocketing violent crime rates (many times higher than the US violent crime rate), a homicide rate that did drop for a few years but has resumed an upward climb, home invasions going through the roof and so on. There has even been one mass shooting since the one that inspired their ban. The one positive result was the near total disappearance of suicide by firearm, but...
...Suicides in total did not drop one bit but instead spiked the two immediately following years and then returned to exactly where they had been before the spike. Meaning those killing themselves with guns simply found another way to do it.

As long as it wasn't full auto capable doing that was absolutely legal. As long as the weapon is not an NFA class firearm, you can make any weapon for your own use. Federal firearm laws are based on the commerce clause, if the weapon you make does not enter interstate commerce (I.e. you keep it for yourself), the feds are limited in their ability to control it. That is the biggest draw of the print your gun movement. If we can just print reliable firearms with NO record, then no attempt to ban them will ever be successful.

Tools and another very key requirement. Knowledge of how to work metal and use said tools. How many kids get more than a semester of shop in Jr high any more? Not many. It takes not only the equipment but the knowhow to do this.

He was not a simple clerk, he was a trained, qualified and cleared Intelligence analyst. Their very job by description requires rather free access to a wide range of classified information. As part of his qualification process he had to submit to a very in depth background investigation, as the Analyst MOS requires a TOP SECRET clearance to be considered qualified to work in the field. Further the military rank structure has most the actual work being done by the junior enlisted. Manning was a PFC, PFC's and SPC's do most of the actual work, the higher ranks are managerial levels. When it comes to doing the analysis the PFC's and SPC's in the various HQ intel offices as Manning worked in do perform most of the actual work and more senior ranking individuals out in the remote bases can often be found reporting to such Jr. enlisted personnel and meeting requirements for information established by the Jr personnel.

contrary to your claim about your friend the intel fields actually do require a higher level of intelligence to get into. A high ASVAB test score is required to be an Analyst, and the course is not easy for the academically challenged. Now your friend may have just been lazy in HS and actually had the intelligence to get into the field while having grades bad enough to prevent him from getting into college, but that's more on his laziness in HS resulting in bad grades rather than actual abilities.

Wrong, I see no more extensive coverage (well except for all the coverage of the B-2 training mission) than has been presented every time NK starts rattling it's sabers. This happens every few years, it gets plenty of coverage and then fades away until NK is feeling neglected again and starts the process all over again.

19 years ago when I was at Basic Training they started rattling their sabers and the Drill Sergeants used the threat of conflict to impress upon us that although we had signed up for various specific jobs, if needed they would simply change the scope of BCT to Infantry BCT and send us off as infantry. Whether that was true or not is beside the point, the point is that this is nothing new, do a little research and you'll see this saber rattling and the corresponding news coverage is nothing new. It has just briefly peaked above the latest antics of the Kardashians in the amount of coverage it is getting.

You are correct that it would be different, but a fight with NK would be more along the traditional lines and one that we have trained for for decades. The Jungles/forests might be an issue for some of our troops, but not for many of them. We've been training for this potential conflict since the cease fire was signed, we've role-played and gamed and exercised for this continually.

We have a division of Army dedicated to Korea. We have Fighter and bomber wings dedicated to Korea, we have massive stockpiles of equipment and ammo in place all along the peninsula, we train there year round (something we had not really done to a great deal in regards to the deserts of Iraq.)

As to winters, we've been in Afghanistan for how long? The winters there are pretty rough as well. I'll grant that it most likely wouldn't be as quick or easy like marching on Bagdad (but then again no three day dust storms to basically halt our advances either).

The worst/scariest part of hostilities resuming would be that the second the first rounds are fired in earnest by either side or the first troops cross the DMZ, Seoul is going to be leveled by the massive, emplaced and already aimed, artillery barrage that NK has had set up for decades.

FTFY there was never an armistice in Korea, just a cease fire.

Good, question, why do you find it sad? Shooting is a great sport, it's fun to do and contrary to hoplophobic claims it is quite safe to do, you just have to ensure that you always follow the three rules of safe firearm handling. Most firearm owners can and do go their life shooting frequently and never know anyone who has been shot, let alone shoot anyone accidentally.

But it's also a key factor to this question as shooting involves not only which hand is dominant but also which eye, and they can be the same or opposite sides. So someone who is solidly in the right handed realm in everything else can find themselves shooting left-handed even though it feels odd to them at first. They want to hold the weapon and shoot it right handed but find they have far greater accuracy if they shoot left handed.

So the Hollywood Elite can use their fame to push left leaning ideas and that's fine with you, but if someone famous tries to push conservative positions? Double standard much?

Funny thing is Card is a registered Democrat, often thought somewhat out of step with the very conservative majority of his faith.

Just because the defense made a motion filing, does not mean they were not part and parcel of the overall delay process. In fact just such a motion being filed, requires time. Once the motion is filed, the Prosecutor has to have some small degree of time to prepare a response, and the justice has to schedule a hearing to hear the motion and the defense against it. And all this takes time away from the preparations for the actual trial.

The very motion discussed in that article increased the delay before trial. What would have been really funny is if the prosecution had said, sorry for the delay your honor let's go, we're ready. What would the defense attorney have said then? Because as has already been noted time is the tool of the defense. Just as the severity and number of the charges warrant careful preparation of the actual prosecution even more so does it require the careful preparation by the defense.

This is a capital case, even though the prosecution said early on it was not seeking the death penalty, such a penalty is still on the table as the Convening Authority (the judge) is the one who decides the sentence, he or she is in no way bound by the decisions of the prosecution, and as at least one of the charges is a capital charge, if convicted the Judge could assign a death sentence. So everybody is making sure their ducks are in a row before this actually goes to trial. (No I don't think the Convening Authority will go that route, but it's open.)

Oh for mod points, well stated. He made his bed, now he gets to sleep in it. He had many legitimate avenues and even not so legitimate avenues to resist, protest or fight this supposed unlawful order (that nobody can actually ever cite) that would have come far short of out right treason. But no, he thought he knew better than the many many superiors who have far greater love for this country and the constitution than he does and so chose to aid the enemy in time of war.

True, and little unknown tidbit, under the UCMJ he could still actually face the death penalty. It's unlikely but the fact that the prosecution is not seeking the death penalty does not preclude the convening authority (the General officer playing Judge) from imposing what ever sentence he feels most fitting the crime, (within sentencing guidelines for the charged crimes). As at least one of the outstanding charges are capitol crimes, although not likely the Judge could impose the death penalty if convicted.

Actually they are commissioned by the President not congress. They serve at his discretion and act by his permission. That is why he is the Commander in Chief not congress. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commission_(document)#United_States

Yep just as Disney has already totally Disneyfied and trashed the Marvel universe. Oh wait, they haven't.

What the 70 year old prince consort of the Nation of Aldebran refugees? He's a politician now but his rough edges still crop up from time to time, especially as senility creeps in. He keeps the Millenium Falcon in a local hangar, with a full time crew required to keep it operational. Every few years he flies to Tattoine and finds one of Greedo's releatives to shoot (first of course). He even occasionally tries on a old battered Fedora and pulls out a whip while forgetting which universe he's actually in.