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Comment Re:The bigger picture (Score 1) 765

I agree, training and practice are the issues. Instead of making the debate about "your gun could be taken away and used against you so let's ban them" it should be about "let's increase the training required to buy/own/carry". You'll fund a lot of gun advocates in favor of this approach. And the sword is ceremonial only. Marines and other servicemen do have knives and other weapons though, and have been trained in hand to hand combat as well as using improvised weapons like bootlaces, helmets, etc.

Comment Re:The bigger picture (Score 4, Insightful) 765

The odds of your gun being grabbed and used against you are high.

Weird that we carried guns at all when I was in the Marine Corps then, huh? The enemy might have taken it away from me!

The odds of your toddler picking up your gun and using it on family or friend are significant - it happens at least several times a week in this country.

Wow, really? A couple hundred deaths a year from toddlers alone? Please cite a source for that, other than your ass.

Comment Re:Brazilian kids and Elderly Americans? (Score 1) 147

We here in America call ourselves Americans and call our country America. Do you think we should instead call ourselves what other countries think we should be called? Would you like that? Hey, you call yourself X, but we call you Y, and you're wrong so you change everything in your country and you're stupid for not consulting us first.

Comment Re:Time to move into the Century of the fruit bat. (Score 1) 1198

I'm an American citizen, born and raised, living in the United States. And I never said it was OK for him to do whatever he wanted, but thanks for the strawman Dr Stupid. The death penalty provides no more disincentive than imprisonment. I'm fine if you have the opinion the death penalty is OK. Go vote that way. All I said was how I feel, not how you should feel.

Comment Re:Time to move into the Century of the fruit bat. (Score 1) 1198

The fact that we do not have time machines does not lead me to the conclusion we should execute people. I never said I didn't support punishments, imprisonment, law enforcement, etc. But I do not support the death penalty. You're entitled to your own opinion and I'm entitled to mine.

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