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Comment Re: "For Gunshots"... (Score 4, Insightful) 292

Yeah, I've never understood the "laws are useless because criminals break laws" approach. You hear it a lot in the Second Amendment community.

If you are referring to "when guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns." Well, that is one of those word games that proves itself. What it is really going after is that by outlawing guns, law abiding citizens are not allowed to have guns. If you wade past the extremist (AKA the absolutely no gun regulations crowd) you will find that most people agree to background check as long as it is reasonable. When I took my Concealed Weapons class, even my instructor called "constitutional carry" asinine.

Comment Common tactic (Score 1) 84

"...specifically, lying. Instead of outright saying what it wanted, sometimes the AI would feign interest in a worthless object, only to later concede it for something that it really wanted."

This is a basic negotiation tactic that does not have to be lying. Example: I've negotiated salary before, sometimes I get the "I'm sorry we would like to pay you more but it isn't in our budget." At that point I ask for more paid days off instead--and sometimes that works out very well. Was I lying when I asked for more money? Of course not. Do I want more paid days off? Yes!

Getting information from the one side and using it to your advantage is very common. When negotiating you need reasons to support your demands or else they will fall apart. This is nothing new, but a machine participating is very amusing!

Comment Re: A derringer as a concealed carry? (Score 1) 678

Please someone mod parent up. Every time I ask a police office, who is retiring, why we hear so much about gun violence today it is always the same response: drugs. Before drugs (1960s/some of 70s) the worst these police officers would usually find is a .38 special. Nowadays he has to be extra careful because everyone has an AK-47--and drugs. Here is an overly verbose link: http://www.newspeakdictionary.....

Comment Re: Not ill timed... (Score 2) 633

Not likely. If the second amendment was tabled today it wouldn't get passed. There's a reason it's called progress, becasue as time goes find better ways to approach the same problems

That is why they wrote it down as an amendment, because they knew the tyranny would return (the book "The Founders’ Second Amendment" has tons of references on this.)

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