Guns are easy to obtain because they are easy to make. I know: I've built a few. That's the long and short of it. A fully automatic long gun is about as difficult to build as a mountain bike. A single shot muzzle loader is about as difficult to make as carpenter's vise. You can easily build one in an evening of unhurried fiddling. If a thing is easy to make and people want it people will either make it themselves, or get it from somebody else who makes it, and offers it up for sale. As simple as that.

I have one, using my real name, but *NEVER* post to it, or use it. Also, I use NoScript and *ALWAYS* block Facebook. I'm probably gonna de-activate it, too. It's becoming *WAY* too "Big Brotherish".

From http://www.express.co.uk/news/... [express.co.uk] "John Coleman, who co-founded the Weather Channel, shocked academics by insisting the theory of man-made climate change was no longer scientifically credible." Also, http://www.nationmultimedia.co... [nationmultimedia.com] to quote: ***===> "New studies flip climate-change notions upside down The sun will go into "hibernation" mode around 2030, and it has already started to get sleepy. At the Royal Astronomical Society's annual meeting in July, Professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University in the UK confirmed it - the sun will begin its Maunder Minimum (Grand Solar Minimum) in 15 years. Other scientists had suggested years ago that this change was imminent, but Zharkova's model is said to have **near-perfect** accuracy." and "Our sun doesn't maintain a constant intensity. Instead, it cycles in spans of approximately 11 years. When it's at its maximum, it has the highest number of sunspots on its surface in that particular cycle. When it's at its minimum, it has almost none. When there are more sunspots, the sun is brighter. When there are fewer, the sun radiates less heat toward Earth. But that's not the only cooling effect of a solar minimum. A dim sun doesn't deflect cosmic rays away from Earth as efficiently as a bright sun. So, when these rays enter our atmosphere, they seed clouds, which in turn cool our planet even more and increase precipitation in the form of rain, snow and hail." ******* I'll trust these guys over Bill Nye, thank you. *******

From http://www.express.co.uk/news/... "John Coleman, who co-founded the Weather Channel, shocked academics by insisting the theory of man-made climate change was no longer scientifically credible." Also, http://www.nationmultimedia.co... to quote: ***===> "New studies flip climate-change notions upside down The sun will go into "hibernation" mode around 2030, and it has already started to get sleepy. At the Royal Astronomical Society's annual meeting in July, Professor Valentina Zharkova of Northumbria University in the UK confirmed it - the sun will begin its Maunder Minimum (Grand Solar Minimum) in 15 years. Other scientists had suggested years ago that this change was imminent, but Zharkova's model is said to have **near-perfect** accuracy." and "Our sun doesn't maintain a constant intensity. Instead, it cycles in spans of approximately 11 years. When it's at its maximum, it has the highest number of sunspots on its surface in that particular cycle. When it's at its minimum, it has almost none. When there are more sunspots, the sun is brighter. When there are fewer, the sun radiates less heat toward Earth. But that's not the only cooling effect of a solar minimum. A dim sun doesn't deflect cosmic rays away from Earth as efficiently as a bright sun. So, when these rays enter our atmosphere, they seed clouds, which in turn cool our planet even more and increase precipitation in the form of rain, snow and hail." ******* I'll trust these guys over Bill Nye, thank you. *******

Around 30 years ago, I was one of the lead developers for the first query server for Unisys V-Series/Medium Systems. The product (named Exxtract(tm) ) would display a little "text picture", on the system console (ODT) at midnight Christmas Day of a small Christmas Tree, with presents around it, and at midnight new Years Eve/New Year's Day would display a little text picture of a couple glasses of Champagne, along with the words to "Auld Lang Syne", and best wishes from M. V. and Associates. No harm done, and we usually got some sort of pleasant comment from the customers after their first time seeing the messages. Also, if the server ever detected a fatal/impossible/irrecoverable error, it would memory dump, and display the message "And Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash - Where *EVER* you are!" We got more squawks when people saw that one, though it was probably more related to the crash than the message, per se.