Nah, Chuck Norris killed him before the police could get there.

Data from 2015: Europe as defined by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... which includes Russia and Ukraine

Europe homicides 23477, population 831 million

USA homicides 12996, population 321 million

Mexico homicides 25757+, population 126 million

IMHO, Mexico is much more like the USA than Europe.

Kiuas, thank you for the interesting perspective.

Good point. Let's look at the 2017 data. http://marginalrevolution.com/... (Note, I did not check on MarginalRevolution's political leanings.) PopeRatzo, your point handguns being the weapon of choice for US murders is correct. However, your comment is off base. In fact ScentCone DID mention handguns in the very sentence before the one you quote. So my question back to you, PopeRatzo, is why YOU chose to ignore ScentCone's statement? As you yourself pointed out, that is not an NRA talking point but an FBI talking point. I dislike hypocrites. And another thing - the tragic event in Las Vegas did not involve hand guns, so you are the one who is off topic (or at least on the edge).

Sir, I decry your use of a stereotype! We do not shoot at bottles since plastic bottles are much cheaper and more prevalent. Besides, nothing beats popping a shotgun slug into a watermelon (except a black powder rifle!).

If you are having trouble buying a gun legally, you should go to the CIA for one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (aka Fast and Furious) The 2nd amendment is to protect ourselves from the government.

Also this weekend, an ISIS supporter in Edmonton, Canada ran over a police officer with a truck and then jumped out of the vehicle stabbing the officer with a knife after which he ran off and managed to injure four more bystanders. https://www.rt.com/news/405221...

Wait a minute, I'm intrigued. Are you also in favor of banning muslims from the US? Are you also in favor of Prohibition? "Except everyone is innocent until they're not. It's about prevention." And one other thing - the freedom to keep and bear arms is built into the Constitution (Bill of Rights) not to protect a hobby nor so much to protect themselves from each other, but to allow the people a chance to protect themselves from the government. It was all about protection from a potentially tyrannical government.

Like this? http://www.salon.com/2016/02/0... [though I hate Salon]

My favorite was 4 ago when Florida Spring Break beach goers were asked "Did you vote against Mitt Romney because he is black?" and "Did you vote for Obama because he's Mormon?" They swore they were not racist nor religionist, that they voted because of what Obama stood for. "Like what?" Uhh.

Hey slashdotters, if this shoe fits, then go spend some quality time learning this stuff from quality sources. Now.

I used to believe that the saying "Those who can't do, teach" was false and denigrating to people who worked for the love of education. Then I graduated from the US public school system, went to a private university, and discovered that I had not been taught a lot of basic knowledge and skills used in academia and life (such as logic and rhetoric). Much later, my own children entered the public school system (my wife's family are multigenerational, hard core public education adherents) and I discovered that the saying was more right than wrong. As an adult with a wide variety of life experience, I see that many of the teachers have never left high school; they still have the same mental and social perceptions and skills of an average public high school student.

So no, they don't need more money. Not until they produce minimally qualified graduates. For the few teachers who are competent and caring (or who care and will acquire the competence if supported), I donate my time and resources to support them so they don't give up and get out.

I will refrain from commenting on police since my experience is probably less than average (see "logic and rhetoric" above).

I work in public service (in the tiny minority where we actually produce a tangible result); we don't ask for better pay as much as better equipment so we can do our jobs. Some of our tooling is from WWII. Most is from the 80s. The basic office in the corporate world is like the Taj Mahal to us. And to the uninformed commenter below (LosFromLA ), we don't spend nearly as much on weapons as we do on environmental impact assessments, "safety", and paint. Dang, we paint a lot. All you need is great tagging skills and you can work with us.

Let us not forget that, in general, scientists and engineers are not good writers. For most of us, writing the paper is up there with securing funding (which also includes writing) as Things I Would Rather Avoid. Like, "I would rather let that rottweiler rip my pubes out than write this paper" avoidance. (Code writers, think "help file documentation".) We are not great writers.

Many years a Los Alamos physicist [Reader] told me of reading a peer reviewed paper. The author used the phrase "it follows with a little math that..." This research was right up Reader's alley. It took him over a week to solve it. IIRC, it required a transformation to a non-orthogonal space. Reader cursed the author and his progeny to the 4th generation. When they met again at a conference, Reader told Author, "Oh yeah, I worked through your paper. You used a simple transformation."

I was in southern Germany in 2008. I loved the yellow-to-green light; no one jumped the gun and no one honked. For those who aren't aware, about one second before the red light turns green, the yellow also comes on. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... The red is still on, so you are not supposed to move yet.

Calydor, Can you do me a solid and post the link for that fitnessbabe article?

When a private party acts to give one candidate or party a decisive edge in an election (this excludes endorsements), that is called donation in kind. If the private party does not disclose the act(s), that violates state and federal campaign finance laws. Since FB is based out of Menlo Park, CA, I imagine that Ms. Sandberg is subject to CA laws (CA Gov. Codes 85500, 84203.5, 84204, and 82036.5) in addition to the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1974. If you want to be informed, I suggest you start with the FEC Act. I am sure I have missed some due to the brambly nature of laws upon laws that never expire.

For me, it's the rats in the walls.

The reason Americans are so afraid of communism is that it very quickly becomes totalitarianism. Every time. Power hungry people with no moral nor ethical compunctions are attracted like moths to that much power in one place. The beauty of the U.S. Constitution was that it tried to distribute the power. The three branches were definitely NOT created to be "separate but equal". The legislative branch was created to be the most powerful, then the judicial, then the executive. The most leaders reside within the legislative branch to minimize the monopoly or cartelization of power. The states had much more power for a similar reason.

Lower social and economic inequalities? Lower economic inequalities? That was achieved in the short term, but it was very unstable. Sweden is now backpedaling as quickly as they can from socialism because it proved unsustainable. Russian communism was (and still is) synonymous with universal poverty except for the elites - oh look! Inequality just like you are complaining about! I'm not sure how you define social inequalities, so I won't make assumptions. France definitely does not have social equality.

Yes, we have an inequality problem. And supporting the current regime (and the ones before that) is perpetuating the autocracy in which the working class... Oh there you go bringing class into it again.