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Remember what I said about people being proved factually wrong, and even admitting it, and walking away convinced they're right? QED.

Guns and cars, guns and cars. They're either too dense to know that the primary purpose of a car is transportation and the primary purpose of a gun is killing, or they do know, but think that this false analogy is "winning." But I'm OK with it. Let's regulate guns like we regulate cars. You...

And we're ready to make South Korea an offshore island. Your move, Kimmie.

Down hereabouts, we say third parties are like bees: they sting once, then die.

College or trade school ain't free in the U.S. And most folk think a trend toward shorter working hours is a good thing. Worker compensation grew 12% (in real dollars) from 1978-2019. CEO compensation grew by 940%

Yep. "Best" is a matter of opinion. Are you suggesting the Secret Service can't protect the President with Colts, S&Ws, or Rugers? And, looping back, I'll remind you that you acknowledged early on that I said "commercial sale," so this entire back-and-forth is completely academic.

Another standard dodge. When the subject is gun safety, talk about anything you can think of except guns.

About 35% of U.S. mass shooters are veterans. Even though that's disproportionate, I'd expect it to be higher if veteran status were an important factor.

Might be different in Canada, but in the U.S., real wages started declining in 1973, and didn't start to recover until the late 90s. Didn't get back to 1973 levels until 2019. Marriage is also at historical lows. And CEO compensation is at all-time highs. There's all kinds of reasons both...

And the sad part is that so many people have absorbed the logical fallacies, factually incorrect premises, and faulty reasoning without analyzing them that they're like religious dogma. . . trot it out when you hear the key concepts, get it shot down, and go home still unswervingly certain that...

Yep, it's the naysayer's go-to response. It amounts to a declaration that unless something is 100% effective, it's useless. Binary. Murder has been illegal for millennia, and there are still murders, but I don't hear the naysayers advocating to take the murder laws off the books. Funny, enit?

Nope. Not even close.

I'm not trying to stop it, I'm trying to reduce it. Reducing addiction was the reason we outlawed heroin and other hard drugs. If "keeping criminals from importing" something is an absolute and irreducible requirement for a law, might as well just scrap the law-book. Every single thing we've...

The "socialists" didn't take that from you. Rather the opposite, I'd say.

Science is what it is. Whether you're dealing with a scientist or a politician with a Ph.D. isn't really any different from dealing with a salesperson. Use the same skills to determine whether you're being sold the real deal or magic beans.

This is very good news. We need to colonize the moon permanently and set up industry there. With a gravity well only 1/6 as deep as Earth's and no atmosphere, it's the ideal launch platform.

Morello's 58. Maybe the band should change its name to Rage Against Pension Plan Performance, Hair Loss, and the Price of Viagra.

One fat, lazy cop and one principal. And 375 cops and who-knows-how-many administrators and school safety drones at all levels walk away laughing. And why not? None of THEIR kids were sacrificed on the altar of Mah Rahts.

The point that you quoted in your Post #13 above. A preference is not a requirement.

Found their scapegoats, I guess.