Recent content by Skrew

This is correct. I often see people wrongly believing that disagreement on the part of the other party is a result of ignorance. People can be presented with the same information and come to different conclusions. If there was a way to test only the understanding of facts then I would support...

At creation the voting system in America was different. You had to be a white male landowner to vote. For the landownership requirement, the idea was to make sure only people who had a vested interest in the country succeeding could influence it. I don't think it should be put into place...

How would a violent revolution even take place? The government is in complete control of everything.

I'm going to need evidence showing less people own firearms. Not proportions but people total, I suspect the number is steadily riseing. In terms of total deaths, you already wrote it's not an issue statistically. Also you're equateing suicides and accidental discharges with homocides, they...

If the second amendment was written with muskets in mind, doesn't that imply the first amendment was written with printing presses and no long range communication in mind? Your line of reasoning leads to the entire constitution being scrapped.

I fundementally disagree with you, while handguns are designed to shoot people, shooting people is not inherently wrong depending on the situation. The rest of your post is a bit contradictory, if getting shot by someone isn't a problem then clearly there is no need for further gun...

Can someone explain the basis of "hunting rifles" being used as the basis of what is or isn't acceptable to own? I don't hunt and I don't consider hunting the basis of gun ownership, they are two completely separate issues. Hunting is a sport/hobby and as such is nonvital. To associate the two...

The reason to own a 30rd magazine is to be able to shoot more bullets. 10rd magazines aren't any more legitimate then 30rd in their use and both are pretty arbitrary numbers. It's true that 30rd are more effective but effectiveness doesn't imply something is bad to own. The vast majority of...

I'm actually curious why this got so much attention. This happens in the US too but you don't see this type of response, the media actually seems to ignore it...

In regards to magazine capacity, Cho killed the highest number of people in the US with two handguns, one which used 10rd magazines the other 15rd. There is little reason to think lanza wouldn't have been equally capable. When shooting unarmored people at close range, children even more so...

The fact that gas is still less costly per gallon then milk amazes me considering one is a finite resource which is being consumed in vast quantites. While peak oil may not happen yet, it will happen and happen long before the sun destroys the planet.

Lockdowns are good so long as you aren't locking the prey in with the predator.

Perceived as a weakness by who? The only thing I got out of it is that they blindly support Israel in every way possible. While I agree Israel has some common interests the amount of pandering was bizarre. I don't understand why most Americans would care about Israel, in fact I would assume most...

I am puzzled by the amount of times Israel was brought up.

Alcohol is banned from cars, yet people keep driving drunk and killing other people. Clearly the restrictions are insufficient yet you aren't in support of further alcohol regulation(which should be far further regulated since it allows people to make extremely poor decisions). You aren't in...