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Banning certain types of firearms would not violate our second Amendment rights according to Justice Scalia's majority opinion in Heller, which see. Scalia speaks to this issue directly.

IN heller v district of Columbia, Justice Scalia goes into the matter of the Amendments introductory clause at great length and with great arm waving and wordsmanship. He concludes that the introductory clause is not restricting nor definitive (I don't agree but it is not for me to decide). He...

The particular insight you have makes me wonder if you are perhaps a teacher. If you are, then you have arguably the most important job in our country, and I would think you are a dedicated and very good teacher.

Scat old boy. You post this insane nonsense, and frankly I don't understand how anyone can be so sheltered from reality as you. Legal immigration to the U.S. has been tightly controlled for many years now. The demand for seasonal, low wage workers coupled with poor enforcement of laws...

I think we are in agreement here. I am interested in the underlying reasons that explain our curious, and unrelenting, irrational behavior.

Thank you Nitro for that, but it seems a rather too simple explanation for Muslim attitudes and beliefs today long after Muslims have had access to Western writings and thought, even though in parts of the Muslim world intellectual access to the world outside of Islam continues to be restricted...

Thank you for posting that.

Thank you for this post. I think it very likely that the window into Mateens psyche that we seek is provided now by this testimony of his ex-wife. The underlying lesson here is how dangerous and futile it is to teach against basic human nature; how useless and dangerous it is to turn a blind...

Your CDC charts and conduits charts are looking at different things. It is not gun ownership that lowers homicide rate it is stricter gun laws.. Stricter gun laws are compatible with higher ownership, as Hawaii data shows. The trend has been toward tightened gun laws and higher gun ownership...

I like that analysis. I have to think about it a bit more. But I think it's right.

This is interesting, Is it due to mentality, stricter gun laws? Or what? My best guess is that it is due to Hawaii's strict gun laws, among the Strictest in the Country. And because they are isolated by the Pacific ocean, their is no way for an AR-15 gunslinger from Mississippi to drive...

You're not referring to any well-run businesses that I know of or have ever been associated with. Quite the opposite I would say.

yes, I mean tics. Consider that most retail platforms will get you into the queue so late that you will on average give up two ticks per round trip. In other words, in general, you will be buying on the ask and selling on the bid. If you can consistently buy on the bid and sell on the ask...

Usually, it is difficult to scalp for a few ticks profitably if you are a retail trader. You generally need exceptionally low commissions and an excellent data feed and platform that doesn't lag. Would you be so kind as to tell me your platform and data feed provider and round trip commission...

He wasn't fighting to defend his country, he was fighting, if he was fighting, for Western hegemony in Indochina, though I doubt he realized it at the time. I don't hold that against him. Do we know if he was fighting the war with a rifle on the ground, or at a typewriter. "All who wore...

more like hitting an asshole who voluntarily poked his own eyes out.

Congratulations! Now the fun begins. Since you're on his ignore list, a well-populated, rather prestigious list!, you can get by with the most outrageous insults and he remains oblivious. It is a great pleasure, I must say. Just be careful to direct all your insults directly to him so there...

It's true that as far as we know he is just a common everyday asshole. And a damned good one at that!

The first question assumes something that is not true, so no answer is needed, unless you consider requiring that a more sporting firearm be substituted for your Sig Sauer MCX rifle, with 30 rounds in the clip, on your next trip to the rifle range a "punishment" like "time-out" in the first...

We are all aware that something like >60% of the U.S. public favors some kind of meaningful, uniform , and effective gun control. (I doubt 60% of the population would describe themselves as progressive.) I'm guessing that only a fairly small minority want '...total confiscation of all privately...