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The problem with firing squads was often that the members didn't wish to take a human life. Not everyone in a firing squad is going to be aiming for the condemned. The firing squad can also be considered an inhumane method for those taking part. Every person with a finger on the trigger is given...

It has been said in the thread before, but I think it bears saying again that the quoted news article (and the entire anti-gmo movement) is being unneccessarily sensationalist in its reporting with regard to this story. Genetic codes are massively complex. To enter the food chain, the crops in...

I tend to cope relatively well with situations of sensory overload. Loud social situations such as crowded bars (not my ideal haunt) are generally the only ones which set me off. My standard coping mechanism is usually to try and focus on a repetitive audio beat in the music for as long as I...

It depends. Everything in life has a price. Acceptance of the death penalty depends totally upon the willingness or unwillingness to accept that price. Anybody who says that the justice system is 100% accurate is either a liar or hopelessly naive. Always, there will be cases where the guilty...

Unfortunately, the answer to that is 'Whenever somebody of power wants it to be'.

Kind of like 'If you can't beat 'em, recruit 'em? It might be a good idea. If the minutemen were given official training, recognition, authority and operating parameters then it would clear up a lot of the grey areas concerning their actions, plus providing a cheap, dedicated volunteer force to...

Likely so. Firstly, the Turkish authorities have stated that he will not leave jail before 2010 at the earliest, and secondly there are the security rrisks. This person is more than slightly unhinged, has escaped from custody before, and is a convicted murderer. The security arrangements needed...

This guy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Peterson_(convicted_murderer) Seems just a normal case of the ebay entrepreneurial spirit. If it moves, cash in on it through ebay. I see nothing particularly wrong with this, as the buyers will not be coerced into making the purchace. Turning the...

It could be that the threat of this could be the catalyst needed to force the government into providing increased State-trained and authorised effective patrols. The threat of one yahoo shooting everything that moves should turn more heads than the threat of thousands of illegals getting through...

I was about to post >>Insert obligatory high-handed pulpit sermon regarding the woes of Americans and their guns<< when I suddenly realised 'Wait, this seems to be a good idea. Maybe a bit rash, but the actual fact that people are forced to take action privately against this problem might cause...

Just a thought, but could this have something to do with the Secret Cardinal the Pope appointed in 2003?

There could be certain problems with this. All milk is not identical. Human milk is dissimilar to cow milk, which is dissimilar to tiger milk. Each type of milk is tailored to the creature it nourishes. I don't know the specifics, but there is a possibility that human milk does not contain...

Just a theoretical question. Were the Pope to fall in to a persistent vegetive state, kept in some sembelence of life by intensive modern life support apparatus, then what then? Would you support the election of a new pope after a month? A year? Five, ten, fifteen years? What then?

Unfortunately, a population of cats does have a tendency to cut through a wild bird population like a hot knife through butter. As cats are valued pets, an indiscriminate killing of every cat that moves would be extremely popular, yet it is also an inarguable fact that feral cat populations are...

I disagree. The advantage of the Amber Alert program is that it is employed in definite emergencies, and people take notice as a result. Overusing the system would degrade its performance, as the general public and the media begin to payu less attention to each individual case. If it is used...

There are two factors which stand out to me about this. Firstly, the fact that a taser risks causing a cardiac arrest. Generally, being shot in the chest with a conventional firearm is also an almost sure-fire way of causing a cardiac arrest. Secondly, there is the non-lethal nature of this...

BHM=Black History Month?

Ian, if you mean the Times link, then the Times for this tuesday only has 72 pages. Which article are you talking about?

I live in the UK, and that makes little sense to me. As far as I can see, there seem to be at least four separate trains of thought in that post. Could you please clarify them individually? As far as I could make out, you, or the person whose writings you have posted (it is unclear which) seem...

Yes, if the police officer had shot him with a gun, it would have been much more likely to have killed/seriously injured him. If you take this in its context of an uncommonly occuring event, then I would say that incidents like this are an acceptable price to pay. You can kill someone with a...