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    STOP EXTREME GUN CONTROL BILL H.R. 127

    Meanwhile the homicide rate in Australia sits at around 0.9. We continually hear that easy availability of guns will prevent crime and yet the statistics simply don't back this up. Surely there comes a point where you have to stop doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different...
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    STOP EXTREME GUN CONTROL BILL H.R. 127

    If most gun owners are law abiding and criminal acts are excluded, why would insurance be a problem? Gun owners are covered for potential damages, people who use their guns for criminal acts pay into the scheme but aren't covered, those who don't pay at all can be charged and hopefully the law...
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    STOP EXTREME GUN CONTROL BILL H.R. 127

    Plus having a shootout with someone who already has a gun pointed at you is rarely a good idea. Not even starting about what you might do if your family is nearby.
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    STOP EXTREME GUN CONTROL BILL H.R. 127

    Do you live in Johannesburg or something? I can't imagine living somewhere I would feel so unsafe. I live in a large city and there might be 20 or 30 carjackings per year.
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    STOP EXTREME GUN CONTROL BILL H.R. 127

    That's only true because the US was trying to avoid civilian casualties. And at the end of the day, who won?
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    STOP EXTREME GUN CONTROL BILL H.R. 127

    Actually, it wouldn't have made much difference at all, since in times of war most men of fighting age were called up anyway. And if I was fighting for my country, I'd rather be fighting with an army and supported by their logistics than be trying to take on an enemy by myself and unsupported.
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    STOP EXTREME GUN CONTROL BILL H.R. 127

    So wait - the fact that Poland had the fourth-largest land army in Europe couldn't keep them safe from Hitler, but if only they would have allowed citizens to own a rifle or two, they would have been fine?
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    STOP EXTREME GUN CONTROL BILL H.R. 127

    Chicago seems to be doing much better than a bunch of open carry states with lax gun laws, that's for sure. State Rate Deaths Alaska (AK) 23.3 177 - Open carry allowed, shall issue state Alabama (AL) 21.5 1,046 - Open carry allowed, no restrictions Louisiana (LA) 21.3 987 - Open carry allowed...
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    STOP EXTREME GUN CONTROL BILL H.R. 127

    The Polish army had guns, cannons, tanks, a trained army and several hundred aircraft, yet Hitler was able to invade and commit the holocaust anyway.
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    STOP EXTREME GUN CONTROL BILL H.R. 127

    Well at least we shouldn't have any issues with COVID lockdowns from 2nd Amendment supporters then.
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    STOP EXTREME GUN CONTROL BILL H.R. 127

    I know right? Next thing they'll be requiring people to register their cars too, even hold a licence to drive one and making them take out insurance!
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    2020 US Trade Deficit Soared to $679 billion, the worst since 2008

    Probably. Was the piano made in America?
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    Dominion Fraud deniers Murdered by space lasers

    Ugh - not giant space lasers again? I was hoping to take the kids to Alderaan this summer too...
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    Texas Pastor Tells Followers to Stock Supplies, Keep Guns Loaded Before Biden Inauguration

    From your link: Around 7500 people left a city of almost 5 million. In other words, 0.15%. And many of those were students or others moving to nearby towns for work or because they could work from home during the covid lockdown and didn't need to be in the city. If that's a "mass exodus"...
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    Oklahoma: Neo-Nazi get arrested for repeatedly shooting jewish victim

    If he'd displayed the same "patriotism" in the US Army in, say, 1944 he'd probably have been the one getting shot.
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    Democratic Politicians Wishing They Hadn’t Backed Biden

    These job numbers are rising faster than Gamestop stocks - are we up to 50,000 jobs "lost" yet?
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    Anti-Vaxxers Won’t Stop Harassing Nurse They’re Convinced Is Dead from COVID vaccination

    I think we're long past engaging with these people. They should be ignored. Arrested if they harass frontline workers, but otherwise ignored. No amount of evidence will ever convince them - it's a mental illness at this point.
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    Vaccination Site at Dodger Stadium shut down by dozens of anti-vaxx and right-wing protestors

    Disgusting. Honestly, I think the world is done trying to educate these people who are just being obtuse to suit their own agendas - just send in the police and arrest anyone who won't immediately move on.
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    When Should We End The Sale of Gas Vehicles, and coal power plants?

    Electric vehicles have been gaining range for years, they will continue to do so - hardly speculative. As for the "danger" of hydrogen, that's debatable, and in any case Americans seem to have coped with millions of people wandering around refilling their gas bottles for BBQs without too many...