Stumpy

In general, sure. We don't need the daily fear of terrorism or forced conscription of israelis. In gun control, not so much. There's a number of other countries that haven't had school shootings in years/ decades. Want to guess what the common factor with israel is? (hint - its not the walls and armed guards.)

Yeah and israels best practice includes low rates of private gun ownership and strict controls on what they are used for, as well as social democratic policies to pay for all the guards, walls etc. You don't have to ship their issues, but you do have to ship the rest of the solution.

And I repeat, you can't cherry pick part of Israel's solution without everything else as well.

Can't say I am overly optimistic about his planned 2029 mission to mars

Hardly, been here longer than you have. I know your ideas (and I respect them) Israel, however, is a shitty example.

Yeah once a bunch of LGBTQ+ people start shooting people because they felt threatened by the seal team six crowd, I'm sure all of a sudden some of the objections to gun control would magically disappear.

Feel free to continue to use israel as an example. Don't forget you also need to implement their level of gun control for the same results.

I agree, reducing private gun ownership to less than 2% of the population like israel has would certainly go a long way to helping.

It looks that way from across the sea - and desantis keeps getting his ass handed to him by disney which just makes him look like an idiot

yep totally. The level of detail of his engineering for even the smallest piece on an experimental airplane is bonkers.

I suspect those in the know are starting to see a slowdown in tourism to the US. For the first time ever I saw the US advertising for tourists on TV - usually its places like Qatar or Denmark or Morocco who do that to raise awareness that they exist. My company and a bunch of others I know have reduced our US footprint significantly. The omens aren't as bad as they were during Trumps tenure, but he definitely made a lasting mess of the international relationships. Biden is a huge improvement internationally but he's got some work to do.

If they decide that's not a crime and set a precedent - I wouldn't fancy the chances of any police knocking on the door in a bad neighborhood

And the avalanche of mental diarrhoea is back

Turns out A-B is a major republican donor.

Oh god there’s another one. Or more likely, the same one. Did the last one get banned? Either way, this is an easy block.

On long, careful reflection, I think it's the morons.

They can't. And therein lies the problem.

....Which says something entirely different to your initial premise. You really need to stop lying.

AUF1 is an Austrian far-right online channel promoting fake news and political conspiracy theories. The channel was founded in June 2021 by Stephan Magnet and has an audience in Austria and Germany. In 2022, the Austrian media authority Komm Austria [de] initiated proceedings against AUF1.[1] From - Wikipedia. Brent - I know critical thinking is not your strongpoint - but even you should have worked out in the last century or so that allying yourself with far right Austrians probably puts you on the wrong side of history.....

The systemic problem being that you shouldn't need to treat a school like a fortress. It's tragic that this is viewed as "freedom"

What do you mean? I saw this documentary

I've lived rurally in a few countries now, weirdly only in the states does everyone and their dog seem to "need" a pickup.

*Snort

I quite liked this: https://geoff.greer.fm/2023/02/08/gasoline-car-review/

Yeah I expect in response they will make up a load of utter bollocks that makes no sense whatsoever to any sentient individual. Wait, how will we tell again?