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The lack of coverage on Chicago is undoubtedly due to the whole Boston bomb craziness rather than some gun-related "agenda." I mean, a Texas town EXPLODED and that was barely footnote.

In a darkened theater, where the shooter wore body armor and tossed tear gas everywhere? I don't think so.

In incidents like the Aurora shooting, the victims are unlikely to get any decent counterattack in, and in all likelihood would probably make the situation worse. In one-on-one incidents, it seems merely having a gun is often enough to scare off attacks. Of course, both of those are essentially...

How many citizens buy guns for the sole purpose to defend themselves against the possibility of the government going corrupt? It's rather strange to put so much bank on that when all of the justifications for gun purchases revolve around sport, hunting, and personal protection against...

^ Allowed the teachers to carry weapons AND got armed security guards, it seems. It's not really clear from the article which, or if both, is what is really helping there. I don't suppose we know how often Israeli and US schools are threatened? I'd imagine Israeli schools would be in a more...

You cannot ban knives because they serve a practical, everyday, non-violent, non-recreational purpose. You cannot ban gasoline because they serve a practical, everyday, non-violent, non-recreational purpose. You cannot ban hands or rope or water or cars or many other common objects because...

If a levee breaks and floods half the town, are we going to wait a week or so before talking about the levee? If you demand the right to the 2nd Amendment, am I not allowed the right to the 1st? If a restriction could reduce the number of terrible incidents, but not completely eliminate them...

I don't see how "it could still happen" is a good argument. Like "if there were no guns this would never happen", it's technically true, but doesn't really address what went wrong, much less makes any attempt at fixing the issue. And just because *THIS* tragedy may not be related to loose gun...

No, no, no. ALH 84001 is NOT definite, indisputable proof of Martian life. There is as of now NO definite, indisputable proof of extraterrestrial life.

Whether or not a being can have rights shouldn't be based on mere appearances.

A mother owns her home and has full rights to do what she sees fit with it, but has no right to kill her child living in it for any reason whatsoever. A mother owns her body and has full rights to do what she sees fit with it, but does that mean she has every right to kill her...

Love for your pet isn't the same as the love for your child or spouse or (human) friend, and the latter three loves aren't very similar to each other either. And people tend to be blissfully ignorant to the mortality of relationships, especially while in school. It's one thing to outlive...

This disturbs me. I never want death of a loved one to have no impact on me, for me to just casually say "well, time to get a new one."

If there is a ban on all face-obscuring clothing (and there are certain situations where they should), then by all means the burqa should be included. But I don't agree with banning just the burqa.

Old news. Plus, congress declared pizza has enough vegetable matter in it to count as a serving of vegetables and thus saving schools from buying more food, not that pizza was actually a vegetable. Still stupid and doing nothing to combat childhood obesity, but there's some resemblance to...

A city takes a LOT of funding to be built. Being autonomous would mean zero support from any government, it'd have to import a lot of food/oil/etc. from foreign countries, and being out in the ocean means it's not very accessible. Since a seastead would probably end up relying a lot on nearby...

Since there are only finite resources in the world, overpopulation is certainly a risk. I'm not sure how close we are to the limit, but we most definitely should be taking steps towards efficiency regardless. Relying on nature to control our population is foolhardy. We're learning how to...

Would you like to know that your taxes will be used to kill a wrongly-accused, innocent person?

Being immortal would mean you could wait out health problems (assuming you still age/don't naturally repair yourself indefinitely). Medicine will likely develop ways to correct whatever is failing on you... eventually. Although physically you could adapt through the ages, I'm not sure how you'd...

Different people handle loss in different ways. Some can move on, some just can't. I'd really rather not live through all my loved ones dying (including my children, grandchildren, etc.), my nation/community's eventual collapse, natural disasters (ESPECIALLY those ridiculous ones like the...