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In the next 50 years? The global economy, whose smooth function is predicated on cheap energy and transportation, collapses in the face of rising fuel costs. The Western industrialized nations undergo massive social upheavals while China and India fight over resources, possibly involving...

A vigorous phone and mail campaign to the BATFE office might help remedy this situation. Are there any loopholes in the law that could allow this? Are organizations conducting firearms research permitted to get FFLs? Sugarmann's addresses probably aren't even in areas zoned for retail business...

One non-suicide possibility is that he was pushing a brush down the muzzle and holding the gun near the trigger guard with his other hand when his finger slipped. Of course, you're supposed to brush from the breech end of most guns, but not everyone knows that. Still, suicide is probably the...

Send them checks for two cents, the processing fee will be higher than the donation.

I've never smoked marijuana, but I've had plenty of opportunities to observe its effects, and I've never witnessed or heard of marijuana being linked to the kind of irresponsible and destructive behavior that alcohol is. Compare the number of drunk driving fatalities to the number of stoned...

Alcohol is much more dangerous when combined with firearms than most other drugs with the exceptions of crack cocaine and meth. Alcohol impairs judgment and is culturally linked to feelings of aggression and fearlessness, which is not good when guns enter the picture. Marijuana does not impair...

"Homeland defense rifle" ties into the Orwellian "Department of Homeland Security." A lot of the people you're trying to convince by adopting a new nomenclature don't have a very high estimation of George W. Bush or his new security organization. Using the term to refer to your weapons makes it...

He's to be admired? I like CCSF's gun policy better than the ones in place at schools that let cops have guns while students go disarmed. If students can't carry, I don't see why cops should be able to. Of course, in SF there's no way a student could get a permit unless they're the child of an...

For a chuckle, click on the "Examining the 9mm Gun" audio link next to the story. Someone doesn't know what they're talking about...

Some guy who wrote an article about "Sudden Jihad Syndrome" among Muslims that got posted here a little while ago. More on topic, I don't think that any backlash against Asians is remotely likely. I think most Americans see them as being honest and industrious, and don't see Cho as being...

Oleg, what brand do you use? Dumping Canon will be hard for professional photographers because their DSLR equipment is far better than anyone else's. If Canon USA has no anti-handgun policy, the Irving facility may be following directives from their insurance company, or they may have an anti...

I think the general media consensus about gun control after the VT incident is: "A few people want stronger gun control after the shooting, but most people and most members of Congress aren't interested in pursuing it right now." I see the same tone on many liberal discussion sites. After a...

I wonder if anyone will write articles about "Sudden Kamikaze Syndrome?" Of course, kamikaze is a Japanese word, not a Korean one, but I wouldn't expect the writer of such an article to have much appreciation for such things...

Now that I think about it, a better approach would probably be to make it easier for a person to get referred to mental health services after others complained about their violent behavior. If someone had intervened with this guy and given him treatment, this probably wouldn't have happened...

Sounds like the adjudication procedures are different from state to state.If the NICS standards were expanded in some states, I would say that the flagging process should involve testimony from at least two people: two psychiatrists or one psych and one cop. Their testimony would then be...

I may be stepping into a minefield with this post, but I don't think someone with the history of stalking, arson and violent fantasies that the VA Tech shooter displayed should have been able to pass the NICS background check. Everyone who'd had contact with this guy knew he had more than a few...

Pretty soon, firearm owners may become "gun terrorists." Lots of people say the cops and military would never fire on US citizens in a fascist takeover scenario, but if the dissenting population are labeled "terrorists" and implicated in some Reichstag-style incident, there's no telling what...

Hilarious! And this is only one of the kernels of misinformation to be found in this thread. Turkey is fiercely opposed to an independent Kurdistan and will crush any attempt by the Kurds to establish a state. In a Shia/Sunni fight, the Kurds would basically be caught between a rock and a hard...

Who's "messing with us?" Muslims? Until the end of the Cold War, the CIA never met a Muslim fundie they didn't like. They supported religious right elements in Afghanistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and other countries and opposed Mideast secularists because of the possibility, however remote, that...

Just to throw some gasoline on the fire, it makes a lot more sense to see the 300 as representing Iraqis and the Persians as representing the US in terms of their relative military power. And while looking for historical accuracy in movies is a fool's errand, it was kind of annoying to see...