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  • Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

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  • If you hear two conflicting stories, without witnessing for yourself, there will always be an element of doubt. I'm not saying trust the authoritys, and I don't know where you got that from. I'm saying you shouldn't blindly believe what anyone says.

  • Live: Man shot by federal agent in south Minneapolis this morning, witnesses say

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  • You do though, because one the authorities start spinning their lies, there will be an element of doubt in everyone who has not seen this video.

  • Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware

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  • You think they allow prices to go down?

  • UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors

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  • This isn't stupid, it's fucking terrifying.

  • Perfectly Replicating Coca-Cola

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  • Perfectly replicating - apart form where everyone says it tastes really like coke, but clearly not exactly.

  • Top American Diplomat launches unprecedented attack against Britain 🇬🇧

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  • It is true. It also happened like 15 years ago.

  • France and allies discuss response to possible US invasion of Greenland

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  • I was thinking the same thing - although not quite as eloquently - earlier today.

  • The shrinkflation

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  • I do use the overhead fan. And I move the whole fryer, oil and all, outside when I finish cooking, till I can clean it. I store the oil in the garage as well. Still stinks the house out everytime I use it.

  • The shrinkflation

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  • And your whole house can smell like a chippy!

  • Scientists Made Glue So Strong, It Can Tow An Entire Car

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  • It's the temporary bit that I noticed - I usually want to glue thing permanently.

  • Florida man kills wife, shoots stepdaughter after fight over NFL game: Don't shoot me'

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  • So you're end goal is a total ban. Good luck finding people who want to go door to door removing firearms from people...and the criminals will still keep theirs.

    Please please wise one, tell me how you plan on enforcing your ban on a country with 450+ million firearms in circulation

    I am literally responding to the question you proposed. But yes, a total ban seems most prudent.

    12k~ people a year are killed by drunk drivers. https://www.nhtsa.gov/risky-driving/drunk-driving

    The key difference, as I already said, is intent. People aren't setting out with the intention to get drunk, drive and kill someone. So yes, we should do more to prevent drunk driving. There is a lot more that can be done. Why do we have to pick between reducing drunk driving and reducing murder. As you already said, we're never going to eliminate murder,bit we can make it harder.

    And you think that it was the guns fault? Not that an abusive piece of shit did this... ;Are you suggesting that a 110lb woman would be able to defend against a 200lb man if he didn't have a gun? Firearms are literally the greatest equalizer.

    If he didn't gave access to a gun, he wouldn't have shot her. Anything beyond that is speculation. But in my opinion, whilst abusive men best their partners to death with depressing frequency, the majority stop somewhere short of actual murder. Whereas when they grab a gun, it tends to end in death. Guns are th great equaliser? So like I said before, this woman should have been sitting on the sofa with a loaded gun at Christmas? Just in case? Guns used in self defence are a myth, the overwhelming majority are used by an aggressor.

    It absolutely does matter. Crimes of passion are very few, most are from as you stated between two people who know each other and done spur of the moment.

    Exactly, spur of the moment. And when that moment passes, people change their mind. Relatively few murders are actually planned, and when the 'passion' fades so does the desire to kill.

    Do you think that most murders happen at a large distance? Do you even know how many people are killed each year via knives alone? I'll give you a hint, it's 4xs higher than all rifles.

    What the fuck are you even trying say with your cherry picked statistic here? From your own statistics page, undisclosed firearms make up more deaths than every other non forearm category combined. All firearm combined make up 15x the combination of every non firearms category.

    Do you really think that someone who's stabbing someone stops and thinks "I shouldn't do this"...

    Yes. Extensive research into the knife crime 'epidemic' in London has shown this happens in about 75% of cases where one person had an knife and intended to stab another.

    There is no comparable country. That's the problem.

    Ah American exceptionalism. To go with your personal exceptionalism. The beliefbthst you are special, and deserve to keep you guns, no matter the cost to society as a whole.

    Yep, and it's mostly gang violence, not random, but no one gives a shit about that.

    He says, whilst dismissing it. I care about it. Hence including it in my statistics.

    Yes because I remember now that we defeated Nazis with thoughts and prayers.

    Moving the goalposts. You were talking about how you need a gun to protect yourself from the fascists in power. Well, they're still in power. And getting more power everyday. And the only ones using their guns are..... The fascists.

  • Florida man kills wife, shoots stepdaughter after fight over NFL game: Don't shoot me'

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  • Where did I say that?

    You think there aren't laws designed for people like this not to acquire firearms?

    Please please wise one, tell me how you plan on enforcing your ban on a country with 450+ million firearms in circulation

    Well, funny, I thought we had whole body's of professional lawmakers to handle the details like that, didn't realise I had to do it personally. But OK. A staged approach over 5 or 10 years, with increasing severe penalties for possession, starting with amnesty and buyback, ending with life sentences.

    Considering that (I'll point this out ....again) alcohol kills more people...yep you're damn right I'm not giving my firearms up until you can magically fix the issues in this country starting with the fascist fucks who are in power.

    How does alcohol kill more? Are you talking health effects or drunk people killing people? Number of firearms used to prevent the fascist takeover which is currently in progress in the country: 0. Number of firearms used to kill a mother and cause life changing injuries to a teenager on Christmas eve: 1 (at least. Let's face, there were probably more)

    So...again. You don't care how they die just that guns were the cause. Knives and hands/feet kill more people a year combined than all rifles do...but like I said above you'd be for another AWB.

    Guns are the most common murder weapon in the US. Combining several categories to obtain a higher rate is disingenuous. Stating that other weapons are also used in murders does not detract from the fact that guns are overwhelmingly the murder weapon of choice.

    So...again. You don't care how they're killed, just that guns did it, so they're bad.

    Your comprehensiom skills need some work. A swimming pool is not the go too murder weapon in the majority of cases. If it were, we could and should discuss how to deal with that. But it's not.

    Just swerve into civs...one more dead person...just grab the kitchen knife...one more dead person.

    Most murders are perpetrated against a specific victim with whom the murder has some sort of grievance. Not random acts of violence. Even so, if cars were being used to murder people at the rates guns were, I'd expect action.

    Everything you're listing has one thing in common that you can't seem to focus on. Why they did it in the first place. Your bandaid solution is "ban all guns" (because let's be honest, criminals don't follow laws, so making more restrictions matters zilch to them, they'll get one from the black market).

    It doesn't really matter why though. A decision is to kill, and the means to do so, against which the victim is completely defenseless, is instantly available. Moreso than any other weapon. Even if you decide to stab your girlfriend to death, you still have to at least get close enough to do it. A gun is just instant murder. Which means there is no time for second thoughts or changes of heart. The US has a higher murder rate than any comparible country precisely because murder in the US is so easy

  • Florida man kills wife, shoots stepdaughter after fight over NFL game: Don't shoot me'

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  • So your argument is 'the law is ineffective, so we best just give up. Maybe focus on some tangental issues, but don't do anything to solve the actual problem, which is the ease of obtaining a firearm, legal or otherwise." Because all of the homicides by firearm are a n acceptable statistic for you as long as you get to keep your guns.

    And the difference, by the way, between pool deaths and road deaths and all the others you cite, and guns: intent. The number of people who just snap one day and decide 'I'm gonna drown my entire family on the pool' or 'I'm gonna drive my car through that bitches house and kill her' is so statistically insignificant that there is no cause to protect society from it. Whereas guns allow such easy access to death that the homicide can be perpetrated before there is any time for rational thoughts. Just pick up a gun, bam, one more dead person.

  • Florida man kills wife, shoots stepdaughter after fight over NFL game: Don't shoot me'

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  • So what, this woman and her 13 Yr old should have been strapped? Whilst chilling on the sofa on Christmas eve? Then this never would have happened!

  • Florida man kills wife, shoots stepdaughter after fight over NFL game: Don't shoot me'

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  • End of the day, you believe that a few hundred shooting deaths per year are a price worth paying for your gun fetish. Just out and say it "I don't care how many people die, I like guns".

  • Secret courts' still handing out warrants for energy firms to break into homes

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  • I had them break into my vacant house, which I was selling, because of an unpaid electricity bill. They claimed they had made every reasonable effort to contact me (which the law requires). Which apparently did not extend to phoning the estate agents number on the 'for sale' board they walked past to serve notice, and again to actually break in. After I threatened them with the ombudsman, Shell Energy agreed to replace the PAYG meter they illigally installed, paid to repair the damage and wrote off the £45 debt that prompted the action.

  • 'Directly implicates Trump': DOJ releases — then pulls — 'bombshell' Epstein letter online

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  • True day!

  • 'Directly implicates Trump': DOJ releases — then pulls — 'bombshell' Epstein letter online

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  • My guess is a 'turncoat' in the DoJ 'accidentally' let this one, and other similar ones, slip through. Or they're all just fucking incompetent. Take your pick.

  • Boys to learn difference between porn and real life to tackle misogyny in England’s schools

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  • Not that I pay particular attention, but I have a high-school age daughter and from I've noticed, there seems to be an even split.