KevinG

So wait a second here. Your 0.8 murder rate figure exactly how did you get that number? I think it is 4 who had concealed carry permit, but I can't really tell. So then you take that number and compare that to the full murder rate for a whole country? Do you also compare apples and oranges often? If I am missing something here please explain. This is what I got, in 2011 Texas had a murder rate of 4.4 (and an average of 6 for the last 15 years) http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/murder-rates-nationally-and-state#MRalpha. Which is higher than Europe, Asia, and Oceania. So really higher th

Many GOP'ers would love the business regulations of China.

And Australia had 266 murders last year, the UK had 722, where as the US had 14,748. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate And last I checked there aren't many countries invading the UK and Australia cause they don't have guns. Just saying.

You can sell me your gun with no background check nor any record of the transaction. You can't do that with a car. Let's close that loophole. In my state (Wisconsin) I can buy a firearm with no training. Just because people break laws, that means we should stop enforcing them? I think we need to a better job of enforcement and also look at underlying root of the violence. This again is that strange paranoia that ih8Music mentioned. I don't get it. "Citizens of other nations" this a a vague concept. Please provide some examples (I tried to google this but ended up going t

Really? The government is in our daily lives. Deal with it. The constitution does mention guns either, it does however allow us to wear short sleeves. Listen people smarter then anyone here have tried to debate the 27 words (and the one verse three commas thing) of the second amendment, and failed I certainly do not want to try. It comes down to this, gun violence is a terrible thing our society faces, something has to be done. One of the thing to be done is keeping dangerous people form getting guns. Registration and full licensure is a way to do this. Yes the government now kno

So bring this analogy out even further. You are fine with driving high performance sports car in a controlled environment, but using such a vehicle on public streets. I would be totally cool with people having assault rifles, hell even fully automatic weapons, as long as they where only used at a range, kept under range supervision, at all times, and each person that used them were required a full registration and training. I am going to say this again, there is no NEED to use assault weapons for hunting or protection. The government requires me to register my vehicles yearly and they

I think you are missing my point here. You say that it is "nice to not have to reload/change mags." Not that it is necessary. There is no need for 30 rounds. Having a lesser capacity mag might not be as nice, but really is this something you can live with? I have taken a high performance racing course and have a car that can go 200 mph. I love to drive fast. But you know what I can't take the car out on the interstate and drive 200 mph. I have to go 65.

by that logic, if it takes 1-2 seconds to reload a magazine (and they are relatively cheap) does it really matter to you if you have a 30 round or 10 round magazine? Logic dictates if you can't hit a deer with 10 bullets you ain't gonna hit it with 30. And who says that 30 is the standard? Why isn't 10 the standard? Furthermore, if there is a 1-2 second time period where a mass shooter has stopped that may allow a person to escape, take some action, or whatever, isn't that a good thing? We could potentially have of 28 dead instead of 30. Again the question comes down to need vs. wan

So why is the NRA so concerned with a ban on armor piercing ammunition? But you have to admit there is a small portion of the gun owning community (society as a whole really) that is paranoid and unstable. And unfortunately because these people have the potential to do harm we have to inconvenience the majority of society. If everyone was a responsible gun owner we wouldn't have to have gun laws. That is what the majority of laws do. That is why I have to give my drivers license every time I buy cold medicine. Because a few use it to create a harmful substance. I re-read over O

about as funny as using armor piercing bullets on deer, cause that is needed.

I am totally interested in Warm Bodies. Wondering what you think about it. I used to win radio contests when I was a kid all the time. Also in college I knew some of the DJs at the college station and I would end up being the "seventh" call a lot of the times they were on.

There has been recent talk about how the current gun laws don't work. Maybe it because the government doesn't have the resources to effectively enforce the laws we already have. I will let Jon Stewart do the talking for me. http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-16-2013/there-goes-the-boom

hmm yeah, they look quite good, in fact better then they did as kid. I say they aged very well.

One could see the gun laws are actually trying to protect it citizenry. Keeping dangerous guns being used by dangerous people. Listen, not everyone is responsible like you. Unfortunately because of a few bad people we all are inconvenienced. As you stated before you are inconvenienced by not being able to own an AR15 (you said it wasn't something you needed). Hell I am inconvenienced every time I get on a plane because of a few. I am not even sure how to respond to this. Comparing a 3rd world country that has been under siege for the last 30 years with the US.

Regardless of how you feel about guns and gun laws you will now have to deal with the most sweeping gun control legislation in a generation. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/16/obama-gun-control-proposals_n_2486919.html So how is this going to affect you? Will it have an affect on gun violence in this country?

Can you tell me the reasoning on why you need such a gun?

If it ends up being some sort of dream, a version of Hell, or anything super natural, I would consider that muffed. But yeah I am inclined to agree with you.

hun? I am still trying to wrap my head around that syntax. I love John Simm, that thought he was great as the Master. I liked him in the End of Time, despite the goofy parts. That is the thing with RTD. He would go balls out on everything. Flying Master, giant spaceships, huge threats to the universe that you need the kitchen sink to solve. Moffatt's stories is a much more personal and subdued. Yes they have their silliness, but I will take Dinosaurs on a spaceship over Farting Aliens any day.

excellent. It will be interesting to see how hers (and yours) attitude changes (about the show ) through out the significant changes the show goes through. Specifically between the RTD years and the Moffat years.

Kinda my thought. Though it could become tedious.

I don't care how good a guy is behind the plate if they have a batting average of under .200 with only 11 home runs.

I saw the rise and fall of Geo as a Cub. He may handle the pitching staff well, but I don't see how a team could trust his bat at this point in his career.

and don't forget Geo Soto!

And on the same note the Cubs are prolly pissed about the move.

But both the Angels and the Rangers will play the Astros an equal amount of times. So it won't play into who wins the division at all. Rather it could help in the Wild Card race. See the AL East are gonna beat up on each other, and in the Central, is there a chance that other then the division champ anyone else will make the playoffs?