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It's exactly the same as the evidence that the Flying Spaghetti Monster exists. None.

Back when I was a college dean, I insisted that all freshmen engineers had to pass written English at college level in order to move on, and pass more humanities than the engineering accreditation criteria called for in order to graduate.

They do that quite deliberately. If you think about it you'll realise why.

Seems like another MAGA idiot has turned up, incapable of stringing his thoughts together into a coherent post.

Since we're talking hindsight, I think we shouldn't have been there in the first place. Or once we were there, we shouldn't have taken our eyes off the ball and invaded Iraq under false pretenses before finishing the job in Afghanistan.

I live in a big city, Chicago (south side). There is almost no crime in my neighborhood. No-one steals packages from my porch even if left out overnight. My wife and I happily walk the streets at night. If I leave my gardening tools out overnight they are still there in the morning. Go 4 miles north and it's a different story. What's the obvious difference? Poverty rate.

Have you considered seeing a therapist?

To mix metaphors, the trolls have really come out of the woodwork since the Kraken was released.

There you go with FACTS again.

So you would you go about enforcing this? Rely on people doing it voluntarily? REALLY?

Of course he's lying. Lies are all those folks have.

Seems like an obfuscated admission that you can't back up your claim.

Funny how the Trumpists have gone silent in this thread.

They allow civilians to have guns in other developed nations, they are not prohibited. Your position is a false dichotomy fallacy. They manage to keep gun violence down by having sensible laws regarding training, storage, background checks, etc. with severe penalties for violators. The US is a huge outlier in gun violence among developed nations. Even among US states, the ones with the most lax gun laws have the highest rates of gun violence: 1. **Alaska** 2. **Mississippi** 3. **Louisiana** 4. **Alabama** 5. **Missouri** Interestingly, they are all "red" states, but that's a different discussion.

The number of federal employees increased during Trump's first presidency. The federal civilian workforce grew by about 1.5% according to the Office of Personnel Management data. Why should we believe that it will be dfferent this time?

Chicago isn't even in the top 10 cities for gun violence per capita (St. Louis is #1). Last year Chicago was #20. If you could guarantee that guns belonging to "'law abiding citizens" would never get into the hands of criminals, I'd be happy for them to keep their guns. Billy V. was law abiding, until killed his whole family. According to DoJ figures some 300,000 guns make their way from "'law abiding citizens" to criminals every year. Data suggest that "law abiding citizens" are a big part of the problem.

Reagan campaigned on reducing the debt. In his 8 years he tripled it.

Sure, and 4 is nearly more than 5.

Selfish, as stated previously.

Not here as long as Bill but I have jumped over the years with a bunch of former and current members, and some of the old Usenet folks too. This includes a 100+ way at Perris with Billvon, and a fancy jump at Quincy with Winsor (we also gave an evening presentation on exit separation one year). Also jumped with Wendy and Andrea at one time or another. And , of course, TK at Z-Hills.

You pick on one anecdote in an attempt to make a point, yet you continue to make light of the tens of thousands of Americans who are shot dead by their fellow citizens every year. A rate per capita far higher than any other 1st world nation. In 2021, the most recent year for which complete data are available, 48,830 people died from gun-related injuries in the U.S.

You have shown that you are far more concerned with your rights to own a plaything that may possibly help in a hypothetical emergency (and may equally likely result in getting you or your family killed), than you are with the right to life of tens of thousands of Americans who die each year due to inadequate gun laws. Americans are 46 times more likely to be shot dead than, say British or Spanish residents. Seems pretty selfish to me.

Silence implies assent.

Gaetz is the man that Trump wanted to be the attorney general of the United States, the highest-ranking law enforcement official in the land, the leader of the Department of Justice. Trump wanted to give that position to a man who paid at least half a dozen women for sex, according to the House report. And the violation of Florida’s prostitution law isn’t even the real depravity; the committee took pains to detail the underlying implication of his actions: “Representative Gaetz took advantage of the economic vulnerability of young women to lure them into sexual activity for which they received an average of a few hundred dollars after each encounter.” Trump wanted to give our Justice Department to a man the committee says committed the statutory rape of a 17-year-old girl. A man who is accused of setting up a phony email account at his office in the House to buy illegal drugs and who then used the drugs to facilitate sexual misconduct. Says as much about Trump as it does about Gaetz. Maybe more.