They don't give cops guns to stop violence. Trying to shoot your way to non-violence makes as much sense as trying to fuck your way to virginity. They give cops guns to ensure that violence continues to be monopolized by the state, for the interests of the state. Cops are expendable to the state, that's why the reward for an NYPD officer who has been shot is a paltry $10,000. How much do you think that reward would be if you shot a congressman or other important millionaire? The elite doesn't give a shit about some random cop any more than they do about you, that tiny amount of money is just for show. The state has no interest in stopping violence, capitalism could not exist for one hour without systematic hierarchy-based violence. The state is very interested in controlling how that violence is directed, however.

By the way, most industrialized nations don't miliarize the police the way the United States does. We're unique in our gun-obsession, just like we're unique in our prison population and our lack of universal health care. If you want to understand American politics, you only need to follow the money. The US gun industry is a 32 billion dollar industry. You associate guns with liberty because you have been programmed to since you were a small child. You were programmed to love guns because a handful of very powerful rich people profit enormously from your ignorance. Same reason Americans love their cheeseburgers and other mass-produced garbage fastfood, that kind of food is much more profitable than fruits and vegetables.

Our troops would be a hell of a lot safer if they weren't in Afghanistan. Unfortunately for them, they are expendable assets just like police officers. It is deeply concerning (but not surprising) that a gun owner such as yourself doesn't understand the distinction between civilians on home soil and military personnel in a foreign war zone.

I'm not the type of sociopathic asshole that believes he has a right to decide who deserves to die. I'll leave that up to the redneck southern judges and politicians.

Yeah, because everyone knows Oklahoma and Wyoming have countless roving bands of deadly gangs.  

Obviously.

Gun control is proven to reduce gun deaths. Why are you assuming random bullshit, by the way?

Who's we? The tiny handful of geeks with 3D printers? Yeah, they are a real menace to society. Are these the same folks in your imaginary gangs?

Clearly not to you.

Facts and statistics tend to have that effect.

That's why we have prisons, which is not to say that I'm a fan of prisons. But I'm even less of a fan of entitled american gun nuts and the near-constant shooting sprees they enable with their ignorance.

"Distant" past? When would that be, three years ago? Or four?

Calling it now, bitcoin will account for 99%+ of all crypto transactions within five years.

Don't let yourself end up as a bagholder for some shitcoin, reader. You've been warned

http://www.juniperresearch.com/home

This is not academic, it is not peer reviewed. These people are selling whatever message you want to hear as "research".

It's utterly useless garbage, like your thread.

Sooner than you think.

Oh good, more pseudo-sciencey graphs. Just what the internet needed.

Questoin: What will be the highest USD price of Bitcoin at any point in 2015? Reading comprehension is your friend.

I'm gonna go with 1,800 just a wild guess.

Yes, that did happen. Delicious urine money, yet another reason to use bitcoin

OMG what about a zombie SWAT team? OH SHIT WE'RE ALL FUCKED!

Considering the obvious brain damage, I'm impressed you figured out how to turn your computer on, to say nothing of actually getting onto the internet and making this borderline-retarded post.

Keep up the good work, at this rate you may even learn to read and write if you keep up the good work, while keeping the good work up.

If it were blood, it would appear blackish on the ground, not clear like the urine it obviously is. Wet pants look darker than dry pants. Enough about this fucking gif.

Well said. As usual the fear is way overblown.

So $240, and a ~4 billion dollar marketcap is "the ground" now? Funny, because less than a decade ago $0 / $0 market was "the ground". That's pretty miraculous if you think about it.

This thread is like a who's who of shitcoin pushers.

How about some background, what is this regarding?

Impossible to know even after the fact, because correlation is not causation.

You know what else is too complex for the average person? HTTP.

Did that stop the internet from blowing up after layers were built on top of HTTP?

Anyone who invests in any shitcoin - this includes "Lite"coin and Doge by the way - will be sucking dicks for satoshi dust within 2-3 years.

Yeah, I thought not.

Perhaps you missed the fact that I've been around here much longer than you have?

I couldn't resist either, noob. Now why don't you fuck off back to your altcoin ghetto where you belong? Your shitcoin friends need you to keep pushing their "XCurrency" scam.