Fun with numbers you kids might'a missed:




We Americans are doing fine, thanks.
For every 100 Americans--not just able-bodied adults but everybody--the aforementioned lunatics on meds, incontinent octogenarians, waddled babes--we gots moar than 75 privately-owned nugs.
We ain't got nottin' to be 'shamed of, we's undisputed champeens!
NOWHERES ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH has moar per-capita guns than here, in my land of the free, home of the brave.  No one even comes close.  Nosir.  If ya got a hankerin' to do some killin', odds are better than not you gots yous a gun to do it with, and dat's a na'ch'ral fact!

Thanks for your concern tho, Lethn and Arriemoller, I think we got it from here!
(Which gun-deprived, God-forsaken, culturally barren backwaters do you gents hail from?)

How about you adhere to the same strictures you try to impose on others?  The 1/5 statistic was obtained thusly:  Enter "percentage of americans using psychiatric drugs" in google.  Scroll down to first hit that offers a number.  Voila!



Your turn

P.S:  How you managed to get "American" from "AK-74" is beyond me...

[Starting with] one out of five American adults is using psychiatric drugs, and assuming that psychoactive drugs neither increase nor decrease the propensity towards gun violence, one out of five gun related crimes would be committed under the influence of psychoactive drugs.  Simple statistics.  

Deregulating guns is unlikely to DEcrease the number of guns in the "wrong" (irresponsible, drug-addled) hands.  So...  What point are you trying to make?
It seems self-evident to me that when no one has access to guns, the crazies, being a subset of everyone, would be left without also.  No more crazies with guns.  If AK-74s are sold in the isle next to Ramen Pride, I'd hazard a guess that crazies would find it easier to keep their personal arsenals stocked, and one should expect more school shooting deaths.  Unless, of course, we start sticking banana clips instead of bananas in little Becky's lunch box and strapping an AK to her back, so'z she could defend herself.

Or are you saying that access to psychiatric drugs must be limited so'z you can leave some brass down at the range?
Still confused...

What point are you trying to make?  That more guns in the mix would have prevented these killings from being done?  Don't get me wrong, I love guns, and I would have been one happy little 7th grader if I they let me turn my locker into an armory, but I doubt I would have cut down the number of senseless gun deaths.  Just being honest here.

...Of course, it could be argued that life is too safe to begin with, and the alternative to controlling population growth with guns is even less acceptable (like floods, famine or pestilence), but that's a different argument...

Three Weeks (tm)

Go to the first post of this thread.  Substitute "Hula Hoop" for every instance of "Bitcoin/blockchain."  See if the argument remains compelling.
If it does [remain compelling], why are there toys other than Hula Hoops?
If not, why not?

I'm sure it is, that's all as it should be.  Bragworthy performance
But I don't even expect you to apologize.  I ain't even angry. 

As much as I enjoy the wall thread, about the only thing I learn from watching walls is people's propensity for reading too much into them. 

Lol, as much as I love guns (I do), consider the source of this learned article:



Let me give you a catchier title: "Nearly Every Mass Shooting In The Last 20 Years EVAR Shares One Thing In Common, &: It’s NOT Weapons

^Take your time--I'm enjoying this. 

Maybe, for you, asking people to invest in a secrit pr0nz site is the height of sophistication, but we dull normals think it's as obvious as scams get.
Thanks for the lel, though.

For starters, the name of the issuer and the URL of the website you've "invested" in.

  ~Happy investing!

^I (sincerely) apologize, but try to see my side of it.

Each time I think "surely this is a joke," (as I did when I read ABitInterested's secret pr0nz site offering), I'm proven wrong.  
Turns out, ABitInterested was not trying his hand at sarcasm.  He was slowly and methodically separating Bitcoin investment enthusiasts and their coin.  Go figure, huh?

Now here's the kicker--IT WORKED!
Intrepid investors, finding nothing funny about a secret pr0nz site, eagerly sent their coin, through the intertubes, to Anon.  Just like that.

I'm not kidding--this happened, or, rather, is still happening as I type this.
I'm sorry, but your sarcasm simply got lost amidst vaudevillian slapstick that consumed Bitcoin securities.

But again, I sincerely apologize.  Sorry.

No one who hasn't been committed to a mental hospital is "in the same league."

Nah!

@TwentySeventy:  Are you getting your daily divs from ABitInterested?  Everything good there?

Sorry to barge in on your thread and forgive me for being somewhat indiscreet, but I'm ABitWorried about him.  All the health problems his family is having...  He's a strong, proud man; not one to drag his personal troubles into his legit internet and offline businessesesses.  But even the strong need a shoulder to lean on in these trying times, and I can't help but feel it would be cold of me not to extend an offer of help in his hour of need.

He trusts and confides in you, I just couldn't think of a better person to ask.  I hope you understand.

Sincerely yours,
  ~NotLambchop