StringJunky

Serious mental gymnastics going on. The lunatics are not the psychiatric cases. IIRC a person is killed by a gun every two weeks in the UK, and that might include Police Armed Response numbers as well. We have about 100 hospital admissions from knife crime a week plus the ones that don't get recorded. I think it would be fair to say that if guns were available to those offenders we'd have a death rate similar to the US per capita. It's not that we are any less violent. We have pretty much the same level of violent offending per capita, I would guess. It's pretty clear that our gun laws are preventing massacres.... you can't really kill 20 people with a knife in rapid succession before someone takes you on.

I just read somewhere that some staff will be armed in schools, but what if one of those has a psychotic and murderous episode...? Remember after 911, pilots cabins were lockable from the inside and an airline pilot locked it and crashed into a mountain? The devil is potentially in us all and the pro-gun self defence lobby seem to fail to realize or acknowledge that. It's not dangerous career criminals that are causing the massacres, it's ordinary people with severe mental issues. To a man, none of the perpetrators I've seen of these atrocities look like they are a member of MS13, who only actually seem to do the small stuff; a rival gang member here or there. The typical armed American citizen is not trained or equipped to deal with either. They've been watching too many movies.

Both of them, not just him.

Public discourse is their oxygen... and gravy.

But there's plenty of other accidental and premeditated scenarios for lethal and injurious things to happen whilst in possession, which are not an infinitesimal risk.

Some comments by the swimmer Lia Thomas on the BBC website today: An issue I noticed today seems to be that medically-supported transitioning occurs after puberty, when the adult potential is already developed. If the transitioning occured pre-puberty that criticism is removed. Whole other set of ethical issues to deal with here though as well. Could it not be that the 'confused' child is not confused and is merely, without as-yet sufficient contrary social conditioning, expressing their natural potential? Perhaps it is you that is confused because they aren't conforming to your decades-old, culturally-ingrained, stereotypical expectations?

Six of one and half a dozen of the other. The confounding factor is that they can both act which obscures the veracity of both positions. No doubt this will be turned into a political spectacle. Probably been a good career move for both of them in their respective interests: Depp's probably marketable again movie-wise and Heard will be the new figurehead for the #MeToo movement or other cause celebre. Personally, I think they both just spoilt, petulant people that feel they can sue on a whim and they are probably equal in blame.

OK.

I never got the sense he was taking a side swipe at anybody. Are you taking umbrage at this? This is a general statement about the collective human condition.

Having an easily accessible, loaded firearm in the home for personal protection... what can go wrong?

+1 @zapatos but I can't give anymore today.

The ignorance is all yours.

It works for many other countries. I would be very upset if we had a Second Amendment in the UK, as it would indicate to me that UK civil society had collapsed.

We know your thoughts on this and I'm pretty sure iNow created this thread to go in another direction. Either contribute in the spirit of the question or butt out.

Not sure if it's had the pleasure of being engaged by an NLAW yet.

Same with their Tank Terminator he said was in Ukraine... all ONE of them.

Solutions instead of obstacles.

@beecee if you quote it as source without caveats, you will be assumed to agree with it verbatim.

All men are stronger than all women? False. Your gross generalizations are getting old.

How long is a piece of string? It's not answerable until an indivdual is measured. This reinforces the point that performance should govern competition class eligibility and not gender per se. A more useful question would be "Do transitioned cis-females gain a performance advantage over their pre-transitioned selves?"

Yes, I noticed this. Irritating. Had a play: click on the clock symbol I've highlighted here and it will take you to that post.

15%-50% of pregnancies end spontaneously. God is a lot busier than our clinics.

I didn't know until now, but it looks we have our own merry bands of evangelistical anti-abortion fraternity inj the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-6162448

You can post point by point if you want. If you quote each person in separate posts, providing no one else has posted in the interim, they will automatically be merged, if it occurs within a certain time. Just try things out. There is sandbox to play with forum controls in: https://www.scienceforums.net/forum/99-the-sandbox/

I never said it would be cleavage, our signalling processes would just change architecture. The 'wet' human forms would still co-exist as long as conditions allowed it, same with chip-based forms. Evolution is a blind watchmaker, we do what we do. Necessity is moot. On the large scale it's not directed. Evolutionary predecessors will co-exist as long as conditions allow. You seem not to have grasped what I'm saying. All I'm saying is autonomous AI becomes a new path of human manifestation that may or may not evolve away from us. That does not mean AI needs to destroy humans. I was rhetorically saying in my post that we don't have a metaphysical basis, as Alzheimer's demonstrates.