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A little over a 3 meter radius then. a = v^2/r You need a speed approaching 6 m/s to get 1g. Have fun getting into and out of bed.

I assume you are suggesting something like the setup for the spaceship in The Martian. How big would the ring need to be, under reasonable assumptions of rotational speed?

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Such items are known as sneeze guards in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sneeze_guard

They think they are Rambo, or that such heroics are realistic

Comparable? There is only one country in black. The US. The number is over 100 per 100 citizens, and is almost twice the next country. In Canada it's a third of that (and they are not free from school shootings), plus they have more stringent gun control laws in place, e.g. background checks and waiting periods, not present in US federal law. And there's this little tidbit "According to the Congressional Research Service, as of 2009 there were roughly twice as many guns per capita in the United States as there were in 1968" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country And it's so easy to reach for a gun.

Which has not actually been established.

Here's a problem with this: these drugs aren't just used in the US. We can use pretty much the rest of the industrialized world as a control for our little experiment. If the drugs are the proximate cause, why don't we see this behavior elsewhere? The variable is the guns. They are not being blamed because it's easier. They are being blamed because that's where the evidence points.

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So IOW your expertise is as a participant, in one narrow area of law.

I was not summarizing your comment, I was summarizing Raider5678's. "States do have the right to put pretty much whatever restrictions they like on guns unless deemed unlawful by the Supreme Court." and "So if the politics on a national level are too corrupt, states do have the ability to place their own laws." I think you may be reading way too much into the statements. So you're a lawyer?

I don't think that's a fair assessment. The states can pass gun restrictions. The Supreme Court can rule them to be unconstitutional. I don't think there's anything controversial in that position.

Federal law is enforced by federal officials, e.g. the FBI or ATF For example, the feds could (and recently threatened to) enforce marijuana laws despite legalization at the state level. If federal gun legislation is passed, the states will not be able to "thwart" it. The US has the opportunity to legally overthrow the bulk of the government every 2 years. All of the house and 1/3 of the senate.

Not so much. The elected officials are split to the point where nothing has been done, but the people elect them, and their sentiments are much more lopsided. Plus, there has already been some evidence of a swing away from the GOP. Their current hesitation to do anything may just galvanize young voters to turn out in much greater numbers, and be single-issue voters. So you vote out some of the resistance, and anyone who remains may re-evaluate their position before the next voting cycle.

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Since he learned nothing from his brief suspension and continues to hijack and post abusive comments, Furyan5 is suspended for a month

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