Kijimuna said...

Kijimuna at 10:35 AM JST - 2nd July

Only now are we noticing, JT?

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Kijimuna at 10:33 AM JST - 2nd July

The hundred years comment by McCain was a soundbite disaster. He was trying to say "we'll stay there as long as they need us" but he had no intention of suggesting that a presence would be any different than it is in Korea, Germany or Japan.

I'm enamored with Obama…

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Kijimuna at 10:27 AM JST - 2nd July

Massive outward flows of Japanese money, both via government accounts and via the pachinko winnings ship. In return, North Korea can apologize profusely and offer Japanese students thousands of humanitarian working holidays.

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Kijimuna at 09:29 AM JST - 30th June

Sezwho, I don't think he was arguing causation. I think he was arguing that the ban did little to cut homicides, especially those involving guns. The causation argument is usually pushed by those in support of such bans.

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Kijimuna at 04:07 PM JST - 28th June

Sezwho, thanks for the reply. Agreed on your characterization of Obama's situation.

I don't agree on the court's decision as being craven. The Court came within a vote of mandating a mass confiscation of those 192mn guns. This issue was probably the most important of the Court's since Brown v.…

Posted in Supreme Court says U.S. Constitution gives Americans right to own guns at 04:07 PM JST - 28th June
Kijimuna at 11:44 AM JST - 28th June

Zen Builder, law enforcement and CIA friends have told me the same thing, that shotguns are best for home defense, partly for the spray effect, but primarily because the sound a pump action makes. (For the record, I don't own a gun--yet.)

Posted in Supreme Court says U.S. Constitution gives Americans right to own guns at 11:44 AM JST - 28th June
Kijimuna at 11:42 AM JST - 28th June

Thanks Betzee. I'm signing off too.

Posted in Supreme Court says U.S. Constitution gives Americans right to own guns at 11:42 AM JST - 28th June
Kijimuna at 11:41 AM JST - 28th June

FWIW, allegedly higher rates in Europe are probably so in the aggregate as additional countries are counted in the data. It may just be that Americans are more murderous than Germans, for example.

Posted in Supreme Court says U.S. Constitution gives Americans right to own guns at 11:41 AM JST - 28th June
Kijimuna at 11:35 AM JST - 28th June

RMKA, I wouldn't sweat it too much. JapanToday's forum has already debated the relative rates of various countries (including that Europe's rate is higher than America's, which I haven't bothered to confirm).

It's safe to say that guns are a very useful murder tool, but not the only one in…

Posted in Supreme Court says U.S. Constitution gives Americans right to own guns at 11:35 AM JST - 28th June
Kijimuna at 11:26 AM JST - 28th June

Mea culpa, my second sentence should have been "crime rates in the US are comparable to other developed countries." The gun-related fatalities countries are a separate list, as indicated.

Posted in Supreme Court says U.S. Constitution gives Americans right to own guns at 11:26 AM JST - 28th June