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Sigh. Everything in nature is lethal if enough force is applied or a large enough dose is administered, your point is just plain silly. However; cars, kitchen utilities, construction tools and body members are fundamentally different from guns because their main purpose is not to kill, they are not weapons designed to harm other humans. Also, directly from the FBI's site: Of the homicides for which the FBI received weapons data, most (67.8 percent) involved the use of firearms. Handguns comprised 72.5 percent of the firearms used in murder and nonnegligent manslaughter incidents in 2011. Law enforcement should always have access to the most powerful weapons to protect the citizens. Inb4 the "corrupt armed government turning against the unarmed civilians" argument: The USA government already has a billion-fold more powerful striking force (tanks, bombs, airplanes, boats, nuclear power) in comparison to all the private guns in the world, if they wanted to turn against the people they could easily already have done so (this is not a point politicians like to bring up ;)) Giving everyone a gun does not eliminate weakness or easy targets. Criminals would acclimatize quickly and would, for example, start using even more deadly and illegal weapons to keep the upper hand. Now, when criminals start terrorizing the streets with bazookas, should we then allow common citizens to also keep bazookas in their car for self-defense? How about grenades, bombs, tanks? Yes, it's inevitable. As I said before, you can't eradicate them, but you can make them much less accessible. In 2011 (USA), felony circumstance homicides (thieves, rapers, burglars, bank robbers, serial killers...) represented 'only' 23% of all homicides. 43% of all homicide victims were murdered during arguments (including romantic triangles) [extremely high percentage when compared to countries with stricter gun policies] and the remaining 38% of murders's circumstances remain unknown. Access to guns makes murder more accessible and easy for common citizens, there's no need for that. Yes people would start stabbing each other to death, murder'll always be inevitable, but homicide rates would most certainly decrease if you take the most efficient, clean,impersonal killing tools out of the equation. I suppose this is a philosophical, difference of opinion. I had to rewrite these answers a couple of time because I backspaced out of the thread (which made me really mad). The next answers will be a bit more brief because I'm getting tired and can't be bothered to retype my previous answers. Homicide rates would most certainly decrease if you take the most efficient, clean,impersonal killing tools out of the equation. But I wish we were able to make the desire to kill redundant. But yeah. If one day I get a free wish then who knows... I'm aware of that, however when correlation occurs almost without exceptions in cases distributed all over the world (which means different political systems, health care policies, etc...) I think it's relatively safe to say there's a causal link somewhere. I was thinking of Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan. Sorry for the lack of specificity :p I like to argue, thanks for this. I'm really pissed of for pressing backspace a couple of times while writing this reply though so I'm going to call it a day here and end this on a musical note.

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It's the most dangerous killing tool available to date. It's impossible to get rid of all of them. It is very possible to get rid of the majority. Both the knowledge and tools required to create alcohol are and have pretty much always been extremely available, I actually brewed my first liter of beer with my grandfather when I was 12. How many 12 years old do you know are capable of engineering and producing a gun and bullets from scratch? Criminals will still use guns, they'll probably sell some guns too, but keep in mind guns aren't consumables (well... I guess bullets are but let's just skip that one), they aren't supposed to be used for pleasure, and they aren't addictive. The prohibition argument doesn't make any sense here. Life isn't fundamentally unsafe, especially for humans. It becomes relatively unsafe when you give almost anyone the power to kill by pulling a trigger, there's actually data to prove this. The fact that citizens are allowed to casually wear arms in America doesn't seem to frighten criminal into not committing crimes / murder at all, quite the opposite actually. Stupidity + guns = tragedy. The only way to solve the problem is to take away guns out of the equation. You shouldn't blindly trust those with power. That club includes the Gun Lobby btw. What you should trust is empirical data. Again, take a look at the correlation between gun control strictness and murder rates / capita. This clearly false feeling of safety you get for free when you buy a handgun is just plain dangerous. A few sheeps getting killed by a few wolves. vs. Turning all sheeps into wolves. The first option cost much less lives. BOTH homicides (any weapon) AND firearm related deaths decrease when gun policies are stricter, almost without exception. http://www.gunpolicy.org/ http://www.guncite.com/gun_control_gcgvinco.html http://web.archive.org/web/20061104194222/http://www.unodc.org/unodc/crime_cicp_survey_seventh.html http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/firearms-death-rate-per-100000/ Again, weed is a plant you can easily grow, you can make alcohol with potatoes and water. It's much easier to almost completely eradicate production and sale of guns (like in many Asian countries).

Why would the average citizen need the right to own a fire weapon? It's a dangerous, archaic right. It's easier to make guns illegal than to make stupidity illegal. Your "lions hunting lambs" analogy is extremely flawed and international comparative data shows the exact opposite. Allowing teachers to have guns in the classroom just shifts the problem. Take away the guns, that's it, sure some rednecks will whine but f them.

To celebrate the recent awesome growth of users and promote my upcoming woodcutting script I will be giving away a couple of free accounts this week. Account details: All accounts are F2P with 61 woodcutting and all other stats at level 1. Perfect for chopping those yews! Game details: Post a picture of something party-related or a happy comment on this thread. I will PM a random user with the account details (make sure you visit the forums regularly and check your PMs!). Some people claim that liking (click)> this <(click) thread increases your odds of winning a free account. You can visit the devlog here, leave a comment, like it, have fun, life's good: http://osbot.org/for...cutting-devlog/ With love and care, Botre

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Firearm-related death rates AND total intentional homicide rates tend to decrease exponentially when gun control becomes more strict. So I'm all for it.

Ok so confirmed to likely come out tomorrow :p

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Yeah, a more beginner-friendly API isn't a bad thing per se. And I suppose it takes Alek like 5 seconds to write methods like that. No reason to be grumpy I guess *flies away*

Feel free to watermark it any way you want, spell my name backwards, add typos to the brand name, whatever... I obviously won't use any creations without the proper permission from their creator. But I do want designs representative of artists current skillsets and a way to test their ability to follow simple instructions to create original, custom, designs.

In your getState(): If inventory is full -> BANK Else If not under attack and cowhide exists -> LOOT Else -> KILL Would fix it

Cmoooon man public Filter<RS2Object> pls(Position lel) { Filter<RS2Object> wat= new Filter<RS2Object>() { @Override public boolean match(RS2Object mald) { return !mald.getPosition().equals(lel); } }; return wat; }

I'm getting back into scripting. I'm looking to hire / collaborate with a graphic artist for well... the graphic side of the "Botre" brand. Some things I like ("x > y" means I prefer x over y): Flat > 3D Plain > Gradient Simplicity > over-ornamentation Symbolism > arbitrary shapes Futura > every other font. All jobs will be paid for, I don't expect anyone to work for free. To apply, design an original concept for a logo for the "Botre" brand, keep the above preferences in mind and don't forget that the brand's purpose is to sell scripts. Please PM me the design, feel free to include any other works / portfolio and why you want to work with (not for) me, please specify your timezone too. Any applications that don't feature a "Botre" logo design will be ignored. Looking forward to your responses!

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