The election? How does this stance differentiate him from his opponent?

You’re just slowly turning into a cyborg.

I’m guessing a DES (stent)?

Careful what you wish for. PTFE is used in liners of a lot of life saving catheters. The stuff that goes I side your heart and brain and saves your life…

Getting guns, all guns, out of the hands of citizens

I don’t think this is

• realistic
• necessary
• desirable

There are about 50k deaths a year due to guns. That is a lot and we should try to prevent as many as we can. But consider this. There are about 300 million guns legally owned. That’s 0.0167% of guns involved in a death.

Interesting this isnt that different than car statistics ~40k deaths with 260 million cars owned.

Now no cars without special dispensation doesn’t sound like the worst thing to me, but it also doesn’t sound realistic or all that great without like transporter technology.

So are my children less valuable than other kids? Or is there not a one size fits all approach, no black and white solution?

If you look at the stats, a majority of gun deaths are suicide (54% is the number I pulled up just now but it fluctuates, I want to say I’ve seen it as high as 60%).

Rather than focusing on banning ARs, let’s focus on red flag laws. This protects the suicidal as well as the what I think is second biggest category (having a hard time finding stats), victims of domestic violence. Rolling them out in more places, and improving the laws and enforcement where they are.

Also safe storage laws. If you own a gun and you have a child that will be near that gun, you damn better have it secured at all times. This shouldn’t be controversial.

I mean the ‘chechn’ bombings were absolutely orchestrated by Putin, that’s how he came to power

Most people who own guns see the downsides, but think that they are outweighed by the benefits. Many non-owners disagree. This is a philosophical question, so there is not a correct answer.

I live in the sticks. I have a mountain lion living close to my house, I’ve seen it many times. We also have coyotes all around and I have small children. I keep my guns secured, I also have trigger locks. It’s not likely I will need to use violence against these neighbors but if I do, I need a gun to survive. This is not philosophy.

At least she is facing reality and trying to warn others. It seems to me to be more common to double down and blame any other cockamamie idea rather than accept that she made the wrong choice.

The ‘soft’ antivax stance is getting vaccinated for more than one thing at a time it too hard on young bodies.

It’s bullshit on the spectrum of antivax.

https://www.pharmacytimes.com/view/delaying-skipping-and-altering-vaccine-schedules-addressing-selective-vaccination

It actually has some interesting history as this was the claim of Andrew Wakefield, one of the guys who threw gas on the antivax fire linking MMR to autism (he had a patent on a Measles vaccine, separate from the MMR). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_MMR_autism_fraud

Finland has it all

I think the idea is you can be stingy with things other than money.