Recent content by rvkevin

I already mentioned one measure of gun control earlier in this thread that is not taking away all registered guns. It was making gun owners secure their firearms in a safe when they are not using it so its harder to steal. Believe it or not, but this isn't required everywhere. If the whole...

Said with no evidence to back it up. I forgot to add in my previous post: it's even debatable of whether the Swiss have the best gun laws since while they have fewer gun deaths than the US, they still have more when compared to other developped nations. If you want to explain their lack of...

If that is all what gun proponents want, then I would agree with them. However that is not what is being argued. People are saying to arm the teachers, everyone in every movie theatre, etc. because then someone would be in a position to stop the shooter. In Switzerland, the hypothetical of...

Since several people are pointing to Switzerland as possible evidence that guns are a deterrent to shootings, I think they would find the following thread informative. http://www.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/u5fzh/ima_request_a_citizen_of_switzerland_willing_to/ A couple key takeaways. The...

Bob, I have three points of contention. One, I think you have made a great case for why gun owners should be legally required to store their weapons in a locked case or in a safe when not using them. It prevents anyone that is not registered from obtaining the weapon and thereby using it...

I would like to first point out that this question presumes a privileged epistemic perspective (e.g we don’t know about future advances in agriculture or the lack thereof ahead of time) and as such, it is not a real-world scenario. However, I will try to address it as if we could reasonably...

Let me perhaps persuade Aesir more towards his original position. Let’s deal with the two questions presented. No. One of the reasons why this is a no brainer is that we have a less harmful means of population control available to us: birth control. This method easily allows us to plan...

I think you should just go ahead and create the threads. People can then post their positions and we'll see if there is any disagreement and see where it goes from there.

I'm not really sure how much there is to disagree with here. Most people agree that self-defense is justifiable and that you can go too far. Anyway, this is a good blog that deals with self-defense and has a good explanation for what is and is not self-defense, which basically boils down to...

Someone addressed this question on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/answers/comments/12p9rs/why_does_the_us_use_electoral_voting_instead_of/c6x18jl

Infinity is not a number. At no point in time will you have an infinite amount of trials. Also, things that have a time component will be possible yet not repeatable. For example, it's possible that the 5th flip will be heads, but it wasn't and we're never going to have another 5th flip again...

There's another aspect to it too. The costs of necessary goods have also risen. Things like oil and how transportation costs relate to increased food prices mean that more of budget goes to the same products that people have always been purchasing. This is essentially a decrease in overall...

If what you mean by wages that there is not enough demand to drive production, then you're correct. It frustrates me to no end when I hear economics being discussed as if laying off several thousand government employees would somehow increase demand.

Suppose you have a coin and you want to see what would happen flipping it a bunch of times. Of course, its easy to calculate the probability of all heads, its (.5)^N, where N is how many times you flip the coin. Now, when N approaches infinity, the probability of flipping only heads approaches...

I have two comments about vagueness: 1. If you think this is simply a result of the debate format, find me a news article or press statement from their campaign that details their plan, addresses the criticisms of their plan, and/or references the studies that they claim support their plan...