The current one in the US is the largest ever. We've had ONE comparable in the last 30 years. In the last 30 years, there's been TWO shootings in the US with over 40 fatalities - this one and the Miami gay bar attack. On-par with the EU. You are wrong.
Set the goal to "sell 20 all-electric vehicles by 2023". You end up selling 35 per month through 2023, and you total somewhere over 2,000 sold. You crushed the goal by two orders of magnitude! Bonuses all around!
And thereby make a pair of felons via straw purchase. You will NEVER be able to halt all firearm homicides. Most of the EU is highly restrictive relative to the US and even then, they have 65-70% number of mass shootings as we have in the US. It's the culture, not the presence/absence of weapons.
Yeah, from the 32nd floor across the street -.22 and 9mm wouldn't be used...;) They will still be quite loud. And 9mm, unless it's subsonic, is still extremely loud - well above 115 dB (that's why.45 is used more often, it is a barely-supersonic load when it's hot-loaded, typically it is subsonic in most loadings as compared to 9mm).
Firearms are essentially banned in Chicago and much harder to acquire in IL and its surrounding States as comapred to Houston. Perhaps it's not the presence or absence of an inert object that dictates violence, but the culture of the city itself?
My point is you said there was like one or two in the last 30 years. You are off by an order of magnitude. If you look at the record for the US, we've had 37 mass shooting with 5 more killed, in the last 30 years. So it's not that different. And again, an order of magnitude different than you state.
Not even close to realistic on your volume levels for concerts. You're off by 20+ dB. The loudest ever was around 135+ dB for peaks, and average was closer to 110. I know a LOT of FOH engineers and they almost to a person push for 90-100 dB SPL average with peaks to 120. That's really loud - but orders of magnitude less power than you claim.
Source: I design and build high-power speakers for a living, for a wide variety of brands.
The European Firearms Directive overrides the members of the EU. And the EU does regulate firearms down to the member states. Even Switzerland and Norway participate in the EU Firearms Directive.
Where would that be? Category A weapons - used in this shooting - are essentially banned in all of the EU. Norway and Switzerland also recognize and follow the EU firearms directive.
Assuming the GP is over the age of 40 (like me - I am two score and 9) - then none of what you listed happened when he was a kid. The world consists of more than those in their 20s and 30s...
Unless it is considered carrying out the will of your god? I guess we can classify all religion as a psychotic breakdown, but how hard down the path to destroying the 1st Amendment do we want to go in an effort to finish destroying the 2nd?
Murders per 100,000 puts Chicago at number 6. Now, I guess most of those murders COULD be done with weapons other than firearms, but I'd bet most were firearms. SO it's well into the top 30...
The NRA has an annual budget of about $250 million. Michael Bloomberg, a leading anti-gun nut, has a net worth around $47 BILLION. Bloomberg alone can double the spending of the NRA annually with just 1% interest on his net worth. That is just one high-profile anti-gun nut. If the NRA has a metric shit-ton of money to throw around, the anti-gun crowd has 1000 metric shit-tons of money to throw around.
And most of that coal is lignite, much worse than the bituminous stuff we have in the US. Interestingly enough, China and Germany are the world's largest suppliers of lignite, each nearly tripling the lignite production of the US.
Maybe, but it's still planning on 700+ new coal plants. Oh, and 60+ nuclear plants over the next 10 years, too... When you plan to build a massive number of power plants, a small cut can still be the "largest" in the world - but a drop in the bucket compared to what is actually happening (much like having a $100 billion deficit, and "cutting it" to only $95 billion).
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The current one in the US is the largest ever. We've had ONE comparable in the last 30 years. In the last 30 years, there's been TWO shootings in the US with over 40 fatalities - this one and the Miami gay bar attack. On-par with the EU. You are wrong.
Set the goal to "sell 20 all-electric vehicles by 2023". You end up selling 35 per month through 2023, and you total somewhere over 2,000 sold. You crushed the goal by two orders of magnitude! Bonuses all around!
Those of us who oppose it are usually castigated as "alt-right" haters who "cling to our guns and religion"...
And thereby make a pair of felons via straw purchase. You will NEVER be able to halt all firearm homicides. Most of the EU is highly restrictive relative to the US and even then, they have 65-70% number of mass shootings as we have in the US. It's the culture, not the presence/absence of weapons.
Yeah, from the 32nd floor across the street - .22 and 9mm wouldn't be used... ;) They will still be quite loud. And 9mm, unless it's subsonic, is still extremely loud - well above 115 dB (that's why .45 is used more often, it is a barely-supersonic load when it's hot-loaded, typically it is subsonic in most loadings as compared to 9mm).
Parent was wrong, and you were quite wrong yourself in your rebuttal. I guess that doesn't matter, though?
Firearms are essentially banned in Chicago and much harder to acquire in IL and its surrounding States as comapred to Houston. Perhaps it's not the presence or absence of an inert object that dictates violence, but the culture of the city itself?
In testing, most of the suppressors reduced the volume to between 130 and 145 dB. That's louder than a concert. A few suppressors can be quieter, and use of subsonic ammunition helps, but even suppressed a firearm is still a very loud thing.
My point is you said there was like one or two in the last 30 years. You are off by an order of magnitude. If you look at the record for the US, we've had 37 mass shooting with 5 more killed, in the last 30 years. So it's not that different. And again, an order of magnitude different than you state.
Here's a list and if we limit mass-shootings to those with 5 or more killed, there have been about 26 in the last 30 years, in Europe.
Not even close to realistic on your volume levels for concerts. You're off by 20+ dB. The loudest ever was around 135+ dB for peaks, and average was closer to 110. I know a LOT of FOH engineers and they almost to a person push for 90-100 dB SPL average with peaks to 120. That's really loud - but orders of magnitude less power than you claim.
Source: I design and build high-power speakers for a living, for a wide variety of brands.
The European Firearms Directive overrides the members of the EU. And the EU does regulate firearms down to the member states. Even Switzerland and Norway participate in the EU Firearms Directive.
Where would that be? Category A weapons - used in this shooting - are essentially banned in all of the EU. Norway and Switzerland also recognize and follow the EU firearms directive.
Assuming the GP is over the age of 40 (like me - I am two score and 9) - then none of what you listed happened when he was a kid. The world consists of more than those in their 20s and 30s...
Unless it is considered carrying out the will of your god? I guess we can classify all religion as a psychotic breakdown, but how hard down the path to destroying the 1st Amendment do we want to go in an effort to finish destroying the 2nd?
Murders per 100,000 puts Chicago at number 6. Now, I guess most of those murders COULD be done with weapons other than firearms, but I'd bet most were firearms. SO it's well into the top 30...
Walk down to your local firearm dealer and try to buy an automatic weapon. Go ahead. Let us know how it goes...
The NRA has an annual budget of about $250 million. Michael Bloomberg, a leading anti-gun nut, has a net worth around $47 BILLION. Bloomberg alone can double the spending of the NRA annually with just 1% interest on his net worth. That is just one high-profile anti-gun nut. If the NRA has a metric shit-ton of money to throw around, the anti-gun crowd has 1000 metric shit-tons of money to throw around.
Sadly, even that level of arms is illegal to carry in much of the US...
Just solving the problem By Any Means Necessary (BAMN)...
So, we get less stability for only twice the price? Sign me up!
Do you ever fly? What do you suggest other than petroleum-based fuel?
And most of that coal is lignite, much worse than the bituminous stuff we have in the US. Interestingly enough, China and Germany are the world's largest suppliers of lignite, each nearly tripling the lignite production of the US.
Maybe, but it's still planning on 700+ new coal plants. Oh, and 60+ nuclear plants over the next 10 years, too... When you plan to build a massive number of power plants, a small cut can still be the "largest" in the world - but a drop in the bucket compared to what is actually happening (much like having a $100 billion deficit, and "cutting it" to only $95 billion).
Except for 700+ more, that is...