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andrewducker) wrote2018-02-16 12:00 pm
andrewducker) wrote2018-02-16 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 16-02-2018
- Satire editor wearily hits “Repost” on mass shooting article again
- (tags: guns satire usa OhForFucksSake viaSwampers )
- Not so fast: why you should think twice before restricting your diet
- (tags: health food diet )
- The NY Times Fires Tech Writer Quinn Norton, and It’s Complicated
- (tags: writing racism society internet journalism )
- IRS struggles to convert 50-year-old assembly language to Java
- (tags: computers usa programming history java tax )
- Undiagnosed adult ADHD could cost UK billions a year
- (tags: adhd uk )
- Review of The Tyranny of Metrics
- (tags: management numbers statistics )
- Transgender woman breastfeeds baby in first recorded case, study says
- (tags: transgender breastfeeding uk )
- Every Single Word: edited down popular movies to only the words spoken by people of color.
- (tags: movies race videos )
- Things Corbyn has said, done or written re: foreign policy
- There are a few of these where I actually agree (Although I might not have phrased it that way). But many where I really don't.
(tags: Labour politics ) - Why gun control works and drugs control doesn't. (In the UK)
- (tags: drugs guns law uk society )
- One year ago: Trump Signs Bill Revoking Obama-Era Gun Checks for People With Mental Illnesses
- (tags: guns republicans usa OhForFucksSake )
- My employee insinuated I was having an affair … with my husband
- (tags: relationships work advice )
- The entirely unnecessary demise of Barnes & Noble (appalling, appalling management and terrible business decisions they don't understand how people work)
- (tags: business books )
- HMRC wins tax case against BBC presenter
- (tags: BBC tax uk )
- Remarkable secrets of ketamine's antidepressant effect unlocked by scientists
- (tags: ketamine depression )
- Why "gun training" is not the answer
- (tags: guns failure )
- Twitter Says Impersonating A Journalist During A Mass Shooting Doesn't Violate Its Rules
- (tags: fraud journalism abuse Twitter OhForFucksSake )
- See a baby learn in real time
- (tags: funny video baby )
- Britain's bus coverage hits 28-year low
- I wonder how much urbanisation is affecting this
(tags: buses transport uk ) - Isaac Asimov's 1964 predictions of 2014
- (tags: thefuture Technology asimov predictions )
- Sinn Fein claims released documents show DUP walked out on deal to restore Northern Ireland government
- (tags: NorthernIreland )
- The Alt-Right Is Killing People
- (tags: politics murder racism usa )
- While the Media Panicked About Campus Leftists, the Far Right Surged
- (tags: usa politics racism society university )
- Inequality in British society is the biggest Issue that we face
- (tags: inequality uk )
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What they are currently doing doesn't work. The obvious solution of gun control seems very likely to help and to help more than any convoluted alternatives that are proposed. It's certainly the first thing I'd try if I was concerned about gun deaths in my country.
They don't seem to care about the issue. They seem okay with thousands of people dying each year. They get upset but do nothing. They could fix this problem if they wanted, but they don't fix it, so I assume that they don't want to fix. I'm not going to enable their hypocracy by providing an audience for their mawkish hand-wringing and "Thoughts and Prayers." I assume they are okay with school kids being killed on a weekly basis.
There are plenty of people dying and being killed in countries that want to stop that happening but can't - those people deserve my help, or at the least, my actual thoughts and prayers.
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Although I do feel for the anti-gun campaigners over there who can't effect change because the gun lobby is so powerful.
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I really believed that something significant would be done after Sandy Hook. It wasn't. If you have the power to change this and still do nothing then I assume you are fine with dead six-year-olds.
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