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Meanwhile, anyone can create a (subpar) .22 machine gun in their garage.

Really? This is your argument? That's like saying anyone can construct a nuke in their basement so all explosives regulations are silly.

No, not anyone can just build a nuke in their basement. The Chinese struggled for years until they liquored Richard Feynman up and he accidentally let an idea slip that led to them getting the bomb.

Anyone that has a garage and tools can easily, and again I want to emphasize easily, construct a makeshift shotgun or machine gun.

Your position is essentially the same one that enables the (never ending) war on drugs. I don't disagree with gun and weapon regulations, but the UK and AU stance is just laughable. Their violent crime per capita has somehow increased as well making the UK the most violent nation:

http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/current%20series/cfi/101-...

You didn't even read the summary:

Rather than indicating a sharp rise in actual violence, however, this increase is largely the direct result of major changes to the way crime data are recorded in the England and Wales. First in 1998 and then again in 2002, amendments were introduced to include a broader range of offences, to promote greater consistency, and to take a more victim-led approach where alleged offences were recorded as well as evidence-based ones

Stop pushing an agenda.

Sorry, you are right, thought that study took into account the difference in crime reporting. I'm busy deploying to a server and didn't bother to read the summary.

Stop pushing an agenda

Your assumption that I have an agenda is also laughable. I do not own a firearm.

The Chinese struggled for years until they liquored Richard Feynman up and he accidentally let an idea slip that led to them getting the bomb.

I'm sorry, but teasing us like this is just unacceptable. Dirt, please, or at least a reference for where we can find it.

I must be scrambled today because I cannot find it, he "contributed" to their getting the bomb but they also had a lot of help so I overstated his importance. I'll try getting back to you later, it might've been in a biography of his, 'Sun in a Bottle', or one of his interviews where he talks about some meeting with Chinese scientists. Apologies.

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