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Agreed, that is pretty ridiculous in its own right. It does show how the police aren't there to "serve and protect" though, which really makes you wonder what their purpose is in modern society.

I get your point about motive, but I'd argue it's only relevant depending on your argument. If the argument is "we need gun control and government buy-backs to reduce gun violence through the availability of firearms" then using mass shooting statistics as defined by the gun violence archive is relevant. If the argument is "we need better mental health facilities to prevent people enacting public mass violence intentionally" your perspective is relevant.

Honestly thought, I would argue the US is so far down the hole any measure is better than nothing. Either fix gun ownership, the insane number of guns on the market, the mental health crisis, or any of these at once and you'll see improvements. Anything but "thoughts and prayers".

Okay, let's for the sake of your argument exclude organized criminally activity.

The fact that "bar fights escalate into gun fights" is fucking terrifying in its own right. And how on God's green earth isn't it absolutely insane that a "party that got out of hand" turns into gun violence?

In most civilized societies I'm not say risk of becoming a gun violence statistic for going to a party or an establishment that sells alcohol. The fact that this gets so casually ignored as "not a mass shooting, even though it involved multiple people getting shot" is part of the problem.

That's good to hear, as the article doesn't mention any reprimands. Thanks for helping restore some of my faith in the world.

This is truly ridiculously offensive. For him to do that, in Parliament, as a parliamentarian, is beyond absurd. I hope he's not getting away with this stunt without some form of reprimand or punishment.

Failure to do so makes Poland look really bad on an international stage and will probably inspire this nutcase to burn the building down when he decides to burn a Quran next or some other stupid shit.

Apple flexing their anti-competitive muscles again.

From locking down the OS to proprietary charging and a staunch opposition to right to repair, their track record has been nothing but anti-consumer for the last decade and a half.

And the worst part is that they've gotten away with it for so long and so often that they managed to inspire Android device manufacturers (ahem...Samsung) to follow in their footsteps. Someone really ought to step in and break up the company, Microsoft anti-trust style.

Genious comment.

UAE is cheating since they outsourced it to the Netherlands to do their sea reclaiming for them.

I know seperation is not popular enough to actually make it happen, but what I don;t understand is why this point gets brought up so much by the UCP if it isn't popular enough to actually happen. If a politician/party is constantly harping about something I don't actually support, why would I vote for them? It makes no sense.

Alberta is about to create a federal constitutional challenge, and find out that they are, despite the conservatives' collective pipe dream, part of Canada.

I can already hear the chorus of "this is a gross overreach of federal power" and "Trudeau is a dictator" whines coming from the usual culprits. And the base gets riled up even further...

It's starting to become ever more tempting to, at some point, actually give them that freedom they so desperately want and defederate Alberta from Canada. I give them about as long as California was actually independent for before they come begging to be let back in, after they come to the realization that they are a land-locked nation that depends on its neighbors and existing trade relationships and agreements to sell any of their precious oil to the world.

Be careful what you wish for wild roses, you just might get it.

One has to wonder if we wouldn't be better off without social media. Sure, it's done a lot of good in helping people connect and exchange ideas, but some of those people aren't acting in good faith, and some of those ideas are just plain terrible. I don't claim to have the full solution, but it would be a great first step if the equivalent of a fairness doctrine were to be introduced to the algorithms these platforms use to weed out rampant misinformation.

People actively voted for deportation? Oh boy. There are some scary historic precedents there that I hope the Netherlands will avoid.