I don't know why they'd go for this. They already write the laws that Congress approved, and it costs far less than a billion. Heck, you can buy a congressman that'll sway the others for as low as 20k.
It died in my area when they dropped the amount of spawn nodes to the point where you couldn't really walk around. You had to drive pretty far at that point, and that kill let most people's enthusiasm.
I don't know if it was complaints by local businesses or what, but after that I never saw large groups walking around again.
It used to give good info, maybe 10 years ago. And remember when everyone's number was in the phone book? Why isn't there an online version of that anymore? Not this "buy now" scam stuff.
You think they'd divulge the intelligence report, thus potentially exposing their sources, to settle Internet arguments?
If it was internal to the US after the investigation when all the involved parties were identified, a la 9/11, then I would expect it. But not in international relations.
At the beginning of the revolutionary war, militias, minutemen, and even the Continental army relied on soldiers to bring their own weapons from home. They would never have held off British troops long enough to have a revolution at all otherwise. This was an 8 year war, and only after 1776 did they begin to supply the Continental army with arms from France on the regular. Spain as well.
It was absolutely their intention to have regular citizens armed. With nuclear weapons? No. Be serious. With small arms able to be used by one person. To my knowledge, private citizens didn't have access to cannons at a reliable quantity to count on them in battle.
This is what our flawed founding fathers experienced first hand and amended the Constitution with.
That will never fly as a "middle ground" because the second amendment was never written as a hunter's law. It's a Revolutionary, shooting-at-people law that didn't take into account advances in technology because theydidn'tmatter.
What they had different were people upset with a government across the ocean and soldiers in their homes, and the only people upset with the colonists were slaves that weren't allowed guns, education, or freedom. So that made the problem we face way less likely.
Any middle ground like you suggest would take a constitutional amendment and mass adoption, and the ones with the guns that aren't likely to shoot up the place (Jan 6th excluded) are not keen on either.
Even if it's only one life saved, that's great. But can't we want to fix the systemic problems that lead to gun violence as well? It also fixes a lot of other bad things that don't lead to gun violence, like homelessness, depression, preventable deaths, inadequate health care, etc.
What I'm saying is that guns aren't the problem. They make the problem worse. I'd like to see us try to fix both instead of a half measure of different gun laws.
I have a great business idea - sell a roku-like device for half the price and a .99 cent subscription fee. Then when I've captured the market I force them to accept draconian new terms that cost way more or I brick the device. By then it's too late and I can suck all the money out of it from the people that can't switch.
And if they don't like it? Too bad; they signed away their rights to sue.
It's a foolproof plan! As long as I don't get shot in the street but justifiably angry customers.
I'm not so sure that's a viable reason. Trump could literally kill someone in public and I don't see him going to jail over it. Rape, misappropriation of campaign funds, selling national secrets, Insurrection, etc haven't done anything to him yet.
I think what Putin really has is money and the promise of more money. That's what gets Trump's attention.
Which someone like Musk can dangle in front of him, too. Though Trump also likes having his ego stroked, but he's not going to pay for that.
Maybe, but I imagine connected people knew something was up with that island. I remember hearing about the "Lolita Express" plane in maybe the early 2000s on the Internet. At the time I probably thought it was a conspiracy theory, but that it reached common people like me indicates that if you're actually going there, you'd have some questions.
There's no way he'd know that he'd be outed posthumously as an Epstein Island visitor, and thus no one in the future would want to go meet him in the past.
I wonder as well. My filter is made of plastic, and my water lines are plastic. Sometimes my cup is plastic. Do I get more micro plastics after the filtration process?
It's pretty decent at stopping mosquitoes from getting to your skin, sun burn is lessened, but our technology definitely can overcome that. It just takes a little more effort than existing, like hair does.
That, and also that's not how the English language works.