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No. There's only one issue. In the United States, it is absurdly easy to obtain firearms legally or illegally, and to also obtain mechanisms that increase a firearm's lethality legally or illegally. We are willing to place limits around every right we have from buying fertilizer in bulk to not wearing our shoes across a dirty airport floor to hollering "fire" in a crowded theater - except one. A right that is linked to militia service which 99% of civilian firearms holders will never see. Written with an eye to 18th century weaponry - hardly AR-15s and semi-automatic handguns subsequently made automatic. As Bishop Dan Edwards stated, as Americans we have no constitutional right to food or medical care but we are fanatically jealous of our capacity to kill, because this is what makes us matter. I can kill, therefore I am. Not a flattering opinion of Americans, but I believe he is correct. There is no other reason for us to hang on to pieces of metal that have one reason for existence - death. When poll after poll from multiple polling organizations across the political spectrum reveal that Americans want at least small changes to gun laws - the ability to stop people with psychiatric diagnoses from getting guns, closing the internet and guns show loopholes, make gun laws standard across the country because this patchwork method doesn't work - Congress won't act because the NRA opposes even these small compromises. Americans understand it won't stop all tragedies, but it can't hurt. I know that if 20 first graders being executed in cold blood in their classrooms doesn't change anything, the chances of Las Vegas making a difference are slim. There seems to be unlimited "thoughts and prayers" out there and precious little stomach for taking the hard stance that might make some small difference. Somehow or another I don't think our deified founding fathers - who are always pulled out and dusted off when the second amendment is challenged - quite envisioned dead children or concert goers being picked off like fish in a barrel in their "intentions" in composing the Bill of Rights in 1789.

Better choice than Bob Dylan.

I only used it for the joke. You know, triggered, and the guy got shot. Ah well, it was funnier in my head.

"Triggered" None of that bollocks here please, this isn't Mumsnet.

Doesn't really count as a miss if they weren't talked a lot imo.

Update #15 for Bobby 'The Brain' Heehan, Lilliane Bettencourt, Charles Bradley, Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty, Liz Dawn, Tony Booth, Hugh Hefner, and Dave Strader. Nabeel Qureshi, Gisele Casadesus and Les Mutrie join the List of the Lost. msc 2140 drol 1965 Death Impends 1860 Joey Russ 1760 Jiroemon Kimura 1680 Book 1595 The Dead Cow 1575 gcreptile 1535 Grim Up North 1425 GraveDanger 1325 YoungWillz 1235 Wormfarmer 1215 Captain Chorizo 1160 The Unknown Man 1015 RadGuy 970 Shaun of the Dead 925 Deathray 795 Davy Jones' Locker 550 Bibliogryphon 500 ImNotHades 350 Gooseberry Crumble 275

Like I always do, too, you confused Bob Seger with Pete Seeger.

I'm hanging on in 24th place in the DDP at the mo with a few could go anyday types - Baddiel, Bracknell and Downie - on the team. After a well up the top ten placing in my first year of this I've been generally shite at it, until now. I'm enjoying the current campaign much as a Stoke City fan "enjoys" a mid-table season.

Robert Mugabe does this sort of thing much better.

Just looked at the DL obit. "Booth was best known for his role as Mike Rawlins in the shockingly racist 1960s/70s BBC sitcom, Till Death Do Us Part." I do feel it's inaccurate to describe 'Till Death Us Do Part' (sic) as "shockingly racist". The main character (Alf Garnett) was indeed racist, but he was constantly ridiculed by his daughter and son-in-law (Booth) who found his racism reprehensible. The show reflected the generation gap where the younger characters had more liberal attitudes. Alf was usually the butt of all the jokes: the audience laughed at him and not with him.

Ive still got a teddy bear ( now in my daughters care) called Teddy Edward. He has one eye and is as hard as fuck. Mine is called Brown Teddy. I was an unimaginative child.

Stunned by the news. Still it's over eleven and a half years since this thread was created so she hasn't done too bad. I did think she'd hit 100 though. Anyway at least she isn't suffering anymore. RIP to a legend.

I have three dogs. One of them is currently ten years of age, while the other two dogs I'm pretty sure my parents got when I was two or three. All three of them are amazing dogs. Unfortunately, the past couple of months haven't been so great for the two older dogs. They're basically at life expectancy at this point and I'm noticing some problems with both of them. The male dog I'm pretty sure has very limited hearing at this point. While he never was the greatest listener, I now have to go up close in order for him to listen to me, which was even unusual for. Besides that and being a little frail, he's doing okay at the moment. Sadly, I can't say the same thing with the female dog. Her hearing is fine, but it's becoming very evident that she's becoming very frail to the point that she's even having trouble walking. I still have to bring her outside everyday to use let her use the bathroom, but since she's has to get off the porch, she doesn't have the capability to step from the porch to the ground anymore, and even when we help her, she has stumbled when she got down a couple of times. So unfortunately, I don't think she'll see the year out at this rate. Really makes me more sad since this is happening at the same time I'm battling another bout of depression at the same time. Of course, it's always evident that animals do die eventually, but slowly going through that process is turning out to be much harder than I have expected.