Posts by Martin Lindberg
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Legal Beagle: A four-year parliamentary term?, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
I can’t think of many countries that have changed their term length in modern history.
Sweden reverted back to 4-year terms in 1994 after having had 3-year terms since 1970.
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I see that capitalism has provided a solution to school shootings. Great work! (Note: this product really exists and it's not from the Onion.)
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Megan Wegan,
The stripey shirts, who were led to believe that the world owes them a debt simply by virtue of their maleness
But these are not the boys who turn to mass shootings.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to James Bremner,
My understanding is that over the last few years gun sales have increased quite dramatically while crime has fallen.
Yes, I believe both those statement are true. However, another factor in that mix is that the number of people owning guns is decreasing. So you have fewer people owning more (and more) guns.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Could it be the American culture that is the problem?
Certainly aspects of it. Again, I recommend Warrior Dreams and Gun Control Fantasies on paramilitary culture and what it means to be a man in this culture.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to BenWilson,
Well, per 100 people. Don’t worry, the USA on 88 is still kicking our butts.
Ah - thanks. 22.6 guns per person did seem kinda high.
So we're falling behind again. We must close the arms-gap!
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Russell Brown,
less than New Zealand’s 22.6
wut?
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An interesting take by Matthew Cheney: Warrior Dreams and Gun Control Fantasies where he looks at the rise in popularity of assault weapons starting in the eighties and quotes James William Gibson's Warrior Dreams:
To argue ... that many of these murderers could have been stopped solely by increased gun control is to pretend that the social and political crises of post-Vietnam America never occurred and that the New War did not develop as the major way of overcoming those disasters. Paramilitary culture made military-style rifles desirable, and legislation cannot ban a culture. The gun-control debate was but the worst kind of fetishism, in which focusing on a part of the dreadful reality of the decade — combat weapons — became a substitute for confronting what America had become.
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,
Also, the second amendment does not include the word "properly"
No, it's "well".
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Hard News: Cultures and violence, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
What about that assault weapons ban Bush repealed, then?
To be pedantic, he didn't repeal it - it just wasn't extended. It had a sunset-clause in it from day 1.
Still, I believe certain states (California?) and a few cities have their own bans on assault weapons.
