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I'm a former Navy nuke. This stuff is interesting to me. Finding the flaws in design and operation of nuclear reactors was one of the major things we trained on throughout my career.
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Not effective against neutron and gamma radiation. It would work "ok" against alpha and beta radiation though.
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Was it a true nuclear detonation, or more of a "prompt criticality" event where the reactor explodes?
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Every mass shooter (by FBI definition) in recent memory has purchased their gun at a gun shop, undergoing a background check. The left is currently pushing for universal background checks in response to these shootings, even though UBCs wouldn't have prevented events like El Paso, Gilroy, or Dayton. Things like raising the taxes on firearms and ammunition will have no effect on whether someone like the El Paso shooter decides to shoot up a Walmart. I doubt it would affect gang violence either, as they aren't out at the range every weekend honing their skills - It's reasonable to assume that the average gangland shooter has bought 1 box (50 rounds) of ammunition in their criminal lives before finally using their gun in a crime and killing someone. I also don't see how an increased tax will stop suicides. Do suicidal people care that a box of 9mm is now $20 instead of $10? They are just going to put it on their credit card anyways. Japan has never had a gun violence problem, but they've also never had guns. Australia's gun violence fell at the same rate as America's after they instituted a confiscation program and stricter controls, while America loosened their laws in regards to concealed carry and other laws.
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We have a gun problem because we have socioeconomic problems. We are a lot more like Latin America than we are Canada and Europe when it comes to issues like gang activity, poverty, and corruption. I'm not opposed to certain new gun control legislation, I just don't think it will be the cure-all that some politicians and pundits sell it as.
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Effective social and economic policy can be used to reduce these numbers. If thousands of young men are dying each year because of the illegal drug trade, maybe we need to do something about the war on drugs? How many people were dying from the war on alcohol after prohibition was repealed? A lot less than when there was a lucrative black market for alcohol.
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You fix the tax burden issue by addressing the income tax and capital gains taxes. You don't fix it by spending time and energy on a tax that is unconstitutional and will get overturned in court. I support the idea of a national sales/consumption tax, but I actually doubt it would be constitutional. We are stuck with our current methods of collecting tax money until the Constitution is amended.
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Side thought: If we want to use the bullshit metric of 250 mass shootings this year alone, black people are likely the largest contributor to that statistic. A vast majority of those 250 shootings are happening in ethnic neighborhoods. They aren't carrying out these shootings for the same reasons as true mass shootings (like El Paso and Dayton), and aren't racially motivated, though.
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All of you are going to be disappointed when Warren's wealth tax idea is struck down in court. There are arguments that can be made that it is constitutional, but there are also arguments, case law, the 16th amendment, and a conservative Supreme Court that will rule it as unconstitutional. You're going to need an amendment to milk the rich.
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Will it though? The amount of material recovered from Epstein's properties is apparently HUGE. There are also dozens if not hundreds of witnesses who can testify against the people who raped and sexually abused them. Will prosecutors be able to get everyone? Probably not. But it was also unlikely if Epstein was still alive.
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Scooters do make it harder for actual pedestrians on sidewalks to get around. And scooters on the streets make overall traffic less safe. On another note, I recently bought a stock F150 and I think it sits up too high. I've contemplated getting it lowered a few inches, but everyone scoffs at the idea as if it were blasphemy. Its a 2wd truck - it's not as if I'm ever going to take it off road. I don't need to express how much of a man I am by hanging truck nutz from my receiver hitch and have a 10 inch lift.