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''A gunman took to the mall and shot dead three people before a nearby coffee shop waitress dispatched him with five rounds from her automatic pistol. Unfortunately, as she stood over him gun in hand, a mall security guard thought she was the threat and took her out with his submachine gun. He in turn was shot by a libertarian who thought the state was finally coming to take his gun away. By the time the police arrived (and gunned down more would-be heroes who they had mistaken for terrorists), the death toll had reached fifty-seven.''

My country in a nutshell.

The Republic of Glysienthia is back and we have changed our official name to the Federal Republic of Glysienthia

Holy saganianispoli wrote:

''A gunman took to the mall and shot dead three people before a nearby coffee shop waitress dispatched him with five rounds from her automatic pistol. Unfortunately, as she stood over him gun in hand, a mall security guard thought she was the threat and took her out with his submachine gun. He in turn was shot by a libertarian who thought the state was finally coming to take his gun away. By the time the police arrived (and gunned down more would-be heroes who they had mistaken for terrorists), the death toll had reached fifty-seven.''

My country in a nutshell.

Goodness gracious. I don't ban gun ownership but events like this would absolutely motivate tighter restrictions!

We expect drivers to have licenses and insurance, we expect medical professionals to be licensed and trained. Seems to me fully appropriate that if someone wishes to own a tool of violence like a firearm, they should likewise prove their capacity to use it safely. For God's sake, most jobs require more of a background check than what firearms sellers require. Facebook allows targeting folks who are gun enthusiasts far more easily than any form of licensing or database would.

Aelyria wrote:

Goodness gracious. I don't ban gun ownership but events like this would absolutely motivate tighter restrictions!

We expect drivers to have licenses and insurance, we expect medical professionals to be licensed and trained. Seems to me fully appropriate that if someone wishes to own a tool of violence like a firearm, they should likewise prove their capacity to use it safely. For God's sake, most jobs require more of a background check than what firearms sellers require. Facebook allows targeting folks who are gun enthusiasts far more easily than any form of licensing or database would.

Facebook is pretty bad in it's targeting I think. Often times they target things for poor reasons, or 'reports' which are not legitimate.

Vinmark kritarchy wrote:

Facebook is pretty bad in it's targeting I think. Often times they target things for poor reasons, or 'reports' which are not legitimate.

I don't mean "targeting" in the sense of reports and the like. I mean in the sense that Facebook provides access to enormous amounts of completely public information about millions of people because those people willingly put that information onto the platform. There are hundreds of thousands of people in gun enthusiast Facebook groups right now. Even without any official support from the company, it's a downright gold mine of revealing personal data and proof of possession.

Now consider that the government can almost certainly secretly subpoena Facebook for literally every byte of data it possesses.

Facebook is already a much, much more compromising source of information than a national firearms database would or could ever be. It features information about essentially every part of your life, if you choose to use it. (I, personally, do not.)

That was a bit spammy, let's not do that, thanks!

Self harm wrote:

You want more nukes?

I expect the answer will depend depend on how the nukes will be delivered!

Who else is in the top 600 for Trout Fishing?

@TheFederationofAelyria One would assume.

Free religion wrote:

@TheFederationofAelyria One would assume.

Sorry, I thought I was being funny, hope it came across as such.

Bestelesnia wrote:

Just "Aelyria", thats the identifier, the rest is customized by the user at will, so its not part of the name

Correct. The little black flag thing allows you to put (without spaces) the [ nation ]Aelyria[ /nation ] tag around the specific name portion, which tags other nations.

Like this: Free religion. There's also a regional tag, e.g. Balder, but I don't think that notifies anyone, unlike the mention tag for nations.

who keeps trolling an making an unfair w/a vote turnout it's so idiotic

To what end wrote:

The Crime Victims' Rights Act seems to have become incredibly unpopular. Why are you for or against it? I'm not for it because 1 d. is too vague for peace of mind and 2. seems poorly worded. If they have the right to be updated on any important events pertinent to their case, one would assume that they can choose not to be informed.

Also, there seems to be a flood of "The nomadic peoples of X" WA delegates (I counted nine without clicking the recent events tab) , all with the same flag. Seems mighty suspicious to me.

well it SHOULD be enacted, regardless of wording choice. it is a good resolution.