Use of Boston Robotics' Digidog intensifies concerns about police militarization.
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IMO its more to do with the military's initiative of gifting hardware to the police. It's escalated like crazy following the the iraq/afghan conflicts and it's hard not to cynically look at it like a result of lobbying by weapons and gear manufacturers who enjoy the constant turnover because it lines their pockets. It is truly out of control as well. Police departments own MRAPs now, I mean what domestic threat really requires that response?
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Homemade shotgun? Seriously? like a zip gun gun or is this person a metalsmith? Also, semi-automatic just means a round of ammunition is expelled every time you pull the trigger and another one is loaded. Which is actually how shotguns work unless you've got a break action or pump, but shotguns are actually extremely dangerous in any case.
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Own a 3d printer and I would sure as hell not try to depend on a plastic receiver. If you are a CNC machinist you can of course machine the part from metal but they've been able to do that for decades.
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Romanticisation rather than logic. There are countries with extremely high gun ownership but they don't decide that they are the best way to solve problems.
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I think you know that the gun death statistic is simply because people with guns are more likely to commit suicide with guns when they are available. If you subtract suicides actual violence (on others) is lower than the US.
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https://www.businessinsider.com/switzer ... ths-2018-2
"The country has about 2 million privately owned guns in a nation of 8.3 million people. In 2016, the country had 47 attempted homicides with firearms. The country's overall murder rate is near zero."
"The country has about 2 million privately owned guns in a nation of 8.3 million people. In 2016, the country had 47 attempted homicides with firearms. The country's overall murder rate is near zero."
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Gee, how does linear time work? He didnt post that until AFTER what you responded to me over, so while I would love to travel back in time to pre-emptively respond to posts, I dont think the technology is there yet.
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I thought it was pretty obvious that I had disroven that by pointing out that gun DEATHS and gun VIOLENCE are not the same thing. Switzerland has more gun deaths but they are a result of their citizens (of which many kill themselves, its a global problem) using them on themselves largely instead of other methods, probably because its quick, simple, and hopefully painless. Switzerland's overall murder rate is like half that of germany's. It was an invalid comparison to begin with. Its counting suicides into the rate artificially to obscure facts.
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And half the overall homicide rate. Sorry about your inability to separate apples from oranges. Obviously if guns are more available they are going to account for more deaths, but is it better to have twice the homicide rate through other tools like stabbing, beating, and choking?
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I can cover that one since I already did some research. Figures may vary some year to year, but...
https://www.indexmundi.com/facts/indica ... 5/rankings
(Source: UN Office on Drugs and Crime's International Homicide Statistics database.)
Germany is about twice that of Switzerland.
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I wonder how many shots you can get out of reliably and what materials. The print instructions suggest a Creality Ender 3 or above (which happens to be what I own) and sometimes my little baby groots and nekokats fall apart with PLA. I wouldn't print this unless I was willing to blow up my own hand.
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You're assuming that a robot will make better decisions than a live officer. There is no AI on earth (unless someone is keeping it a secret) that can handle the variety of scenarios police encounter, read situations, understand how best to defuse or otherwise handle the issue. So the human officer will still be making all the calls. The robot would at best be a better shot.
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I would question the question itself because the wording makes the results weak. There is no one definition of assault weapons, not as an industry standard or legally, as it varies by region in law. Many people probably do not know exactly what they were being asked, just that "assault" sounds scary.
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That's not even remotely what I said. Re-read. Or read again for the first time since it seems like you missed most of my words.
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That is just bullshit. I personally know an LEO who graduated academy and they asbolutely do teach de-escalation techniques. You don't have a clue what tyou're talking about making such a broad generalization proves it.
Seriously, where is your data there. I assume YOU did a survey of police academy curriculum around the entire country to figure this out, right? Oh what's that, you are just repeating something you heard during your Tumblr-based education? If you're going to just lie, I have no interest in speaking with you. Bye.
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There are many pages of discussion already in this thread about this.
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Yep. The officer I referenced is a Washingtonian and I live in Portland, where I did hospital security for a while and had many police interactions (first thing I did if things got bad is call for police backup, and OHSU has its own police force)- they were always professional and polite even in cases where people were attempting to commit criminal acts. The only incident of misconduct I personally witnessed was from a fellow licensed security officer, not a cop. Police are not DA's and can't always solve every problem on the spot, that's what civil or criminal suits are for, but in my experience they always want to minimize the drama in an interaction even if only because it makes their day harder if they don't. They have to fill out mountains of paperwork just to explain why they fired their weapon. I can't speak to some other regions of the country where the mindset may be different but certainly de-escalation is a major tactic here.
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I would argue that the barrier to utilization for obtaining a gun (its not like they're free, even in the US) is arguably no more or less hard than finding a good bridge to drive or just jump off. Or a bottle of opiates to OD on. Or a piece of rope and a chair.
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Source for the US suicide rate vs gun access? I'd like to see if it accounts for factors like gun ownership being more prevalent in areas where suicides in general are more prevalent (such as poor areas), or other factors that might confound any sort of correllation, and if the authors considered it causation.
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Locating magazines really isn't a realistic measure to control. Of all the parts I wouldn't mind constructing with my 3d printer, larger magazines are around the top of the list, because I can just discard them cheaply.
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I don't disagree. Places where people are more likely to have guns AND be miserable are going to result a greater percentage of suicides being by firearm.
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I have to admit, I wonder if Mitlov's neighbor's blue paint wasn't just local electrical/water/gas/ service marking lines while carrying out their duties. They do this all the time around the country in a variety of colors including blue.
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Canada's overall homicide rate is still around 3 times that of Switzerland, despite gun ownership being higher in Switzerland. This may be related to Switzerland's compulsory training for males and the accompanying respect for the weapon for defense as opposed to the dick swaggering way we often treat them in the US.
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It's easier than you think. There is a reactor at a college campus (my ex's alma mater, in fact, and Steve Jobs') just a few miles from me with fissionable material that is easily accessible. Then its just a matter of putting it into a housing with explosives (aso easy to get, in fact easier than the uranium) to compress the reaction.
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I'm not crazy enough to actually plan it out, and I'm a biologist, not a physicist, so I would have to do some due diligence anyway. Sounds like you've put more thought into it than I.
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I am not sure there is any point in imparting factual information to people who think the already know so much that they don't need to know more. Dunning-Kruger effect. They will just keep downvoting you.
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Yeah, I remember when Ars was about open speaking about science, tech, and yes, politics. When did it become a feature for downvoting people? Honestly I think this feature should be disabled. There is moderation but this thugging on people because they dont have the same views of the milliennials, I dont think that was Caesar's intent.
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Yeah, I was here for that. But its not being used in form he intended now.
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Requisite insurance is a whole other bundle of contention that I dont think we need to add to this fire...
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ITs a huge scam. I own a lot of Progressive and its been a moneymaker but it feels evil. Government mandated because of lobbying.
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Saying that you dont agree with someone is not what debunking is. He's made a lot of strong points supported with data. Mostly this is a disagreement in opinion, not a lack of good faith arguments.
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Be aware that wanting to legally own a gun does not mean you want to repeal Roe vs Wade. I sure as hell don't.
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