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Quote from: Erkki on August 07, 2016, 02:36:36 pm

Quote from: Antioch on August 07, 2016, 04:39:36 am

I would say that the recent amount of terror attacks perpetrated with knives/machetes is a very good sign that gun control is a good thing.

I thought the gun lobby said that terrorists and criminals would always get access to guns anyway.

Those people would have made an order of magnitude more casualties if they had easy access to guns.

I do think some control is necessary(current levels generally speaking are IMHO sufficient), but terrorists and criminals do always have access to weapons. Guns or explosives. Whats an entirely different thing is whether they want to just become martyrs like this last last fellow with a knife who targeted police officers, or if they want to kill as many as possible like some others have. As you can see from guys like Breivik and many jihadis, terrorists tend to not be sharpest of minds.

Either way, one can buy a shotgun for just ID card in many EU countries, so theres always that option. Or like the Paris attackers they can acquire a full auto rifles illegally in a couple of phone calls. Its so sad the Commission isn't interested in chasing criminals but rather blames hundreds of thousands hobbyists and legal gun owners. I'm still waiting for the first terrorist attack where the firearms used were of typical civilian types and/or legally acquired.

Except that typical civillian firearms aren't the ones which hold hundreds of rounds a clip.

Exactly. Except that most semi-auto rifles do, but you don't see terrorists using 4000 € sporting rifles do you? 

I would say that the recent amount of terror attacks perpetrated with knives/machetes is a very good sign that gun control is a good thing.

I thought the gun lobby said that terrorists and criminals would always get access to guns anyway.

Those people would have made an order of magnitude more casualties if they had easy access to guns.

I do think some control is necessary(current levels generally speaking are IMHO sufficient), but terrorists and criminals do always have access to weapons. Guns or explosives. Whats an entirely different thing is whether they want to just become martyrs like this last last fellow with a knife who targeted police officers, or if they want to kill as many as possible like some others have. As you can see from guys like Breivik and many jihadis, terrorists tend to not be sharpest of minds.

Either way, one can buy a shotgun for just ID card in many EU countries, so theres always that option. Or like the Paris attackers they can acquire a full auto rifles illegally in a couple of phone calls. Its so sad the Commission isn't interested in chasing criminals but rather blames hundreds of thousands hobbyists and legal gun owners. I'm still waiting for the first terrorist attack where the firearms used were of typical civilian types and/or legally acquired.

There is no one winning trump card. If I personally had to pick one, it would be skilled, highly motivated, highly disciplined and drilled men.

If you can come with a specific scenario we could try answering it... I can also ask someone who has about a decade of experience in fighting and leading at squad-company level urban infantry combat, fairly recently too.

So apparently in the future due to targeting computers. Jets will no longer have homing missiles for air combat but rather their cannons will do all the work.

I think its going the other way, with developing communications tech and more and more autonomic missiles allowing for anyone to shoot as long as someone or something knows where the target approcimately is, missiles are becoming ever more useful. They're even looking to bring small anti-missile missiles, "miniature hit-to-kill missiles" to fighter aircraft like F-35... Another weapon researched is the laser. There already are lasers for shooting down drones, its only a matter of time until we see one on a plane, integrated or carried on a pod, replacing or supplementing other countermeasures or even short range missiles.

I rather dislike how it's called 'black lives matter' in the first place and not 'all lives matter'.

This is just trying to put yourself away as a separate community as the rest of the inhabitants of the US.

I dislike people identifying themselves on the basis of the colour of their own skin.

You are not special if you have a dark skin, nor are you special if it is light (Why say I AM black, or I AM white in the first place? I am defined as little by those things as by the colour of my hair or my shoe size)

The first step to truly stop all forms of racism is to stop seeing yourself as different from your fellow men.

You can only be racist if you're white.

Or so I'm told weekly.

Quote from: puke on August 04, 2016, 12:24:52 pm

Quote from: GUNINANRUNIN on August 04, 2016, 12:03:14 pm

Hmph! Hmph, I say! I just want company-level sci-fi combined arms strategy computer game. ;<;

What, like TA?  Or any of its successors, like Supreme Commander or Planetary Annihilation?

Or like Dune 2, or any of /ITs/ successors, like any RTS ever made, including the above?

Or did you mean with turns?  If so, post this over in the "recommend me a game" thread, I'd like to see what people have to say.

They all have the right scale, but the wrong feeling. All those games you listed are far too gamey. I don't want any part of that units being built in buildings nonsense. The closest thing to what I'm talking about is Men of War: Assault Squad. Roughly company-level strength, and a strong importance in taking a mixture of different types of weapons (infantry, crew-served weapons, light vehicles, tanks, and artillery). Ground Control is probably the only game that fits that nebulous "mostly grounded in reality" (I'd rather not say 'realistic') feeling but I haven't played it very much.

Have you played Combat Mission series? Or old Steel Panthers?

I do enjoy MegaMek but its difficult to find an opponent. Theres some online campaigns running... But, to me, they have issues of their own.

Regarding those chemical weapons... I used to run almost every evening past one of the factories they were disposed in. You can hear and small that place a few km out.

GD, I still suggest you to try the helpline if you don't want to talk to your family or school counselor. If you didn't like the first person you talked with on the helpline remember that they have several. The next one might be better (to you).