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They're probably waiting for tomorrow or the next day when it comes back up, or an equivalent website appears. As has always happened when major portal-type sites go down. Transient effect est.

If by pure bliss you mean constipation... I guess. That's a line of thought I'd prefer not pursuing.

To be fair, badger lords are pretty much reason enough. Buggers were more or less tiny furry space marines.

... how is that anything approaching unusual? Probably shouldn't be talking about it on B12 to begin with, but it seems like incredibly bog standard internet as usual. Like. Non-news. "Sub-reddit centered around pictures of naked people has members, news at never."

Heh. Yeah, I think I put Redwall about in the same category I do Xanth, insofar as age appropriateness goes. Drastically different reasons, but they're both stuff I'd consider easily mistaken for younger audiences. Young adults, maybe, but...

Mind you, with Xanth m'fairly sure Anthony is aiming them at younger readers, but Anthony is also a freak.

Only problem is that the instant you start trying to force people to give up their guns (law abiding citizens that is), people will start shouting bloody murder at the government.

So, y'know, you don't force people to give up their guns. Certainly not at first, anyway. Voluntary hand ins alongside a persistent media campaign, incentive programs for registering and keeping firearms at a gun-range instead of at home, programs such as the gun locks/lockers we already do in some places, mandatory goddamn safety training (and hell, don't even confiscate for failure to perform -- just drop a fine on non-compliers, use that to help fund the training)... there's a whole host of soft ball stuff we could start doing to get the ball rolling towards less and/or safer guns. Shit, just toning back the violence fetishism and gun porn in general media would be nice.

Very very few people involved on the +gun control side of things want a total ban. Certainly not an immediate or forcible one. Just, y'know, deescalation. Soften the raging gun boner. Put the fifty foot dakkadick back in the pants. Would/will take years, decades. That's okay. Less bodies, less injuries, a less violent culture -- is a good cause. One folks can wait for, so long as it's actually a goal, and actually something we're working towards.

Hey, the right stick, in the right place. Can be a thing of beauty.

Or a mugging.

Either way, cash.

The problem is not in guns, it is in people who abuse them.

Nah, guns actually do make quite a lot of things worse, by virtue of being considerably better at killing than most other things. Take guns out of the equation, or make them a considerably smaller part of it, and suicide rates go down, a lot of violent crime becomes considerably less likely to result in fatalities, accidental gun deaths obviously drop, etc., so forth, so on.

Part of being a responsible gun owner is realizing that, yes, by owning this object you are making the world a categorically more dangerous place. Calling guns "not the problem" is not part of that.