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True but maybe you can fill them yourself?
Filling paintballs is very hard and specialized and would probably be limiting to 99 out of 100 people if not more. Gluing two fragile gelatin halves (designed to dissolve and break easily) once you’ve filled them perfectly full of paint and then making sure they’re almost perfectly round takes specialized equipment.
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I once called my Dad out about Chinese nationalists setting bombs on ships in the 60s. He reckoned his ship had come to the rescue of one where they'd found a bomb and the command crew had posed with it for a photo and it had gone off, killing or wounding all the crew capable of actually navigating the ship. No mention on Wikipedia of these terrorist activities, nothing in the history I could find online. He was a bi…
West Berlin was a part of Germany under US/UK/French occupation, I have not heard anybody referring to it as being "behind the iron curtain" before. What would be the reason for the above countries to completely erase multiple hijackings of Aeroflot planes from history? While still popularizing other hijackings, to the point of making a Hollywood movie about the LOT flight I've mentioned [1]. And why the Soviet Union…
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Those are not "speed" cameras, they're to enforce daily payment (or fines) for driving in "Ultra Low Emissions Zone" areas in non-compliant vehicles. The area covers all 32 London Boroughs, around 1,500 km² (580 square miles), - affecting approximately 9 Million people.
Destroying speed cameras, especially the tire method, in the UK far predates ULEZ.
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> Don't you have the right to bear arms, with some idea that it is needed to prevent the government from exercising excessive powers over you, yet actually doing anything with those guns to protect yourself from tyranny is a crime? Because when it comes to that, the government is a failed state and no one will be worried about what’s legal. It’s not meant to be a means of legal recourse, it’s a last resort.
> It’s not meant to be a means of legal recourse, it’s a last resort. Guns are a first line defense for millions of people. A lawyer with a briefcase and a judge wearing a gaudy robe+wig is not a defense at all. Though the imagery of it would be funny of blasting each of those out of a cannon. Even the government agrees, issuing a firearm to their officers who go out into the field (read: where everyone else is).
In failed states, sure.
In many countries police officers may not even carry guns all the time.
The gun and violence situation we have here in the US is not normal for first world countries.
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OK to Ghana. Woodmore is a gated community so obviously it has an unrepresentative population.
Also Sierra Leone in Africa with a homicide rate a third that of the USofA. Both Ghana and Sierra Leone are gated communities, just as the USofA, the UK, and Australia are. I'd suggest that Woodmore fails to meet you particular bias, hence you rule it out. Woodmore likely meets your four intended criteria depending upon the level of internal surveillance .. I suspect it's not surveillance that prevents Woodmore occup…
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You are hitting on the fundamental difference in political views. Half of this country believes problems are systemic and can be fixed. The other half believes they are a natural consequence of culture, race, and invisible flying creatures that tempt you to do bad things.
> Half of this country believes problems are systemic and can be fixed. So then why don't they vote for the party that offers systemic solutions? Oh, right, because neither corporate party offers such. We can't elect systemic solutions when the election and education processes are systemically hijacked by capital interests.
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> It’s not meant to be a means of legal recourse, it’s a last resort. Guns are a first line defense for millions of people. A lawyer with a briefcase and a judge wearing a gaudy robe+wig is not a defense at all. Though the imagery of it would be funny of blasting each of those out of a cannon. Even the government agrees, issuing a firearm to their officers who go out into the field (read: where everyone else is).
> Guns are a first line defense for millions of people In failed states, sure. In many countries police officers may not even carry guns all the time. The gun and violence situation we have here in the US is not normal for first world countries.
If you're describing the US as a failed state then we have nothing to talk about. Notwithstanding the fact the essence of the state at question even being relevant.
Enjoy your day.
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Where I am (Sydney Australia) we have fixed speed cameras that automatically create speeding fines to drivers going too fast (well, technically the registered owner of the vehicle via ANPR). They eventually had to equip pretty much every speed camera with a speed camera camera, usually on a much higher pole to make vandalism more difficult.
Reminds me of the story about Aeroflot (Soviet National airline) and hijackings - Aeroflot flights get hijacked and flown to West Berlin - Soviets decided to put Spetsnaz (Soviet special forces) on the planes much like we have Air Marshals today - Spetsnaz figures "we have guns and are on the plane already" so they start hijacking flights - So Soviets put TWO Spetsnaz teams on the flight - Team 1 decides to hijack fl…
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Oof, I really hate this automated enforcement. Might be time to get a paintball gun.
And this is the reason I can’t wait for self driving cars that just follow the speed limit.
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Why would I fly an expensive drone close to a camera, fumble about for a minute trying to get it painted like a renaissance artist, when I can get a paintball gun for much less?
I don’t think they make commercial paintballs with hard to remove enamel or tempura paints.