Alternatively, you can wait three days for when your computer clock magically re-synchronises with the OLO clock in an Easter miracle. Oh wait, that's right, you think the only solutions that matter are immediate solutions. Didn't patience used to be a virtue?

Guess it'll have to be the sledgehammer then.

Toni,

Leave the wit to Paul, he's better at it.

Didn't you want to discuss Gun Control, I started to talk to you about it but you've gone quiet.
On reflection; the most important aspect and the most difficult is to synchronize breathing, sight and target alignment and trigger release.

That's funny, I could have sworn you wanted to talk about the timestamps on OLO.

//"Posted by Paul1405, Thursday, 29 March 2018 6:13:36 AM"

That's what OLO tells me was the time of your post above; how do I change it?//

Guess I was wrong.

Or have you just decided that changing the subject as rapidly as possible is some sort of cunning rhetorical device? Is this your attempt at a Gish gallop?

//On reflection; the most important aspect and the most difficult is to synchronize breathing, sight and target alignment and trigger release.//

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opT_JGssUVk

Toni,

"Posted by Toni Lavis, Thursday, 29 March 2018 11:04:17 AM"

That's how your post's OLO time comes up on my computer, my computer time is 12:46 PM.

SR,

Please don't say you're "using your[my] logic" when its your 'logic' instead. I'd hate to have others confuse the two.

For example, just because the proportion of black fatherless kids is similar to the proportion of fatherless mass shooters does mean that they are in any way linked. Two similar numbers are often just similar but unrelated numbers. Statistics was never your strong suit, eh?

While you might want to ignore the rather startling prevalence of fatherless boys in the numbers, it really isn't that simple. For example this same relationship exists in other areas, eg the proportion of fatherless boys among convicted rapists is over 60%. Similar data for gang related murders, drug trafficking, domestic violence, violence in general.

Equally, the proportion of fatherless kids in a community is a much better predictor of the level of criminality in that community than other factors such as race or level of poverty.

But its much easier to look for more laws than look to the societal failings over the past two generations. Given that current laws are routinely ignored by both the criminals and the authorities, quite how new laws will make any sort of difference is impossible to see.

As to the discussions about arming teachers, you might ponder that pretty much all mass shootings (however that's defined) occur in so-called gun-free zones. People who are open to shooting unarmed innocents are perhaps less enamoured of taking on people who might fight back

and really, on the efficacy of having armed people handy Australia offers some good examples.