Maine is a state where almost half the households have guns. I don’t think opponents of the second amendment are going to find a lot of support there even after yesterday’s mass shooting.
Isn’t that a national poll, as opposed to a poll of Maine residents? I’m talking specifically about Maine, not about the USA as a whole.
Or “oppose the second amendment”, as you propagandistically say, because you dont have facts on your side.
Generally people who quibble about the term “well-regulated militia” do specifically oppose the second amendment. But the constitution of Maine doesn’t have that ambiguity:
Every citizen has a right to keep and bear arms and this right shall never be questioned.
People advocating for gun control aren’t necessarily opponents of the 2nd amendment, but people talking about well-regulated militias usually are. What’s the point of bringing up that strange phrase unless you don’t think that the 2nd amendment’s right to bear arms applies to everyone regardless of membership in some sort of militia?
That’s not an unreasonable reading of the text, but if you’re going to look at the Constitution that way, you’ll see that it doesn’t talk about abortion or gay marriage either. I’m in favor of abortion rights and gay marriage, and that’s why I don’t start “but the Constitution doesn’t literally say…” arguments with conservatives.
This doesn’t look right. Global temperatures have been a lot higher than what’s depicted here (Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum) and the Earth didn’t turn into an uninhabitable desert. That link is to a time when temperatures were approximately 14 degrees Celsius higher than now!
CORRECTON: I originally wrote “25 degrees Celsius” but that is wrong. The correct value is 25 degrees Fahrenheit, which corresponds to about 14 degrees Celsius.
Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous_Thermal_Maximum#/media/File:All_palaeotemps.png. An increase of 4 degrees Celsius would match the climate at the peaks between the cycles of ice ages (last such peak: about 100,000 years ago). The Earth would actually still be colder than it has been most of the time since the origin of life.
This higher-resolution plot on Wikipedia does seem to show an Eemian peak temperature of approximately +4 degrees C. The dataset is the same (EPICA Dome C) so I think that the much longer timescale of the first plot I linked to simply averages out relatively short-term peaks like the Eemian.
With that said, I agree that the modern pace of climate change is much faster than these historical cases, and I share your concern that changing the climate so quickly might trigger something that slow changes didn’t. I’m just saying that most of the Earth isn’t going to become a desert.
It makes sense if you read “I can only” as “I’m only allowed to”. The AI wants to write you a story about a snail, but it can only do that while obeying the letter of the law.
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