Well let's not speculate then: http://www.theblaze.com/stories/the-media-isnt-being-honest-...

guns in the hands of the often irrational(humans)

The mexican drug war and prohibition cannot be used to negate the efficacy in a gun ban;

Tag with #CES please!

If so, should second-graders pack pistols in their schoolbags?

What would you say about the point made about the drug war in Mexico? Tens of thousands dead - a helpless population; not to mention the fact that a the vast number of American gun deaths are directly manifested from the same drug war. Look at the death rates by guns from the era of alcohol prohibition. A gun ban then wouldn't have solved any problems then either since the root of the issues surrounding them had nothing to do with the guns themselves.

Also, just touching on your point of "corporate interest", I find it hard to believe that ten of millions of people are conspiring to "save an industry" and I find that type of logic to degrade your only real argument that guns kill people easily: so ban them.

Contrary to what you two might believe, we are and its not working so well. There are a lot of loose ends that include issues like corruption. Unless you're talking about communism, in which case that's just pure romanticism.

It's none of our concern. In a society that puts everything in the corner of individual rights and freedoms we begin to lose our sense of community

For the majority of people, I think it's safe to say that one cannot feel empathetic towards someone or their situation unless you have experienced something similar. Put simply, kids who have never had to work a job they hated for a long period of time may not treat people at McDonalds with any dignity or respect. That's more of an analogy, however.

But is being efficient what we really want? Do we really want to be safe? Is not living with uncertainty the entire purpose of living?

I think that debate is more about what a free society is. If you live in a place where everyone is protected it in turn means there is a power to control everyone and as history reminds us, this often leads to the wrong people ending up in power resulting in much more horrific happenings.

Alex mainly starts shouting over Piers when Piers tries to get him to repeat talking points off of a cue card. Alex is a stupid person to have on to debate this and that's why they chose to put him on (I think understanding that alone should be enough to think further into what the role of liberal media is). Personally, I think you hear "35 deaths in UK" and the case is closed, no other reasoning or logic will ever change your mind about the role of guns because of one single fact. That's certainly true for Piers himself.

CNN, but specifically Piers Morgan, bring people who act like this on so that the viewers, people who think and therefore want to identify themselves as smart, can watch and poignantly say, "look at this crazy man; his opinions must be wrong too". Please give me a better reason why a "news" (and I use that term so loosely) station would bring someone on whom they know will act like this if they were sincerely looking to have a real debate!

Tag this #CES

Furthermore, the community needs the ability to tag comments. I'd even be satitsfied for now just being able to add one specific tag (or just add a button ^-^) to comments like: I really like the "unshared" idea. Great addition. Especially the part that "this will be an interesting way to enhance discovery."

If that type of reply could immediately get tagged with, for example, #bot I think it would work wonders for my.... scroll wheel! ;)

And again, but put another way: Some sort of tag excepted by the community where the criteria for this one tag simply is described as: - this reply could have been made by some sort of bot type program - adds nothing to the conversion - is considered a pat on the back to the post author

The main advantage to this being you can unsubscribe from certain types of replies. I'd be eagerly awaiting to unsubscribe from replies tagged #circlejerk, #duh, #conspiracy to name a few.

This is sort of irrelevant right now as the quality of discussion is fine. I'm more about the content discovery anyways.

Reddit does this in their backend code, but if I'm seeing too much of a certain subreddit I have no way of changing any setting in order to see less of it. I think the solution lies in the ability to create a scale that is individual to a given #tag. Some #tags are not going to be too active except for a couple submissions per month maybe; being delivered these needles in the haystack is important. Right now, on Reddit anyways, if I don't go on for a day or two I could easily miss the one submission from my niche interest.

What I'm trying to say regarding this other spefiic problem is that this community needs a solution which does the following:

- posts above the threshold setting per tag need to be marked (for what we'll call in this example) "important". I don't want these gem articles leaving my feed until I've somehow "marked them as read" (ie. opened the comments or clicked through to the link).

I hope I've made the problem clear; the solution might not be the best, but it's a start in the right direction.

If you're going to make images for graphs, please just put the axis name on the image. I'd literally like to spend 5 seconds being able to determine what the 30 seconds of reading required would be talking about.

My conclusion from the comments is this:

There are specific users here that want to use this site in order to be delivered extremely relevant information according to very specific interests (#tags). This new update ultimately and unfairly benefits users who want to be delivered interesting, but definitely more random content. While this is a primary goal of the site, I think there are a few tweaks that could be added to also include users like kleinbl00 who want to stick to less randomness.

My proposal? An "upvote" system that is personal to each users preference of tags. Put another way, a system that adds weight to a specific tag which in turn determines frequency of posts in their main feed; possibly a popularity threshold requirement with the following properties.

- numbers of submissions per day - divided by the number of upvotes in the first hour - a logarithmic type scale determines this

And for you TL;DR types You'd get to upvot #technology to +3 in order to see more technology related posts.