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If super villain Joerg Sprave didn’t exist, Ian Fleming would have to invent him. Oh wait. He already did. Rumor has it that Sprave will play the bad guy in the next James Bond film, deploying a drill-powered gun that takes out U.S. and U.K. spy satellites (that officially don’t exist). That said, the Sony hacking attack may have altered that plan. So don’t blame me if it doesn’t happen.

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“During my 35 years in the Army, it became clear to me that from Gettysburg to Hamburger Hill to the streets of Baghdad, the American penchant for arming troops with lousy rifles has been responsible for a staggering number of unnecessary deaths. Over the next few decades, the Department of Defense will spend more than $1 trillion on F-35 stealth fighter jets that after nearly 10 years of testing have yet to be deployed to a single combat zone. But bad rifles are in soldiers’ hands in every combat zone.” – Major General (ret.) Robert H. Scales in Gun Trouble [at atlantic.com]

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OneIfByLand writes: According to the Safeseeker website, having a baseball bat (with a built-in flashlight) is “A statistically safer alternative then having a loaded handgun in the home.” Safer for whom? A would-be rapist, possibly? (I guess loaded shotguns are okay.) The un-cited statistic claims “10,000 children are killed annually with an in-home hand gun.” The website doesn’t cite (for comparison) how many children are killed with bats or fists.

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