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3blue1brown (the YouTuber) uses a python library for all animations, I believe

I'm sorry, where was the Trump clan mentioned in the parent or GP post?

Whataboutism does not contribute to the discussion, and it is presumptuous to assume the original poster does not find those things concerning, as well.

To me personally, both are very concerning, and it's exhausting to me that the political class gets a pass on this behavior

It feels disingenuous to come to the conclusion that Christians take all / most of the bible "too literally" on the evidence that they believe Christ was literally resurrected in the physical form.

If you were unaware, belief that Christ died for our sins and was resurrected is taught as the prerequisite to salvation and entering Heaven upon death. Given this fact, I would expect 100% of Christians to believe this.

As an additional note, modern Christianity (except maybe Catholicism) brush a lot of the old testament under the rug, of which includes Ecclesiastes I believe? Some churches teach Matthew 5:17 as support for doing so. Catholicism seems to have a more nuanced take: https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/did-jesus-r...

I feel like you may be a bit out of touch with rural / conservative America. Pro life is not an extreme minority opinion.

You're free to argue it's an immoral or unjust opinion, or argue it's an opinion that is not internally consistent with their other political opinions....

But to downplay the size of the cohort to diminish the opinion is unproductive in reaching an amenable outcome.

The same reason that the FBI (and other policing administrations) did away with the service revolver. There's actual a distinct tragedy where some FBI agents died in a firefight that spurred this, apologies for lack of citation - it is late.

It is scarily easy to miss, even at physically close distances, when fighting for one's life.

I feel most people that haven't shot a gun, or have only shot a gun while sitting perfectly still and undistracted, underestimate the above fact.

If you do have access to guns and the ability to test this, do some sort of exercise to get yourself breathing heavily before shooting, you'll see the difference.

All of this presupposes that we agree the average citizen has the right to defend their life with adequate tools. Some may, with good statistical arguments at hand, determine that the likelihood of being a victim of violent crime does not meet the threshold for allowing this level of self defense.

I hope that partially answers your question

What if they're traveling across the country for top-shelf training? I thought we wanted well trained gun owners?

So, like, a social credit score....?

I'm being quite reductive, but at the same time your points could be interpreted to resemble the concept. Fruit for thought

I ask the following to hopefully promote discussion, I don't necessarily espouse the opinion.

With most of the US critically thinking about the electoral / senatorial systems, and how the scales do tip towards rural states..

What concessions, if any, should rural states / areas be entitled to, given that they are the food producers for our country? On paper, that could provide leverage / a "bargaining chip" in this discussion.

The flip-side to this coin is that the more urban states / areas are the economic drivers of the country, which is clearly a source of leverage as well.

I feel like most people don't think about it in these terms, and I'm curious how it would impact their opinions when adding the dimension of leverage / "social value" to population.

Perhaps these should have no weight on a discussion of representation?