Trust me, dude. Your overall state statistic isn't granular enough. This was Sutherland Springs. That's deep in John Wayne Jesus country, where family trees don't branch.
American Culture of Violence & It's Related Politics
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Trust me, dude. Your overall state statistic isn't granular enough. This was Sutherland Springs. That's deep in John Wayne Jesus country, where family trees don't branch.
I really like the way you phrased that. It captures the essence perfectly.
Cudos. ;-)
AP Top News
Gunman targets people at random in California town, kills 4
https://apnews.com/daa2b18d6f5542f8...ampaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top-stories
Gunman targets people at random in California town, kills 4
https://apnews.com/daa2b18d6f5542f8...ampaign=newsletter_axiospm&stream=top-stories
When the brits banned guns, gun violence went up
A Home Office analysis cited by Cullen had found that, between 1992-94, 14% of firearm homicides had been committed with legally held weapons. Even allowing for some slippage of weapons from legal to illegal ownership and stolen firearms, nobody expected that the surrender of legal handguns would hugely impact the rates of gun enabled crime. But few expected the 105% increase in recorded handgun crime which occurred between 1998 and 2003
But the answers did not come all at once and, as the uptick in gun crime figures for 2015 suggests, there are no grounds for complacency.
http://theconversation.com/dunblane...gun-laws-and-the-challenge-it-faces-now-55896
reality sets in eh?
A Home Office analysis cited by Cullen had found that, between 1992-94, 14% of firearm homicides had been committed with legally held weapons. Even allowing for some slippage of weapons from legal to illegal ownership and stolen firearms, nobody expected that the surrender of legal handguns would hugely impact the rates of gun enabled crime. But few expected the 105% increase in recorded handgun crime which occurred between 1998 and 2003
But the answers did not come all at once and, as the uptick in gun crime figures for 2015 suggests, there are no grounds for complacency.
http://theconversation.com/dunblane...gun-laws-and-the-challenge-it-faces-now-55896
reality sets in eh?
Explain the fact that many, many countries have a higher firearms murder rate than the USA.
Seventeen, in fact.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rate
Yes and every one of them is some sort of Third World hell-hole. The Americans don't care what sort of company they keep as long as they keep their guns.
After Sandy Hook, gun rush led to 60 additional accidental deaths
https://www.axios.com/after-sandy-h...-additional-accidental-deaths-2515674137.html
but stats don't matter to this gun culture
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Former South Carolina police officer who fatally shot Walter Scott, an unarmed black motorist, sentenced to 20 years
https://www.washingtonpost.com/?wpisrc=al_news__alert-national&wpmk=1
That is better.
https://www.axios.com/after-sandy-h...-additional-accidental-deaths-2515674137.html
but stats don't matter to this gun culture
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Former South Carolina police officer who fatally shot Walter Scott, an unarmed black motorist, sentenced to 20 years
https://www.washingtonpost.com/?wpisrc=al_news__alert-national&wpmk=1
That is better.
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Do citizens (not police officers) with guns ever stop mass shootings?
By Eugene Volokh October 3, 2015
Eugene Volokh teaches free speech law, religious freedom law, church-state relations law, a First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic, and an intensive editing workshop at UCLA School of Law, where he has also often taught copyright law, criminal law, tort law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy.
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Backers of laws that let pretty much all law-abiding people carry concealed guns in public places often argue that these laws will sometimes enable people to stop mass shootings. Opponents occasionally ask: If that’s so, what examples can one give of civilians armed with guns stopping such shootings? Sometimes, I hear people asking if even one such example can be found, or saying that they haven’t heard of even one such example.
A while back I posted about a few examples, but since then there have been some more, so I thought I’d note them. Naturally, such examples will be rare. Even in states which allow concealed carry, there often aren’t people near a shooting who have a gun on them at the time. Many mass shootings happen in supposedly “gun-free” zones (such as schools, universities, bars, or private property posted with a no-guns sign), in which gun carrying isn’t allowed in many states. And there is no central database of such examples, many of which don’t hit the national media, especially if a gunman is stopped before he shoots many victims. Moreover, at least some examples are ambiguous, because it might be unclear — as you’ll see below — whether the shooter had been planning to kill more people when he was stopped.
Still, for whatever they are worth, here is a list of some such incidents (which deliberately excludes killings stopped by people who were off-duty police officers, or police officers from other jurisdictions, at the time of a shooting, as well as some other cases which struck me as borderline):
The rest of the article, including at least 10 examples of armed citizens saving the day, is here. And imagine that, it was published in the Washington Post!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...r-stop-mass-shootings/?utm_term=.3f3e1494609b
By Eugene Volokh October 3, 2015
Eugene Volokh teaches free speech law, religious freedom law, church-state relations law, a First Amendment Amicus Brief Clinic, and an intensive editing workshop at UCLA School of Law, where he has also often taught copyright law, criminal law, tort law, and a seminar on firearms regulation policy.
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Backers of laws that let pretty much all law-abiding people carry concealed guns in public places often argue that these laws will sometimes enable people to stop mass shootings. Opponents occasionally ask: If that’s so, what examples can one give of civilians armed with guns stopping such shootings? Sometimes, I hear people asking if even one such example can be found, or saying that they haven’t heard of even one such example.
A while back I posted about a few examples, but since then there have been some more, so I thought I’d note them. Naturally, such examples will be rare. Even in states which allow concealed carry, there often aren’t people near a shooting who have a gun on them at the time. Many mass shootings happen in supposedly “gun-free” zones (such as schools, universities, bars, or private property posted with a no-guns sign), in which gun carrying isn’t allowed in many states. And there is no central database of such examples, many of which don’t hit the national media, especially if a gunman is stopped before he shoots many victims. Moreover, at least some examples are ambiguous, because it might be unclear — as you’ll see below — whether the shooter had been planning to kill more people when he was stopped.
Still, for whatever they are worth, here is a list of some such incidents (which deliberately excludes killings stopped by people who were off-duty police officers, or police officers from other jurisdictions, at the time of a shooting, as well as some other cases which struck me as borderline):
The rest of the article, including at least 10 examples of armed citizens saving the day, is here. And imagine that, it was published in the Washington Post!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...r-stop-mass-shootings/?utm_term=.3f3e1494609b
I certainly hope so! The idea of Trump with a gun is scary. He has pretty much the exact opposite set of characteristics of a safe, sane shooter.
Photochop, sweetie. :lol:
But do not worry, he's as sane as you.
Then you better lock'm up for sure..
I do not believe he has had much, if any, training. He can go here when it re-opens (They had a fire).
Georgia Gun Range Offers Firearm Photos With Santa
Georgia Gun Range Offers Firearm Photos With Santa
5-year-old kills himself with gun he found in glove box — after father leaves him alone in car
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/5-...ove-box-after-father-leaves-him-alone-in-car/
Guns and tragedy. (in a culture of violence)
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/5-...ove-box-after-father-leaves-him-alone-in-car/
Guns and tragedy. (in a culture of violence)
Did 'Antifa' Pour Concrete on Tracks Causing an Amtrak Train to Derail?
Activist groups have targeted tracks in the area...
https://www.snopes.com/antifa-pour-concrete-on-tracks-causing-an-amtrak-train-to-derail/
worried about Trump?
lol..worried he might call the DHS on the local commies or something?
Activist groups have targeted tracks in the area...
https://www.snopes.com/antifa-pour-concrete-on-tracks-causing-an-amtrak-train-to-derail/
worried about Trump?
lol..worried he might call the DHS on the local commies or something?
The fact that the engineer was running at 128 km/h in a 48km/h zone is, apparently, lost on you.
The Engineer was tied up. Hillary was at the throttle while Bill looked on and laughed!
I do not believe he has had much, if any, training. He can go here when it re-opens (They had a fire).
Georgia Gun Range Offers Firearm Photos With Santa
Cripes; How do Americans reproduce, anyway?