McRocket (09-29-2022)
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There will come a day where Donald Trump is gone, but the dishonor of those who carried his water will remain.
McRocket (09-29-2022)
Sure it is, imagine if all the thirty nine million plus people of California had easy access to semiautomatic weapons, California’s homicide rates would quickly pass even the gun free States that lead the nation in homicides. Given the size of the population and number of gun homicides in the State, California’s strict gun laws are doing fine, as they are in the vast majority of all strict gun law States. Now if they could only find a way to curtail those bringing guns into the State
McRocket (09-29-2022)
Bigdog (09-29-2022)
Given things, from other crimes, from criminal dealers that sell arms acquired elsewhere. Basically, they are getting them from crimes one way or another so all California has done with strict gun laws is a combination of disarm the law abiding while adding a relatively minor level of complexity to getting a gun as a criminal.
Bigdog (09-29-2022)
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There will come a day where Donald Trump is gone, but the dishonor of those who carried his water will remain.
"Supposedly"? So you don't know? So you're just making an assumption?
Everything you are saying leads back to the same problem: THE GUNS.
And most all the guns used in crimes were guns that started out as legally purchased weapons.
So gun owners are the suppliers of guns to criminals.
Criminals don't conjure guns out of thin air, they get them three different ways:
1. They steal them (This is the most common way criminals get guns)
2. They buy them from straw purchasers. (This is the second most common way criminals get guns)
3. Someone gives it to them (The third most common way criminals get guns)
Every single gun that winds up in the hands of criminals was first purchased legally by a "responsible gun owner". Then that RGO either lost the gun, had it stolen, or sold it under the table because they needed the cash.
So gun owners are the sole suppliers of guns to criminals, supplying them with at least 200,000 guns a year.
When I die, turn me into a brick and use me to cave in the skull of a fascist
Suicide and murder are interesting, albeit extreme acts. Often associated with cultural issues. It's not so simple-minded a solution as banning guns....as if that would really pass.
Why do you think the suicide rate varies among the States? https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6917a4.htm
SUICIDE rate by State
IMO, there's a cultural attitude that plays into whether a person murders someone, takes their own life or simply adapts and moves forward. This becomes more apparent when categorizing such acts by income level.
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/su6203a28.htm
Homicide rates by State
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...fect-homicide/
Income Inequality’s Most Disturbing Side Effect: Homicide
Where financial disparities are greatest, the murder rate tends to be high
Income inequality can cause all kinds of problems across the economic spectrum—but perhaps the most frightening is homicide. Inequality—the gap between a society's richest and poorest—predicts murder rates better than any other variable, according to Martin Daly, a professor emeritus of psychology at McMaster University in Ontario, who has studied this connection for decades. It is more tightly tied to murder than straightforward poverty, for example, or drug abuse. And research conducted for the World Bank finds that both between and within countries, about half the variance in murder rates can be accounted for by looking at the most common measure of inequality, which is known as the Gini coefficient.
The murders most associated with inequality, it seems, are driven by a perceived lack of respect. Like most killings, these are mostly perpetrated by males—and in societies with low inequality, there tend to be very few murders. To an outsider, these deaths, which make up more than a third of the homicides with known motives reported to the FBI, seem senseless: a guy looks at someone else the wrong way, makes a disrespectful remark, or is believed to have winked at another man's wife or girlfriend. These incidents seem too trivial to be matters of life and death. “A prosperous guy like me, if someone [insults me] in a bar, I can roll my eyes and leave,” Daly says. “But if it's your local bar, you are unemployed or underemployed, and your only source of status and self-respect is your standing in the neighborhood, turning the other cheek looks weak, and everyone soon knows you are an easy mark.
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean, that's a storybook, man."
— Joe Biden on Obama.
Socialism is just the modern word for monarchy.
D.C. has become a Guild System with an hierarchy and line of accession much like the Royal Court or priestly classes.
Private citizens are perfectly able of doing a better job without "apprenticing".
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