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rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22526 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Very valid point.... A couple of observations: The USA has a very high level of gun ownership, and in many states very lax gun laws. And this appears to be associated with very high levels of gun crime. Meanwhile several thousand miles away Switzerland has a very high level of gun ownership, and it gun ownership laws vary from Canton to Canton. But Switzerland has a much, much, much lower level of gun crime. This brings a question to my mind - Why? Given the USA has about twice as many guns (per head of population) as Switzerland one might reasonably expect there to be twice as many gun crimes in the USA, but the ratio is actually about 6:1. I don't think this can be put down solely to gun laws, but perhaps to a comparison of the "communal attitudes" of the two populations. Others may point to the levels of formal training, or the way guns are registered, or the way guns are kept, or to quite a number of other factors - I'm sure each of us can come up with our own lists. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36769 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36769 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Talk about being a brain dead moron. Ohio man fatally shoots neighbor ‘because he thought he was a Democrat’. Then there's those subways. Man dies after being shot 11 times on subway as suspect is still on the run. But this murdering disease will continue in the land of the gun. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36769 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Man shot, found dead in car in Prince William County. Suspect in custody following fatal shooting of 12-year-old, 14-year-old also injured in Colorado shooting. What is the weekend going to throw up? |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36769 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Those bullets just keep on coming. 1 dead, 7 injured in shooting during after-hours party in Nebraska. Suspected Texas home invader impersonating cop inadvertently shoots accomplice, meets own death. 3 football players killed in mass shooting at U. of Virginia, suspect apprehended. Person shot, another hurt outside bar in Montgomery County. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36769 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
And this judge doesn't help the situation. Federal judge in Texas rules that disarming those under protective orders violates Second Amendment. The 2nd actually became obsolete when the U.S. created its own standing army and the states created police forces. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19398 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
At least 5 people killed, 18 injured in a shooting at a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs CNN - At least five people were killed and 18 others injured in a mass shooting at a gay nightclub on Saturday in Colorado Springs, Colorado, according to police. |
Mr. Kevvy Send message Joined: 15 May 99 Posts: 3806 Credit: 1,114,826,392 RAC: 3,319 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36769 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36769 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
I can only guess why...And there's the moronic hypocrites that stir them up. Lauren Boebert condemned for response to Colorado Springs shooting. A conservative Colorado congresswoman faced blowback for her statement of concern in response to the shooting at a gay nightclub in the state when Twitter users accused her of trafficking in the same hate that has been blamed for the attack.Marjorie Taylor Greene tops new list of most hateful tweets Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tops a new list of the most hateful tweets in the wake of Florida’s Don’t Say Gay law, according to a just-released study by the Human Rights Campaign. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 21209 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
Why are there such deadly extreme divisive members in the USA politics?... All in the USA... Stay safe? Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Gary Charpentier Send message Joined: 25 Dec 00 Posts: 31006 Credit: 53,134,872 RAC: 32 |
Those who claim to be religious only preach hate of any difference, for profit. (Matthew 7:12): Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ ” (Matthew 22:37-39, ESV) The preachers are the minions of Satan. They know it as they hate themselves and would destroy themselves. It is our First amendment and the inability to realize it was not intended to shield incitement to riot by the preaching of hate. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36769 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Well it turns out that the Colorado Springs Suspect's Grandfather Is (a MAGA RINO) Politician Who Compared Jan. 6 to Revolutionary War while a Mother, Three Children Gunned Down After Protective Order Denied. BTW: The 1st reports on a lot of AR-15 style assault weapons shootings , like with the Colorado job, report, "a suspect with a long rifle", which is not correct for a rifle with a barrel length of around 20" as that classifies it as a "short rifle" and is why the effective range of that weapon is just 600 metres while a proper "long rifle" will double that. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36769 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Some hating loser was at it again. :-( Multiple people are dead in a shooting at a Walmart in Virginia. Are so many people so stupid not to see the problem? |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19398 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Some hating loser was at it again. :-( The stats here are so depressing. 'Heartbreak' as seven shot dead in US Walmart store 10:29 edit] Just looked at Washington Post and the New York Times pages, in any other country a mass shooting headline would be plastered across the top of the front page in min 72pt bold. On their web pages this Walmart killing is in the second section, over halfway down the page. With a heading about 14pt bold. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19398 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
I was going to say earlier, but I didn't get it confirmed, but now it has. The shooter was a Walmart manager. |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36769 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
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Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 36769 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Being brain dead gun nutters runs in this family. Sheriff lays into 'way out of control' Florida father and son who police say shot 7 times at an innocent woman after they got a Ring doorbell alert: 'What kind of craziness is that?'. |
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