30 Days, A beginning to the end of mass shootings.

[The Barbarian]

However, a 2017 study showed that police forces which received military equipment were more likely to have violent encounters with the public, regardless of local crime rates.

Dress people up like G.I. Joe, give them tanks and other military weapons, and they'll start using it. Human nature. Dallas cut their police violence problem to one of the lowest in the country by taking them out of paramilitary gear, making them appear on the street, with the people they are supposed to protect, and encouraging them to interact with the public even when not arresting or ticketing people.

And it led to this:

 

[ok doser]

^Fearmongering to justify the use of greater than necessary force to police the populace.

Yes, we get it

You don't care about the thousands and thousands of young black men murdered by other young black men

 

[annabenedetti]

Yes, we get it

You don't care about the thousands and thousands of young black men murdered by other young black men

JR will be right with you to let you know what fallacy you're using.

 

[ok doser]

JR will be right with you to let you know what fallacy you're using.

Looking to join your partner in whine?

 

[annabenedetti]

Looking to join your partner in whine?

I know you'll do what you can to make that happen.

 

[The Barbarian]

According to CDC,homicides with blacks as victims fell by about 50% in the last 33 years. That seems like progress to me, but I can understand why it would rile a certain troll.

 

[ok doser]

According to CDC,homicides with blacks as victims fell by about 50% in the last 33 years.

While at the same time gun ownership rates in the country have skyrocketed?


How can that be?

 

[jgarden]

A beginning to the end mass shootings.

Patrick Crusius, 21, the eco-terrorist has admitted to the Aug. 3rd 2019 murders in El Paso Texas, he is seen on TV, and anyone who has read his manifesto can easily detect he is not incapacitated by insanity.

The solution is simple. On September 3rd at 10:30 AM Patrick Crusius is put to death on pay per view with the proceeds going to the victims.

After just a couple of these executions these senseless murders will abate.

This is a just outcome as it gives Mr. Crusius plenty of time to repent.

America has 4% of the world's population, but 25% of its prison population - so much for the argument that incarceration/punishment acts as an effective deterrent in preventing crime!

America is perhaps the world's only modern liberal democracy that, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to retain the "death penalty" - yet it retains the distinction of having a homicide rate that far exceeds its counterparts who have dispensed with capital punishment!

There are no "simple solutions" and Americans remain unwilling to study/implement those remedies which have already proven to be successful in other nations!

 

[jgarden]

While at the same time gun ownership rates in the country have skyrocketed?

How can that be?

There are currently almost 400 million firearms in the private sector, including approximately 15 million assault rifles - if access to guns acts as an effective deterrent against crime, as the NRA would have us believe, then America should be the safest nation on the planet!

 

[The Barbarian]

Turns out, fewer and fewer households have guns:


Despite mass shootings, number of households owning guns is on the decline
The number of American households with guns has dropped 19 percentage points from 50 percent in 1977 to 31 percent in 2014 according to the General Social Survey of the National Opinion Research Center, which has surveyed about 2,000 Americans on the same set of questions since the early 1970's.

Yet despite this decline in households with guns, the sheer number of guns being produced and the number of background checks being done has risen sharply leading researchers to believe that more and more guns are becoming concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/despit...-of-households-owning-guns-is-on-the-decline/

 

[Stripe]

Turns out, fewer and fewer households have guns:


Despite mass shootings, number of households owning guns is on the decline
The number of American households with guns has dropped 19 percentage points from 50 percent in 1977 to 31 percent in 2014 according to the General Social Survey of the National Opinion Research Center, which has surveyed about 2,000 Americans on the same set of questions since the early 1970's.

Yet despite this decline in households with guns, the sheer number of guns being produced and the number of background checks being done has risen sharply leading researchers to believe that more and more guns are becoming concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/despit...-of-households-owning-guns-is-on-the-decline/

Therefore, something... :idunno:

 

[ok doser]

There are currently almost 400 million firearms in the private sector, including approximately 15 million assault rifles - if access to guns acts as an effective deterrent against crime, as the NRA would have us believe, then America should be the safest nation on the planet!

Barbie has been noting that as gun ownership rates have been skyrocketing, violent crime rates have been falling precipitously !!!

 

[Stripe]

Barbie has been noting that as gun ownership rates have been skyrocketing, violent crime rates have been falling precipitously !!!

Reminds me of YouTube video. :think:

 

[ok doser]

America has 4% of the world's population, but 25% of its prison population ....

Guess why?

 

[ok doser]

America is perhaps the world's only modern liberal democracy that, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to retain the "death penalty" ...

And how many convicted felons were executed last year?

How about in the past ten years?

 

[ok doser]

...(America) retains the distinction of having a homicide rate that far exceeds its counterparts who have dispensed with capital punishment!

Not if you remove the "young male negroes murdering other young male negroes" from the calculation

There are no "simple solutions"...

Sure there are - stop young male negroes from murdering each other

Americans remain unwilling to study/implement those remedies which have already proven to be successful in other nations...

How many of those nations have a significant population of young male negroes murdering each other?

 

[jamesdyson]

Not if you remove the "young male negroes murdering other young male negroes" from the calculation

How many of those nations have a significant population of young male negroes murdering each other?

Oh my sweet plump dumpling who's baLDING AT THE TOP; I must ask you---when it comes to young male white folks the numbers are in the thousands (1,000's)

 

[ok doser]

Oh my sweet plump dumpling who's baLDING AT THE TOP; I must ask you---when it comes to young male white folks the numbers are in the thousands (1,000's)

:think:

 

[aCultureWarrior]

A beginning to the end mass shootings.

...The solution is simple. On September 3rd at 10:30 AM Patrick Crusius is put to death on pay per view with the proceeds going to the victims.

After just a couple of these executions these senseless murders will abate...

Like they do in Iran?

 

[JudgeRightly]

Like they do in Iran?

https://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/compare/Iran/United-States/Crime

Iran is on the left, the US is on the right.

The death penalty is a deterrent.