Maybe it’s time to have a gun free house.
Current Affairs The " another shooting in America " thread
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Tir Eoghain Blue
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Better to have it and not need it, than need it and not have it lad. It all boils down to common sense and personal responsibility.
Bishop Thumpety-Thump
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What could you possibly need a gun for?
If you have it, keep it locked up and keep the ammo separately, hows it going to help you if you’re attacked? If you don’t do these things and have kids at home, you’re not a responsible gun owner. Face it, you have a gun because you want one, not because you need one.
Tir Eoghain Blue
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Please check 6abc. Fox29, CBS3,NBC10. If you can find reference to the story in the Philadelphia market, in the immediate 2-3 days after Cannon was executed, I wil admit to being wrong. I have no idea who Alex Jones, Shapiro, or OANN are to be honest and don’t feel the need to google or find out.
Found the story on the Daily Mail.
Tir Eoghain Blue
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Have owned one for well over 10 years and have managed not to murder anyone or left it unsecured, or exposed anyone to danger. All boils down to personal responsibility
We all think it's newsworthy and that kids getting gunned down there on the reg is hideous. But America accepts the collateral damage of gun madness to the point where most stories of kids being brutally killed are just a banal day to day occurrence. We don't think it's normal, but most of your lads do
Very good. Why do you need a gun though, or do you just want one?
WhY iSn'T tHaT oNe WhErE tHe BlAcK gUy KiLlEd ThE wHiTe KiD iN tHe HeAdLiNeS?
Dunno? Why aren't the 193, one hundred and ninety three, kids 11 or under KILLED not a major national tragedy? Because America. Now let's go back to the false equivalency where someone employed to protect killed a person needlessly.
Not ranting at you obv LL, just ranting.
Tir Eoghain Blue
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The loss of any child to gun violence is a terrible tragedy. If you read my earlier post you would see I mentioned the 100 kids in Philadelphia who have died this year alone through gunfire. I also mentioned that the media should give more attention to these cases. However inner city violence and solving the issues has never been a priority for the politicians or the media, and good people are trapped in these areas and live in fear everyday.
tsubaki
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The irony is of course that the solution - long term investment in communities, acknowleding the problems they face, providing quality housing, education and opportunities - is well known; even Thatcher's government did it here after the riots of the early 80s.
Thats "socialism" though.
Tir Eoghain Blue
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Some interesting statistics published by the FBI Uniform Crime Report. If there are 10,000,000 arrests every year, that means there are probably more than a 100,000,000 positive contacts per year at least between the police and public here in the US. Obviously there will be an arrest disparity depending on the location of the department and if the officers serve in a low crime/high crime area
Tir Eoghain Blue
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Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program | Federal Bureau of Investigation
The UCR Program's primary objective is to generate reliable information for use in law enforcement administration, operation, and management.
www.fbi.gov
here is a link to their main portal and reporting system that is used nationwide. Hopefully it will Provide cold hard data that can help educate and cut the the fog
Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program | Federal Bureau of Investigation
The UCR Program's primary objective is to generate reliable information for use in law enforcement administration, operation, and management.
here is a link to their main portal and reporting system that is used nationwide. Hopefully it will Provide cold hard data that can help educate and cut the the fog
The submission of data to that database is entirely voluntary and is only contributed to by about 40% of law enforcement professionals. Combined with the fact that it's a fairly recent initiative and you could probably reasonably question the integrity of the data.
As of now, America can either:
A: Listen to vast swathes of loud protests erupting across the US by large, otherwise unconnected communities who say they are being treated differently and try and do something about it. Corroborative evidence from any number of videos we've already seen this year and so many times before might indicate they have a point.
or
B: Tell those communities that the issue is all in their heads and teargas them
The US has been practicing option B for a couple of decades, maybe give option A the old college try imo
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