American school shooting
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Re: American school shooting
Only as dangerous as the person holding it (or them, for that matter).
To me, it's simply a tool in the toolbox....and you always take all your tools to work....be pretty useless if I left it at home, wouldn't it??
I remember working an event once, and someone saw the concealed-carry, panicked, & called the cops.......who came down & I promptly had to surrender the thing.
Then I had to go down to the Police Station....."Can I please have my gun back??" Lolz!! Rookie mistake. The cops didn't look too impressed....
To me, it's simply a tool in the toolbox....and you always take all your tools to work....be pretty useless if I left it at home, wouldn't it??
I remember working an event once, and someone saw the concealed-carry, panicked, & called the cops.......who came down & I promptly had to surrender the thing.
Then I had to go down to the Police Station....."Can I please have my gun back??" Lolz!! Rookie mistake. The cops didn't look too impressed....
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Re: American school shooting
It's not the same. When was the last time you heard of a pissed off teenager taking a claw hammer into a school and murdering and injuring dozens of school children?
What is clear, as mentioned above, is there is a cultural issue here. If you look at gun crimes state by state you can see massive variations in the stats.
What is clear, as mentioned above, is there is a cultural issue here. If you look at gun crimes state by state you can see massive variations in the stats.
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Re: American school shooting
I mean "tool" in a loose sense of the term...not a hand-tool like a chisel or a belt-sander.
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Re: American school shooting
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look how fuking frightened those kids are. That poor girl is shaking uncontrollably. How anyone can think that's an acceptable consequence of allowing the sale of military use firearms to the public is beyond me.
look how fuking frightened those kids are. That poor girl is shaking uncontrollably. How anyone can think that's an acceptable consequence of allowing the sale of military use firearms to the public is beyond me.
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Re: American school shooting
A great tool for psychos ,it's to easy to get guns and kill people in the usa I dont quite understand why it's not obvious to some people or maybe I doD41 wrote:Only as dangerous as the person holding it (or them, for that matter).
To me, it's simply a tool in the toolbox....and you always take all your tools to work....be pretty useless if I left it at home, wouldn't it??
I remember working an event once, and someone saw the concealed-carry, panicked, & called the cops.......who came down & I promptly had to surrender the thing.
Then I had to go down to the Police Station....."Can I please have my gun back??" Lolz!! Rookie mistake. The cops didn't look too impressed....
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Re: American school shooting
I probably like the prospect of going up against fully-auto weapons even less than anyone else, believe me!!
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Re: American school shooting
I got shot by a spud gun once I think Westwood did as well and he's a ghetto pimpD41 wrote:I probably like the prospect of going up against fully-auto weapons even less than anyone else, believe me!!
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Re: American school shooting
Is it true that statistically you're more likely to be shot by the Police than anyone else?
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Re: American school shooting
Absolutely. Most cops like to bag a few civilians on the way into work....helps get the day off to a good start, fill their quotas, etc.
It's good for morale.
It's good for morale.
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Re: American school shooting
The planet is over populated. I didn't realise US police were so green and environmentally friendly.
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Re: American school shooting
Oh yeah....non-corrosive bullets, PVC holsters, customer-satisfaction surveys, etc.
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Re: American school shooting
A recent study of World Health Organization data published in the American Journal of Medicine that found that, among high-income nations, 91 percent of children younger than 15 who were killed by bullets lived in the United States.“
“On average, two dozen children are shot every day in the United States, and in 2016 more youths were killed by gunfire — 1,637 — than during any previous year this millennium.”
The USA has 5% of the world's population but holds 22% of the world's prisoners.
It has the highest murder rate in the developed world (over five times the rate of other developed countries). It also boasts the highest gun ownership in the world (half of the civilian owned guns in the world are in the US).
The official poverty rate is 12.7 percent, based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2016 estimates. That year, an estimated 43.1 million Americans lived in poverty according to the official measure. According to supplemental poverty measure, the poverty rate was 14.0 percent
564,708 people in the U.S. are homeless. According to a recent report, over half a million people were living on the streets, in cars, in homeless shelters, or in subsidized transitional housing during a one-night national survey last January. Of that number, 206,286 were people in families, 358,422 were individuals, and a quarter of the entire group were children.
83,170 individuals, or 15% of the homeless population, are considered “chronically homeless.” Chronic homelessness is defined as an individual who has a disability and has experienced homelessness for a year or longer, or and individual who has a disability and has experienced at least four episodes of homelessness in the last three years (must be a cumulative of 12 months). Families with at least one adult member who meets that description are also considered chronically homeless.As the National Alliance to End Homelessness explains, “While people experiencing chronic homelessness make up a small number of the overall homeless population, they are among the most vulnerable. They tend to have high rates of behavioral health problems, including severe mental illness and substance use disorders; conditions that may be exacerbated by physical illness, injury, or trauma.”
47,725, or about 8% of the homeless population, are veterans.
America is a massive country and it is hugely divided in pretty much every aspect of life.
“On average, two dozen children are shot every day in the United States, and in 2016 more youths were killed by gunfire — 1,637 — than during any previous year this millennium.”
The USA has 5% of the world's population but holds 22% of the world's prisoners.
It has the highest murder rate in the developed world (over five times the rate of other developed countries). It also boasts the highest gun ownership in the world (half of the civilian owned guns in the world are in the US).
The official poverty rate is 12.7 percent, based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2016 estimates. That year, an estimated 43.1 million Americans lived in poverty according to the official measure. According to supplemental poverty measure, the poverty rate was 14.0 percent
564,708 people in the U.S. are homeless. According to a recent report, over half a million people were living on the streets, in cars, in homeless shelters, or in subsidized transitional housing during a one-night national survey last January. Of that number, 206,286 were people in families, 358,422 were individuals, and a quarter of the entire group were children.
83,170 individuals, or 15% of the homeless population, are considered “chronically homeless.” Chronic homelessness is defined as an individual who has a disability and has experienced homelessness for a year or longer, or and individual who has a disability and has experienced at least four episodes of homelessness in the last three years (must be a cumulative of 12 months). Families with at least one adult member who meets that description are also considered chronically homeless.As the National Alliance to End Homelessness explains, “While people experiencing chronic homelessness make up a small number of the overall homeless population, they are among the most vulnerable. They tend to have high rates of behavioral health problems, including severe mental illness and substance use disorders; conditions that may be exacerbated by physical illness, injury, or trauma.”
47,725, or about 8% of the homeless population, are veterans.
America is a massive country and it is hugely divided in pretty much every aspect of life.
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Re: American school shooting
Yep....and as if all that wasn't bad enough, we now have James Corden & fcukin' Gordon Ramsay too. Thanks alot, fcukers.
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Re: American school shooting
No...I think you guys are right, we really need to reduce our arms in this country.
Or at least share them with someone else.
Fancy going halfs on a carrier??
Or at least share them with someone else.
Fancy going halfs on a carrier??
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Re: American school shooting
what's the point in having a carrier when we've not got the aircraft to stick on one.
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Re: American school shooting
We could fill it with Yanks with vendettas and automatic weapons.Kwacky wrote:what's the point in having a carrier when we've not got the aircraft to stick on one.