Something you won't find in your mainstream media

[zack1234]

May it be possible for recommending a new keyboard for Brooke?

All the letters on his keys have worn out

Did you know Brooke was arrested for dog fetling in 1987 but got off on a technicality.

The dog never complained to anyone

[Brooke]

but its absence could lead a reader to believe—incorrectly—that the U.S. experienced fewer mass shooting fatalities per capita than all but a handful of countries in Europe.

Only if the person is incapable of understanding simple data and how an ordered list works.

For example, Countries listed by GDP per capita:

 Monaco *    Europe    N/A    190,513    2019    115,700    2015
 Liechtenstein *    Europe    N/A    180,367    2018    139,100    2009
 Luxembourg *    Europe    140,694    2022    118,360    2020    110,300    2020
 Singapore *    Asia    131,580    2022    98,526    2020    93,400    2020
 Ireland *    Europe    124,596    2022    93,612    2020    89,700    2020
 Qatar *    Asia    112,789    2022    89,949    2020    85,300    2020
 Bermuda *    Americas    N/A    80,830    2020    81,800    2019
 Cayman Islands *    Americas    N/A    71,594    2020    73,600    2019
 Switzerland *    Europe    84,658    2022    71,352    2020    68,400    2020
 United Arab Emirates *    Asia    78,255    2022    69,958    2019    67,100    2019
 Brunei *    Asia    74,953    2022    65,662    2020    62,200    2020
 United States *"

I don't think this misleads a data-competent reader into thinking only a handful of countries in the world have worse GDP per capita than the US.

[Brooke]

May it be possible for recommending a new keyboard for Brooke?

All the letters on his keys have worn out

Did you know Brooke was arrested for dog fetling in 1987 but got off on a technicality.

The dog never complained to anyone

I have to do something to keep my mind off my endless craving for yellow mustard.

[FLS]

Firing an intemediate cartridge in a sustainably controllable way at short range in addition to reasonably accurate fire out to the practical combat range limit of say 400-metres is the definition of an assault rifle. ....

That's not a real definition. An assault rifle is a selective fire sub-caliber rifle.  And you can't just go to a gun store and buy a selective fire rifle.

Guns do not cause school shootings. It's disgusting using kids deaths to disarm law abiding Americans without doing anything to stop the actual problems of mental health issues and criminal violence.

[Brooke]

a better method would be to compute the median

A basic way to do it is:  (probability of death) = (number of people who die) / (total number of people).

A simple example to illustrate this.

Let's say Country A has 1M people and had 3 shootings, with fatalities of 10, 20, and 30.  Country B (same population) had 3 shootings, with fatalities of 19, 20, and 81.  Both have the same median deaths in shootings:  20.  But Country A lost 60/1M of its population; and Country B lost 120/1M of its population.  The odds of dying in Country B was 2x that of Country A.

[Shuffler]

Where do you the perps get most of their guns?

Same place they get their money. So anyone that has anything stolen should be held accountable when the perp kills someone. After all they were supported by money made from said stolen property.

At least by your standards.

[RotBaron]

all rifles have selective fire.  even the ar15.



semp

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I have a .338, 2 7MM, 30-30, .30-06 among others. None have selective fire. Some are bolt action and some are semi-auto.

Besides active military and LEO’s I know (who don’t own their weapons) I know only 2 people currently who have the permits to own automatic/selective fire weapons. Those 2 people might as well have given the government their first born in addition to the endless amount of hoops the had to jump through and pay to get those permits and continue to have to do so.

Even if I had the time and money to own an automatic weapon, I certainly wouldn’t have the patience with all the continuous requirements. 

[RotBaron]

Only offered in rebuttal - data compiled on the internet:

19 Countries with the Most School Shootings (total incidents Jan 2009-May 2018):

United States — 288
Mexico — 8
South Africa — 6
India — 5
Nigeria & Pakistan — 4
Afghanistan — 3
Brazil, Canada, France — 2
Azerbaijan, China, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Kenya, Russia, & Turkey — 1

Guess that points out that we have a school problem then.

[RotBaron]

https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/06/08/joy-behar-rants-gun-control-pass-black-americans-buying-guns/

That is the type of idiot bs spewed by influential people everyday that leads to incredible amounts of misinformed.

[DmonSlyr]

Me still waiting for the swat teams to go down to south Chicago and demand all the gangs give up their guns or else....

Yet they continue to go after law abiding citizens and slowly strip away their rights to protect themselves. Gee I wonder why.

Remember that time they found thousands of weapons in that mansion in LA?

It's almost like criminals don't care about the law. Gee imagine that.

[fd ski]

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[Eagler]

Guns are not the issue

The issue is the intent and desire to bring murderous harm to others

Having those feelings is the issue that needs attention not guns

Guns is just a means to carry out those sick thoughts

Fix the sick thoughts and your gun problem goes away

Take away guns without fixing the sick minds, the sick minds will just find another meanscto do what the sick voice in their heads are telling them to do..

But gun control talk is highly emotional and looks like they care and want to do something while continuing to divide us on yet another issue warped for just that purpose IMO..

Not to mention the cost of mental health...

Eagler

[Eagler]

Also you can't hold gun manufacturers responsible for crimes committed with them anymore than you can hold Ford responsible for speeding, dui or road rage incidents in one of their vehicles..

Politicians are nuts to the point of being criminally sad these days...interesting to see if we survive them.

Eagler

[Ramesis]

Currently (unless you're in a hillbilly militia - all they do is get excited firing lots of ammo real fast) that would be the National Guard (citizen soldiers, well equipped and ... well regulated).

The national guard IS composed mostly of common everyday citizens... hence the term militia
 

[Ramesis]

all rifles have selective fire.  even the ar15.

semp

True, non assault rifles have a safety select and a semi auto selection

"Try buying one. Selective fire makes it an assault rifle as far as the term has any real meaning..."

Debunked above