When Kevin is faced with undeniable facts he resorts to spell checking and changes the focus of the topic - this "method" is found on page 3 of the lying liberals handbook.
When Kevin is faced with undeniable facts he resorts to spell checking and changes the focus of the topic - this "method" is found on page 3 of the lying liberals handbook.
Yo, weasel--PJ and I both schooled you (your idiotic misunderstanding of statistics) and your only "defense" is to insult us and do your standard bleat about liberals.
It's not the fault of liberals that you don't understand elementary school-level math. Or that you're a horrible person.
Schooled me? How funny. Insult you two? Now that is really funny. I have forgotten more "math" than you will ever know. There is only one "horrible" person here - and everyone knows who that person is.
According to Stalker: 2+2=MAGA.
Anyone who knows even elementary math knows what proportions, rates, and percentages are and how they differ from simple quantities. But those concepts are far, far beyond Stalker's grasp, as his befuddled comments in this thread and elsewhere demonstrate.
Originally posted by: Boilerman
It's a shame that good people weren't armed and ready to kill the bad guy(s).
Yeah - that is a shame.
And thats the sum total of Republican's solution to gun violence: Flood the population with guns and hope there's a good hearted vigalante armed and ready to confront a malevelont shooter.
How's that been working out?
Originally posted by: PJ Stroh
Yeah - that is a shame.
And thats the sum total of Republican's solution to gun violence: Flood the population with guns and hope there's a good hearted vigalante armed and ready to confront a malevelont shooter.
How's that been working out?
This is similar to how gun lovers equip their homes with arsenals and then lie in bed at night, fantasizing about getting the drop on some nogoodnik trying to rob them and blowing him away. The reality is that it's about a thousand times more likely that the household GUNZ will lead to an accidental death. Junior is good at getting into things, including locked drawers.
Similarly, the likelihood of a fully armed and gun-totin' populace thwarting criminals is far less than the presence of those guns leading to MUCH more violence and deaths. We don't have to speculate on this. Nations with strict gun laws have less than a tenth of the violent death rate that we do. Australia banned private gun ownership and its gun death rate dropped by a factor of twelve--and violent crime dropped as well.
We also have the example of Western towns in the 19th century suffering horrific gun death rates until the local sheriff would mandate that guns be checked at the sheriff's office. So this isn't even debatable: more guns leads to more violence and death, and does NOTHING to reduce crime.
We know that Texas and other backward toilet states long to return to the 19th century, when everyone swaggered down the street packin' thar six-shooters and them blacks and Messkins knew their place (and couldn't vote, of course). The worst part is that their fantasies may actually be realized.
"The reality is that it's about a thousand times more likely that the household GUNZ will lead to an accidental death"
Lam lies again. In 2020 there less than accidental 500 gun deaths, while there just under 20,000 homicides
LAM? A response?
I don't know who "LAM" is, but I'll respond for him.
In answering such eloquence as "In 2020 there less than accidental 500 gun deaths, while there just under 20,000 homicides," I first have to wonder about the mental cohesion of the befuddled person asking it. But to honor Tommie-poo with a serious answer he doesn't remotely deserve, I note that the statement he calls a "lie" had nothing to do with homicides overall. It was about the likelihood of a gun being successfully used to thwart a home invasion versus the likelihood of a gun kept in the home accidentally killing a resident of that home.
Between 2015 and 2020 (inclusive), there were 2,070 unintentional shootings by children, resulting in 765 deaths (in the US). I am unaware of any instances of a gun being successfully used to stop a home invasion during that period.
The above statistic doesn't include accidental gun deaths caused by an adult handling a weapon in the home. It also doesn't include suicides, which should be counted in the tally of in-home gun deaths but I won't consider for the sake of this discussion.
Guns in the home kill people in the home. That's incontrovertible. Conservative gun lovers would have us believe that the average of over 150 accidental gun deaths/year in the home is "worth it." I've yet to see any proof that guns in the home save any lives.
Tommie-poo should learn to read more carefully and think about what he says before pitching criticisms and calling people liars. So should you.
