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ed rhodes Inner circle Rhode Island 2885 Posts |
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On Jul 7, 2015, Slim King wrote: History has also shown that armed fools shoot themselves and each other as well as innocent people knocking on the door.
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Slim King Eternal Order Orlando 18012 Posts |
Use your brain and crunch the numbers ED ... rotflmao .. Honestly compare the two numbers....
Thousands are saved by arming themselves every year ... How many die of friendly fire?
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
There are a few that die from unfriendly fire. Which I think is what spurs the debate.
Danny Doyle
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts |
I'm a gun owner, but I acknowledge the following:
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/201......-deaths/
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Slim King Eternal Order Orlando 18012 Posts |
WOW!!!! Over 61% of these deaths are Suicides. So in actually that would cut the number to less than half!
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts |
LOL! You could look at it that way too.
Not very funny, but I have a dark sense of humor.
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts |
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On Jul 25, 2015, Slim King wrote: WOW! And a large portion of those suicides are by children who never should have had access to a gun in the first place. |
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
I just read in the Washington Post that in the first 204 days of 2015, there were 204 mass shootings in the USA.
Pick a day, any day. It's a good bet that there will be trouble somewhere.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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Slim King Eternal Order Orlando 18012 Posts |
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On Jul 25, 2015, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: Yes, they do a pretty good job of reporting criminal attacks on innocent people in your article. A criminal attack on innocent people by thugs and gang members IS a HUGE problem. Happens every day in Chicago!!!!! Calling them MASS SHOOTINGS is just a lie!!!!! Just a quick look shows they count the same story twice as in 123 and 124... Don't get me wrong.....Mass shootings are awful..... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdT987hjebQ
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Settle down, Slim. They clearly define what they mean: "a Mass Shooting is four or more people shot in one event."
You might not like the definition, but there's absolutely no deceit going on.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
I don't think if one is shot it makes it ant better. 4 is an absurd threshold.
Danny Doyle
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On Jul 26, 2015, Dannydoyle wrote: For better or for worse, they followed the FBI definition of 4 deaths being the threshold for a mass killing or mass murder. Every threshold is debatable, but the symmetry seems reasonable.
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The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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S2000magician Inner circle Yorba Linda, CA 3465 Posts |
Symmetry?
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Dannydoyle Eternal Order 21219 Posts |
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On Jul 26, 2015, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: I agree that is the number. But 4 one at a time killings are also pretty horrific.
Danny Doyle
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On Jul 26, 2015, S2000magician wrote: 4 people murdered = mass murder 4 people shot = mass shooting
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Slim King Eternal Order Orlando 18012 Posts |
To be clear ... There were NOT 204 mass shootings in the first 204 days of this year. It's a media lie.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On Jul 26, 2015, Slim King wrote: And your evidence for this is...?
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
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On Jul 26, 2015, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: If you go back and look at one of Slim's earlier posts, you will see that he is upset and excited because, if you look at a link found in the original article on the subject, shootings 123 and 124 have the same URL link in the citations section. See: http://shootingtracker.com/wiki/Mass_Shootings_in_2015 So in Slim's mind, that proves the entire thing is a hoax. A media conspiracy. Of course, most sane people would realize this is most likely a simple typo and maybe check to see if there were two separate mass shootings, one in Miami on 5/29/2015 and one in San Diego on 5/30/2015. There were. http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/05/29/3-i......hooting/ http://fox5sandiego.com/2015/05/30/swat-......le-club/
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balducci Loyal user Canada 227 Posts |
Then again, it is possible he believes they are the same shooting and that bullets from the first just caught an updraft and carried a long, long way.
Make America Great Again! - Trump in 2020 ... "We're a capitalistic society. I go into business, I don't make it, I go bankrupt. They're not going to bail me out. I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone help me? No." - Craig T. Nelson, actor.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On Jul 26, 2015, balducci wrote: Could happen, I guess.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
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