America's Gun Violence

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  • oftenreading
    oftenreading Victoria, BC Posts: 12,856


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    Actually, you're either part of the solution or you're part of the precipitate.
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  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    "Imaginary evils are incurable." - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,185
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    Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
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    2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
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    2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
    2020: Oakland, Oakland:  2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
    2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,185
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    Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
    The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)

    1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
    2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
    2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
    2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
    2020: Oakland, Oakland:  2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
    2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
    2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
  • CM189191
    CM189191 Posts: 6,927
    Godfather. said:

    "Imaginary evils are incurable." - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

    I see your Austrian philosopher and fictional author; and raise you one German philosopher and physicist.

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  • Godfather.
    Godfather. Posts: 12,504
    CM189191 said:

    Godfather. said:

    "Imaginary evils are incurable." - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

    I see your Austrian philosopher and fictional author; and raise you one German philosopher and physicist.

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    high limit ? sometimes the lines between fiction and truth become blury and the minds eye becomes blinded.

    Godfather.

  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,185
    http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/23/justice/cleveland-police-shooting/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

    Another one...
    Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
    The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)

    1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
    2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
    2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
    2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
    2020: Oakland, Oakland:  2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
    2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
    2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
  • JC29856
    JC29856 Posts: 9,617
    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/police-in-utah-have-killed-more-people-than-gang-members-drug-dealers-or-child-abuse-since-2010-9879613.html
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
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  • Thirty Bills Unpaid
    Thirty Bills Unpaid Posts: 16,881
    paulonious said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP3HJVp3n9c

    Formerly Hugh?

    Did you let your membership lapse?

    Regardless... good to see you on these boards, Hugh.
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  • i_lov_it
    i_lov_it Perth, Western Australia Posts: 4,007
    Russia don't seem to notice the Gun Violence in America.

    http://www.examiner.com/article/russia-turns-to-guns-to-stem-high-murder-rate
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    yes, I did, by accident. I thought by declining to pay on the due date, I was still allowed the 3 month period, but it seems it cancelled it altogether. I kept emailing 10C and they refused to respond. sucks that I lost my number. but whatever.
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    paulonious said:

    yes, I did, by accident. I thought by declining to pay on the due date, I was still allowed the 3 month period, but it seems it cancelled it altogether. I kept emailing 10C and they refused to respond. sucks that I lost my number. but whatever.

    Ha! I thought I sensed something familiar! Great to see you back here, "Hugh"! :-D

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  • a5pj
    a5pj Hershey PA Posts: 3,975
    paulonious said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP3HJVp3n9c

    pretty good
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  • callen
    callen Posts: 6,388
    edited November 2014
    paulonious said:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fP3HJVp3n9c

    Wonder if Jeff came to our board for his material. Most of his points hashed and rehashed on this board. He is good and enjoy his schtick. Recommend his stand up. Few shows on netflix.

    So why is it so hard to get away from this need to have a gun? Insecurities? Fear?

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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,185
    http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/video-shows-cleveland-cop-shoot-12-year-old-tamir-rice-n256656

    You really have to stand in awe of our gun culture...a 12 year old playing with a toy gun in a park gets murdered by those meant to protect him....god bless the fucking usa

    And the gun nuts wonder why other countries don't have such insane gun laws as us?
    Remember the Thomas Nine !! (10/02/2018)
    The Golden Age is 2 months away. And guess what….. you’re gonna love it! (teskeinc 11.19.24)

    1998: Noblesville; 2003: Noblesville; 2009: EV Nashville, Chicago, Chicago
    2010: St Louis, Columbus, Noblesville; 2011: EV Chicago, East Troy, East Troy
    2013: London ON, Wrigley; 2014: Cincy, St Louis, Moline (NO CODE)
    2016: Lexington, Wrigley #1; 2018: Wrigley, Wrigley, Boston, Boston
    2020: Oakland, Oakland:  2021: EV Ohana, Ohana, Ohana, Ohana
    2022: Oakland, Oakland, Nashville, Louisville; 2023: Chicago, Chicago, Noblesville
    2024: Noblesville, Wrigley, Wrigley, Ohana, Ohana; 2025: Pitt1, Pitt2
  • goingtoverona
    goingtoverona Posts: 616
    stand in awe? nah. what do we have here? we have a dumb shit who took the orange safety thing off the tip of his bb gun to make it look like a real gun. which it does, I saw the picture. he took that gun out in public and was pointing it at people, which is why there was a call placed to 911. cops said when they showed up they saw the gun on the bench, the kid grabbed it and put it in his waistband. when they told him to get his hands up he reached for the gun and then he got wasted. whether what the cops said is true or not is hard to say, that video sucks ass, it doesn't show everything, frames are missing, and it's really blurry before during and after they shoot him. bottom line was, people thought he had a gun, he was scaring the shit out of people and the cops came to protect the general public. yeah it sucks he's dead, sucks he was just 12, but if you play with fire you get burned.

    if you think what I believe is stupid, bizarre, ridiculous or outrageous.....it's ok, I think I had a brain tumor when I wrote that.
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,473
    goingtoverona said:

    stand in awe? nah. what do we have here? we have a dumb shit who took the orange safety thing off the tip of his bb gun to make it look like a real gun. which it does, I saw the picture. he took that gun out in public and was pointing it at people, which is why there was a call placed to 911. cops said when they showed up they saw the gun on the bench, the kid grabbed it and put it in his waistband. when they told him to get his hands up he reached for the gun and then he got wasted. whether what the cops said is true or not is hard to say, that video sucks ass, it doesn't show everything, frames are missing, and it's really blurry before during and after they shoot him. bottom line was, people thought he had a gun, he was scaring the shit out of people and the cops came to protect the general public. yeah it sucks he's dead, sucks he was just 12, but if you play with fire you get burned.

    dumb shit? he was 12. no one that age in their right mind would ever think that could happen to them. the problem here, as I've read it, is the communication breakdown between report and cop; the cops were not told the witness said "it might be a toy". they may have proceeded with less trigger-happiness if they had been told that. or they may have treated it the same, who knows.

    I can't imagine what it would be like to be a cop; what goes through your mind when you know you might have to shoot a fucking KID. that cop is probably going to blow his own head off, or become an alcoholic, or at the very least be fucked up the rest of his life. it's the culture that made the cop shoot so quickly. if it wasn't so normal for a kid that age to have access to a real gun, this probably wouldn't have happened.

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  • goingtoverona
    goingtoverona Posts: 616
    yeah that would be interesting to find out why that happened, why the dispatcher didn't mention that to the cops. was it an intentional omission or what? for all we know cops might be taught to treat every weapon as real until the situation can be controlled and figured out which would explain why it wasn't mentioned. that is a good point though.
    if you think what I believe is stupid, bizarre, ridiculous or outrageous.....it's ok, I think I had a brain tumor when I wrote that.
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    It's pretty fucked up that you are legally allowed to carry a gun in plain sight, and the cops are legally allowed to shoot you for it.
    How does that make any sense at all????
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