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The Economic Cost of gun nut retards


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2018 Feb 15, 4:56am   44,981 views  293 comments

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Yesterday another gun nut slaughtered 17 innocent Americans in Florida. Let’s do a Cost Benefit Analysis

High school kids have ~50 years of unrealized labor potential, at a ballpark of 50k per year.

2,500,000 x 17 = $42,500,000 in lost potential wages


17 families will now have to bury a child. Average cost of funeral service 10k = $170,000

Let’s say on average 50 people attend each funeral, so they have to take a day or two of unpaid bereavement leave.

850 people x $500 in lost wages= $425,000 in lost wages

It’s not cheap to travel with no notice for planning, so we’ll use an average $1,000 per person = $850,000

100’s maybe 1,000s of survivors will now suffer from PTSD, which is hard to calculate costs but easily into the millions = $100,000,000- $1,000,000,000

So we’re already potentially north of 1 billion dollars in costs, without even beginning to consider all the ancillary costs to come, so we can pause and move over to the benefit side of the analysis.

Benefits

A gun manufacturer made a sale of ~1,000 which netted them a hundred or two in profits.


So who gets stuck with the tab for another gun nut taking his lame hobby of target practice to the local high school?

Oddly, not the gun maker. Because your halfwit Republican Government says that the gun worked as intended, to turn teenagers into bloody chunks.

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157   anonymous   2018 Feb 18, 8:35pm  

anon_46fb4 says
Even if gun retards were to be intellectually honest for a nanosecond they'd admit that no ban on 2A rights is worth saving the lives of children. Here's the thought experiment:

If a BAN on some firearms led to an absolute eradication of mass killings in America would you or would you not vote against it? See, they'll either beg the question, like Cucked Cunts or they'll run away and resume the stupid argument that perfection is necessary. OK, Cunt Cucks: prison sentences don't stop bank robbery, therefore MAKE BANK ROBBERY LEGAL.

Morons.


The real morons are the idiots who create straw man hypotheticals that distorts the facts. The facts are Guns don't kill. Some people are killers. Here's a thought experiment, if putting all murderers to death eradicated murder, would you execute the murderers or let them live?
158   anonymous   2018 Feb 18, 8:35pm  

anon_46fb4 says
If a BAN on some firearms led to an absolute eradication of mass killings in America would you or would you not vote against it? See, they'll either beg the question, like Cucked Cunts or they'll run away and resume the stupid argument that perfection is necessary. OK, Cunt Cucks: prison sentences don't stop bank robbery, therefore MAKE BANK ROBBERY LEGAL.


Is that English?
159   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Feb 18, 9:37pm  

LeonDurham says
And they have automatic badges. Everyone doesn't check in with a security guard.


But if you don't have a badge, the guard doesn't let you pass. And insists you get a visitor badge or register a book or otherwise identify yourself. C'mon, this is obtuse now.
160   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 7:48am  

TwoScoopsPlissken says
But if you don't have a badge, the guard doesn't let you pass. And insists you get a visitor badge or register a book or otherwise identify yourself. C'mon, this is obtuse now.


Agreed. It is obtuse. Are you going to give every parent a badge then? And every kid?
161   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Feb 19, 7:51am  

anon_8f378 says
Agreed. It is obtuse. Are you going to give every parent a badge then? And every kid?


Every employee at most 3100+ facilities has a badge, what's the problem? Badge wearing to gain access to buildings is done all over the USA Millions and Millions of Times a day.

Stop acting like it's some wild new solution; it's ubiquitous.

Remember, one dead kid is too many, right?

Obtuse is when you want to begin an entire new process to register gun owners on top of the background checks already in place, but you resist a basic, common, everyday checkpoint at a school. The same checkpoints that are found at most similar sized facilities, public or private, around the country. So many than badge scanners and badge makers have multiple competing companies fighting each other for market share.
162   Y   2018 Feb 19, 7:53am  

surround all schools with the retired and elderly looking for additional income.
no way in without passing one of these.
they all have their medic alert buttons to signal danger.
if the perp trys to shoot his way in, well they were going to go soon anyway...

anon_8f378 says
Agreed. It is obtuse. Are you going to give every parent a badge then? And every kid?
163   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Feb 19, 7:56am  

We need more TEACHERS! Thousands of them at $50k+/year!
We need to double spending in our SCHOOLS! Nothing too good for our Kids!
Increase the pensions! Increase the training budget! We need more Admins of Welcoming Diversity! Fund our schools, Evil Republicans!

"How about a security guard at the entrance?"

NOOOOO! That would cost ZILLIONS! Just add extra layers of bureaucracy to buy a gun, or better yet, Ban Semi-Auto Rifles!
164   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 8:11am  

BayArea says
Should anti-depressant prescription disqualify you from gun ownership?


Probably. One thing is for certain, alcohol possession a/o consumption should definitely disqualify anyone from purchasing/possessing/owning a gun(s).

We should also revisit Alcohol Prohibition
165   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 8:13am  

TwoScoopsPlissken says
We need more TEACHERS! Thousands of them at $50k+/year!
We need to double spending in our SCHOOLS! Nothing too good for our Kids!
Increase the pensions! Increase the training budget! We need more Admins of Welcoming Diversity! Fund our schools, Evil Republicans!

"How about a security guard at the entrance?"

NOOOOO! That would cost ZILLIONS! Just add extra layers of bureaucracy to buy a gun, or better yet, Ban Semi-Auto Rifles!


I for one don’t thing a Security Guard is going to deter, let alone stop these types of mass murders from happening.

I have a much better, simpler, cost effective solution.

Raze all the schools in this country, sell the School Buses off to foreign countries, and make Public Education something we do from home on our Government Internet.

Game.Set.Match

Fin
166   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Feb 19, 8:19am  

errc says
Raze all the schools in this country, sell the School Buses off to foreign countries, and make Public Education something we do from home on our Government Internet.


Excellent. But the Teachers would flip the fuck out.
167   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 8:25am  

anon_e96ec says
anon_46fb4 says
Even if gun retards were to be intellectually honest for a nanosecond they'd admit that no ban on 2A rights is worth saving the lives of children. Here's the thought experiment:

If a BAN on some firearms led to an absolute eradication of mass killings in America would you or would you not vote against it? See, they'll either beg the question, like Cucked Cunts or they'll run away and resume the stupid argument that perfection is necessary. OK, Cunt Cucks: prison sentences don't stop bank robbery, therefore MAKE BANK ROBBERY LEGAL.

Morons.


The real morons are the idiots who create straw man hypotheticals that distorts the facts. The facts are Guns don't kill. Some people are killers. Here's a thought experiment, if putting all murderers to death eradicated murder, would you execute the murderers or let them live?


Yup. So now, admit that saving everyone from mass killings still wouldn't convince the gun retards to mitigate their rights to shoot things. Saving children just doesn't matter enough. Proved! Case Closed!!

Retarded morons!!
168   MrMagic   2018 Feb 19, 8:28am  

errc says
I for one don’t thing a Security Guard is going to deter, let alone stop these types of mass murders from happening.


Do we see as many mass shootings at sports arenas, concerts, political rallys, airports, police stations, government buildings, etc.

Why have these mass shootings been at schools, churches, theaters, nightclubs and malls?
169   FortWayne   2018 Feb 19, 8:30am  

anon_6b979 says
Yup. So now, admit that saving everyone from mass killings still wouldn't convince the gun retards to mitigate their rights to shoot things. Saving children just doesn't matter enough. Proved! Case Closed!!


Wow, judge jury and executioner at once anon_6b979, based on 0 facts, but on lots of emotions. That is ultra left wing, good job.
170   FortWayne   2018 Feb 19, 8:32am  

If you guys gonna ban something, ban the left. They create divisive rhetoric that leads to crime and murder. We could save thousands of lives instantly if we just banned left wing media, so we could be a united nation.
171   Onvacation   2018 Feb 19, 8:45am  

anon_46fb4 says

If a BAN on some firearms led to an absolute eradication of mass killings in America would you or would you not vote against it?

If.IF.
If a BAN on cars would prevent traffic deaths would you ride the bus?
172   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 9:00am  

Sniper says
errc says
I for one don’t thing a Security Guard is going to deter, let alone stop these types of mass murders from happening.


Do we see as many mass shootings at sports arenas, concerts, political rallys, airports, police stations, government buildings, etc.

Why have these mass shootings been at schools, churches, theaters, nightclubs and malls?


Presumably because they’re being committed by children/students, and the schools are the institutions they most commonly attend
173   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 9:51am  

TwoScoopsPlissken says
We need more TEACHERS! Thousands of them at $50k+/year!
We need to double spending in our SCHOOLS! Nothing too good for our Kids!
Increase the pensions! Increase the training budget! We need more Admins of Welcoming Diversity! Fund our schools, Evil Republicans!

"How about a security guard at the entrance?"

NOOOOO! That would cost ZILLIONS! Just add extra layers of bureaucracy to buy a gun, or better yet, Ban Semi-Auto Rifles!


This is why it's impossible to have an honest discussion. One side wants nothing to do with it.

Strawman after strawman is all you get.

And it's why no real solutions can ever be implemented. One side doesn't want solutions.
174   MrMagic   2018 Feb 19, 9:51am  

errc says
Presumably because they’re being committed by children/students, and the schools are the institutions they most commonly attend


Wrong answer, as all the mass shootings were committed by adults, since children can't purchase firearms.
175   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 9:57am  

Sniper says
errc says
Presumably because they’re being committed by children/students, and the schools are the institutions they most commonly attend


Wrong answer, as all the mass shootings were committed by adults, since children can't purchase firearms.


All the school shootings were committed by adults?

That seems to be at odds with reality, because in reality, almost every single school shooting was carried out by children.

Outside of the lone instance that happened in my town, where a right wing Christian gun nut retard murdered the Amish kids at their small school in Gap, PA.

But I guess that was the liberals fault for not having armed militia surrounding the one room school house in Amish Country
176   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Feb 19, 9:57am  

anon_8f378 says
This is why it's impossible to have an honest discussion. One side wants nothing to do with it.


Agreed. One side entirely dismisses the fact the school of 3100+ people had absolutely no checks to stop strangers from entering at a whim, that the perp encountered authorities 39 times, plus was expelled, plus was put on Meds, was identified at least once in the past few weeks for making violent threats, placed on a no-admittance list yet there was no security on site to enforce that list, and thus NOTHING was done, while the LEOs and School Officials dishonestly claim "There was nothing we could have done". Mendacious to the Max.

They instead want to pursue the politically difficult and constitutionally troublesome path of reducing access to guns for all, instead of having at least rudimentary security at huge school campuses or revisiting forcible hospitalization.

They don't even want to discuss those factors, and go straight for firearms.
177   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Feb 19, 9:59am  

... Jazz being the exception.

Aren't SSRIs already issued with warnings about their impact on youths/teens? I seem to remember it was shown that SSRIs reduce inhibitions to violent behavior.
178   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 10:12am  

jazz_music says
Psychotropic prescription industry is closer to a thing that can be identified as a cause than availability of guns.

Guns make it worse, so could bombs too.

Bombs can be made from things very hard to control. If you control guns you might start seeing more bombings.


SSRI’s and over prescription are a symptom, not the cause.

The problem there is malnutrition, which our anti-science right wing government has thrusted upon the unquestioning for decades. Beginning Prohibition of Hemp/Cannabis ~ a century ago (humans have always survived alongside the plants they live amongst as medicine. The Endocannabinoid system is proof that humans have evolved to use Cannabis as medicine). The Food Pyramid doubled down on the movement to profit and thrive from keeping Americans sick and stupid (ten + servings of breads and cereals per day! Wtf!!) War on Drugs alongside a thriving Big Pharma exasperated these problems. People don’t even own their bodies anymore, the Right Wing Christian Government has worked hard to keep them Sick and Stupid because they make for easy votes as sheeple.

The concept of taking a pill to remedy whatever illness one has been marketed and drowned in advertisements to believe they need, is at the heart of this issue. Are Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors dangerous and unhealthy? Quite possibly, even likely, but which pill sold by American Pharmaceutical Corps isn’t?

It’s the attitude that you can somehow not understand how your body works, how to properly fuel it, and just limp in to the doc when you break down that is so pervasive these days, that is causing people not to be well.

It’s no coincidence that Healthcare costs have spiraled out of control, at the same time that Science has illustrated all the health and wellness benefits of a proper diet, and The vast utility of the Magical Cannabis plant and it’s flowers. Them damn Liberals keep fighting against the Republicans to give you the freedom to find out for yourself. The Left has ruined everything. Blame the Liberals lol

Liberty is bad!
Anti-Fascist is bad!

God is good!

MAGA GOOGOO GAGA!!
179   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 10:18am  

TwoScoopsPlissken says
... Jazz being the exception.

Aren't SSRIs already issued with warnings about their impact on youths/teens? I seem to remember it was shown that SSRIs reduce inhibitions to violent behavior.


I remember when the halfwit Christian Right wing teachers at my junior high brought my mom in for a meeting about how they felt I should be put on Ritalin (90’s adderrall for kids). I’ve never seen her be anything but nice, except in that meeting, she was vehemently opposed. And she had some words for those fucking morons and their opinion on drugging her offspring. Something to the effect of their feelings being hurt, or egos bruised, when a child is more intelligent than them and as teachers they didn’t know how to react.

Good for her. She wound up homeschooling my two youngest siblings.

Ridalin isnt even a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor, rather i think it’s basically just medical grade Crystal Meth for kids.
180   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 10:21am  

And I'm on board with limiting SSRI use. That should definitely be part of the solution.
181   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 10:21am  

TwoScoopsPlissken says
One side entirely dismisses the fact the school of 3100+ people had absolutely no checks to stop strangers from entering at a whim


Thanks for proving my point. That is another pure lie. Not a half lie, or misrepresentation. Just a bald faced lie.

It's just no use as every discussion turns into a fact check.
182   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 10:24am  

TwoScoopsPlissken says
... Jazz being the exception.

Aren't SSRIs already issued with warnings about their impact on youths/teens? I seem to remember it was shown that SSRIs reduce inhibitions to violent behavior.


Why are pharmaceutical drug manufacturers absolved from liability related to their products?

Why do gun manufacturers enjoy the same privileges?

These are the questions you don’t see being asked, because they are at the heart of the issue.
183   FortWayne   2018 Feb 19, 10:41am  

errc says
TwoScoopsPlissken says
... Jazz being the exception.

Aren't SSRIs already issued with warnings about their impact on youths/teens? I seem to remember it was shown that SSRIs reduce inhibitions to violent behavior.


Why are pharmaceutical drug manufacturers absolved from liability related to their products?

Why do gun manufacturers enjoy the same privileges?

These are the questions you don’t see being asked, because they are at the heart of the issue.


Are car manufacturers liable for what the buyers do with the cars? Think about it, people have to be responsible themselves. If you go to restaurant, buy a taco, than murder someone with it, it's not restaurants fault that the customer is a bad man/woman.
184   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 10:47am  

FortWayne says
errc says
TwoScoopsPlissken says
... Jazz being the exception.

Aren't SSRIs already issued with warnings about their impact on youths/teens? I seem to remember it was shown that SSRIs reduce inhibitions to violent behavior.


Why are pharmaceutical drug manufacturers absolved from liability related to their products?

Why do gun manufacturers enjoy the same privileges?

These are the questions you don’t see being asked, because they are at the heart of the issue.


Are car manufacturers liable for what the buyers do with the cars? Think about it, people have to be responsible themselves. If you go to restaurant, buy a taco, than murder someone with it, it's not restaurants fault that the customer is a bad man/woman.


If you go to a restaurant, they serve you a bad taco and it kills you, is it your fault or is the restaurant liable?
185   FortWayne   2018 Feb 19, 11:02am  

If gun I bought, walked out on it’s own and shot someone than I could see your point.
errc says
FortWayne says
errc says
TwoScoopsPlissken says
... Jazz being the exception.

Aren't SSRIs already issued with warnings about their impact on youths/teens? I seem to remember it was shown that SSRIs reduce inhibitions to violent behavior.


Why are pharmaceutical drug manufacturers absolved from liability related to their products?

Why do gun manufacturers enjoy the same privileges?

These are the questions you don’t see being asked, because they are at the heart of the issue.


Are car manufacturers liable for what the buyers do with the cars? Think about it, people have to be responsible themselves. If you go to restaurant, buy a taco, than murder someone with it, it's not restaurants fault that the customer...
186   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 11:02am  

Approaching 200 comments and not one person attempted a cost benefit analysis, even though it is the topic of the thread.

Capitalism is dead, and us Capitalists are a dying breed
187   FortWayne   2018 Feb 19, 11:36am  

You are putting a price on a life?

I’m a parent, and want kids safe too. But I don’t agree with the approach Democrats are taking, because it’s not to solve a problem, but to attack 2nd amendment and Republicans.

errc says
Approaching 200 comments and not one person attempted a cost benefit analysis, even though it is the topic of the thread.

Capitalism is dead, and us Capitalists are a dying breed
188   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Feb 19, 12:19pm  

anon_8f378 says
Thanks for proving my point. That is another pure lie. Not a half lie, or misrepresentation. Just a bald faced lie.


Yep, anybody who claims that there was even rudimentary, basic security and Cruz had to pass through before he entered the campus and/or building and identify himself is telling a Pure Lie.

Not a half lie, or misrepresentation. Just a bald faced lie.

"Besides having NO barriers to entry for visitors, what else could we have done?"

He entered the campus by car and
www.youtube.com/embed/jrwjiO1MCVs

"He walked right through the door."
189   MisdemeanorRebel   2018 Feb 19, 12:25pm  

errc says
which our anti-science right wing government


You mean the one that suggests you down 6-11 cups of grains each day for decades and still suggests bovine levels of unhealthy, heart-disease inducing grain consumption? While demonizing life-giving, brain protecting fats like eggs and red meat?
190   WildMind   2018 Feb 19, 12:31pm  

Stop comparing cars to guns. Cars have useful purposes that are required for commerce and commuting. Guns only have one useful purpose to kill things, and or scare people into running away because you might kill them.
191   WildMind   2018 Feb 19, 12:34pm  

The thing about science... is yes sometimes they get it wrong. But science isn’t faith based nonsense...someone always comes along and proves them wrong with better science.

TwoScoopsPlissken says
errc says
which our anti-science right wing government


You mean the one that suggests you down 6-11 cups of grains each day for decades and still suggests bovine levels of unhealthy, heart-disease inducing grain consumption? While demonizing life-giving, brain protecting fats like eggs and red meat?
192   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 1:09pm  

errc says
Wrong answer, as all the mass shootings were committed by adults, since children can't purchase firearms.


All the school shootings were committed by adults?

That seems to be at odds with reality, because in reality, almost every single school shooting was carried out by children.


Got any facts to back that up?

Ha Ha, I know that will never happen.
193   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 1:09pm  

errc says
Why are pharmaceutical drug manufacturers absolved from liability related to their products?


Why are physicians absolved from liability for writing the Rx in the first place?

Yes, let's blame the inanimate object manufacture (the pill or gun) instead.

When do you start blaming Ford or Chevy for all the people their cars kill?
194   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 1:09pm  

errc says
Are car manufacturers liable for what the buyers do with the cars? Think about it, people have to be responsible themselves. If you go to restaurant, buy a taco, than murder someone with it, it's not restaurants fault that the customer is a bad man/woman.


If you go to a restaurant, they serve you a bad taco and it kills you, is it your fault or is the restaurant liable?


What a straw man.

Wow, Liberalism is definitely a mental disease.
195   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 1:09pm  

WildMind says
Guns only have one useful purpose to kill things, and or scare people into running away because you might kill them.


anon_cf6c6 says
Wow, Liberalism is definitely a mental disease.
196   anonymous   2018 Feb 19, 1:45pm  

anon_cf6c6 says
errc says
Are car manufacturers liable for what the buyers do with the cars? Think about it, people have to be responsible themselves. If you go to restaurant, buy a taco, than murder someone with it, it's not restaurants fault that the customer is a bad man/woman.


If you go to a restaurant, they serve you a bad taco and it kills you, is it your fault or is the restaurant liable?


What a straw man.

Wow, Liberalism is definitely a mental disease.


I see. So what you’re saying is that the gun makers product worked exactly as intended at the Florida school: to turn 17 people into a bloody puddle of pulp. Hence, nothing to be liable for. It worked as advertised

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