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Malcolm saysAustralia’s rate fell to a record low. It is slightly lower now at just 1 death per hundred thousand.
Deaths may have dropped but violent crimes and attacks went UP because people couldn't defend themselves. Is getting a violent beating by a thug acceptable because the thug wasn't shot by the homeowner and lived?
Malcolm saysAK47s and AR15s, wannabe M16s are glorified semi automatic rifles. They are just for looks,
So, what's the point? Since when does outside looks change the operation of a semi-auto? That means nothing in this argument.
Are we going to ban a certain model of firearms because they "look" scary??
Case in point, what's the difference in these two rifles?
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So, what's the point? Since when does outside looks change the operation of a semi-auto? That means nothing in this argument.
Are we going to ban a certain model of firearms because they "look" scary??
Case in point, what's the difference in these two rifles?
Benefits
over-prescribed medications that I believe are causing mental illness
There’s nothing safer then arming a society made up of the same kind of halfwits that fill the pews on Sundays, in hopes of destroying our once great Republic
CBOEtrader saysThis is deeply racist. I weep for your lost soul.
Religion is a race?
If you'd rather call it simple bigotry, im ok w that....but yes, by the way the word had been used in our society, judging entire groups of people as less than yourself is generally referred to as racism.
So most of Pat.net is racist by way of their views of liberals then?
Malcolm saysAustralia’s rate fell to a record low. It is slightly lower now at just 1 death per hundred thousand.
Deaths may have dropped but violent crimes and attacks went UP because people couldn't defend themselves. Is getting a violent beating by a thug acceptable because the thug wasn't shot by the homeowner and lived?
partisanship politics turns both sides bigoted, so perhaps. show me an example
Case in point, what's the difference in these two rifles?
Although your point about function is valid, which of those two guns has the pontential to kill more people before reload?
The rifle at the top is a couple of hundred dollars, the rifle on the bottom is 4 figures, yet they do the same thing. Do I really need more proof to show that one is a glamorized weapon, making it sexy?
One shoots 5 bullets and then must be reloaded one bullet at a time. The other shoots 30 bullets
There were 11 mass shooting in Australia from 1986 to 1996. The number since then is zero. quod erat demonstrandum
One small spill over benefit of Trump being elected is that it is kind of becoming hip to be white again.
Which is better for killing lots of people fast?
Your proof is missing somehow.
There were 11 mass shooting in Australia from 1986 to 1996. The number since then is zero.
Look through almost any thread on here and there will be at least a half dozen memes that judge liberals as less than themselves.
How about sharing the number of violent crimes (robberies, rapes, beatings, ect.) since the gun ban went into affect. Is it just about mass killings that you liberals care about?
Why a huge K-12 campus lacks elemental security, meaning an individual, posted at the entrance. Quite frankly, if you're not a vendor, parent, faculty, staff or ER Personnel, why should ANYBODY be admitted into a school building without ID, a valid reason, and a pat-down or x-ray?
Why a huge K-12 campus lacks elemental security, meaning an individual, posted at the entrance
lol--you think a school campus has "an" entrance?
Most schools have one main entrance that is open. The rest are emergency doors that are locked from the outside and sound an alarm if pushed from the inside. Every school I went to was this way.
Why don't we just lock the main door too then? And any visitor must get buzzed in?
Why not? As long as anybody can push a door to get outside, what's the problem?
That's what pretty much all schools do already.
Why don't we just lock the main door too then? And any visitor must get buzzed in?
Well, this one didn't.
Schools in that area seemed to all have a main entrance and then the admin office was right next to the main entrance and I think the community officer had his office one door down. You can't lock the place down because there are PE classes and students move from portables to interior classrooms during period changes.
Yes, it did. Read this article for the details:
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High has fences, gates and emergency procedures to keep students safe, but a determined gunman found a way around them.
He came when he knew the gates would be open and set off a fire alarm that would dismantle a safety system, officials say. And the school resource officer, who is supposed to help protect students, may not have been on school grounds at the time.
Accused gunman Nikolas Cruz, who had been expelled from the school for behavioral problems, arrived on campus about 20 minutes before the school day ended.
That’s the time school officials usually open the gates around campus so students and staff parked in various parking lots, as well as school buses and parents picking up their kids, can get out easily, said Jerry Graziose, the district’s former director of school safety.
“During the day, those areas locked. But when you’re getting ready for kids to leave, all the gates in the different areas have to be unlocked, and it takes a few minutes for the person doing that,” Graziose .said
Again--read up. The school is locked down. The shooter knew the routine.
Again--read up. The school is locked down. The shooter knew the routine.
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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.