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Quigley says

They actually are to blame and will be the ones to get sued,

Sued for how much? Doesn't an Ethoipan life have zero or negative value on the open market?

jazz_music says

Mass Shootings Are Rising. Here's How To Stop Them.
Dan Diamond

What do we know about Dan Diamond:

I write sharp takes on the health, policy and wonk news of the day.

..., and a social media junkie. Posts are eclectic; views are personal. Let me know what I've missed

Well Dan, you missed a bunch..

First, this article was written: Jun 18, 2015, 04:30am

jazz_music says

It's important to be clear here. Yes, mass shootings remain exceedingly rare compared to overall firearm deaths. (About 34,000 people died from being shot in 2013, versus 40-odd people killed in mass shootings.)

And there's where he twists the narrative. The majority of that 34,000 are suicides, by people who have mental issues and want to kill themselves. To try and lump them into "Mass Murders" is just more TDS on display.

jazz_music says

"While many mass shooters had mental-health problems," the researchers write, "there is no reason to believe that there has been an increase in mental illness rates in the last several years that could help explain the rise in mass shootings."

It doesn't matter if there's an increase, we're only talking about a handful of mentally deranged people doing these shootings in a population of 320 million. Crazy will ALWAYS be walking around.

jazz_music says

Threat-Assessment Professionals Know Why Mass Shootings Keep Happening

So do I.

The Liberal media and their non-stop 24/7 OrangeManBad and TDS broadcasts and Republicans are evil added to the daily Liberal brainwashing by teachers.

Is it really a surprise?

The recipy is basically the same as the one to stop mass homelessness: making it much easier to involuntary commit nutters into mental institutions.

PS. Of course, this recipy will be thoroughly ignored, because both homelessness and mass shootings are playing into pinko's hand: the former is an excuse for more taxation in the name of more "services", "affordable housing" and handsomly-payed bureaucracy to run it all, and the latter is an excuse to push for gun bans/confiscations, etc.

Hugolas_Madurez says

making it much easier to involuntary commit a nutter into a mental institution.

Leave it to democrats to give us two of the most destructive pieces of legislation of which they didn't have to suffer any consequences:

JFK - 10/31/63 The Community Mental Health Act

RFK - Immigration Act of 1965

The article and the title prove the consequence of being bad at math.

Threat assessment on individual persons in the context of statistical phenomenon as lop-sided as mass-shooting is by definition nonsense! Out of roughly 350 million people, there are less than 35 mass shooting incidents in a year (of the variety that the author was talking about, not gang warfare in inner cities where guns are already banned). That's 10,000,000 to 1. Even if a professional assessment methodology has 99% accuracy (there are hardly any psycho profile method accurate enough to meet that hypothetical 99% accuracy), such an approach would result in 3.5 million false-positives when applied to 350 million population . . . i.e. rounding up 99,999+ who wouldn't become mass shooters for every 1 would be mass shooter! Good luck finding that 1 in 100,000+ all matching your profile.

Banning guns in order to prevent mass shooting is less clever than proposing banning food due to more than 10,000 choking incidents every year!

A far more effective way of stopping mass shooting is in fact encouraging ordinary people to conceal-carry: as the would-be mass shooters often were stopped by other people on site having guns! Comes to think of it, confronting criminal while armed with guns is what police do too! Except police can't be at all places at the same time, whereas concealed-carry private individuals have a much better chance of being at the right place at the right time to stop mass-shooters.

Don't ban guns; ban politicians who want to violate the Constitution! Every anti-gun politician has the blood of victims of mass-shootings and inner-city shooting victims on their hands: as they make up tyrannical laws that prevent law-abiding citizens from self-defense!

Freedom and liberty have a price. If you are for free speech then you have to put with hearing shit you don't like, like this news propaganda piece you shared which glosses over the facts and fails to show both sides of the argument. Like in the case of Roger, who police "let Rodger go" twice before he went on a shooting rampage. Maybe the police didn't have a good reason to arrest him. Maybe that would have been a violation of his civil liberties. The article doesn't explain, only leaves the impression in the readers mind that this could have been avoided.

That is the price of having freedoms. Perhaps you are for a police state where no one has the right to own a gun. The article advocates for gun confiscation laws. Maybe you are for a Soviet style democracy where the citizens have the right to shut up and eat crow.

Remember what Benjamin Franklin said about trading your freedoms for safety. Those who so choose safety over freedom deserve neither freedom nor safety. I paraphrase.

jazz_music says

Read the other thread about Australia and how they stopped mass shootings

Except they didn't:

jazz_music says

Read the other thread about Australia and how they stopped mass shootings completely with a few laws.

Because we have these examples it seems that there is no debate any more.

Just do it or not.

Maybe tweak the Australian approach.

Does everything have to be an unsolvable problem for poor America? With endless debates and any solutions never good enough?

Just because profitability for political donors is involved?

Australia is not USA. It is pedantic to think to even compare the two.

The quote above said "it seems there is no debate anymore." I'd be happy to debate that.

mass shootings are being used as propaganda to distract people from the real problems of the modern world. The rich contol (nearly) everything that is why the rich are funding gun control propaganda. They want to be the only ones with guns.

Hugolas_Madurez says

The recipy is basically the same as the one to stop mass homelessness: making it much easier to involuntary commit nutters into mental institutions.

PS. Of course, this recipy will be thoroughly ignored, because both homelessness and mass shootings are playing into pinko's hand: the former is an excuse for more taxation in the name of more "services", "affordable housing" and handsomly-payed bureaucracy to run it all, and the latter is an excuse to push for gun bans/confiscations, etc.

The truth, nothing but the truth.

Typhoid HEYYOU is on a vectored rampage! Good thing he doesn't have ebola or we'd have to get out the flame thrower.

Huh, can't find it. Is there any public link?

What a relief. I thought it was 'Duckmeister' and Iwog was coming back. Iwog's carcass is probably in a ditch somewhere, beaten to death by an Immense Hirsute Lesbian he insulted into spittle tossing rage.

Well make sure to target practice. Sad marksmanship is inexcusable.

Are those his butt buddy protectors from Marion Penitentiary?

AOC and "brilliantly" don't belong in the same sentence. By fucking definition.

Trump's tiny little fingers let him pick his nose really well for about a quarter of a centimeter up. The rest, he just has to blow out like the rest of us.

Trump flips the bird at people all the time, but nobody can tell, they think it's a knuckle.

Hey, give her a handful of Valiums and she can be stage managed to read from a programmed script! Congrats, AOC. Obama needed nose candy and a teleprompter, AOC just needs be brought down a bit. Maybe some kind of heroin lite for the mania.

In the third video, she blasts him about spelling errors and gives him detention!

"Like I know a lot about banking and finances and stuff you know?" Actual AOC Quote.

jazz_music says

The criminals are the people who'll get a gun no matter what.

Yep. Please don't take away the ability for law abiding citizens to defend themselves.

AOC is a minority, a woman, smart, successful and liberal. So she is inherently a threat to ignorant, right-wing American males. I suppose that if AOC cried "Fire" in your home, you would roll back over in bed and fall back to sleep, smug in the knowledge that the commie bitch is lying. Yup, that sums up American Trumpturds. And you are dying in your sleep as you bend over for Trump and the Republican party.

You scream she is a commie because she wants to put taxes back where they where during what many Trumpturds call America's Golden Age. You whine that these taxes on the super rich will destroy your lives when 99% of you earn under 100k a year, about ten million short of where the 70% tax would kick in. You rant and rave about rich bankers stealing from America but then whine about poor wittle Manafort who is a helpless victim of a Witch Hunt despite having stolen millions from America.

Basically, your delusions and prejudices have blinded you to the obvious facts that the elite who are fucking you over are left, right and center. They are rich, white, male and powerful for the most part. You will NEVER be one of them. You are poor, you will stay poor. You are undereducated, you will stay ignorant. Your kids will live in the same trailer park and work at the same garage as you. You will drool over Playboy models and the toys you see on tv but you only get them by going into debt. But you still send the same greedy, lying cunts to Washington. And when someone like AOC comes along, you scream "Burn the Commie Witch!" out of ignorance, racism and misogyiny, not realizing that the people she is trying to help is you.
MAGA, indeed.

Expat01 says

Basically, your delusions and prejudices have blinded you to the obvious facts that the elite who are fucking you over are left, right and center. They are rich, white, male and powerful for the most part. You will NEVER be one of them. You are poor, you will stay poor. You are undereducated, you will stay ignorant. Your kids will live in the same trailer park and work at the same garage as you. You will drool over Playboy models and the toys you see on tv but you only get them by going into debt. But you still send the same greedy, lying cunts to Washington. And when someone like AOC comes along, you scream "Bu...

OMG!

Liberal Agitation number one reason.

A Liberal prayed for this day when some Fuckass in NZ decided to relocate a shit ton of Muslims to some backwater town called "Christ Church" and build two mosques.

I don't condone what happened, but I'm calling it for what it is.

I'm sure Theresa May and Anglea Merkle did a victory dance last night.

TrumpingTits says

Elgatouno says

Remember that guy in San Diego? You know, the one that got the tank from the armory? Drove that shit all over. Point is cities have armories, with tanks.

So? What good is that going to do when a city is cut off from supplies? Run over the hordes of libtards that don't even have a few days of food/water prepped under the staircase?

Also tanks are sitting ducks in urban environments. The Syrian government doesn’t even roll them into urban areas they don’t control anymore because of the attrition rate.

Expat01 says

AOC is a minority, a woman, smart, successful and liberal. So she is inherently a threat to ignorant, right-wing American males.

Hahahahahahaha!
You’d have to be 50% more correct to even make it to “wrong!”
Hahahahaha what a maroon.

AOC is a JOKE to conservatives. We kind of crush on her a bit, with the way she says things that show her absolutely PRISTINE ignorance and lack of judgement. We also enjoy the way her asinine arguments sway the dumber side of the Democrat party towards a fringe that hardly anyone supports. This creates a divide in the party much like the tea party did for the GOP. They have revolts and rebellions based on the inane words of a woman whose biggest accomplishment before primary-ing a FWM Democrat(using the power of racism) was making the perfect dirty martini. She’s a thorn in the side of the Democrat establishment, and works only to limit their power and sway, while pushing moderate Democrats towards the Right side of the aisle and away from the tired old ideas her sort espouses.

We love AOC kind of like you’ll love your wife’s chihuahua who annoys your asshole neighbor by pissing on his newspaper every morning. She’s great!

A socialist looking for infractions of code minutiae.

*cheers around conrades*

jazz_music says

Hate crime shooting today at a mosque in New Zealand. Many people killed and injured during afternoon prayers.

New Zealand has Background Checks and Gun Licensing requirements that Libbies want.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47584603

AOC, Omar, and Tlaliban are great gifts to be cherished rather than feared. They're all from districts that are deeper blue than the face of a Leftist Submissive Cuck during BDSM.

Hugolas_Madurez says

making it much easier to involuntary commit nutters into mental institutions.

Hey! That happens to be a last name.

First, mass shootings can primarily be blamed on the billion dollar pharma drugs(see EVERY mass shooters prescription list).

Second, there are WAY more fatalities from car accidents, why haven't we banned cars?

NuttBoxer says

why haven't we banned cars?

The fuckers on the left are already dreaming about that.

Expat01 says

Basically, your delusions and prejudices have blinded you to the obvious facts that the elite who are fucking you over are left, right and center. They are rich, white, male and powerful for the most part. You will NEVER be one of them. You are poor, you will stay poor. You are undereducated, you will stay ignorant. Your kids will live in the same trailer park and work at the same garage as you. You will drool over Playboy models and the toys you see on tv but you only get them by going into debt. But you still send the same greedy, lying cunts to Washington. And when someone like AOC comes along, you scream...

The rage when TDS takes steroids!

Expat01 says

AOC is ... smart

LOLWHAT?

Expat01 says

AOC is a minority, a woman, smart, successful and liberal.

Wasn't she a bartender who answered a casting call to play a congressman?

What drugs was he one?

Tim Aurora says

Goran_K says

So? What good is that going to do when a city is cut off from supplies? Run over the hordes of libtards that don't even have a few days of food/water prepped under the staircase?

We are all gearing for food and water supplies. I urge everyone ( including Trumptards and Libtards ) to be ready, just in case. It can also help during a natural disaster.

I’ve been stockpiling since the beginning of Obama’s 2nd term. Have 500 gallons stored underground, 3 months of dry long term shelf food, a small garden, solar cells tied to 12v battery bank, bandages, over the counter medicines, generator, and boxes of ammunition.

I literally followed apocalypefucks plan except I don’t like yams.

Tim Aurora says

Is the Civil War / Civil Unrest coming

You mean these people that are outraged on the Internet are going to get off the couch and take on the military police?

"Again, Ocasio, read it without giggling!"