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RE: Does reading a lot of Wikipedia give people a wrong idea how science works?
October 24, 2023 at 10:33 pm
(October 23, 2023 at 2:24 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: While mass shootings are tragic, they are very rare.
Bitch, please. Are you trying to show how fucking pig-ignorant you are?!?
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RE: Does reading a lot of Wikipedia give people a wrong idea how science works?
October 25, 2023 at 1:00 pm
Quote:While mass shootings are tragic, they are very rare.
In 2023 alone there have been more then 500 mass shooting (defined as any shooter were more then 4 people were killed)
So very rare my ass.
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RE: Does reading a lot of Wikipedia give people a wrong idea how science works?
October 25, 2023 at 1:02 pm
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Quote:For the vast majority of gun deaths, other weapons would be about as effective as guns
Bullshit
There is a reason mass killers choose guns and why no other weapon comes close to the effectiveness of a gun for mass killing
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RE: Does reading a lot of Wikipedia give people a wrong idea how science works?
October 25, 2023 at 1:09 pm
Quote:Norway and Macedonia have more mass shootings per capita
Pointing to two exception does not a rule make co,pared to all the countries that have strict gun laws and low mass shootings so your logic fails
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RE: Does reading a lot of Wikipedia give people a wrong idea how science works?
October 25, 2023 at 2:29 pm
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(October 23, 2023 at 2:24 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: For the vast majority of gun deaths, other weapons would be about as effective as guns are.
This is quite simply not true. Shooting someone center-mass at fifty feet is far easier than stabbing someone at fifty feet, and more likely to be fatal, because unlike knives, bullet impacts impart shock-waves the in themselves can cause great injuries.. And you real cannot fend off a bullet, while you can certainly have a chance to fend off a knife-wielding assailant.
This is simply you talking out of your ass.
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RE: Does reading a lot of Wikipedia give people a wrong idea how science works?
October 25, 2023 at 2:41 pm
I guess you could say, all of the arguments assembled by this bozo, fall flat.
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RE: Does reading a lot of Wikipedia give people a wrong idea how science works?
October 25, 2023 at 2:53 pm
How many mass killings were there in the UK in2023??
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RE: Does reading a lot of Wikipedia give people a wrong idea how science works?
October 25, 2023 at 7:17 pm
(October 25, 2023 at 2:53 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: How many mass killings were there in the UK in2023??
We’ve had 9 in New Zealand. Oh, wait…you meant just this year? One.
We’ve had 9 in the last 72 years.
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RE: Does reading a lot of Wikipedia give people a wrong idea how science works?
October 29, 2023 at 5:12 pm
(October 23, 2023 at 2:24 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: (October 23, 2023 at 12:09 pm)The Architect Of Fate Wrote: To date the highest casualty mass stabbing was in Kunming in 2014 which killed 31 and wounded 141 people and that still took 9 people in a crowded railroad station to pull off. While the deadliest mass shooting was the Las Vegas Strip Massacre in 2017 which killed 58 and wounded 546 and that was carried out by one person.I think the contrast between guns and other weapons is stark.
While mass shootings are tragic, they are very rare. People died in mass shootings represent a tiny fraction (I believe around 2%) of all gun deaths. Even if we take for granted that gun control reduces mass shootings (which is in no way obvious, as Norway and Macedonia have more mass shootings per capita than the US in spite of having much stricter gun laws), it in no way follows that it will do something about the vast majority of gun deaths. For the vast majority of gun deaths, other weapons would be about as effective as guns are.
Three mass shootings in the US today, making 564 this year. How is that ‘very rare’?
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RE: Does reading a lot of Wikipedia give people a wrong idea how science works?
October 30, 2023 at 12:16 am
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(October 29, 2023 at 5:12 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (October 23, 2023 at 2:24 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: While mass shootings are tragic, they are very rare. People died in mass shootings represent a tiny fraction (I believe around 2%) of all gun deaths. Even if we take for granted that gun control reduces mass shootings (which is in no way obvious, as Norway and Macedonia have more mass shootings per capita than the US in spite of having much stricter gun laws), it in no way follows that it will do something about the vast majority of gun deaths. For the vast majority of gun deaths, other weapons would be about as effective as guns are.
Three mass shootings in the US today, making 564 this year. How is that ‘very rare’?
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I wonder, how many would constitute a problem that we should, you know, do something about?
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