RE: High school shooting in Parkland FL
February 20, 2018 at 12:35 pm
(This post was last modified: February 20, 2018 at 12:37 pm by Shell B.)
I don't know, Lut. Wasn't the Washington sniper black?
CA, yeah. There seems to be evidence to support that. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazi...d-suicide/
So, I understand what you're saying. It's important to narrow down what the statistics mean in terms of murder. However, I don't see much of a difference between a murder and an accidental shooting if the same laws could prevent both. Again, I'm not anti-gun, but I could be persuaded to be if I thought we couldn't come up with good legislation to prevent the same number of deaths. Sure, you could remove the handful of suicides that could reasonably have been called euthanasia from the stats, but you'd still have a wild number of deaths from guns. I'm not sure distinctions mean much at that point. That being said, I can see why you believe acting like every gun death had a madman behind it is dishonest.
Yeah, I think if you read what he was responding to, it makes more sense. I double-taked on that too the first time around.
CA, yeah. There seems to be evidence to support that. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazi...d-suicide/
So, I understand what you're saying. It's important to narrow down what the statistics mean in terms of murder. However, I don't see much of a difference between a murder and an accidental shooting if the same laws could prevent both. Again, I'm not anti-gun, but I could be persuaded to be if I thought we couldn't come up with good legislation to prevent the same number of deaths. Sure, you could remove the handful of suicides that could reasonably have been called euthanasia from the stats, but you'd still have a wild number of deaths from guns. I'm not sure distinctions mean much at that point. That being said, I can see why you believe acting like every gun death had a madman behind it is dishonest.
(February 20, 2018 at 12:16 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote:(February 20, 2018 at 11:36 am)pocaracas Wrote: Black folk attitudes is another mentality problem that need addressing. But that's for another thread...
Wtf??
Yeah, I think if you read what he was responding to, it makes more sense. I double-taked on that too the first time around.