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June 28, 2022 at 3:19 am
This is interesting:
Concealed Carry Laws Increase Gun Crime
Quote:A new study finds concealed-carry laws lead to a boost in gun crime by between 29% and 32%, mostly by triggering a surge in gun theft.
The authors say they were unable to directly measure the deterrence effect of increased firearm carry on crime, but any effect, is small compared to the criminogenic effect. Concealed-carry laws, they note, were associated with a large increase in robberies — precisely the crime for which there is meant to be the largest potential for deterrence outside the home.
In essence, if you carry a gun, you’re more likely to have that gun taken away from you by a criminal (who will then use it to commit other crimes) than you are to use that gun to protect yourself from being robbed.
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RE: THE Gun Thread
July 4, 2022 at 2:17 pm
6 dead, more hospitalized in mass shooting at Highland Park Fourth of July parade, shooter being sought
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2022/7/4/23...de-gunfire
Quote:Six people were killed and possibly more than two dozen others wounded when a gunman started shooting 10 minutes after the Highland Park Fourth of July parade kicked off Monday morning, authorities said.
Shortly after noon, the Highland Park police said it remained an “active incident” and urged people to stay away.
A Chicago Sun-Times reporter saw blankets covering three bloodied bodies and five other people wounded and bloodied near the parade’s reviewing stand.
This is a couple towns away from me, BTB. Hell, about 12 hours before the shooting started, I was even closer to the area when I went to see Classical Mystery Tour at Ravinia.
And so, in the tradition of my America: The Drinking Game, here's a song that commemorates an according-to-Hoyle mass murder happening so close to me that the Fourth of July festivities in my hometown are being canceled:
Comparing the Universal Oneness of All Life to Yo Mama since 2010.
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RE: THE Gun Thread
July 4, 2022 at 2:34 pm
Six killed? it's ok, guns will keep you safe!
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RE: THE Gun Thread
July 4, 2022 at 3:48 pm
(July 4, 2022 at 2:34 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Six killed? it's ok, guns will keep you safe!
America, where Independence is not giving a shit about public safety.
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RE: THE Gun Thread
July 4, 2022 at 5:36 pm
(July 4, 2022 at 3:48 pm)Brian37 Wrote: (July 4, 2022 at 2:34 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Six killed? it's ok, guns will keep you safe!
America, where Independence is not giving a shit about public safety.
How can you expect to have liberty and independence if you AREN’T allowed to shoot people??
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RE: THE Gun Thread
July 4, 2022 at 7:20 pm
(May 15, 2022 at 9:46 am)Jehanne Wrote: In my opinion , the 2nd Ammendment should be de facto abolished, to limit the owning of guns to the "militia only". Of course, a new Constitutional Ammendment would be needed to do this.
All able bodied males, who are in the country, at the time a militia is needed, is the militia, IE the citizens. And since males and females are no longer a thing, I suppose that means everyone.
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July 4, 2022 at 7:24 pm
(May 15, 2022 at 10:24 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Smart guns would help reduce generalized gun violence -- stolen guns figure in many crimes -- but with 300 million dumb guns out there, nothing will change any time soon, especially with regard to mass shootings.
What the hell are you talking about? smart guns?
And lets say that was a thing, would it reduce violence?
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RE: THE Gun Thread
July 4, 2022 at 7:47 pm
(July 4, 2022 at 7:24 pm)weaponoffreedom Wrote: (May 15, 2022 at 10:24 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Smart guns would help reduce generalized gun violence -- stolen guns figure in many crimes -- but with 300 million dumb guns out there, nothing will change any time soon, especially with regard to mass shootings.
What the hell are you talking about? smart guns?
And lets say that was a thing, would it reduce violence?
A smart gun is one that uses biometrics to prevent anyone but the owner from firing the gun (sort of like the fingerprint login on your mobile phone).
It would reduce gun violence because if someone steals your gun, he couldn't use it to shoot someone.
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RE: THE Gun Thread
July 4, 2022 at 7:48 pm
(July 4, 2022 at 7:20 pm)weaponoffreedom Wrote: (May 15, 2022 at 9:46 am)Jehanne Wrote: In my opinion , the 2nd Ammendment should be de facto abolished, to limit the owning of guns to the "militia only". Of course, a new Constitutional Ammendment would be needed to do this.
All able bodied males, who are in the country, at the time a militia is needed, is the militia, IE the citizens. And since males and females are no longer a thing, I suppose that means everyone.
In my opinion, such an Ammendment would narrowly restrict the definition of a "militia" to exclude nearly everyone.
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RE: THE Gun Thread
July 4, 2022 at 7:50 pm
I don't know how many saw the video of the black guy who fled police being lit up by up to 60 bullets. But here we are again, just like Roof, a white mass murderer suspect flees gets caught, and taken into custody in one piece. I am surprised they didn't buy the guy a hamburger on the way to jail.
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