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RE: Mass shooting in the middle school Vladislav Ribnikar in Belgrade
May 10, 2023 at 3:14 pm
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I guess we can add sampling errors to the list of things our scientific authority here doesn't know shit about. Keep fucking that chicken like it mattered Flat.
Meanwhile....terrorists.
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RE: Mass shooting in the middle school Vladislav Ribnikar in Belgrade
May 10, 2023 at 3:15 pm
(May 10, 2023 at 2:30 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: (May 10, 2023 at 11:26 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: @FlatAssembler
In case you’re interested, here are some problems with Kleck’s study:
https://www.vacps.org/public-policy/the-...s-of-kleck
Boru
As far as I can see, that article essentially makes two arguments:
1) The number of people who claim to have contacted with the aliens is even greater than the number of people claiming to have been saved by a gun.
2) The probability that somebody who has a gun will be murdered is greater than the probability that somebody who doesn't have a gun will be murdered.
Both of those arguments are nonsense.
For the first argument, in case somebody thinks he has seen an alien, we have a strong independent reason to think that he is mistaken. Intelligent life is almost certainly thousands of light-years away from us, and special relativity prevents the aliens from traveling faster than light, no matter how technologically advanced they are. What is that strong independent reason to think that somebody who thinks he has been saved by a gun is mistaken? There isn't one.
For the second argument... If you lived in a high-crime neighbourhood where you are at an increased risk of getting murdered, wouldn't you want to get a gun to protect yourself? People who get a gun are those at a higher risk of getting murdered, it's not that having a gun puts you at a higher risk of getting murdered.
If that’s what you took from that article, you have (again) missed the point.
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RE: Mass shooting in the middle school Vladislav Ribnikar in Belgrade
May 10, 2023 at 3:20 pm
(May 9, 2023 at 10:25 pm)arewethereyet Wrote: (May 9, 2023 at 4:14 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: AWTY brought up anecdotal evidence, on a forum where what's expected or us is more than simply anecdotes.
Now she's going around posting about how no one should feel unsafe at a mall. Well, guess what bud? They are safe at the mall. Safe as all fuck. Black men are more likely to get struck by lightning than killed by police, and you are probably more likely to get struck by lightning twice than get shot in a mall shooting. So, that tells you how much AWTY's anecdote is worth. As much as I paid for it. Now, let's keep our priorities straight here. NONE of us are dying in mall shootings. It's not happening.
But, some of us may die, driving on the road. And Helios refused to answer my thought experiment for a reason (where prohibition of alcohol is assured to be successful in an alt universe). Because he wouldn't want to ban alcohol, but at the same time, Helios is too embarrassed to tell the forum that he'd choose alcohol over thousands of innocent lives. Bold mine...
Why then, are people local to me getting ready to bury family members who were shot and killed at an area mall?
You are a troll...we've known it a long time. You don't have to keep proving it over and over.
How many people die in mall shootings per year in the US? How many people get struck by lightning twice? How many get struck by lightning thrice? How many Floridians get bit by sharks per year?
The issue is, you made it about the mall, and you selfishly and anecdotaly (something we should be above at he forum) made your argument about your own family getting bit by sharks (rare like mall shootings) and you made claims about no one being safe in a mall. If you had left out the mall part and you just wanted to talk about guns, you'd be fine. But instead, now you just sound like someone who's shown up to the beach and is yelling at the top of their lungs, "close to beach, I have an intuition that a shark may be on its way."
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RE: Mass shooting in the middle school Vladislav Ribnikar in Belgrade
May 10, 2023 at 3:22 pm
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We do close beaches in florida when the sharks migrate. Dipshits like you keep swimming. It's the funniest thing, really. Any other threat to human life we handle exactly as a sane person might expect. Not guns..because terrorists.
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RE: Mass shooting in the middle school Vladislav Ribnikar in Belgrade
May 10, 2023 at 3:28 pm
(May 10, 2023 at 5:50 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: @Irreligious Atheist
Quote:NONE of us are dying in mall shootings. It's not happening.
Except, you know, that it actually is. Next thing, you'll be telling us that no one is being shot in churches or schools or mosques or business offices or concert venues or birthday parties...
Boru
AWTY said you can't even be safe in a mall. That's BS and fear mongering and some talking point a politician would put forward before they dropped the hammer down on the citizens rights. Mall shootings are extremely rare. Yes, shootings can take place anywhere, which is why you focus on the shooting part of the story, not the mall. AWTY is fixated now on how dangerous malls are, and it's just not logical whatsoever. To be concerned about gun violence in general, which is what I assume you're getting at here, is completely fine. To fearmonger about sharks and malls, is silly, no matter which way you look at it.
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RE: Mass shooting in the middle school Vladislav Ribnikar in Belgrade
May 10, 2023 at 3:29 pm
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That's correct. Malls have not shown themselves to cancel out terror attacks. Quite the reverse. They, like any other crowded gathering, are common targets for terrorism.
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RE: Mass shooting in the middle school Vladislav Ribnikar in Belgrade
May 10, 2023 at 3:46 pm
(May 10, 2023 at 3:15 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (May 10, 2023 at 2:30 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: As far as I can see, that article essentially makes two arguments:
1) The number of people who claim to have contacted with the aliens is even greater than the number of people claiming to have been saved by a gun.
2) The probability that somebody who has a gun will be murdered is greater than the probability that somebody who doesn't have a gun will be murdered.
Both of those arguments are nonsense.
For the first argument, in case somebody thinks he has seen an alien, we have a strong independent reason to think that he is mistaken. Intelligent life is almost certainly thousands of light-years away from us, and special relativity prevents the aliens from traveling faster than light, no matter how technologically advanced they are. What is that strong independent reason to think that somebody who thinks he has been saved by a gun is mistaken? There isn't one.
For the second argument... If you lived in a high-crime neighbourhood where you are at an increased risk of getting murdered, wouldn't you want to get a gun to protect yourself? People who get a gun are those at a higher risk of getting murdered, it's not that having a gun puts you at a higher risk of getting murdered.
If that’s what you took from that article, you have (again) missed the point.
Boru
Then, tell me, what's the point? What do you find convincing from that article?
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RE: Mass shooting in the middle school Vladislav Ribnikar in Belgrade
May 10, 2023 at 3:51 pm
(May 10, 2023 at 3:14 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I guess we can add sampling errors to the list of things our scientific authority here doesn't know shit about. Keep fucking that chicken like it mattered Flat.
Meanwhile....terrorists.
If you mean to say Gary Kleck's study has too small sample size... Do you reject the entire comparative linguistics then? Because there are only 5'000 languages out there, so no comparative linguistics study can have a sample size larger than 5'000.
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RE: Mass shooting in the middle school Vladislav Ribnikar in Belgrade
May 10, 2023 at 3:53 pm
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(May 10, 2023 at 3:51 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote: (May 10, 2023 at 3:14 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I guess we can add sampling errors to the list of things our scientific authority here doesn't know shit about. Keep fucking that chicken like it mattered Flat.
Meanwhile....terrorists.
If you mean to say Gary Kleck's study has too small sample size... Do you reject the entire comparative linguistics then? Because there are only 5'000 languages out there, so no comparative linguistics study can have a sample size larger than 5'000.
My bad, I didn't know this was the comparative linguistics thread, I thought it was about a mass shooting in belgrade. You've already informed me, as our resident science authority, that the field is only as good as this study, so..yeah, I guess we'd have to reject the whole thing? Who are we to argue with your conclusion? We did this shit pages ago...?
Wanna talk about mass shooters?
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RE: Mass shooting in the middle school Vladislav Ribnikar in Belgrade
May 10, 2023 at 3:57 pm
(May 10, 2023 at 2:42 pm)Helios Wrote: The arguments are good. Glecks a hack. And your the defender of a hack
Since you are so bad at English (not knowing the difference between "your" and "you're"), I doubt you can even understand them.
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