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"The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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Originally posted by Teallaura View PostOne word: CONTEXT. It's not an argument!"The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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Originally posted by Roy View PostDemonstrating that your underlying claim
"...there were six other mass shootings in America this past week alone. ...There hasn’t been a single one in Australia during the 21 years since."
is dishonest garbage is neither trivial nor irrelevant.“He felt that his whole life was a kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.” - Douglas Adams.
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Originally posted by lilpixieofterror View PostPrecisely and the stats do show a downward slide in crime even when people perceive crime rates are increasing. Why? I suspect it has a lot to do with the 24 hour news media chasing any drama story they can get ahold of and running with it as long as possible.
When I first moved here in the early 70s Atlanta had one of the higher murder rates in the country. But they were rarely the lead story. Generally, after the lead stories some ten to fifteen minutes into the broadcast there would be a mention of someone being killed with about three or four sentences dedicated to it.
Now, a killing almost always is the lead story with at least five minutes dedicated to it.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostNot just cable news but local as well. The whole "if it bleeds it leads" philosophy has taken completely over.
When I first moved here in the early 70s Atlanta had one of the higher murder rates in the country. But they were rarely the lead story. Generally, after the lead stories some ten to fifteen minutes into the broadcast there would be a mention of someone being killed with about three or four sentences dedicated to it.
Now, a killing almost always is the lead story with at least five minutes dedicated to it."The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostNot just cable news but local as well. The whole "if it bleeds it leads" philosophy has taken completely over.
When I first moved here in the early 70s Atlanta had one of the higher murder rates in the country. But they were rarely the lead story. Generally, after the lead stories some ten to fifteen minutes into the broadcast there would be a mention of someone being killed with about three or four sentences dedicated to it.
Now, a killing almost always is the lead story with at least five minutes dedicated to it.
I closely follow motorsports and the media pays little attention to it unless a driver is injured or killed. It's nothing morbid, people are simply interested in life and death issues, and how they can related to them.
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Originally posted by Jedidiah View PostThe founders had no way to know what was coming in any area. They set limits to the government to protect freedom and allow "the people" rather than government to decide what was best for them.
But time and again, the SCOTUS has ruled that there is no contradiction between government regulation of fire arms and the second amendment. Even the most conservative judges like Scalia and affirmed this throughout the years, so it's some liberal belief based on nothing like you wish to believe, its the determination of our highest court time and again.
Gun control has been ruled constitutional many times, get over it.
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Originally posted by Joel View PostWould you use the same principle in the case of kitchen knives, gasoline, fertilizer or whatever? If you didn't have it in a safe and it got stolen and was used to commit a crime, you'd be responsible?
Perhaps like Adrift you'd argue a difference in inherent dangerousness, but that seems like a matter of degree. Perhaps that would only affect your degree of responsibility?
If you don't get your car inspected or you drive recklessly, and cause an accident, you can be held responsible. If your child or pet destroys someone else property, you can be held responsible. If you have a hazardous tree that crashes into someone home, you can be held liable. Etc, etc, etc.
Gun owners and gun dealers should be no different. If they want to roll the dice and give a gun to someone based on their own judgement of that persons mental capacity, they should be held liable for any damages and be open to litigation.
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostPeople think that the police and military are "professionals" so they know how to use guns better than the public. That's not true. Many civilian gun owners are just as proficient in gun use.
P.S. The inclusion of this link should not be considered to imply in any way that Sparko is wrong, deficient, insane, unstable, unsanitary; or to indicate any other potential criticism, disagreement, dismissal or floccinaucinihilipilification to which you might unaccountably leap. It is merely an link to a relevant item that may be of interest.Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
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Originally posted by TheWall View PostYou realize dear are pretty strong right?
Humans made weapons to deal with the fact that animals and other humans had ways to hurt them.Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.
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Originally posted by Tassman View PostYou haven’t demonstrated your claim of “different definitions of mass killings” in Australia or the US, therefore my comparison remains valid."...there were six other mass shootings in America this past week alone....
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...s-gun-violence
The definition of mass shooting you cited for Australia (the killing of 4 or more people ) is not the same as the definition of mass shooting you cited for the US (four or more people shot ) because one includes non-fatal injuries and one does not. So when you said "...there were six other mass shootings in America this past week alone. ...There hasn’t been a single one in Australia during the 21 years since." you were wrong, because your comparison used non-matching criteria, and so was invalid.
Is that a clear enough demonstration for you?
P.S. This should not have been necessary. Even if you didn't notice the mismatch originally, you have had several reasons and opportunities to recheck your sources. You could and should have retracted your false claim a long time ago. Your latest insistence that your comparison remains valid because it hasn't been demonstrated wrong is total bollocks, because it had been demonstrated wrong, you simply couldn't be bothered to confirm that.
You claim you're an atheist. Stop behaving like a cretinous YEC conman.Jorge: Functional Complex Information is INFORMATION that is complex and functional.
MM: First of all, the Bible is a fixed document.
MM on covid-19: We're talking about an illness with a better than 99.9% rate of survival.
seer: I believe that so called 'compassion' [for starving Palestinian kids] maybe a cover for anti Semitism, ...
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Originally posted by Teallaura View PostIf you took reasonable precautions to keep the weapon secured, you aren't responsible. Otherwise, it's your gun, you are responsible for it.
BTW I think there are already laws against leaving your gun out for easy access and a child were to pick it up and kill themselves or someone with it. Reckless endangerment at the very least.
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Originally posted by Teallaura View PostGuns are weapons. They are regulated because they are very good at increasing the deadliness of human violence. In fact, they can do so so well that humans with no training can kill humans bigger and stronger than themselves - which would be shear luck in the case of an armed conflict with a knife.
Which is why people steal them for use (as opposed to financial gain) - unlike knives, fertilizer and gasoline. Also unlike the same, no particular knowledge beyond 'point this way' is necessary for a gun to do what it's supposed to do - kill.
A fire arm is a different class of weapon. I owned swords and bows/arrows - but frankly, only with a gun could I have killed anyone (okay, maybe the long bow - that thing had an incredible range!). Swords and bows require a lot of training to be effective weapons in the majority of cases - guns simply don't.
There is a parallel case, however - dogs. You are responsible for your pet's actions. It bites someone, guess who pays?
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