That number is also manipulated, why is it so hard to admit that people manipulate stats? Both sides constantly do it. LOL - whats to manipulate? If a person goes into a school and opens fire on multiple people, thats pretty black and white. The only manipulation being played is "well, you can...
Jump to post18 and 19 year-olds aren't children, they are young adults. Once again, by selectively broadening the criteria, they are able to capture more gang violence committed by young adults. Hey round of applause for the All Lives Matter crowd :rotfl: No one rationalizes murder faster. It isn't "ratio...
Jump to postDon't get me wrong, all of these shootings are tragic and any lose of life sucks, but the media is portraying the problem as bigger than it is. Guns have now become the biggest cause of death in US children. https://www.npr.org/2022/04/22/1094364930/firearms-leading-cause-of-death-in-children If yo...
Jump to postAh yes, transgender athletes... The new GOP boogeyman that is definitely slowly destroying American society and not at all a distraction from the other issues they'd rather we didn't think about too hard. It is interesting that the self-proclaimed "transgender" athletes tend to be formerl...
Jump to postThe pattern of all the election investigations has consistently been to debunk the claims made by Trump and his supporters. But the hallmark of a conspiracy theory is that believers refuse to accept the evidence. Which is why they also mock "following the science". In the end, nothing rea...
Jump to postUnfortunately it goes much further than just the FBI. 51 high level officials at our intelligence agencies, at least. "The letter, titled “Public Statement on the Hunter Biden emails,” and signed by former CIA Directors John Brennan, Leon Panetta and Mike Hayden, former acting CIA Director Mic...
Jump to postI'd like to see it but I just can't with Tom Cruise and his Scientology circus :roll: Can't disagree that he is kind of a nutcase in real life but those people are usually fantastic in some way. He is a really good actor especially in action movies. Its hard to find a bad Tom Cruise movie. I agree ...
Jump to postThis and all the zillions of eVTOL orders are almost guaranteed to be 99% vaporware.
Jump to postNewark727 wrote:Creepy gym teachers of Ohio, rejoice!
DIRECTFLT wrote:Maybe we should start treating cartel members like we did ISIS members. Like combatants. Shoot first and questions later kind of procedure...???
Nothing says small government and definitely-not-pedophiles like groundless child genital inspections. Your daughter run a little too fast? Well pants off missy--Rep Don Jones needs to see what's between your legs. Insanity. GOP passes bill aiming to root out ‘suspected’ transgender female athletes ...
Jump to postHere's an English version: https://www.avianca.com/co/en/sobre-nosotros/centro-noticias/noticias-avianca/avianca-revela-sus-nuevas-sillas-premium-plus-y-economy/ https://www.avianca.com/content/dam/avianca_new/contenido/comunicados/Premium%202.jpg?lazy=true What is the point of this seat? It's like...
Jump to postYou can reference their new seats here (although not in English): https://www.avianca.com/co/es/sobre-nosotros/centro-noticias/noticias-avianca/avianca-revela-sus-nuevas-sillas-premium-plus-y-economy/ Here's an English version: https://www.avianca.com/co/en/sobre-nosotros/centro-noticias/noticias-a...
Jump to postI'd like to see it but I just can't with Tom Cruise and his Scientology circus
Acquittal! That is the end of the one far reaching charge to come out of the Durham witch hunt against Americans doing their jobs. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-sussmann-trial-durham-verdict/ Washington – A District of Columbia jury has acquitted Michael Sussmann, a prominent Democratic lawy...
Jump to postThe “deplorables” comment was one of the most truthful moments of 2016. Actually it was one of the most stupidest things any candidate has said on the campaign trail. I am glad she said it though for it hurt her badly and contributed to her loss in the election in addition to showing the country wh...
Jump to postI wonder what Alex Jones will say about this one. I suspect he'll be awfully silent. I wish the judge would throw the book at his organization as well as the NRA, both are corrupt, and don't deserve to be protected by our bankruptcy laws. He's already insinuated it's fake...and probably shrinking h...
Jump to postGuns are a red herring. Six freaking pages of nothing but specious gun control arguments mixed in with some comments about mental health (which has some validity. But I posit this with you all: look at the life of Salvador Ramos. Fatherless. Was bullied in school. Cut himself. Lacked a strong male ...
Jump to postThere is a mental health crisis in this country, which government banning things won't help. [/quote] Another absolute nonsense cop out as 1) mental health issues are world wide and 2) conservatives ain't doing jack about mental health either. In fact conservatives are hell bent on making it worse ...
Jump to postLet me see if we can bring a bit of perspective here on the talk of the US having more mass shootings. Which is true, compared to the rest of the world. Specially developed Europe. For example, Drug overdoses, which is an epidemic that is also a huge problem of the US but rarely discussed, in the y...
Jump to postGuess what folks. The NRA has banned guns from their convention this week. Apparently there are not going to be enough good guys with guns attending this event. https://www.businessinsider.com/nra-conference-wont-allow-attendees-to-bring-their-guns-2022-5 https://www.nraam.org/events/2022-events/fr...
Jump to post1. This every weekend in Chicago, and 31 is sadly on the low side of usual. 2. I mentioned this to show how Americans have been jaded to gun violence. So no, I do not know expect any new gun laws to come from this horrific tragedy in Texas. My next question is that with Chicago being number 10 in g...
Jump to postEvergreen, for the prolife crowd from George Carlin:
"If you're preborn, you're fine; if you're preschool, you're f#cked.”
https://twitter.com/RexChapman/status/1 ... 92967?s=20
I know you'll be shocked--SHOCKED!--to find that the people screaming loudest about groomers and pedophiles in teaching, or Disney, or in the LGBTQ community are actually the ones you want to keep your children away from. In related news water wet, earth warmed by nearby star. More at 11. Report: To...
Jump to postWell, that didn't take long, When Elon was seen as chief Climate Change Spokesman, he could walk on water. Say some mean things about he left and now his a sex predictor. So predictable. Who thought that? Granted fan boys who will hear no wrong against him do exist. That does not sound like most pe...
Jump to postI've said it before and I'll say it again: there's one demographic that commits an extraordinary amount of gun crime in the US than any other demographic. Unfortunately, the same ones who complain about gun violence will call you a bigot and racist for trying to discuss it. Find a way to fix the vi...
Jump to postWell, that didn't take long, When Elon was seen as chief Climate Change Spokesman, he could walk on water. Say some mean things about he left and now his a sex predictor. So predictable. He's practically Jesus Christ Himself. I can't believe the eViL wOkE liBeRalz made SpaceX pay $250K for a harass...
Jump to postI was sharing concerns some mental health experts had about the last POTUS's pattern of behavior because they were a way to explain his bizarre and irrational decisionmaking that constantly had to be checked and tempered by others in the WH. There is nothing unempathetic about that - I did not put ...
Jump to postI read from you directly without citing sources when you were 'speculating' on a certain ailment 45 had based on his speech and his manners when he was in the WH. Without no proof just supposition and speculation. Now you are telling me to be emphatic about someone's 'condition'. I was sharing conc...
Jump to postNot an apologist, just perennially annoyed with factually inaccurate statements of any kind. I don't need to be an expert - other experts and Biden himself have testified to the fact he has the condition. Duh. If this is a real 'condition'. The more troublesome and dangerous this situation is. The ...
Jump to postOf the century? Teleprompter Joe has become the laughingstock of this country. His slips are so common, no one even mentions them. One of the most damaging was: https://www.npr.org/2022/01/20/1074466148/biden-russia-ukraine-minor-incursion Days later, Putin invaded Ukraine. Hope your kids never end...
Jump to postGeorge Bush live in person saying: “ The decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean of Ukraine.” https://twitter.com/i/status/1527092111195226114 I still think that George Bush has done more damage to the US than has Donald Trump (so far). And his paintin...
Jump to postThe SEC needs to investigate. Both sides. If bots aren't a problem, good. If a problem... https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-tesla-deal-bots-ceo-cant-go-forward-1848935698/amp Lightsaber Yeah, I have to think the SEC is watching the whole thing with some trepidation. It just gets more and more s...
Jump to postThe terrorist's long manifesto and other info gathered so far suggests he planned to do more attacks on Black persons in other locations in the area. He apparently 'scouted' for locations to carry out his perverse plans driving to the area the day before. The NY Governor has pledged monies to the v...
Jump to postI suspect this mother-son relationship isn't going to be rosy in the future. From the article, she thinks her son looks "Hawaiian", even though the father is African-American. She rejected an attempt for her son to join a mentorship program geared at young African-American males. The lady...
Jump to postc933103 wrote:Telling people they shouldn't try hard because they are going to be oppressed doesn't appears to help them, from the content of the article
I agree that these rampages are a problem here but with 400 million guns and 350 million people there's really not much to be done about it. 400 million guns for 350 million people - and really not much can be done about it? Right. Thankfully they keep the same perspective when it comes to abortion...
Jump to postThis should certainly win her son over. https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1526346608039845889?s=21&t=tQC6umJTpsMYyq4xmDyFXw&fbclid=IwAR0V57N3R4S5kkwNBfhPlzVZ2qX70wKtIB5AdLSubresuTszj3gcMHAvUM4 Virginia school’s ‘anti-racist’ program has changed my son, mom says https://nypost.com/202...
Jump to postI thought California had strict gun laws? Yes, and its gun death rate is the 7th lowest in the country. But don't let that get in the way of your narrative. I thought California had strict gun laws? Obviously laws are meaningless when nearby states don't have same and/or black market is alive and w...
Jump to postYou said it never happened in other countries. I just provided an example that it did, from only a couple of years ago. That's what you get for making absolute statements. That's not at all what I said. DIRECTFLT tried to deflect from the US' epidemic of gun homicide with BUT MOOSELAMBS and there i...
Jump to postAn anecdote is not data. The USA's homicide rate is 210% higher than Canada's in 2020. You said it never happened in other countries. I just provided an example that it did, from only a couple of years ago. That's what you get for making absolute statements. That's not at all what I said. DIRECTFLT...
Jump to postNo they don't. You forget about this one? He killed one more than the Buffalo shooter, in nice, peaceful Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_van_attack Well not a suicide vest. But 'The incident is the deadliest vehicle-ramming attack in Canadian history.' With 11 dead. Sadly, 10 seems li...
Jump to postMy question, if these folks doing these killings did not have easy access to guns, what would they use, or do we believe that if they cannot access guns they will simply let things go? In other countries, where they don't do mass killings with guns, they make suicide vests. There's no guarantee tha...
Jump to postIf we could only test for insanity, like China tests it's people for Covid... If there was such a test, it would be interesting to see if it was administered to some of the people on this board. The kind of people who think all Republicans are traitors, or that the retired cop who died was a loser....
Jump to postThe bad guy with a gun was stopped by the good guy(s) with the hog tie.
California churchgoers hog-tie gunman after deadly attack
https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20 ... dly-attack
No one, and I mean no one, on the left has pushed for violence against cops or businesses. No one. The alphabet soup of militias are all right wing. The vast majority of domestic terrorism is right wing--more than liberal/environmental/Muslim inspired terrorism combined. Even TFG's acting secretary...
Jump to postGoing by that logic, we're in real trouble because 81 million Biden voters are going to start massacring cops and burning all of our businesses down. No one, and I mean no one, on the left has pushed for violence against cops or businesses. No one. The alphabet soup of militias are all right wing. ...
Jump to postSo, for the Record, is he a white, Liberal leaning, or Maga leaning 18 year old mass murderer? He's a raving lunatic racist that painted the N word on his gun, driving 3+ hours to murder black people specifically, driven by the words of Tucker Carlson, the GOP, and Fox News 24/7 incantations of Gre...
Jump to postSo you are arguing that 70 million Americans are somehow mass murderers? Where are they hiding all the bodies? That's the same logic people used to bash Muslims after 9/11. Yes. 100% Yes. And those same people based Muslims after 9/11. In fact those same people voted for a candidate who promised to...
Jump to postSo, for the Record, is he a white, Liberal leaning, or Maga leaning 18 year old mass murderer? He's a raving lunatic racist that painted the N word on his gun, driving 3+ hours to murder black people specifically, driven by the words of Tucker Carlson, the GOP, and Fox News 24/7 incantations of Gre...
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