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Why do we have a country where trust and civic belonging are in short supply?
Financial instability is driving everything at this point.
Are people thinking they may end up living at a camp site and hunting for food?
Why do we have a country where trust and civic belonging are in short supply?
They'll come immediately if it is a store, a bank, or any kind of public place where money is blown.
d6rB saysThere was a fistfight on street a year ago near where I work, police was called, and they arrived 4 hours later.They'll come immediately if it is a store, a bank, or any kind of public place where money is blown.
Isn’t self-defense a human right?
Yet we have morons that say, "go to a meeting and voice your opinion."
Financial instability is driving everything at this point.
There was a palpable change in the public at large as people got second homes and huge mortgages that were almost UNIVERSALLY seen as wealth. Extravagent EVERYTHING, cars, vacations, jewelry, surgeries, remodeling, enlarging homes.
Do you remember those times at all?
There was a palpable change in the public at large as people started losing their "mortgage wealth" in 2007.
Meanness.
Anger
Rage
Most have given up on having a steady employer.
America probably looks like a mess to a 20 year old man under stress to get out and "stand on his own feet."
Patrick saysWhy do we have a country where trust and civic belonging are in short supply?
Delusional ,don't give a shit,Republican voters that don't care about anything but their political theology & blood & guns in the streets.
100s of Millions of guns in America will continue to kill Rep/Cons & their loved ones.
STFU! Stop that sobbing & crying over your dead loved ones if you aren't willing to try & correct the problem, the pissed-off.
Happy,equal,economic stable Americans are always the ones that shoot up a place?
Why do we have a country where trust and civic belonging are in short supply?
Rich Manhattanite from Kreative Klass lectures America
The NRA is a MUCH different organization than it was 50 years ago. Now it's first and foremost a lobby for gun manufacturers.
Around the same time that the media was focused on the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, 60 people were shot in Chicago over the weekend. 24 of those people were shot in four hours.
Baltimore reached its 200th murder victim of the year during its “Ceasefire Weekend”.
4 people were killed in 4 days in Kansas City. 6 men were shot in Philly during the filming of a rap video.
Even in Toronto, 15 people were wounded in shootings over the weekend. Over 350 people have been shot this year in the Canadian city which has gun control, no NRA, and none of the usual excuses.
This tide of violence has received less media coverage because it challenges the false claim that, as a CNN op-ed once put it, mass shootings are a “white man’s problem.”
"I would say our country should be more fearful of white men across our country because they are actually causing most of the deaths within this country," Rep. Ilhan Omar claimed on Al Jazeera.
"We have to stop demonizing people and realize the biggest terror threat in this country is white men," Don Lemon had previously claimed on CNN.
"White Men Have Committed More Mass Shootings Than Any Other Group," Newsweek had argued.
The perception that mass shootings are a “white man’s problem” lingers around the country because white mass shooters tend to get more publicity. And, the twisted young male who goes on a public shooting spree fits a certain kind of media narrative. But when we actually study the mass shootings that took place in 2019, it’s clear that Patrick Crusius and Connor Betts are not the norm, but aberrations.
Mass shooters have no particular ideology. Crusius and Betts were opposites ideologically. (Though both cared deeply about the environment.) Nor are mass shooters a white problem or a black problem. Over the same bloody weekend, William Patrick Williams, who is African-American, appeared in court after being arrested by the FBI for planning to shoot up a Texas hotel with an AK-47 rifle.
Looking at the data from the Mass Shooting Tracker, widely utilized by the media, as of this writing, of the 72 mass shooters, perpetrators in shootings that killed or wounded 4 or more people, whose race is known, 21 were white, 37 were black, 8 were Latino, and 6 were members of other groups.
51% of mass shooters in 2019 were black, 29% were white, and 11% were Latino.
Three mass shooters were Asian, two were American Indian and one was Arab.
These numbers are if anything vastly understated. As many as half of the mass shootings that took place in 2019 thus far remain unsolved, but they often took place in black areas and claimed black victims.
Look, Marcus
Unless you’re truly dense enough
So, the Dems are committed to making our society increasingly dangerous to the ordinary citizen, while making police protection non-existent, while taking away all guns that could be used for self protection.
Makes perfect sense.
I can't believe there is someone reading my comments in this thread dense enough to assume that I was advocating taking away everyone's guns.
Add to that the ACLU making sure the crazies stay on the streets and not at institutions.
Quigley saysLook, Marcus
Wtf ?
I don't want or expect guns to become illegal any time soon. And it's true that criminals would have guns even if many years ago we had done what we should have with laws for much better background checks, regulation of military assault rifles, silencers, devices that turn rifles in to automatic (almost machine gun), high tech safety features such as hand guns that only work for their owner and as many other sensible regulations as agreed upon by people other than the manufacturers.
Quigley saysUnless you’re truly dense enough
I can't believe there is someone reading my comments in this thread dense enough to assume that I was advocating taking away everyone's guns.
What the hell man. Get a grip !
HonkpilledMaster saysRich Manhattanite from Kreative Klass lectures America
All the informed gun owners know that the NRA is nothing like what it was back in the day. This is accepted fact by everyone:
marcus saysThe NRA is a MUCH different organization than it was 50 years ago. Now it's first and foremost a lobby for gun manufacturers.
IF congress implemented laws and or regulations based on what the people wanted, we would already have some form of universal healthcare.
If America is to remain intact, it will HAVE to adopt a 'live & let live' attitude between the States. This means massive decentralization of issues/power over things we can not agree on a national level. And that includes issues that were previously 'decided' in the past to be national issues.
There was a fistfight on street near where I work, police was called, and they arrived 4 hours later.
That survey shows the vast majority of Americans who own guns are not members of the NRA and that most favor some form of gun control.
People are generally poorly informed, and groups of people often make poor decisions as a group. That is why we have a constitution that is supposed to overrule some of the "shortsightedness of the masses."
That type of thinking is present, but most of people I know got guns for home protection because police is unreliable and more concerned about visiting donut shops and retiring at 45 to collect pension for 40 years. They will not come unless someone is shot. There was a fistfight on street near where I work, police was called, and they arrived 4 hours later.
Side topic to the main point of the thread. This is a poor litmus test of police performance. A cop once wrote, "The speed at which an officer rushes to a "fight" call is inversely proportional to the amount of time he's been on the force."
In Baltimore City they would not bother to show up at all. Are you sure that the 4 hours later part wasn't just a coincidence?
A Hispanic friend of mine, who lives in barrio, has youth group members from Salva Maratrucha shooting automatic weapons in air in his neighborhood.
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