'Murica, etc.
'Murica, etc.
What's the over under on Chicago shootings this weekend?
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Every time this shit happens, just remember that gun violence is still drastically down. This is not representative. This is not the herald of some "new America." This is anomaly. Mourn, but don't fear, and don't panic.
The problem is that America still leads the world in gun violence though.
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Are you talking per capita or total instances?Quoting MadMan (view post)
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
The violent crime rate per capita in Chicago has been steadily decreasing for decades. I don't know what media's agenda is with its portrayal of crime in Chicago.
http://www.city-data.com/crime/crime...-Illinois.html
From 1999 to 2011
Murder: down 30%
Assaults: down 55%
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I know someone who used to work for the Chicago Tribune. I believe that a few years ago, they got rid of their foreign correspondents (or something like that) and began to focus more on the the city - so that could explain the increase in local crime coverage.
The USA has neither the most raw gun deaths nor the highest per capita gun death rate. It has one of the highest of both among "developed" nations, but not among all nations.
I was thinking both. I was wrong according to DaMU.
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Now the Obama administration is electing not to enforce the PPACA until 2015. A law which this administration vociferously and uncompromisingly campaigned for over the last four years. So much for Article II-Section III, I guess. This guy is just the worst.
Un-fucking-believable.
Money really does rule the free world, eh?
Source?
They announced it months ago.
http://www.benefitspro.com/2013/07/0...yed-until-2015
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Seems Melissa Bachman has enfuriated the world once more with her picture where she's standing next to a Lion that she shot.
What's really memorable is Ricky Gervais' twitter retort:
"Sport is fair. If hunting was a sport the animal would have a gun too. If it doesn't you can't call yourself a sportsman. Just a cunt."
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George Zimmerman is back in jail for allegedly threatening his GF with a gun.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/19/justic...html?hpt=hp_c2
I honestly don't care about the hunter. Especially since someone like Zimmerman who got away with killing an unarmed kid is out there terrorizing people. Priorities.
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Astoundingly, I'm capable of caring about both and eat a taco at the same time.
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Cheeky bastard.
Word, man.
If we lived in a perfect world, then I might be able to worry about one woman shooting down an animal for purposes other than eating. Still seems to me like a bit of a stretch.
I dunno man... give me a good taco and it's really hard to give a shit about anything else.
Losing is like fertilizer: it stinks for a while, then you get used to it. (Tony, Hibbing)
What kind of taco are we talking about here? Soft-shell? Hard-shell? Carne asada? Pollo?
Yes.
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oh you know the kinda taco I'm talking about about, baby.
*wink wink nudge nudge shifty eyes i sorta hope i don't offend anyone*
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This Toronto major is the biggest joke I've ever seen in political office. How is he not resigning?
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