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TPaine7
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Mon May-24-10 09:10 AM Original message |
FBI says violent crime rate down again |
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depakid
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Mon May-24-10 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
1. You're "confused" because you don't graps the fact that less guns would equal even a greater fall |
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TPaine7
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Mon May-24-10 09:20 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Prove it. |
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proteus_lives
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Mon May-24-10 09:30 AM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Asking him to prove it? |
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depakid
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Mon May-24-10 09:59 AM Response to Reply #4 |
14. Prove what? That the US has astonishingly high rates of gun violence? |
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TPaine7
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Mon May-24-10 10:25 AM Response to Reply #14 |
17. "the fact that less guns would equal even a greater fall" |
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depakid
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Mon May-24-10 11:03 AM Response to Reply #17 |
24. LOL- see the response below where that's actually been done and studied! |
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friendly_iconoclast
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Mon May-24-10 11:28 AM Response to Reply #24 |
29. And one from the fair society: Police open fire in Sydney shopping street as gang ambush backfires |
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depakid
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Mon May-24-10 11:36 AM Response to Reply #29 |
30. And the point is that it's a VERY rare occurence- and yet commonplace throughout the states |
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friendly_iconoclast
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Mon May-24-10 12:04 PM Response to Reply #30 |
33. You still have two different standards for anecdotal accounts of gun crime |
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depakid
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Mon May-24-10 12:27 PM Response to Reply #33 |
36. Not at all- the RATE has nothing to do with raw population numbers |
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friendly_iconoclast
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Mon May-24-10 12:39 PM Response to Reply #36 |
37. Then you should be encouraging the replacement of handguns with rifles. |
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friendly_iconoclast
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Mon May-24-10 12:23 PM Response to Reply #30 |
34. While we're at it, what's your explanation for the VIC cops buying semiautomatics? |
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proteus_lives
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Mon May-24-10 09:30 AM Response to Reply #1 |
7. "you reason like a child" |
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friendly_iconoclast
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Mon May-24-10 11:14 AM Response to Reply #1 |
28. Jamaica has "responsible firearms regulations". And a state of emergency: |
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Dogmudgeon
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Mon May-24-10 09:17 AM Response to Original message |
2. When Democrats win, crime falls |
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Ian David
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Mon May-24-10 09:18 AM Response to Original message |
3. Nobody has anything worth stealing anymore. |
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TPaine7
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Mon May-24-10 09:23 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Murder and rape fell, too n/t |
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Ian David
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Mon May-24-10 09:30 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Bullets cost money, and rape requires woman able to afford to leave the house to do something? |
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Deep13
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Mon May-24-10 09:35 AM Response to Original message |
9. I don't know of any real evidence that correlates gun laws to crime rates. |
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TPaine7
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Mon May-24-10 09:43 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. I know. |
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safeinOhio
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Mon May-24-10 09:52 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Calling a correlation a cause when there are many |
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TPaine7
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Mon May-24-10 10:27 AM Response to Reply #13 |
18. See post 11 |
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depakid
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Mon May-24-10 10:04 AM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Well, since Australia implemented its firearms buyback and sales & ownership restrictions |
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TPaine7
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Mon May-24-10 10:38 AM Response to Reply #16 |
21. I have seen this assertion soundly refuted. |
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depakid
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Mon May-24-10 11:11 AM Response to Reply #21 |
26. It's not an "assertion," it's a fact demonstrated by the data |
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slackmaster
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Mon May-24-10 11:50 AM Response to Reply #26 |
31. But no beneficial effect on the OVERALL murder rate |
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depakid
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Mon May-24-10 11:53 AM Response to Reply #31 |
32. WRONG -read it again and pay attention to the graphs and tables |
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slackmaster
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Mon May-24-10 12:25 PM Response to Reply #32 |
35. It looks like the "gun homicide", "non-gun homicide" and overall homicide rates all went down |
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friendly_iconoclast
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Mon May-24-10 11:08 AM Response to Reply #16 |
25. Then why are the Victoria cops buying faster reloading American guns? |
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Mon May-24-10 09:38 AM Response to Original message |
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proteus_lives
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Mon May-24-10 09:44 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. +1 |
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TreasonousBastard
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Mon May-24-10 10:02 AM Response to Original message |
15. Well, the largest decrease was in metropolitan counties where... |
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TPaine7
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Mon May-24-10 10:30 AM Response to Reply #15 |
19. See post 11 |
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TreasonousBastard
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Mon May-24-10 10:49 AM Response to Reply #19 |
23. Everything that disagrees with, or even questions, the religious... |
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KurtNYC
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Mon May-24-10 10:32 AM Response to Original message |
20. glad to see the crime rates falling -- those are only the rates they publicize |
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TPaine7
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Mon May-24-10 10:39 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. True. I'm trying to look on the bright side. n/t |
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era veteran
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Mon May-24-10 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
27. Not because of guns unless it's the plastic 'guns' the thug class is waving |
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X_Digger
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Tue May-25-10 03:10 AM Response to Original message |
38. Crime continued downward trend in 2009: FBI |
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NodQuestion
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Tue May-25-10 03:10 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. that's actually pretty awesome |
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X_Digger
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Tue May-25-10 03:10 AM Response to Reply #39 |
40. Overall, crime has been trending down since the mid-90's. |
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sam sarrha
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Tue May-25-10 03:10 AM Response to Reply #38 |
41. everybody has already Pawned anything of value to steal.... duh |
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Demeter
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Tue May-25-10 03:10 AM Response to Reply #38 |
42. What about Suicide and Divorce? |
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pdefalla
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Tue May-25-10 03:10 AM Response to Reply #38 |
43. Is crime down even in Arizona? |
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