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zoidknight said, 10 months ago
Nice try, but the gangs kill more each day than all the “mass killings” have in the last 20 years. And if you disarm us, violent crime will sky rocket, examples: Australia,Great Britain.
piobaire said, 10 months ago
Interpretation is very important. I think Catalino is right if what is being said is that as a country we’ve lost our moral direction. Let’s start with “Do Unto Others as You Would Have Them Do Unto You”.
TheTrustedMechanic said, 10 months ago
@piobaire
But, but that would mean I wouldn’t be able to cheat you out of MY, I mean your money. I’m more powerful than you so I deserve to be rich by forcing you to work for slave wages and taking your money from you by selling you substandard products at premium prices. Oh, and don’t forget I get to stick you with the tax bill for all the government “benefits” like fire &police protection, education and infrastructure that allow me to create and grow my business and wealth.
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You are right. If we lived by the golden rule (I do and maybe that’s why I own a business and am not rich) then we would not have such a large divide between the rich, and everyone else. We also would not have morons posting the partisan tripe the republican party spoon feeds them. They would THINK before parroting what the talking heads tell them they should think. Okay, maybe I just broke that golden rule, or rather bent it a little.
piobaire said, 10 months ago
@TheTrustedMechanic
Yup, pesky thing that morality and fairness thing. (I hope NeoConMan will share his views on this subject.)
I agree with you. The middle class has been an instrumental part of the national wealth and security of America. If the middle class is reduced to the status of impoverished peasants or serfs, who is going to pay for the services? I think the aim is for us to do without..
Isn’t it short sighted of the exploitive rich? Poor people are harder to exploit than middle class people are. You can draft them, I suppose, and get them to “volunteer” to do services that used to be paid work, but they just won’t have the money to buy goods or services.
NeoconMan said, 10 months ago
@piobaire
We are indeed seeing a moral decline in America as people no longer accept their “place” in society. Why, we have people thinking they can own houses of their own, can rise above their “station” in life, can challenge us in the better classes. Americans need to understand God made them poor for a reason and they must accept that and learn to live without. Dreams just make people miserable.
Is it a problem that the lower classes won’t have the money to buy goods and services? Not when WE have it all (heh heh).
denis1112 said, 10 months ago
@TheTrustedMechanic
We also would not have morons posting the partisan tripe the democrat party spoon feeds them. They would THINK.
They would think about unemployment going higher every week and fewer and fewer jobs created every month.they would also wonder why the work force is smaller now then it was when Obama took office.Meaning the real unemployment rate is higher then the dems will admit. They might also wonder why so many folks are on food stamps when there is an ever decreasing number of people to pay taxes to pay for them setting at home in the projects.Oh if you own a business,your rich ask any democrat in the projects.
piobaire said, 10 months ago
@NeoconMan
Thank you, NeoconMan! Your views are always enlightening.
I am going off-line for a time. Best wishes to all.
John Orr said, 10 months ago
Are we talking population or population concentration? Know how many gun killings there were in Japan last year?
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John Orr said, 10 months ago
‘Moral decline’? No. The U.S. cannot handle an increase of desperation except through violence. We call ourselves ‘civilized’, yet we have the highest rate of gun violence as well as the highest rate of incarceration of any first-world nation. Let’s not talk about our rate of executions, which rivals third-world nations.
How many were executed in Texas under the Bush Gubernatorial regime?
John Orr said, 10 months ago
@dennis1112
Who creates jobs?
Is it a corporation’s largesse, or is it a demand for a product from people with money to spend? Let’s say I have a flower shop. I have a hundred or so people living around me. My tax rate goes down a percent, but the tax rate of the hundred goes down a percent. I get but a little tax relief, but the hundred can now afford my flowers and I am busy enough to hire a helper or two. AND I can give my supplier more of my business so he has to hire a couple of people.
Demand creates jobs. Top-side only creates profit for the top which does not, as history has shown, create jobs.
As a real-world example, the company I work for downsized AFTER the tax cuts in order to give a better portfolio to the SEC. Since that time, we’ve grown enough in demand for our product to require hiring more people. Not because of the tax cuts, but because of increased demand.
CasualBrowser
said, 10 months ago
@zoidknight
“…violent crime will sky rocket, examples: Australia,Great Britain.”
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According to the Minister fir Home Affairs in Australia on March 4, 2012: The overall number of violent crimes decreased in 2010 except for the offence of kidnapping and abduction;
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Of the five categories of violent crime, four recorded a drop in the number of victims between 2009 and 2010 – homicide, assault, sexual assault and robbery;
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The most common weapon used in homicide in 2009–10 was a knife. Knives were involved in 39 per cent of all homicides;
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Firearms used in 13 per cent of all homicides;
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There has been a 27 per cent drop in the number of homicides between 1996 and 2010, with a drop of 11 per cent between 2009 and 2010;
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According to The Guardian of England on July 14, 20011:
Homicides (includes murder, manslaughter and infanticide) fell year-on-year from 638 to 550 – a 13.8% drop
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• Attempted murders dropped by 7.6%, from 523 to 483
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• Firearms offences (not inlcuding air weapons) recorded by the police are down by 15.8%. The 2011/12 total of 5,199 represents a continuation of the steady decline since 2005/06, when the figure was more than twice as high
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These stats were easy to find, so I posted them. Do you have any to back up your “mass Killings” claim?
CasualBrowser
said, 10 months ago
@CasualBrowser
Minister for Home Affairs… oops…
CasualBrowser
said, 10 months ago
BTW, if anyone wants to check where I got these from:
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http://www.ministerhomeaffairs.gov.au/Mediareleases/Pages/2012/First%20quarter/4-March-2012—-Crime-falling-across-Australia.aspx
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jul/14/crime-statistics-england-wales
dtroutma
said, 10 months ago
Mass killings get attention, but are outside the statistical norm. The 25+ GUN homicides, daily, in the U.S. are done in singles or doubles, not whole teams, and the U.S. gets the gold medal at the world homicide olympics, period.
The real predatory bird is the raven, picking they eyes out, and leaving the rest of the body to other scavengers, like the ants to feast, on the still living.
Kylie2112 said, 10 months ago
@IrishEddieOHara
Actually, starting in 1989 (16 years after the passing of Roe v. Wade), crime rates in the US declined.
Strange that a decline in teenagers living in abject poverty would result in a decline in assault, robbery, and homicide.