Gun Legislation, Crime, and Events

[mtutiger]

On 12/26/2021 at 6:11 AM, Archie said:

I'm speaking from experience and knowledge where a lot of people here are guided by their feelings and or politics.

That's politics, Suzyn!

Seriously, listen to any debate on health care or tax policy or foreign policy during the Trump years, and you'll hear a whole raft of reflexive opinions. Particularly with regard to health care, where it seemed many opinions against the ACA had to do with whose administration the law was born under than the actual substance of the bill

Edited December 27, 2021 by mtutiger

[pfife]

Mitch filibustered his own bill because Obama liked it.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/theweek.com/articles/469675/mitch-mcconnells-amazing-filibuster-bill%3famp

Edited December 27, 2021 by pfife

[Edman85]

On 11/19/2021 at 5:27 PM, buddha said:

there are a lot of problems with that chapter in freakonomics.

I'm going back in time because I ended up down a rabbithole today of pseudoscience claims of Freakonomics. Yada Yada Yada was listening to back catalogue of Levitt's podcast and he had some questionable people on that got me poking around. Dubner's association with Dr. Oz is troubling at best, discrediting of the entire enterprise at worst.

[pfife]

Didn't even know there was a mass shooting by a nazi yesterday.   Nice work media

 

[Motown Bombers]

Colorado really seems to attract the mass shooters don't they? 

[romad1]

I understand that a police officer was killed with their own gun recently.  

I took the racial, gender and sensational language about executions out of that statement and made it a subject we can all talk about.

 

 

[Motown Bombers]

So if a guy with a gun can get the best of two trained police officers, teachers with guns don't stand a chance. 

[chasfh]

What, so this isn't a second-grade teacher training to return to the classroom in Colorado?

[Archie]

2 hours ago, romad1 said:

I understand that a police officer was killed with their own gun recently.  

I took the racial, gender and sensational language about executions out of that statement and made it a subject we can all talk about.

 

 

If someone goes after an officers gun that usually means they're going to get shot.  That is what happened to Michael Brown and he paid for it.  

[Archie]

3 minutes ago, chasfh said:

What, so this isn't a second-grade teacher training to return to the classroom in Colorado?

I've never seen her at the range or I would be spending more time there.

[buddha]

33 minutes ago, chasfh said:

What, so this isn't a second-grade teacher training to return to the classroom in Colorado?

i'm a big second amendment fan now.

[Tigeraholic1]

38 minutes ago, chasfh said:

What, so this isn't a second-grade teacher training to return to the classroom in Colorado?

 

[chasfh]

Or, when I was in school:

[CMRivdogs]

 

[CMRivdogs]

1 hour ago, CMRivdogs said:

 

This is great.

 

[Tigeraholic1]

Yeah, Indiana another BAD idea…. Hopefully gets shot down by senate again.

 

 

[buddha]

https://blockclubchicago.org/2022/01/13/more-than-2-in-3-chicagoans-feel-unsafe-in-their-own-neighborhoods-chicago-index-survey-finds/?utm_source=Pico&utm_campaign=16ebddf4a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2022_01_06_03_09_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b6b84a5cee-16ebddf4a6-124063403&mc_cid=16ebddf4a6&mc_eid=30fe6c2596

Fewer than one-quarter of Chicago residents feel the city is safe after almost two years of a pandemic and surging citywide crime, and fewer than one-third feel safe in their own neighborhoods, according to a new survey conducted through the Chicago Index.

Chicago recorded 836 homicides in 2021, an uptick from the city’s historically violent 2020 and a number not seen in Chicago since 1994. The crime surge has set off a circle of finger-pointing among Mayor Lori Lightfoot, Chicago Police Department leaders and leaders of the Cook County court system.

Other “quality of life” metrics also nosedived in the most recent survey. Seventy-two percent of respondents said they feel less safe retail shopping in Chicago than they did in 2019. The same percentage said they felt less safe going out to movies or concerts, and 84 percent said they felt less safe riding public transportation than they did in 2019. 

[buddha]

the only public official or group whose satisfaction rate has improved over the last year in chicago?

the police.

 

[mtutiger]

Really sad situation playing out locally

[Motown Bombers]

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Edited January 16, 2022 by Motown Bombers

[Archie]

19 minutes ago, Motown Bombers said:

 

I think you are a little off topic under the gun thread 😊   I did see the list of EO orders that Younkin signed and I didn't see anything major so this probably a partisan complaint on Fred's part.  Maybe it was the part about establishing a committee on anti-Semitism.  That hits home with a lot of dems.

[romad1]

Having stared at her face as the female AQ lady for a long time back in the 2004-2006 time frame...it was weird hearing Aafia Siddiqui's name again.  She did have very nice eyes.  No wonder the Jihadi boys loved her. 

[ewsieg]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

Having stared at her face as the female AQ lady for a long time back in the 2004-2006 time frame...it was weird hearing Aafia Siddiqui's name again.  She did have very nice eyes.  No wonder the Jihadi boys loved her. 

CNN is reporting all hostages have been rescued.

[Archie]

This terrorist was not an American citizen.  

[pfife]

5 minutes ago, Archie said:

This terrorist was not an American citizen.  

You argue white people can't get the vaccine so your grasp of simple facts is not trustworthy.

Edited January 16, 2022 by pfife