At 7/25/07 11:38 PM, cellardoor6 wrote:On that subject, I'm still waiting for your explanation of why Alaska and Wyoming have higher gun murder rates, though.They don't, I just proved it to you that they don't. I love it how your argument has become so weak, you're so unable to even come close to keeping a honest view (since it already got proven wrong) you have to entirely deny what has already been proven.
It's quite simple, cellar: if you want to blame Mexican immigrants, you can use numbers to blame Texas or California, or rates to blame New Mexico and Arizona. You can't, however, try and blame both for the simple reason it's rather hard to have your cake and eat it when it's halfway round the u-bend.
What's their black and Latino population, cellar?Nil, and they happen to have incredibly low crime rates and gun murder rates. Much lower than Arizona and new Mexico which you falsely claimed have no notable problem.
Firearms Death Rate per 100,000 (Latest available) by state
#2 Alaska
#4 Wyoming
So, they have no black or latino population, but high gun murder rates - much higher than Texas or California, which have larger black and latino populations?
Do you know what I find funny? For ages you use rates not numbers, and when I turn that on you suddenly you go for numbers over rates - if anyone's argument is weak, it's the guy that flip-flops in a desperate effort to try and pretend they have a clue.
And tell me, why is it most people that suffer from Intermittent Explosive Disorder (the PC term for going nuts and shooting up the neighbourhood) are white?Lol what?
THAT'S ONE PERSON.
Note that I said "most of the people that suffer from IED" - by posting a link to the ONE black guy, you have proven once again how little you know about any problem if you can't blame Mexicans or Afro Caribbeans for it.
If I were a troll like you, I'd be typing "hahaha" about now.
I'm telling you what the FACTS are (which you keep denying because you're delusional), that in the US Hispanics and blacks are much more likely to commit violent crimes and violent crimes with firearms. The US also borders Mexico, which is a huge smuggler of drugs, guns, and people. And if you look at the crime rates of areas of the US with high illegal immigrant populations and close proximity to Mexico, and compare it to the rest of the US, it makes it obvious.
So the FACT that there is a very minorgun murder rate in Cuba and Puerto Rico, the countries which make up the majority of Florida's immigrant Latino population, doesn't come into it?
And you're calling me delusional, after I point at a large hole in your "blame Latinos!" theory...
I'm I've already proved it's not necessary in the US, and that it WON'T WORK in the US, and will make things worse.. South Africa is a different country, they have major social issues so giving people guns who once killed each other with spears isn't always a good idea.
Strangulation, suffocation, bludgeoning - not spears, cellar. Keep the blatant racism inherant in your bullshit to a minimum, please.
And, by the way, you're stating for the record that America has problems to make excuses for gun murders, why haven't you noted Ivory Coast has been in the grip of Civil War for five years - and has a lower rate of gun murder than the US? Or, once again, the US is the only First World Nation be be in the top 15 when it comes to gun murder rates?
That is so massivly important, that the US is rubbing shoulders with Third World nations when it comes to the rate of gun murder, but this apparently isn't important.
Because most of the people doing the unjustified killing didn't get their guns legally, and therefor gun control is a non-issue. Just because people kill in justified cases more than not, doesn't mean that they aren't preventing more homicide (and overall gun crime) than they are causing. Also, people can still prevent and deter crimes, and even murders with their guns without killing the perpetrator.
Sorry, did you ask those responsible for that number where they got their guns from, and by what means? If not, how can you say "most" of them got them illegally?
And, frankly, as 192 justifiable homicides is a pathetic statistic.
And, get this - maybe if they weren't trying to be a hero and get a justifiable homicide on their CV, the moment they went for a gun is when the person pointing theirs at them panicked, pulled the trigger, and they become one of the 15,684?
As I've said, people holding guns are not in control (irnoically, you are more likely to be in control holding a spear) - hence the "accidents" from private citizens, police and military every year.
Facts are fun:
1) There are around 400,000 firearm crimes in the US annually.
Strangely a lot more than in the UK, where you keep implying has worse problems than the US, then saying we don't because we don't have Mexicans living here.
And you still haven't grasped it, have you? Maybe if the Second Amendment wasn't being bastardised for decades, do you honestly believe that statistic would be anywhere near as high?
2) The majority of this firearm crime is committed by people who cannot legally own firearms due to their legal ineligibility, therefore they are already criminals. Therefore at least 200,000 gun crimes are committed by people who are not legally eligible to purchase/own firearms.
Yet they obtain them - Cho obtained his weapons via the free market due to lax inspection of his record. Harris & Klebold had their friend Robyn Anderson legally purchase the weapons they used. Unruch, Huberty, Whitman, Unruh, Berkowitz - all obtained their weapons by legal means.
None of these people were already criminals at the time of purchase.
3) In order to support banning guns, you'd have to show that legally-owned guns cause more crime than they prevent in the US. But you can't do that (of course you can't) because there are 2 million defensive uses of firearms by law-abiding citizens in the US annually.
And the sum total of 192 justifiable homicides - or, to put it another way, there are 82.6875 non justifiable homicides for each justifiable one.
That's not a statistic to crow about, cellar.
And, of course, you don't include cases of accidentally discharging your fireamr, be it cleaning it, dropping it or whatever, and killing somebody that way. That doesn't count as an offensive or defensive gun usage, yet can result in injury or death.
That means that law-abiding citizens prevent at least 10 times more crime than they cause with their firearm. It also means that since most firearm crimes are perpetrated by people who do not legally own their firearms and don't obey gun laws (let alone any laws), banning guns would only take them out of the hands of the people who, according to the statistical facts, use guns responsibly.
Even though they're 82 times more likely to get shot and killed, gun or no gun?
And, once again, with stricter gun control, it is easier to root out those who illegally own firearms they should not have in their posession - sorry, isn't having a reason to take them and their gun off the streets NOT what is needed in America in regards to their gun issues?
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