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And he is not alone. Guns have nothing to do with these mass shootings. [i]The solution is to ban doors. Yeah--that's the ticket![/]
This should be straightforward. Is the word "door" even mentioned in the Constitution? Surely it is a boondoggle of liberal overreach, to argue for a so-called right to doors. Strict constructionists would never cotton to such an excess!
Why, yes, we Libs should be like the Trumpees on here who research and verify everything before they post it. They use such reputable sources as Hannity and Breitbart, so everything they post is SOOOOO accurate.
Attempt to take one, off the wall guy, and paint all trump supporters with the same characteristics because he wore a red hat.
It is called prejudice, born of ignorance and nefarious intent. Hate and fear mongering continues.
Turn the same logic around to condemn an entire group and you have a racist.
Hell on earth was 8 years of a corrupt, incompetent administration who used partisan politics to divide the nation, support terrorists like isis, Iran, hamas and blm.
What did Obama do to make children feel safer in schools? He had 8 years.
What did Obama do to reduce the murders in Detroit and Chicago? oh, he released felons and baited gang members across the border.
The democrats continue their hate and fear mongering campaign, intended to take our country to hell. It would not happen if we had a free press to provide perspective instead of a communist style official propaganda machine.
That's a gutsy statement that begs for a racial statistics comparison that you don't want to have.
Contrary to ignorant popular opinion, most African-Americans are peace-loving christians who regret having both the fear and need to own a firearm....
All due to high unemployment (despite what you observe on the news), burglaries, robberies, gang violence, and increased drop-out rates (all inter-related)...
Solution:
1) Make it easier for post secondary students to attain Bachelor degrees in Education for subjects like Math, English, and Science (Many math and science teachers in urban areas are not certified in those areas of instruction).
2) Build Community Centers where "Den mothers" and "Den fathers" (Social Workers/Teachers) assist in mentoring, teaching, and monitoring students after school. Community Centers should be equipped with state of the art - 24/7 computer-aided construction. It should be state operated and interconnected to all federal, city, and county databases ( especially social and criminal admins).
3) Junior Achievement-Business and Stem Initiatives should be integrated into various related programs throughout the calendar year.
And over 90% of school shootings have been committed by white men. It's not a shock, considering how popular gun ownership is among white men, especially rural white men.
The stats in the link you posted show that 57.7% of mass shootings are committed by white men, while whites make up 61.3% of the population.
Using the source of the information in that graph, it lists 16 school shootings, 11 by whites, 2 by American indians, and 3 by Asians, or 68.75% committed by whites. However, three shooters identified as white, are in fact mixed race, and one who's ethnicity is unknown. Even with the one unknown counted as white, they make up at most, 50% of school shooters, not "over 90%".
Yes, gun ownership in rural areas is double that of urban areas, and are also much more likely to own multiple weapons. Yet per capita violent crime rates are 55% lower in rural areas. So twice as many people own guns, and the crime rate is less than half. So much for your "problem with rural white culture".
Here is gun ownership and violent crime rates from 2016.
Now since you claim white culture has a problem with gun violence, let's look at a three year average of homicide rates, per capita. Black men have a homicide rate 749% higher than white men, black women 17% higher than white men, and 211% higher than white women. Put another way, the 13% of the population that's black, commit half of all murders. Blacks are also much more likely to use guns, 84% of black homicides, and only 64% of white homicides were caused by a firearm. Rural white culture isn't the problem here.
If you don't want Trump critics or liberals tobe lumped into ridiculous generalizations -- then you have to be careful to not do the same.
This guy is an idiot. Both sides have idiots.
Exactly right! If you think the "other" side is the entire problem in this country, YOU'RE part of the problem.
Both sides have their loonies who are a sandwich short of a picnic who buy into "us vs them" and "we're all good, and they are all bad" philosophy which is dead wrong!
You must have done gang busters under Obama too -- the Dow Jones doubled in the 8 years he was President.
That's cause the fed injected nearly 3 trillion, dropped interest rates to 5000 year lows, and bought most mortgage backed securities. Obama did nothing except nearly double the national debt and steal the future from anyone under 60.
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