The Glade 4.0

Its a perfectly cromulent study.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2 ... s-plummet/

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Holy shitsnacks!

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Well Ali Baba had them forty thieves, Scheherezade had a thousand tales
But master you in luck 'cause up your sleeves you got a brand of magic never fails...
...Mister Aladdin, sir, What will your pleasure be?
Let me take your order, Jot it down -You ain't never had a friend like me
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I had meant to get to this, but It just didn't get done. Part of the Pew study pointed out that while people think Gun violence has increased, it's actually gone down.

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Yeah, gun violence is down like 40% over the past decade, but you'd never know that from listening to/reading/watching most news.

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"Dress cops up as soldiers, give them military equipment, train them in military tactics, tell them they’re fighting a ‘war,’ and the consequences are predictable." —Radley Balko

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Holy shitsnacks!

I wonder if the folks who dumped her feed are mostly (i) anti-gun purists who think a tweet about gun safety implies that she opposes gun control laws or (ii) pro-gun purists who think a tweet about gun safety implies that she supports gun control laws. Either way...

Her twitter followers are a percect example of why I laugh at "common sense" legislation thats trotted out.

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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ~ John Stuart Mill

Who is "her"?

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The half her followers thing was a joke.

Her total membership went up.

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“The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.” - Thomas Paine

Battlestar Gallactica chick.

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The Dude abides.

Katee Sackhoff.

Mmmm Starbuck.

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Holy shitsnacks!

Despite the occasional mass shooting and some cherry-picked news stories, we are actually becoming a more peaceful society.

But yes, treating mental illness better and proper firearm handling/safety will do more to prevent violence then banning firearms.

Gun violence likely decreases because people are too distracted by the Internet to want to fight eachother in real life.

Actually it probably has more to do with improvements around lead safety than anything else.

Is anyone else annoyed they include suicides in with gun violence stats? Feels extremely misleading.

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That's been going on for ages. Back in the 80s or early 90s, Time presented this tear-jerker anti-gun article where they sobbed about the people supposedly killed by "gun violence" in a particular week, by name. More than half were suicides.

Usually, the argument made is that because it's remotely possible that a person without access to a gun might not kill themself in another way, that therefore all gun suicides count as "gun violence".

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

I can still ***** about it though, right?

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I believe the argument is that guns are more effective "instant" forms of suicide and therefore less likely that someone will be unsuccessful and be able to get help.

Do we count knife suicides in stabbings?

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I prefer to think of them as "Fighting evil in another dimension"

Or hangings in rope violence counts?

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While this is an effective argument that guns are an effective form of suicide, it hardly establishes gun suicides as "gun violence".

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"Hysterical children shrieking about right-wing anything need to go sit in the corner and be quiet while the adults are talking."

Completely agree. I didn't mean to imply that I agreed with the argument.