Posted on 06/21/2013 9:44:55 AM PDT by neverdem
No, it doesn't. When I see unfamiliar names, I hover my cursor over their name to see the signup date out of habit. See, some of the newer people are here to disrupt.
Have a good one.
You make a good point in one sense...as a portion of a number...which is a valid consideration.
That said, there are other aspects on which to criticize the situation:
That they are so uncritical and unthinking that they include a sizable number who clearly don’t belong, and are willing to use even people who needed to be made dead to support disarming the rest of us. This is pretty egregious, and an obvious example even in the more ‘normal’ situations...without even getting to the outrage with Timerlan.
That they would wish us helpless against even these villains in even these situations where the firearms were needed and ostensibly used properly...even in those situations.
“That said, there are other aspects on which to criticize the situation: That they are so uncritical and unthinking that they include a sizable number who clearly don’t belong, and are willing to use even people who needed to be made dead to support disarming the rest of us. This is pretty egregious, and an obvious example even in the more ‘normal’ situations...without even getting to the outrage with Timerlan.”
For decades the anti-gun nuts have been making huge statistical distortions so frankly I am surprised that people get bent out of shape at a MERE 8 percent.
...one in 12 are crime suspects killed by police or armed citizens acting in self-defense.
Crime stats only include criminal homicides, which exclude justifiable homicides (i.e. self-defense and typical cop-related shootings).
UCR definitions are here:
http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/handbook/ucrhandbook04.pdf
You can get crime data submitted to the FBI at city-data. Just type the city name and add “city data” to your google search. The nice thing about city-data is you get 10 years’ worth. San Diego PD has data going back to the 50’s. Per capita violent crime tripled in the 60’s and went far higher in the 70’s and 80’s, but have now settled back to the high 60’s rate. This is why news bureaus always talk about crime rates having gone back to 60’s rates, as if the nation has become a land of Mayberry’s. In reality, crime rates are historically high relative to the 50’s and before, and obviously much higher than in Western Europe.
San Diego stats:
http://www.sandiego.gov/police/pdf/2013/UCRRates1950to2012.pdf
“So is this what you’d think if your boss decided to give you an 8% reduction in salary?”
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That caught my eye because 32 years ago I worked for a company that was in financial trouble. They actually DID cut everyone’s pay by EIGHT percent. In my case this came immediately after I had just gotten a seven percent merit increase. As I recall I had one paycheck with my raise on it and then got cut back to slightly LESS than my old rate. We did not appreciate it! They made an error though, they promised in writing that this was temporary and everyone would be repaid in the future for wages lost during the cut. The feds ruled that this made it a forced loan from the employees to the company and so constituted extortion and they had to immediately restore everyone to their former pay level. By that time I was working for another company so I never got my money back.
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