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Which gun control measure would you prefer?

Which gun control measure would you prefer?

  • 1. Provide free mental health care to crazy people.

    Votes: 7 87.5%
  • 2. You must get a permit issued to you by a trained psychiatrist

    Votes: 2 25.0%

  • Total voters
    8
The Piss/Pool analogy presumes the piss will spread out across the pool. So how do you explain the "piss" being so concentrated in just certain areas of the US "pool"?

Piss poor analogy, sez I.
 
It's quite touching that you have such faith in the ability of the psychiatric profession to cure crazy people. About the best they sometimes do is prescribe medicine which partially alliviates symptoms if big IF - the patient continues to take them.
 
So do you not vote as a protest to the government requirement to register in order to exercise your right?

I do not vote for federal offices as a protest against the federal govt, yes. But there is no 'right to vote' in the constitution.
 
Agreed, the question becomes ..how does a country that thinks its so honorable end up electing a POS like Trump. Maybe we're not as great as
we think we are.

Because of a mix of nationalism and racism.

I don't doubt that Germany thought of itself as an honorable country before the rise of Hitler and the Nazis.

Make no mistake, Donald Trump is a Nazi.
 
The Piss/Pool analogy presumes the piss will spread out across the pool. So how do you explain the "piss" being so concentrated in just certain areas of the US "pool"?

Piss poor analogy, sez I.
If your talking about inner city violence, say it. Massacres are almost all accomplished by white people. Inner city gun violence is mostly black on black, it
doesn't effect you. Your use of the word "piss" speaks to your anger and hostility ..I wouldn't trust you with a gun.
 
Because of a mix of nationalism and racism.

I don't doubt that Germany thought of itself as an honorable country before the rise of Hitler and the Nazis.

Make no mistake, Donald Trump is a Nazi.

gboisjo said:
Agreed, the question becomes ..how does a country that thinks its so honorable end up electing a POS like Trump. Maybe we're not as great as
we think we are.
Such a petty, dangerous, insecure man child. He should be in jail, he's been committing felonies all of his adult life and getting away with it.

When he finally does go down it will be one of the best days in my life.
 
"Pissing" was the term within the analogy in your post. Now you're upset that I adhered to the terms used within your post. That isn't a surprise at all.

Looking back though, from your post it isn't clear whether you used the term or Waddy did, or maybe he repeated it because someone else used it.

If that is the case, I suggest you learn to use the quote function so that you approach some minimal level of clarity with your posts.

To stick with the analogy for the time being:
Illinois has strong gun control.
Indiana borders Illinois and has weak gun control.
Illinois and Indiana are in the same "pool" with the "No pissing rule."
Illinois has significant more gun crime than Indiana.
Who is "pissing in the pool"?
Why does Indiana not get as much piss on it, if Indiana is the one pissing in the pool?
 
Such a petty, dangerous, insecure man child. He should be in jail,

I hope (but don't expect) that he will be jailed

That he is a criminal is beyond doubt.

he's been committing felonies all of his adult life and getting away with it.

When he finally does go down it will be one of the best days in my life.

If he is tried and if his trial is televised...lots of people will be taking sick days to watch him go down

IMO if this does happen, the USA should take a leaf out of England's book and commemorate his conviction date by erecting bonfires all over America and an effigy of Trump on top of each one.

Maybe even make it into a public holiday.
 
Hard to see what this fantasy diatribe has to do with the thread topic, even peripherally.
 
Makes it easier to solve crimes and thus reduce the potential for gain from crime.
is there any empirical evidence that this has happened.
 
is there any empirical evidence that this has happened.

A Powerful Database Helps Solve Gun Crimes


"Four years ago, before collecting bullet casings became a widely hailed tool for solving gun crimes, New Jersey state legislators did something radical: They passed a law requiring police to submit guns and casings to a national ballistics database called NIBIN.

...when 19-year-old Brendan Tevlin was shot to death in his car, the police sent the shell casings to the National Integrated Ballistics Information Network, which is administered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. By comparing their markings to those on thousands of other casings in the system, police learned that the gun that shot Tevlin had been used to kill two men outside a Seattle nightclub weeks earlier. Working with Seattle police, they soon arrested a suspect, Ali Muhammad Brown. Brown, who was later convicted, said he had been on a killing spree to protest lives lost in the Middle East because of American foreign policy. Using NIBIN to solve the case quickly may have saved the lives of future victims, police said.
https://www.thetrace.org/2018/08/nibin-contra-costa-crime-lab-gun-violence/

After that, gun evidence started yielding clues regularly. Eighteen months into the new mandate, the New Jersey State Police had increased ballistic leads by 78%."


 
Do you have data on exactly how the technology lead to an arrest and conviction vs other techniques. Because your article has no such information.

In fact.. increase "ballistic leads by 78%". Could actually be detrimental if these leads don;t lead anywhere but waste valuable time and resources.
 

Did you read the webpage ?

For further data, contact the editorial dept.
 
Did you read the webpage ?

For further data, contact the editorial dept.
I did. As I pointed out.. it doesn;t provide the information I asked for regarding actual arrests and convictions. So it doesn;t support your contention that.
Makes it easier to solve crimes
 
Also, it wouldn't be very significant if there weren't many "ballistic leads" to begin with. That's missing from the article as well.
 
Also, it wouldn't be very significant if there weren't many "ballistic leads" to begin with. That's missing from the article as well.
Well..then there is also the problem of the validity and reliability of such testing. With other methods of forensics.. bullet striation match, primer matching.. the forensics have been found to be quite unreliable.
 
Well..then there is also the problem of the validity and reliability of such testing. With other methods of forensics.. bullet striation match, primer matching.. the forensics have been found to be quite unreliable.
Yeah, it's not a TV show. My daughter tells me that even fingerprints aren't the infallible evidence that one might be led to believe. For one thing, it can be very difficult to lift a useable print.
 
I did. As I pointed out.. it doesn;t provide the information I asked for regarding actual arrests and convictions. So it doesn;t support your contention that.

I'd say a 78% increased ballistic leads does EXACTLY that.


SEVENTY-EIGHT PER CENT

You just in denial.
 
Yeah, it's not a TV show. My daughter tells me that even fingerprints aren't the infallible evidence that one might be led to believe. For one thing, it can be very difficult to lift a useable print.
Yes.. fingerprints are also quite unreliable despite what CSI shows want people to think.
 
I'd say a 78% increased ballistic leads does EXACTLY that.


SEVENTY-EIGHT PER CENT

You just in denial.
No it doesn;t. 78% increase in BALLISTIC LEADS.. does not give valid evidence of the number of arrests and convictions.
In fact.. a 78% of increase in ballistic leads... that essentially went no where.. because they were not VALID leads. and led to conviction. .. would indicate that using the data base actually DECREASED efficiency and effectiveness.
Its just facts and science.

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What's the title of the damn article ?

Did you even read as far as that ?
 
What's the title of the damn article ?

Did you even read as far as that ?
Appears to be all you read, and then just assumed it supported your point.
 
What's the title of the damn article ?

Did you even read as far as that ?
I read the title and in fact the entire article..which is why I question the title's veracity. Because the information in the article did not support the titles assertion.
Just facts and science.
 
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