Trans eligibility rules for girls sports.

[Desert Hound]

Think about all the stupid laws trying to ban ARs.

Think about recent CA attempts.

It is basically politicians saying LOOK A SQUIRREL.

The amount of time/effort/money spent to ban a type of rifle that isnt the issue is amazing.

People dont look at stats. The react based on emotion. The press feeds into that emotion. Look how scary that gun type is, etc.

And yet nationwide out of 50k deaths each year...shotguns, bolt action rifles, and semi auto rifles comprise about 300 total deaths out of 50k. And a large percentage of those 300 deaths are suicide.

Banning them will not make any difference in the least. Despite what the press says there is not some sudden increase in long guns used in school shootings. The amount of deaths in any one year attributed to long guns has remained rather consistent year after year, decade after decade.

Criminals dont use long guns because they hare hard to conceal.

But despite the numbers above...think about how the press/politicians play up the gun angle. It is those dams ARs causing the problem. Ban them now and gun deaths will plummet is they way it is portrayed. Oh look another squirrel.

 

[dad4]

Here are the inconvenient facts.

Watching / reading the press one comes away with the impression that innocent kids are getting hammered all over the place. Reality is most of those "kids" are gang members.

Gang members, anyone else who happens be near a gang member. Plenty of those deaths are just wrong place, wrong time.

Neither the gang members nor the handguns have a great reputation for accuracy, or a huge concern for bystanders.

 

[Desert Hound]

Gang members, anyone else who happens be near a gang member. Plenty of those deaths are just wrong place, wrong time.

Neither the gang members nor the handguns have a great reputation for accuracy, or a huge concern for bystanders.

So we should crack down on crime and criminals right? They are the source of the majority of the non suicide related deaths.

And yet most gangs and gang related activity resides in cities run by D politicians. The same politicians who refuse to prosecute, are defunding police and have reduced the severity of penalties for a number of crimes. All of which has the "unintended" consequence of creating more crime rather than less.

 

[dad4]

So we should crack down on crime and criminals right? They are the source of the majority of the non suicide related deaths.

And yet most gangs and gang related activity resides in cities run by D politicians. The same politicians who refuse to prosecute, are defunding police and have reduced the severity of penalties for a number of crimes. All of which has the "unintended" consequence of creating more crime rather than less.

It’s a question of what works.

I have a ton of respect for the guys who give up every Friday and Saturday night to run open basketball gyms or salsa dances.

That doesn’t mean I think we should cut the police to fund it. But community building is important if you want the police to have less work to do.

 

[Desert Hound]

It’s a question of what works.

I have a ton of respect for the guys who give up every Friday and Saturday night to run open basketball gyms or salsa dances.

That doesn’t mean I think we should cut the police to fund it. But community building is important if you want the police to have less work to do.

Until politicians get serious about crime, it will get worse. It is a good and great thing some people volunteer to help. But if politicians refuse to go after criminals and weaken laws...things will get worse.

Downtown SF Whole Foods Made Weekly Emergency Calls Ahead of Closure

The shuttered Whole Foods was a site of frequent medical emergencies, including one fatal overdose.

sfstandard.com

 

[Desert Hound]

Seeing more and more of this in certain cities. Cities that refuse to crack down on crime.

Many of these cities also have high homicide rates due to gun violence.

Chicago lost some big retailers in the past few weeks in their downtown area.

REI to close only Portland store, citing break-ins, theft

The outdoor company said its Portland store experienced more thefts and break-ins in recent months than at any time in its history.

www.oregonlive.com

 

[crush]

Until politicians get serious about crime, it will get worse. It is a good and great thing some people volunteer to help. But if politicians refuse to go after criminals and weaken laws...things will get worse.

Downtown SF Whole Foods Made Weekly Emergency Calls Ahead of Closure

The shuttered Whole Foods was a site of frequent medical emergencies, including one fatal overdose.

sfstandard.com

My buddy just left a place he thought he would retire in outside of SF because it's dangerous and the schools are not good for his grand kids. He went to college in NoCal and was sold out for the area and tried to work with folks. He was middle of the road b4 he moved up there and then got brainwashed and so woke he was hard to talk with over the years. He finally woke up and now EVERYONE in his NoCal clan have left for Texas. Crazy times......

 

[Lion Eyes]

Pick one:

"Most of the firearms used by prisoners during the commission of their crimes were stolen." Survey of prisoners.

New survey confirms majority of guns used by criminals are taken from people's homes and cars - Behind the Badge

Sadly, robberies, aggravated assaults, gang shootings, and a myriad of gun crimes are an every day occurrence in cities across the country. A day doesn’t go by when you can’t read, see, or hear about a gun-related crime on the news. Of course it begs the question, how do these crooks get guns...

behindthebadge.com

"Stolen guns account for only about 10% to 15% of guns used in crimes," Study by the ATF

frontline: hot guns: "How Criminals Get Guns" | PBS

The clear takeaway is that criminals don't buy guns from a retail outlet. Bigger no shit. I couldn't care less where criminals obtain guns, enforce gun crimes whether it's illegal possession or if it was used to commit a crime, and if your stolen gun ends up in the hands of a criminal you should be prosecuted too.

If the gun is stolen (a crime) then it's in the hands of a criminal...why stop there?
If your car is stolen and the car is involved in a crime or a crash, you should be prosecuted too...

 

[crush]

If the gun is stolen (a crime) then it's in the hands of a criminal...why stop there?
If your car is stolen and the car is involved in a crime or a crash, you should be prosecuted too...

Was the car parked in the garage? Keys laying around for easy steal for perp?

 

[Slobodan]

Was the car parked in the garage? Keys laying around for easy steal for perp?

That's liberal thinking. "Well, the car was unlocked and the keys were in the ignition so I took it. If they didn't want it stolen, they should have locked the doors." We are a nation of rules, laws and policies. If you don't agree with them, go ahead and break them because it's so unfair.

That's the type of person democrats target for votes.

 

[crush]

The news is going to wake up the normies very soon. Listen up folks. It;s going to get real, real soon so let's not all panic. God is in control. I won't share the news I got because you won't believe me. Hold on to dear life is all I can say. Love you all

 

[Kicker4Life]

That's liberal thinking. "Well, the car was unlocked and the keys were in the ignition so I took it. If they didn't want it stolen, they should have locked the doors." We are a nation of rules, laws and policies. If you don't agree with them, go ahead and break them because it's so unfair.

That's the type of person democrats target for votes.

Want that Biden’s defense for the Classified Doc’s found in the trunk of his car.

 

[watfly]

If the gun is stolen (a crime) then it's in the hands of a criminal...why stop there?
If your car is stolen and the car is involved in a crime or a crash, you should be prosecuted too...

Because that's apples and oranges. 1) there are laws on the books that require you to properly secure your weapons, 2) its very easy to secure weapons privately in your own home in a gun safe. It's difficult to secure a vehicle when its primarily used in public.

Only irresponsible people don't properly secure their guns. Like I said if it was properly secured and stolen you shouldn't be held liable, but I bet its rare that a properly secured gun is stolen.

This having been said, we need to start with better enforcement of laws against those that use guns in a crime, before we go after those that don't properly secure their guns.

 

[whatithink]

Because that's apples and oranges. 1) there are laws on the books that require you to properly secure your weapons, 2) its very easy to secure weapons privately in your own home in a gun safe. It's difficult to secure a vehicle when its primarily used in public.

Only irresponsible people don't properly secure their guns. Like I said if it was properly secured and stolen you shouldn't be held liable, but I bet its rare that a properly secured gun is stolen.

This having been said, we need to start with better enforcement of laws against those that use guns in a crime, before we go after those that don't properly secure their guns.

I agree with the sentiment, but I also think we should do both, not least as the stats seem to suggest that approx. 50% of guns used in crime are stolen, presumably from gun owners. So doing the latter would, longer term, hopefully reduce the number of guns in the hands of criminals, or maybe not, but doing nothing to impact 50% of the supply will certainly not reduce the volume of guns in criminal hands, so ....

I'm all for enforcement of laws. We do seem to do that given we have the highest incarceration rate in the world and incarcerate, apparently, 25% of the worlds total prison population - and that's with incarceration rates in the US at a 20 year low!

Of course, we could be enforcing the wrong laws, or not enough ... idk.

 

[Slobodan]

We'd incarcerate less if we executed people that need it. Might serve as a deterrent for a few others if they knew going to prison meant more than a handball team reunion with their homies.

 

[whatithink]

We'd incarcerate less if we executed people that need it. Might serve as a deterrent for a few others if they knew going to prison meant more than a handball team reunion with their homies.

You have to be sentenced to death first, and there are less than 3000 people on death row out of 2,000,000+ inmates, so I'm going to say there's probably no correlation.

 

[crush]

We'd incarcerate less if we executed people that need it. Might serve as a deterrent for a few others if they knew going to prison meant more than a handball team reunion with their homies.

Some of the Perps are saying they identify as a woman now so they get to have sex in prison with the ladies. These guys are tricksters.

 

[crush]

You have to be sentenced to death first, and there are less than 3000 people on death row out of 2,000,000+ inmates, so I'm going to say there's probably no correlation.

How many drug dealers think?

 

[crush]

Exclusive – Trump Endorses Using Military to Crush Cartels: ‘I Would Do That’

 

[Slobodan]

You have to be sentenced to death first, and there are less than 3000 people on death row out of 2,000,000+ inmates, so I'm going to say there's probably no correlation.

Why bother giving a death sentence when Gavin Newsom decided his ego is bigger than the will of the people?