Comment on Contrasting views of conspiracy theories by fleshisgrass
I think Fiske was making a point against Enlightenment thinking which championed rationality over gut instinct but failed to make good the world’s injustices – or merely replaced some with other new...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by newcentrist
A few comments: 1) Thanks for giving me the benefit of the doubt. I am definitely not someone who thinks race is the causal factor, but there is a correlation. And there is a correlation between being...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by Adam
If the population and statistics provided for uk are only for England and Wales there were 56.1m people and 550 murders that would work out at 0.98 per 100,000 not 1.4 there would have had to be 785...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by 1hrdcore
So do knives, baseball bats, fireplace pokers,cars and thousands of other items that have been used to kill, maim and destroy peoples lives. What is the point that a weapons origin was once legal? Once...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by Radbrad
Just saying that the only way criminals get guns is by stealing or buying them from someone who acquired them legally. So less legal guns equals less illegal guns.
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Chaz
No there are 27 times as many murder. The rate per hundred thousand of population if about 5 times as high, but in pure numbers it is about 27 times higher. 16,799 (the number of murder in the USA...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Chaz
What you are thinking of is the rate per 100,000 of population which is about 5 times as high in the USA as in the UK. In total numbers the USA has 27 times as many murders, although it only has 5...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Chaz
Who the hell said the USA was answerable to the UK? What a stupid statement. The UK is an example of how gun laws work, that is all.
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by 1hrdcore
so less cars will mean less car assaults, less baseball bats will equate to less bludgeoning deaths, less knives ect All that happens is the means change But the crime or intent stays. Also history is...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by 1hrdcore
there is a utube video that has the stats (from the US government) It seems like most crimes occur in large metro areas. The US has a lot more areas with population greater than 250K than the UK and...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by יצחק בּוזוף
None. justifiable homicides are tallied separately.
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by יצחק בּוזוף
Yes, exactly. Keep in mind that the Oklahoma City Bombing was committed with fertilizer and diesel fuel. And killed more people than all the mass shootings in the last 10 years combined.
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by 1hrdcore
never been satisfied with the explanation of the ok. bombing. To many unanswered questions to many conflicting information as to what happened. And who was involved. Also they were quick to “clean up”...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by HASSIA (@HASSIA)
Reductio ad absurdum.
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by fleshisgrass
I’m not satisfied with your dissatisfaction with the explanation. I find it deeply wrong to casually dismiss evidence-based accounts – the consensus of people qualified to make them, not embittered...
View ArticleComment on Anti-Semitism in the left: an open letter to the ISG – National...
Aidan is an NCAFC activist. He shared the post which was originally on the ISG’s Communique page to criticise and draw attention to it.
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon (updated) by Syth
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_tot_cri-crime-total-crimes The US has about twice the violent crime as the UK…and more than 5x the population. Therefore you are more than twice as likely to be a...
View ArticleComment on Voting Labour in Ilford North – Jewish, uncomfortable by Anonymous
Stop bringing these foreign issues in to a London suburb . I live in Ilford North and am so glad that the Jewish community is Excellent community here . The Jewish community is the reason why I moved...
View ArticleComment on Voting Labour in Ilford North – Jewish, uncomfortable by fleshisgrass
Hello Anonymous – I found it really intriguing to notice that your comment, which begins “Stop bringing these foreign issues into a London suburb”, then proceeds to celebrate a particular community –...
View ArticleComment on In pictures: Barkingside snowday by Jim Lindsay
Amazing. I grew up in Barkingside, first at Tomswood court then at 244 Fullwell Avenue. We used to go down pancake Hill in the snow on various devices. The best, I remember, was an old piece of Lino....
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