Is there any reason to distinguish "blacks killing blacks" or any other ethnicity? It sorta reminds me of my mom when she used to share her grocery store experiences like this: "This colored girl rang me up and she was so nice." It's a fairly benign, generational racism that I'm used to, and I have actually managed to make her aware of and she doesn't do it anymore... with me, anyway.
Again, I think it's the high number of deaths in one mass shooting event that's causing the concern.
I was being facetious. And, it's not a lot of money and it goes both ways. Quit acting like you're struggling financially in some lame attempt to prove a lame point.
No, actually internet sales tax has made its way into online sales sites for good. So, your judgment was wrong.
I'm not sure. Like I said, I didn't read his link. He said that the murder rate was higher. Maybe killing 10 people in one attack is better than killing 10 people, but having to break it into two separate attacks. Seems like 10 dead people are 10 dead people to me. I could be completely wrong about this, because I'm just trying to interpret what @NoleSoup4U was trying to say. I might be way off.
Normally no, but I'm trying to find a difference as to why some of these deaths are more important than others to some people. If we are going to discuss a solution to a problem, you need to know the variables. Race seems to be a factor based on the stats. It could just be a coincidence though.
It wasn't my intention to connect it to race at first. I just meant discriminatory as it relates to the two groups. You were discriminating about people in the inner city by calling them thugs that no one cares about. In my ETA, I did mention it possibly being a subconscious race thing as to why you seemed to think victims of mass shooting are more important than those "thugs". You never really gave a solid reason as to why lives in mass shootings were more important than those in Chicago.
How about income tax? What about it? I file them every year. I'm not the one one with my hand on my wallet, using it as an excuse to basically say "to hell with worrying about the thousands of people getting mowed-down. I'm already on the hook for the senior citizens with diabetes." If it's not likely to happen to you, then BFD.How about income tax?
Here's the chart:
https://www.businessinsider.com/us-gun-death-murder-risk-statistics-2018-3
I don't think murder rates are the same outcome as total numbers murdered. I guess what really matters is how a society determines what affects it and how much, or how little, and why. And, if it takes "white people dying in masses" to get it changed, well, that's unfortunate, but hopefully it's finally going to get better. Being pissed that it took white people dying to get there is going to happen, but some people are feigning being pissed in an attempt to keep the status quo.
Make as many as you want. As I said, I'm not the one using my wallet and my bottom line to justify snubbing these archaic gun attitudes. That's been your angle.
That's BS and you know it. You brought that angle into your argument, not me.
That's like saying "Well, if we cure these diseases, there are just going to be more we have to cure. It's not like nature will just be on our side from here on out. Just cope with the symptoms and die with as much dignity as possible."
I never presumed anything, you volunteered it and keep falling-back on how you're already being shaken-down to keep poor people in good health.
My bad... that should have been hundreds instead of thousands. I guess everything is okay now.
Like I said before, a lot of these people being killed are not gang members. They are just innocent kids and adults. You are making two assumptions. First, you are assuming that these are all gang members and second, you're assuming that the people in the mass shootings are all great people. There was a kid that died this weekend in Chicago (I think he was 5) to go along with more than 50 people who were shot and others who were killed. Many of them just innocent people. If you don't understand how killing an innocent kid is just as bad no matter where you are I don't really have much else to say.
Beat me to it. Those things are extremely cheap and easy to make. They don't get the same news coverage as the AR-15, so it doesn't have the same copy cat issue.
That's a solid point. It's really hard to say for certain what the exact numbers would be without a control group.
Are those pre-made, and available to buy at WalMart? No? Okay, then they aren't the same thing. Are pipe bombs legal? No? Okay, then they aren't the same thing.
When people set-off pipe bombs and kill... a few... people, you're saying that doesn't make the news?
