I think it's bordline bigotry. I've lived many places in America. I've seen a lot. Good and bad. Better than you know and probably also worse. It's generally peaceful.
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VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account
by WingCommander inanyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
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VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account
by WingCommander inanyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
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freemindfade
Simon, in america when the population is > 250,000 the violent crime & murder rate are double the national average. Now if you took the numbers and applied them to say a city of 8 million like nyc, the murder rate is high, if you focus in more, you could that one or two neighborhoods in one borough would account for the bulk of that.
Cause and effect, murder comes from a place and an environment. The fact of the matter is that the bulk of our crime in america is located in small pockets. The issue is oversimplified and not being honest does not help.
Again people love to make claims about how horrible it is we have people with AR15's here, and while I see no need myself really to have one, the fact is in an FBI stat from 2011 of deaths cause by FIREARMS, 3.5% were cause by RIFLES, AR15's fall under that. That means that even a further fraction of the 3.5%. But the image portrayed is that americans are walking around shooting everyone with assault rifles, when things like that are not true.
Blaming Guns = Easy
Blaming Social & mental health failings = much much more difficult
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VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account
by WingCommander inanyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
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America has a two fold problem. I am fine saying the vast availability and as SecretSlaveClass pointed out mismanagement of fire arms correlate to GUN RELATED DEATHS. No body here dismisses that. However it is implied that
- Americans are bloodthirsty violent maniacs, if you go there a gun nut is likely to shoot you
- Its easy everywhere in America to just get a gun
- There are a lot of opinions on the guns themselves that are wrong, as I stated, as ridiculous as it may be for anyone to posses an assault rifle, contrary to popular belief they aren't really being used to kill people.
Cause and Effect. lets talk about that for a second. Baltimore was brought up because of its population. I am glad someone mentioned Baltimore, because I have a very intimate knowledge of some of the worst parts of baltimore. Its a bad bad place. I helped someone with property development in these places. You know you can buy a row house in baltimore for $2000? Why is that... I had to have dealings with people named "rock" and "speedy" with "F-ck" tattooed on one eye lid, and "you" on the other. They would have shoot outs yes in the street, like the wild west. The place was a cracked out, dead end, American failure. You bet your ass their is A LOT of gun violence there.
Now let me ask you this, cause and effect, which comes first, do the guns cause these parts of baltimore to have a crack problem and staggering crime and poverty? We can admit there is a problem with guns, but did guns cause this 1st world void? Or!!! does the crime, poverty, failing come FIRST, and the GUNS follow?
You see this is what frustrates me the canada, uk, aussie anti gun folks on here, because you do have a blind bias.
Your stance is the secondary problem to the violence is #1, and you are so focused and how little you think of those of us who live here, that is all you see. There are MANY primary problems here that could save lives, even while the secondary issue is addressed. But you all want to pick the simple and media blasted idea that the problems we have here (that decline yearly) are because OF the gun. Guns no more cause the problem than my laptop is causing me to type on this site. You are falling into the idiot trap of our own media empire that tells you This, this is the problem, while ignoring the more complicated, embarrassing pink elephants in the room.
Gun violence is highest in america in the metro areas where the gun laws happen to be the strictest. I am not sure what else you could do in New York city to make it harder to get a gun, as I stated its next to, if not, impossible for a citizen to get one with out some act of congress. And yet the kids in brownsville, east new york and other places area killing each other every day. While bubba the gun nut in bumblescum mississippi is out shooting empty propane tanks with his AR15. Ive lived here a long time, and i have been many places, for more than visits, and i am telling you, you guys are are putting a simple blanket view to a complicated issue.
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why did the sacrafice have to be so BRUTAL
by Tater-T inwhy did the sacrifice have to be so brutal... i mean what value does that add to the equation of justice.couldn't he jesus have came down and just been slaughtered like a regular sacrifice without the brutal torture.why is justice served by brutalityanyone anyone bueller... lolnow you know i don't like to type for hours but this is always bothered me
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VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account
by WingCommander inanyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
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Why not keep hunting rifles in the hunting states and stop giving out handguns in the shoot-each-other cities?
Go to new York City and get a handgun. Good luck. You'd have better luck convincing wtbts to change their policy. It's nearly impossbile!
Also the gun nuts don't reside in the city, Billy bob, Joe bob, and Bubba the gun nuts arent there.
The things you talk about are not based on real knowledge of America.the murders are happening in poverty stricken areas. The gun problem is there. But the violence starts there too.
You guys are so blinded by being anti gun that you refuse to acknowledge the United states issues with poverty and areas that are not like "1st world" countries but 3rd world slums.
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VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account
by WingCommander inanyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
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freemindfade
Fact 250,000+ metropolitan areas hold the bulk murder rate. UK & US. US has statically far more 250k+ metro area. Math. Our murder rate will be higher.
Want to talk about one sided statistics? Everyone sounds the alarm on assault rifles. The evil Americans why do they need them. Well the perception is intestine because a miniscule fraction of deaths come from "rifles". A subset of that is assault rifles. I'm not advocating for them. But people twist things to make it appear we have an assault rifle problem because the talking heads on TV tell them we do.
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VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account
by WingCommander inanyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
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OK I am sick of this. One sided stats and facts. Does anyone even understand how statistics work??? You can just throw out a number without context. I'm not talking about guns but I'm sick of this idea that America I'd blood soaked orgy of violence and people parroting the fear mongering they here by media and polliticicians with agendas.
Violent crimes and murder in America have DECREASED by 50% over the last 20 years. Murder is about 4/100,000. Who EVER talks about that?? No one. Does anyone also know that the UK has 3 times the violent crime and 'Merica' per capita. Murders are slightly less but also consider this. The bulk of murders in America happen in metropolitan areas of 250,000 or more. Guess what. We have a lot more of those areas than the uk where everyone walks around on rainbows hugging each other and petty butterflies. Not being violent oh no.
I lived in new York City. 8 million people. Gun laws so strick it's basically impossible for a citizen and many cases even law enforcement to privately. Everyday people were more afraid of the word gun than witness are of Satan. It was a true non gun nut zone. However. Everyday in east new York and Brownsville. Shootings. These parts of new York are extremely dangerous. Riddled with poverty and crime. America is guilty. Guilt of allowing places like this to thrive in their metropolitan areas without giving real help on education, poverty and eliminating dangerous crime.
So don't manipulate the stats. To me UK sounds far more dangerous. You guys don't have all the metropolitan areas that foster murder but you still have a decent rate and you are three times as violent.
You guys should spend more time complaining about how we let pieces of cap like the Kardashians get famous and ignore the problems of the inner cities. Seriously
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VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account
by WingCommander inanyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
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VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account
by WingCommander inanyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
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freemindfade
Your Comments seem filtered through a media image portrayed constantly because of people like trump, the kkk, rampage shootings etc that garnish a great deal of train wreck attention (selling tickets to the "American show") and are really not representive of all of us. I know the Americans you speak of. They are embarrassing. They are not everyone.
Now Texas that is America! Lol. Texans are wild ;)
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VA shooting suspect was raised a JW! He mentions it on his Twitter account
by WingCommander inanyone in the usa following this morning's shooting "on-air" live tv will know what i'm talking about.
bryce williams (not real name, but on-air name) shot and killed 2 people on live television this morning in roanoke, va. he was wearing a go-pro camera, and uploaded his first-person video onto his social media accounts.
i've seen his twitter feed (before it was taken down), and not very far down he mentions being raised a jw.
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freemindfade
Simon with all due respect some times your comments such as this come across as strictly anti-American. Like strongly. Not presenting a specific fact, but a broad generalization about anyone who might live in anywhere in the United states. Kinda harsh dude.