tootired2care
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My two week consulting trip to Bethel (the beginning of the end) part 2
by seven006 inas we entered a door of the administration building we did not head to the elevator to take us up the eight floors to the main administration floor.
i looked around the room and asked, "what's up with her?
i was going to work with the elder from hell who ran the photography department.
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@Betsy - Thanks, that is an interesting report, I am surprised that hispanic gang killings are not really reflected on than that report. Seems to me with all the latino gangs in CA, FL and texas that would be substantial number. So in terms of the solutions what do you think would work for America? By work I mean really protect children, and bring homicide rates to UK levels?
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however blaming the parents 2 tired2care for their kid going on a killing spree is not right..... Im sure that mother of the boy was a loving mother
If you read the news reports they have painted her out to be a paranoid dooms day prepper. I've read stories that her oldest son had little to no contact with family since 2010. She would never let her own sister inside of her house, or others. The other thing is, even crazy people don't shoot their mother in face four times unless they have great anger at that person. I don't think that was a happy home from what i've heard so far, but it will interesting to see what new details emerge.
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@betsy - Apology accepted, and I do hear what you're saying. I just think this is a complex problem and there isn't a simple solution to fix it. I think some refinements to gun control laws make sense, but more is needed to address this problem.
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I do think that with America you have some unique variables that must be factored in with these gun statistics that make the comparison with Britain somewhat suspect.
We have a an ongoing war going on our US/Mexican border. Most of those killings are factored in with overall us gun killing statistics. Notice the states that share a border with Mexico have really high gun deaths.
Another variable is we have more inner city gangs than other western european countries and Japan. These are variables that Britain and Japan don't have to content with.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/jan/10/gun-crime-us-state
Gun crimes by US states
Rates per 100,000 population. Click heading to sort table. Download this data
State
Total firearms murders, 2011
% change, 2010-11
Fire- arms murders as % of all murders
Fire- arms murders rate
Fire- arms robb- eries rate
Fire- arms assaults rate
RATES ARE PER 100,000 PEOPLE. SOURCE: FBI UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS
NO DATA FOR FLORIDA OR ALABAMA
United States
8,583
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68
2.75
39.25
43.77
Alaska
16
-16
55
2.24
18.19
80.47
Arizona
222
-4
65
3.53
50.24
57.36
Arkansas
110
18
72
4.39
45.45
100.56
California
1,220
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68
3.25
42.97
45.39
Colorado
73
12
50
1.51
25.74
45.72
Connecticut
94
-3
73
2.71
34.85
20.06
Delaware
28
-26
68
3.09
69.67
81.36
District of Columbia
77
-22
71
12.46
242.56
87.7
Georgia
370
-2
71
3.93
72.48
58.64
Hawaii
1
-86
14
0.07
n/a
n/a
Idaho
17
42
53
1.14
3.41
23.43
Illinois
377
4
83
2.93
2.26
5.26
Indiana
183
29
64
3.29
53.14
29.91
Iowa
19
-10
43
0.71
7.31
21.95
Kansas
73
16
66
2.78
24.86
76.87
Kentucky
100
-14
67
2.36
39.77
25.14
Louisiana
402
15
83
10.16
63.48
99.51
Maine
12
9
48
0.9
5.8
4.52
Maryland
272
-7
68
4.7
79.71
41.18
Massachusetts
122
3
67
2.02
27.84
33.19
Michigan
450
9
73
5.06
55.95
86.41
Minnesota
43
-19
61
0.82
20.11
22.52
Mississippi
138
15
74
7.46
60.07
51.69
Missouri
276
-14
76
4.64
52.47
88.9
Montana
7
-42
39
0.76
3.78
29.03
Nebraska
42
31
65
2.5
25.44
33.84
Nevada
75
-11
58
3.07
69.77
53.3
New Hampshire
6
20
38
0.53
9.83
15.14
New Jersey
269
9
71
3.07
49.87
26.94
New Mexico
60
-10
50
2.98
34.96
87.26
New York
445
-14
57
4.12
23.28
20.06
North Carolina
335
17
69
3.87
48.72
67.44
North Dakota
6
50
50
0.93
4.79
4.79
Ohio
344
11
70
3.54
65.45
37.97
Oklahoma
131
18
64
3.64
42.81
58.07
Oregon
40
11
52
1.05
14.57
17.55
Pennsylvania
470
3
74
3.97
54.69
39.44
Rhode Island
5
-69
36
0.57
12.71
17.86
South Carolina
223
8
70
5.41
52.93
127.88
South Dakota
5
-38
33
0.68
4.91
20.6
Tennessee
244
11
65
3.92
72.88
137.58
Texas
699
-13
64
2.91
50.21
58.28
Utah
26
18
51
0.97
10.98
21.32
Vermont
4
100
50
0.75
4.32
12.6
Virginia
208
-17
69
2.58
35.4
21.35
Washington
79
-15
49
1.25
20.72
28.44
West Virginia
43
59
58
2.87
16.08
52.04
Wisconsin
80
-18
59
1.47
43.86
27.4
Wyoming
11
120
73
2.01
3.65
20.44
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@Betsy
First off I didn't CHOOSE to pick holes in another country, no where is this in my initial remarks. When someone flippantly touts GB laws as the "most obvious solution" to the problem when it's obviously not, as the data points out. If it was the solution it would get better, but over the last decade it hasn't. There is obviously more to fixing the problem than the endless droning mantra of gun control. All that GB's law does from my point of view is penalize law abiding citizens by not allowing them to protect themselves from thugs.
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Wouldn't the Almighty God have done a much better job than that?
by Terry inhere is some good advice:.
ask the jw you are studying with where the original manuscripts of the bible are kept.. see if they are even aware of the fact there are none in existence anywhere!.
their religious views are from men who assert that the bible is their foundation.
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Maybe the problem isn't that god didn't do a better job. Maybe the problem is just delusional people mellenia ago not being honest about the voices they heard in their head, which they forced everyone to believe is god, and his explanations of why we die etc.
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Those are illegally held weapons, so dont muddy the waters...
The waters look pretty clear to me. Stricter gun laws in GB have not prevented criminals from getting guns illegally and harming people with them, have they? How is that "the most obvious solution"?
Mental health is a critical component of the problem, and any real solution worth its salt should include some measure that factors this in IMHO.
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Why do Americans equate gun control with no guns?
We don't . See my first point above, smaller magazines are a common sense adjustment to existing gun laws than can help to mitigate the damage done in the event it cannot be prevented altogether.
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@Witness My Fury
According to this article, gun crime has gone up by 89% in a decade in England and Wales. Can you really say your stricter gun laws have worked? In fact I think it's worse because the average citizen is unble to defend theselves from these thugs in your country.
Time to rethink your prioritiessolutions me thinks...