Florida armed bystander stops gunman at crowded back-to-school event at park

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  1. yabberefugee

    yabberefugee Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Then it is good you stay where ever you are. We don't need you.
     
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    The only thing that would do is change where the decimal point goes. It doesn't change the underlying statistics, just how they're displayed.
     
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    You don't know how these numbers are used huh? If it was per capita of 1, the crime rate would be just a simple overall number. Chicago would be showing a crime rate of how many actually were committed, while your make believe town would be at 5 crimes per capita of 1. When people use "per capita" crime rates of populations over the number of citizens in a town and compare them with large cities much higher than that "per capita" number, of course the small town looks more violent than the actual war zone of the democrat ghettos.
     
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    So you admit your post was a total work of fiction. If you can't be honest why bother to post?
     
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    CourtJester Well-Known Member

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    Except my definition says nothing off the kind assuming ( and it is a stretch) that you can read. What you are really saying in a normal way common to bigoted people is that immigrants or minorities are criminals.

    But if you have a definition other than in your own mind that says the definition of a ghetto is high crime go ahead and post it. And the bigots dictionary doesn't count.
     
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    CourtJester Well-Known Member

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    That has nothing to do with the discussion. And as a matter of settled law the right to bear arms can be restricted. As for instance convited felons or certain types of weapons.
     
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    I am sure that made sense to somebody.
     
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    Clearly your language deficiencies preclude rational discussion. Come back when you graduate.
     
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    slum
    sləm/
    noun
    1. 1.
      a squalid and overcrowded urban street or district inhabited by very poor people.
      synonyms: hovel, rathole; More
    verb
    informal
    1. 1.
      spend time at a lower social level than one's own through curiosity or for charitable purposes.
      "rich tourists slumming among the quaintly dangerous natives"
     
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    BestViewedWithCable Well-Known Member

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    I think it has something to do with society demanding we try.
     
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    BestViewedWithCable Well-Known Member

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    Nope, I just posted a story for you to comment on.

    Its not a justification for anything.

    Good guy does good.
     
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    No one refers to Appalachia (low income, high crime, white people) as a ghetto. Ghetto is almost exclusivly used to describe minority areas such as Hispanic or black areas in the US or Arab Muslims in Europe. It never ceases to amaze me how ****ing lazy people are when I quick google would show them just how wrong and idiotic they are. If referring to these areas as ghettos is bigoted then I guess that makes the NYT and academic research papers racist as well. Its laughable how pathetic your side as become at calling everything racist and bigoted. It just shows how stupid and pathetic your side is.

    https://www.nytimes.com/1998/10/06/world/a-swedish-dilemma-the-immigrant-ghetto.html

    https://www.economist.com/special-report/2013/11/09/a-new-kind-of-ghetto

    https://www.economist.com/special-report/2013/11/09/a-new-kind-of-ghetto

    https://www.researchgate.net/public...t_Settlement_in_Sweden_Focusing_on_Malmo_City
     
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    Try learning to use a dictionary and then report back.

    And I only bothered to read the nytimes article but I don't see anywhere in the article where your contention that ghettos have a high crime rate is supported. Maybe you could quote the relevent passage that supports your claim. And no the opinion of some of the citizens that actually share your bigotry isn't evidence.
     
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    It was yourself who acknowledged that statistics can be faked and misrepresented. As such is being admitted to, do not try further to utilize such.

    Show such.

    Certain types of weapons does not mean certain types of firearms, however. The united state supreme court was specific when it spoke of "dangerous and unusual weapons" which it later clarified in the Caetano ruling does not apply to any firearms currently on the market. All firearms are dangerous, regardless of type or configuration, and no firearm can legally be regarded as unusual on the basis that it did not exist at the time of the ratification of the united states constitution.

    Beyond that matter, the united state supreme court specified in Heller that the second amendment covered and protected all implements that constitute bearable arms. If it is on the legal market, it cannot legally be prohibited from ownership by the general public, even if it is a type overwhelmingly selected for the commission of crimes by prohibited individuals.
     
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    You just called me a bigot for using the term ghetto and I showed you just a small sample of multliple sources that use the same term to describe ghettos. They even specifically state that ghettos are usually referring to black or Asian or other minority areas with low income and high crime. Your name calling bit you in the ass because I just showed everyone here what a pontificating virtue signaling fraud you are.
     
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    No I didn't. Learn to read. What I said is your claim that ghettos are high crime just because they have poor people and immigrants is bigoted. And still waiting for you to post a definition of ghetto that says that a ghetto has a high crime rate.
     
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    Wow....you just can't fix stupid can you? By the way I never said they have high crime just because they have poor people and immigrants. I even specifically blamed Europe's complete inability to assimilate immigrants as successfully as the US has. You are the one that can't read. You pull some dictionary definition when you know damn well that everyone that uses the term ghetto specifically uses it to describe low income, high crime areas with large minority populations. There is even an app that lets you avoid "ghettos". There are places in California where large numbers of Chinese immigrants live but they aren't referred to as ghetto according to your defintion because they are high income and low crime. Once again.....can't fix stupid.

    What I have done is repeatedly post sources that use the term ghetto to specifically describe areas of high crime and low income and all you have in response is a dictionary reference. Do you just enjoy being embarrassed repeatedly by your superiors?

    https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/07/denmarks-ghetto-plan/564296/

    https://escholarship.org/uc/item/463262hq

    https://web.stanford.edu/class/e297c/poverty_prejudice/soc_sec/hview.htm
     
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    I see we're back to living in a leftist mental construct.
     
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    vman12 Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Maybe when "everyone else can't read" the problem isn't everyone else.
     
  20. Thingamabob

    Thingamabob Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I expect that sort of response from someone between 14 and 18 years old. Nationality is no indicator of knowledge and the fact that my knowledge is far more credible than yours is proof of it.
     
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    Thingamabob Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Thank you.
     
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    Thingamabob Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Read post #359.
     
  23. DentalFloss

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    If it were per 1, it would still be the same number, but instead of 3.3/100,000 it would be like .000000033/1. (I didn't actually do the math there, and I plucked 3.3 out of my hindquarters.)
     
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    What's the murder rate per 100k in a town of 500 people if there's 1 murder.

    Answer: 200 per 100k

    (1/500) * 100,000
     
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    yabberefugee Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    You have nothing whatsoever to back up what you call "knowledge". It's as though you have inside information. What are you, CIA??? Robert D'Niro in "Meet the Fockers"?? Ha ha! Dimentia does all sorts of weird things to the mind!:alcoholic:
     

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