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Offline AprilRazz

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Re: Why is it that in Germany there were 194 gun murders last year and in the US
« Reply #25 on: July 25, 2012, 05:50:18 PM »
TexMex, for someone who claims to be a college student your research skills are horrible.
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Re: Why is it that in Germany there were 194 gun murders last year and in the US
« Reply #26 on: July 25, 2012, 05:53:37 PM »
Quote from: AprilRazz on July 25, 2012, 05:50:18 PM
TexMex, for someone who claims to be a college student your research skills are horrible.
If you think he's bad, you should see the other genius that showed up last week.
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Re: Why is it that in Germany there were 194 gun murders last year and in the US
« Reply #27 on: July 25, 2012, 05:53:50 PM »
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I'm sure it has nothing to do with our lack of quality mental healthcare, war on drugs, the massive amounts of powerful gangs which have resulted from the war on drugs, rampant poverty in inner city areas, or the poor public schooling system.

Nope. I'm sure it can't be any of that.

They keep hammering that dumbass meme about "lack of mental healthcare".

First of all, we do have quality mental health services available here. It may not be free (which is what they're really talking about), but it is available. Secondly, the vast majority of people with mental health problems are not violent, and the vast majority of gun violence is not committed by people with mental health issues. Lastly, it presupposes that the minority of those mentally ill who do have a potential for violence will seek help, when in reality a lot of them don't have the insight into their own problems that would compel them to seek treatment, and unless they've demonstrated that they're a real or potential danger to themselves or others they can't be forced into treatment.  
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Re: Why is it that in Germany there were 194 gun murders last year and in the US
« Reply #28 on: July 25, 2012, 05:59:42 PM »
Quote from: chris_ on July 25, 2012, 05:53:37 PM
If you think he's bad, you should see the other genius that showed up last week.
Why is it that we can pick them out when they come here. but they can't find us?

Karl Rove has trained us well. :evil::bwah: :evil:
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Re: Why is it that in Germany there were 194 gun murders last year and in the US
« Reply #29 on: July 25, 2012, 06:01:29 PM »
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Why is it that we can pick them out when they come here. but they can't find us?

Karl Rove has trained us well. :evil::bwah: :evil:

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Re: Why is it that in Germany there were 194 gun murders last year and in the US
« Reply #30 on: July 25, 2012, 08:31:15 PM »
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Re: Why is it that in Germany there were 194 gun murders last year and in the US
« Reply #31 on: July 25, 2012, 08:37:14 PM »
Switzerland, where most house holds have weapons:
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Police statistics for the year 2006 records 34 killings or attempted killings involving firearms, compared to 69 cases involving bladed weapons and 16 cases of unarmed assault. Cases of assault resulting in bodily harm numbered 89 (firearms) and 526 (bladed weapons). As of 2007, Switzerland had a population of about 7,600,000. This would put the rate of killings or attempted killings with firearms at about one for every quarter million residents yearly. This represents a decline of aggravated assaults involving firearms since the early 1990s. The majority of gun crimes involving domestic violence are perpetrated with army ordnance weapons, while the majority of gun crime outside the domestic sphere involves illegally held firearms.

I wonder why TexMex didn't ask about the Swiss?
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Re: Why is it that in Germany there were 194 gun murders last year and in the US
« Reply #32 on: July 25, 2012, 10:07:49 PM »
We met a lovely young woman from Berlin who came here a few years ago as an exchange student. Her first summer we taught her how to shoot and she took to it like a duck to water. We are good friends with her host family and she returns to the states every summer to visit. Every time she is here she goes shooting (friend has lots of land so we shoot there) and is a crack shot.
Well we took her to a gun shop here in Virginia and I thought her eyes were going to pop out of her head. Since she was a little girl she has been taught that guns are bad. Even though she loved shooting she was still taken aback at seeing all the guns on display. She had a hard time wrapping her head around the fact that they were all real guns. But she understood how our constitution protects the sale and possession of firearms. It was just a bit of a culture shock for her.

She herself admitted to illegally carrying pepper spray when she goes out in Berlin. She admitted to me that she felt safer here in the US than she does at home.
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Re: Why is it that in Germany there were 194 gun murders last year and in the US
« Reply #33 on: July 25, 2012, 10:43:32 PM »
You know one could ask this question .

After two world wars  fought  by Germany, why would you want to or even care if the Germans had as many guns as we do in the first place TexMex?
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Re: Why is it that in Germany there were 194 gun murders last year and in the US
« Reply #34 on: July 26, 2012, 08:17:46 AM »
Quote from: AprilRazz on July 25, 2012, 05:50:18 PM
TexMex, for someone who claims to be a college student your research skills are horrible.

I was thinking he was just dumber than dirt.    :lmao:
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Re: Why is it that in Germany there were 194 gun murders last year and in the US
« Reply #35 on: July 26, 2012, 03:15:17 PM »
Quote from: hillneck on July 26, 2012, 08:17:46 AM
I was thinking he was just dumber than dirt.    :lmao:

Why are you insulting dirt like that?

What did dirt ever do to you?   :lmao:
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Re: Why is it that in Germany there were 194 gun murders last year and in the US
« Reply #36 on: July 26, 2012, 04:01:07 PM »
Has TexMex been back? Or was this just another unsuccessful DUmmie strafing run?
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Re: Why is it that in Germany there were 194 gun murders last year and in the US
« Reply #37 on: July 26, 2012, 06:51:27 PM »
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