Gun Control

[Duck Rodgers]

... and this guy is anti-government regulation on virtually everything.

And has Black Swan fetish.

 

[Scat]

I guess so. I think you're a steaming pile of **** with an intellect to match, so it is what it is I guess.

LOL You neg rep me, call me names and insult me... I must really get under your skin. Why not just put me on ignore already?

 

[larryselbows]

And has Black Swan fetish.

Pretty entertaining book, right?

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

Nassim Nicholas Taleb had a great quote today: "Now gun control may or may not work. But I doubt it will INCREASE these incidents. Which is why we should always analyse regulation in terms of upside/downside."

Clinton admin had a ban on assault rifles that ended a while ago. Pretty sure crime rate has been lower since the ban ended.

 

[Duck Rodgers]

Pretty entertaining book, right?

Yeah, and I read section by section in my local library so I had the Malcolm Gladwell books and Superfreakeconomics in my stack too when I first read Black Swan so that was pretty interesting block of reading.

 

[candrew]

Answer the question: What kind of person uses a massacre to jump on their soap box driving a marginalized agenda?
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Apparently this person.



https://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2012/12/16/louie_gohmert_lawmaker_calls_for_more_guns_after_school_shooting.html

"I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out and she didn’t have to lunge heroically with nothing in her hands and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids,” Gohmert said.

 

[Gyp Rosetti]

As a teacher who practices lockdowns a few times a year, I'm curious as to how much time elapsed from when the gunman entered the building and/or fired his first shot to when he entered that classroom. How much detail as to what went on in the building has been released?

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

Does anyone have any documented example where an assault rifle was used as protection by a citizen and not the military/police. Not saying banning assault weapons would do anything. Just curious.

 

[larryselbows]

Clinton admin had a ban on assault rifles that ended a while ago. Pretty sure crime rate has been lower since the ban ended.

Stats please!

 

[larryselbows]

Stats please!

Correction: Peer reviewed stats please!

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

 

[larryselbows]

Thank you, glad to see the violent crime rate go down during the Clinton administration, source please.

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

Thank you, glad to see the violent crime rate go down during the Clinton administration, source please.

assault weapon ban didn't do much of anything. The rate was dropping before and after the ban.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States

 

[larryselbows]

assault weapon ban didn't do much of anything. The rate was dropping before and after the ban.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_the_United_States

The data speaks for itself, I don't need an interpretation of the data. All it shows is that the violent crime rate went down after 1992, feel free to interpret it any way you feel fit.

 

[Hotdog]

I have to say that the speech by Obama moments ago was very inspiring. I feel exactly how he does.

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

The data speaks for itself, I don't need an interpretation of the data. All it shows is that the violent crime rate went down after 1992, feel free to interpret it any way you feel fit.

and after 2004 when the ban ended. Twist it the direction you want it.

 

[larryselbows]

and after 2004 when the ban ended. Twist it the direction you want it.

Tell that to Tuscon, Aurora, and Newtown.

 

[Chad Feldheimer]

Tell that to Tuscon, Aurora, and Newtown.

So they all waited 7-8 years to buy assault weapons?

 

[larryselbows]

In the last 40 years, a legal gun owning individual has not shot down a person firing on innocents in events similar to Oregon, Aurora, and Newtown.

 

[larryselbows]

Mass murder on this scale cannot be committed with a knife. What better time for a call to action, based on evidence, than right now? Maybe many good Americans who supported the NRA will change their minds based on evidence, or they will please provide solid evidence that supports current policy. NRA policy should not be a form of religion, exempt from evidence.