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distortion of the collection of gun violence stats

Crack cocaine is more psychologically addicting than powder cocaine and is thus more likely to result in chronic and heavy use. In addition, the drug is more commonly associated with systemic violence than its counterpart

crack causes violence

Pretty sure an idiot would blow through 400 million faster than Hunter Biden's cocaine stash.

That is why those who get busted for crack get harsher sentences, which has nothing to do with being black or white. It's the end result of the use and addiction - the violence - that gets users busted…

In fact, there is a linear relationship between the degree of racist attitude and smallness of naughty parts, and by applying the Stanford Racism Equivalency Test to the number and type of TWS1405 posts,  we find that TWS1405's racial attitudes result from deep feelings of inadequacy associated with the fact that his tiny member looks like a button.

Once you know several hotspots like wikipedia, twitter, google, etc.. are being censored and tailored by people with specific political and ethical agendas (and knowing such a thing does not require great knowledge or intelligence) the wisest course is distrust.

I say that if Obama was not born in Kenya it speaks volumes about the abused trust of media and government that so many people don't trust them to relay that information accurately.

You ask for supreme court rulings, but if one happens to say something like "secure from search and seizure ~ privacy != abortion" you cry " That's no truesupreme court ruling!"

It is the derision that created those movements. You don't think 30-40 million people just have an inexplicable love of orange haired real estate moguls do you?

I will rounded debate site should have a little bit of every type of population so the whack jobs are just as entitled to be here as anybody else. If you can't handle whack jobs and turn off your computer and sit in your house without engaging with anybody.

from the same post.

This is nothing but ad hominem in its purest form, both to GreyParrot and to the YouTuber.

Universal background checks are already in place for 22 states and DC. Yet the Feds haven't instituted it despite all their rhetoric to do so. 

Law abiding citizens have nothing to hide, so fine, close the private sale loophole and force people to use federally licensed gun dealers to be the middleman in private sales. It isn't that hard. I've used it before. It was simple. 

Magazine capacity limits of 10 for pistols has already been done. It was done back in like 1996 or thereabouts. I remember because I got a pistol late 1995 early 1996 that came with a 15-round clip, after that, all clips that came with a pistol or sold were 10 or less (depending on size of the pistol).

Red flag laws are patently unconstitutional and unnecessary. There are already enough laws on the books that can do the same once an actual legal case has been brought to the Courts for a judge to sign off on this after evidence has been presented to justify it. Not before without due process.

Unless you are an accredited psychiatrist 

I'm talking about not being able to have an abortion.

Because, again, under civilian conditions it was a minor ailment and it happened decades ago. I likely wouldn't have remembered if I were him.

Says who?

So then, you admit that combat conditions are rough, and that something like a bone spur which wouldn't matter so much in civilian life could be a dealbreaker for the army?

As it so happens, I have mild asthma. It's not debilitating, but I couldn't imagine being a star football player. Granted, I was never sporty to begin with, but this is something on top of that. And I mentioned baseball for a reason: that sport kicks up a lot of dust. The odds of Joe Biden knowingly having asthma and playing baseball at the same time are rather slim. And yet, he played baseball in the same age range when he allegedly had asthma.

How did the draft dodgers who fled to Canada manage not to do this? 

In practice, however, if tomorrow Uncle Sam asked me to serve then I would. I actually did try to enlist back in 2019, though it turned out I'm medically disqualified on at least two counts. And probably three.

And so, when the conversation doesn't go your way, you turn to insulting people.So much for everyone here being a partisan wackjob while you alone are rational and civil.

Bill Clinton. Joe Biden.  A couple of Republicans besides Trump. The list goes on. Whatever the means that they employed to avoid serving, the fact is that they avoided serving.

It's really simple.

When it comes to women and the possibility of being pregnant against their will, you would contend that "bodily autonomy trumps all". But when it comes to men and the draft, where the length of conscription is longer than 9 months and the risk of dying is much higher than for the average pregnancy in a 1st world country, you call it a duty of citizenship. Either "bodily autonomy" matters or it doesn't. There's no reason to apply a different standard to men and women.

My point is, the rules for deferment were bogus. They were laws but there was no moral dimension to breaking them, since the obligation of service was not equal between rich and poor Americans.

Lol, who could have predicted Biden would be the 1st president to order an FBI raid on a political rival?

I’ll wait and see - Trump has been given an opportunity to object to unsealing the warrant - it will be spiced if he does :)

Win, then you can slowly rebuild trust and stability. The only reason Germany could rise again was because the real nazis all got themselves killed.

There is no moral distinction between getting out of the war through college deferments and getting out of the war through claiming a medical condition. 

And why wouldn't the guys fleeing to Canada accomplish this same thing? What's the difference?

Just a reminder that I'm responding to this for the sake of argument; no fraud has been actually proven to my knowledge.

And yet, criticizing Trump for it actively assumes that most of them would not, which you similarly can't know.

Ah. Making it personal, I see.

And plenty didn't.

Giving up one's life is an obligation of citizenship?

If the act of receiving a deferment is not immoral by itself, then if Trump broke a law to obtain it then it was a mere legality.

 He will be the next President of the US. You heard it here first just like last time.

Here’s  a pretty good chart on Wikipedia that let's you compare gun ownership rates and gun homicide rates in 2015 and 2019.  

That is more recently than I thought.  It's pretty hard to give all the credit to a guy on his first year, and his second and third year were messed up.  You are going to have a hard time making any legit comparison, I think.

is there any evidence from before the Pandemic that supports this claim?

The entire narrative is sensationalized. People hurling insults like "Colonel Bone Spurs" at him as if he were some dishonorable cur when, assuming for argument's sake that he really did it, it was something that most of the guys in Vietnam would've done if they had the means.

Countless young men did get college deferments. If you already pursued one deferment, then it's not a stretch that you'd pursue another. Going to war is a pretty huge thing (and frankly, a draft that only applies to 50% of the population is immoral in the first place), and even risking a relatively short jail sentence for fraud might be a small price to pay for avoiding it. On account of, you know, people wanting to live and all that jazz.

The entire narrative is sensationalized. People hurling insults like "Colonel Bone Spurs" at him as if he were some dishonorable cur when, assuming for argument's sake that he really did it, it was something that most of the guys in Vietnam would've done if they had the means.

Countless young men did get college deferments. If you already pursued one deferment, then it's not a stretch that you'd pursue another. Going to war is a pretty huge thing (and frankly, a draft that only applies to 50% of the population is immoral in the first place), and even risking a relatively short jail sentence for fraud might be a small price to pay for avoiding it. On account of, you know, people wanting to live and all that jazz.

I identify as an adorable deplorable 

• False.  I offered two fairly obvious tautologies
  
• Homicide data does not equal crime data
  
• 2020 was unrepresentative for homicide data
  

2020 was unrepresentative for homicide data

DeSantis' performance stands disproved.

If you can't show that homicide rates are the same thing as crime rates or that 2020 was a perfectly normal year for crime in America but still wish to show us that Florida has more crime per capita then San Francisco the burden is yours to find some other way to prove it.

I don't know. That sounds like a pretty sensationalist claim. Even if true, a lot of young men got Vietnam draft deferments, and those who got less unscrupulous deferments (like for being a student) only did so because they had the luxury of a choice. If it was either fake a medical condition or go to Vietnam, I'm positive that most would've faked a medical condition.

 If it was either fake a medical condition or go to Vietnam, I'm positive that most would've faked a medical condition.

When was Hillary ever charged with a crime, investigated for a crime or have her personal home raided by the FBI? I see no comparison in your response.

• Not my claim to defend.
  

For example, San Francisco did way, way more lockdowns and work from home than Florida generally. In fact, DeSantis overrode some Florida Health recommendations for lockdowns, didn't he?  Obviously, when the streets are empty, the few people who are out are and about are less likely to come into conflict, more obvious to police, etc.  and crimes like homicide are likely to be positively affected.