Yeah. Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickock, Bat Masterson, Doc Holiday, gun grabbers all. Not to mention Bass Reeves, but he was erased from history for 100 years because he was black.
Does it though? I really don't know, but I do know that assault weapons are legal to own. They allow concealed carry if you get a permit. The only thing I can see up front is the FOID card you need in order to own a firearm...but I think that's a state thing (I could be wrong). Is that what makes it so restrictive? N.C. doesn't have one, but you do need to buy a permit from your county sheriff before you buy a firearm ($10 last I checked). Restrictive...yeah I guess. Most restrictive...I don't know. Is it?
If you look at violent crime including homicide, aggravated assault, and rape, the most violent per capita are: 1. Alaska 2. New Mexico 3. Tennessee 4. Arkansas 5. Nevada 6. Louisiana 7. Alabama 8. Missouri 9. South Carolina 10. Arizona The ten safest are: Idaho, Minnesota, Rhode Island, Wyoming, Kentucky, New Jersey, Connecticut, Virginia, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maine.
Yes, per INDIVIDUAL. That's how you think of things, right? You don't reject reality just because you don't like what it says, do you? Narrator: He can, and he does.
So you are for manipulating statistics to pretend that blue states are more violent over all while the actual evidence shows that to be completely false because more people over all are killing, raping, and beating people up in red gun loving shitholes?
It seems uncle idiot would like to compare a crowded city with lots of people and the middle of nowhere for number of deaths. Because that would be accurate according to him. He is not very bright, nor very convincing.
I would prefer nobody try to mislead with "rates" among tiny communities in Alaska compared to large metropolitan areas.
Working with rates rather than raw numbers is good practise to control for things like population size. Otherwise the only result you'd get would likely be fewer people = fewer crimes, which hardly tells us anything which isn't obvious.
Tiny Community in Alaska: 100 people 10 murders Large Metropolitan Area 1000 people 10 murders I'd feel safer in the large metropolitan area Fortunately, that's not real life.
I'm shocked! SHOCKED I say! So do us all a favor and don't present things you know so little about regarding stuff you don't give a shit about. As a "Chicagoan 'til Chicago ends," I'll tell you what the root of the problem is... basically, it's jobs. Even though the unemployment rate is relatively low, there are a substantial amount of people who consider themselves to be underemployed. They have very little hope that they will one day be able to afford a home or achieve a higher education so they resort to crime. So if you go to the absolute worst neighborhood for crime and poverty, you'd find a vast majority of people there are gainfully employed and law abiding.. something on the tune of 90-95%.... but it's that 5-10% that he system is failing... And not for nothing... Of all the guns used to commit crimes in Chicago, the ones being confiscated from criminals by the police come from surrounding areas with more lax gun laws like Indiana and Kentucky. Something like 70-75%.
Another community I post in the liberals are up in arms, feeling like that the changes that the GOP is making to voting rights is going to steal presidential elections. Certainly that's the intent, we'll see if it works. But they are clearly getting ready for war, and some of them are actively advocating that they should start assassinating Republican politicians now.
Seriously? I would stay out of that community or at least keep your footprint small. The NSA, FBI, DHS, etc. might be monitoring that kind of activity.
Did you not pay attention during the Snowden leaks? The Feds are basically watching everything. Even here.
If we nearly turned Dayton in for impersonating a park ranger, I suspect we'd inform the FBI of a credible threat to US politicians.
Speaking of watching everything, my office is just down the street from a huge (and ever expanding) NSA complex.
side note I'd like to kick Bradley Manning's (or whatever he's called now) ass because thanks to him it's against DOD policy to use thumb-drives on our government computers now.
Which illustrates just how stupid the government is at security measures. We were able to take down the Iranian nuclear program by dropping thumb drives with malware on in them in areas where Iranian nuclear scientists were likely to visit. All it took was one of them picking the drive up and sticking it into their work computer for us to attack their whole system. If we could do it to Iranians, someone could do it to us, so thumb drives should have been banned from US government computers long before Chelsea Manning leaked.