So what is your plan if the shit hits the fan

Discussion in 'The Red Room' started by Demiurge, Jun 2, 2021.

  1. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    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.
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  2. Bailey

    Bailey It's always Christmas Eve Super Moderator

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    Case in point.
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  3. Man Afraid of his Shoes

    Man Afraid of his Shoes كافر

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    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?
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  4. Torpedo Vegas

    Torpedo Vegas Fresh Meat

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    Tangent Alert: Val Kilmer was fucking awesome in Tombstone. That is all.
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  5. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    oh not at all the most restrictive. Not even close to New Jersey or California level restrictive.
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  6. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    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.
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  7. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    Per capita. :bailey:
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  8. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    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.
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    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    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?
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  10. spot261

    spot261 I don't want the game to end

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    What would you prefer as a measure?
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  11. Tererune

    Tererune Troll princess and Magical Girl

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    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.
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  12. Uncle Albert

    Uncle Albert Part beard. Part machine.

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    I would prefer nobody try to mislead with "rates" among tiny communities in Alaska compared to large metropolitan areas.
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  13. spot261

    spot261 I don't want the game to end

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    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.
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  14. Jenee

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    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.
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  15. spot261

    spot261 I don't want the game to end

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    10 per cent of people got murdered in one town?
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  16. mburtonk

    mburtonk mburtonkulous

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    1000 people is a large metropolitan area?
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  17. spot261

    spot261 I don't want the game to end

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    Not for long the way they're getting killed off.
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  18. Jenee

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    Tbf, the large metropolitan area is only getting killed off at a rate of 1%
  19. spot261

    spot261 I don't want the game to end

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    Yeah, there's only so fast one guy can kill and eat them.
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  20. AlphaMan

    AlphaMan The Last Dragon

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    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%.
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  21. Quincunx

    Quincunx anti-anti-establishment Staff Member Administrator

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    I will answer. :oath:

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  22. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    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.
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  23. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    Whatabout-ism!!!!! :whaa::whaa:
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  24. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    Seriously? :huh: 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. :nono:
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    Did you not pay attention during the Snowden leaks? The Feds are basically watching everything. Even here.
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  26. matthunter

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    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.
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  27. oldfella1962

    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    Speaking of watching everything, my office is just down the street from a huge (and ever expanding) NSA complex. :calli:
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    oldfella1962 the only real finish line

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    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. :brood:
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    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.
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  30. Demiurge

    Demiurge Goodbye and Hello, as always.

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    I was the voice of reason saying that wasn't acceptable.