Culture of Violence:Gun Crime Up 89% in a Decade

[Irvine511]

he could have just as easily taken out 13 soldiers with a bow-and-arrow, Rambo style.

think, people. it's the person, not the weapon!

guns are designed to just look cool and make the owner's penis grow larger.

 

[BVS]

I'm not one who fears inanimate objects.

Neither do I, just the people that think they are for shits and giggles, the people that are not mentally stable, the short fused, or those that just hate. When they collect guns, that scares me.

So now back to your paranoia...

 

[HyperU2]

You sound paranoid and in denial.

 

[BVS]

That doesn't even make sense...

Anyone would be scared of the unstable collecting guns, and in denial of what? Just try and bring something to these discussions for once.

 

[HyperU2]

You're in denial of your paranoia. This thread is so far off course why bring anything?

guns are designed to just look cool and make the owner's penis grow larger.

You might want to stock up.

 

[bigjohn2441]

 

[BVS]

You're in denial of your paranoia.

I've been very honest about who I'm scared of, so you might want to look up the definition of paranoia.

This thread is so far off course why bring anything?

On or off course, it doesn't matter, you never do.

 

[Irvine511]

You might want to stock up.

there's no need for guns in my house.

 

[HyperU2]

I've been very honest about who I'm scared of

Just so long as you know. I've got scissors.

 

[bigjohn2441]

guns are designed to just look cool and make the owner's penis grow larger.

You might want to stock up.

there's no need for guns in my house.

i think you missed the joke

 

[BVS]

Um, no, I think he got it perfectly... I think you may have missed it,

Come on John...


Should I PM you?

 

[bigjohn2441]

 

[BVS]

Ok, good, I was beginning to worry about you...

 

[Irvine511]

more violence.

1 dead in shooting at Orlando office building; suspect in custody - washingtonpost.com

 

[HyperU2]

And more.

Man found stabbed to death in backyard -- themorningcall.com

http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2009/11/05/news/6383575.txt

 

[Irvine511]

Contents of Homicide trends in the U.S.

Homicide trends in the U.S.
Weapons used

To the chart based on these data | Download spreadsheet version (.csv file)

Homicides by Weapon Type




Handgun Other Gun Knife Blunt Object Other Weapon
1976 8,651 3,328 3,343 912 2,546
1977 8,563 3,391 3,648 900 2,618
1978 8,879 3,569 3,685 937 2,490
1979 9,858 3,732 4,121 1,039 2,710
1980 10,552 3,834 4,439 1,153 3,061
1981 10,324 3,740 4,364 1,166 2,927
1982 9,137 3,501 4,383 1,032 2,957
1983 8,472 2,794 4,214 1,098 2,731
1984 8,183 2,835 3,956 1,090 2,626
1985 8,165 2,973 3,996 1,051 2,794
1986 9,054 3,126 4,235 1,176 3,018
1987 8,781 3,094 4,076 1,169 2,980
1988 9,375 3,162 3,978 1,296 2,869
1989 10,225 3,197 3,923 1,279 2,877
1990 11,677 3,395 4,077 1,254 3,037
1991 13,101 3,277 3,909 1,252 3,161
1992 13,158 3,043 3,447 1,088 3,024
1993 13,981 3,094 3,140 1,082 3,233
1994 13,496 2,840 2,960 963 3,071
1995 12,050 2,679 2,731 981 3,169
1996 10,731 2,533 2,691 917 2,777
1997 9,705 2,631 2,363 833 2,678
1998 8,844 2,168 2,257 896 2,805
1999 7,943 2,174 2,042 902 2,461
2000 7,985 2,218 2,099 727 2,556
2001 7,900 2,239 2,090 776 3,032
2002 8,286 2,538 2,018 773 2,588
2003 8,830 2,223 2,085 745 2,645
2004 8,304 2,357 2,133 759 2,595
2005 8,478 2,868 2,147 671 2,528


Bureau of Justice Statistics Homicide Trends in the United States: Trends in homicides by weapon type table

so there's that.

 

[HyperU2]

Homicide Victimization Rates per 100,000 Population by Race


White Black Other
1976 5.1 37.1 4.9
1977 5.4 36.2 4.7
1978 5.6 35.1 4.0
1979 6.1 37.5 4.1
1980 6.3 37.7 5.7
1981 6.2 36.4 6.1
1982 5.9 32.3 6.5
1983 5.3 29.4 6.4
1984 5.2 27.2 5.5
1985 5.2 27.6 5.5
1986 5.4 31.5 6.2
1987 5.1 30.7 5.2
1988 4.9 33.5 4.0
1989 5.0 35.1 4.3
1990 5.4 37.6 4.2
1991 5.5 39.3 6.0
1992 5.3 37.2 5.4
1993 5.3 38.7 5.5
1994 5.0 36.4 4.6
1995 4.8 31.6 4.9
1996 4.3 28.3 4.1
1997 3.9 26.0 4.1
1998 3.8 23.0 2.9
1999 3.5 20.5 3.3
2000 3.3 20.5 2.7
2001 3.4 20.4 2.8
2002 3.3 20.8 2.7
2003 3.4 20.9 2.8
2004 3.3 19.7 2.4
2005 3.3 20.6 2.5

http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/tables/vracetab.htm

So relax whitey.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Like NSW and/or Elfa, for example?

I just saw this now, gfy

 

[BoMac]

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

you're just lucky we live in a socialist country that wont let me own a gun

 

[BoMac]

I don't think an idle gun threat from a vegan is really going to scare me.

GFY.

 

[Angela Harlem]

How is that exclusive to America?

It's not. Not by any means. However, there's this belief that the US is one hell of a lucky country. I see it full of internal struggle, personally. Getting and staying employed, affording to keep well, getting yourself a useful education are pipe dreams to too many. If you're born below middle class somewhere, watch out. Maybe we should dig up some demographic profiles on the numbers involved in violent crime statistics. We all know what makes a criminal - or what characteristics of personality and background are very common among people with records, but what is it that sets America's violent apart? Growing in a desperate society is the start, then finding yourself wandering around with nowhere to go and a misplaced pride and honour to your peers of equal poor standing is a recipe for disaster. Drugs, race, membership in kin groups are THE focus of a majority of violent offenders. They are unlikely to ever remove themselves from this destructive cycle. They're not all of them, but they are a large part of it. The US has ordinary Joe Schmoes with guns who are pissed off with the slow drive-through service/their manager at work and one day shoot their entire family/a street of innocent folk. We have them too. Everywhere has them. Or the couple who get into yet another wild domestic and one of them snaps and silences the other forever. They're everywhere. The difference is what grows from this culture of desperation that these young people pre-gangs have little means or encouragement to avoid.

Drugs and Gangs Fast Facts

Bureau of Justice Statistics Criminal Offenders Statistics

NationMaster - World Statistics, Country Comparisons

 

[bigjohn2441]

yep, the middle-class measuring rod. those who dont measure up have more of a chance of turning to crime.

whoa, i DO remember something from that criminology degree!

 

[Irvine511]

It's not. Not by any means. However, there's this belief that the US is one hell of a lucky country. I see it full of internal struggle, personally. Getting and staying employed, affording to keep well, getting yourself a useful education are pipe dreams to too many. If you're born below middle class somewhere, watch out. Maybe we should dig up some demographic profiles on the numbers involved in violent crime statistics. We all know what makes a criminal - or what characteristics of personality and background are very common among people with records, but what is it that sets America's violent apart? Growing in a desperate society is the start, then finding yourself wandering around with nowhere to go and a misplaced pride and honour to your peers of equal poor standing is a recipe for disaster. Drugs, race, membership in kin groups are THE focus of a majority of violent offenders. They are unlikely to ever remove themselves from this destructive cycle. They're not all of them, but they are a large part of it. The US has ordinary Joe Schmoes with guns who are pissed off with the slow drive-through service/their manager at work and one day shoot their entire family/a street of innocent folk. We have them too. Everywhere has them. Or the couple who get into yet another wild domestic and one of them snaps and silences the other forever. They're everywhere. The difference is what grows from this culture of desperation that these young people pre-gangs have little means or encouragement to avoid.

Drugs and Gangs Fast Facts

Bureau of Justice Statistics Criminal Offenders Statistics

NationMaster - World Statistics, Country Comparisons

one year 'till i visit.

 

[the iron horse]

It's not. Not by any means. However, there's this belief that the US is one hell of a lucky country. I see it full of internal struggle, personally. Getting and staying employed, affording to keep well, getting yourself a useful education are pipe dreams to too many. If you're born below middle class somewhere, watch out. Maybe we should dig up some demographic profiles on the numbers involved in violent crime statistics. We all know what makes a criminal - or what characteristics of personality and background are very common among people with records, but what is it that sets America's violent apart? Growing in a desperate society is the start, then finding yourself wandering around with nowhere to go and a misplaced pride and honour to your peers of equal poor standing is a recipe for disaster. Drugs, race, membership in kin groups are THE focus of a majority of violent offenders. They are unlikely to ever remove themselves from this destructive cycle. They're not all of them, but they are a large part of it. The US has ordinary Joe Schmoes with guns who are pissed off with the slow drive-through service/their manager at work and one day shoot their entire family/a street of innocent folk. We have them too. Everywhere has them. Or the couple who get into yet another wild domestic and one of them snaps and silences the other forever. They're everywhere. The difference is what grows from this culture of desperation that these young people pre-gangs have little means or encouragement to avoid.

Drugs and Gangs Fast Facts

Bureau of Justice Statistics Criminal Offenders Statistics

NationMaster - World Statistics, Country Comparisons

"However, there's this belief that the US is one hell of a lucky country."

I know I'm going off topic.

I think the US is one lucky country. I'm glad I was born here.

I am thankful to the people who helped start our country and for their wisdom in allowing the citizens so much freedom and for their distrust and warnings of tyranny.

Please post another country that has more freedom.

 

[BVS]

Other countries allow you to marry whoever you want, but they don't allow guns.

So it just depends on your priorities:

Love or violence?

 

[the iron horse]

Other countries allow you to marry whoever you want, but they don't allow guns.

So it just depends on your priorities:

Love or violence?

Love, but I disagree that an inanimate object is violence.
Are the knives in my kitchen killing people????


But getting back to love>>>"marry whoever you want"

So, if a person loves ten or twenty other people, should he/she be allowed to marry all of them.

What do you think?

 

[BVS]

Love, but I disagree that an inanimate object is violence.
Are the knives in my kitchen killing people????

Do you use your gun to prepare a salad?

Guns have one purpose and it's a violent one. Pretty simple.

But getting back to love>>>"marry whoever you want"

So, if a person loves ten or twenty other people, should he/she be allowed to marry all of them.

What do you think?

Well a completely different topic, but personally I don't believe you can have a truly consentual relationship between one man and 10 women, and vice versa. TWO CONSENTING adults, period.

 

[the iron horse]

Do you use your gun to prepare a salad?

Guns have one purpose and it's a violent one. Pretty simple.


Well a completely different topic, but personally I don't believe you can have a truly consentual relationship between one man and 10 women, and vice versa. TWO CONSENTING adults, period.

We do have a standard here: two consenting adults.

Thanks for you for your other comments....another thread I guess


*iron making a salad by shooting a head of cabbage with a .12 gauge.

 

[BVS]

We do have a standard here: two consenting adults.

No it's two consenting adults of the opposite sex.

That's not freedom.