Because, America

[Ivanhoe]

[rmgill]

Naah. There IS a gunsafe in the bedroom though. 

2 Rifles, 1 shotgun, ammo, several handguns, extra flashlights and chemlights. Wallet and other stuff also go in there when I get home.  

[Rick]

What happened to The Drudge Report the last few years? It reads like tabloid journalism or even worse, almost like N.P.R.

[sunday]

37 minutes ago, Rick said:

What happened to The Drudge Report the last few years? It reads like tabloid journalism or even worse, almost like N.P.R.

Dunno, stopped following it years ago, but I do not remember why.

[Ivanhoe]

8 hours ago, Rick said:

What happened to The Drudge Report the last few years? It reads like tabloid journalism or even worse, almost like N.P.R.

Matt Drudge sold it, to whom I dunno. It seems to be common knowledge that he is completely out of the picture. Since his departure, readership plummeted.

[urbanoid]

22 minutes ago, Ivanhoe said:

Matt Drudge sold it, to whom I dunno. It seems to be common knowledge that he is completely out of the picture. Since his departure, readership plummeted.

https://www.quora.com/Why-did-the-Drudge-Report-originally-a-very-conservative-website-move-to-the-left

[rmgill]

Go woke, go broke. 

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[Ivanhoe]

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/biden-congress-votes/tony-gonzales/

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/02/22/tony-gonzales-reelection-republican-primary-texas-moderate/

Gonzales sided with the Dems on gun control and lax immigration enforcement.

A good rule of thumb is that if the Texas Tribune supports a politician, they are left of center.

[rmgill]

Lets go Brandon!

https://brandonherreraforcongress.com

[Ivanhoe]

The school choice thing...

Behind a paywall;

https://www.foxnews.com/media/texas-primary-election-highligh-school-choice-key-issue-after-struggles-pass-legislation
 

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Texas primary elections on Tuesday highlight school choice as a key issue after the Lone Star state struggled to pass legislation.

Nine Republican incumbents lost their elections and eight more were pushed into runoffs on Tuesday. Considering the defeat of certain incumbents, the primary election favored Republican candidates who pushed for school choice.

"This election was a total bloodbath and a mandate for school choice in Texas," American Federation For Children (AFC) Senior Fellow Corey DeAngelis told Fox News Digital.

He added that the primary results indicate the "biggest political shift towards school choice in Texas history."

"School choice was the main dividing line in all of these races. It is already sending shockwaves all across the country and the message is clear: education freedom is a political winner and a GOP litmus-test issue. 10 of the 13 incumbents (77%) challenged by my organization's school choice super PAC either lost outright or were forced to runoffs," DeAngelis said.

 

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"Money helps, but it didn't save anti-school choice 8-year incumbent Hugh Shine. He outspent a local mom, Hillary Hickland, by 6 to 1 and lost by about 14 points in a four-way primary."

https://www.foxnews.com/media/alabama-becomes-latest-state-pass-universal-school-choice-following-wave-red-states-making-move
 

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Republican Governor Kay Ivey on Thursday signed the CHOOSE Act into law, making Alabama the latest state to make universal school choice law.

"Alabama is only the 14th state in the nation to provide families with an education savings account option," Ivey said after signing the legislation.

The education savings account is a school choice model that enables parents to use public funds to cover a variety of education expenses, including private school tuition, instructional materials, and homeschooling costs.

 

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"A school choice revolution has unfolded because the teacher unions overplayed their hand and awakened the sleeping giant: parents --who want more of a say in their kids' education," DeAngelis told Fox News Digital.

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DeAngelis' comments come after a new report showing how teacher unions' political action committees donated to Republicans with a track record of rejecting school choice legislation.

 

 

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[BansheeOne]

Numbers in the second chart seem simply made up, as those for non-US countries are higher than any I can find from other sources by an order of magnitude. Citing UNODC, in 2021 Austria had 0.18/100,000, Canada 0.21, Czechia 0.08; Finland 0.09 in 2019, France 0.10 in 2017.

[Ssnake]

...or there were year-to-year variations, or different ways to count them; the staple of "lying with statistics" - which sometimes isn't an outright lie, but just bad math/ignorance of methodology. Note that he's citing three sources; I'd guess the CDC being the souce of the racial distribution of homicide rates, but why WHO and OECD? Maybe cherry-picking data, maybe somewhat sloppy by using general homicide rates rather than strictly firearm related ones.

[futon]

People may assume that people assume that sensationalism is springled on everything. So in order to counter the assumption and land the point where they want, people maximise the desired point with.. sensationalism.

[BansheeOne]

16 minutes ago, Ssnake said:

...or there were year-to-year variations, or different ways to count them; the staple of "lying with statistics" - which sometimes isn't an outright lie, but just bad math/ignorance of methodology. Note that he's citing three sources; I'd guess the CDC being the souce of the racial distribution of homicide rates, but why WHO and OECD? Maybe cherry-picking data, maybe somewhat sloppy by using general homicide rates rather than strictly firearm related ones.

I was thinking maybe including attempts, which some countries include in relevant data; but I had no trouble finding the narrower numbers, and it seems unlikely that firearms homicides just multiplied by ten or so in those countries some year after 2021. OTOH, the same source reports overall US rate as 4.05, which with a 2020 makeup of 58 percent white, 19 percent hispanic and twelve percent black is reasonably close to what you can calculate from the chart.

I think that guy simply cranked up some random non-American numbers IOT claim that US whites have even lower firearms homicide rates than some countries who are frequently held up as counter-examples to American gun violence, and it's all just black and brown people being the problem.

[rmgill]

Do the other countries track crime stats based on race or culture? 
 

Also, Hispanic are not necessarily brown . 

[Ivanhoe]

The American definition of homicide includes suicide, depending on the agenda of the publisher. It wouldn't surprise me if the European numbers would look much worse than expected if factoring suicides in.

I've seen this sort of analysis before, with similar results.

 

[Ivanhoe]

Today's shooting story (so far, Chicago hasn't checked in yet);

https://www.fox29.com/news/falls-township-shelter-in-place
 

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FALLS TOWNSHIP, Pa. - Authorities in Bucks County have identified a suspect in a series of deadly shootings that prompted a shelter-in-place order early Saturday morning. 

Police say they are searching for 26-year-old Andre Gordon, who was last seen driving a stolen vehicle.

 

Falls Township has a median household income of $93k, i.e. a pretty comfortable middle class suburb, but it isn't far from Philadelphia.

[Ivanhoe]

From the FAFO Chronicles;

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ny-subway-rider-who-shot-assailant-his-own-gun-wont-face-charges
 

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In a welcome departure from a pattern in which self-defenders and intervening good Samaritans are made into criminals, a man who disarmed his assailant on a New York subway train on Thursday and shot him in the head with his own gun isn't facing any charges, the Brooklyn district attorney's office has announced.   

“The investigation into this tragic incident is ongoing,” said DA spokesman Oren Yaniv on Friday, “but, at this stage, evidence of self-defense precludes us from filing any criminal charges against the shooter.”

 

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Police say Obuad disarmed Robinson and shot him in the head with his own gun, a .38-caliber Ruger. He's now hospitalized in critical but stable condition, having received two stabs to the lower back and shots to the side of his neck, his right temple, and the side of his chest. His eye was ruptured by the temple shot. Police say the two didn't know each other.

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A review of subway system video shows Robinson entered the station without paying. “If you want to keep the system safe, the first thing you have to do is keep bad people out of the system who don’t pay — this is a perfect example to talk about it,’’ NYPD Deputy Inspector Tarik Sheppard said Friday.

What I find sadly hilarious is that, in a news story involving murderous violence, the authorities got a wee bit butt-hurt about the attacker being a turnstile-jumper. Ah, New York.

And no mention of the woman who shanked the bad guy in the back, apparently more than once. Nicely done!

 

[BansheeOne]

18 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

The American definition of homicide includes suicide, depending on the agenda of the publisher. It wouldn't surprise me if the European numbers would look much worse than expected if factoring suicides in.

I've seen this sort of analysis before, with similar results.

In fact I find there's another table on Wiki with aggregate numbers of homicides, suicides and unintentional deaths, where the totals of non-US countries are quite approximate to the one from that graph: Austria 2016, 2.75 (2.8); Canada 2018, 1.94 (1.8); Czechia 2016, 1.64 (1.7); Finland 2015, 2.41 (3.3); France 2014, 2.33 (2.6). However, for the US in 2017 it's 12.21, about three times what you get from reverse-calculating the ethno-centric data. So I suspect the latter was taken from sources reporting narrowly-defined firearms homicide, and the former from some using broadly-defined firearms deaths.

Below seems to be the CDC reporting by race with a broad definition in 2021, since the average for males looks to be about twelve, too (fiddling with a ruler on the screen, it should be more like eleven, and four for females, so about 7.5 for both sexes combined, indicating an improving trend since 2017). Black males still way ahead of everyone else, but American Indians also above-average while Hispanics are actually below; probably a function of blacks pulling the average up for everyone, and comparatively low population numbers coupled with social conditions of life in reservations for the natives.

I remember from another international comparison on the mass shooting thread some years ago that sparsely-settled Nunavut in Canada also had a fantastic homicide rate per 100,000, and from this source, very similar Greenland leads in global gun suicide rates at 22/100,000 head, shoulders, chest and belly over the US with six. In fact by the Wiki table, a distinguishing characteristic between the US and the comparison countries from the original chart appears to be a higher share of narrow-definition homicide in the total at 4.46 vs. 7.32/100,000 suicides in 2017, with Austria 0.10 vs. 2.44, Canada 0.52 vs. 1.40, Czechia 0.10 vs. 1.43, Finland 0.20 vs. 2.17, France 0.12 vs. 1.63.

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In 2021, among males, Black or African American (Black) males had the highest age-adjusted rate of firearm-related homicide (52.9 deaths per 100,000 standard population), and Asian males had the lowest rate (1.5). Among females, Black females had the highest rate (7.5), and Asian females had the lowest rate (0.5). Males had higher rates than females across all race and Hispanic origin groups.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/pdfs/mm7226a9-H.pdf

Edited March 17, 2024 by BansheeOne

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