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True, but in this case the posters have prior form! I’m not including you and if you are against shooting looters I’d respect your opinion
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Of course they have that right, I'm more saying that they're just a more unruly and aggressive nation and it manifests itself in many ways.
- Gun homicides
- Mass shootings
- police brutality
- looting
All things that seem to occur more often in the USA. Don't think it can be helped anymore, they're too far set on the path of aggression and it is far too ingrained in their culture. Maybe that's partly why there is a genuine fear to the point of needing a gun for protection.
Just the last month or so we've seen looting, a black man dying as a result of a policeman, without even researching I can safely assume a mass shooting somewhere, an armed protest in Michigan (which the president praised), and people being abused in shopping complexes all over the country for wearing masks and sometimes because they refuse to wear masks.
In 30 years in a far more docile country I can say that I've read about police brutality occasionally, gun homicides yearly (but far less frequently), mass shootings never, armed protests never and looting never.
It's what they've become and in many ways I pity them as a nation.
Nice chatting to you as well on this fine Friday Night.
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Might be your best ever postOf course they have that right, I'm more saying that they're just a more unruly and aggressive nation and it manifests itself in many ways.
- Gun homicides
- Mass shootings
- police brutality
- looting
All things that seem to occur more often in the USA. Don't think it can be helped anymore, they're too far set on the path of aggression and it is far too ingrained in their culture. Maybe that's partly why there is a genuine fear to the point of needing a gun for protection.
Just the last month or so we've seen looting, a black man dying as a result of a policeman, without even researching I can safely assume a mass shooting somewhere, an armed protest in Michigan (which the president praised), and people being abused in shopping complexes all over the country for wearing masks and sometimes because they refuse to wear masks.
In 30 years in a far more docile country I can say that I've read about police brutality occasionally, gun homicides yearly (but far less frequently), mass shootings never, armed protests never and looting never.
It's what they've become and in many ways I pity them as a nation.
Nice chatting to you as well on this fine Friday Night.
Enjoy your weekend.
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Biden has been crucifying him with his political ads of late. Still have this weird hunch he's re-elected though.
Or he joins Lincoln and Kennedy.
100,000 dead. and he spent time this week playing golf.
At the end of December last year a third of his days as POTUS had been spent on Trump resorts or playing golf, which he billed taxpayers for use of his facilities. Cheeky.
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If you'd respect his opinion on it you should respect the opinion full stop. You've truly jumped the shark if you're advocating senselessly culling a population. May as well round people up into gulags if you think the working class are such scum.
Very elitist of you.
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Yep. Guns everywhere.
While driving through Tennessee we stopped at a redneck flea market and you could buy yourself a machine gun if you wanted. Crazy.
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Store owners are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Have their livelihood destroy or take matters into their own hands.
I don't think anybody should be shot.
What they're doing is awful, and the reason for them doing it doesn't make right either.
The whole situation and its consequences are terrible.
What they're doing is awful, and the reason for them doing it doesn't make right either.
The whole situation and its consequences are terrible.
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Lol “senselessly culling a population”. Wow no one is capable of skewering words like you SM. And now I think the “working class are such scum”. No mate, I think looters are scum. Most probably don’t work so technically are they even working class?
I can’t really respect the hard left set of posters on here I’m sorry. Cruyffy I can because he’s not part of that sect. Already they’ve played the morally superior card by claiming they have compassion where as someone like me doesn’t. I have compassion too, but it’s for the law abiding citizens who contribute positively to society. Therein lies the difference. Very elitist of me indeed
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Do you have compassion for the man killed by the police while clearly restrained?
Now the press are getting arrested.
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Of course I do. It’s most unfortunate what happened. I’ll wait for the full facts to come out first though. Their policing is often brutal that much is obvious. Apparently though it’s important to realise that more whites are killed by the police than blacks. You would never expect that from the coverage
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It's incredible. But WR thinks it's fine because they're probably just cuck leftie snowflakes.
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Source for that?
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It’s CNN, throw away the key. They are as much to blame as anyone for all the divisions over there.
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Predictable as always.
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People shot to death by U.S. police, by race 2024 | Statista
The trend of fatal police shootings in the U.S. seems to only be increasing each year, with 1,097 civilians, 225 of whom were Black, killed by police in 2022.
www.statista.com
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People shot to death by U.S. police, by race 2024 | Statista
The trend of fatal police shootings in the U.S. seems to only be increasing each year, with 1,097 civilians, 225 of whom were Black, killed by police in 2022.
Surprising, I'll admit.
I guess there's a lot more gangster whities than I thought.
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The sheer number of people killed by police in the US black/white justified/unjustified sums up their issuesPeople shot to death by U.S. police, by race 2024 | Statista
The trend of fatal police shootings in the U.S. seems to only be increasing each year, with 1,097 civilians, 225 of whom were Black, killed by police in 2022.
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The great melting pot that is the USA has got problems that look pretty insurmountable. It’s all coming apart isn’t it.
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I'd also be interested in all recorded deaths from police brutality since the death in question wasn't from police shooting.
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Are their facts wrong?
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I thought since you were so fascinated and likely to discredit any source I cited, you'd be better placed to look it up.
Never mind.
Deaths Due to Use of Lethal Force by Law Enforcement: Findings From the National Violent Death Reporting System, 17 U.S. States, 2009–2012
Several high-profile cases in the U.S. have drawn public attention to the use of lethal force by law enforcement (LE), yet research on such fatalities is limited. Using data from a public health surveillance system, this study examined the characteristics ...
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Blacks 2.8 times higher fatality rate than whites.
Black victims more likely to be unarmed when killed.
White victims more likely to be 'suicide by cop'.
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