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1. about 8 hours ago on Jeff Stahler

   “I live in a peaceful community away from the theft and senseless murder from the demonrat pets.”

   Presumably, your Mum’s basement.

2. about 8 hours ago on Ted Rall

   Fact check: False data on U.S. racial murder rates by Reuters July 17, 2020

   “Users on social media are sharing an image that features misleading data on black and white murder rates. Based on existing U.S. government data, all the figures are false. The image alleges, for example, that 81% of white murder victims are killed by Blacks. Data from the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice show on the contrary that more than 80% of white murder victims are killed by whites.”

3. about 8 hours ago on Ted Rall

   Kenneth Berkun is right.

   Mass shootings in the U.S. by shooter’s by race/ethnicity as of December 2023 published by Statista Research Department, Apr 26, 2024:

   “Between 1982 and December 2023, 80 out of the 149 mass shootings in the United States were carried out by White shooters. By comparison, the perpetrator was African American in 26 mass shootings, and Latino in 12. When calculated as percentages, this amounts to 54 percent, 17 percent, and eight percent respectively.

   Race of mass shooters reflects the U.S. population

   Broadly speaking, the racial distribution of mass shootings mirrors the racial distribution of the U.S. population as a whole."

4. 2 days ago on Jeff Stahler

   I spent an afternoon researching a similar question. Someone claimed there are just as many mass killings around the world by other means. That it is not the guns, it is the people.

   Looking for instances of what the NRA defines as a mass shooting, but using other means such as knives or blunt instruments, where the individual targets others individually and kills them in one session, there have only been a few dozen incidents globally since the year 2000.

   I excluded serial killers who operated over a period, bombs, vehicles and shootings and was looking just for someone going out and killing a bunch of people until stopped, but using something other than a gun.

   If you want to kill a bunch of people, funnily enough, access to a gun is what you need.

   As the kids say, “No shít Sherlock.”

5. 2 days ago on Ted Rall

   If you had read my words or looked at the response, you would have seen the explanations for that.

   That single article – which everyone else disagrees with – was a cherry picked selection of a few days that takes advantage of how the reporting and validation of the numbers is done, extrapolated over the many months of the conflict.

   Even the total figures from Hamas throughout the period show that his cherry-picked snapshot is invalid. He claims there are no men in the reports, yet the total numbers include a reasonable proportion of men. That in itself shows the article criticising the figures was unreliable.

6. 2 days ago on Ted Rall

   You have looked at the graph, now read my words or the post I referred to.

   Because it is a graph cumulative deaths, not deaths per day. That is why it is linear.

7. 2 days ago on Jeff Stahler

   Shooting is the leading cause of death for children in the age range of 1 to 19 in the USA. That is a uniquely USA thing. Way to go, USA!

   Uniquely, the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the USA is murder by their partner or close relative, and the most likely method is shooting. There’s the USA leading the richest nations of the world in something else! Well done keeping the population down by murdering your mums-to-be, USA!

   The murder rate by shooting in the USA per head of population is higher than it was in the worst period of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. That is, the USA is more dangerous than a territory that the USA described as being in an unacceptable state of civil war. Well done, USA, for being an everyday domestic war zone!

   There are more Americans shot to death by Americans in America every month than all the Americans killed by terrorism in the entire world by any method in the last 25 years. In the USA, the biggest human threat to Americans is other Americans with guns. USA, USA, bang, bang, ugh!

8. 2 days ago on Scary Gary

   “It’s sad that you are such a clown.”

   It is even more sad you are such a boring puppet.

   THIS IS A CARTOON STRIP ABOUT THE ILLOGICALITY OF HEADS IN JARS, not politics in the USA.

   “I can’t reply to someone who attacks the president without provocation”

   Ah, bless. So touchy-feelly and sensitive. That’s nice. But off-topic and BORING.

   Who gave you that job? Is the post of president really that fragile you need to defend it on a comics web site? I find it hard to believe the constitution of the USA will collapse just because someone criticised your president ON A CARTOONS SITE ABOUT A RETIRED VAMPIRE.

   The president has security guards, the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, the army, the air force, the navy and nukes. I think he’ll be OK without you boring people rigid on cartoon web sites with your irrelevant and boring political opinions.

   “but I’m at fault?!”

   Yes. Yes, you are. Please, leave off with the off-topic. partisan, USA-based, tedious BORING political rants.

   “”You need to get a life."

   I have one, and it was fine, but then someone started ramming irrelevant politics down my throat.

9. 2 days ago on Jeff Stahler

   Well, actually, yes they are. That is exactly who they are.

10. 3 days ago on Jeff Stahler

    When I was at school, there was a run-down cafe we’d go to to smoke at lunchtime. Every day, at lunchtime, there would be a group of workers from the factory next door having their lunch. One would read the ‘stories’ our of The Sun, a ‘red top’ newspaper famous for junk stories and pictures of ladies who forgot to put their tops on.

    They took the stories as total fact and would discuss them in all seriousness. Headlines such as “Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster” and “Wereolves Seized in Southend” and “There Are No Virgins in Essex”.

    Other ‘red top’ newspapers were much the same nonsense.

    And I got a great idea. Bearing in mind this was 40 years ago, I think it was pretty prescient.

    - Every newsagent should have a hidden camera taking pictures of anyone buying a red top newspaper.

    - All these photos would be sent to a central agency.

    - Come election day, when you dropped your vote into the box, you face will be matched with the photos. If you were on the red-top newspaper file, a lever would flip and your vote would fall into the hidden waste-paper basket. If your face did not match, the lever would go the other way and your vote would stay in the box.

    That way all the stupid people would think they voted, but their votes would not be counted.

    Now I am older, I can see some moral or ethical problems with my plan, but I’m not so as to make me think it was a bad plan. :-)