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03-17-2014, 03:33 PM | #45 | ||
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Houston Violent Crime Rate (incidents per 1000 residents): 9.97 Los Angeles Violent Crime Rate (incidents per 1000 residents): 4.83 http://www.neighborhoodscout.com/tx/houston/crime/
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03-17-2014, 05:10 PM | #47 | |
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Perhaps "gun-crazy Texas" led me to believe it was a rant against Texas? And reinforced by the "Yee-Haw" comment? Sorry - wish I had read all the clearly-written, articulate articles you read, instead of the piss-poor ones I read. Oh - wait the KHOU article you posted said: "Her younger brother went to say good night and saw two feet sticking out under the bed, detectives said. He then went to get his father." And the Fox article was a summary of the KHOU story... Your subsequent bullet points are full of your suppositions, from which you jump to your conclusions. Do you have any articles I can read?
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Hold on, let me do some research on google about how I can prove people wrong because I have no real life experience outside my parent's bubble.
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I can't stop saying "fatlaly".
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but, if that's your angle, the red areas are some of the most remote places in the nation - look at the purple dots where the major cities are - far from poverished. but still, you're welcome......because poverished kids who shoot first and ask questions later have been saving this country for generations upon generations... you're welcome...... Quote:
Philly: 11.6 per 1000 Detroit: 21.2 per 1000 Atlanta: 14.2 per 1000 Miami: 11.7 per 1000 Oakland: 19.9 per 1000 Birmingham: 15.8 per 1000 Newark: 11.7 per 1000 Milwaukee: 12.9 per 1000 Cleveland: 13.8 per 1000 Flint: 27.4 per 1000 St Louis: 17.7 per 1000 Memphis: 17.5 per 1000 Kansas City: 12.6 per 1000 Orlando: 10.3 per 1000 Baltimore: 14.1 per 1000 Washington DC: 12.4 per 1000 |
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That type of ROE might be appropriate for a military battlefield, but it's ignorant and stupid when used as a form of self defense in the home. Just ask Oscar Pistorius.
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03-18-2014, 10:10 AM | #52 | |
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so 40% of this country's 911 Force is made up poor kids who like shooting guns.... i'll take it.... by the way, you're welcome...... Houston has LESS violent crime rates than some of the major cities in the entire country.... |
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03-18-2014, 10:27 AM | #53 | ||
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Gun use is safer when people are educated about their weapon, and respect gun ownership, along with the legal responsibility that comes along with it. It's as simple as that.
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03-18-2014, 02:45 PM | #55 | |
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Cheetos, that's such a misleading report.
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Another conservative fluff piece from a conservative think tank that post "facts" based off of misleading data.
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Litos - many thanks to you and the other members of this board who faithfully serve(d) our country, without expecting the gratitude of those for whom you sacrificed.
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You would have a point if we were talking about individual neighborhoods, but we're not. We are talking about census tracts which are much larger population samples. For instance the income inequality for SF between the bottom 20 and the top 5 is almost 15x (15x higher than the bottom 20%). That's an immense gap that is not accounted for in the heritage study. Using a recruits actual family income is the only accurate measure here.
Anyway the Heritage foundation is a well known conservative spin house. As soon as I read that they did the study, I knew it would be fluff. It's bad PR for the armed forces if people figure out poor people are going out to die for rich people. Here's a real source that uses pentagon stats. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...110302528.html - half of recruits come from poor households - 2/3 come from counties where the median income is below the national median income. It's a well known fact that poor and lower income individuals make up the bulk of the armed forces (40% of all recruits are from the poor South). The opposite viewpoint isn't even logical. Last edited by MediaArtist; 03-18-2014 at 06:28 PM.. |
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Do we have anymore strawmen to create, or are we going to start discrediting the Pentagon now?
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you must have been allergic to this sentence...... Our review of Pentagon enlistee data shows that the only group that is lowering its participation in the military is the poor. The percentage of recruits from the poorest American neighborhoods (with one-fifth of the U.S. population) declined from 18 percent in 1999 to 14.6 percent in 2003, 14.1 percent in 2004, and 13.7 percent in 2005. |
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- Half of recruits still come from "poor" households - 2/3 come from counties where the median income is below the national median income. Are you really going to spin that to mean something else than the bulk of armed forces recruits are poor kids from poor areas? The Pentagon data is pretty cut and dry.
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Then I provided statistics that showed that Houston, where he actually lives, in terms of violent crime, was only safer than 5% of the cities in the U.S, meaning 95% of cities in the U.S are actually safer than Houston. Houston actually has more than double the violent crime per capita than Los Angeles, the closest large city to where I live. Then he went on some tirade about how patriotic southerners who are willing to bust a cap without hesitation are the ones serving and doing their duty for this country and how we should appreciate how great they are. Of course, the Pentagon data shows that the majority of recruits are poor southerners who are trudging around Afghanistan. and more likely joined the military because of economic incentives rather than pure patriotism. Now Cheetos is trying to make some fantasy point about how it's not really poor people making up the bulk of recruits (contrary to the Pentagon data) and how it's middle class and upper middle class people who are putting on the ruck sack and carrying the assault rifles around in the Afghan Mountains. Cliff notes for those interested.
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