Message from @Thomas the Sowell Train [USA]
Discord ID: 422151417684557825
also.
You guys are lucky in land of hamburgers
"they're all automatic?"
"some of these are *fully* semi-automatic"
here in russia - even for smooth hunting barrel gun you need a crapton of licenses
and don't get me even started on obtaining anything with threaded barrel
well now I'm just curious about the NRA's membership numbers
` A 2017 Pew Research Center Study found that more than 14 million Americans consider themselves NRA members, above the real membership number of 5 million. This may be attributed to the fact that the NRA has millions more of Americans who support them and will tell pollsters they are members, even when they are not.`
heh.
The NRA has power but it isn't as big as they say it is
FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!
over
and over
and over again
Also Dick's and Walmart are now getting sued for age discrimination in their decisions not to sell firearms/ammunition to people under 21.
<:think_woke:378717098681171988>
`Mass Shooting, Active Shooter and Targeted Attack.
Pundits like to intone that "There is no broadly accepted definition of mass shootings." Bull.
Mass shooting has a pretty clear standard set by Federal Law Enforcement and legal (FBI, DOJ, DOHS, BJS etc.), "A shooting incident where four or more people die excluding the shooter." This is pretty much the accepted professional standard and definition. With these standards mass shootings are incredibly rare. Not to say they don't happen, but in a country of 360,00,000 people, 3.8 million square miles and 365 days in a year, objectively five to ten incidents a year qualifies as rare.`
`The Feds set a high bar, but as you'll soon see there's a reason. To really start screwing things up you need academics, lobbyists and agenda pushers. The Gun Violence Archive tweaks it by saying, "Four or more shot and/or killed in a single event, at the same general time and location, not including the shooter." Not dead but wounded kicks up the number of qualifying incidents (That's the last time you'll see the shooter excluded in the body count.)
The Mass Shooting Tracker uses, "...four or more people are shot in a single shooting spree. This may include the gunman himself or police shootings of civilians around the gunman." Notice how standards are getting broader to boost numbers? I've run across some counting spousal murder/suicides as 'mass shootings' to justify an anti-gun agenda. According to this approach one dead and one shot is a 'mass shooting incident.' Counting that way and spanning multiple decades allows them to claim US mass shooting incidents number in the thousands and victims in the tens of thousands. It's amazing you can walk down the street with all the bodies laying around from gun violence. < /sarcasm >`
This the same site that qualified a drug deal gone bad 400 feet from a school as a school shooting?