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The stats are shocking... 30% of world mass shootings take place in the USA . USA only have 5% of the world's population living there.
Never been to the USA and don't really want to either.
Never been to the USA and don't really want to either.
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Perhaps they have all been white these evil killers.
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Must be an expectancy thing.
Expecting a life of privilege and when things dont turn out how they want they chucks their toys out. |
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White or hispanic?
Nicholas Cruz is a hispanic name. |
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According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 12.3% of the U.S. population is black, and 12.5% is Hispanic. Gallup Poll results from March 26-28, however, show that slightly less than one in 10 Americans can accurately identify that the population of either blacks or Hispanics in this country falls between 10% and 14%
That might have something to do with it |
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gun ownership and gun availability might have something to do with it.
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I would imagine the daily mass excecutions in the Middle East and Africa aren't included in the statistics
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Drug abuse such as cannabis and steroids may be a factor that seems to be ignored,many of the attacks are later reported to have the perpetrators using them.
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I can't imagine cannabis making anyone want to get off the couch and go out killing tbf. I did read the other day that the London Bridge stabbing crew took loads of steroids. Do they have an immediate effect?
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Are you saying black people are different to white? Isn't that racist talk?
Oh, it's negative to the white so you should be ok with that. Do carry on.  |
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I have a family member who has psychotic episodes from cannabis use (supposedly) and recieves a payment every week.was given a fully furnished flat (which was better than the one I used to own) and gets his utilities paid for though pays a couple of quid or so a week rent.
He takes other drugs as well as anti psychotic and anti depressant drugs and he drinks daily all of this together when he goes overboard leads to episodes where he attacks and/or threatens my aunty with knives or attempts to strangle her he's been arrested 100's of times. So with the right concoctions of brain chemistry it's definitely possible. The way he and the likes of him are dealt with in our country is a fcuking disgrace when genuinely disabled and ill people are made to jump through hoops,but that's another story  |
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I know somebody who has a brother who has been sectioned twice, but by all accounts human rights act means they cant hold em for long.
Not sure what they are supposed to do other than chemically kosh people but then people would be in uproar. Cant win. |
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He TRIED to get himself sectioned when first trying to secure the benefits of being psychotic as he has a friend who is on top whack sickness benefits for similar but they saw through him after a week's observation.
What imo they do with these types is decide what is the cheapest way to handle everything? i.e One day when he got told his jobseekers allowance was going to be stopped (rightfully so) he through a wobbler in the jobcentre and told them he was going to kill himself,so the police had helicopters etc. out looking for him costing probably 5 figures. Really what he did was bus it back to his mates house whilst police were at his mothers place and surrounding areas waiting in case he turned there up whilst telling them of the situation,more money. Instead of jailing him again they decide it's cheaper to give him everything under the sun which genuine working people can't afford,so he effectively is a proffessional drug addict who justifies the wages of the various social worker types who happily validate his behaviour |
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Sorry to hear that Denzil...
 The problem in the States is if you're angry you can get hold of an assault rifle and kill many. Here, you're likely to use your fists or at worse a knife. A huge difference in the outcome.. |
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Very true
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Yes, very true.
Also a sad indictment of 'care in the community'. It doesn't work. It never worked. |
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Rather glibly ignores the thousands upon thousands of people with manageable conditions who've been cared for in the community rather than tossed in an asylum from a young age.
Simply put though, every country has people with issues. Not every country allows them to buy an assault rifle before a half of shandy. Doesn't take a genius to see where that can lead. |
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I didn't say everyone with manageable conditions should be locked up.
I said that care in the community doesn't work. |
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I never meant no offence against any race. It just seems to me a lot of these shootings in the USA are the same colour people as myself ( white ).
What are the USA government going to do about the gun laws ? |
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The Hispanics and Blacks are too busy killing eachother to waste bullets in schools etc.
The government can't change the gun laws because everyone might realise it's THEM who are flooding the streets with weapons and the ease of obtaining guns will no longer be an excuse for everything gang and gun murder related.Basically they NEED it this way to help control an unwinnable situation,changing the gun laws will only result in more weapons trafficking in which control will be lessened. |
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The Hispanics and Blacks are too busy killing eachother to waste bullets in schools etc.
Nicolas de Jesus Cruz is hispanic. |
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I was referring to gang violence in that line and that of course is only one example of a mass shooting
US has major problems with Hispanic gangs in formerly mainly Black areas,Compton's population has 6 times more Hispanic people than black and they are many deaths on a daily basis. |
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We are singing from the same hymn sheet on this one Denzil,
It's just the OP thread title is very misleading and I can't help myself from pointing this out. |
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Last documentary I saw said 6 times which I thought was excessive though there are alot from Central America getting through Mexico might validate the need for a wall
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No probs stickyvicky
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MS-13 gangs florishing in USA now
In the U.S., MS-13 has an especially heavy presence in California, the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, New York City and New Jersey, Boston, Charlotte, North Carolina, and Houston. There is also a presence of MS-13 in Toronto, Canada. Wiki |
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I've seen a documentary about them in something like 40 odd states now,new members are recruited by taking a beating from other current gang members many start as kids
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Anti Gun lobby and Main Stream Media don't want to know about the real story of Hispanic criminal gangs, black on black shootings stats, etc.
Only 'thoughts and prayers' are the headlines when a 'white'( but in reality a Hispanic) school shooter lets loose. Hispanic is near enough to call white when it suits their narritive. |
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Agree 100%
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I agree 0%.
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I agree 100% with Mikael
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I think I read somewhere that uniquely Spain had never had a single serial killer until sometime recently, one man who had returned from serving for the EU in Yugoslavia during the war and didn't return his gun but kept it and later in Spain murdered several people, leaving a playing card at the scene
If this is the case it would be interesting to know why, in Spain |
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So the conquistadors don’t count then........?
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I am talking about serial killers in the classical sense of usually lone individuals, or two , not people who go to war
that is what is interesting about Spain if it is true |
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stickyvicky 19 Feb 18 23:34
Nicolas de Jesus Cruz is hispanic stickyvicky 19 Feb 18 14:32 Nicholas Cruz is a hispanic name. You sound quite desperate btw Cruz is his now deceased adoptive mother's name |
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I was reading the article about the murders and this was just a throughaway sentence as part of the story, that Spain had never before had a serial killer, so I might remembering it wrong
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iam pretty sure that is what it said, it struck me as being interesting at the time
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The conquistadors weren’t fighting a war, the clue is in the name.
They committed genocide, but perhaps because it was in a land that they had no claim to it doesn’t register? |
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oh I give up
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I deliberatedly didn't mention the Spanish civil war either were people were murdered in their thousands
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