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So you can’t defend your claim that the crimes have increased exponentially in just the last few years. That was just you making up a bullshit claim to try to connect to a bullshit narrative that you WANT to believe.I’m not pinning it on CHAZ or lockdowns, dumbass. I’m saying that there was a lot of anger and resentment and anger stoked in everyone during this period.
I am truly baffled that you cannot see that the mood in this country has fundamentally changed in the last ten years or so.
As for your data, I’m not giving you anything you can’t see for yourself in the news.
Businesses and people are shutting down and leaving certain cities because of the increased crime there. This was not an issue before about a year ago and now we’re hearing about it all the time.
Wal-Mart is closing nine stores in Chicago and the city is displeased. Wal-Mart says it’s because these stores are not making money anymore but I’m willing to bet it’s the crime and theft making them unprofitable.
Speaking of Chicago, I’m not sure what their murder rate is now but I remember that their murder rate had an increase of almost 300 murders from 2020 to 2021, I believe.
If you took that stance as a politician, the NRA and their sheep would attack you as a gun grabber.
Would you want to make it illegal to leave a gun in a vehicle overnight?
You don't think that "something" is festering at the heart of a great many countries.
Because there is something festering at the heart of our country. I thought I made that clear.Can you acknowledge that? Yet we're the only ones with weekly blood baths among first world nations. Why do you think that is?
Link: Little Girl, Parents Shot After Basketball Rolls Into Neighbor’s Yard: Report
How does one think that firearms can be in the hands of so many kooks?
Nothing to say about businesses shutting down and leaving these cities?So you can’t defend your claim that the crimes have increased exponentially in just the last few years. That was just you making up a bullshit claim to try to connect to a bullshit narrative that you WANT to believe.
Gotcha.
I was just asking for data to support your claim, not someone’s opinion. But sure, let’s dive into this.Is Violent Crime Increasing? | Department of Criminology
A quote:
“Taking to raw numbers at face value, recent increases in homicides and violent crime have been attributed to three factors: (1) COVID public health measures such as travel restrictions, school closures, lockdowns, and curfews, (2) COVID sickness and death itself, and (3) less aggressive police practices in response on Black Lives Matter and other organized criticisms of police use of force.”
I never suggested the increase was worse than in the 90s or any other era, I only said there was an increase.I was just asking for data to support your claim, not someone’s opinion. But sure, let’s dive into this.
“The increases in violent crime in general and homicide in particular began in 2014, well before the events associated with two of the three explanations.”
So you linked me to someone who says these kinds of crimes didn’t start growing exponentially in the last few years. Good to know.
“One is left with several conclusions. First, the recent violent crime increases, even if they are not just noise, are dwarfed by the amount of violent crime in the 1990s. We have not returned to the bad old days. Second, the speculative explanations commonly proposed must fit the timing of the recent violent crime increases. Conjectures revolving around the COVID-19 pandemic and pent-up frustrations, at least as usually formulated, do not seem to get it right. Third, explanations based on more passive police practices, real and imagined, coupled with the perceptions of reduced risk among individuals already predisposed toward violence, may have some merit, but the existing data range from weak to nonexistent. It is very difficult to bring facts to bear.“
So the timing of the increase in crime doesn’t fit with the mask mandates you were trying to pin this on. Good to know.
You said that the increase started in the last few years. The link you provided says it started in 2014.I never suggested the increase was worse than in the 90s or any other era, I only said there was an increase.
You still haven’t acknowledged the businesses shutting down and/or leaving because of the crime increase.
There’s also the increase in frequency of mass shootings. Not even you can dispute this.
Purely conjecture without any data to back it up. That means your post is nothing more than your ignorant personal opinion with the appearance of intellectualism, but actually without merit. Are you a college professor? You sure talk like one.I was just asking for data to support your claim, not someone’s opinion. But sure, let’s dive into this.
“The increases in violent crime in general and homicide in particular began in 2014, well before the events associated with two of the three explanations.”
So you linked me to someone who says these kinds of crimes didn’t start growing exponentially in the last few years. Good to know.
“One is left with several conclusions. First, the recent violent crime increases, even if they are not just noise, are dwarfed by the amount of violent crime in the 1990s. We have not returned to the bad old days. Second, the speculative explanations commonly proposed must fit the timing of the recent violent crime increases. Conjectures revolving around the COVID-19 pandemic and pent-up frustrations, at least as usually formulated, do not seem to get it right. Third, explanations based on more passive police practices, real and imagined, coupled with the perceptions of reduced risk among individuals already predisposed toward violence, may have some merit, but the existing data range from weak to nonexistent. It is very difficult to bring facts to bear.“
So the timing of the increase in crime doesn’t fit with the mask mandates you were trying to pin this on. Good to know.
I was just going off of what his link says.Purely conjecture without any data to back it up. That means your post is nothing more than your ignorant personal opinion with the appearance of intellectualism, but actually without merit. Are you a college professor? You sure talk like one.
"Going off" is a fitting term.I was just going off of what his link says.
Care to address what was said in the link, or are you just going to go back to another hissy fit?"Going off" is a fitting term.
You should be thankful you live in a free country.Shot for going to the wrong house, shot for pulling into the wrong driveway, shot for opening the wrong car door…
You said that the increase started in the last few years. The link you provided says it started in 2014.
You blamed this on covid. Your own link says that this does not seem to get it right.
Also that you’re going to continue to ignore the fact that businesses are shutting down and leaving because of the increased crime in their areas.So I guess we’re now at the point where you’re going to ignore that your own link doesn’t support what you said. M’kay.
I think I'll let you chew your tongue for a while.Care to address what was said in the link, or are you just going to go back to another hissy fit?
Mexico is a corrupt kleptocracy; not a first world nation.Actually, I do. Mexico comes readily to mind.
The nature of the crime has changed? We've had senseless shootings for 50 years at least. The UT shootings, The McDonalds in San Isidro (sp?), Columbine....Because there is something festering at the heart of our country. I thought I made that clear.
Have you not even asked why the nature of crime has changed? Why we are now seeing mobs of kids committing smash and grab robberies where we didn’t before? Why mass shootings are increasing in frequency?
The recent case of the transgender person committing the mass shooting should at least tell you that hate and violence is more and more becoming the way Americans deal with conflict.
It's not the guns it's the people.Mexico is a corrupt kleptocracy; not a first world nation.
The nature of the crime has changed? We've had senseless shootings for 50 years at least. The UT shootings, The McDonalds in San Isidro (sp?), Columbine....
As guns have proliferated, gun culture has proliferated, as hate groups of all types have proliferated...surprise surprise...the number of shootings has proliferated. In the US. Somehow nowhere else.
But lets continue to blame the nebulous "festering" beneath the surface.... Anything except the 2nd Amendment which is the only major difference between hate groups here and hate groups there.
LOL..It's not the guns it's the people.
It's not my fault the US is breeding malcontent mentally ill people.
LOL..
Wow... English, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Sweedish, Finnish, Polish, Italian, Welsh, Japanese, Chinese, Australian, Canadian, Portuguese, Icelandic, Irish, Israeli, Turkish, Greek, Swiss, Belgian, German, Austrian, Hungarian, Latvian, and Singaporean (etc...) "breeders" are doing a much better job since they have almost no mentally ill people apparently. Otherwise, they'd have the weekly blood baths you guys see no problem with.
Oooh...socialized medicine!No they have mentally ill people too they just actually provide medical services for them and we in the US do not .
That much is true. So we should spend more on prisoner healthcare. Yeah...who is leading the charge in the House for that.Our prisons have become our dumping ground for the mentally ill.
I guess Americans are just more homicidal than every other first world nation... None of your lame excuses are holding water.Like I said it's not the guns it's the people.
