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Originally posted by Thjolloh
So....
You all think, that if the people of California were allowed to carry weapons, this would've never happened??
Originally posted by Straight Razor
This was written by an amateur. Professional journalists do not use the word allegedly. Either that or California has lower journalism standards than most.
Originally posted by Bachelor
Originally posted by laiguana
I've noticed that lower income and less educated people tend to breed the most, so my guess is that more of these barbarians are certain to come around.
Please state the extent and magnitude of your own education please, and if it exceeds the highschool level - please provide proof. Considering the ignorance of your statement, I'd be astounded if you have more than a GED - which by the way is what I have; I'm also lower income. Surprisingly though, I have no tendencies towards barbarianism; I'm also childless. So much for your state of supposed enlightenment there, genius.
Originally posted by xxpigxx
queue cop haters:
Good job this offer did. I hope everything turns out okay for him
I should add that I don't agree with mandating things like this, however if they provided for those who couldn't afford it, offered training and a waiver to opt out, it is the perception in the minds of criminals that they don't know who has them and who doesn't. Even with a 50% chance that a home has a firearm in it, Russian Roulette and they won't even bother.
Originally posted by carole9999
reply to post by TKainZero
I recall reading a story about a city that required every home to have a gun. Crime rates dropped dramatically and stayed low. I don't recall the name of the city or state, but the logic is indisputable. The criminals moved on to easy pickins. They may be criminals, but most of them aren't that stupid....
Originally posted by carole9999
I should add that I don't agree with mandating things like this, however if they provided for those who couldn't afford it, offered training and a waiver to opt out, it is the perception in the minds of criminals that they don't know who has them and who doesn't. Even with a 50% chance that a home has a firearm in it, Russian Roulette and they won't even bother.
Originally posted by carole9999
reply to post by TKainZero
I recall reading a story about a city that required every home to have a gun. Crime rates dropped dramatically and stayed low. I don't recall the name of the city or state, but the logic is indisputable. The criminals moved on to easy pickins. They may be criminals, but most of them aren't that stupid....
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
It's standard procedure for cops who are involved in a shooting to be placed on administrative leave pending an investigation.
By all accounts, the officer fired on the offender after ordering him to move away from the baby. When the offender refused and continued his assault, the officer fired.
There will be no punitive action taken against this officer if the accounts are accurate and there were many eyewitnesses.
It will be interesting to hear what the usual suspects have to say about this one.
If this had happened somewhere else besides California, an armed citizen might have been able to have saved the child's life.
[edit on 2008/6/15 by GradyPhilpott]
He said Aguilar had a "total hollowness in his eyes" and talked calmly of the boy being filled with "demons."
Witness Lisa Mota told the San Francisco Chronicle that Aguilar told people who tried to stop him that the boy was "trash."
I found the city, but Zindo found it as well. From what I've read, it has worked very well, as I'm sure they are responsible gun owners in terms of preventing accidents, and domestic violence involving firearms and increases with firearms doesn't seem to be mutually exclusive to this law.
Originally posted by AccessDenied
Originally posted by carole9999
I should add that I don't agree with mandating things like this, however if they provided for those who couldn't afford it, offered training and a waiver to opt out, it is the perception in the minds of criminals that they don't know who has them and who doesn't. Even with a 50% chance that a home has a firearm in it, Russian Roulette and they won't even bother.
Originally posted by carole9999
reply to post by TKainZero
I recall reading a story about a city that required every home to have a gun. Crime rates dropped dramatically and stayed low. I don't recall the name of the city or state, but the logic is indisputable. The criminals moved on to easy pickins. They may be criminals, but most of them aren't that stupid....
I would be curious to know in that city if the instances of accidental shootings, especially among children, went up statistically, as well as that of cases of domestic violence.
search.yahoo.com... for a list of articles on the city
Dan Robinson, a local volunteer fire department chief, told The Modesto Bee that at first glance, he thought the child was a dead animal in the road. He said when he realized it was a child, he tried to stop Aguilar.
He said Aguilar had a "total hollowness in his eyes" and talked calmly of the boy being filled with "demons."
Responding to 911 calls, a Stanislaus County Sheriff's Department helicopter landed in a dairy pasture near the scene. A Modesto police officer, Jerry Ramar, fatally shot Aguilar after he failed to heed the officer's warning to stop beating the child, authorities said. Aguilar flashed his middle finger at Ramar before Ramar shot him in the forehead, police said.
Robinson, 52, jumped from his vehicle and confronted the man, who lunged at him. Robinson said the man wasn't screaming and wasn't loud, but was forceful, saying "demons" were in the boy.
"Give me the knife. Give me the knife," the man said as he grabbed for a pen in the fireman's front pocket.
Originally posted by carole9999I would be curious to know in that city if the instances of accidental shootings, especially among children, went up statistically, as well as that of cases of domestic violence.
The city's population grew from around 5,000 in 1980 to 13,000 by 1996 (latest available estimate). Yet there have been only three murders: two with knives (1984 and 1987) and one with a firearm (1997). After the law went into effect in 1982, crime against persons plummeted 74 percent compared to 1981, and fell another 45 percent in 1983 compared to 1982.
And it has stayed impressively low. In addition to nearly non-existent homicide (murders have averaged a mere 0.19 per year), the annual number of armed robberies, residential burglaries, commercial burglaries, and rapes have averaged, respectively, 1.69, 31.63, 19.75, and 2.00 through 1998. www.tysknews.com...
Originally posted by kattraxx
reply to post by Bombeni
It's the mothers who usually put their babies in harm's way like this. Some women will do anything to keep a man. I hope the mother is tracked down and brought to justice if she willingly let this guy be alone with her baby.
Are you kidding me? You take the liberty of a lot of assumptions here and you really have to do some twisted mental gymnastics to blame the mother for this one. Women do not cause men's behavior. Men cause men's behavior.
[edit on 6/16/08 by kattraxx]