1. Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!

Off Topic Only in America

Discussion in 'Hull City' started by ElTigre, Dec 30, 2014.

  1. Old Tige

    Old Tige Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 2, 2016
    Messages:
    804
    Likes Received:
    285
    Not to mention a better world.
     
    #421
  2. ElTigre

    ElTigre Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 29, 2011
    Messages:
    4,438
    Likes Received:
    1,149
    Toddlers Have Already Shot 23 People This Year

    According to The Washington Post, American children three years old or younger have shot at least 23 people in 2016, five more than they did over the same period in 2015.

    Georgia is home to the highest number of toddler shootings, with at least eight incidents since January 2015. Texas and Missouri are tied for second place with seven shootings each, while Florida and Michigan are tied for fourth, with six shootings apiece.


    http://gawker.com/report-toddlers-have-already-shot-23-people-this-year-1774185234
     
    #422
  3. Quill

    Quill Bastard

    Joined:
    May 23, 2012
    Messages:
    40,719
    Likes Received:
    13,318
    You know it's getting too ridiculous when it sounds like an article from The Onion.
     
    #423
    dennisboothstash and ElTigre like this.
  4. x

    x Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 30, 2011
    Messages:
    9,131
    Likes Received:
    3,321
    it's the toddler resistance army. they are telling the grown-ups that guns should not be so easily available and anyone who thinks they should be deserves shooting. and i agree with them.
     
    #424
  5. DMD

    DMD Eh? Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    68,665
    Likes Received:
    60,545
    I think I've misunderstood when I've read of targets for pre-school education.
     
    #425
  6. RicardoHCAFC

    RicardoHCAFC Well-Known Member Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2011
    Messages:
    10,311
    Likes Received:
    454
    Using last year's total to get the average. On the day of the Brussels attacks, by the time Trump made his comments about it there had been more deaths caused by American civilians with guns than were killed by the terrorists. But it's the UK and Europe that aren't safe...
     
    #426

  7. OedipusTex

    OedipusTex Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Aug 19, 2012
    Messages:
    1,063
    Likes Received:
    717
    If you take out drug-related crime it ain't so big.
     
    #427
  8. originallambrettaman

    originallambrettaman Mod Moderator Staff Member

    Joined:
    Jan 24, 2011
    Messages:
    111,683
    Likes Received:
    76,048
    It's massive, the US shooting statistics are appalling by any measure.
     
    #428
  9. bum_chinned_crab

    bum_chinned_crab Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 13, 2011
    Messages:
    21,807
    Likes Received:
    6,317
    That's like saying "if you take out murder then they're not so bad". You can't take out drug related shootings, they're shootings! If Steve Bruce said "we'd be top of the league if it wasn't for the games when we conceded goals" you'd say he was a ****ing idiot!
     
    #429
  10. Anal Frank Fingers

    Anal Frank Fingers Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 14, 2012
    Messages:
    3,888
    Likes Received:
    2,040
    With America's lack of gun control and presidential shenanigans, I think the UK maybe aught to sack off our relationship with them and jump into bed with the Ruskis.

    If the internet tells us anything, its that they have Vodka and nore naked young females. It's a no-brainer.
     
    #430
  11. dennisboothstash

    dennisboothstash Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 2, 2011
    Messages:
    23,321
    Likes Received:
    38,025
    To be fair if you take religious related terrorist activity out of terrorism stats those figures are relatively low too
    At least consider it as a reporting option...the world be such a better place !
     
    #431
    bum_chinned_crab likes this.
  12. bum_chinned_crab

    bum_chinned_crab Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 13, 2011
    Messages:
    21,807
    Likes Received:
    6,317
    It all reminds me of the Brass Eye piece when crime rates were dramatically cut in Holland as they legalised murder.
     
    #432
    Last edited: May 7, 2016
    dennisboothstash likes this.
  13. Chazz Rheinhold

    Chazz Rheinhold Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 28, 2011
    Messages:
    58,384
    Likes Received:
    56,100
    Isnt that what coppers/government do now, just fiddle the figures to say its falling.
     
    #433
    petersaxton likes this.
  14. DMD

    DMD Eh? Forum Moderator

    Joined:
    Jan 25, 2011
    Messages:
    68,665
    Likes Received:
    60,545
    I reckon there's a fair few civilians in the middle east that would think they're less likely to be killed by Americans if they were in America.
     
    #434
    dennisboothstash likes this.
  15. dennisboothstash

    dennisboothstash Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 2, 2011
    Messages:
    23,321
    Likes Received:
    38,025
    Ah, but you only need to remove bomb related fatalities from the stats and it's quite an effective and safe campaign
     
    #435
    bum_chinned_crab and DMD like this.
  16. Barchullona

    Barchullona Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 20, 2012
    Messages:
    29,658
    Likes Received:
    14,739
    Actually America is quite down the list on a per capita basis aAnd even further down when duicides are taken out of it as they account for quite a few of them.
     
    #436
  17. Ernie Shackleton

    Ernie Shackleton Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Sep 21, 2013
    Messages:
    13,244
    Likes Received:
    25,127
    Is that like a Romeo and Juliet style scenario?
     
    #437
    tigerincanada likes this.
  18. Barchullona

    Barchullona Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 20, 2012
    Messages:
    29,658
    Likes Received:
    14,739
    <laugh>.
     
    #438
  19. look_back_in_amber

    look_back_in_amber Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 20, 2011
    Messages:
    9,335
    Likes Received:
    8,429
    My youngest lad, aged 25, has just emigrated to Indianapolis, he's marrying a local lass out there.

    #prayforashley
     
    #439
  20. Barchullona

    Barchullona Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    May 20, 2012
    Messages:
    29,658
    Likes Received:
    14,739
    My cousin, who is his mid sixties now but was someone who could handle himself in his younger days, has lived in New York for 25 years says he feels safer walking home in the early hours after a night out than he did in Scarborough. A copper on every intersection and people may want to mug someone for money, though he has never seen it, but they don't kick **** out of someone passing by just for a bit of fun like they do here.
     
    #440

Share This Page