I always do the second option lol, they don't seem to catch on.
ArcaneSlime
joined 2 years ago
Lay that pistol down babe, lay that pistol down.
Can someone tell this to my "faster faster" ass boss?
Heads up that stat is disingenuous. It was taken during covid (which contributed to a decline in the true cause, auto fatalities), included "children ages 0-19" (some of which are decidedly not legally children), and only took place in a few major cities (IIRC NYC, LA, CHI, BAL, and one or two more I can't recall because it's been 5+yr,) all cities known for their gang problems. Gangs which often ensnare kids as young as elementary school to deliver packages, but it usually starts to get more violent at ~15-18. Most of the kids shot were involved in that life, which is still a problem yes, but it's usually spun as if 5yos are mostly dying from school shootings, which simply isn't the case and the methodology was flawed to give that false impression. If they'd have done it with a wider sample it likely would have still been car crashes even then, and it's certainly back by now.
The one with just the green lines? If so, Battle Zone, fucking classic.
No, it's a race against my cat, can I get it on before she gets the fuck in the way? lol
I have a man,
I have pineapple,
Pineappleman?
Penpineappleappleman?
Yeah good call, idek your company, site, or industry, and I don't need to. As someone who has to deal with the same shit from a customer perspective I can't hate it enough.
Professional websites should all aspire to be like McMaster-Carr's, "you know why you are here why should we bug you with bullshit, now what size roll pins did you need?" Literally one of my favorite websites of all time, no muss no fuss.
You and your cakenuts.
274 justifiable homicides involving a private citizen using a firearm
Ok, and how many defensive uses of a firearm occurred that year where the defender did not kill the attacker? Cases where the attacker was merely injured, or the defender missed, or the attacker ran off at the sight of the firearm? Why are those entirely omitted, does it only count as self defense if the attacker dies, not if one successfully stops the attack without a justifiable homicide?
And while we're at it, how many justifiable homicides occurred that year with your defensive weapon of choice, The Hammer? If the metric used to determine a weapon's viability for defense is simply justifiable homicides/yr, blind bet: it's less than 274.
Btw
only 1.1 percent of victims of attempted or completed violent crimes used a firearm,
While around 45% of people own a gun, only 21% of people carry a gun ever, and even less carry everywhere always, and this figure doesn't take into account whether or not the victims had a gun on them with which to defend themselves. This stat is entirely meaningless without controling for that.
and only 0.3 percent of victims of attempted or completed property crimes used a firearm.
Well that's illegal unless you're in Texas at night, so, unless that's all they're counting this makes me further question the voracity of the study. You're telling me that 0.3 percent of people in the study successfully justifiably killed someone for something that is illegal to kill people for? That's not how this works lol.
Tbf, a hammer is also a tool with only one use, sometimes a job needs a specific tool. "Killing" just so happens to include self defense, if you happen to need to defend yourself it helps to have the best tool for the job instead of hammering a nail with your wrench.
Hell I'm a man and I stayed dating a woman I should have left (because she was abusive) because I couldn't have done without her part of the rent at the time. Shit happens ig. Got a new job and now I'm able to afford it alone, she's gone, shit rules.