John Bingham wrote:Which western countries do all these carjackings and home invasions happen in? Not saying they don't happen but they are quite rare in most civilized nations.

scott61 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 12:16 am

Yerg wrote: ↑Sat Apr 22, 2023 11:43 pm

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sat Apr 22, 2023 7:48 pm Lots of criminals are released in western countries on their own recognizance to commit more crimes. Criminals are first to get illegal weapons and the first to react to anything with violence.

Lots of carjackings happen in western countries. Criminals jump into an unlocked car. If there is someone in the car, they’ve already determined to take that person’s life in order to get the car. Same with home invasions. Criminals have already determined to take your life to get what they want.
It takes less than a second to kill.

Police train constantly to determine in less than a split second whether or not a cheerleader is a criminal bent on killing or not. Even with all training, police are still being killed.

Once there was a heavily tattooed man banging at a door at 3 am, thinking it was his house. Homeowner opened, man barged in, flashing his eyelids, tattooed with the words ‘Kill ‘‘em All’. Homeowner was in fear of his life and shot him.

Maybe the criminal thought he was a Girl Scout selling cookies at 3 am. Maybe he is just a poor victim.

A long time ago, the motto was police always get there man. Now media glamorizes criminals, showing ever more inventive ways to commit crimes. Police are depicted as the enemy of the noble criminals.

Get rid of the criminals, make society safer. When only responsible gun owners are left, violence levels drop.

My opinions, of course.

I’ve rarely read a more contrite pile of BS in my life. Despite them being, of course, your opinions. And the beauty of opinions, like arseholes, we all have.

Show us how crime is glamorized please? Show us how the police are “depicted” as the enemies of “noble criminals” please? By definition, are the police not de facto the enemies of criminal enterprise or have I missed something?

And define for me a “responsible gun owner” please. Because at times, this kind of reads like an oxymoron.

And “heavily tattooed” meaning what? People with tattoos are criminals? Or just those “heavily tattooed”?

Your “opinions” often come across as pompous. And I have no dog in the gun control fight. I care fuck all for it. But please, if you’re making claims. Back them up with evidence rather than opinions. It would be just as bad as me saying my “opinion” is that you’re a dick. But if I had evidence to back that up…. Q.E.D.

...but, tattooed people ARE more likely to be criminals and here is the evidence:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a ... 5213001189

Results suggest that having tattoos is considered as a symptom of a set of developmental risk factors and personality traits that are both related to tattooing and being involved in crime... (though they don't necessarily predict crime over a lifetime.)

They aren't called tramp stamps for nothing. If you think this is a stereotype, you are correct but stereotypes are not just rationalizations of prejudice or inaccurate value judgements:

More evidence:

https://spsp.org/news-center/character- ... ffects-all

Stereotype accuracy is one of the largest and most replicable effects in all of social psychology. Richard et al (2003) found that fewer than 5% of all effects in social psychology exceeded r’s of .50. In contrast, nearly all consensual stereotype accuracy correlations and about half of all personal stereotype accuracy correlations exceed .50.

newkidontheblock wrote: ↑Sun Apr 23, 2023 2:03 am

John Bingham wrote:Which western countries do all these carjackings and home invasions happen in? Not saying they don't happen but they are quite rare in most civilized nations.

911 requests in the last 5 minutes.



Crimes in the last 6 days.



Which civilized nation do you live in where there is no crime?

I want to live there.

Watching the daily news is frightening.