http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/12/31/perspective Comments On: Perspective by Goldy en-us Copyright 2013 The Stranger. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, The Stranger readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact The Stranger. webmaster@thestranger.com (The Stranger Webmaster) Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0700 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:30:00 -0700 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by Mister G]]> Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:36:15 -0800 The Stranger
I'd also like to see that compared to road rage incidents, which sadly have some overlap as in the case of Yancy Noll (RIP).
Posted by GlibReaper]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 22:59:16 -0800 The Stranger
Gun nuts!!

Black people with illegal guns using them often?

Poverty victims!!
Posted by Left is right, up is down]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:38:39 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Did they take the bus to Bellevue?]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 18:29:43 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Chinaman]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:47:37 -0800 The Stranger
Thanks,


Posted by Mike OC]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:40:32 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Sugartit]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:35:14 -0800 The Stranger
Seattle - poverty rate, 2009 @ 14.5%
Chicago - poverty rate, 2009 @ 27.5%
New Orleans - poverty rate, 2009 @ 31.5%

Anywhere you have large disparities in wealth combined with a large percentage of poor, you're going to have higher crime rates and more homicides. I bet that raising the minimum wage to $16-20/hour (adjusted for area, that's about the minimum you need to keep out of poverty with a 40 hour work week) would have a greater reduction in crime than any firearms bill. Better yet, tie the minimum wage in a company to the highest salary. You want to pay the CEO $10 million a year, that's fine as long as you pay the janitor 100k/year. Don't forget to include stock options and other benefits in total compensation!

@34, I have zero problem with making it harder to own handguns, particularly if part of making it harder includes training and mental health issues. My problem is that the big noise is a "assault weapons" ban. When "assault weapons" make up a miniscule portion of deaths. The difference is that handguns mostly kill the poor and disenfranchised, and apparently we don't give a shit about them.

@23, Have you ever gone into a store and tried to buy a 100 round magazine? Do you know anything about firearms other than what you've seen on TV? If all the crazy-ass psychopaths used 100 round magazines, they'd be out of the picture must faster because their magazines would jam. (See Aurora, CO)

There has not been a single mass-shooter who was not batshit crazy. While it may make 'gun control nuts' feel good to ban "assault weapons" it is not going to do anything to prevent batshit crazy people from killing people if that is what they want to do. And it is also not going to do anything about the majority of firearms violence/death in this country.
Posted by randoma]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 17:11:45 -0800 The Stranger Seattle black percentage - 7.9
Chicago's 36.8
New Orleans 67.

Matches up quite nicely with the difference in murder rates. The only thing Seattle "does right" is not having a lot of blacks.
Posted by sad facts]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 16:02:06 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pridge Wessea]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 15:30:54 -0800 The Stranger "Maybe, just maybe, overall homicide rates are more complex than simply, 'OMG! GUNS!'"

But saying that the situation is a lot more complicated than "OMG! GUNS!" does not get the kind of hits that drive advertising here.
If Goldy was actually interested in addressing this issue, he'd run a continuing list of all shootings here including whether anyone was hit or killed and the reason behind the shooting (as far as can be determined).
But Goldy is more into the grief porn aspect so instead you'll see whatever shooting he is interested in throughout the nation.
Posted by fairly.unbalanced]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:21:03 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Mister G]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 12:42:06 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Ken Mehlman]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 11:33:02 -0800 The Stranger
Aurora, Newtown, though...

starting off 2013 as callous as 2012 i see.
Posted by Max Solomon]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 10:30:22 -0800 The Stranger any of those deaths.
Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 09:36:23 -0800 The Stranger Posted by suddenlyorcas]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 09:01:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Ken Mehlman]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 08:18:08 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pridge Wessea]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 08:05:46 -0800 The Stranger
oh Pudge you silly goose
Posted by ignore the voices in your head.]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 07:53:37 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Pridge Wessea]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 07:02:51 -0800 The Stranger Posted by Ken Mehlman]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 06:49:53 -0800 The Stranger
Why do Liberals fear most of all The Truth?
Posted by ...because it usually rips them a new one.]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 05:03:46 -0800 The Stranger Plus you have kinda omitted allot of details that make German gun laws different from the US. Ours (Sweden) and their gun laws are similar and the parts you don't mention is the amount of control involved, the steps required. You can't just buy a gun and you can definitely not buy a pistol (again, its a tool thats shit for basically every single thing except killing humans) in the same way as in the US.

Posted by JensR]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 01:44:51 -0800 The Stranger
I know you are...but what am I ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sXENI8tp…


Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 01:33:43 -0800 The Stranger
One thing I do know, you and the other meanspirited lowlife urbists, Google bombers, snippy teens and hipsters weren't around back then...and it certainly was a nicer place.

But hey, the unemployment rate is dropping fast in LA and the rents in Manhattan are falling as well.

Maybe it's not long before 45th street is empty at 2pm in the afternoon.

Once again.

Posted by Supreme Ruler Of The Universe]]> Tue, 01 Jan 2013 01:21:34 -0800 The Stranger