#1 2009-12-02 13:08:46
Are we rioting yet? Seems some think we are about there...
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid= … D2WoDAL9h0
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#2 2009-12-02 15:58:58
HA!
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#4 2009-12-03 01:16:07
Alice Schroeder wrote:
Common sense tells you a handgun is probably not even all that useful. Suppose an intruder sneaks past the doorman or jumps the security fence at night. By the time you pull the pistol out of your wife’s jewelry safe, find the ammunition, and load your weapon, Fifi the Pomeranian has already been taken hostage and the gun won’t do you any good.
Uhh . . . Actually, "common sense" dic-tates that you have no fucking "common sense" if you keep your hand-gun un-loaded and locked a-way. Personally, I keep my .357 loaded with hollow-points and with-in easy reach when I sleep.
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#5 2009-12-03 01:20:47
Decadence wrote:
Alice Schroeder wrote:
Common sense tells you a handgun is probably not even all that useful. Suppose an intruder sneaks past the doorman or jumps the security fence at night. By the time you pull the pistol out of your wife’s jewelry safe, find the ammunition, and load your weapon, Fifi the Pomeranian has already been taken hostage and the gun won’t do you any good.
Uhh . . . Actually, "common sense" dic-tates that you have no fucking "common sense" if you keep your hand-gun un-loaded and locked a-way. Personally, I keep my .357 loaded with hollow-points and with-in easy reach when I sleep.
Mossberg pump action full of "less-than-lethal" beanbag rounds. No faggy flashlights or funny handles.
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#6 2009-12-03 06:50:18
Keep your lamps trimmed and burning.
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#7 2009-12-03 08:29:14
Fear-mongering amoungst the wealthy - in America all things are equal.
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#8 2009-12-03 13:14:54
The BF has his .45 black powder pistol loaded on his side of the bed, while I have my .22 single shot pistol on mine. Not that we would ever need it living in the town we live in, but its really for when Zombies happen so, you know. Better safe and all that.
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#9 2009-12-03 19:53:14
kim wrote:
The BF has his .45 black powder pistol loaded on his side of the bed, while I have my .22 single shot pistol on mine. Not that we would ever need it living in the town we live in, but its really for when Zombies happen so, you know. Better safe and all that.
How are you going to remember the rules, and always double tap the zombies, with a single shot?
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#10 2009-12-04 10:51:24
6 shots in my BP pistol. For repelling pirate borders. But I don't keep it loaded by the bedside, it's way too humid for that in Florida. We are allowed modern arms around here.
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#11 2009-12-04 11:56:13
hedgewizard wrote:
kim wrote:
The BF has his .45 black powder pistol loaded on his side of the bed, while I have my .22 single shot pistol on mine. Not that we would ever need it living in the town we live in, but its really for when Zombies happen so, you know. Better safe and all that.
How are you going to remember the rules, and always double tap the zombies, with a single shot?
Oh no, thats just whats next to my side of the bed. The closet is full of all the other guns and rifles. Plus the random hammers behind the doors. The BF is certified crazy so .... you know. I just don't ask any questions anymore.
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#12 2009-12-04 12:09:22
I have a kimber .45 loaded and in the night stand. Don't fuck with RT.
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#13 2009-12-04 12:43:14
12 Gauge Snakecharmer with a progressive shot load under the bed.
(Progressive = 1 rnd Bird Shot, 2nd rnd Buckshot, 3rd rnd Slug)
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#14 2009-12-04 12:55:22
Oh I also have the requisite baseball bat and large hunting knife under the bed (between the mattress). And some mace in the drawer as well.
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#15 2009-12-04 14:05:09
Roger_That wrote:
Oh I also have the requisite baseball bat and large hunting knife under the bed (between the mattress). And some mace in the drawer as well.
now I can't figure out if you're extremely paranoid or extremely kinky
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#16 2009-12-04 14:19:46
Emmeran wrote:
Roger_That wrote:
Oh I also have the requisite baseball bat and large hunting knife under the bed (between the mattress). And some mace in the drawer as well.
now I can't figure out if you're extremely paranoid or extremely kinky
A little of both.
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#17 2009-12-04 15:28:19
Mine is also a Mossberg pump shorty... a shiny Marinecoat Coast Guard version. My progression is 00,slug,00. If the first two shots don't take 'em down, the last shell is for me.
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#18 2009-12-04 16:44:59
Wow, this thread is making me feel inadequate. My home defense is smooth talking, a low profile, and poverty.
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#19 2009-12-04 17:39:55
I discovered I couldn't afford poverty.
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#20 2009-12-04 18:08:43
I have a pellet gun that looks awfully real, and really good aim.
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#21 2009-12-04 18:18:18
phoQ wrote:
Wow, this thread is making me feel inadequate. My home defense is smooth talking, a low profile, and poverty.
Poverty was my best home defense, and sort of still is, but God Damn it if anyone takes my mac I'll kill them.
Now, my car, the fucking VW piece of shit, doesn't even lock so ... at least that shows that I really don't need to worry about being robbed living where I live.
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#22 2009-12-04 18:40:09
Part of the joy of living in a small overwhelmingly White community is that violent crime and break-ins are almost non-existent! The police blotter in my town consists of DUI, DUI, counterfeit bill, domestic disturbance, DUI, public intoxication, DUI, and so on.
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#23 2009-12-04 18:43:40
Exactly.
We have a lot of mexi's here though, but I think my car is usually parked on their bike route so
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#24 2009-12-04 18:50:28
kim wrote:
Poverty was my best home defense, and sort of still is
If you got flash, people want your cash. I’ve been passed over for robberies so many times that I’m beginning to get a complex.
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#25 2009-12-04 18:52:23
fnord wrote:
Part of the joy of living in a small overwhelmingly White community....
So, do you live in a gated community out there, fnord? My parents live in one in Mesa. They are very safe.
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#26 2009-12-04 19:04:57
Unless you're a certified Yakuza, you just can't have a handgun in Japan, so I have a big Maglite and a wrist rocket next to a box of .495 lead balls. If you're close enough to laugh at them, then you're in range.
By the way, I would never consider fucking WITH Rodger......
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#27 2009-12-04 19:39:35
I though Japan was safe. Who are you arming yourself against? There sure are a whole lot of weapon hoarders here.
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#28 2009-12-04 20:24:28
MSG Tripps wrote:
fnord wrote:
Part of the joy of living in a small overwhelmingly White community....
So, do you live in a gated community out there, fnord? My parents live in one in Mesa. They are very safe.
I live in a gated community, but it really isn't necessary in this area the way it was when I lived in California. The town is over 90% White and there is no major city nearby with a ghetto. Most of the Mexicans live in a squalid trailer park on the edge of town and the city is making life very uncomfortable for the owner and residents of the park. There are fewer than 25 negro residents, and I suspect most negros stay here for a very short period of time before moving on.
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#29 2009-12-04 20:27:47
fnord wrote:
MSG Tripps wrote:
So, do you live in a gated community out there, fnord?
I live in a gated community....
Damn, I'm good.
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#30 2009-12-04 20:33:26
fnord, where did you live (you no longer live in CA right)? Sounds like where I live now?
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#31 2009-12-04 21:14:44
kim wrote:
Poverty was my best home defense, and sort of still is, ...
Not true. People below the poverty line suffer from much higher crime rates of almost all types than people above the poverty line. Truth is, crackheads are usually too lazy to shuffle over to the other side of the tracks to get their next $20.
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#32 2009-12-05 01:36:56
phoQ wrote:
I though Japan was safe. Who are you arming yourself against? There sure are a whole lot of weapon hoarders here.
What the hell would make you think that?
The only thing different about the Nips is that they think rape is the womans fault. Violent crime is quite prevelant there; most goes unreported but it still exists.
Could you have possibly thought that the human condition didn't apply to that particular island?
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#33 2009-12-05 02:55:22
kim wrote:
fnord, where did you live (you no longer live in CA right)? Sounds like where I live now?
I lived in South Orange County. At one time Sofie, Fluffy and I (along with a few others) lived in the same general area. One night Fluffy posted what she was wearing and which hot spot she was going to that evening. Had the 5 freeway not been such a mess right then, and had I been inclined to do so, I could have driven a few miles, walked up to her, and said, "Hi, I'm Fnord." Before that I lived in Santa Barbara for many years.
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#34 2009-12-05 09:52:02
fnord wrote:
I could have driven a few miles, walked up to her, and said, "Hi, I'm Fnord." Before that I lived in Santa Barbara for many years.
Halloween is over, fnord. Stop scaring the kiddies.
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#35 2009-12-05 11:40:17
GooberMcNutly wrote:
fnord wrote:
I could have driven a few miles, walked up to her, and said, "Hi, I'm Fnord." Before that I lived in Santa Barbara for many years.
Halloween is over, fnord. Stop scaring the kiddies.
Well, at least he didn't post her phone number and a map to her house with directions...
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#36 2009-12-05 12:24:40
Emmeran wrote:
phoQ wrote:
I though Japan was safe.
What the hell would make you think that?
They have no guns and the population is primarily Japanese.
Murders per 100,000.
1. Russia Federation 18.07
2. United States 6.32
3. Malaysia 2.73
Taiwan 1.17
Spain 1.08
Japan 0.58
Rape per 100,000.
1. United States 34.20
2. England and Wales 14.69
3. France 13.38
Taiwan 8.82
South Korea 4.38
Spain 3.23
Japan 1.48
Serious Assault per 100,000.
1. Australia 713.68
2. England & Wales 405.20
3. United States 357.94
Taiwan 37.30
Spain 23.94
Japan 15.40
Robbery/Violent Theft per 100,000.
1. Spain 169.85
2. United States 169.02
3. France 144.10
Taiwan 14.35
South Korea 11.74
Japan 2.71
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#37 2009-12-05 14:00:14
phoQ wrote:
Emmeran wrote:
phoQ wrote:
I though Japan was safe.
What the hell would make you think that?
They have no guns and the population is primarily Japanese.
Murders per 100,000.
1. Russia Federation 18.07
2. United States 6.32
3. Malaysia 2.73
Taiwan 1.17
Spain 1.08
Japan 0.58
Rape per 100,000.
1. United States 34.20
2. England and Wales 14.69
3. France 13.38
Taiwan 8.82
South Korea 4.38
Spain 3.23
Japan 1.48
Serious Assault per 100,000.
1. Australia 713.68
2. England & Wales 405.20
3. United States 357.94
Taiwan 37.30
Spain 23.94
Japan 15.40
Robbery/Violent Theft per 100,000.
1. Spain 169.85
2. United States 169.02
3. France 144.10
Taiwan 14.35
South Korea 11.74
Japan 2.71
Rape is never reported in Japan unless it involves serious injury and while they are a much more docile society those numbers are far from the actual truth.
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#38 2009-12-05 16:25:45
Crime in Japan is not usually officially reported until the Police already knows who did it and have them in custody. Their crime "solving" rates usually hover just under 100% for even property crimes. Government statistics are never the truth.
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#39 2009-12-05 18:29:08
Emmeran wrote:
Rape is never reported in Japan unless it involves serious injury
GooberMcNutly wrote:
Government statistics are never the truth.
And that only happens in Japan? Everyone manipulates numbers for their gain; those were from Taiwan. Even if Japan has 20X more crime than those figures, it’s still safer than the US.
I thought this one was cool since it wasn’t per capita.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur-crime-murders
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#40 2009-12-05 19:42:46
phoQ wrote:
I thought this one was cool since it wasn’t per capita.
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur-crime-murders
The problem is that Japan is all about Face, every citizen in that country would rather suffer extreme humiliation and injury than lose Face.
I have friends there that freely admit (under the influence of alcohol) that they've been date-raped 2 or 3 times....it's really sad.
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#41 2009-12-06 03:45:08
Yeah, OK. I’ll take yawl’s anecdotes over empiricism.
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#42 2009-12-06 10:10:48
Meanwhile, in the other "Worlds Safest Country", people are busy peeping in on folks private business and calling the cops for any reason:
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#43 2009-12-06 18:43:46
phoQ wrote:
They have no guns and the population is primarily Japanese.
Murders per 100,000.
1. Russia Federation 18.07
2. United States 6.32
3. Malaysia 2.73
Taiwan 1.17
Spain 1.08
Japan 0.58
Rape per 100,000.
1. United States 34.20
2. England and Wales 14.69
3. France 13.38
Taiwan 8.82
South Korea 4.38
Spain 3.23
Japan 1.48
Serious Assault per 100,000.
1. Australia 713.68
2. England & Wales 405.20
3. United States 357.94
Taiwan 37.30
Spain 23.94
Japan 15.40
Robbery/Violent Theft per 100,000.
1. Spain 169.85
2. United States 169.02
3. France 144.10
Taiwan 14.35
South Korea 11.74
Japan 2.71
The Society for Attribution in Possibly Meaningless Statistics begs a link.
The only thing I got out of this was that the US brought home THE GOLD IN RAPE! I'm guessing most of Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and many other naggingly statistical anomalies were excluded from the games.
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#44 2009-12-07 03:54:34
opsec wrote:
phoQ wrote:
They have no guns and the population is primarily Japanese.
Rape per 100,000.
1. United States 34.20
2. England and Wales 14.69
3. France 13.38
Taiwan 8.82
South Korea 4.38
Spain 3.23
Japan 1.48The only thing I got out of this was that the US brought home THE GOLD IN RAPE! I'm guessing most of Africa, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and many other naggingly statistical anomalies were excluded from the games.
if the internets sez it, it must be true.
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