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originally posted by: theantediluvian
a reply to: thesmokingman
I am VERY surprised this is on the MSM, as the victim was not black.
Get real. With the exception of Trayvon Martin back in 2013 and Renisha McBride (both shot to death, not slapped around), the MSM coverage of incidents with black victims is basically only unarmed people dying at the hands of law enforcement.
How are those incidents comparable to this one? They're not and you're only acting as though they are because of a need to support your race baiting agenda. These threads are all the same crap "OMG NOBODY CARES ABOUT THIS ONSLAUGHT OF BLACK ON WHITE CRIME."
From the FBI's Uniform Crimes Report (2013):
- 90% of black homicide victims killed by black offenders.
- 83% of white homicide victims killed by white offenders.
- 14% of white homicide victims killed by black offenders.
- 7.5% of black homicide victims killed by white offenders.
The fact is that all violent crime is down, WAY down from the peak. The percentages of white-on-white homicide aren't far behind black-on-black (7 percentage points), the percentages of violent crimes that are black on white or white on black haven't changed by more than a point or two since 1980.
Meanwhile, estimates are that police involved killings are at a 20 year high but nobody can say for certain because the reporting of homicides involving the police is so awful. I wonder why we allow that to continue? Could it be because people like you and Al are promoting the same division?
originally posted by: Vasa Croe
Well...from your own figures, white on black homicide is almost twice as high. Not sure if those figures include LEO, but twice as high is pretty significant in my eyes.
originally posted by: WeAreAWAKE
While I agree with your numbers...the last two are a little skewed. Correct me if I'm wrong. Lets say in fair numbers, white represent 60% of the population and black are 30%. To compare the black on white and white on black, you would have to triple the black on white number making the following:
42% of white homicide victims killed by black offenders by percentage of the population
7.5% of black homicide victims killed by white offenders by percentage of the population
In other words...if blacks and whites were equal numbers in the population, the above number would be accurate.
Correct?
originally posted by: Greathouse
a reply to: eisegesis
Not necessarily!!! Warning a couple F bombs and a little violence. But listen to some of the comments on the bus.
originally posted by: thesearchfortruth
I swear I would have shot all three of these idiots in the face.
How much you want to bet that I would be the one charged if I did though, even with the video evidence?
A lot. Killing people is against the law.
originally posted by: thesmokingman
I swear I would have shot all three of these idiots in the face. How much you want to bet that I would be the one charged if I did though, even with the video evidence?
originally posted by: TheJourney
originally posted by: thesmokingman
I swear I would have shot all three of these idiots in the face. How much you want to bet that I would be the one charged if I did though, even with the video evidence?
No # you'd be charged. Shooting someone in the face isn't an appropriate response to that person punching someone. My god. Do pro-gun people not realize, when making these sorts of statements, that they are actually working against their own cause?
originally posted by: thesmokingman
originally posted by: TheJourney
originally posted by: thesmokingman
I swear I would have shot all three of these idiots in the face. How much you want to bet that I would be the one charged if I did though, even with the video evidence?
No # you'd be charged. Shooting someone in the face isn't an appropriate response to that person punching someone. My god. Do pro-gun people not realize, when making these sorts of statements, that they are actually working against their own cause?
And that is exactly the attitude that will one day make you a victim. Glad you can take a punch and a beating like that man got. You sir are a better man than I....meanwhile, I will be alive to enjoy my family because I WILL NOT BE A VICTIM...
originally posted by: TheJourney
If you kill someone because you see them punching someone, you will be arrested, and rightly so.
originally posted by: TheJourney
No # you'd be charged. Shooting someone in the face isn't an appropriate response to that person punching someone. My god. Do pro-gun people not realize, when making these sorts of statements, that they are actually working against their own cause?
originally posted by: SheopleNation
originally posted by: TheJourney
No # you'd be charged. Shooting someone in the face isn't an appropriate response to that person punching someone. My god. Do pro-gun people not realize, when making these sorts of statements, that they are actually working against their own cause?
Wrong, if you fear for your life, you have a right to defend it. He was being attacked by 3 thugs, I would say he feared for his life, but didn't have a gun. It's a shame too, cause had it been me they would have all 3 ended up dead, or seriously injured.
How do you know that the kick to his face could not have broken his neck and killed him? Do you know for sure that when the thug slammed his head against the window, that the victim would not end up with a brain hemorrhage, and die?
Nope, you don't know anything about what he was feeling, and who are you anyway to decide when someone should play with their life and leave it in the hands of a violent attacker's assumed mercy? If you want to take a beating and risk the consequences, that is your choice. ~$heopleNation