This Non-Violent Stuff Will Get You Killed

[Pertinacious Tom]

The problem is not whether they are armed or not.
And the problem is not whether they are armed legally, or not, Dred Scot be damned.
The context for the problem can be summarized within the known anthropological outcomes of income inequality. Domestic violence increases. Crime goes up. Trust of the sovereignty de-creases. Black markets thrive. Social order breaks down.
Maslow's hierarchy of needs develops a lower center of gravity.

Over and over we hear that the high gun ownership rate in America is the problem.

I point out that the people who own guns at the highest rates and the people who perpetrate the most murders are demographically very different.

The gun ownership rate doesn't explain the violence, so I asked you for an explanation and got back the most racist thing ever posted on this forum.

I'm not watching some Netflix show about rappers. The most effective policy response to the black market is to end it by ending the stupid drug war.

As for effective policy responses to poverty, make it easier to make money. Like, for example, let people braid hair for a living without requiring lots of unrelated training. But that's another Kochy thread. You've got lots of thoughts about taking property away. Go there and share your thoughts about allowing people to make money in ways they choose.

 

[jocal505]

the most racist thing ever posted on this forum.

You are hiding behind this one.

A single data point is beneath you, eh?. You are desperately clinging to an intentional falsehood...in an impressive (and signature) pattern of race-baiting. Let's play some more.



Ahem, Tupac and Biggie Smalls. Watch the Netflix, Dogballs, because the immaturity and volatility of the players belongs on a spread sheet. And the brightest guy in the room, Kelo Tom, sez what?

Hair braiding. A distraction from the horrible and systemic racial outcomes of income inequality, CATO and the Kochs.

 

[jocal505]

Over and over we hear that the high gun ownership rate in America is the problem.

I point out that the people who own guns at the highest rates and the people who perpetrate the most murders are demographically very different.

You sure do point it out, without figuring out what's going on, pointedly. Around 2012 to 2014, you did it a few times a week, like a drone. If you really want to get this, you need to move your rigid concepts about the drug war, to learn something...from Fitty Cent.

You use the numbers, of the carnage, of our fratricide, to (conveniently, magically) dismiss the proven higher-gun-ownership problems of whites. You super-glue yourself to this anomaly. Repeatedly. And you sound like a dumbass.

Your gag, a personal dead-end, became number eleven on the Tom Dogballs Ray Wheel of Racebaiting. See any pattern here, bro? Get thee to the Netflix.

let's whirl the WHEEL OF RACE-BAITING with our host, Tom "dogballs" Ray

1. Aussie Apartheid, then the NAACP;
2. MLK's gun permit denial, the NAACP;
3. MLK's church, smearing Rev. Mosteller, the NAACP;
4. Bloomberg and stop and frisk, the NAACP;
5. Gangstas dealing drugs, sheer scapegoating, and the NAACP;
6. Stacy Abrams, the Black Panthers, and the NAACP;
7. Louis Farrakhan, Darren X, the NAACP;
8. Judge Taney is coming, twenty-seven times, the NAACP;
9. Dred Scott fifteen times, as a code for gun rights, and the NAACP
10. Cooing Chicago (instead of noticing multiple epidemics of violence), the NAACP;
11. Claiming black gun stats disprove white gun ownership problems;
12. Did I mention the NAACP… for166 mentions?

 

[badlatitude]

Let me just drop this here.

TSA intercepts record number of firearms at airport checkpoints in 2022, most of them loaded​

CNN — The number of firearms that TSA officers intercepted at airport security checkpoints in 2022 is the highest on record for a single year – and the vast majority of the weapons were loaded, the US Transportation Security Administration said Friday. TSA officers caught 6,301 firearms at checkpoints this year as of Friday, such as in carry-on bags.

About 88% of the firearms were loaded, the administration said. The previous record was 5,972 firearms caught in 2021, 86% of which were loaded, the TSA said. The record comes as daily passenger volume is nearing pre-pandemic levels.

The number of people going through checkpoints daily have been higher this year than in 2021 and approaching the numbers in 2019, according to the TSA. The TSA recently increased the maximum civil penalty for firearms violations to $14,950, it said Friday. That’s up from $13,910.

While passengers can put unloaded firearms in checked baggage, assuming they follow certain guidelines, they are prohibited from taking them through TSA security checkpoints in carry-on bags, even if they have a concealed weapon permit. “When a passenger brings a firearm to the checkpoint, this consumes significant security resources and poses a potential threat to transportation security, in addition to being very costly for the passenger,” TSA Administrator David Pekoske said in a news release.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/17/us/tsa-record-firearms-airport-checkpoints/index.html

 

[badlatitude]

He came and he went.

Man Dies After Shooting Himself in the Groin While Attempting U-Turn—Police​

Charleston man fatally shot himself in the groin while attempting a U-turn in his car, according to police in South Carolina.

Ahmad Gardner, 35, was driving east on Rivers Avenue, near Mall Drive in Charleston, on Tuesday morning when the incident occurred.

An eyewitness told police that Gardner was trying to make a U-turn to travel west on Rivers Avenue but did not complete the maneuver, according to Fox Carolina.

The vehicle ploughed through a parking lot at Rivers Avenue and Dalton Street, and struck an unoccupied car, the network reported.

North Charleston Police were alerted at about 6:20 a.m. and found Gardner with a wound in his groin that was consistent with a gunshot injury.

The 35-year-old died at the scene.

Harve Jacobs, a spokesperson for North Charleston Police Department, told Fox Carolina: "After reviewing all the facts and evidence, in this case, it was determined that the victim had an accidental firearm discharge while driving the vehicle which culminated in the victim's death."

Man dies after shooting himself in the groin while attempting U-turn—police

Ahmad Gardner, a 35-year-old from Charleston, died after accidentally discharging the firearm in his car, according to police in South Carolina.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Pertinacious Tom]

TANEY COURT II

Historically, when the Supreme Court strays too far from what the vast majority of the public wants and starts catering to a white Southern minority, nothing good comes of it. When the Supreme Court decided in 1857 not only that Dred Scott was not a free man but that no Black person could be a citizen of the United States or enjoy the rights afforded them by the Constitution, it doomed the country to civil war. In the process of protecting “states’ rights” for white Southerners, the Supreme Court led by Roger Taney trampled both human rights and the rights of free states to prohibit slavery on their own territory.

The echoes of the past are even clearer when you compare the language and reasoning of the Taney and the current Roberts court. The written opinion of Chief Justice Taney in Dred Scott v. Sandford relied on the same sort of “originalist” logic used by Associate Justice Samuel Alito in Dobbs v. Jackson. Indeed, this passage by Taney on why Blacks were doomed to slavery, based on an originalist reading of the Constitution, could have been written by Alito last year:

More especially, it cannot be believed that the large slaveholding States regarded them as included in the word citizens, or would have consented to a Constitution which might compel them to receive them in that character from another State. For if they were so received, and entitled to the privileges and immunities of citizens, it would exempt them from the operation of the special laws and from the police regulations which they considered to be necessary for their own satiety. It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognized as citizens in any one State of the Union, the right to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished; and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs, and to keep and carry arms wherever they went.

...

Hah! Just kidding, of course. It's a New Republic article and does contain some legit critiques of recent SCOTUS activity, but there's no way a New Republic article is quoting that part of Taney's decision.

Where could he have gotten that bolded idea, before the NRA was around to invent it and plant it in his tiny mind?

 

[jocal505]

The race card. @Pertinacious Tom . Okay. You are adding to your heritage now, Dogballs.

Is it just me? When a National Merit Scholarship candidate plays the race card in public, as a habit, for ten years, that becomes race-baiting, IMO. This has become part of the fabric of our community, boys.

My source is the search function. And how I love this place.


RACE BAITER ALERT #3 for 2023. Week two.
welcome to THE RACEBAITER TIME MACHINE: one decade of interesting behavior

***THE DOGBALLS/TANEY COLLECTOR, twenty seven entries
2019 Five Taneys/yr. (plus sixteen Dreds/yr.)
2018 Eight Taneys/yr (plus fourteen Dreds/year)
2017 Three Taneys/yr.
2016, Zero Taneys
2015 Ten Taneys/yr
2914 One Taney per year

 

[jocal505]

Tom has had the class to remove several recent, offensive, posts.

This tussel began on this thread, began over the repeated gaming of MLK, and began on March 25, 2015.

Lets have a toast. May such odious content be behind us. *Clink.