JAPAN NEWS AND DISCUSSION
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To be healthy, live in the big city
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Japan's nuclear safety standards flawed, says commission chief
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Teacher nabbed for using miror to peek up girl's skirt
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From carnivores to herbivores: how men are defined in Japan
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Why do Japanese change their attitude when they communicate with foreigners?
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Noliving
The point is how many died. Looks like he slashed 5 people and none of them died or are in danger of dying.
Misrepresenting people like that is not remotely helpful to discussion.
You really haven't paid attention to the anti gun people on this website have you? I can't tell you where this person said it but Smithinjapan would be one. I wouldn't be surprised if Cleo said something similar.
You do realize Oracle that the whole point why Alphaape was purposely misrepresenting people like that is because anti-gun people on here, like Smithinjapan, purposely misrepresent pro-gun rights people on here. The whole point is to rub their face in it.
The reason why those five people are not seriously injured or dead is because he didn't use the knife correctly or that wasn't his purpose in using the knife. All he had to do for example is to to slit those people throats cut their jugular or stab them in the heart or in the head and they would be gravely wounded or dead. Same thing with a gun, if someone shots you in the arm or the leg or on the right side of your upper body your probably not going to die quickly, in fact you probably have several hours before it would become serious.
Wouldn't a more accurate comparison be someone coming at you with a knife pointed at your head? Here is a question for you, which one do you think you have a better chance of survival? Being shot in the head or being stabbed in the head? How about this one, being shot in the neck or being stabbed in the neck? How about this one, being shot in the heart or being stabbed in the heart?
To answer your question the answer would believe it or not would be gun the because your not guaranteed that the gun has any ammunition in it, it could be an empty firearm.
Posted in: Shoplifter injures four in knife attack in Kumamoto
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Noliving
Did I ever say it was all drugs and gangs? My point is that the main driver behind such crimes is drugs and gangs.
What gun control laws would you like see and how would they actually stop gun violence?
Keep this in mind, in Germany there are about 1 to 1.5 million legally owned firearms, there is an estimated 6-8.5 million illegal owned firearms in Germany.
Posted in: 8 shot to death in Ohio, including child
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Noliving
Doesn't that prove his point? That gun laws that restrict guns would have a negligible effect and that it is really drugs and gang violence that is really behind the crime in the US not guns?
Posted in: 8 shot to death in Ohio, including child
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Noliving
Ok now the evidence from the pentagon are saying that so far the evidence is that it was shot down.
Posted in: 30 U.S. special forces, 7 Afghans killed in copter crash
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Noliving
Actually there is no confirmation yet, having an anonymous source say they were shot down doesn't mean they were. For example Al Jazeera in one of their article are saying that one of their sources said the helicopter was taking off and then suddenly it went down, the source didn't say it was shot down or that they heard a loud explosion, it very well could be that it suffered a mechanical or pilot error that brought it down. But it very could have been shot down.
Posted in: 30 U.S. special forces, 7 Afghans killed in copter crash
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Noliving
Actually the evidence points otherwise, attacks are down 20% compared to this time last year and that has been true for the past 8-12 weeks. Also this appears to be more of a mechanical issue or pilot error and was not shot down, although it is a possibility.
Laguna, financially is really the question because in terms of body count Afghanistan and Iraq are lowest casualty wars the US has ever fought in.
Posted in: 30 U.S. special forces, 7 Afghans killed in copter crash
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Noliving
Smithinjapan, WP is not an illegal incendiary, certain uses of it during a war can be illegal, but there are in fact legal uses of WP during a time of war.
Posted in: BIN LADEN BURIED AT SEA AFTER BEING KILLED IN FIREFIGHT WITH U.S. FORCES
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Noliving
Oh please, I myself am around the age of those people in those photos and I can tell you I remember 9/11 really well, I remember being in a room listening to music and my mother bursts into the room to turn on the TV to show me that the trade tower had been hit, I then watched in horror as the second plane approached the other tower. I watched the second trade tower be hit by a plane on live TV, that is not something as a child you will ever forget. Then in class I remember watching on live TV the towers collapse and my math teacher telling all of us that the world has changed forever.
The reason why they are celebrating is because as hikozaemon put it:
I would further like to add that a lot of Americans had given up hope that the US would ever find him.
Posted in: Celebrations
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Noliving
Who said that? On what program?
I think this is really what the celebration is really about, its been so long and most people in the US had given up hope that the US would ever find him.
Posted in: Celebrations
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Noliving
I think the icing on the cake here is the fact that he was killed in a shoot out with US soldiers, he wasn't killed in a air/drone strike or by an armored vehicle, no he was killed by a soldier with an assault rifle.
Posted in: BIN LADEN BURIED AT SEA AFTER BEING KILLED IN FIREFIGHT WITH U.S. FORCES
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Noliving
> Will NATO step in to protect civilians as in Libya?
Unlikely due to the fact that they have the available resources to be able to launch one.
Posted in: Syrian protesters defy Assad government; 42 killed
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Noliving
Hasn't the US already tried that?
Posted in: Taliban break more than 450 out of Afghan prison
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Noliving
Well all you have to do is what is called web search and do a search on Obama condemning Syria for the slaughter of civilians.
Posted in: 120 dead after 2 days of unrest in Syria
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Noliving
Oh please only one movie and it wasn't even a hardcore one. If you were to release it today it would probably get a rating of pg-13 at most. It was all hype that's all it was.
Posted in: Ebisu Muscats form 'sexpendables' to promote Stallone movie
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WilliB I want you to consider this quote by a somali pirate on these people's death:
"We had plans to either take the hostages to the inland mountains or to move on to other hijacked ships because we knew that the US navy was serious about carrying out a rescue operation," Hassan said. "The hostages pleaded with us not to harm them or take them to dangerous places. They cried when we captured them ... and asked us to release them because they were too old and couldn't endure captivity."
Posted in: Somali pirates kill 4 Americans on yacht; Navy holding suspects
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Noliving
I don't believe that is an answer to my question.
Posted in: The gun control debate: Do you support the right of citizens to own and bear firearms?
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Noliving
in a single year.
Posted in: The gun control debate: Do you support the right of citizens to own and bear firearms?
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Noliving
My money is on the Flordia State university guy because FSU's crimonology & and criminal justice department ranked as the best in the entire nation.
Ah technically those "surveys" are statistics/hard proof. They are called statistical surveys or sampling statistics. In fact that is how the vast majority of University research on statistics is done is through surveys. In fact pretty much all research conclusions is based upon "well my study suggests". Where did he claim that the criminal use of guns was in the hundreds of thousands?
If you look at David Hemenway's research on other topics you will see that his primary evidence is based upon surveys too.
So what does that mean? That surveys are indeed stats/hard proof.
David Hemenway didn't do any research at all according to you considering you don't consider "surveys" to be hard evidence or stats, his research is almost entirely based upon surveys. So how can you call Kleck survey not hard proof but then claim/imply that Hemenway surveys is hard proof/stats?
Kleck notes, however, that Hemenway's own surveys confirmed Kleck's conclusion that defensive gun uses number at least in the hundreds of thousands each year, and that a far larger number of surveys (at least 20) have shown that defensive uses outnumbered criminal uses.
There are more studies not done by kleck that back up his position more than hemenway's position.
Also police reports were not in the millions, according to the FBI own statistics which are based off of the police department stats all around the country, 93 which was the peak year since 1973, only around 582,000 crimes were committed with firearms.
Posted in: The gun control debate: Do you support the right of citizens to own and bear firearms?
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Noliving
Actually according to Gary Kleck, Ph.D. who is a professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University in Tallahassee, guns prevent or are used to defend the victim over 2.5 million times a year in the US. Keep in mind that doesn't mean the guns are fired just that at a minimum they are drawn. According to him guns are more likely to be used in defense then in the use of a crimes.
According to the FBI and the US justice department there are around 250k injuries by guns and there are around 35k killed by guns, half of which are suicides.
So you take 285k people killed or injured by guns versus the 2.5 million times a gun is used to defend the victim.
Posted in: The gun control debate: Do you support the right of citizens to own and bear firearms?
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Noliving
It was both, it was primarily against private enterprise but the sheriff is a public/government official along with the federal troops and his actions aided by the private enterprise led to the insurrection. The point I'm making is that there is indeed evidence where people armed with guns have in fact ended tyranny at the private level and then eventually they were able to put laws into place and get the government to actually enforce those laws after doing battle with the federal, your argument now is well I'm talking about government not private. I don't care, that is example where a civilian population have ended tyranny.
Dude it isn't cherry picking at all, the miners didn't arm themselves and take armed action until the private enterprise and local government began attacking and shooting the civilians and the miners.
I didn't say it constituted government tyranny, you claimed that suffrage was an example of positive social change that didn't require the use of firearms. Giving black men the right to vote nationwide required the use of firearms don't tell me it didn't play consideration at all in which the suffrage was changed black men. The expansion of Suffrage to women and native americans didn't require the use of guns but for black men it did.
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