Cherry-picking Who Is A Child
Posted By: GustoGrabber, 4/19/2023 7:55:03 AM
America has an undeniable, serious problem with gun violence and firearm deaths. The debate about how to solve it revolves around whether guns are the cause or a symptom of deeper societal issues. In truth, whether cause or symptom, gun violence in the young does not lend itself to a single solution. It is a multifactorial problem that is obscured by a recent alarming statistic, currently being disseminated in the media and scientific literature. Rather than an argument for a ban on AR-15s or a defense of the Second Amendment, this piece is meant to clarify that misleading statistic.
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Cherry-picking Who Is A Child
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America has an undeniable, serious problem with gun violence and firearm deaths. The debate about how to solve it revolves around whether guns are the cause or a symptom of deeper societal issues. In truth, whether cause or symptom, gun violence in the young does not lend itself to a single solution. It is a multifactorial problem that is obscured by a recent alarming statistic, currently being disseminated in the media and scientific literature. Rather than an argument for a ban on AR-15s or a defense of the Second Amendment, this piece is meant to clarify that misleading statistic.
The defrocked Roman Catholic cardinal who became the face of the church's clergy sex abuse crisis has been charged in Wisconsin with sexually assaulting an 18-year-old man more than 45 years ago, court records show.
A criminal complaint filed Friday alleges that Theodore McCarrick, who was removed from the priesthood in 2019 after a Vatican investigation found he had sexually molested adults and children, fondled a man in 1977 while staying at a cabin on Geneva Lake in southeastern Wisconsin.
Southwest grounds flights nationwide due
to technical issues; delays reported at
Midway and O’Hare 9 replies
to technical issues; delays reported at
Midway and O’Hare 9 replies
At 10 a.m. Tuesday, 183 Southwest flights had been delayed out of Midway Airport, a major Southwest hub, and 21 were delayed at O’Hare International Airport. No Southwest flights had been canceled at either airport, according to flight tracking website FlightAware.
Southwest and the Federal Aviation Administration said by late morning on the East Coast that the pause had been lifted.
As member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) prepare to gather in Switzerland next week to negotiate final terms of an accord that will give the WHO centralized authority over U.S. policy in the case of a pandemic, Republican senators are pushing back with an effort to reinforce congressional power to authorize treaties.
The draft accord, which would be “legally binding” on all 194 member nations, gives the WHO the authority to declare pandemics and submits member countries to “the central role of the WHO as the directing and coordinating authority on international health work,” in areas like lockdowns, treatments, medical supply chains, surveillance,
According to new provisional data from the Scottish government, there were 7,314 deaths registered in January 2023, an increase of 17.7% compared to the average of 6,212. For the second week of January, there were more deaths in Scotland than ever before, including during the peak of the pandemic. Concurrently, there were 4,159 births registered in January 2023, a decrease of 6.8% compared to the average of 4,463. In other words, between a dearth of births and a plethora of deaths, there were roughly 1,400 fewer souls, the equivalent of roughly 86,000 in the United States. This is long after COVID. Why is there zero concern?
Matthew Tyrmand is one of the Project Veritas board of directors, which on Monday made a series of allegations about the conduct of the controversial organization's founder and now-former CEO James O'Keefe.
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Activist who claimed Arab, South Asian
and Latin heritage outed as being ‘white
as driven snow’ 10 replies
and Latin heritage outed as being ‘white
as driven snow’ 10 replies
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America Is Becoming a Corrupt Country
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Charges against Alec Baldwin have been dropped in the fatal on-set "Rust" shooting, according to sources familiar with the matter.
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NYC’s Vegan Mayor Eric Adams to Limit
Amount of Meat People Can Eat to Combat
Climate Change 28 replies
Amount of Meat People Can Eat to Combat
Climate Change 28 replies
New York City’s vegan mayor Eric Adams wants to limit the amount of meat people can eat in an effort to combat climate change.
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Dr Phil on Tuesday warned an economics professor's plan for $350,000 in reparations to 40 million descendants of slaves would be 'an absolute disaster', arguing that giving a lump sum was not the best way to help anyone.
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Breaking:Sudan embassy says "too late"
for evac of US citizens from Khartoum;
DoD prepping options 22 replies
for evac of US citizens from Khartoum;
DoD prepping options 22 replies
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The airport, located in central Khartoum, is closed but would be inoperable even if it reopened due to damage from bombardment and fighting. The roughly 70 U.S. staff at the embassy have no options to leave Sudan on their own
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Bush, Obama, Clinton Team Up with American
Express to Fly Migrants into American Communities 18 replies
Express to Fly Migrants into American Communities 18 replies
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Though it is finally cooling, lingering effects are still seen with the cultural furor surrounding the beer brand Bud Light. (snip) Joining these dispatched designs was the classic breakfast staple brand Aunt Jemima. When it was announced that the company was deciding to do away with the logo and mascot, some in the activist community declared it to be racist, it was huge news. (snip) even applying the rosiest measurement, by only counting a ten percent decline in each of those six quarters, the former Aunt Jemima brand declined by at least -50% since the name change. It is very likely much worse.
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The House of Representatives passed legislation on Thursday to protect women’s sports leagues by banning male athletes who identify as females from competing.
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A third suspect was arrested in connection to the mass shooting at an Alabama Sweet 16 that left four people dead and 28 injured.
Wilson LaMar Hill Jr., 20, joins brothers Ty Reik McCullough, 17, and Travis McCullough, 16, behind bars for reckless murder after they allegedly opened fire at a Dadeville celebration on April 15.
Hill was arrested on Wednesday, a day after the two brothers. All three were charged as adults and ordered to be held without bond.
Birthday girl Alexis Dowdell was partying with her friends and family at the Mahogany Masterpiece Dance Studio at around 10.30pm when the tragedy occurred,
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This is not a gun grab article