Murdered for...Update

The threads are consistently getting more like these. You guys have won the board.

 

Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire?
It took Gibbon what? A dozen volumes, maybe more to explain it and you do it in a paragraph!

OUTSTANDING!!!

 

How Many Guns are in the US? [2023] (americangunfacts.com)

46% of American households own at least one firearm according to a study by the University of Chicago. 32% of Americans say they personally own a firearm according to the 2021 National Firearms Survey. This means that more than 81.4 million Americans own guns. This number only includes adults over 18.

In 2017, there was estimated to be near 400 million guns in the United States between police, the military, and American civilians. Over 393 Million (Over 98%) of those guns are in civilian hands, the equivalent of 120 firearms per 100 citizens.

 

Cite the studies.

 

I second that

 

Yep. It used to be majority conservative, now it’s majority liberal.

 

voluminous observation and studies on my part. What I don’t get is why they go after dogs. I mean what kind of guy to you have to be to fear fluffy. But it is what it is..

 

You made it up correct?

 

I cited my own studies can’t help it if no one else is studying it.

I blame the gun lobby..

 

So you're full of it. Gotcha.

 

Looking at @Sohogator posts I'm not entirely convinced he's a real person. Seems like AI generated content that's overly wordy, mostly off topic and centered around a couple specific things.

 

They don’t call you part dopy for nothing..

 

dopy isn't a word so...

 

Apropos to nothing neither is MORAN but its meaning is understood. Especially by rednecks holding signs in Missouri.
Urban Dictionary: Moran

 

I lifted that from the cliff notes

 

This is why it's a good thing to make sure everybody's armed. People act a lot more rationally when you give them easy access to efficient killing tools. They totally don't make bad decisions while emotional.

 

Thread



Article on Balko trying to track cop dog killings (other embedded links)


Journalist Radley Balko has done excellent work on the general phenomenon of police officers shooting dogs, often needlessly. In 2012, he found 100 news reports of such incidents. There are no reliable national numbers documenting the phenomenon. "Sites that include'Dogs That Cops Killed' and the Facebook group 'Dogs Shot by Police' track new incidents and allow grieving owners to share stories," he reported. "The activism site Change.org also now includes calls for action in similar cases, with petitions like 'Justice for Big Boy,' and 'Justice for Bud.'"

He goes on:

In recent years, police officers have shot and killed chihuahuas, miniature dachshunds, Wheaton terriers, and Jack Russell terriers.Last month, a California police officer shot and killed a boxer puppy and pregnant chihuahua, claiming the boxer had threatened him. The chihuahua, he said, got caught in the crossfire. When a San Bernardino, Calif., woman called police to report a burglary in progress behind her house last month, they responded, jumped her fence to confront the burglars, then shot her dalmatian mix, Julio. He survived. Police officers have also recently shot dogs that were chained, tied, or leashed -- obviously posing no real threat to officers who killed them.

Given how often police officers encounter pets, one would think training for handling dogs would be common. An officer untrained in recognizing a dog's body language, for example, could easily mistake a bounding dog from a charging one, a nervous dog from an angry one, or an aggressive dog from one that's merely territorial. Groups like the Humane Society and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals offer free training to police departments, but both organizations said few departments take them up on the offer. New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle are among departments that don't provide regular training to officers on how to respond to dogs.

Contrast that to the U.S. Postal Service, another government organization whose employees regularly come into contact with pets. A Postal Service spokesman said in a 2009 interview that serious dog attacks on mail carriers are extremely rare. That's likely because postal workers are annually shown a two-hour video and given further training on "how to distract dogs with toys, subdue them with voice commands, or, at worst, incapacitate them with Mace."



https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/02/police-officers-who-shoot-dogs/283764/

 

Postal worker>cops…

 

They are stories of interest. What else do you expect on a political discussion forum? BTW - other threads address the Chinese military, economics, the Jan 6 insurrection, presidential election polls, and the Maui fire.

 

I was just curious, and it looks like it's generally accepted as an alternate spelling of "dopey."

dopy - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Definition of DOPEY

Dopy - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms

dopy - Dictionary Checker - Scrabble Word Finder

dopy | Encyclopedia.com