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Another Mass Shooting: It's Those Darn Video Games!

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Greg Abbott says mental illness is the problem. Wants to throw more money at it. I say let the delusional bastard believe that. Put your money where your mouth is, Greg!
 
The menial illness is FNC, OANN, Newsmaxx and their ilk. And every male feeling aggrieved that no women will f**k them just because the guy points at his crotch.

That said I am all for money being put towards mental illness, but it's another issue the comes down to the health insurance industry. Mental health by and large is not covered by health insurance and the GQP does not care how much money any industry makes no matter how much its customers suffer.

Until the lobby industry is curtailed, big business will have its way without fail. No regulation, no oversight, CEO and executive salaries without caps. I make $100 million per year and goddamn if I'm not going to earn 110 if it means anyone lower than me will benefit.
 
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Greg Abbott says mental illness is the problem. Wants to throw more money at it. I say let the delusional bastard believe that. Put your money where your mouth is, Greg!
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It's been the main thread since the attempt on Regan. Which is to say nothing will happen.
 
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Greg Abbott says mental illness is the problem. Wants to throw more money at it. I say let the delusional bastard believe that. Put your money where your mouth is, Greg!
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After he helped cut $211 million from social programs...
 
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I find it hard to believe such an upstanding man could be such a hypocrite.
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I see what you did there...
 
Jesus. Turns out I know one of the pediatric surgeons in Dallas who saved a six year old boy from Dallas shooting. Boys parents and brother are dead.

but hey drew, you can be a piece of shit still, so congrats

let freedom ring! Grab your AR pin
 
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How did that derpy perky formerly bangable blonde get into gun nuttery? Dumb parents?
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Seems to me that Me Again has been off the radar a bit lately. So like her intellectual father Rush Limbaugh, she's likely just trolling for attention. Perhaps she's tired of her premium tier satellite radio gig and is fishing for a new TV show.

Me Again also lands for anytime the McCain one has something airheaded and/or self-righteous to say.
 
The Two-Decade Red State Murder Problem


Takeaways
  • The murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Donald Trump has exceeded the murder rate in the 25 states that voted for Joe Biden in every year from 2000 to 2020.
  • Over this 21-year span, this Red State murder gap has steadily widened from a low of 9% more per capita red state murders in 2003 and 2004 to 44% more per capita red state murders in 2019, before settling back to 43% in 2020.
  • Altogether, the per capita Red State murder rate was 23% higher than the Blue State murder rate when all 21 years were combined.
  • If Blue State murder rates were as high as Red State murder rates, Biden-voting states would have suffered over 45,000 more murders between 2000 and 2020.
  • Even when murders in the largest cities in red states are removed, overall murder rates in Trump-voting states were 12% higher than Biden-voting states across this 21-year period and were higher in 18 of the 21 years observed.
In March of 2022, we released a report that found murder rates in 2020 were 40% higher in Trump-voting states than Biden-voting states. In this follow-up report, we studied homicide data going back to 2000 to see if this one-year Red State murder epidemic was an anomaly. It was not. Despite a media narrative to the contrary, a wide and widening Red State murder gap has spanned the past two decades.

To allow for comparison, we calculated the state’s per capita murder rate, the number of murders per 100,000 residents, and categorized states by their presidential vote in the 2020 election, resulting in an even 25-25 state split.

We found that the murder rate in Trump-voting states has exceeded the murder rate in Biden-voting states every year this century. Cumulatively, overall murder rates since 2000 were on average 23% higher in Trump-voting states. For the past 21 years, the top 10 murder rate states have been dominated by reliably red states, namely Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Missouri. Even when we removed the county with the largest city in Trump-voting states (and kept them in for Biden-voting states), murder rates were still significantly higher in these red states.

And while media reports give the impression that murder rates are skyrocketing in blue areas, murder rates have actually increased at far higher rates in Trump-voting states over the past two decades, widening the Red State murder gap from a low of 9% in 2003 and 2004 to a high of 44% in 2019, before falling to 43% in 2020. Since 2000, murder rates have increased 39.4% in red states and just 13.4% in blue states.
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I suppose I could have put this in the States thread.
 
Looked at the front page of the Grand Rapids Press this morning:

An article about Oxford High School still lacking basic safety measures.

An article about local Republican sheriff departments refusing to enforce red flag laws.
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
Jesus. Turns out I know one of the pediatric surgeons in Dallas who saved a six year old boy from Dallas shooting. Boys parents and brother are dead.

but hey drew, you can be a piece of **** still, so congrats

let freedom ring! Grab your AR pin
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I'm sick and tired of being sad about it and I haven't had that Kevin Bacon moment yet. And I don't want to.
 
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