TheProgressiveLiberal Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 7 hours ago, Raidernation said: High School, why? Kid who was a few years older than me in my church taught elementary school on the south side of Chicago. Type of place where he would have been one of the first non-black people many of his students had ever met. Think there was some program to get your student loans forgiven if you taught in low income schools that he was taking advantage of. I didn't stay in touch with him, but once while visiting my parents I was talking to his mom. She told me that he was kind of shocked by the state of things. One of the things he thought was really weird is that a high percentage of his class wouldn't show up until a couple days into the school year. Their parents didn't keep track of when the school year was supposed to start and only realized when they started seeing buses around. I was wondering if that story made any sense, but I suppose high school kids would be responsible for getting themselves to school. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheProgressiveLiberal Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 7 hours ago, The OP said: Have you similarly doctored the UK statistics so that it excludes all 'violent criminals'? I'd surmise that a majority of murder victims in Glasgow have convictions for assault, etc. Doesn't mean knife crime isn't a problem when they're stabbed to death. Was only responding to the idea that I might be murdered. Much of the difference in the white murder rate between Britain and the US, which does exist but isn't that big by global standards, is because of how much more dangerous it is to be a criminal in the US vs the UK. Since I'm not a criminal, my likelihood of being murdered isn't that much different here than it would be there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 (edited) Kill this rambling fool. Please. P.S. I thought for a while that having a Greenock boy pretending to be a native American trumpist might be fun, explaining maybe the complexities of health care and the weirdness of their political system. It's not though, every post is about how everyone who isn't white is a bit shit. Get him to f**k. Edited November 9, 2017 by welshbairn 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The OP Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 13 minutes ago, TheProgressiveLiberal said: Was only responding to the idea that I might be murdered. Much of the difference in the white murder rate between Britain and the US, which does exist but isn't that big by global standards, is because of how much more dangerous it is to be a criminal in the US vs the UK. Since I'm not a criminal, my likelihood of being murdered isn't that much different here than it would be there. I’ll take that as a no. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheProgressiveLiberal Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Johnnie Langendorff welcome's Mike Pence to Texas. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomp my root Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 1 hour ago, TheProgressiveLiberal said: Johnnie Langendorff welcome's Mike Pence to Texas. He'll be dining out on this for the rest of his life. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kennboy1978 Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Johnnie Langendorff welcome's Mike Pence to Texas. America's answer to John Smeaton. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Marly Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 Was only responding to the idea that I might be murdered. Much of the difference in the white murder rate between Britain and the US, which does exist but isn't that big by global standards, is because of how much more dangerous it is to be a criminal in the US vs the UK. Since I'm not a criminal, my likelihood of being murdered isn't that much different here than it would be there. What utter bollocks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted November 10, 2017 Share Posted November 10, 2017 What utter bollocks. Victims of crime deserve to be victims of crime, in short. It’d be offensive if he actually meant it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Connolly Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 At least four killed as a gunman just randomly starts shooting at an elementary school, amongst other places. But the police shot him, so it's ok. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2017/11/14/officials-say-at-least-3-dead-after-shooting-at-multiple-scenes-including-california-elementary-school/?tid=sm_Fb&utm_term=.3068fa107ee1 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomp my root Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 3 minutes ago, Mark Connolly said: At least four killed as a gunman just randomly starts shooting at an elementary school, amongst other places. But the police shot him, so it's ok. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/education/wp/2017/11/14/officials-say-at-least-3-dead-after-shooting-at-multiple-scenes-including-california-elementary-school/?tid=sm_Fb&utm_term=.3068fa107ee1 When I saw there was a new post on this thread my heart sank, I'd hoped it was more Yank bashing and not another mass slaying. What the feck is wrong with the place that they can't see the problem with their gun culture. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 Suicide by slaughtering children until a cop shoots you is just a fad, nothing to do with the ease of buying guns. Happens everywhere? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjw Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 Thoughts and prayers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 1 hour ago, chomp my root said: When I saw there was a new post on this thread my heart sank, I'd hoped it was more Yank bashing and not another mass slaying. What the feck is wrong with the place that they can't see the problem with their gun culture. 3 dead is not a "mass slaying". Unless they were all catholic schools. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomp my root Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 2 minutes ago, Jacksgranda said: 3 dead is not a "mass slaying". Unless they were all catholic schools. Apologies for my lack of correct usage of the term, yeah, I think it needs to be 4 or more to be a 'mass shooting', unless they're Kaflicks doing their thing with the beads. The whole thing does sort of play into the victim thing with the 'mass' stuff. The Kennedy's were Catholic..... just saying. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 Just now, chomp my root said: Apologies for my lack of correct usage of the term, yeah, I think it needs to be 4 or more to be a 'mass shooting', unless they're Kaflicks doing their thing with the beads. The whole thing does sort of play into the victim thing with the 'mass' stuff. The Kennedy's were Catholic..... just saying. Aye, but they were shot one at a time (when they weren't drowning folk). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chomp my root Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 1 minute ago, Jacksgranda said: Aye, but they were shot one at a time (when they weren't drowning folk). I'm sure they did their share of masses though (when they weren't drowning folk). Or pumping Marilyn. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayrshire_nomad Posted November 14, 2017 Share Posted November 14, 2017 This is not the time or place for thinking about why this happened or how to prevent it, we need thoughts and prayers and sympathies, and Facebook pictures with candles and the "insert name" of where were thinking about 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 If the children were armed then they would have been able to fire back and stop the shooter #MAGA 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetmonster Posted November 15, 2017 Share Posted November 15, 2017 #notevenpretendingtogiveatoss seems to have superseded #thoughtsandprayers in the White House - https://www.yahoo.com/news/twitter-slams-donald-trump-tweeting-085122436.html 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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