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Comment Re:Right back at ya (Score 1) 1293

"If you think we can solve gun violence the same way we're "solving" drug overdose related deaths, by banning drugs and spending billions of dollars on a "war" on them, then you should prepare for same the results."

You're ignoring the mountain of correlating evidence that less guns equals less gun violence, less murders (even if you take out suicides for the US and leave them in every other countries numbers our homicide rate would still be about 2.5 times the first world average), and less suicide. Strong correlation strongly suggests causation.

"Ask the folks in Japan."

You mean the country that has a homicide rate that is about 25 times less than ours https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . After looking at this clearly your "suicide makes up a massive portion of American gun violence" seems like it's full of shit.

So the fact that 2/3 of gun related deaths are suicide in the US seems like it's full of shit? To who? Japan has high rate of suicide vs. low gun ownership...US has high suicide rate vs. high gun ownership. No correlation. Chandler's low homicide rate vs. Detroit's (100 times higher). No correlation. New Hampshire vs. Louisiana (10 times higher). No correlation. So let's only look at averages with the assumption of "first world only". Instead let's look at why people in certain small geographical locations in the US kill each other at such high rates and look for a root cause to that violence. When we do look closer we see young black males killing each other at horrific rates. Why is that happening and why won't we do anything about it? My answer...it creates an average statistic useful for pushing gun control and recognizing it would reflect poorly on the politicians in control of those areas.

Comment Re:Right back at ya (Score 1) 1293

"If we don't want to confront the uncomfortable truth that drug related gang violence in the inner cities"

Most other first world nations have this problem around as bad as us. This is yet another thing controlled for by comparing amount first world nations.

" and suicide (2/3 of gun related deaths)"

So suicide is not a problem? That's the stupidest thing I've heard all weak. If American's are more likely and/or more successful at committing suicide with guns then that is yet another problem with our country's mass ownership of firearms.

I said " uncomfortable truth that drug related gang violence in the inner cities and suicide (2/3 of gun related deaths) are driving our overall homicide rates" so I obviously think it's a problem. Are guns causing suicide? Ask the folks in Japan. Sounds like you aren't willing to look for the root causes and actually solve these problems. If you think we can solve gun violence the same way we're "solving" drug overdose related deaths, by banning drugs and spending billions of dollars on a "war" on them, then you should prepare for same the results.

Comment Re:Right back at ya (Score 1) 1293

" Just maybe there is another overriding factor, or factors, we need to consider."

The problem is that when we compare averages for first world nations to other first world nations we are doing so as a means to control for the typical major factors for crime and violence in society. This is the reason why we don't use third world countries in comparisons on this issue because it's not comparing apples to apples. When we compare among first world nation we are accommodating just about all of the known major reasons for variance by default. The typical variables that explain crime rates throughout the world can't explain America's homicide or gun violence rates, as a first world nation we shouldn't be having these problems. We should have solved them for ourselves by now.

I agree we shouldn't be having this problem. Comparing averages is our first mistake. We have data right in front of our eyes, Chandler v.s Chicago, and many others we can look at and see where things are going wrong. If we don't want to confront the uncomfortable truth that drug related gang violence in the inner cities and suicide (2/3 of gun related deaths) are driving our overall homicide rates above those of the developed world then we won't solve the problem of a high average homicide rate vs. the first world. If we just say, well most homicides are committed with guns so they must be causing the problem, then we won't solve the problem. Unless private ownership of guns is the real "problem" one wants to solve. Then our high homicide rate is useful and efforts to reduce it counterproductive to that end.

Comment Re:Right back at ya (Score 1) 1293

Or how about we implement the solution the rest of the first world has successfully done rather than struggle with complex issues that the first world has yet to figure out solutions to?

Why are things so bad in Detroit but not in Austin TX or Chandler AZ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Detroit has stricter gun laws than Austin or Chandler. It doesn't seem to me that the "solution" that the rest of the first (cherry picked) world has implemented is working in Detroit. Plenty of second and third world countries have extremely restrictive gun laws and have homicide rates much higher than the US. Just maybe there is another overriding factor, or factors, we need to consider. Let's help the people who need it the most first even if it means recognizing that guns are not the problem. That seems unlikely to happen though.

Comment Re:Right back at ya (Score 1) 1293

Jesus, I can't believe you just said that. You just told me that if we cherry pick our data then we look great. Of course that's the fucking case. If you did that with any country you could make them look light years better.

No cherry picking at all. I referenced ALL the data not just the "average" which would be cherry picking seeing how the average misrepresents the vast majority of the country and the hell holes where the homicide rate is 10 times the average. The point is that guns aren't the problem else the homicide rate in all the rest of the country would be high as well. Fix the real problem. Drug gang violence. Or leave those worst affected by the violence to suffer and continue to push gun control.

Comment Re:Right back at ya (Score 1) 1293

Remove small geographical areas in just 6-8 of our largest cities and the US homicide rate drops to one of the lowest, if not the lowest, in the world. That's the fact hidden, and purposely ignored by gun grabbers, in the average homicide rate folks like to trot out. Those of us who live outside of those few dozen square miles of the US don't want, or need, any of the idiotic gun control laws that routinely get trotted out as "solutions" to gun related homicide. Drug gang violence is what you should start looking at if you want to solve the vast majority of our gun homicide problem. But then you would have to actually want to solve the violence problem, not just use an out of context statistic as justification to take peoples guns away.

Comment Re:slightly negative on production cars (Score 1) 317

Of course, there are negative effects too — namely increased tire wear and impaired ride quality — which is why production cars almost always have zero camber.

My understanding from hacknig cars for a couple of decades is that auto manufacturers tend to specify slightly negative camber, and even progressive negative camber that increases with tire deflection (when the steering wheel is turned) in order to IMPROVE handling. Without negative camber, cars tend to feel squirrley and difficult to control. With negative camber, the car tends to feel more stable, and, importantly, the steering wheel returns to center on its own.

That's BS. Negative camber is no more or less stable than positive. Positive camber was specified in cars for decades. Only recently, 10-20 years, has 0 or slight negative started to become the norm. Can you say "wide low profile tires".

Comment Tire has a Cone shape (Score 1) 317

This POS tire is cone shaped. Roll a cone and what happens? It turns. The outside edge of this tire has a larger circumference that the inside edge. One edge of the tire wants to go further than the other edge per revolution. Tire wear will be horrible. This is a solution to a "problem" no one is interested in solving.

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