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3M of 330M U.S. citizens (1%) die annually. The causes of death are not limited to: Heart disease - 700K Cancer - 600K Omitted stroke, respiratory, kidney, Alzheimer's, flu, covid, diabetes, etc., from 50K to 350K each. Accidental drug overdose/poison - 85K Vehicle accident - 40K Homicide by firearm - 19K Abortion - 900K+ (included for visibility; this category is excluded from citizen death count) 0.5% of deaths are caused by homicide from a firearm. The average citizen has a 0.006% chance of dying from an idiot with a gun. Your chance of death from a public mass shooting is 0.0~% while over 80M citizens own guns and over 400M guns exist in the U.S. WTF do people focus on a blip of priorities? Media and stupidity. Leaders should focus on affordability and access to healthy foods and lifestyles.

Data from Texas signals that fewer illegal immigrants are caught committing crimes (including violence) than citizens. Is it because these are ambitious, high-character people seeking a better life? Possibly. Eliminating reported crime rates within a social circle would reduce crime rates substantially for any population group. For immigrants living under the fear of deportation, it is natural that they do not report crimes against themselves concerning assault, domestic abuse, and theft. Every illegal immigrant is a criminal most at risk for deportation when caught committing a non-immigration crime. Fear peddling about illegal immigrant violent crime goes in one ear and out the other. I trust the data that crime against citizens is not a concern. I also trust the information that illegal immigration is a tax burden and undermines legal immigration. I'm unsure if illegal immigrants have indirectly stolen blue-collar jobs by accepting low wages. There definitely are cultural differences that can have a negative impact on society (like with the treatment of women); however, that is equally true with legal immigration.

Some KC crime entertainment. Wait for it.

We argue stupidly by using edge examples as representatives for left vs right stereotypes. How would you change these opinions to match the population majority? Abortion There are situations where it should be legal and situations where it should be illegal. Education Every citizen should have access to affordable public education from preschool through college. Environment Policy Regulations are situationally necessary. Gay Rights A citizen's sexual preference must not affect one's rights and benefits. Government Spending A balanced budget and low debt are more important than social safety nets. Gun Rights Every citizen has a right to bear arms. Regulations better enable public and personal safety. Health Care Every citizen should have access to affordable health care. Immigration Legal immigration is good, and there should be fewer restrictions on legal immigration. We should reduce illegal immigration. Military There are larger local problems to solve than to police the world. Personal Responsibility Each adult has more responsibility than anyone else and the government for their own life's success. Regulations Government regulations hinder free-market capitalism and job growth; therefore, while needed, should be used sparingly to protect consumers and the environment. Death Penalty While a low percentage of innocent people are wrongfully convicted, there are situations where convicted criminals should be dispatched. Taxes What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue. -Thomas Paine Voting Major elections should be a government holiday to maximize participation. IDs and citizenship must be a requirement to vote.

Yes. I had Elam winning 197 last year but Buchanan was too good.

Warner looks better than I've seen him in that loss. Expected Missouri to win bigger.

Lewan won with strength and positioning. I missed that pick.

I had McGee winning by two takedowns. Byrd looks good.

How hard is it really to bridge the other way out of bounds?

Disclaimer: Not a Trump fan. Is this a figurative "call to violence?"

Let's say you are on a sports team with 14 people, and 3 of the 14 experience a vehicle theft-type crime within a few months of each other, at different locations, for the first and only time in their life. Coincidence?

The year isn't even over... KC

It is hard to argue with the lifetime of one's personal experience. Two months later, my FIL went to the Ozarks and found his boat had been drained of 200 gallons of gas. None of us five victims had experienced this before in our 40+ years of life. Suddenly we all do within a couple of months of each other. How weird. Not all of us reported it to the police because we've observed that nothing would happen anyway.

It cracks me up when people talk about violent crime being down while excluding the worse type of violence, murder.

In KC. I sent my young boy alone to grab the cooler from my truck during a rec baseball game this past July. Some criminal was under the truck stealing my gas. It cost me $800 to tow, repair, etc. I am thankful the dude was leaving just before my son got there, as there was no chance for violence toward my son. Within two weeks, two local friends had their Catalytic Converters stolen. In the same month, my buddy's car was broken into in California. Crime is up, in my experience!

Wrestling commentary

Nestor Cortes if he was a wrestling coach

Nestor Cortes if he was a wrestler

Fun.

Twitter was partly to blame for this tribalism. https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/20/politics/democrat-republican-hate-tribalism/index.html

Of course but not to that extent. Interesting - unroll this tweet https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347524609701195777.html

It Isn’t Your Imagination: Twitter Treats Conservatives More Harshly Than Liberals (link Feb 2019 article) A June, 2018 Pew poll found that 72% of Americans believe that social media companies censor views they don’t like, with members of the public being four times more likely to report a belief that such institutions favor liberals over conservatives than the opposite. Of 22 prominent, politically active individuals who are known to have been suspended since 2005 and who expressed a preference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, 21 supported Donald Trump. Only one was a Clinton supporter Are prominent Trump supporters more likely to break neutrally applied social media terms of service agreements than other voters? Perhaps. But are they four or more times as likely? That doesn’t seem credible.

There should be a badge that represents peddlers of misinformation. After being caught in five Pinocchios, you get permabadged. Better, every politician can start with the 'liars' badge and a few might earn a truthful badge over time.

Dean Heil and RBY come to mind...