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by beetree on 09 January 2013 - 14:01
Great list of people just reported in the paper for the CT task force dealing with this issue. Dick Blumenthal's idea to limit the ammunition capable of being fired off without a reload seems to be a great place to start.
Gabriella Giffords call to counter the NRA's seemingly invincible lobby, to begin the dialogue that we are not afraid of them, or their rhetoric, is right on target. The time for change is upon us.
Conspiracy theorists are not concerned with verifying facts, they peddle absurdities as a hobby.
by Blitzen on 09 January 2013 - 15:01
by Ninja181 on 09 January 2013 - 15:01
You're totally nuts Blitzen.
by Blitzen on 09 January 2013 - 15:01
by Ninja181 on 09 January 2013 - 15:01
You're the one that needs to get up to speed on facts.
by Blitzen on 09 January 2013 - 15:01
Further information: Aggression#Gender
Males are typically more openly aggressive than females (Coie & Dodge 1997, Maccoby & Jacklin 1974, Buss 2005), which violent crime statistics support. Some researchers have suggested that females are not necessarily less aggressive, but that they tend to show their aggression in less overt, less physical ways. For example, females may display more verbal and relational aggression, such as social rejection.[2][3] Men do, however, express their aggression with violence more often than women.
[edit] Sociobiological and evolutionary psychology perspective
Further information: Sociobiology and Sociobiological theories of rape
Evolutionary psychology has proposed several evolutionary explanations for gender differences in aggressiveness. Males can increase their reproductive success by polygyny which will lead the competition with other males over females. If the mother died this may have had more serious consequences for a child than if the father died in the ancestral environment since there is a tendency for greater parental investments and caring for children by females than by males. Greater caring for children also leads to difficulty leaving them in order to either fight or flee. Anne Campbell writes that females may thus avoid direct physical aggressiveness and instead use strategies such as "friendship termination, gossiping, ostracism, and stigmatization". [4]
[edit] Sociology of Gender and Crime
Further information: Feminist school of criminology
Considerations of gender in regard to crime have been considered to be largely ignored and pushed aside in criminological and sociological study, until recent years, to the extent of female deviance having been marginalised (Heidensohn, 1995). In the past fifty years of sociological research into crime and deviance sex differences were understood and quite often mentioned within works, such as Merton's theory of anomie, however, they were not critically discussed, and often any mention of female delinquency was only as comparative to males, to explain male behaviour's, or through defining the girl as taking on the role of a boy, namely, conducting their behaviour and appearance as that of a 'tomboy' and by rejecting the female role Gang Violence In The PostIndustrial Era, adopting stereotypical masculine traits.
One key reason contended for this lack of attention to females in crime and deviance is due to the view that female crime has almost exclusively been dealt with by men, from policing through to legislators, and that this has continued through into the theoretical approaches, quite often portraying what could be considered as a one-sided view, as Mannheim suggested Feminism and Criminology In Britain (Heidensohn, 1995).
However, other contentions have been made as explanations for the invisibility of women in regard to theoretical approaches, such as: females have an '...apparently low level of offending' (Heidensohn, 1995); that they pose less of a social threat than their male counterparts; that their 'delinquencies tend to be of a relatively minor kind' Girls In The Youth Justice System(Heidensohn, 1995), but also due to the fear that including women in research could threaten or undermine theories, as Thrasher and Sutherland feared would happen with their research (Heidensohn, 1995).
Further theories have been contended, with many debates surrounding the involvement and ignoring of women within theoretical studies of crime, however, with new approaches and advances in feminist studies and masculinity studies, and the claims of increases in recent years in female crime, especially that of violent crime Girls In The Youth Justice System more attention seems to be becoming of this topic
by beetree on 09 January 2013 - 15:01
I just read up on the Amazon's. Seems they favored spears.
by Blitzen on 09 January 2013 - 15:01
We will have to vote on whether or not Ninja can retain his weapons, his wife gets to keep hers by virtue of her gender.
by BabyEagle4U on 09 January 2013 - 17:01
WE are winning !!! YAY America !!!!
Edit : Ron Paul will be on with Alex Jones today at 11:00 a.m. CT, Noon ET, streaming live on infowars.com
by beetree on 09 January 2013 - 18:01
Just so happens, while I took a shower, and I don't know why, but I get some of my best ideas when I'm sleeping or standing under hot water. Any way, it came to me, the answer to all our problems. I can solve the fiscal cliff and get a handle on gun control!
We start with taxing firearms as personal property. We can exempt one personal peashooter. Anything beyond that, we tax the bejeesus out of them. And the ammo. Oh, yeah Dick Bluementhal wants background checks on ammo purchases. Good idea. We will tell the NRA this will pay for all those policemen needed to patrol our schools, per their idea.
And then I thought of another way to tax arsenal owners. When they die, what the heck happens to their stockpile? I think it should be illegal to pass them to heirs, unless the heirs pay a hefty, exorbitant, inheritance tax.
I'll think of more. But I think this is a good start!
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