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7 minutes ago, Ten Bears said:

Of course he's in DFW.  Which station does he naga naga not gonna work for? 

He owns the company.  Or, at least he founded the company.

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1 hour ago, Ten Bears said:

Of course he's in DFW.  Which station does he naga naga not gonna work for? 

 

1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

He owns the company.  Or, at least he founded the company.

Yeah, sounds like at one time he worked for the National Weather Service in DFW. Started this iWeatherNet.com business -- who knows what exactly they do? The "About Us" looks like the Island of Mis-Fit Toys of meteorologists. Too nerdy to get on TV.  https://www.iweathernet.com/weathernet-team

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2 hours ago, mdmost said:

Just look at NextDoor. Every other post for me is people freaking out because this person came to their door or their Ring camera caught this person walking near their house. It's just post after post of scared fucking idiots who probably own firearms who think every person is a home invader. I'm glad my kids no longer do Girl Scouts because it wouldn't shock me if some freak eventually kills a Girl Scout who comes to their door just trying to sell cookies. But again, it's not a gun problem. It's fucking idiots with access to guns problem. 

There's one single thing that drives this sort of people. 

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It's always a fear driven response to anything and everything they can't be bothered to apply critical thinking to

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Fuck all of those 2nd Amendment loving POS who value "rights" above the lives and safety of their fellow men.  Our country is beyond fucked up with our gun culture and entitled right-wingers who think the world revolves around them and their "rights."  Fuck them.

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Why is the reward for the Cleveland shooter only $80k? Don't answer that.

I don't know what the right number is but it should be a lot higher.

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3 minutes ago, Walser said:

Why is the reward for the Cleveland shooter only $80k? Don't answer that.

I don't know what the right number is but it should be a lot higher.

Probably because we base the value of human life upon citizenship?  Which is grossly inhumane and backwards for a developed nation.  

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5 hours ago, Pancho said:

These people are fucking cray. 

 

this is just wildly alarming. I mean I know these people exist, but for this person to be a (reading between lines) successful professional of any sort + make this post, then double down on this post, is just really far down the line of what should be appropriate across a civil society. We have children, kittens, doorbells and first reaction is gun and post on internet. I can't even fathom how many small dicked weirdos live out every fucking day of their life like this. It certainly appears that America is trying hard to win the mental health special olympics. This level of fear and distrust is just so far off the charts that if this was my family member or friend, or even neighbor, I would make sure everyone I love and care about never puts themselves in a position where they have to interact with him.

Sounds like my family rules around cops in Texas. Ugh. 

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1 hour ago, Walser said:

Why is the reward for the Cleveland shooter only $80k? Don't answer that.

I don't know what the right number is but it should be a lot higher.

It’s on a sliding scale

 

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2 hours ago, FartingDreamer said:

Fuck all of those 2nd Amendment loving POS who value "rights" above the lives and safety of their fellow men.  Our country is beyond fucked up with our gun culture and entitled right-wingers who think the world revolves around them and their "rights."  Fuck them.

If these little kids had to crawl on their bellies to avoid being shot, what’s the problem?

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15 minutes ago, Aqua Buddha said:

This was from the recent Texas shooting

I’m afraid you’re going to have to be more specific 

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Anybody else find it odd that the father hopped out the window during the Cleveland shooting, potentially leaving the kids and women in the house to fend for themselves? Supposedly, his wife was the first one shot at the door and he was helped out a window by another woman who was ultimately murdered. He said she told him their mother was already dead and the kids needed at least one parent to survive to raise them. Of course at that point, the fucking killer could've killed everybody in the house. To my knowledge, no kids were passed out the window with the surviving father.

Anyway, this has been bothering me since the father's interview where he relayed what happened. I'm not sure I would've broadcast that chain of events to the nation.

(Sorry if this thought makes me a callous person.)

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18 hours ago, Pancho said:

These people are fucking cray. 

 

People who are going to break in aren't going to ring the doorbell first. 

Social media has created increased levels of anxiety across the globe but for a country that's stocked to the gills with firearms it's been absolutely catastrophic. Ironic how Americans invented and profited from the technology that's bringing America to it's knees and collapsing it. We spent decades worried about foreigners and in the end we're the ones destroying ourselves from within. 

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He was very likely still in shock when he said that.  Who the fuck knows.  I’ve kept my cool around idiots with handguns.  But now that have children and was  around an assault weapon, I have no idea what the fuck I’d do or say.  But I guess I gotta figure it out so I can coach up my kids because ‘murica.  

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11 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

People who are going to break in aren't going to ring the doorbell first. 

Social media has created increased levels of anxiety across the globe but for a country that's stocked to the gills with firearms it's been absolutely catastrophic. Ironic how Americans invented and profited from the technology that's bringing America to it's knees and collapsing it. We spent decades worried about foreigners and in the end we're the ones destroying ourselves from within. 

Reading most of the comments made on that post tells me that one should not act like an ass and then brag about doing it.  Maybe the explanation is simply that half of the population is dumber than the other half.  I forget if that is the median or the mean or the average.

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The meteorologist isn't dumb but he's allowed a full on social media fueled brainwashing to make him foolish and doing dumb things. 

Social media fueled irrational fears isn't an American trait. It's happening across the globe. Take a look at what it did to cause brexit in England. What we've learned is very very few people are mentally and emotionally equipped to handle information overload and being bombarded with propaganda on a daily basis. I mean we should have already known that but social media just opened the floodgates to it and there's no reversing it. 

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16 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

The meteorologist isn't dumb but he's allowed a full on social media fueled brainwashing to make him foolish and doing dumb things. 

Social media fueled irrational fears isn't an American trait. It's happening across the globe. Take a look at what it did to cause brexit in England. What we've learned is very very few people are mentally and emotionally equipped to handle information overload and being bombarded with propaganda on a daily basis. I mean we should have already known that but social media just opened the floodgates to it and there's no reversing it. 

I totally agree with this.

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29 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

The meteorologist isn't dumb but he's allowed a full on social media fueled brainwashing to make him foolish and doing dumb things. 

Social media fueled irrational fears isn't an American trait. It's happening across the globe. Take a look at what it did to cause brexit in England. What we've learned is very very few people are mentally and emotionally equipped to handle information overload and being bombarded with propaganda on a daily basis. I mean we should have already known that but social media just opened the floodgates to it and there's no reversing it. 

It's unbelievable. This person has been bombarded with so much fear porn and fear mongering that the simple act of someone ringing his doorbell immediately puts him in a place where he's thinking someone could legitimately be there to kill him or do him harm. That's the first thought for him. Not that it might be a neighbor or someone he knows.

 

How are the GOP not terrorists again? That they do this to people and make them this scared?

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1 hour ago, C-Man said:

Anybody else find it odd that the father hopped out the window during the Cleveland shooting, potentially leaving the kids and women in the house to fend for themselves? Supposedly, his wife was the first one shot at the door and he was helped out a window by another woman who was ultimately murdered. He said she told him their mother was already dead and the kids needed at least one parent to survive to raise them. Of course at that point, the fucking killer could've killed everybody in the house. To my knowledge, no kids were passed out the window with the surviving father.

Anyway, this has been bothering me since the father's interview where he relayed what happened. I'm not sure I would've broadcast that chain of events to the nation.

(Sorry if this thought makes me a callous person.)

 

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1 hour ago, Hermanator said:

The meteorologist isn't dumb but he's allowed a full on social media fueled brainwashing to make him foolish and doing dumb things. 

Social media fueled irrational fears isn't an American trait. It's happening across the globe. Take a look at what it did to cause brexit in England. What we've learned is very very few people are mentally and emotionally equipped to handle information overload and being bombarded with propaganda on a daily basis. I mean we should have already known that but social media just opened the floodgates to it and there's no reversing it. 

This is information dump and overload and social media inundation you speak of (and I wholeheartedly agree with you) is just going to get worse with AI.

Which is why one of the AI gurus came out this week saying the risk is not AI getting sentient and skynet and all that crap-- the risk is AI driving us all insane.

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19 minutes ago, HamsterHookah said:

 

Which is why one of the AI gurus came out this week saying the risk is not AI getting sentient and skynet and all that crap-- the risk is AI driving us all insane.


That sounds like something an AI bot would say.

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4 hours ago, C-Man said:

Anybody else find it odd that the father hopped out the window during the Cleveland shooting, potentially leaving the kids and women in the house to fend for themselves? Supposedly, his wife was the first one shot at the door and he was helped out a window by another woman who was ultimately murdered. He said she told him their mother was already dead and the kids needed at least one parent to survive to raise them. Of course at that point, the fucking killer could've killed everybody in the house. To my knowledge, no kids were passed out the window with the surviving father.

Anyway, this has been bothering me since the father's interview where he relayed what happened. I'm not sure I would've broadcast that chain of events to the nation.

(Sorry if this thought makes me a callous person.)

 

4 hours ago, Brian Fantana said:

Doesn't seem like the salient point

The salient point is whether he is here legally.

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4 hours ago, Hermanator said:

People who are going to break in aren't going to ring the doorbell first.

Sure they are. Do you know a better way to make sure no one’s home before you break in?

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3 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:

It's unbelievable. This person has been bombarded with so much fear porn and fear mongering that the simple act of someone ringing his doorbell immediately puts him in a place where he's thinking someone could legitimately be there to kill him or do him harm. That's the first thought for him. Not that it might be a neighbor or someone he knows.

 

How are the GOP not terrorists again? That they do this to people and make them this scared?

Or maybe this guy just has a hard-on to shoot somebody and have it be somehow "justified" by our stupid gun laws.

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33 minutes ago, BevoAbyss said:

 

Spot on. 100%.

The proliferation of guns and social fears parallels the proliferation of screens and social media. 

The proliferation of firing bullets mirrors the proliferation of everyone firing off posts, tweets, and updates. 

For many, the fear and rage builds as each post they don't like on social media feels like an info-bullet to their brain, triggering cognitive overload and cultural warriors.

On both sides for sure. The rage that a milquetoast post in cloak room can produce is still, 5 screen names later, very surprising.

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4 hours ago, Hermanator said:

People who are going to break in aren't going to ring the doorbell first. 

Social media has created increased levels of anxiety across the globe but for a country that's stocked to the gills with firearms it's been absolutely catastrophic. Ironic how Americans invented and profited from the technology that's bringing America to it's knees and collapsing it. We spent decades worried about foreigners and in the end we're the ones destroying ourselves from within. 

I have told this story before, but when in Florida visiting my parents my brother comes over with his family and he immediately walks in and pulls out the holster with the loaded pistol, and places it on a cabinet.  My parents and sister act like this is normal.  I ask him about it, and he explains it is for protection.  From what? Well, apparently there are roving bands of gangs like in a Cormac McCarthy book that is on the lookout for a piece of shit, decade+ minivans with 200k miles on it, and faded paint, and crushed seats. 

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1 hour ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Sure they are. Do you know a better way to make sure no one’s home before you break in?

Presence of cars would be one. Staking out the house to see who's coming and going would be better. 

These days most people don't open the door. They look at the doorbell camera or through the peep hole and if they don't know who it is they don't answer. Going off of no on answering the door to indicate no one is home in this day and age would be an erroneous assumption.  We had a small hail storm blow through about a week and a half ago and since then every day is 1 to 2 new door bell rings of door to door roof and dent repair contractors. I just take one glance at my phone to see who's at the door and just leave it be. 

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14 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

Presence of cars would be one. Staking out the house to see who's coming and going would be better. 

These days most people don't open the door. They look at the doorbell camera or through the peep hole and if they don't know who it is they don't answer. Going off of no on answering the door to indicate no one is home in this day and age would be an erroneous assumption.  We had a small hail storm blow through about a week and a half ago and since then every day is 1 to 2 new door bell rings of door to door roof and dent repair contractors. I just take one glance at my phone to see who's at the door and just leave it be. 

To your point, I answer the ring camera from inside my home and pretend I'm not home 90% of the time. No I don't want "free" solar panels for the 99th time.

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2 hours ago, BevoAbyss said:

 

Spot on. 100%.

The proliferation of guns and social fears parallels the proliferation of screens and social media. 

The proliferation of firing bullets mirrors the proliferation of everyone firing off posts, tweets, and updates. 

For many, the fear and rage builds as each post they don't like on social media feels like an info-bullet to their brain, triggering cognitive overload and cultural warriors.

Add good ole days nostalgia with a huge helping of grievance and you’ve got hell on earth.

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1 hour ago, Hermanator said:

Presence of cars would be one. Staking out the house to see who's coming and going would be better. 

These days most people don't open the door. They look at the doorbell camera or through the peep hole and if they don't know who it is they don't answer. Going off of no on answering the door to indicate no one is home in this day and age would be an erroneous assumption.  We had a small hail storm blow through about a week and a half ago and since then every day is 1 to 2 new door bell rings of door to door roof and dent repair contractors. I just take one glance at my phone to see who's at the door and just leave it be. 

You must be right then. Ringing the bell or knocking on the door is not a measure that burglars ever take to make sure no one is home before breaking in. Never happens. I made it up. 

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CRIME

Fear is cited in rise in gunfire
Experts: Shootings of strangers, neighbors due to mixture of factors
By DANIELLE PAQUETTE, JOHN D. HARDEN and SCOTT CLEMENT
The Washington Post
Steve Bridges had just parked his pickup at the Texas Boot Factory when he saw a man — white, maybe 55 or 60 — step out of the car beside him and slip a gun under his belt.

It was a Friday afternoon, three days after two cheerleaders opened the wrong car door in a supermarket parking lot nearby and were shot. Bridges, a 63-year-old contractor, had tried to picture how that could happen in Elgin, where eruptions of violence are rare.

“It all goes back to the fear,” he said. “Why are cheerleaders getting shot for opening the wrong door? Why is a grown man scared to go into a boot store without carrying his weapon? Why are these people so afraid?”


Across the country last month, at least four men opened fire on someone who’d stumbled upon their space, resulting in one death, two injuries and a car pocked with bullet holes. The apparent acts of snap-aggression have reinvigorated the debate around the prevalence of stand-your-ground laws in the United States and a pressing question: Why are people so quick to pull the trigger on strangers?

Why did a 65-year-old man kill a 20-year-old woman who had accidentally pulled into his upstate New York driveway? Why did an 84-year-old man fire two bullets into a 16-year-old boy who had mistakenly knocked on his door in Kansas City, Mo.? Why did a 43-year-old man in South Florida allegedly shoot at a 19-year-old Instacart delivery driver and his 18-year-old girlfriend who had arrived at the wrong address?

Experts blame a cocktail of factors: the easy availability of guns, misconceptions around stand-your-ground laws, the marketing of firearms for self-defense — and a growing sense among Americans, particularly Republicans, that safety in their backyard is deteriorating.

Since 2020, the share of Republicans who say crime is rising in their community has jumped from 38% to 73%, according to the latest Gallup numbers from last fall. Among Democrats, that same concern rose only 5 percentage points to 42%, marking the widest partisan perception gap since the polling firm first asked the question a half-century ago.

What data shows

Reality is more complicated. A Washington Post crime analysis of 80 major police departments’ records found that reported violence across the country in 2022 was lower than the five-year average.

And over the longer term, the National Criminal Victimization Survey showed the number of people reporting sexual assault, robbery and other physical attacks is overall much lower now than in the 1990s and has not increased in recent years.

Homicides and thefts, however, rose during the pandemic, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data — though not to the levels of the 1990s.

A Post analysis, meanwhile, found that states with stand-your-ground laws had a 55% higher homicide-by-firearm rate in the last two years than the states that didn’t have these laws, which remove the duty to retreat from an attacker before responding with potentially deadly force.

The perception that life is getting more dangerous has spread on the right as GOP leaders and pundits repeatedly argued, without evidence, that immigrants and protesters are jeopardizing American peace. Conservative news channels have devoted more airtime to violence than their center- and left-leaning competitors. Over the last three years, for instance, Fox News anchors and guests spotlighted crime 79% more often than those on MSNBC and twice as much as voices on CNN, according to a Washington Post analysis of closed captioning provided by the GDELT AI Television Explorer and the Internet Archive.

Fear, paranoia and misunderstandings of the laws governing self-defense and use of force is a recipe for tragedy, said Geoffrey Corn, chair of criminal law at Texas Tech University Law School.

“We don’t demand any education for people who own firearms,” he said. “I was a soldier, and we couldn’t touch a live round without completing weeks of basic training.”

Paranoia and fear

In Bastrop County, Bridges, the chair of the local Democratic Party, said the tension has been climbing for years.

Crime in the Central Texas county has ticked up in recent years, though less so than the national average. In 2021, according to the most recent data available, the small city of Elgin reported 13 violent offenses, up from 10 in 2020.

Bridges kept his pistol at home and his door unlocked. Did crime seem worse to him? No.

Did it seem worse to the head of the local Republican Party?

“Crime has gotten worse,” said Curtis Courtney, a retired publisher. “It probably has. We have more illegals up here. We have a lot of people coming from Austin.”

Courtney, 70, said he didn’t know why that man had shot the cheerleaders. It was either a grave human error or a criminal act, or both, he figured. But it did not shake his belief that Americans should arm themselves wherever they saw fit.

“You have demonstrations in Portland and Chicago getting out of control,” he said.

Democrats who say crime isn’t getting worse, he said, “live on a river in Egypt. The de-Nile.”

That, he said, is why people carry a gun.

“We don’t have a problem,” he said. “The ones who try to bring it against us would have a problem.”

Andrew Lester, an 84-year-old white man, told officers he was “scared to death” last month when he shot Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old Black boy who had been looking for his siblings and knocked on his door in Kansas City.

“It’s the paranoia and fear,” said Lester’s 28-year-old grandson, Klint Ludwig. “It was the 24-hour news cycle — Fox News, OAN, all that stuff — pushing the civil division. Everybody is just so scared all the time.”

‘A detrimental force’

Over the years, he said, his grandfather had become hooked on those channels, echoing talking points that Ludwig, who describes himself as “left-leaning,” found disturbing. He recalled Lester describing migrant children detained at the border as a threat to national security.

“Minority groups get scapegoated,” Ludwig said. “The propaganda we see all day, every day was a detrimental force in his life.”

The Clay County, Mo., sheriff’s office reported that, according to the latest data, both violent and property offenses in the area dipped from 2017 to 2021. Jerry Nolte, 67, the Republican presiding commissioner of the county and a lifelong Kansas City resident, said he couldn’t tell if crime was up or down — only that people seemed more sensitive to it.

“Anybody who watches the news and sees nationwide the kind of crime stories reported are naturally going to be affected by that,” he said.

In rural Hebron, N.Y., where Kevin Monahan gunned down Kaylin Gillis last month after she and her friends accidentally pulled into his driveway, residents of the dairy town had gathered in shock.

“I blame all this crap on TV,” said George Flint, 70, a Republican councilman. “The fact that you think you can chase somebody off your property like that in this day and age — when you don’t even know who they are — is absurd.”

Especially in Washington County, where, from 2019 to 2021, authorities reported just one homicide and four robberies.

“My client was involved in a series of tragic mistakes, made by more than one person, that resulted in the death of a young lady,” Monahan’s lawyer told reporters. “He feels terrible that a life was lost.”

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I have told this story before, but when in Florida visiting my parents my brother comes over with his family and he immediately walks in and pulls out the holster with the loaded pistol, and places it on a cabinet.  My parents and sister act like this is normal.  I ask him about it, and he explains it is for protection.  From what? Well, apparently there are roving bands of gangs like in a Cormac McCarthy book that is on the lookout for a piece of shit, decade+ minivans with 200k miles on it, and faded paint, and crushed seats. 
You should unload it, and hide it next time.
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22 minutes ago, TexPx said:

CRIME

Fear is cited in rise in gunfire
Experts: Shootings of strangers, neighbors due to mixture of factors
By DANIELLE PAQUETTE, JOHN D. HARDEN and SCOTT CLEMENT
The Washington Post
Steve Bridges had just parked his pickup at the Texas Boot Factory when he saw a man — white, maybe 55 or 60 — step out of the car beside him and slip a gun under his belt.

It was a Friday afternoon, three days after two cheerleaders opened the wrong car door in a supermarket parking lot nearby and were shot. Bridges, a 63-year-old contractor, had tried to picture how that could happen in Elgin, where eruptions of violence are rare.

“It all goes back to the fear,” he said. “Why are cheerleaders getting shot for opening the wrong door? Why is a grown man scared to go into a boot store without carrying his weapon? Why are these people so afraid?”


Across the country last month, at least four men opened fire on someone who’d stumbled upon their space, resulting in one death, two injuries and a car pocked with bullet holes. The apparent acts of snap-aggression have reinvigorated the debate around the prevalence of stand-your-ground laws in the United States and a pressing question: Why are people so quick to pull the trigger on strangers?

Why did a 65-year-old man kill a 20-year-old woman who had accidentally pulled into his upstate New York driveway? Why did an 84-year-old man fire two bullets into a 16-year-old boy who had mistakenly knocked on his door in Kansas City, Mo.? Why did a 43-year-old man in South Florida allegedly shoot at a 19-year-old Instacart delivery driver and his 18-year-old girlfriend who had arrived at the wrong address?

Experts blame a cocktail of factors: the easy availability of guns, misconceptions around stand-your-ground laws, the marketing of firearms for self-defense — and a growing sense among Americans, particularly Republicans, that safety in their backyard is deteriorating.

Since 2020, the share of Republicans who say crime is rising in their community has jumped from 38% to 73%, according to the latest Gallup numbers from last fall. Among Democrats, that same concern rose only 5 percentage points to 42%, marking the widest partisan perception gap since the polling firm first asked the question a half-century ago.

What data shows

Reality is more complicated. A Washington Post crime analysis of 80 major police departments’ records found that reported violence across the country in 2022 was lower than the five-year average.

And over the longer term, the National Criminal Victimization Survey showed the number of people reporting sexual assault, robbery and other physical attacks is overall much lower now than in the 1990s and has not increased in recent years.

Homicides and thefts, however, rose during the pandemic, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data — though not to the levels of the 1990s.

A Post analysis, meanwhile, found that states with stand-your-ground laws had a 55% higher homicide-by-firearm rate in the last two years than the states that didn’t have these laws, which remove the duty to retreat from an attacker before responding with potentially deadly force.

The perception that life is getting more dangerous has spread on the right as GOP leaders and pundits repeatedly argued, without evidence, that immigrants and protesters are jeopardizing American peace. Conservative news channels have devoted more airtime to violence than their center- and left-leaning competitors. Over the last three years, for instance, Fox News anchors and guests spotlighted crime 79% more often than those on MSNBC and twice as much as voices on CNN, according to a Washington Post analysis of closed captioning provided by the GDELT AI Television Explorer and the Internet Archive.

Fear, paranoia and misunderstandings of the laws governing self-defense and use of force is a recipe for tragedy, said Geoffrey Corn, chair of criminal law at Texas Tech University Law School.

“We don’t demand any education for people who own firearms,” he said. “I was a soldier, and we couldn’t touch a live round without completing weeks of basic training.”

Paranoia and fear

In Bastrop County, Bridges, the chair of the local Democratic Party, said the tension has been climbing for years.

Crime in the Central Texas county has ticked up in recent years, though less so than the national average. In 2021, according to the most recent data available, the small city of Elgin reported 13 violent offenses, up from 10 in 2020.

Bridges kept his pistol at home and his door unlocked. Did crime seem worse to him? No.

Did it seem worse to the head of the local Republican Party?

“Crime has gotten worse,” said Curtis Courtney, a retired publisher. “It probably has. We have more illegals up here. We have a lot of people coming from Austin.”

Courtney, 70, said he didn’t know why that man had shot the cheerleaders. It was either a grave human error or a criminal act, or both, he figured. But it did not shake his belief that Americans should arm themselves wherever they saw fit.

“You have demonstrations in Portland and Chicago getting out of control,” he said.

Democrats who say crime isn’t getting worse, he said, “live on a river in Egypt. The de-Nile.”

That, he said, is why people carry a gun.

“We don’t have a problem,” he said. “The ones who try to bring it against us would have a problem.”

Andrew Lester, an 84-year-old white man, told officers he was “scared to death” last month when he shot Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old Black boy who had been looking for his siblings and knocked on his door in Kansas City.

“It’s the paranoia and fear,” said Lester’s 28-year-old grandson, Klint Ludwig. “It was the 24-hour news cycle — Fox News, OAN, all that stuff — pushing the civil division. Everybody is just so scared all the time.”

‘A detrimental force’

Over the years, he said, his grandfather had become hooked on those channels, echoing talking points that Ludwig, who describes himself as “left-leaning,” found disturbing. He recalled Lester describing migrant children detained at the border as a threat to national security.

“Minority groups get scapegoated,” Ludwig said. “The propaganda we see all day, every day was a detrimental force in his life.”

The Clay County, Mo., sheriff’s office reported that, according to the latest data, both violent and property offenses in the area dipped from 2017 to 2021. Jerry Nolte, 67, the Republican presiding commissioner of the county and a lifelong Kansas City resident, said he couldn’t tell if crime was up or down — only that people seemed more sensitive to it.

“Anybody who watches the news and sees nationwide the kind of crime stories reported are naturally going to be affected by that,” he said.

In rural Hebron, N.Y., where Kevin Monahan gunned down Kaylin Gillis last month after she and her friends accidentally pulled into his driveway, residents of the dairy town had gathered in shock.

“I blame all this crap on TV,” said George Flint, 70, a Republican councilman. “The fact that you think you can chase somebody off your property like that in this day and age — when you don’t even know who they are — is absurd.”

Especially in Washington County, where, from 2019 to 2021, authorities reported just one homicide and four robberies.

“My client was involved in a series of tragic mistakes, made by more than one person, that resulted in the death of a young lady,” Monahan’s lawyer told reporters. “He feels terrible that a life was lost.”

Jibes exactly with what I was thinking. Right wing propaganda combined with social media has created a large part of America that are reduced to sniveling little bitches who are afraid to stand eye to eye with children and teenage girls. 

America destroying itself from within. 

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17 minutes ago, Hermanator said:

America destroying itself from within. 

Don't underestimate the effects of external, targeted policies against Americans.

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