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America is a nasty, brutal, violent place. Sad.

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« on: November 07, 2017, 06:50:30 pm »


from The Washington Post....

The Texas shooting shows that domestic
violence is a national security issue


When private violence against women and children
is unleashed on the public.


By KAREN ATTIAH | 4:21PM EST - Monday, November 06, 2017

Devin Patrick Kelley. — Photograph: Texas Department of Safety/Reuters.
Devin Patrick Kelley. — Photograph: Texas Department of Safety/Reuters.

IT SEEMS LIKE the United States can barely go a full month without having to cope with a horrific act of mass violence committed at the hands of a man with access to a gun.

We obsess over the shooter's race, his religion, whether he had mental illness. We wring our hands over our lax gun laws. Our lawmakers offer inane promises of “thoughts and prayers.” We think there is no fathomable way to predict or prevent the gun carnage like that in Sutherland Springs, Las Vegas, San Bernardino, Orlando, and well, the list goes on.

But there is one disturbing, yet under-reported pattern that is painfully clear when it comes to mass violence and terrorism: Domestic violence. Many of the men who commit mass public attacks were accused of abusing the women and children in their lives.

Investigators now say that 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley was involved in an ongoing “domestic situation” when he opened fire at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, killing 26 and wounding 20 more. Apparently, he sent “threatening texts” to his mother-in-law, who was not at the church at the time but was a member.

Prior to the massacre, Kelley was court-martialed from the Air Force and spent time in military prison after he was charged with assaulting his wife and stepson. Yet he was still able to get his hands on a weapon. A number of the perpetrators in recent infamous mass shootings had histories of abusing their wives, mothers and daughters.

According to Everytown for Gun Safety, 54 percent of mass shootings involve a partner or another family member being killed.  Male violence is an acute threat to American women: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that homicide is the fifth leading cause of death for women from 18 to 44, and more than half of these killings were carried out by men they knew — husbands, boyfriends, ex's, or other intimate partners. Women in the United States are 16 times more likely to be killed by a gun than in other developed nations. How many Americans must be felled by bullets have to happen before we understand that the safety of women and children at home is not just a private matter but also essential to public safety?

For more, watch the video (link below). Instead of subjecting immigrants and refugees to “extreme vetting,” or lazily stigmatizing the mentally ill for our gun violence problem, it's beyond time to treat violence against women as a serious threat to our national security.


• Karen Attiah is The Washington Post's Global Opinions Editor.

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« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2017, 06:52:27 pm »


I reckon it is long past due for governments of other western countries to issue official warnings about the dangers of travelling to the USA, due to the extreme gun violence in that country.

Would America's sychophantic “deputy dawg” in the southwest Pacific (our neighbour across The Ditch to the west) have the balls to do that?

I somehow suspect not, and I suspect the NZ government would likewise be too cowardly to issue such an official warning, not just the current government, but the just-ended Nats government too.
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« Reply #2 on: November 08, 2017, 08:51:36 am »

How does nasty America compare to say Venezuela for quality of life?
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« Reply #3 on: November 08, 2017, 10:59:41 am »


How often to you see headlines in countries other than America about WHITE MEN running amok with firearms indulging in a national pastime of mass-shootings?

Face facts.....America is a ROGUE STATE with a totally-out-of-control gun problem and they choose to do nothing about it.

They even relaxed their laws to allow mentally-ill people access to firearms.

Therefore it is long overdue for governments around the world to issue official warnings to their citizens that if they travel to America, not only are they in danger of being harassed by the NAZIs at the border, but they are in danger of becoming one of the 30,000 gunshot deaths in America every year.

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« Reply #4 on: November 17, 2017, 07:34:48 pm »

I'm sorry to learn about the America Derangement Syndrome. Hope you get better soon 😁
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« Reply #5 on: November 17, 2017, 07:37:43 pm »

You do realise New Zealand is a very violent place?
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« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2017, 09:39:18 am »


I see the “divert attention elsewhere” syndrome is alive & well amongst the mentally-defective Trump apologists.
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« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2017, 07:00:19 pm »

Haha. No just not a mentally defective lefty.
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« Reply #8 on: November 19, 2017, 01:39:37 am »

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« Reply #9 on: November 19, 2017, 06:57:02 pm »

now the good news

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« Reply #10 on: November 19, 2017, 07:44:11 pm »


Ah, yes....tell us all about PizzaGate.

That was where that stupid fuckwit Alex Jones claimed Hillary Clinton was running a paedophile ring in the basement of a pizza place in Washington D.C.

One of Alex Jones' stupid retarded followers went and held people hostage in that pizza joint, but couldn't find the basement paedophile ring.

Neither could the D.C. police, nor the FBI.

Kinda shows how demented Alex Jones is with his stupid conspiracy theories and how fucked-in-the-head his dumb followers are, eh?

I'm still pissing myself laughing about that act of a mental retard, many months after it happened.
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« Reply #11 on: November 21, 2017, 06:37:39 pm »

do you have any evidence
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« Reply #12 on: November 21, 2017, 07:06:12 pm »


Like I said, not only couldn't the stupid retard (who was dumb enough to listen to Alex Jones' bullshit) unable to find the paedophile ring beneath the pizza joint, but neither could the D.C. police, nor the FBI.

So if you're such an expert, tell us where exactly beneath the pizza joint that paedophile ring is. Even Alex Jones has since admitted that what he published wasn't true.

Failure to post the exact location of that paedophile ring will prove that YOU are likewise a retarded idiot who is full-of-shit.
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« Reply #13 on: November 22, 2017, 11:24:23 am »


You want PROOF that America is a nasty, brutal, violent place?

Consider the fact that there has been a total of 45 U.S. presidents (including the current clown/idiot/wanker/moron/retard/boofhead occupying the White House).

Eight of those 45 presidents have been assassinated.

Work that out mathematically....approximately 18 percent of ALL American presidents have been assassinated.

Kinda says it all about America.
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« Reply #14 on: November 23, 2017, 07:54:38 am »

you're talking conspiracy to kill American presidents

rule number 1 find motive

follow the money because it's always about money

and dont blame every american they didnt have shit to do with it
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« Reply #15 on: November 23, 2017, 08:52:55 am »

its hard to believe  the evil things people can do
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=430&v=ADGQyOqkUac
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