Poll of the Day > man the amount of hated spewed on this board...

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These damn driving regulations are punishing me! How am I supposed to live without being able to drive however the absolute fuck I want??

gamers deserve equal rights

VampireCoyote posted...

gamers deserve equal rights

gamers rise up

Gamers are the most oppressed group in history!

When did America start having a gun problem and what changed? Because we always had a lot of guns but there wasn't always a gun problem

Muscles posted...

When did America start having a gun problem and what changed? Because we always had a lot of guns but there wasn't always a gun problem

Well... there kind of was, it just wasn't talked about as much. The last time the US murder rate was below 4.0 per 100k (i.e. where every other developed country currently sits) was the turn of last century. It climbed steadily from ~1910 to the 1930s, when it nearly reached 10.0 per 100k, then dropped to roughly half that level during the war years, where it stayed (minus a brief spike in 1945 when the troops came home) until the mid 1960s, when it started climbing again.

That mid-60s mark is probably the genesis of the current gun crime wave, as the homicide rate soared in the 1970s and was persistently high throughout the 80s and 90s, fluctuating between 8.0 and 11.0 per 100k. So, believe it or not, the current era actually represents an improvement (but don't get too excited - homicide rate has been on the rise for the last five years).

Notably, however, the 1970s was also the point where the NRA dropped its role encouraging responsible gun ownership and safe gun handling (believe it or not, it used to be highly regarded for its gun safety stances) and moved to its current aggressive "pro-gun everything" status. The Republicans, similarly, shifted to a very anti-regulatory stance and gun control legislation that had uncontroversially been on the books for years was steadily stripped away, with deadly results.

papercup posted...

Gamers are the most oppressed group in history!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-09gNDsPzQ

Looks like Mr. Snowflake hit this topic too.

darkknight109 posted...

Well... there kind of was, it just wasn't talked about as much. The last time the US murder rate was below 4.0 per 100k (i.e. where every other developed country currently sits) was the turn of last century. It climbed steadily from ~1910 to the 1930s, when it nearly reached 10.0 per 100k, then dropped to roughly half that level during the war years, where it stayed (minus a brief spike in 1945 when the troops came home) until the mid 1960s, when it started climbing again.

That mid-60s mark is probably the genesis of the current gun crime wave, as the homicide rate soared in the 1970s and was persistently high throughout the 80s and 90s, fluctuating between 8.0 and 11.0 per 100k. So, believe it or not, the current era actually represents an improvement (but don't get too excited - homicide rate has been on the rise for the last five years).

Notably, however, the 1970s was also the point where the NRA dropped its role encouraging responsible gun ownership and safe gun handling (believe it or not, it used to be highly regarded for its gun safety stances) and moved to its current aggressive "pro-gun everything" status. The Republicans, similarly, shifted to a very anti-regulatory stance and gun control legislation that had uncontroversially been on the books for years was steadily stripped away, with deadly results.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
Proponents of the leadcrime hypothesis argue that the removal of lead additives from motor fuel, and the consequent decline in children's lead exposure, explains the fall in crime rates in the United States beginning in the 1990s.[18] This hypothesis also offers an explanation of the earlier rise in crime in the preceding decades as the result of increased lead exposure throughout the mid-20th century.[19]

hate spewing by the tolerant and open minded
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/6/7/AAfa96AAEZm7.png

potdnewb posted...

hate spewing by the tolerant and open minded
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/6/7/AAfa96AAEZm7.png

See, this post qualifies as trolling because it intentionally omits the post to which these people were responding to, misleadingly framing those responses as unprovoked hostility instead of a response to comparable hostility and derision from the person to whom they are responding.

In the future, if you would like to avoid being treated as a troll, I recommend including as much of the full context as you can so as to not be misleading about the situation.

I feel like potdnewb is a Sunny alt

Nah, I get the sense that Sunny is genuinely clueless, most of the time. This guy's obviously trolling deliberately.

there can be no open discourse when hateful insults like snowflake and troll are used