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brian ross
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Post by brian ross » Wed Apr 25, 2018 4:46 pm

BigP wrote:""I now have a Masters degree and work in IT.""

Arts im thinking, or Masterbation lol
Politics, History and a minor in Geography. Does it really matter? IT covers a lot of things, just as my career has.
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Post by Neferti » Wed Apr 25, 2018 5:33 pm

brian ross wrote:
BigP wrote:""I now have a Masters degree and work in IT.""

Arts im thinking, or Masterbation lol
Politics, History and a minor in Geography. Does it really matter? IT covers a lot of things, just as my career has.
What about the Dr of Divinity you boasted about over at OzPol? :?

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Post by brian ross » Wed Apr 25, 2018 6:57 pm

Neferti~ wrote:
brian ross wrote:
BigP wrote:""I now have a Masters degree and work in IT.""

Arts im thinking, or Masterbation lol
Politics, History and a minor in Geography. Does it really matter? IT covers a lot of things, just as my career has.
What about the Dr of Divinity you boasted about over at OzPol? :?
I have that as well but it is a lesser degree compared to a Masters.
Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism. - Eric Blair

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Post by Bobby » Wed Apr 25, 2018 7:06 pm

Black Orchid wrote:
Bobby wrote:
Black Orchid wrote:
Bobby wrote:It doesn't matter if it's suicide or murder.
From the point of your argument it most certainly does.

Not in terms of firearms causing so much grief in society.

33,000 people per year is about 90 people per day or nearly 4 per hour -
about one person every 15 minutes dies from a gunshot in the USA.
Suicide rate in Australia 2016 - no guns - The suicide rate in Australia was 11.7 deaths per 100,000 people

Suicide rate in USA 2016 - guns - The suicide rate in USA was 13.26 per 100,000 people

Little difference. In Australia hanging played a large factor. Do we blame rope?

No - but we can spare a thought for the people who die every 15 minutes from gunshot wounds -
many of them murdered.

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Post by BigP » Thu Apr 26, 2018 4:19 am

Bobby wrote:
Black Orchid wrote:
Bobby wrote:
Black Orchid wrote:
Bobby wrote:It doesn't matter if it's suicide or murder.
From the point of your argument it most certainly does.

Not in terms of firearms causing so much grief in society.

33,000 people per year is about 90 people per day or nearly 4 per hour -
about one person every 15 minutes dies from a gunshot in the USA.
Suicide rate in Australia 2016 - no guns - The suicide rate in Australia was 11.7 deaths per 100,000 people

Suicide rate in USA 2016 - guns - The suicide rate in USA was 13.26 per 100,000 people

Little difference. In Australia hanging played a large factor. Do we blame rope?

No - but we can spare a thought for the people who die every 15 minutes from gunshot wounds -
many of them murdered.
You cant compare the US with Australia Bob

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Post by Rorschach » Thu Apr 26, 2018 9:37 am

Death by firearm is not a good measure of mental health.

The USA has a rate of 11 times what we have in Australia.

Suicide has many causes... what we can draw though is that pressures in the modern world are roughly the same in some countries. But not all... Japan and France have higher suicide rates than Australia and the USA.

Not all suicides in the USA are by firearm BTW.
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Post by BigP » Thu Apr 26, 2018 4:21 pm

brian ross wrote:
Neferti~ wrote:
brian ross wrote:
BigP wrote:""I now have a Masters degree and work in IT.""

Arts im thinking, or Masterbation lol
Politics, History and a minor in Geography. Does it really matter? IT covers a lot of things, just as my career has.
What about the Dr of Divinity you boasted about over at OzPol? :?
I have that as well but it is a lesser degree compared to a Masters.
For a edikated man Brain, use is a bit thik..lol

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Post by Bobby » Thu Apr 26, 2018 5:07 pm

Rorschach wrote:Death by firearm is not a good measure of mental health.

The USA has a rate of 11 times what we have in Australia.

Suicide has many causes... what we can draw though is that pressures in the modern world are roughly the same in some countries. But not all... Japan and France have higher suicide rates than Australia and the USA.

Not all suicides in the USA are by firearm BTW.

But it's just simply not safe to have firearms in a house.
Kids get them & shoot each other or their parents.
Drunken people pick them up & shoot
someone then don't even remember what they've done.
People pick up a gun during a heated argument and get so angry
they shoot another person on the spur of the moment
then spend the rest of their life in jail for one moment of madness.

Guns are bad news.
You're safer not having a gun in the house.

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Post by Black Orchid » Thu Apr 26, 2018 5:15 pm

You're also not safe having kitchen knives in the house.

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Post by Bobby » Thu Apr 26, 2018 5:22 pm

Black Orchid wrote:You're also not safe having kitchen knives in the house.
That's true too.
There are nut cases everywhere.
I prefer to live alone.

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