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Case Study of a Moron

You want one reason for the high murder rate in the US? How about the War on Drugs?

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The first peak happened during alcohol Prohibition. The second peak starts at the onset of the War on Drugs.

I think it speaks for itself.
 
shanek said:


At least that much we agree with.

What do you think of the fact that 2.4 million crimes are prevented every year in America by armed citizens?
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Just curious, but where does this figure come from and how do they reach it?
 
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Occasional Chemist said:
I prefer using harsh language to hunt grizzly bears. You've really got to cuss like a sailor to take down a grizzly.
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When I go hunting, I prefer to use Daisy cutters. Sure, its expensive to call in air support, but hey, I live for the thrill of the hunt. (Plus, the food is already cooked by the time I find it.)
 
armageddonman said:
We are neither. We have laughable claws, teeth and sense of smelling.
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Actually, there is plenty of evidence that humans are designed to eat meat (not exclusively, but as a part of our diet)
- Our digestive system is shorter than you would expect if we were pure herbivores (plant-eaters usually need longer digestive systems to process hard-to-digest plant materials)
- Some important parts of our diets cannot easily be obtained from sources other than meat
- It is believed that protein from meat was a factor in the expansion of the human brain

And while we don't have effective claws and teeth, our intelligence as a species makes us effective predators. (Even without guns, in a pinch a group of humans can come up with a coordinated plan to kill prey.)
 
Valmorian said:


Just curious, but where does this figure come from and how do they reach it?
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Criminologists Dr. Gary Kleck's and Dr. Marc Gertz's National Firearms Defensive Use Survey.

You might also want to read More Guns, Less Crime by John Lott.
 
armageddonman said:


We are neither. We have laughable claws, teeth and sense of smelling. How many animals have you caught and killed using only your hands and teeth?
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umm yeah we are predators. And a good thing too, else I dont think we would be near as smart as we are.

We used to use our hands and teeth to catch food, thinks like bugs and small animals (lizzards, rats, gods errr dogs). Then some brain picked up a nice rock and beat down a larger animal.

From our predatory intelligence we made our own claws, and really feckin long ones too (spears). We even started to make claws that could attack from a distance (chunck the spear. With an atlatl it will go further, what a breakthrough that had to be).


If we weren't predatory, we would probably have our face in the grass chewing the cud.



Do all predators need massive teeth and claws? Sharks do but that weird fish with a fleshy appendage on its face that is uses as a lure doesn't. That fish lacks the speed, power, and weapons of sharks; but it has a different method to hunt. It may be a wuss predator compared to the shark, but its belly gets filled enough that it can survive to have little fish with weird fleshy appendages on their faces.
 
 
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