Waco, TX -- Central Texas Marketplace Shootout (9 dead, multiple injuries)

[tails]

Of course the first post is trying to spark a political debate.

:D

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[Harm94]

I guess you guys need more guns to make the guns safer.

[SeventhSandwich]

Wow, this is the first time anything bad has happened in Waco, Texas!

[Nonnel]

what's so great about dumb old texas?

[$trinick]

Wow, this is the first time anything bad has happened in Waco, Texas!

Who said this was a bad thing?

[Obliviongate20]

multiple (three at least) biker gangs clashed at Twin Peaks Restaurant. Starting as a fistfight escalating progressively to gunfire

that's some borderlands crap right there

[ZombiLoin]

Welcome to Modern America.

I hate this stuffty backwards attitude. Violent crime has been going steadily down since the 1940's. 100 years, or even 50 years ago stuff like this would've been just another drop in the bucket.

[XR-7]

I hate this stuffty backwards attitude. Violent crime has been going steadily down since the 1940's. 100 years, or even 50 years ago stuff like this would've been just another drop in the bucket.

Citation needed

[Ragequit]

waco is a stuffhole, especially the east side lol
this is something that should be expected on a daily basis

[ZombiLoin]

Citation needed

Get your head on screwed straight and stop staring with stuff smeared vision, things have only gotten better over time.

[Nonnel]

Citation needed

are you kidding lmao

[Harm94]

Citation needed

source: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/violent-crime/violent-crime-topic-page/violentcrimemain_final

[ZombiLoin]

inb4"but it could get worse at anytime!"

that's true, but it would probably take several years to change, and we weren't talking about that anyways, were we?

[$trinick]

source: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2013/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013/violent-crime/violent-crime-topic-page/violentcrimemain_final

This graph is poorly made because it makes you think that the trend is significantly steeper than it actually is because the graph doesn't start at zero. Here's what it looks like (averaged out) when it actually starts at zero:



The data is still fine though.

[Nonnel]

inb4"but it could get worse at anytime!"

that's true, but it would probably take several years to change, and we weren't talking about that anyways, were we?

you're arguing against arguments he didn't even make