Shots fired at least 10 injured at Chiefs Super Bowl Parade (3 Viewers)

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Mr. Blue Sky said:
Yep.. we live in a s***hole country.. to be clear, im not commenting on the “whys”.. there are a million different “whys”.. im just talking about facts, and the fact is that we are no better than Beirut or Mogadishu or parts of Mexico .
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Way overstated. Have you ever been to any of the places you mentioned?

Do we have trouble with violence? Yes. As bad as many other places in the world? Not even close, actually. And before you start posting general, stilted statistics, better consider population density and all manner of violence rather than just gun violence.

Back to the incident at hand, terrible and mind-boggling. I can't agree enough with the poster who, "Why?" That is the big question: how does anyone find shooting people randomly to be an answer for their life?
 
Mr. Blue Sky said:
Yep.. we live in a s***hole country.. to be clear, im not commenting on the “whys”.. there are a million different “whys”.. im just talking about facts, and the fact is that we are no better than Beirut or Mogadishu or parts of Mexico .
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The fact huh? So I could buy you a plane ticket for a week in Mogadishu and you'd go?
 
tenordas said:
Way overstated. Have you ever been to any of the places you mentioned?

Do we have trouble with violence? Yes. As bad as many other places in the world? Not even close, actually. And before you start posting general, stilted statistics, better consider population density and all manner of violence rather than just gun violence.

Back to the incident at hand, terrible and mind-boggling. I can't agree enough with the poster who, "Why?" That is the big question: how does anyone find shooting people randomly to be an answer for their life?
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Yeah, Lebanon is borderline close to being a failed state and Somalia is a lawless, ungovernable state where Islamic jihadist terrorists control or are warring over different regions of the state and the violence in Mexico, while troubling, extremely problematic and dangerous with semi-narco states is mostly a big issue in upper northern areas of the country, like Juarez. The rest of Mexico doesn't have the same systemic, institutionalized problems Northern regions of Mexico near the border have had. In fact, one of the major reasons for the porous Southern border issues is because of the control, power and violence the Mexican drug cartels have with psychopathic gunmen, called coyotes, engage in human/sex trafficking, drug smuggling use violence, intimidation, coercion, threats of violence against family or friends and in some cases, even torture local Mexican villagers, farmers, residents, men, women and children are targeted. "Coyotes" are ruthless, vile maternal fornicators no rational human being should ever be so unfortunate to come across.

Lebanon is a failing state due to a gerrymandering national legislature divided amongst Marionite Catholics and Muslim population including Hezbollah that was agreed upon in 1990's that helped end a near-two decade long sectarian civil war that lead to Isreali and even U.S. military interventions in 1983-84 which ended abruptly when some Tamil Tiger-allied Hezbollah Islamist butt crevasses put a bomb which exploded in US Marines barracks in 1983 and some major U.S. intellegence heads didnt do due diligence, get off their arses a bit more and push harder to gain more inside information to find out who and how these attacks were funded then Casper Weinberger shrugging his shoulders like an helpless idiot, declaring "We don't know" after letting them get away with it while disappearing down rat holes they came from.

Lebanon is a showcase in how long-stemming, festering sectarian, religious, socio-political problems can plague a region, just like Yugoslavia's breakup led to ethnic cleansing, genocide amongst Serbs, Croats, and Bosniaks for most of the 1990's.

The legacy of French imperialism is also a key factor in Lebanese socio-political and economic struggles today and shouldn't be overlooked similar to other former French colonies like Algeria, where De Gaulle's decision to grant independence to FLN Algerian revolutionaries was so divisive, controversial, and polarizing that it lead to a assassination attempt on De Gaulle's life, a weak-willed failed coup de'tat from a breakaway fringe section of the French Foreign Legion, French forces serving in Algeria opposed to De Gaulle granting Algerian independence and a short-lived terrorist faction after forces loyal to De Gaulle crushed the 1961-62 Algiers Putsch. Famed French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre had his Parisian apartment bombed and had so many death threats had to go into hiding due to his outspoken calls for Algerian independence. Since the end of WWII, in terms of internal/external threats to the security of French state, "Algerian affair" of the late 50's/early 60's remains maybe the only instance where either a far-left/far-right political faction came close to overthrowing the state, save for perhaps mass student protests in May 1968, termed "events of May 1968" by French and European historians.
 
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So i’ll chime
perret318 said:
There are so many people who contend that 'murica is the "greatest country in the world". Most of those people have never left the city they were born in.
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Lol. True, but same could be said for those that say it’s a terrible country. Man if i had a dollar for people on both sides of that coin i’d be a millionaire. In my experience most people who have extensively traveled, kiss the ground when they get back here to the USA. Maybe because it’s “home” but really nobody is stopping you. Look at how many are coming in.
 
NeverGiveUP2 said:
NOLA is known as a top 5 city for crimes. After our SB and the parade there was no homicides and very little violence. Just sayin
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At the Saints Super Bowl parade the only crime I saw were two drunk guys in front of us tickling their friend, and when the friend had enough of it he turned around, pulled it out, and started peeing on his friends’ feet.
 
rlemieux said:
World is broken and only Jesus can fix it.
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Can you explain why He's ignored all of the prayers offered since, say, Columbine? Does He need to be the official state religion first before He decides to intervene? Are people not praying hard enough? What level of fervor is He looking for?
 
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Not intending to get into a discussion, but the point is being missed. We reap what we sow. We have free will. The problem is the self will that leads to all the dysfunction. He will intervene at some point though, i.e. the book of Revelation.
 

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So I’ve never called out a clown reaction, not once. Really could care less but I’m curious why the clown reaction? I know this is a football board but I just find that reaction to be asinine.
 
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