Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@gXXmail.com>
Newsgroups: rec.bicycles.tech
Subject: Re: Another criminal cyclist
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 21:37:17 -0500
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Lines: 31
Message-ID: <voh1h2$21fpn$7@dont-email.me>
References: <vo5ddd$3j2i5$1@dont-email.me> <etOpP.4868$1e_9.1530@fx17.iad>
 <8dmfqjll4hp9n06uv40gvh60htc65fsiud@4ax.com> <voagbh$m8eu$1@dont-email.me>
 <nshhqj9dp50bij8705nn7oul8ndr7sbef4@4ax.com> <voam51$nq24$1@dont-email.me>
 <vogv8g$21fpn$1@dont-email.me> <voh0vg$21p7a$1@dont-email.me>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2025 03:37:22 +0100 (CET)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a8cace640c69ca22b8c063e58880be0a";
	logging-data="2146103"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/o/K4J/VXgaafE6sSMgBDFm2ipgOHy3OM="
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
Cancel-Lock: sha1:bsfE7MGXITtSMYv4a7Hdr4HTKcI=
Content-Language: en-US
In-Reply-To: <voh0vg$21p7a$1@dont-email.me>
Bytes: 2384

On 2/11/2025 9:28 PM, AMuzi wrote:
> On 2/11/2025 7:58 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>> On 2/9/2025 11:46 AM, AMuzi wrote:
>>> On 2/9/2025 9:55 AM, Shadow wrote:
>>>>
>>>>     PS There were 40.000 homicides in Brazil in 2023 under Lula.
>>>> 60.000 homicides in 2017 in the Temer/Bolsonaro regime. Give people
>>>> employment and salaries, they'll commit less crimes.
>>>
>>>  From today's paper:
>>>
>>> https://nypost.com/2025/02/08/opinion/even-gun-shy-sweden- has-to- 
>>> deal- with-mass-shootings/
>>
>> Hmm. Focusing on outliers yet again!
>>
>> https://www.healthdata.org/news-events/insights-blog/acting- data/gun- 
>> violence-united-states-outlier
>>
>> I'd bet that Swedish news outlets never bother to report much about 
>> American mass shootings. They're too common to be interesting.
>>
>>
> The important point of the piece is the ineffectiveness of legislation 
> across a wide range of policy and culture.

Still! If legislation consistently causes a far lower number of bad 
incidents, one exceptional incident doesn't prove the legislation was bad.

-- 
- Frank Krygowski