Thompson, did you miss this?

Oh. That explains why the violent crime rate vs. time curve so exactly matches the lead in the environment curve, just with a 15 or 20 year delay.

Burglaries in my neighborhood: ZERO; Violent crimes: ZERO; Households Armed: 100%; Pick-em-up trucks: At least one per household, usually

Males aged 16-25: zero. ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Lose the smiley. The demographics shift (the "Aging of America") is a real thing, and AFAICT a Damn Good Thing.

Children should be seen, but not armed.

Mark L. Fergerson

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You sound like Louis XV: "Apres moi, le deluge!"

Of course, you were never young yourself.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

There are some married early 20's types in my neighborhood... carpenters, electricians, plumbers.

This is a neighborhood of craftsmen.

Children, either pre-school, or in high school, nothing much in between.

And a handful of retirees, like me ;-)

...Jim Thompson

Crap! My 9-year-old grandson can out-shoot you ;-) ...Jim Thompson

My mother-in-law-to-be always opined that I was 80 going on 18 ;-)

Now I'm just three years away... ...Jim Thompson

--- I'm just a year away from being an octogenerian and, while my political stance is just a little to the right of Atilla's, my heart breaks for the people who have fallen prey to the hypnotism of the left, which advocates murder and suicide.

John Fields

Indeed! It's a shame that some people can be so stupid. ...Jim Thompson

Bees with no stingers? Isn't that like liberals with no pricks ?>:-} ...Jim Thompson

That was lead, not lead...

Or to put it in a more understandable format, Pb, and not advance timing.

Or, at least, that's how I interpreted it.

No. It's not unusual for a bee to have a stinger.

Okay, kids without responsible parents.

And let's wait until after the gas bubble from my retinal detachment surgery finally goes away and I get the lens replaced. Then we can see about who can outshoot who.

Mark L. Fergerson

The left that advocates murder and suicide would seem to be a movement inve nted by John Fields. None of the left-of-centre newspapers to which I've ev er subscribed to has ever talked about a left-wing political movement that advocated either.

The communists - who liked to present themselves as a left-wing political m ovement - did execute a lot of people with what strikes me as inadequate ju stification, but that matches what they really were, which is to say one mo re protection racket.

Suicide doesn't seem to have any advocates. The left wing seems to treat it as mental health problem, where universal health care might help a bit.

Quite what John Fields has managed to misunderstand to give him the impress ion that any version of left-wing politics advocates either murder or suici de escapes me. He's not good at parsing complex sentences, and doesn't seem to read much, but it might be Fox News.

Anybody stupid enough to think that any left wing political movement advocates murder or suicide has to be monumentally ill-informed. Jim might have been using irony, but he's ill-informed enough that he could also have been sincere.

But only an irresponsible idiot would run the risk of letting him prove it.