Closed books, closed minds

[unixronin]

From rosencrantz23:

Unfortunately, to the kind of people who ban books, shutting out unapproved ideas sounds like a really good ... well, idea.

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Re: dammit, I have to split this again ...

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of the "Kellerman factoid". I've never seen it cited before.

I do know that most homicides by whatever means are committed by people the victim knows. Relatives and partners (including former partners) are much, much more dangerous than random criminal punks. Domestic violence calls are the most dangerous ones for police, as well. On the average, you are more likely to be assaulted, injured, even killed by a partner or former partner than to be a victim of a street crime.

Firearms are more lethal than knives, fists, baseball bats, hot irons, frozen chickens, or any of the other things family members may attack each other with. Not that these other things can't be lethal, just that firearms are more likely to be.

Firearms are not terribly useful for self-defense in a domestic violence situation. Either both partners are insanely angry and not likely to use the gun wisely or to back off when a gun is brandished... or one partner is sane and miserable, and not likely to want to shoot the insanely angry partner because, y'know, being sane and miserable, s/he doesn't really want to kill this person s/he once loved....

Yeah, David knew what he was getting into. He's retired now. Forty years of dealing with the worst of the public he has sworn to protect has made him cynical. He has a acquired a fairly low opinion of the intelligence, competence, and maturity of the general public, I'm afraid.

Re: dammit, I have to split this again ...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I do know that most homicides by whatever means are committed by people the victim knows. Relatives and partners (including former partners) are much, much more dangerous than random criminal punks. Domestic violence calls are the most dangerous ones for police, as well. On the average, you are more likely to be assaulted, injured, even killed by a partner or former partner than to be a victim of a street crime.

Yup, true. And it's a pretty sad commentary, in a lot of ways.