19 March 2024

Tuesday Links - 19 March

Professor David Yamane is first with an announcement of an upcoming online seminar. Free Public Webinar Syllabus: Ten Essential Observations on Guns in America

I have taught my Sociology of Guns seminar at Wake Forest University once per year for nine consecutive years. I don’t have the actual number of students who have ever taken the course handy, but it is about 150. I currently have over 250 people signed up for a free public webinar version of the course I am offering this spring, which is incredible!

The Publica - Toronto Police Backpedal After Encouraging Residents To Leave Their Car Keys By Their Door To Assist Thieves During A Robbery

“Welcome to @JustinTrudeau’s Canada. Where guns are illegal. Except criminals have them, and you don’t,” [Viva Frei] wrote, adding: “And the police are imploring you to leave your keys at the front door so armed criminals can steal your cars, and hopefully spare your life. It’s been a while since I’ve said it, but F*CK YOU Justin Trudeau!”

The Other McCain - Three Shot Dead in Bucks County, Pa.; Manhunt Underway for Fugitive Suspect

Just some random “gun violence” on a Saturday morning.

Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony - Daily News Stuff 17 March 2024: A Proxy By Any Other Name Edition

As many as 5.8 million US children could be suffering from Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, a.k.a your mom should take up day drinking and leave you alone. (CBS) [SNIP]

But COVID is no different there from the flu, or indeed from a cold. What this "study" is measuring is that 5.8 million US children either (a) don't want to go to school, (b) have mothers who seriously need a hobby, or (c) both.

The New Neo - Hamas makes up its casualty numbers and the world repeats them as truth

Understanding it requires at least a rudimentary knowledge of how math works and how statistics works, and many people lack those skills. It also takes the desire to confront the reality, which is that Hamas lies and lies and lies. If a person’s view of the conflict between the Palestinians and Israel is based on these lies, a mind is a difficult thing to change.

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