Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


A quick look at Appalachia or the Ozarks should dispell that very silly idea, not to mention that in the heydey of the mafias the three big groups were all white (italian, irish and jewish)


define 'sizeable' and they don't actually maintain much in the way of violent social practices toward women (unless you think having to wear a lot of flower print dresses, keep your hair starched to a milimeter of its life and always smiling is violence...)

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


In the British Isles yeah, Americans have silly fantasies about it being extremely orderly and genteel when in actuality it's always been one of the most violent places in Europe...

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


Yes, and since dysfunctional English youth are not carving each other up with them they are pretttty irrelevant to the discussion at hand which is the British nanny state treating the symptoms (dysfunctional youth stabbing each other) and not the disease (neoliberalism induced dispossession and alienation).

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


..and the sex grooming gangs....


So.... the modern UK is 400 years behind the times? Hooo.... that explainst a _lot_!

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


Wouldn't it be better to address the underlying crazy rather than make piecemeal attacks against the symptoms?

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


A friend or relative calls up and wants to borrow a knife, they live about 500 meters away, too short to drive, but can you legally carry it?

What about scissors, won't outlawing knives just mean that the victims of US societal dysfunction will start using scissors?

The deep pathology in the UK needs to be addressed and enacting one irrational restriction after another is not going to do that...

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

There must be something deeply wrong with the UK, it sounds like a broken, defeated society. Teenagers running and carving each other up is a clear sign of collapse.

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


The standard Polish version is (correct me if I'm wrong, someone) Gdyby ciocia miała wąsy byłaby wujaszkiem...(if my aunt had whiskers she'd be my uncle)

I've also heard (quote approximate) "Gdyby ciocia miała koła byłaby bimbą" (if my aunt had wheels she'd be a streetcar)

back on topic please

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


Those chances don't live forever... it takes years of solid effort to develop the social and educational capital necessary to find and keep a job and stay out of trouble with the law etc, it's not something that they can decide to do quickly once they're past the age of 10 or so, it's a little like languages and the critical acquisition period...

My guess is that the youth busy stabbing each other to death come from cultures where education is not much valued and that idolize petty thugs over small businessemen


which is no fun if you're not among the richest part of the population...


but they have to compete with short term migrants from places like Poland who are willing to work for less (since they don't live there and will accept living conditions that natives rarely find attractive) the modern pattern of large west european metropolises is very stratified with low income natives at the bottom

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


To be perfectly frank, if their aim is good enough I don't care about gang members shooting each other, I only care when they hit civilians instead (unfortunately as most of them are blithering idiots wtih no areas of life competence that happens a lot).

My main remains, it's not the existence of weapons or efficacy of laws, it's the public.

Too large a percentage of the public in London has no realistic hope for any kind of decent life (party government policy, party their parents' and their choices).

Fix that and you'll fix the knife crime problem. Don't fix it and you won't....

It's not that hard...

News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]


They come from the Indian subcontinent (the language is related to languages of northern India). One theory is that they were camp followers who followed an army outside the continent were sold into slavery en masse and once they escaped kept going west rather than back east.


A completely roma/gypsy society is more or less impossible because there are too many jobs they won't/can't do (for reasons of ritual purity and the like) so they need a host culture to survive and flounder on their own, the worst roma/gyspy poverty is where they are most on their own.

News / Roma community feels discriminated in Poland [43]


the correct term is 'discriminated against' (or 'suffer discrimination'), sorry to be pedantic but it's one of my pet peeves...

Anyhoo, there is zero incentive for anyone to write that Roma/Gypsies don't feel discriminated against and maintaining a seperate existence is one of the main goals of Roma/Gypsy peoples so it's kind of a non-story, especially since the Roma/Gypsy population in Poland is so small compared to other countries in the area.

And as long as Roma/Gypsies eschew education nothing good will change for them.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


Well unless we see information on the perpetrators it's hard to say that for sure.

And even if the perpetrators span all ethnic groups chances are that it's not normal proportional representation but a couple of groups are wildly over-represented.

What's important are the percentages which is just the information that the governmnet wants to conceal..


Well maybe that will inspire the unimpressive london mayor to do something beyond uttering fatuous blather.

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]


Because I wasn't sure you were that deluded. Now that I am, there's no possible dialogue between us.

Go to church and pray to the god that kills between 10 and 20 per cent of all babies before they're even born... next to which abortion statistics are pretty mild.

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


what do you see wrong (besides Polish people, quite rightly, not feeling collective guilt for the holocaust)?

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Then what the hell is wrong with people in London that so many want to carve each other up like Thanksgiving turkeys?

It's not about the weapons, but about the societal rot... addressing that is much more effective than restictive laws...

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


So if you buy a knife in a store.... how do you get it home?

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]


define children.... my own opinion is that the natural point of law should be based around the idea of natural viability (ability of the fetus to survive outside the womb).

For the sake of argument, abortion in the first four months should be freely available
In the fifth and sixth months (around viability time) there should be restrictions related to the health of the mother
7-9 months even more restrictions

I'm willing to discuss questions of timing and circumstance, I'm not willing to discuss with people who see no moral difference between a two week old fetus and a newborn baby...

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]

If you think it's so terrible it's natural to assume you want to punish women who pay doctors to perform abortions...

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


Is African-Carribean immigration to the UK continuing? If so, why? Comaprative rates of violent offenses seem like a very good factor to take into consideration when thinking of immigration policy...


The per capita homocide rate among African Americans goes between 3 and 5 times the white rate depending on when you measure (there were peaks around 1980 and the early 90s) .


Yes, historically most Polish-black relationships (not that many end up in marriage since black men independent of national origin tend to avoid marriage or raising children) are wtih those that came to Poland to study...

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]


He's just one of a bunch of folks here who it is impossible to engage with in any productive way. Just ignore and let him stew in his own juices...

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


Even if people were to accept that (for the sake of argument) having strong anti-Jewish leanings is not a crime and in no way shape or form supports your implied claim that Poles share collective guilt with nazi germany in carrying out the holocaust.


you're the one who started condescending, if you stop p[robaboly others will...

News / Thousands of Polish women attend Czarny Piątek rally in Warsaw [780]


So remind us what punishments you want to inflict on women who have abortions?

An American conservative recently suggested treating it as murder worthy of capital punishment (he suggested hanging women who have abortions).

Are you in agreement? Think that's a little too harsh?

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


there used to be a regular poster who was (IIRC) half-Polish half-Czech (lived in the countries not the US or UK) but I think she disappeared a long time ago...

She seemed offended when I (humorously, I thought) referred to the Czech republic as Pepikstan.... (some people... nooooooo sense of humor.....)

News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1539]


You clearly think you can reason with him on this issue. Disengage, he will never see Poland as anything but as a co-architect (or at least sub-contractor) of the holocaust. He's prepared to be magnanimous once Poland admits this but he'll never think anything else and no evidence can/will convince him.

Disengage, it's not worth it, he's approaching crow levels of insanity....

History / What should Russia and Poland do to become if not friends, then at least not enemies? [945]


More specifically Poland will not help Serbia and Russia commit genocide in Kosovo which is what crow really wants (when you strip away the slavic pagan nonsense and get down to his real message).

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


it's impossible (for the time being) to stop gangs from coming to Poland, after brexit? but cultural and language barriers are enough of a deterrent

there are a bunch of different questions that people on both sides try to slough off with cheap empty slogans

security vs freedom (all else being equal people with legal guns are more likely to use them than people without)

the big problem in the us isn't guns per se, but widespread mental illness caused by 37 years of neoliberal policies that ultimately atomize individuals into mutually antagonistic competitors in the race to consume (crazy people with guns are more dangerous than non-crazy people with guns)

different rates of various types of crime by racial, ethnic or religious groups is another inconvenient fact that people try to wish away or ignore away....

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


Every country should take this into account.


the entire point of political correctness is to make people stupid and keep them that way, if you don't keep track of racial, ethnic and religious background of social indicators like crime, economic and academic achievement then you're making policy in a state of ignorance.

pretty it up however you want, but it's ignorance. I don't like ignorance.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


Caribbean? or South of the Sahara? Everybody is supposed to be very, very polite and not notice differing crime rates across different groups.

Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]


it's nice to think that....