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Whats wrong with this picture?

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Because she's a masters graduate, not a Harvard undergrad graduate.

The opportunities available to undergraduates and the business school are often not extended to masters students at Harvard I think because employers know that the undergrad and business school are much more selective.

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master's degree in psychology

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Lmao, she's a masters student.

Harvard's masters programs are really not that prestigious or selective.

People go for the undergraduate (the college) or the professional schools (Law, Business, Medicine).

My friend who went there says some of the college students even think that the professional schools aren't even 'Harvard.' And they're even more critical about the Extension School.

If she was an undergrad or MBA grad or Law grad or Medicine grad, that would be something else but she's a masters student.

Harvard always invites liberal leaders to talk at commencement - I'm not sure why she'd be so surprised by this (if she didn't like it, she didn't have to attend I'd have thought).

LINK

She went to the University of Alabama for undergrad in Fine Art and Psychology.

:rotflmao:

She works as a:

Director of Social Media & Communications at The Daily Caller

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You can’t be this ignorant. You’ve peppered this thread and others with all sorts of statistics you give no sources for, and the first study you actually provide a link to has as its foundation a belief that more than 17% of homicides are committed with guns purchased within 5 days (or one week) of the homicide?

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I've given statistics and sources for every piece of data I've provided.

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more than 17% of homicides are committed with guns purchased within 5 days (or one week) of the homicide?

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It's comparing people who purchased guns and then went on to kill after the waiting period or before the waiting period, so not all gun owners but recent gun purchasers.

It's a reduction in gun homicides from recent gun purchasers so it's not all gun homicides but of a subset of them.

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a belief that more than 17% of homicides are committed with guns purchased within 5 days (or one week) of the homicide?

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No, it's that of guns purchased when there's a waiting period and when there's not a waiting period.

So the coefficient shows there's a 17% reduction in killings from guns purchased recently. It's not saying that of all gun homicides, it's saying there's a 17% reduction in homicides from recently purchased guns.

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Let’s address the root causes of murder and stop going the anti-gun route as the only option. And while we’re at it address the reason that the large majority of killings are done in inner cities where guns are obtained no matter the gun laws. And not by AR or AK, but by handguns.

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We have users here who want me to include gang shootings within the figures I cite and others who don't.

I've been citing US mass shootings that are non-gang-related.

I don't see how a waiting period is unconstitutional. Raising the age probably veers the line but I would arguably it's not that unreasonable.

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We aren’t just trying to hold guns for evil purposes. We’re exercising a right - a right to self-defense #1 - explicitly granted in a Constitution that has resulted in a long-standing nation of strength and freedom - the strongest and freeest the world has ever known. Eroding that foundation on any level needs to be avoided.

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I'm not advocating for banning guns. While I don't own guns, I have gone to a gun range a few times with friends so I'm not trying to deny anyone their right.

I just think there are some reasonable things that could reduce the number of mass shootings.

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Why wouldnt you want the real numbers to get to the crux of the problem? Why exclude certain groups?

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Because you guys always try and deflect with 'it's mostly gang crime' when people bring up the total figures up.

I wanted to avoid all that and get to the cruz of the problem which is non-gang-related mass shootings.

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So you could shoot and injure 20 people and not kill anyone and that doesnt count? Why are gang related shootings excluded? Is this defined according to you, reserch, fbi, etc?

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Because it would massively increase the figures for the US.

If you include gang-related shootings and injuries only shootings, the figures increase much further.

It would be so much worse for the US - I excluded them because you guys are the first to point out 'muh gang crimes' when we use the figure for all mass shootings (200+ in 2022 alone including gang crime).

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What is the criteria for a mass shooting? Define mass shooting?

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Public shootings in which four or more people were killed and I believe non-gang-related.

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Alter is putting in the work!

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They don't pay me for doing nothing as they say.

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To ignore that it has anything to do with liberal policies.

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Very right-wing governments around the world are also suffering from inflation.

India's inflation rate for example hit 8% last week.

Almost like it's a global problem.

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According to Mother Jones ( :) ) definition of Mass Shooting, there will be at least one Mass Shooting by a black person this weekend in Chicago.

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They don't count gang crime as part of their definition :)