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1 Confronting the Rise of China: An analysis of Realist and Liberal approaches Question number 3
2 Napoleon once labeled China a sleeping giant that if awoken, would shake the world. Since Napoleon s era, China seems to have been more than asleep. It has endured imperialist occupation, a revolution overthrowing the monarchy, a Japanese invasion, and civil war. Only in recent decades does China appear to have exorcised its ghosts. After Mao s death in 1976, China s new leadership crafted sounder economic policies, improved standards of living, and most importantly, demonstrated the will to patiently and methodically direct China along the path to international prominence. The giant, it seems, has finally awoken from its slumber. China s long term goal to transform itself into a major world power presents a fundamental security challenge to the United States. As the world s only superpower, how should the United States handle China s rise in a way that avoids the potential for conflict? The fundamental answer to this question lies in the competing liberal and realist theories of international relations. Liberal theory advocates a policy of economic and institutional inclusion with the aim of integrating China into the global economy. Liberals claim that by encouraging China s development, China will eventually adopt Western-style democratic liberalism, greatly limiting the potential for conflict. On the other hand, according to realist doctrine, the United States should adopt an aggressive policy of containment. China s growing power, it contends, is a major threat to American hegemony, and Chinese aspirations should be checked to minimize the potential to destabilize the status quo. Ultimately, however, it is the liberal approach that most greatly reduces the potential for conflict. Liberal theory applied to China Liberal theory is rooted in the notion that by strengthening global economic and institutional ties, prospects for conflict are reduced. The cost/benefit ratio of fighting a war has been tilted away from war, which is very costly, and towards trade, which is increasingly
3 beneficial. (p 155 Rosecrance 1999) Liberals therefore believe that the integration of China into the global economy reduces the threat of a belligerent China. As China increasingly integrates with the rest of the world, China s social systems will also change, tending towards Westernstyle democracy and liberalism. Economically, China has already embraced capitalism, but politically, China remains staunchly Communist and maintains an abysmal human rights record. Liberal theory suggests that economic and social forces will eventually precipitate political change as well. Liberals advocate a policy of economic engagement in regard to China. By increasing trade and tying China s economy more tightly to that of the world, China will hesitate to initiate war for fear of the economic repercussions. The deepening of economic ties with the United States will in turn foster political development. The demand of Chinese investors for accurate economic news, for instance, has resulted in the growth of underground, stock-oriented newspapers. In this way, economic growth facilitates the growth of non-state run media to feed the public s need for unbiased financial information. (p 155 Friedman 1999) As China develops further, the pressure to change illiberal systems such as state-run media will continue to grow. While China has thus far remained resistant to political change, the democratization of China is critical in the long run. According to the democratic peace theory, democracies don t wage war on each other and therefore, as more countries become democratic, the potential for international conflict is reduced. (p 11 Russett 1993) A democratic China, for example, would probably be more likely to seek peaceful means for resolving the Taiwan issue. Given the benefits of a democratic China, the United States should encourage the growth of a free press, rule of law, and other liberal systems. These could go a long way in sowing the seeds of democracy in China as well.
4 Unlike realist theory, which advocates deterrence as a means of containing China, liberal theory views such an approach as counterproductive. By clearly demonstrating America s intention to defend Taiwan, a realist approach, the Chinese would likely view such actions as threatening and respond by building their own military further. The United States would in turn view such actions as confirmation of Chinese aggression and then respond by further deepening its commitment to Taiwan. In such a way, the prospects for war increase dramatically as a result of miscalculation on both sides. Conversely, the strengthening of economic and political ties with China and makes war with the United States extremely costly and vastly reduces the prospect for misunderstanding. Realist theory applied to China Realists conceptualize an international system built on self-interested states that compete for power. Because the system is anarchic, states use any means available to advance their agendas, often causing tension and conflict among rival states. The rise of China, therefore, has tremendous potential to destabilize this system. China s growing economic power will translate into increased military power and allow China to use force to assert its strategic aims in Asia and eventually across the globe. China s growing ability to achieve its strategic goals, ranging from the annexation of Taiwan to the domination of Asia, naturally conflict with American interests. Thus, realists support an aggressive policy of containment to prevent China from becoming too strong. By working closely with its Allies, the United States can pursue such a policy without alienating other global powers. This is particularly important in regard to Japan and Taiwan, which lie at China s doorstep and are particularly sensitive to China s growing influence. By strengthening
5 our alliance with Japan and continuing to sell missiles to Taiwan, the United States deters China from using force to achieve its strategic aims in the region. A divergent strand of realist theory proposes that our current unipolar system is actually less stable than the bipolar one of the Cold War era. (p 28 Waltz 2000) With the United States as the world s sole superpower, others countries are naturally inclined to unify against it. The United States already has avowed enemies in the Middle East and in China s neighbor North Korea. Because America s enemies are less clearly defined after the end of the Cold War, threats can come from many places. Though organizations such as Al Qaeda present the most immediate threat, China, with its Communist system, illiberal institutions, and growing military power cannot be counted out. Thus, the United States must remain vigilant of China s development and strategic aims even while fighting wars elsewhere. In contrast to liberal theory, which advocates the democratization of China, realists remain skeptical of the benefits of internal change. Because China lacks a strong liberal tradition, encouraging democracy in China fails to guarantee the development of liberal institutions. (p 5 Zakaria 1997) The process of becoming democratic historically has been very unstable, and such a process in China could actually increase the potential for conflict. Thus, encouraging democracy in China is a weak solution. Realists maintain, conversely, that an aggressive approach of deterrence is the most effective means to combat China s growing threat. Why the United States should rely on liberal theory In dealing with the issue of China s rise, a consideration of China s worldview is appropriate. The Chinese have an acute sense of their own history and are very aware that for centuries, they were the world s foremost power. The Chinese feel humiliated by their relative weakness in modern history and view themselves as victims of imperialist domination. As a
6 result, China has developed a fundamental mistrust of the West and is convinced that western states are intent on suppressing it as it seeks to regain its status as a world power. Given such an understanding, a liberal foreign policy would be the most productive approach to China. By deepening its economic and political ties to China and taking a less aggressive stance, the United States mitigates the potential for misunderstanding and plays to Chinese sensitivities. The Chinese would be far more willing to cooperate with the United States on strategic issues if it feels it is included in regional security agreements and receives the respect it feels it is due. Economically, the forces of growth will slowly but surely liberalize political institutions. The Chinese so desperately wish to regain respect as a world power, they will permit gradual liberalization as they realize the reform of current institutions is necessary to maintain fast-paced economic growth. Conversely, the aggressive approach of the realists serves to antagonize China and confirm suspicions that the West will suppress its rise to power. China lacks the military strength to remotely rival the United States. However, treating China as our enemy will go further to push China to respond in kind. It will have no choice but to build its military to threaten US military presence in Asia while seeking alliances with other states dissatisfied with American hegemony. Ultimately, China s strategic aims are limited. China is methodically working to regain its status as a global power and sees the annexation of Taiwan as fundamental to restoring national dignity. But China doesn t wish to fundamentally alter the system of international relations and can be reigned in as a productive member of the world security community. Liberal foreign policy will go further towards achieving this end. When the day comes that China can shake the world, it will hopefully do so along with, rather than against, the West.
7 Bibliography Friedman, Thomas L. The Lexus and the Olive Tree. Farrar, Straus, Giroux. New York, Rosecrance, Richard. The Rise of the Trading State. Basic Books Inc. New York, Russett, Bruce. Grasping the Democratic Peace. Princeton University Press. Princeton, NJ, Waltz, Kenneth. Strutural Realism after the Cold War. International Security, Vol. 25, No. 1. Summer, Zakaria, Fareed. When Switching Channels Isn t Enough: the Rise of Illiberal Democracy. Foreign Affairs. November/December 1997.
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|"Berlin 1942. When Bruno returns home from school one day, he discovers that his belongings are being packed in crates. His father has received a promotion and the family must move from their home to a new house far far away, where there is no one to play with and nothing to do. A tall fence running alongside stretches as far as the eye can see and cuts him off from the strange people he can see in the distance. But Bruno longs to be an explorer and decides that there must be more to this desolate new place than meets the eye. While exploring his new environment, he meets another boy whose life and circumstances are very different to his own, and their meeting results in a friendship that has devastating consequences." --
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Kai says: Sam says:
I identified as a lesbian until I was nearly 17. I was so sure of myself. I knew who I was! I knew who I loved! I was a dyke! I was butch! And I was proud of it! And then it happened:
I realized I wasn't cisgender.
Yep, the trans*fairy came one night and sprinkled me with hir genderqueer sparkle dust – JUST KIDDING. No. It didn't happen all at once. And while I've come a long way in the year-ish that I've been trying to sort out my gender identity, to be honest, I have just as many questions now as answers.
Fact #1: I'm not cisgender. Derp.
Fact #2: My gender identity is not binary (meaning I don't see myself as what our society calls a "boy" or a "girl").
Fact #3: I have absolutelynofreakingidea if and/or how far I want to transition physically.
So that's where the questions come in.
Question #1: Does my (increasingly intense) dysphoria regarding my chest mean that I want and/or should consider top surgery?
Question #2: If I do want top surgery, does that make me FTM? Can I just be FTwhateverthefuckIwant and still present as primarily male/masculine?
Question #3: Does wanting to present as masculine/semi-male but still clinging to the label genderqueer imply that I'm afraid of being FTM and repressing it? Or is society's binary classification of gender putting pressure on me to "pick a side," when I belong somewhere in the middle?
I'm still in the process of working it all out, but I know I'd feel so much more lost if I didn't have Sam and my friends Liam and Codie to talk to. Sam's been so incredibly supportive of me, and I hope she knows how much I appreciate that. *wink, wink*
So for now, I identify as queer and trans*. And what does that mean to me? It means I'm a freaking superhero. c:
Hello ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between! I'm Sam, and this is my first blog on thesevenrainbows! While typing this blog I'm sitting here in my pajamas, relaxing, and enjoying my lovely holiday break from school. As a senior, I'm beginning to get sick of this small town and the small-minded people who reside in it.
I began coming out as gay at the end of ninth grade, and the reactions were surprisingly great. It really was no big deal. I think it had a lot to do with my disposition at the time; I had no problem with being gay or telling people I was, so in turn, no one had an issue with me. Even if people had a problem with it, I guess I'm not the type of person that people wanted to make fun of anyway :)
I never had an official 'coming out'. I just began living my life as gay and letting people think what they wanted to think. It's not like it was a big secret, either. By eleventh grade, I had a short "lesbian-style" haircut, typical 'butch clothing', and a mindset to match. To tell you the truth, I was more surprised when someone couldn't tell I was gay than they were to find out!
My whole aura screams LGBT. I pride myself in being gay because I think everyone needs to pride themselves in something. However, I do not let being gay define me. I love to read. I'm an actor, a public speaker, and a movienerd. I have a Harry Potter collection bigger than the North Pole and a collection of 4-leaf clovers. I'm serious and funny, smart and silly, and I love my dogs, Moby and Copper. That's what being gay means to me. It's one tiny bit of me. I love women. I love people who defy what it means to be a woman and I love people who defy what it means to be a man. I'm a social! Sexuality is such a small percentage of what makes a person who they are. An awesome percentage though ;) I mean, come on. Being gay is so cool.
That leads me to the next thing I should discuss – gender identity. That's a difficult one to classify. I guess, to be short and to the point, I'm non-gender.
I just don't see the importance in the gender binary. It's totally fucked ('scuse my language). To quote Andrea Gibson, "I am whatever I am when I am it." I hate being called by my birth name, and I love when I'm mistaken for a bio-male. But I'm feminine at the same time, and that's what works for me. So I'm nothing. I'm everything, too. I'm a person.
So yep. That's confusing as hell, probably. I hope you all have had a lovely holiday, and you're excited for a new year.
Maybe I'll end this blog with one of my resolutions: To "sit back and wave through the daylight." Ten cool points for anyone who can place that lyric. (And Kai, you don't count because you already know exactly what I mean <3 ) Thanks for reading. See you all next week.


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text: THE PARABLE OF THE GREAT SUPPERLuke 14: 12-24INTRODUCTION Please read the above scripture before reading this message. Verses 12-15 are introductory and give the reason for presenting the parable. First, Jesus gave the host and his honorable guests a lesson on charity and being good to the poor and unfortunate He suggested he might give a luxurious feast from time to the poor, lame and blind, and for doing so would receive a blessing, if not in this life, at the resurrection of the dead. This moved one of the guests to speak up and say, "Blessed is he who shall eat bread in the kingdom of God." He probably had reference to the world to come and enjoying a feast in heaven, for Jesus spoke of being rewarded at the resurrection of the dead. This man's statement led Jesus to utter this parable. The man in the parable who gave the great supper and invited many guests is God, the Father. THE GREAT SUPPER represented a great event which was to take place very shortly on this earth and was to be a great blessing to all who would attend. This great event was to be the kingdom of Christ which was soon to begin on this earth. This great event was the Church of Christ of which Christ said, "Upon this rock I will build my church, and gates of hades shall not prevail against it. It was the religion of Christ that was to begin shortly after His resurrection and ascension. All who became a part of His religion would receive forgiveness of sins, be adopted into the spiritual family of God, and enjoy fellowship with God and His Son in this life. At the resurrection they enter into heaven. . God presents the gospel blessings in the light of a supper or banquet. We sing an invitation hymn with the title, "All Things Are Ready(Come to the Feast.)." God extended two sets of invitations to the nation of Israel. Many invitations were sent out centuries before the Supper was to begin. Another set of invitations were sent out near the time it was about to begin on earth. The first invitations were extended to Israel by prophets of the Old Testament-- the four major prophets and the twelve minor prophets. The invitations were in the form prophecies about the coming of their Messiah Jesus Christ, and the Kingdom over which He was to rule over Israel and the entire world. The Old Testament is full of these invitations. The second invitation was extended by John the Baptist and the twelve apostles. Their message was, " repent and be baptized and 2receive the Messiah, for His kingdom is at hand. The kingdom began fifty days after his death and resurrection, and the supper had its beginning on this earth .in 33 A.D. The primary application of this parable was to Jewish people when the Lord was on the earth. Most of them rejected the message of John the Baptist and also rejected Jesus as their Messiah. Most of the nation even rejected Him after He arose from the dead and returned to heaven. When the religious part of the nation made trivial excuses for rejecting Christ, the parable says that the Master was angry and commanded his servants to go into the streets and invite the poor, the lame and the blind; and they accepted the invitation. This referred to the common people of Israel, the tax collectors, the immoral, and peasants, many of whom accepted the gospel. The secondary application of the parable is to the Gentiles, many of whom will reject Christ for the same reasons that the Jews did. Paul said of the gentiles, "Not many noble, not many wise are called." One important lesson we learn from this parable is the folly of offering excuses for failure to obey the gospel and become Christians. One man bought a farm and said he had to go see it. Another said he bought some cattle and needed to go and examine them. The third man had jsut got married and, therefore, felt he couldn't come. These excuses give most all reasons why people refuse to become Christians.. They were all cover-ups. Not one of them was a valid reason not to come to the feast. Pleasure, business and social relations–these are the reasons people do not become Christians. The real cause is they have no concern for the kingdom of Christ or the things of Christ. These excuses do not exhaust all the causes for not obeying the gospel. They just represent examples of every day causes of indifference to Christ and His church. To all these excuses one thing is common-- a present good is preferred above the heavenly offer. In other words , temporal good is valued higher than the spiritual. The desires of the body are more important than value of the soul.Another thing this parable shows is God's mercy in offering salvation to all people alike, the rich and the poor, the religious and unreligious, the educated and uneducated, and the wise and the simple.Also, it demonstrates that the poor and unknown people of earth will be more willing to accept salvation than the rich, prominent and worldly wise. Finally, we learn that all who accepts the Lord's invitation are saved and all who reject it are lost. This great supper began some 2000 years ago 3in Jerusalem and will continue through the Christian age, until Christ ends it with His second coming. There was never was and never will be another feast like the one mentioned in this parable. As the hymn says, "All things are ready come to the feast." Come to Christ, come by faith and repentance, and be baptized into His church. Convert to the Christian religion and walk in the narrow way that leads to eternal life. When one is born of the water(baptism) and the Spirit(the Holy Spirit), the past life is made right with God. Then one must walk in newness of life, walk with God, and live a life that meets God's approval. If you have any questions, call the number on this website.


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Students who don't sit still during the school day are actually excelling in the classroom. Really? Yes……and there's evidence to support that claim.
Schools in New Jersey and Washington, D.C. are generating great academic results by keeping their students physically active. Giving children access to daily P.E. and recess while at school are the reasons why the students are excelling in their academic studies. The schools in both New Jersey and Washington, D.C. are following a proven pathway to performance: physical activity breaks during the school day produce academic achievement. By giving the students a daily dose of physical activity, their academic results are more than just good, they are eye-opening, according to their teachers.
At the Alexander Hamilton Academy in Paterson, New Jersey, 7th and 8th grade students are not told to just sit in their chairs during class. Instead, they are encouraged to move their bodies while being taught by their teachers. It's called kinesthetic learning and it works.
"We learned that a moving body means a working mind," says Kaitlyn Brock, a teacher at Alexander Hamilton Academy.
Brock has attached Bouncy Bands at each desk in her classroom so her students can move their bodies while seated at their desks. Giving students an outlet to release built-up energy allows them to focus on their studies, according to Brock.
"I have seen a change in my students after the introduction of Bouncy Bands," notes Brock. "Even during quiet individual work, the students are still moving and allowed to work their frustrations or energy out on the band."
Prior to the introduction of the Bouncy Bands, students were always looking for reasons to get up from their seats.
Brock's concept of keeping her students active while in the classroom has caught the attention of her principal who has now secured enough financial support to buy Bouncy Ball chairs for the schools' classrooms.
"That was the first real push to provide movement in the classroom," adds Brock. "It is also great to see that it is being used through a variety of all grade levels from elementary to middle school."
"If you are sitting still for too long, your brain doesn't work," stated Barry Bachenheimer, Director of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Pascack Valley Regional High School District in Paterson, in the story by NorthJersey.com.
In the Washington, D.C. area schools, students who receive more P.E. are producing better math scores. The key amount of P.E. is at least 90 minutes a week, though the goal is 150 minutes a week for elementary school students and 225 minutes a week for middle-school age students in D.C. That's a conclusion reached by researchers at American University who have been examining the effectiveness of D.C.'s Healthy Schools Act, legislation which is designed to improve the health and wellness of students attending D.C. public and public charter schools. News of this academic achievement was reported recently in the Washington Post.
Full article with more on exercise boosting academics at Phit America.


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Hot on the heels of her breakout success as Juno, the wise ass preggers girl, actress Ellen Page could be following that up with a role in the Drew Barrymore-directed flick Whip It. Unfortunately, it's not a Devo musical biopic, which I know we were all hoping for given Hollywood's propensity for them these days.
Instead, Barrymore's Flower Power Production company or whatever the hell it's called has based the story on the novel Derby Girl by Shauna Cross.
So let's add it up. Teenage chicks in Texas getting all nasty on each other at the roller derby? Yes please.
Cross recently sat down with the guys over at Film School Rejects to talk about the project.
A book by a first-time writer is a hard thing to market, so the title has to sum it up fast, hence Derby Girl.
But movies have trailers and posters and all kinds of marketing around them, so a mysterious title can work better. So, Derby Girl became Whip It because, as any derby girl worth her Reidells knows, the whip is a signature move in roller derby.
As for that Ellen Page casting rumor? Well, it's just rumor for now. According to cross the production, if it goes forward (you know with the writer's strike and all those shenanigans), is targeting a certain actress who's name ryhmes with "Schmellen Schmage." Very clever ruse. Very clever indeed.
So why does Ellen Page, er I mean Schmellen Schmage seem like a good casting choice?
Like my lead character, Bliss, I grew up just outside Austin and was a
pretty precocious teen, full of sarcasm and wit and hijinks (as were my friends, most of whom were older). But I was also really sensitive, hiding that vulnerability with humor.
And, of course, I play roller derby. But if I had found it when I was 16, I would have done it in a heartbeat ? even if I had to lie about my age (like Bliss does).
My mom did not push me into beauty pageants, but I grew up with those girls and it always fascinated/creeped me out.
The juxtaposition of the beauty pageant world and the roller derby world was really fascinating to me because they both represent two extreme ideas of femininity.
One is about perfectly coifed physical perfection, but when you look closer, it?s actually kind of brutal, I think. While the other is anarchy and bruises, and yet, it?s the most female-empowering thing I?ve ever experienced. It?s like plastic sexy versus real sexy.
At this moment no one does sexy and wiseass quite like Ms. Page.


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Daniel 3: 19-27.
Evidently, all that has been happening can be best described as war. This war had been brewing within since the day we started this journey in the wilderness but one day it would evidently manifest and our abject refusal would always spark rage and persecution. But as the war rages, we must know that it is never our fight but GOD's fight. Our responsibility is to worship GOD with all that we are and all we have! When the war finally comes, GOD will surely fight His battle. GOD has been our reason for everything and even when everything is against us, the same GOD would be our reason for victory and HE will take the Glory!


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Ryan Colombo of the Topeka Senators pitched a complete game shutout against the Rossville Rattlers.
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The state board of education will continue using math and reading tests in public schools even though this years test was a failure.
The police report says the teen had got an F, missed curfew and wasn't doing his chores.
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Former Washburn pitcher Brett Ash made his professional baseball debut on Tuesday in Arizona.
Legalization has Seattle police preparing for increase in number of drivers high on marijuana.
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A peeping tom is on police radar after a young woman witnessed a man outside her bedroom window.
A run through sprinklers ends up costing two 26-year-olds nearly $800.00.
The body has been identified as 37 year-old Nathan Thurman.
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Jenavieve Hatch, Associate Women's Editor at the Huffington Post, took advantage of last week's National Gun Violence Awareness Day, to dance in the blood of more innocent victims make some political hay with 11 Statistics That Remind Us Gun Violence Is A Women's Issue. For some reason, though, she completely ignored the fact that it's the violence part of that equation that's the actual problem.
I'm guessing, however, that she's more interested in furthering restrictions on the natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil and Constitutional right to own and carry the weapon of your choice than she is in actually enlightening her readers on the subject of intimate partner violence.
Ms. Hatch starts off:
As former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords put it… "dangerous people with guns are a threat to women. Criminals with guns. Abusers with guns. Stalkers with guns. That makes gun violence a women's issue. For mothers, for families, for me and you."
I hate to disagree with the impaired, but Gabby either has no idea what she's talking about or she's flat-out lying. According to the CDC's WISQARS website, from 2011 – 2015 (the last year they have numbers for) men were more than five times as likely to be murdered with a firearm as women (48,764 men to 9,058 women), and eight-and-a-half times more likely to be non-fatally injured in an assault with a firearm (269,019 to 31,188 (counting the 'unknown' category as women)).
Looking further, you'll find that during that same period there were 26 ½ times as many people injured in non-firearm-related assaults as were injured when assaulted with a gun. So no, Gabby, "dangerous people" are a threat to people — all of us — regardless of whether they are armed with a gun, a knife, or a baseball bat.
Ms. Hatch continues:
In recognition of the tragic impact the lack of sensible gun control has on American society, here are 11 sobering statistics that remind us gun violence is, unequivocally, a women's issue:
And those statistics are …
35: The number of states in which those convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence charges or restraining order charges can still purchase or use a firearm.
I don't know what country Ms. Hatch resides in, but here in the United States of America the inhabitants of all 50 states are subject to 18 U.S.C. § 922(g)(8) & (9), commonly known as the Lautenberg Amendment, which provides for ten years imprisonment and/or a $250,000 fine for anyone "convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence charges or restraining order charges" who possesses, ships, transports or receives any firearm or ammunition.
This includes so-called "constructive possession," which, according to LegalDictionary.com, means:
Constructive possession is a legal theory used to extend possession to situations where a person has no hands-on custody of an object.
In other words, if a prohibited person is crashing on a buddy's couch and knows where said buddy hides the key to his gun safe, that prohibited person would be in "constructive possession" of a gun…and in violation of the law.
So, statistic #2:
41: The number of states that don't require those prohibited from purchasing a firearm due to domestic violence charges to relinquish the firearms they already own.
True that…if you're willing to risk up to 10 years in federal stir and a $250,000 fine for every single gun and round of ammo, you can absolutely hang on to your gats. I mean, it's not like your abuse victim has any reason to drop a dime on you, right?
I'm going to go slightly out of order here, to ease the narrative and my calculations. So, statistics numbers 3 and 5:
760: The number of people killed by firearms annually in the U.S. by intimate partners.
53: The percentage of intimate partner murders that involve a fatal gunshot.
The 760 number is an annual average from 2006 – 2014 based on an AP analysis of FBI data. Doing my own analysis of data from the FBI's 2015 Uniform Crime Report, there were a total of 1,270 heterosexual partner killings (the FBI still counts gay couples as "acquaintance" murders), so if 53% of the intimate partner murders (hereafter IPMs) were committed with a gun, that yields about 673.
Either way, however, my answer is…so what? According to those same FBI tables there were 1,099 non-intimate partners murdered by a family member. In addition, 2015 saw 3,799 children[1] die in non-firearm related accidents, 1,591 children who died by suffocation, 674 children who were murdered with something other than a gun and 220 children — children — who committed suicide. These are all bigger problems that need to be addressed and can be addressed without infringing on the natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil and Constitutional right to own and carry the weapon of your choice.
Now back to statistic 4:
80: 80 percent of people killed by firearms annually in the U.S. by intimate partners are women.
I think she is trying to say that 80% of female IPM victims were killed with a gun. News flash for you Jenavieve; women make up almost 80% of all IPM victims (79.13% to be precise), so it isn't surprising that they make up 80% gunshot IPM victims or stabbing IPM victims or beating IPM victims.
Stat 6:
5: Domestic violence victims are 5 times more likely to be killed if her partner owns a gun.
Actually, if you track down the study Risk Factors for Femicide in Abusive Relationships, you will find that the stated risk factor is access to a firearm. And although their definition is somewhat limited, the fact of the matter is that people bent on murder will seek out the tools they need…whatever they may be.
Furthermore, as pointed out on GunCite.com, 70% or more of murderers have serious criminal records and, as we all know, criminals don't obey laws and tend to know where to get hold of a gun.
One more point; if you read through the study you will find the following:
… our analysis and those of others suggest that increasing employment opportunities, preventing substance abuse, and restricting abusers' access to guns can potentially reduce both overall rates of homicide and rates of intimate partner femicide. … we found that unemployment was the most important demographic risk factor for acts of intimate partner femicide. …
Odd that Ms. Hatch would leave out "the most important demographic risk factor." Just an oversight, I'm sure.
Onward and upward:
16: A woman in the U.S. is fatally shot by her current or former intimate partner every 16 hours.
If 760 people are killed by an intimate partner with a gun, and 80% of them are women then doing the math we come up with a woman fatally etc. every 14.4 hours. Jeez Louise, these people can't even do math when it appears to bolster their argument.
I say "appears to" because again, so what? A woman in the US is non-firearm-murdered every 5.6 hours. For men, it is every 2.7 hours. Someone commits suicide with not-a-gun sixty times a day (i.e. every 24 minutes). Yes, murder is bad but suicide is worse.
Stat number 8:
44: The percentage of mass shootings in the years of 2008-2013 that involved intimate partners.
Okay, I have to say that I'm very happy Ms. Hatch had this stat because it led me to this really cool tool on the USA Today website. With it, you can scope out mass killings in the US from 2006 – 2015. So . . . using this slightly broader dataset, I can tell you that, surprise! Ms. Hatch's number is a little inflated. In fact, she's off by almost 20%. From 2006 – 2015 there were 103 mass "family killings" out of 279 total, so even if we assume all of those were i.p.m. that is still only 36.9%.
That is not to say that mass killings are a good thing, but compare those 442 deaths to the 480 "children and teens" who died in accidental residential fires in the Northeast in that same time frame. Or the 568 D.C. residents who were poisoned during that time, or the 1,768 babies[2] who drowned across the nation.
Any time you break out specific sets of numbers like that you can make things sound awful when they really aren't.
Statistic number 9:
11: American women are 11 times more likely to be murdered with a firearm than women in any other developed nation.
Unfortunately, the link to the source used by the anti-gun group that supplied this figure to Ms. Hatch is no longer in existence, and EveryTown for Gun Confiscation Safety protects their pages from internet archivery. I guess they don't want people being able to call them on their BS. Thus, I don't know if this "11 times" is based on absolute numbers or if it's based on rates (deaths per 100,000 for example).
I can tell you, however, that when you look at non-firearm homicide rates overall, the US has significantly higher rates than other countries. When looking at the antis' favorite, the UK, we see that according to the Citizen's Report, in 2011/2012 they had a murder rate of 10.43 per million with 0.73 gun homicides per million, for a non-firearm murder rate of 9.7 per million. In the US at that time, our non-firearm homicide rate was 16.4 per million. In other words, if we got rid of all firearm homicides both here and in the UK, the US would still have 1.7 times the homicide rate of the UK.
Again, the problem is not guns, the problem is violence.
Out of order one more time with stat number 11:
1 in 3: The number of women living in domestic violence shelters in California who were threatened or harmed with a firearm by their domestic partners.
Well, good for them! They were in horrible situations and they got out of them. If you look at the Risk Factors for Femicide study, you will see that your partner threatening you with a weapon is a large risk factor in him killing you.
Finishing big, with stat number 10:
65: The percent of Americans who support barring people from owning a firearm if they've been issued a restraining order or have been convicted of stalking.
Wow. So 65% of Americans believe that they have a say-so when it comes to my civil rights. According to the Constitution, they…do…not. I don't care if 99% of the population believe that my rights are subject to their whims:
The freedom to own and carry the weapon of your choice is a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil and Constitutional right — subject neither to the democratic process nor to arguments grounded in social utility.
Is that clear enough for you, Ms. Hatch?
[1] REAL children, that is. Human beings 13 years old and younger.
[2] People ages 0 – 1
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Just say "71% of murderers are Black" and watch them froth (even more) incomprehensibly.
FLAME DELETED you hurt our 2nd Amendment cause…convincing the middle ground that those for gun rights are narrow-minded, racist, hypocritical morons.
How can pointing out the truth be narrow minded? Don't you find it peculiar that 7% of US population commits 71% of murders (that we know for sure and many more that we don't, like 4 out of every 5 Chicago murders)?
Seriously, did anyone here actually read the article? I know I didn't. where would I find time for such nonsense?
"WHY would I find time for such nonsense?"
I did. Whenever liberals try to argue with how many are killed by gun, just tell them how many are killed by black.
Not me. I just looked at her cleavage first, then her face, saw she was quite young, and moved on to the comments. That's about as close as I will get to HuffPo.
" I just looked at her cleavage first, then her face, saw she was quite young,…" Why do young women pose with that tits crushed together, lean forward, pinup pose, and then EXPECT TO BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY?
Dear, if you pose like a hoor, you're going to be treated like a hoor, bless your heart!
I got about quarter way. After that, it was blah, blah, blah.
And of that 71% blacks are 13% of the United States population, and of that 13% subtract most of the females, and you have about 7% of the United States population committing that 71% of murders.
This is easily verified by looking up the DOJ data, but the politically correct and easily butt hurt people make a big stink about this saying it's racist like this other reply suggests.
Since when did truth become racism?
I'm going to make a general claim that one's proximity to a felon or criminal is far more dangerous than one's proximity to a deadly weapon.
I'm also going to make a second claim that if one is in proximity to a felon or criminal, then one is also in proximity of a deadly weapon in hands of said person.
Obviously all the TTAG posters are unaware of the fictional "GUN VIOLENCE" term, and/or the usage of –double/scare quotes–, as pointed out by Mr. R. Farago; within a different subject matter. It is truly annoying to consistently see/read this term (used/posted by people) who know better.
Perhaps a board meeting would begin to resolve the usage of the fictional term on this web-site? There are lots of rookies that read this site.
If we're going to talk about "gun violence", then there needs to be "baseball bat violence", "frying pan violence", "tire iron violence" etc etc…… it is the person whom causes the violent act, not the tool.
Indeed. As a thought experiment; I'm neither large and powerful, nor very athletic, and I'm a gunner through and through. However, a firearm doesn't make my top 3 list for 'murder weapon' if my intended victim is going to be easily ambushed at contact distances. This effect only increases when the intended victim isn't likely to be able to overpower me in the event the initial assault fails to produce incapacitation. They are loud, make a mess, tend to over penetrate at close range, and require fairly precise application to ensure a quick kill. I don't want a wounded victim running off, or the sound of gunfire and screaming to bring unwanted attention. How about out a nice rubber mallet? Fast, nearly silent, little to no bleeding, and very likely to produce complete incapacitation in a single blow.
This obsession by the antis with guns as murder weapons doesn't fit either with a thoughtful crime, or with the empirical evidence.
Given my experiences, everything that might be used effectively as a weapon appears to me first as, well, a potential weapon. How are these antis not terrified of car dealerships and hardware stores? Virtue signaling with in group cognative bias? Hoplophobia? Hidden agenda? Some combination of these? Something else I'm missing?
People have been killing people, effectively, since the first use of tools. Guns are a good tool for it, but not the best tool in every circumstance, or even in a great many circumstances. They are however the most effective, practical weapon to carry in one's defense. Perhaps the divide really is as simple as self reliance versus submission to the state; one person hears these statistics and thinks arming ones self with a handgun is prudent, while another hears the same information and wishes to ban the most effective defense to such crimes. One of these is a rational decision with little potential downside. The other is impractical and ineffective, while at the same time having evil consequences.
Fortune is made by the bold, let's hope our fortunes winout over the hoplophobic and the delusional, and those with evil agendas. At least they disarm themselves first.
That's a pretty good point I've never really considered before. While a gun is probably the best tool for killing someone, it is almost certainly not the best tool to murder someone if you plan to get away with it. It creates too much evidence.
Using their figures and that of the FBI, women make up 21% of all homicide victims. Using their domestic violence statistics women who are killed in domestic violence homicides comes in at about 4 1/2 %.
Another "Asteroid Impact Wipes Out All Life On Earth: Women Hardest Hit" article.
This would be true, since they are 51% of the population, But who would read it?
'Another "Asteroid Impact Wipes Out All Life On Earth: Women Hardest Hit" article.'
Bing, bing, bing, winner here !
Priceless. You are officially on notice that I intend to use this phrase liberally, and claim it as my own.
Why must we couch every issue with a vagina? Oh…that's right…the feelz.
I like the feelz of a va…….
Why, can't liberal dingbats have better cleavage?!?
And faces.
In the words of Uncle Buck "here's a quarter now go have a rat gnaw that sh!t off your face"
Using logic against a female is very ungentlemen like.
Eveyone knows a vagina and logic do not mix.
You should be ashamed!
I know I should not be making an ad hominem attack, but why indeed are so many of these virulently anti-gun women so extraordinarily unattractive? I expect her looks have more than a bit to do with her hatred of guns/men. I know a really good plastic surgeon who could take care of that horrible thing on her lower eyelid, but then she'd need the oral surgeon, the hair stylist (a decent wash and condition would do wonders), and then the endocrinologist to check on the size of that thyroid. I think Obamacare, for as long as it is around, might cover all except the hairdo, because she clearly has some functional problems as well as cosmetic.
Rush always held that feminazis, NAGs, and female liberals have one common trait – they can't get dates, so they join the ranks of the rejected to get revenge.
For f&*ks sake, you made me go back and look at her eyelid. Are you happy with yourself?
Nice exploration of how wrong a gun grabber can be.
One quibble, though, how is suicide worse than murder?
Suicide: Someone wants to die, and kills themselves. Sad, possibly tragic and misguided, but no one had their rights forcibly violated by another.
Murder: Someone doesn't want to die, and is killed by someone else – Tragic, unjust AND a horrific violation of someones right to live.
Murder seems worse to me. I am genuinely curious as to the reasoning behind the authors belief that suicide is worse than murder.
More people kill themselves with guns than kill other people with guns. I think that was what he meant by suicide being worse.
She's hideous for sure, but not surprising. I've never seen an attractive Feminazi, and the one's that are also anti-gun are generally the most hideous of all.
Oh yeah? What about Michael Moore? She's uglier than this chick and fat too.
Regardless the issue (gun control, climate change, et al) the Left long ago realized that snake oil solutions must be wrapped in pretty lies in order to sell.
Studies show that, among peeping Toms, trees are a popular means of gaining visual access to first and second story bathroom windows. Therefore, arboriculture is very much a woman's issue.
Is it OK to murder someone with a broken glass bottle? With the emphasis on firearms maybe the question should be : How many women save their lives and the lives of their children with a broken glass bottle? Or Can a woman use a gun to save their life by equalizing force?
"Yes, murder is bad but suicide is worse."
What the hell?!
Sorry, but if you choose to end YOUR OWN LIFE and involve no one else, you're selfish and unable to consider the pain you're dealing to others, but there is absolutely NO FRIGGIN PART OF THIS UNIVERSE where making that choice FOR YOURSELF is worse than making that choice FOR SOMEONE ELSE and taking their life.
What is WRONG with you?
There's one problem with your argument- it's rational- & therefor will never convince any hardcore liberal.
Enough with the anti gunners are liars garbage. Pro gunners lie and exaggerate just as much as anti gunners. I know this crowd doesn't want to hear it but it's true. The truth is that there really isn't unbiased data to show causality of guns and crime to support either sides argument.


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