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Law Enforcement, remember this article is about a Cop, isn’t “just anyone”. There’s two reasons for people being riled up about this, one of which is criminal and the other is user error / training.

Ignoring the criminal aspect of what he’s doing the Cop literally cannot fire that weapon without endangering himself and his fellow officers. He also can’t fire that weapon a second time without manually manipulating it because he’s using it in a manner that WILL cause it to mechanically malfunction.

It’s fucking stupid (and criminal) all the way around but it has nothing to do with the points you are making.

How the fuck is this legal?

Glock, an Austrian company, uses a variety of common sense safeties that are automatic in nature.

With a manual safety the user has to remember to engage / dis-engage it as appropriate. This means a weapon can be left in an unsecured state simply because the user forgot (or elected not too) engage the manual safety. Conversely if the user forgets to disengage the manual safety the weapon will not fire when they need it too, which makes an awful lot of sense when you know that Glock designed these weapons for Law Enforcement.

To work around the weaknesses of a Manual Safety Glock designed what it calls its “Safe Action System” which you can read about here.. In a nutshell a Glock will not fire unless the trigger is intentionally pulled in the correct way.

Other pistol manufacturers will have some, or all, of those feature and may have other things such as “Grip Safeties” where you have to be holding the pistol both correctly and tightly enough before it can discharge.

There’s quite a variety of automatic safeties in use in the pistol world. If you are interested you can read about them here.

On balance these kinds of automatic safeties are at least as effective as a manual safety and there are valid arguments with empirical evidence showing that they can be safer.

Any of the folks who place more value in their ability to end another person’s life on a split second than the safety of their own children want to chime in and explain this one to me?

Could you explain why you are using such inflammatory language? NO safety can or is meant to make a loaded firearm safe from a child. It’s arguably easier for a child to flip the selector lever on a manual safety than it is for one to grip a firearm a specific way or pull its trigger in a specific way (or both).

Loaded weapons, regardless of their type(s) of safety mechanism, should not be left where they can be handled by children.

I’m really disappointed in statista for publishing this. I’ve always considered them a solid source of data but this is flat out misinformation. It’s based on study done by a biased source using questionable methodology using data from literature review that stretches at least as far back as the year 2000!

The study was done by the Consumer Choice Center, a right biased organization seeking to deregulate the Medical Industry.

The study is called “Healthcare Time Saved Index” and you can access it on their website.. You can read the full study (PDF) by clicking the link on that site and you can access their data / sourcing (Google Docs) at the link they posted.

If you want to hop right to the data / sourcing you can use this link.

First off despite what the infographic says this is absolutely 100% NOT 2023 data! If you look at column I (Average wait times for a primary physician appointment (days)) and check the sourcing this is what you will find:

America - Sources give data from 2021 and 2022.

Australia - Source is using data from 2000 - 2019 with the GP Data specifically ending in 2014.

United Kingdom - Source is using poll data from April of 2022.

Sweden - Source is using data from 2020.

For GP visits every one of their sources is using data from the pandemic, none of them are using data from 2023 as claimed by the graphic.

It doesn’t get any better for “Non Emergency Surgery”.

First off the CRC Study doesn’t say “Non Emergency Surgery”, it says “Elective Surgery” and as Johns Hopkins explains they are not the same.

Jumping back to the data it somehow gets worse.

America - Their source (Fee) relies on another source (Frasier) who is using data from 2016! The Fee.org article is also bashing Canada’s healthcare system. (bias)

Australia - Data from 2022.

United Kingdom - Data from 2018.

Sweden - Data from 2018. (Same source as the UK)

So for Non Emergency Surgery Elective Surgery visits the data is once again NOT from 2023, instead it’s a mix of significantly older and pandemic era data that at least in one case relies on a biased source.

So as I said in another comment “The study is fucking trash and someone took that trash, piled it into a dumpster, and then set it on fire in order to produce the infographic.”

The post should be taken down by the mods as misinformation and statista should delete the infographic with embarrassment.

Not sure where the 4 days comes from.

It comes from here.

That’s a solid / highly regarded source but the data they used stretches as far back as 2000. Four days to see a GP may have been accurate in 2014 but could easily be out of date now.

The 21 days from the US is just madness tho, if accurate.

That 21 days number was a nationwide average from during the pandemic. I tracked down their source and while the infographic says “2023” the study source says 2021-2022…right during the pandemic. So not only is the year wrong the infographic is mislabled / misleading.

The study is fucking trash and someone took that trash, piled it into a dumpster, and then set it on fire in order to produce the infographic.

According to the data source the US wait time is a Nationwide average…from 2022.

Gee, I can’t imagine why getting a GP appointment would have been hard in 2022. It’s not like there was anything going on.

Seriously, the study that this infographic is based on is pretty much junk no matter what country you live in.

The point of the “Study” they did was about efficiency and time, specifically how increased use of TeleMed, Blister Packs, and generally available contraceptives would save Patients time and Providers money. Does that make more sense?

This “study” is low quality work, barely above junk status. It uses old and weird sources and very questionable methodology. It’s possible they came to the right conclusion (which wasn’t US bashing btw) but if they did its only because the target was so wide that they could hardly fail to miss.

https://consumerchoicecenter.org/healthcare-time-saved-index/

The “Study” that this infographic is based on is full of shit. The deeper I dig into the data the more disgusted I get with it. It uses old / weird sources for a number of countries (for instance that US wait time is from the pandemic), they change up terms (Non-Emergency and Elective are not the same thing) and a whole host of other problems.

IDK what the wait time is about on the green bar.

I do. That average wait time is from 2022 (pandemic anyone?). It also varied drastically depending on your exact location.

The “Study” can be found here - https://consumerchoicecenter.org/healthcare-time-saved-index/

If you click the link to the Access the Database you’ll be taken to a Google Doc with sources. The first one up is the United States and if you go the “Average Wait Times” tab you can see that their source for the US was this article: https://www.forrester.com/blogs/hurry-up-and-wait-long-wait-times-cripple-access-to-care-health-outcomes-and-patient-experience/

It gets even worse when you check the next tab over regardarding Wait Times for Elective Surgery, there you find the data is from 2016! https://fee.org/articles/america-outperforms-canada-in-surgery-wait-times-and-its-not-even-close/

Oh, and “Non-Emergency” and “Elective” are NOT the same thing.

“You don’t rise to the occasion, you fall to your level of training.”

The point of the article is clearly the unacceptable behavior of the officer but damn does it make my teeth itch when Journalists fail basic fact checks like Pistol / Revolver. I always wonder what else they got wrong.

Depends on their wealth.

The kid was driving an Audi S4. I suspect they have some spare $$$ available. (assuming they haven’t spent it all on repairs)

Hard to say. The kid was driving an Audi S4 so they likely have money.

This has absolutely nothing to do with “Stand Your Ground”. SYG only applies when you or someone else are in real and imminent danger of serious bodily harm or death, neither of which were true in this case. That’s why the guy was arrested and has been charged with a number of serious offenses. He’s going to end up in prison.

Since you aren’t from the United States I should also tell you that SYG isn’t a National thing, its only legal in the States in that have passed laws allowing it.

I keep wondering if a legal framework like the US where you weren’t legally punished by attacking a thief in your house wouldn’t be fairer but then there’s news like this.

That’s called “Castle Doctrine” and like SYG it isn’t National. It only exists in the States that have passed a law to allow it.

It CAN work but there’s at least a few States that have Castle Doctrine and a Duty to Retreat so you end up having to flee a home invader until or unless you have no other choice.

We have the electoral college, the senate, and gerrymandering.

The outsized effect of the EC and Gerrymandering have a very simple fix. I wonder why Democrats never talk about it?

It’s sad you have no third strong grassroots movement,

One of the few things that both Democrats and Republicans work together on is making sure that there are no viable third parties. They make it extraordinarily difficult to get ballot access at any level whenever possible and on the odd occasion that a 3rd party candidate does make it into office they pull out all the stops to make sure they lose the next election.

One was supposedly delayed from CA to OR because of “weather” which is odd as it has been sun and mostly mild temps over the last week.

Not to defend UPS too much but enormous wildfires probably go in as “weather”.

California.

Oregon.

Only 2nd, not 3rd?

2nd best is a turn of phrase, an old one. It’s an insult. You must not be very well read.

Okay that I’m aware of but I’ve never heard of it referred to as “bootstrapping”. Thanks for the explanation.

Firewire was good for high bandwidth devices like external hard drives and video cameras because it didn’t require the CPU to do any heavy lifting. These days USB is mature enough and CPUs are so fast that we (mostly) don’t notice any performance impact but in the Core 2 Duo days you could easily max out one of your two cores with a large file transfer over USB.