Hey Pandas, What Hobby Is An Immediate Red Flag? (Closed)

I don’t even need to google that nonsense

Okay, I'll google it for you: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/ https://vawnet.org/sc/national-homicide-data

I don't mind gun collections as long as they're collection guns aren't able to actually fire anymore. I also don't mind simple hunting and self defense guns as long as that's the only thing they're used for.

I wasn’t responding to you

You posted it on the internet honey, you allowed just about anyone to read your comment.

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To be fair though, nobody is going around committing crimes with military style weapons - legal ones are like $30,000 minimum, and take a year plus to even get government stamp/pass background. Illegal ones are far more expensive than that!

Deo, I have no idea the prices of military guns vs other kinds or frankly the difference with military guns. I think the people I’m thinking of that have crazy ones spend several thousand on some guns but nothing like $30K I don’t think. But I’ve seen them on tripod things and I know they’re automatic. But past that idk much about it. But I agree, criminals tend to prefer handguns I think. They’d want to be able to hide them easily. But I’ve heard (all 2nd and 3rd hand stories that I have no idea if it’s true so please correct if needed BP) that in Mexico people do get their hands on very heavy artillery. I think it is when it’s cartel related. So I think the type of guns criminals use vary by region too.

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In a good society, guns for self defense isn't necessary. I've never seen a gun irl and I find that normal

It's weird before guns no one really liked fighting because the other person could easily defend themselves back. Now, everyone wants to fight.

I’m glad you live somewhere like that, Roland! It sounds great. Where I live I feel safe but the parts that aren’t as safe are not far from here. I have lived in those areas before when I was younger and we had less money. But I feel like breaking out a gun for self defense would just escalate a situation. Also, my heart would hurt if I ever used a gun on another person, criminal or not. They’re still a person. I feel like I could see me doing it if it was necessary to protect my son but nothing other than that. Take my property. I don’t want anyone hurt.

That's a lot of word for "i think some kids are anormal f**k ups". Ok, you don't take psychological issues seriously, but saying people expressing their suffering are "are bringing it on themselves" is really messed up mate

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It was never like this before. And it’s not because people are more comfortable talking about it now. It’s like some kids having undiagnosed ADHD, depression, autism, OCD for attention seeking. There’s no way the vast majority of you are this f****d up. Relax, take a f*****g nap, eat a snickers

As a mental health professional, I can assure you mental health issues cannot be solved with just relaxing, taking as nap and eating a snickers. You can't just "snap out of it". Yes, it's true that excessive involvement with social media can have an impact on mental health, but it's really not how you think it is. And you have no idea what people have experienced in their personal lives. Everyone has their own demons and they're affected differently. Something that might be a non-issue for you might still cause real complications and difficulty to someone else. And being more comfortable talking about mental health these days has only made things easier for so many people.

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Thanks for your reply. I understand that the people who are truly struggling with mental health issues, need our support and understanding. I’m talking about the ones (seemingly everywhere) who act like their world is crumbling over every day occurrences. The ones “self diagnosing” to be part of the group

Mate, you know what happened to those people "before" ? We just naively self-treated ourself with booze, self mutilation and, more often than now, suicide when it became unbearable. You are the one judging people who don't harm you at all, and you are the one telling other to relax ? lol

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It’s not nearly as widespread as people make it to be. That was my only point. Real sufferers deserve all the help and support

ok but I don't have social media (i don't count bp- and I'm not on it that much) and I've struggled with an eating disorder and anxiety. I love my family, have friends, and do band and musicals. A lot of kids are on the edge of a mental meltdown. It can, however, be hidden from everyone else. venting on the internet actually helps me

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You mean 'breakdown'*.

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What?

We're the ones who put the things in that area.

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So, let’s just let them destroy 3 billion worth of crops? No food? You really haven’t thought this through

Well, maybe you haven't. It's not the animals fault that humans exist.

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JFC. I just can’t with you whiny f*****g tree huggers. Just remember that when you don’t have any food or it costs 3x as much

Also, I wouldn't hug the trees here they're literally made of oil.

If we weren't destroying the land that grows it we wouldn't have that problem. Also, I'm in Australia so fish in abundance and not as bad as the US has it.

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As bad as the US has what? We are aware of “fish”

It is amazingthat no agricultural university scientists have been involved in finding solutions. There is no mention of crop damage by animals in the National Agricultural Policy. No traditional knowledge has been used or even asked for. And there is a complete lack of data of the actual loss of crops due to wildlife. Of course, the only permanent way is to rejuvenate the degraded small forests and to stop people from cutting trees illegally and burning them. Also, to forbid the forest department from setting any fires and suspend any local DFO in whose areas fires break out. Each agricultural area has to be told to plant at least 5 lakh trees a year, adjoining and in the middle of existing copses. Only then will the animals stay in their designated areas and leave us in ours. If we do not nurture the traditional tolerance of the farmer communities towards wildlife there is little that we city dwellers can do to protect any animals.

b. Using the urine or faeces of tigers, or other carnivores, always works to repel herbivores. (The problem would be – how does one get tiger urine!) c. Interspersing maize with chillies or burning chillies around the field keeps elephants away. Honey bee keeping on the periphery of the fields also scares them away. d. Planting Lachhka and barseem (alfalfa) as a buffer crop reduces crop raiding by blackbucks. e. Mixing the leaves of sitafal (sharifa), Besharam (Ipomoea carnea), cow urine and neem and spraying them over crops, stops animals from eating the crop even if they enter the field. f. Trained guard dogs. In their absence dog faeces can be spread on the edges of each field. g. Fencing with medicinal plants.

The Hyderabad agricultural scientist V. Vasudeva Rao has invented a bio-acoustic machine which keeps wild animals away from the fields. The machine is solar powered and simply amplifies the recorded calls of predators such as tigers (even dogs will do) . This machine is being used in the Beijjur panchayat area of Adilabad, Telengana and farmers report that it has been very successful in keeping away animals that would have attacked the maize crops. It costs Rs 25,000 but pays for itself within the year. Similar acoustic repellents can be used.

So, let me say here , that I simply don’t believe that farmers want either the boar or the nilgai killed. This is simply a convenient excuse for hunters to be able to carry on their dastardly sport. However, there should be a way to keep nilgai and other wild animals, who are being driven out of their forests by the forest department repeatedly setting the undergrowth on fire during January/February in order to hide their own cutting of trees, out of the fields. Recently the Madhya Pradesh Forest Department had a seminar on how to manage / minimize crop damage by wild animals. The professional hunters, retired wildlife bureaucrats and the local DFOs, of course demanded killing. Strangely a number of “nawabs” attended the conference (one of them is the “ chief killing officer, Government of Bihar) and predictably wanted slaughter. But the villagers and the wildlife activists, who attended, had so many interesting suggestions based on their traditional knowledge that I thought you might

I am bemused by these so called demands through the mouths of politicians. Even when some state governments allow the nilgai and the wild boar to be killed, they are never shot by their supposed victims, the suffering crop growers. They are killed by tourists who pay for the sport of killing wild boar. They are killed by the rich, illegal hunting ex-maharaja types, the lafanga children of property dealers who like dog fighting and making bonfires at night where they drink , roast and eat the meat of wild boar. They are killed as sport by the same people who go on secret weekend killing trips like the Nawab of Pataudi who used to chase blackbuck, shoot at their legs and then slit the throat of the wounded animals. His son Saif Ali Khan was caught doing the same thing. Recently there was a picture in the newspaper of an MLA standing proudly by the dead body of a beautiful nilgai, claiming that he had shot her as social service. It drew nothing but outrage from his own farmers.

I have never seen a wild boar. I see Nilgais sometimes, magnificent tall blue-grey creatures, in small herds on the edges of small copses. Both these animals are used as bogeys. They are supposed to be destroying all the crops. They are the main reasons for our lack of food etc. Some politicians go up and down ministries trying to get governments to order these animals to be killed in the name of farmers’ demands. Some state governments have obliged. In fact our Environment Minister was so eager to be “compassionate” to farmers that he wrote a hasty, unthinking letter to the state governments asking them to list all the animals and birds – including elephants and blackbucks – who should be shot, for the good of farmers. Thankfully wiser sense in the states prevailed and he got no answers and a barrage of criticism from the media.

well, i disagree with YOU! /s

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I'm so confident that you're wrong that I'm not going to bother listening to your evidence. I am set in my ways!

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