Questions tagged [violence]
behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.
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Is Shaken Baby Syndrome Discredited?
An opinion piece by Jeff Kukucka & David Faigman in scientific American
makes the claim
In a last-minute effort to save the life of a man on death row, a bipartisan group of Texas legislators has ...
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Did the German justice system convict a woman for insulting a person who gang raped a minor?
New York Post writes
A German woman was handed down a harsher sentence than a convicted rapist after she called him a “disgraceful rapist pig.”
Maja R, 20, was jailed for a weekend after she was ...
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Is there racial bias in police shootings in America?
On Triggernometry show Roland G. Fryer Jr. makes the claim
I thought I was going to be able to show that the police were biased very easily, and then we gathered literally millions
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Is America “the only nation where this [a mass shooting] regularly happens”?
The Onion, a satirical newspaper, re-uses a headline each time a mass shooting occurs in the US:
“No Way To Prevent This,” Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
Most recently for the ...
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Did a school or college in the United States ban backpacks after a shooting?
There's a story going around that an unnamed college in the United States banned backpacks after a shooting.
The lack of details is suspicious and it looks more like a wrongly-captioned prank at a ...
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Did about 150 die from gun violence in the US during the 4th of July weekend 2021?
CNN reports
At least 150 people were killed by gun violence in more than 400 shootings across the country during the Fourth of July weekend
Ref: CNN.com
In the article this data is based on data ...
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Did the Pulse nightclub shooter target the LGBTQ community? [closed]
On the fifth anniversary of the Pulse nightclub shooting Orlando, several US Senators condemned it as a targeted attack on the LGBTQ community.
5 years ago, we lost 49 people in a deadly, hate-filled ...
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Are women who have consulted a social worker banned from most maternity wards in Christchurch?
A Kiwi friend alerted me to the article 'At-risk' women forced to birth at Christchurch Women's Hospital, or at home at Stuff.co.nz, published November 7, 2020.
The article seems to claim that women ...
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Did Amber Heard physically abuse Johnny depp? and admit to it? [closed]
The Daily Mail has published an article claiming that "Amber Heard admits to 'hitting' ex-husband Johnny Depp and pelting him with pots, pans and vases". This topic has came up repeatedly ...
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Is there currently riots/looting *ONLY* in Democrat cities in the USA?
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So pathetic to watch the Fake News Lamestream Media playing down the gravity and depravity of the Radical Left, looters and thugs, ripping up our Liberal Democrat run (only) cities. It ...
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Are police officer's families 2-4 times more likely to experience domestic violence?
I was wondering the accuracy of this claim:
Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families
experience domestic violence, ... in contrast to 10% of families in
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Were there more suicides than violent deaths worldwide in 2018?
According to this article at lidovky.cz, there were more suicides than violent deaths all over the world in 2018. Is that true?
The important part of the original (Czech) article:
817 000 versus ...
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Is large Muslim immigration within an European country a cause for higher sexual violence in that particular country?
An article in FrontPage Magazine argues that:
the more open a European country is to Muslim mass migration, the more
dangerous it is to women.
It provides various examples of European countries ...
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Did a man get heckled for dressing up as a Nazi—and dressing up his son as Adolf Hitler—at a local Halloween event in 2018?
I saw this tweet on Twitter (it’s been self deleted by its author since it was first posted here, but add Wayback Machine link for reference) and am a bit skeptical about the claims made it—and ...
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Did a victim of Weinstein testify in a letter that the acts performed were consensual?
The German newspaper FAZ reports:
Die Ankläger erreichte eine schriftliche Stellungnahme der früheren Nachwuchsschauspielerin Lucia Evans. Darin beschrieb Evans den Oralsex mit Weinstein in dessen ...
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Does America not lead the world in mass shootings?
According to an OpEd in the NY Post by John Lott and Michael Weisser that cites a report by the Crime Prevention Research Center, America doesn't lead the world in mass shootings.
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Do certain non-verbal physiological signs always precede the use of violence?
http://nononsenseselfdefense.com/five_stages.html
http://nononsenseselfdefense.com/intent.htm
The author here makes an interesting claim: No one - not even habitualy violent people - can start ...
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Have more Americans been killed in schools than in military service this year?
I've just come across a tweet by @spectatorindex that reads:
In 2018, more Americans have died in schools, with twenty-nine people killed, than in military service, where thirteen troops have been ...
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Is this Donald Trump and did he slap the governor of Mexico City?
Someone sent me a video that has been going around where Donald Trump allegedly slaps/fights the governor of Mexico City. I'm skeptical about such claim.
A quick search took me to this website which ...
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Are violent video games a better explanation of school shootings than access to guns?
This site already has a question on the general relationship of video games and violence.
But the recent Florida school shooting has raised a more specific set of claims that deserve to be addressed.
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Do SSRIs cause mass shootings/violence? [duplicate]
I'm am frequently seeing claims that anti-depressants are causing mass shootings.
Here's one example from 1 Apr 2013: Ammoland
Manasquan, NJ –-(Ammoland.com)- Nearly every mass shooting incident ...
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In the US, are three women killed each day by their male partners?
In 2013, CNN made this claim:
Each day - Three or more women are murdered by their boyfriends or husbands on average, according to the American Psychology Association.
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Was there violence on both sides in Charlottesville?
Was violence perpetrated by factions on both the left and the right side of the political spectrum during this rally?
A specific quote by US president Donald Trump is:
TRUMP: The driver of the car is ...
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Does mixed-sex education increase violence in schools?
TSA-Alerie reports [French] that a poster on a conference at the National Library of Algeria has a controversial claim:
La mixité sexuelle à l’école est la cause numéro un de la violence scolaire
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Is the USA murder rate at a high? Specifically is it at a 45 year high?
Current US President Donald Trump is on record as repeatedly saying that "The murder rate is the highest it's been in I guess 45-47 years."
Is that true?
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Did Muslims in the Middle East cut off the breasts of Christian women?
A Conservative Infidel article from 2014 made a claim (that was repeated in a forum for Americans for Legal Immigration PAC) that:
Muslims in the Middle East took Christian girls and cut their ...
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Are one in five children in Europe victims of sexual violence?
I was recently asked to sign a petition for a campaign against sexual violence against children.
The petition claimed that one in five children are victims of some form of sexual violence in Europe. ...
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Did Saddam Hussein have a secret torture chamber in New York City?
The NY Post reported this week that Saddam Hussein had a secret torture chamber in New York City between 1979 and 2003.
The sources the paper cites are two "anonymous officials". The paper does not ...
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Is this "whites killed by whites" diagram wrong?
I found the following diagram on twitter:
(Sorry for not giving the source: I don't know how to link there.)
The diagram gives the impression that if you're a white person (in USA), then you're ...
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Do sales of baseball bats in Russia greatly exceed the number used to play baseball?
A number of not particularly well reported stories have gone around recently citing a statement that Moscow's chief of traffic police gave to Tass in September of 2015, claiming that "500,000 baseball ...
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Were the majority of people at the Pulse nightclub killed by police?
At the MTV/BET town hall meeting a person mentioned that
Police killed the majority of the people at pulse that night
to which the moderators replied "hmmm".
On the No Agenda Show, they've ...
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Has the United States had 7 mass shootings in the past week? [closed]
I keep seeing a claim on social media claiming something to the effect of:
[First world country] has had [small number] mass shootings since [18whatever]
The US has had 7 since Monday.
I'm ...
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Has Sam Harris ever 'sanctified' violence against Muslims? [closed]
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In this video, Chris Hedges states that Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris have 'sanctified' violence against Muslims because [Muslims] are barbaric.
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Was the wild west less violent than the current west?
Matt Ridley's The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge has a chapter on the evolution of government, in which he starts by making the startling statement:
The truth is that the [American] ...
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Are mass murderers in the US mostly white? [duplicate]
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/06/are_most_mass_murderers_really_white.html
Before rushing to play pin the tale on the honkey, did anyone bother to check the history of mass killings?
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Deaths due to firearms in the US since Civil War
Quite a while ago I stumbled upon a data set from an official US source (or at least a very credible one) listing the detailed accounts of deaths due to firearms per year in the United States. Now, ...
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Is there a correlation between mass-murder and use of psychoactive prescription drugs such as SSRIs?
It seems to be a commonly-held belief that there is a strong correlation between the use of prescription drugs such as SSRIs and mass-shooters. For instance, this claim:
Every mass shooting over last ...
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Are annual female rape and male "made to penetrate" rates similar in the US?
In the 2010 Summary Report of the CDC's National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, there are two figures that are surprisingly similar:
In Table 2.1, they claim the 12-month weighted rate ...
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Is half of all domestic violence committed by women against men? [duplicate]
A friend online showed a picture that said "Half of all domestic violence is perpetrated by women" and referenced a paper called Thirty Years of Denying the Evidence on Gender Symmetry in Partner ...
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Are people with depression more likely to commit murder?
Are people with depression more likely to commit murder than people without depression?
In Claims about Andreas Lubitz's mental health only serve to stigmatise depression, Pete Etchells writes
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Will 1 out 4 women be a victim of domestic violence?
In their newest video the "FCKH8" company claim that:
1 out of 4 women will be the victim of domestic violence
Is this indeed the case for women in the US?
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Are men raped at a higher rate than women, after considering prison rape?
I've seen a number of articles claiming that contrary to what one might expect, American men are raped more often than women when one takes in to account prison rape. Is this accurate?
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Does the Quran promote violence? [closed]
Does the Qur'an promote violence towards others, or does it promote peace?
I hear a lot of people saying that it promotes peace, but this seems like wishful thinking to me (both by believers and ...
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Does getting married prevent violence against women and children?
The American newspaper the Washington Post's PostEverything Op-Ed One way to end violence against women? Married dads. (previously titled "One way to end violence against women? Stop taking lovers and ...
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Is domestic violence the leading cause of injury to women between ages of 15 and 44?
In the wake of the 2014 Santa Barbara mass shooting, there's been a justifiable outcry over domestic violence, especially sexual violence. One of the items often cited [e.g.] is the following:
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Does Alabama or Arkansas have (unenforced) laws permitting men to beat wives up to once per month?
A conversation on Reddit mentioned that in Alabama, the law states that it's legal for a man to beat his wife as long as he doesn't do it more than once per month. If this law is still around, I ...
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Did the victim of neo-Nazi violence as reported in Pink News die?
From Pink News:
The gay teenager who was kidnapped and tortured by Russian neo-Nazis has died from his injuries it has been claimed [by Spectrum Human Rights].
... PinkNews is unable to verify the ...
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Did the Aurora, Colorado movie theater killer select the only nearby theater where guns were prohibited?
I heard a claim on an AM radio talk show that in the July 2012 Aurora, CO movie theater mass shooting rampage (also known as the Batman shooting), the killer chose the only local theater that was a "...
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Are perpetrators in mass killings more likely to play violent video games?
To be clear: I am not asking if violent video games cause violent behavior. That is covered here.
I am more interested if there is any correlation between violent video games and mass killings. I ...
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What is the value of armed bystanders in preventing gun deaths?
On Nov. 5, 2009, 12 soldiers and one civilian were killed, and more than two dozen others were wounded, when a gunman walked into the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood and opened fire. ...
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