behavior involving physical force intended to hurt, damage, or kill someone or something.
Questions tagged [violence]
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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 "gun free zone" to carry out his crime -- knowing…
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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 implied—by it. Images from the tweet below; text from…
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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. The Council of Europe website has the following…
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Is half of all domestic violence committed by women against men?
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 Violence: Implications for Prevention and…
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Did the Pulse nightclub shooter target the LGBTQ community?
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 shooting at the Pulse nightclub. The LGBTQ+…
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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 thought to be at particular risk of being…
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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 claims it is false. The website and contents looks…
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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, there are many sources for such data sets...
The…
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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 assume that it's not enforced. However, I'd like to…
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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 that accept quite many immigrants over the time and…
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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 breasts off. Sister Hatune Dogan interviewed 280 girls…
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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 bats were sold in Russia" in 2014, and that…
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Does the Quran promote violence?
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 multiculturalists). Similarly, most people who…
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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 claims ...
Going to Spectrum Human…
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African Pentecostal Witch Hunting Guide real?
I found this online: "The African Pentecostal Church's Guide of Inquisitions of Witches and Magicians in the African Continent - 1989 (Translated from the Swahili Manuscript of the late Bakari Sudi Jabari)"
I can't find any reliable sources to…
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