Made me feel a little better, ultimately, or wouldn't have mentioned it at this point
― dow, Sunday, 29 May 2022 03:53 (two years ago) link
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sheriff-husband-suspected-killings-woman-3-kids-rcna31026?cid=sm_npd_nn_fb_ma&fbclid=IwAR2_a7tjLg5t8uVv4_FFjfZBSsZt12pJYmiEeGx1BHMBLXWWUtQvcyLNkbM
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 29 May 2022 18:15 (two years ago) link
Hell, I didn’t even make the paper‘Cause I only killed one man—Steve Earle, 1990
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 30 May 2022 00:11 (two years ago) link
Missing context makes for a weird detail in that one:
The person who alerted authorities was outside the home when deputies arrived and was not shot
― Kim Kimberly, Monday, 30 May 2022 00:38 (two years ago) link
BREAKING: Uvalde residents boo Texas Governor Greg Abbott as he pays his respects at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde Texas | @TPUSA pic.twitter.com/4JSipaKOvv— Drew Hernandez (@DrewHLive) May 29, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 30 May 2022 18:53 (two years ago) link
otm. the least he deserves
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 May 2022 19:03 (two years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/30/americas/canada-handgun-sales-cap/index.html
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 03:13 (two years ago) link
And now this
https://abcnews.go.com/US/uvalde-police-school-district-longer-cooperating-texas-probe/story?id=85093405
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:43 (two years ago) link
I can't imagine that will go well for them
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:47 (two years ago) link
Huh, who'd have ever guessed that there might be implications after spending years making sure there is absolutely no punishment whatsoever for not cooperating with any sort of government investigation, probe or inquiry.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 31 May 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link
At the NRA Convention someone told us that hammers are used to kill more people than guns. So we looked up the stats in front of them. pic.twitter.com/ju5R8Pqbvk— The Good Liars (@TheGoodLiars) May 31, 2022
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:28 (two years ago) link
later that guy (probably one of his friends) will find where that "stat" came from that conclusively showed he was wrong, and they will attack whoever or whatever institution did the study or collected the data. it won't be hard for them to find that it is somehow connected to a university or department or professor, or was possibly funded by george soros, or both.
but it is temporarily satisfying and even addictive to confront complete fools like that guy and just tell them to their face how wrong they are. but it also doesn't change anything at all, ever. it is completely ineffective today
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:44 (two years ago) link
My colleagues' eyebrows went up like the curtain at the Met when a month ago during a teaching presentation I insisted, after teaching rhetoric for years, that we gotta stop teaching students as if facts mattered.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 16:50 (two years ago) link
otm and completely evident in the way that guy neverthelesses back to the 2nd amendment being "important to him" on a personal level
― rob, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
Really hoping Channel 5 made it out to GunCon
― Chyiv Kyiv (Fetchboy), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 19:44 (two years ago) link
Clinic shooting in Tulsa
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:32 (two years ago) link
4 dead as of now (including suspect).
https://katu.com/news/nation-world/police-say-multiple-injuries-in-hospital-shooting-scene-described-as-catastrophic-warren-clinic-tulsa-police-department-suspect-down-shots-fired-shooting-searching-floor-by-floor
― nickn, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:45 (two years ago) link
Yet another door problem
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 June 2022 00:04 (two years ago) link
same as it ever was
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 June 2022 00:05 (two years ago) link
Jesus the subway shooting was a month and a half agoSeems like forever ago already
― rare lipstick or mohawks that somehow make them more valuable (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 June 2022 01:21 (two years ago) link
Police have said a gunman who killed three employees and a patient at an Oklahoma hospital was targeting the surgeon who performed his back surgery.
He had purchased a semi-automatic AR15-style rifle just hours before the shooting, and was also armed with a handgun, police said.
Starting to see a pattern emerging here
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 2 June 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link
look nothing you’re proposing would have stopped this okay trust me
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 June 2022 17:46 (two years ago) link
When it comes to gun laws, think of the possible innocent victims. My latest:https://t.co/AH6yCSUcsM— Stan Kelly (@KartoonistKelly) June 2, 2022
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 June 2022 17:57 (two years ago) link
What the fuck was the grudge about his back surgery if the cunt was able to tote an ar-15
― Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, Western Mail (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:12 (two years ago) link
Not much to tote - an AR weighs less than a bichon frise.
― peace, man, Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link
But it has more of a kick.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:27 (two years ago) link
Gang Of Four said it best ...
Armalite rifle, police and IRAArmalite rifle, use it everydayBreaks down easy, fits into a pramA child can carry it, do it no harm
Breaks down easy, fits into a pramA child can carry it, do it no harm
― nickn, Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:36 (two years ago) link
My partner always cautions people against getting back surgery for the purpose of alleviating pain, since there's absolutely no guarantee of that happening (despite what surgeons say). I guess this is why?
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link
that's what fentanyl is for
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
^Amy Grant's best moment
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:51 (two years ago) link
to help us snooze it
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 June 2022 18:57 (two years ago) link
Lol i know nothing abt guns but i'd assumed that an ar-15 while light *for an assault rifle* would still be a heavyish kind of thing to carry around routinely
― Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, Western Mail (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 2 June 2022 19:50 (two years ago) link
I've also had disappointing back surgery so there but for the grace of god goes my surgeon
Tho the op did mean i got to stay home for the 2018 world cup so i felt we were square anyway (i did get better, it just took a while and wasn't 100% which, middle age lol)
― Coast to coast, LA to Chicago, Western Mail (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 2 June 2022 19:53 (two years ago) link
xpost That's why he only bought it that afternoon
― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 2 June 2022 19:54 (two years ago) link
:: BREAKING NOW @tmj4: Five people shot at Graceland Cemetery in Racine during funeral for Da’Shontay King, man shot by Racine Police on May 20.— Steve Chamraz (@TMJ4Steve) June 2, 2022
― frogbs, Thursday, 2 June 2022 20:49 (two years ago) link
Zero doors in a cemetery and still.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 2 June 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link
https://www.kcci.com/article/cornerstone-church-ames-iowa-police-presence/40181931?fbclid=IwAR3X6mOz31YnGXG4g0uFg5EcKo-H0MGRcvuP6JR7AGRnEIvvM9L_Gkarv7o#
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 3 June 2022 10:41 (two years ago) link
My colleagues' eyebrows went up like the curtain at the Met when a month ago during a teaching presentation I insisted, after teaching rhetoric for years, that we gotta stop teaching students as if facts mattered
Yeah, all this kinda thing just seems to point out how the standard liberal “information deficit” model doesn’t actually help for shiiiit
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:29 (two years ago) link
so different how much information people can acquire from different locations these days. when I was in college, Wikipedia didn't even show up until I was a Junior, and wasn't widely used, and it was still mostly news articles from large news outlets, the AP or actual books/encyclopedias if I was writing a paper.
Bloggers didn't update their blogs enough back then to be a frequent source of alternative news back then, and InfoWars was relatively new.
I would guess a lot of papers show up today with citations from like Twitter and random fly-by-night online news sites ?
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:47 (two years ago) link
There was one fact in Biden's address last night that, bad on me for not hearing it before, was incredibly sobering, which was this: "Over the last two decades, more school-age children have died from guns than on-duty police officers and active-duty military combined." It seems to me that something like this should fucking really be a wake up call to the US, but maybe we are too dead inside.
― akm, Friday, 3 June 2022 16:47 (two years ago) link
This American Summer hasn't even technically begun yet, but I have a feeling it's gonna be a rough one - both mass shootings and the run of the mill street shootings
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 June 2022 16:48 (two years ago) link
the same number of people that believe the shooting of kiddies is a necessary evil to protect our rights are the same number of people who believe being run over by a drunk driver was part of "God's plan" and is a blessing in disguise
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:49 (two years ago) link
xpost one reason I've carefully curated my FB friends list is there are some absolute terrifying gun-owning lunatics here, precisely the type that might show up on your doorstep one day if you look at them the wrong way.
I got threatened with violence by one in the midst of an angry FB argument on a Friend's page, and he threatened a few other people. Turns out he lived only three miles from me. a dudebro who was racist af, anti-BLM, and regularly bragged every five minutes about how he served, which turned out to be 3 months where he served as a radio technician.
rather than reply, a bunch of us reported him to his school and shared the threats.
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:52 (two years ago) link
Multiple people pointed out that the US isn’t going to enter into a Civil War so much as a Days of Lead type era as we get more cascading social collapse.
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Friday, 3 June 2022 16:57 (two years ago) link
So Furiosa will be a training video for the End Times
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 June 2022 17:06 (two years ago) link
Finally, a real-word solution for a fruitless debate:
The US company behind Tasers plans to produce stun gun-armed drones it claims will help stop school shootings.
The Arizona-based company, Axon, says that the high-tech solution is necessary amid a "fruitless" debate on gun policy in the US.
The announcement, however, earned a stern rebuke from the company's own ethics board...
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 June 2022 18:30 (two years ago) link
Guns aren't the problem, it's the lack of armed drones hovering nearby that's the real problem
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 June 2022 18:33 (two years ago) link
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/06/03/nation/what-drives-mass-shooters-grievance-despair-anger-are-more-likely-triggers-than-mental-illness-experts-say/
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 4 June 2022 08:21 (two years ago) link
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/05/us/philadelphia-shooting.html
― StanM, Sunday, 5 June 2022 11:19 (two years ago) link