way to put a bullseye on yourself for tyrants, Vermont!
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 30 March 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
I swear if I see a single more "Actually, Bank of America is good now #welcometotheresistance" post/tweet/whatever I am going to burn down a building or something.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Thursday, 12 April 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
Very excited to share this project: "The Gun Studies Syllabus," which I created with the wonderful Caroline Light. Gun Studies Syllabus https://t.co/pFRYghk0e8 via @publicbooks— Lindsay Livingston (@lindsayli) April 12, 2018
― map, Friday, 13 April 2018 03:18 (six years ago) link
it's been 2 months since the Parkland mass shooting, 6 months since the Las Vegas mass shooting at the country festival, and the 2 year anniversary of the Pulse mass shooting is coming up this June.
the national conversation has been had several times, everyone agrees that something needs to be done, and a few states and localities are starting to make changes. virtually nothing on the national level. is the strategy to just wait for the mid-terms and make it an litmus test issue then?
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
My guess is that so many national politicians have been burned by the NRA over hte years that getting any of them to make a forthright stand on gun violence is going to require a massive demonstration of strength by gun control advocates, plus some staying power across multiple elections, before incumbents get on board in large numbers.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nra-financial-trouble-706371/
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 3 August 2018 16:18 (five years ago) link
Aw, maybe they shouldn't have spent all that money on that presidential campaign.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 3 August 2018 16:30 (five years ago) link
4chan nerds are photoshopping David Hogg to look female, calling him Daisy, and then having sexual fantasies about their Daisy Hogg memes. I feel like this is some... new, uncharted form of self-own pic.twitter.com/UkbYERuhan— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) August 28, 2018
― Eliza D., Tuesday, 28 August 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
nuke earth
― omar little, Tuesday, 28 August 2018 15:56 (five years ago) link
https://jezebel.com/the-story-of-a-gun-1828629575
― sleeve, Thursday, 30 August 2018 14:02 (five years ago) link
^ from that article I learned, among other things, that the CEO or Ruger is named Chris Killjoy, which may be taken in several apt senses. Astounding!
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 30 August 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
of Ruger
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 30 August 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
how much worse could this guy be? This much worse: https://www.sfgate.com/news/local/crime/article/Controversial-Austin-man-behind-3-D-printed-gun-13241265.php
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
Worse than whoever runs "sugardaddymeet.com?"
― DJI, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 17:21 (five years ago) link
hey let's not quibble about who deserves to fall where on the Dante-levels-of-Hell scale
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
$500? damn
― Nhex, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 17:46 (five years ago) link
he escaped to asia, because of course
https://www.statesman.com/news/breaking-news/breaking-austin-man-center-printed-gun-debate-faces-sex-assault-charge/AnteUx5fI7LpNg6yg0Z1JN/
― maura, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
what a scumbag
― maura, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
not that it matters all that much in the scheme of things but why was he charged with sexual assault instead of solicitation or statutory rape?
― Nhex, Wednesday, 19 September 2018 22:54 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/JPOEj0z.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/faHvgSF.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/dMIS3rj.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/t23jKEZ.png
― Karl Malone, Friday, 5 October 2018 21:00 (five years ago) link
dammn that's cold work MAD
― Nhex, Friday, 5 October 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
good for them.
― El Tomboto, Friday, 5 October 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
also nice inclusion of the fucking useless metal detector
― El Tomboto, Friday, 5 October 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
A kid was shot and killed at school this morning and they’re continuing on with classes like nothing happened. We’re completely desensitized to violence. This is the new normal in America. https://t.co/2pDfxiOwna— Dylan (@dyllyp) October 29, 2018
― Karl Malone, Monday, 29 October 2018 19:17 (five years ago) link
fucking awful.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 29 October 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
This NYMag piece was tears this morning. I don't know how fix America. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/school-shooting-survivors.html
― Yerac, Monday, 29 October 2018 20:43 (five years ago) link
https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18/politics/bump-stocks-ban/index.html
― Infidels, Like Dylan In The Eighties (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 18 December 2018 18:48 (five years ago) link
congrats on doing the bare minimum
― frogbs, Tuesday, 18 December 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
NRA’s presences is remarkably low-key to absent at #CPAC2019 No Wayne LaPierre — a CPAC mainstay — or Dana Loesch, fixture in recent years. Ollie North spoke earlier, but he has different public image, not so associated w/NRA. Panel right now on guns, no one from NRA.— Michelangelo Signorile (@MSignorile) February 28, 2019
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 28 February 2019 19:56 (five years ago) link
Laying low, waiting for all the Russian collusion stuff to blow over and be forgotten.
― A is for (Aimless), Thursday, 28 February 2019 20:06 (five years ago) link
An active-shooter training exercise at an Indiana elementary school in January left teachers with welts, bruises and abrasions after they were shot with plastic pellets by the local sheriff’s office conducting the session.The incident, acknowledged in testimony this week before state lawmakers, was confirmed by two elementary school teachers in Monticello, who described an exercise in which teachers were asked by local law enforcement to kneel down against a classroom wall before being sprayed across their backs with plastic pellets without warning.“They told us, ‘This is what happens if you just cower and do nothing,’” said one of the two teachers, both of whom asked IndyStar not to be identified out of concern for their jobs. “They shot all of us across our backs. I was hit four times.“It hurt so bad.”
The incident, acknowledged in testimony this week before state lawmakers, was confirmed by two elementary school teachers in Monticello, who described an exercise in which teachers were asked by local law enforcement to kneel down against a classroom wall before being sprayed across their backs with plastic pellets without warning.
“They told us, ‘This is what happens if you just cower and do nothing,’” said one of the two teachers, both of whom asked IndyStar not to be identified out of concern for their jobs. “They shot all of us across our backs. I was hit four times.
“It hurt so bad.”
https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/21/active-shooter-training-for-schools-teachers-shot-with-plastic-pellets/3231103002/
― but i'm there are fuckups (Karl Malone), Thursday, 21 March 2019 19:25 (five years ago) link
Ban pellet guns.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 21 March 2019 19:38 (five years ago) link
Ban small town Hoosier law enforcement imo and ime.
― Soupy Slacks (Old Lunch), Thursday, 21 March 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
A sad tribute to Jeremy Richman, who lost his daughter at Sandy Hook:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/31/sandy-hook-shooting-suicide-parents-fake-news-conspiracy
― pomenitul, Sunday, 31 March 2019 15:28 (five years ago) link
the statement from his wife... I can't imagine
“My champion and the love of my life is the person who had every tool in the toolbox at his disposal … he succumbed to the grief that he could not escape. To parent our children without my champion shatters my heart and I will love my best friend forever.”
― ogmor, Sunday, 31 March 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
what hurt was reading how much he and his wife suffered every time there was another shooting, and how many people must be in their same shoes. there just isn't any escape with the frequency that shootings occur.
― pippin drives a lambo through the gates of isengard (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 31 March 2019 17:13 (five years ago) link
some pig fucking troll was walking around the national mall this weekend wearing a t-shirt that said "MY 30-ROUND MAG IDENTIFIES AS A 10 - I'M OKAY RIGHT?" and I have to live the rest of my days with the knowledge that I didn't spot him soon enough to grab his belt and chuck him into the tidal basin
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 31 March 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
you all know without my saying that he was bald, white, late 40s, and the shirt was black with white IMPACT lettering
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 31 March 2019 22:14 (five years ago) link
wtf "bald" is this a murderous characteristic
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 31 March 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
yes obviously it goes right along with everything else I said everyone becomes a twat when they turn 46, lose their melanin and start wearing black t-shirts
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 31 March 2019 22:21 (five years ago) link
there but for the grace of god
― d'ILM for Murder (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 31 March 2019 22:28 (five years ago) link
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/supreme-court-allows-families-of-sandy-hook-shooting-victims-to-sue-gunmaker-remington/2019/11/12/7f6a3afe-055a-11ea-b17d-8b867891d39d_story.html
The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down an appeal from the gun industry intended to block a lawsuit from families of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims.The decision lets stand a groundbreaking ruling from the Connecticut Supreme Court that said the manufacturer of the Bushmaster AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle can be sued and potentially held liable for the 2012 massacre in Newtown, Conn.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 November 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
that's very good news. now if we can just luck out so the next few mass shootings are clustered around the same day or two, and at least one of them can involve an especially tragic group of victims, we might start to get some movement on this in congress as well
― at home in the alternate future, (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
let's see, maybe an orphanage and a convent would do the trick, but only if the shooters were aiming for the world record.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, 12 November 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link
this is slightly orwellian but slightly.... awesome?https://www.shotspotter.com/technology/Apparently this came into play at that party in Chicago.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 December 2019 20:48 (four years ago) link
What an innovative way to deal with the problem of too many guns! Granted, it does nothing to reduce the number of guns or shootings or victims or deaths or wounding, but it sure does solve that other major problem of figuring out where all that gunfire is coming from!
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 22 December 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
Yes too little too late probably.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 22 December 2019 21:41 (four years ago) link
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/feds-publish-info-on-arizona-lead-contamination-from-shooting-11438893
what a shitty fucking hobby. (there's also the noise pollution. I was out on an otherwise lovely hike by Prescott Saturday, marred only by the near constant sound of gunfire from an unofficial range on public land 5 miles away.)
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
hmm, interesting. the trump admin should issue a revised rule to exempt Table Mesa from lead contamination regulations. that would make the problem go away
― But guess what? Nobody gives a toot!😂 (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 12 February 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
I’m sure this can only turn out well.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/24/texas-unlicensed-handgun-carry-bill
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 10:02 (two years ago) link