The Great ILX Gun Control Debate

hey let's not quibble about who deserves to fall where on the Dante-levels-of-Hell scale

$500? damn

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/

what a scumbag

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?

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dammn that's cold work MAD

good for them.

also nice inclusion of the fucking useless metal detector

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

fucking awful.

This NYMag piece was tears this morning. I don't know how fix America. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/10/school-shooting-survivors.html

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18/politics/bump-stocks-ban/index.html

congrats on doing the bare minimum

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

Laying low, waiting for all the Russian collusion stuff to blow over and be forgotten.

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.”

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2019/03/21/active-shooter-training-for-schools-teachers-shot-with-plastic-pellets/3231103002/

Ban pellet guns.

Ban small town Hoosier law enforcement imo and ime.

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

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.”

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.

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

you all know without my saying that he was bald, white, late 40s, and the shirt was black with white IMPACT lettering

wtf "bald" is this a murderous characteristic

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

there but for the grace of god

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.

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

let's see, maybe an orphanage and a convent would do the trick, but only if the shooters were aiming for the world record.

this is slightly orwellian but slightly.... awesome?

https://www.shotspotter.com/technology/

Apparently this came into play at that party in Chicago.

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!

Yes too little too late probably.

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.)

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

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

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/06/05/california-assault-weapons-ban-overturned/

California’s longtime assault weapon ban overturned

U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez of the Southern District of California said the ban was unconstitutional and warmly praised such firearms: “Like the Swiss Army Knife, the popular AR-15 rifle is a perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment.”

get me out of heeeeeeeeeere

the swiss army knife is a perfect combo of "home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment"?? what?! even before the AR-15 is mentioned, what? i have a swiss army knife - it is a perfect combo of NEITHER of those things.

god this country is creepy

perfect combination of home defense weapon and homeland defense equipment

They say the best defense is a good offense. Therefore, the ability to kill or maim a dozen or so people in less than a minute is a very good defense. But of course no one would ever do something like that unless they were defending the homela... uh, nvm.

the easy parallel between the home (property, the family) and the homeland (nation) is telling somehow. more or less explicitly saying who it’s for & who it’s against. the guns are literally the border(s) in this scenario

homeland defense, fucking insurrections dogwhistle

i do however think it would be great for this country if everyone concerned about "homeland defense" were to trade in their AR-15s for that equally perfect killing machine, the Swiss Army Knife.

The judge is clearly out of touch, presumably he meant “tactical leatherman” rather than Swiss Army Knife. You ever tried to get that little blade out in a moment of stress?

no, but that's because i drink tactical coffee to boost my perception so that i eliminate the stress threat before it approaches

Woke up this morning to the news that there was a car chase and shootout more or less right on my street at midnight last night. I totally slept through it, but when I mentioned it to my daughter her eyes lit up and she said "I saw it!" I was all, wait, what? And she said she was woken up around midnight by what she thought were fireworks - pop! pop pop! - and opened her blinds a little to see what was going on just in time to witness two cars zooming down the street, shooting at each other, muzzles flashing.

Most frightening of all, she seems totally unfazed. Though it is, of course, very disturbing, and the sort of random violence that often leads to random shootings. This is all related to and spillover from what appears to be a wave of car chases and shootouts on the highway, which is itself pretty insane.

Don’t you live in a relatively peaceful suburb too?

Yeah, but it's barely a suburb. It's literally right next to the west side of Chicago, so there is always nearby stuff. But this is happening all over the city, as I understand it. It's not a war zone or anything, but it's become pretty regular.

I never used to hear gunfire when I was hiking. Now I hear shooters popping off on just about every other hike.

I hope this happens more often:

Georgia gun laws are to blame for the cancellation of the 2022 Music Midtown festival in Atlanta, Georgia.

On Monday, Live Nation announced that the festival was canceled, stating only, “due to circumstances beyond our control, Music Midtown will no longer be taking place this year. We are looking forward to reuniting in September and hope we can get back to enjoying the festival together again soon.” The festival was set to take place in September with Jack White, Future, My Chemical Romance, and Fall Out Boy headlining. An estimated 50,000 people attended Music Midtown in 2021.

Though Live Nation did not officially give a reason for the cancellation, sources who worked with the festival confirmed to Rolling Stone that Georgia’s gun laws were to blame. Since 2011, Music Midtown has taken place at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, and parks are among the various public spaces in Georgia where guns are allowed to be carried. The festival, as a temporary user of the park, does not have the standing to supersede that law and enforce its own ban. (The festival’s website stated that “Weapons or explosives of any kind” are prohibited.)

I think a particular challenge is that a lot of artists have a "no weapons allowed" policy in their contract, which ... makes sense!