Repeal the Second Amendment

For the majority of lefty gun ppl it's not about "winning", it's about not disarming if cops won't.

it's the position that serves gun companies the best, so there's at least one winner

yup lol

"it's about not disarming if cops won't" is basically indistinguishable from the right-wing case for private citizens owning guns (except their version is "it's about not disarming if the government won't")

at my brother's house while his fam is on vacation, feeling a certain kind of way about a certain kind of amendment

had to clear out the downstairs guest room for myself, clear it of what you may ask? fucking ammunition is what, so much fucking ammunition, boxes filled with boxes full of bullets (that redundancy is not a typo), literal kegs of shotgun shells, i pick up a shoebox and bullets spill out, i take a mug down from a shelf and it's brimming with bullets

and rifle scopes, and tripods, and nra-branded rifle bags, and heaps of stinking camo clothing, body armor, game bags

"game", ugh

and i pile it all onto the piles of the same shit that fill up the rest of the basement

i've probably handled tens of thousands of dollars' worth of this trash in the past couple days and i feel dirty

i go to wash my hands and bullets pour out of the faucet

i look around and realize i'm in a log cabin made of bazookas

repeal the second amendment

some of us take our childhood trauma and turn it inward upon ourselves and some of us buy barrels of ammo i guess

yikes! i guess he goes hunting a lot? or the firing range?

or maybe he wants to murder us all!? *ducks*

he wants to finally feel safe, and i also want to finally feel safe, and the ways in which we try to make ourselves feel safe are exactly opposite, and did i mention that his house stinks? the whole place smells like ass and dead things. i go out to the porch for fresh air and it smells like rotting meat because there are jars full of squirrel tails lined up on the rafters.

and there's this, it's like there's, my brain isn't putting it together right but all this killing equipment is haunted. cursed. i keep feeling like it isn't far off from mountains of child porn.

Would be pretty funny if all he had was ammo but no guns.

if i felt like opening up any of the many gun cases, storage lockers, etc., i doubt i would be met with a cloud of butterflies

but that would be pretty funny

"his fam"

He has kids?

he has a teenager, a happy and well-adjusted kid thank all that's holy. but if our family goblins of alcoholism and mental illness pop up when the boy's older, or if he gets radicalized, or the right kind of brain tumor, he'll have been trained and provisioned to kill the fuck out of lots living things.

i was there when he got his first rifle on christmas morning when he was 8, even had the honor of being one of the first people he ever accidentally pointed it at

yikes! i guess he goes hunting a lot? or the firing range?

Paranoia that there won't be any ammo at some indeterminate point in the future because of the government/cost/etc.. After 2008 ammo prices pretty much doubled (or was unavailable) so gun nuts buy it up like shopping addicts just because it won't be any cheaper tomorrow by god.

xp What could possibly go wrong?

dang i'm parched, gonna get me a cool cup of

https://i.imgur.com/bauZ6VJ.jpg

The atomic clock has stopped.

hey has anyone seen my xbox

https://i.imgur.com/HbhkifH.jpg

is that the sweet smell of freedom?

https://i.imgur.com/Bu4jjxI.jpg

No offense, your brother's a fucking slob lol

u r preaching to the retching choir

ok i'll bite: what's the deal with the squirrel tails?

i do not recommend biting the squirrel tails.

preserving a trophy from your kill endows u with its power; my bro now has the strength of many squirrels

The dark gritty Squirrel Girl adaptation no one asked for.

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One of those *responsible gun owners* we always hear about

a true yeoman of our republic

i mean, like, freal tho

not that there’s anything anyone can actually do to make it happen. this pot of frog water became frog soup became frog sludge became frog leather many moons ago.

but still

i would like for people to stop being murdered like this

i would like for it to be incredibly difficult, grueling, as close to impossible as possible for a random person to kill lots of other people

it doesn’t make sense that this isn’t everyone else’s default opinion

somehow i’m still not used to things not making sense

cat otm

o misbegotten amendment

SLATER SCOOP: Exclusive video of road-rage shooting in Miami from in-car camera.

The shooter seen here was arrested and is awaiting trial. He told cops the other driver fired first.

(Warning: Language and gunfire) pic.twitter.com/10vDVEwBbw

— Andy Slater (@AndySlater) January 28, 2022

The Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office has dropped charges against Eric Popper, the driver who pulled out a handgun and shot at another driver through his own car on I-95 in Miami-Dade County. The road rage incident occurred in June 2021 but took a wild twist in January 2022. Dashcam footage from Popper’s Toyota Venza was given to the media. Popper’s attorney said the footage showed his client’s actions were in self-defense. The state attorney’s office agreed.

In 2021, Eric Popper cut off another driver while driving to work on I-95. The other driver began tailgating and honking his horn at the 30-year-old. Popper brake-checked him. The other driver pulled up alongside Popper, and this is where accounts diverged. The Florida Highway Patrol stated the other driver threw a water bottle. Popper claims it was gunfire, and he returned fire in kind. Whatever struck Popper’s crossover SUV can’t be seen in the video footage.

Eric Popper faced charges including aggravated assault with a firearm after the road rage incident. However, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office recently dropped the charges against Popper. Popper’s attorney Robert Gershman has said that the charge was dropped because of Florida’s Stand Your Ground Law. Gershman told WPLG, “I think under the stand your ground law, Mr. Popper was perfectly reasonable and justified in his actions. There was no question when you look and listen to the facts of the case, Mr. Popper was shot at.”

Popper has told the media that he wants to move on. He told WPLG, “Hindsight is 20/20. There are always things we can look back and say we wish we could have done differently. Definitely, I would have done —would be to not have pumped my brakes. I would have taken another tactic. Definitely try to de-escalate a little better.” Hopefully, Popper wishes that he would not have pulled a handgun in traffic.

There was no question... Mr. Popper was shot at.

Here's a question. Any bullet holes in Mr. Popper's SUV?

so weird that at the very beginning of all this, he's singing "doot doot doot doot! gonna suck my d. gonna suck my d!" one minute later he's trying to kill someone

What is the source of the video?

his own dashcam, i think, given to the media in january 2022

throw the book at this fucker what is the question exactly

fucking violent psychopath loser, go to jail thanks

pulling a gun because you’re mad at traffic, has to be one of the easiest tests for dangerous terrible people

yeah. didn't even get charged, in the end

He had his gun out and ready before the guy ever came up even with him. And he was spraying bullets. He's a danger to himself and others.

it seems really obvious to me, too. i don't know. repeal the second amendment

there’s cool laws in the cool states that say you can just blast away however much you want if you feel bad that day or whatever, what are you gonna do

Jeb should be charged with thousands of manslaughters for signing SYG into law.

I know it's merely semantics, but how is this even considered road rage? I get the impression, given how disturbingly calm this guy is throughout the altercation, that this is not the first time this has happened. Pretty fucking chilling

A Black teenager was shot in the head in Kansas City, Mo., after showing up at the wrong house to pick up his siblings, lawyers for his family said.

Family members identified the victim online as Ralph Yarl, a 16-year-old high school junior.

Kansas City Police were called to a residence shortly before 10 p.m. on Thursday where the teenager was shot by a homeowner, Police Chief Stacey Graves said in a news conference Sunday. The teenager was transported to a hospital to be treated for his injuries, Graves said. She did not name the victim.

Police said the teenager’s parents asked him to pick up his siblings at a residence on 115th Terrace, in the city’s northeast, but that he instead went to a residence on 115th Street, the Kansas City Star reported.

Civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Lee Merritt, who are representing Yarl and his family, said in a statement that Yarl “is alive and recovering” but that he has severe injuries. They said he was “shot twice and struck in the head and arm by an unidentified white male assailant,” and that Yarl was unarmed. The Washington Post could not independently verify those claims.

Yarl rang the wrong doorbell and was shot twice. how could this be understood as anything other than the homeowner, hearing a doorbell at night, grabbing their gun and prioritizing "kill"

Asked whether the shooting may have been racially motivated, the police chief said, “the information that we have now, it does not say that that is racially motivated. That’s still an active investigation. But as a chief of police, I do recognize the racial components of this case.”

no, i don't think you do

if it was truly still an active investigation, you could have simply said "we are investigating all possibilities", not lead with "it doesn't look like it". I'm sure this will be an unbiased, fair investigation.