Upset that a video game includes a choice of pronouns during character creation, bigot creates a mod which results in the player character being nonbinary.
Not guilty.
On one charge. Guilty on the other and still in jail.
Try to spin it however you want, he was aquitted on the main charge.
I always find it amusing how the right wing seems oblivious to the fact that pronouns are as old as language. Of course you can’t get rid of them!
What if you collide them with antinouns?
It’s not a ‘spin’, it’s directly from your own cite.
finding the 31-year-old guilty of the unlawful discharge of a firearm in an occupied dwelling, but not guilty of the malicious discharge of a firearm.
…Colie, who remains incarcerated…
I wonder if that guy had hit an innocent bystander would everyone here cheering him still be cheering him? I know you’d still blame the prankster more, but you know he shot a gun in a crowded mall. That right there, should be enough to lock him’ up and earn everyone’s censure.
I daresay that’s why he got convicted on that particular gun charge.
The guy was minding his own business doing his job when a large random stranger got up in his face acting irrationally and aggressively. He was in fear for his life and acted in self-defense. That he has had his whole life upturned because of that worthless piece of shit is a grave miscarriage of justice.
Agreed, but that fact seems to be waived away. He could have killed someone who didn’t play a loud scary video in his face.
One of my fears in my open carry state is someone is going to get in a shoot out in the store I work in and one of my co-workers or I will get shot. It is abysmally stupid to carry a loaded weapon, and shoot someone in a public place.
No argument about that.
I suppose it’s too much to hope that the obnoxious prankster will stop being a jerk for laughs and money.
Yeah, no chance of that. Note his mugging for the camera in the video.
It’s all up to God? Oh, well, maybe God will decide for his next prank the kid runs into someone whose aim is better. Maybe get a kneecap or something that will hobble him from being able to do it again.
He ranks up there with Pharma Bro as the people most in need of a beating.
BTW, I take issue with the idea that I’m “cheering him on”, as in “you go boy!”. I’m empathizing with someone put in a frightening, potentially life-threatening situation that he didn’t ask for or deserve and who acted as he felt he needed to protect himself. 20/20 hindsight is this was just a stupid asshole playing a “joke”, but in the moment he had no way of knowing what the guy would try to do to him.
You said the youtuber fucked around and found out.
But the thing is, Colie’s life was never in danger. It was not a potentially life-threatening situation until the gun was introduced.
Ask yourself how this would have played out had Colie not had his gun with him.
To be clear, I’m not saying what the youtuber did was okay, I’m saying what Colie did was wrong.
Again, both of these assertions come from hindsight knowledge. Colie had no way of knowing that the random stranger pushing into his face playing jibberish and refusing to back off would escalate to physical attack. And that it might is an entirely justified concern given the current erratic behavior.
And if armed people has the chilling effect of causing people to be afraid to play “pranks” on strangers, I applaud that
And this ( shooting people for “erratic behavior”) is one reason why your gun-toting, shoot first country is fucking scary. Enjoy your shootouts in shopping malls.
This behavior was not ‘erratic’.