Slash1972:
This saddens me
RT must be big enough to take on a home intruder with a baseball bat.
RTFirefly:
That’s SATT , for School-Age Trauma Training , a new U.S. government program that, per the NYT, “will award a $1.8 million grant to create a program to teach high school students proper bleeding-control techniques.”
Confiscate them all. Every last rifle, every last handgun, in civilian hands. Take them all away before we have to go teaching our kids proper bleeding control techniques. If the pro-gun types would rather see classes like these than come up with solutions to gun violence that actually work, then fuck 'em all, every last one of them.
We should never have come to this horrible, abominable point as a society. But here we are.
Confiscate them all. Fuck half measures.
Welcome to the extremist fringe. We should have a club, and maybe some little cards we can carry.
Have tourniquet, will travel.
Nicholas d’Agostino of Texas drives around shooting women in “self defense” because they “swerved” at him.
I wonder if his guns were legally purchased?
Oh wait, I forgot. Criminals don’t use legally purchased guns to commit crimes.
aaaand from Science Insider today, banning small caliber guns will result in a drastic reduction in crime.
From another source, I read that nuking the 4 biggest US cities in terms of gun-related violence will reduce the national incidence rate by 50%. What are you waiting for? Bring out the nukes!
A “stand your ground” case that might pass muster?
kayaker
August 31, 2018, 1:53pm
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Eliminate “stand your ground” and the driver gets off on self defense.
Did they have rolls of caps?
That’s what happens when you bring a toy gun to a toy gunfight.
Two for one special.
Child finds gun in dressing room, mom pulls trigger to see if it’s real
While shopping with his mother at Lenox Mall in Atlanta, Georgia, an 8-year-old boy found a .22 caliber handgun inside a dressing room. The mother was not sure if the weapon was real or just a toy, so she pulled the trigger to find out.
How horrible. How sad.
I really hope that the gun and its rightful owner are reunited, they must be so worried sick.
Assuming the account is reasonably accurate, there is no controversy or “stupid gun news” here.
• Someone tries to run you off the road: what do you do? You can assume that they will persist and that you have no reasonable chance of getting away from them – flight is simply not an option
Perhaps the dead guy was not a bad person, but he was aggressively stupid, which does sometimes result in death.
eschereal the seriously twisted:
Perhaps the dead guy was not a bad person, but he was aggressively stupid, which does sometimes result in death.
Actually Boek, the shootee, was definitely a bad guy .
In a series of profanity-laced text messages, Jason Boek told his on-again, off-again girlfriend that he was watching her “every move” from outside a bar in central Florida, authorities said.
She told him it was over.
Then, authorities said, he threatened to hurt her and an Uber driver who he thought had picked her up.
"I see y’all,” Boek wrote, according to an image of the messages released by the Polk County Sheriff’s Office. He added: “I’m going to [expletive] both of y’all up. Your a piece of [expletive]. I’m going to [expletive] beat the [expletive] out of Uber driver.”
Officials with the county sheriff’s office said Boek, who was on probation for felony battery, has a criminal history that includes arrests for aggravated battery, burglary, forgery and larceny, among other things. During the incident Tuesday morning, he was driving with a suspended driver’s license, authorities said in the statement.
When deputies later searched the truck, which belongs to Boek’s friend, they discovered a marijuana cigarette and a glass pipe that contained methamphetamine residue.
eschereal the seriously twisted:
• Someone tries to run you off the road: what do you do? You can assume that they will persist and that you have no reasonable chance of getting away from them – flight is simply not an option
Wrong. You have plenty of options
• upon sidelining your car, the person tells you they have a gun and are going to shoot you: this is effectively equivalent to actually seeing a gun pointed at you, especially given the preceding circumstances
Why are you even letting this guy talk to you? He got out of his car, didn’t he? Just drive off, and go find a cop.
If you have a gun and you simply want an excuse to shoot somebody with it, it’s always possible to manufacture a pretext, and even convince yourself you had no other options. Case in point.
The first link says otherwise,
he was just misunderstood
Tragic. They should pass a law banning .22 handguns found in dressing rooms. But this story doesn’t tip it in favor of Darwin’s theory.
Dateline Tolland, Connecticut:
A Connecticut man who told police he was a paranormal investigator faces several charges after firing shots in his house at what he told police may have been a ghost.
He later told police he believes the intruder was actually a spirit.
