Caribbean countries catch suspiciously huge shipments of guns from Miami all the time. The CIA is obviously still up to some jive.
Gun Culture
- Thread starter Axaday
- Start date
FB friend:
If this comes as an actual shock to you, or worse yet, you assume this is "fake news" and can't be correct, then you're an idiot.
The Surprising Geography of Gun Violence
America’s regions are poles apart when it comes to gun deaths and the cultural and ideological forces that drive them.www.politico.com
Texas mass shooting suspect could be anywhere, sheriff says
The search for a Texas man who allegedly shot his neighbors after they asked him to stop firing off rounds in his yard stretched into a second day Sunday, with authorities saying the man could be anywhere by now. Francisco Oropeza, 38, fled after the shooting Friday night that left five people...
Every sentence of this story is horrible.
I get that the yards can be pretty big over there, but if the sound of live gunfire is so unremarkable in your neighborhood that your response to it is a mere "C'mon man, I'm trying to sleep." something has already gone wrong well before something like this happens.
I get that the yards can be pretty big over there, but if the sound of live gunfire is so unremarkable in your neighborhood that your response to it is a mere "C'mon man, I'm trying to sleep." something has already gone wrong well before something like this happens.
Yeah, even our local nightly news covered this one. The interview with one of the neighbours was just... just... ******* disgusting. How do you even live in a place that sounds like a warzone, and then normalize it? "There's always shooting, we didn't think nothing was wrong". Holy hug, it's the texas version of the boy who cried wolf.
Last edited:
Gunfire should be an unmistakable signal to the whole neighborhood that someone is having an emergency.
FB friend:
I'm with FB friend on this one. I understand gun ownership on a number of levels, but the idea of recreational shooting in a neighborhood (even with humongous Texas yards) is bizarre to me. These aren't toys.
One thing that needs to be in the conversation is that our gun culture isn't a fixed thing. People like to pretend that our current gun culture was handed down from the heavens and fixed for all time, but it has changed. It has gone really wrong in a lot of places.
One thing that needs to be in the conversation is that our gun culture isn't a fixed thing. People like to pretend that our current gun culture was handed down from the heavens and fixed for all time, but it has changed. It has gone really wrong in a lot of places.
That is complete nonsense. In many areas it is illegal to discharge firearms and you could call the police, and have him arrested. In many areas it could violate noise ordinances, and the police could be called, though it wouldn't likely result in an arrest. If it is legal to shoot on your land, but you are doing so in an unsafe manner, without a proper back stop, you will also be arrested.
And apparently in texas, the right to shoot overrules noise and nuissance, and public safety laws.
Or; the dude was armed, reckless, drunk and the cops didn't want to get murdered: so they let the brown immigrants deal with it on their own.
Or; the dude was armed, reckless, drunk and the cops didn't want to get murdered: so they let the brown immigrants deal with it on their own.
Texas, much like Florida, is to the US what the US is to the rest of the civilized world.
Texas Family Gunned Down By Neighbor in Horrific Shooting
A man allegedly killed 5 of his neighbors on Friday night shortly after they asked him to stop shooting his gun so their baby could sleep.
nymag.com
Some context about the "shooting in the yard" thing:
Dallas Suburb Mourns After 8 Die In Outlet Mall Shooting
A gunman killed eight people and wounded seven others – three critically – in a shooting at a Dallas-area mall before being fatally shot by a police officer who happened to be nearby.
All right, which one of you didn't think and pray after the last shooting?
I made a prediction some years back.
We will eventually get some gun control. But its going to come only after we've had so many incidents that there is literally no one left in America who hasn't been impacted in some way or lost a loved one to a psycho with a gun.
The way things are going, I figure we should be within the decade.
We will eventually get some gun control. But its going to come only after we've had so many incidents that there is literally no one left in America who hasn't been impacted in some way or lost a loved one to a psycho with a gun.
The way things are going, I figure we should be within the decade.
Did you account for the more cultish ammosexuals who have lost a loved one to a psycho with a gun but still won't change their tune?
Something that's been nagging at me for a while now, and I don't know where else to post it... The January 6 rioters. A lot of them had guns, didn't they? During the hearings, there was mention of people not being let into Trump's own rally because they were armed, and of Trump trying (unsuccessfully) to persuade security to let them in anyway. Were the ones that were armed also barred from entering Capitol grounds? Because I know that of the seven people killed that day—four of whom were rioters themselves—the only one who was killed by a gunshot was a rioter who was shot by a cop. And I have a really, really hard time believing that there could be any armed people in a crowd that big, that angry, and that convinced that they were staging a revolution and yet not a single shot was fired.