🇺🇸 Discussion: Guns, The Second Amendment, NRA - Part II

[squeekness]

And employers wonder why it's hard to get good help. Need to give "shot at" bonuses.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

You don't shoot at somebody unless maybe that somebody is armed and threatening.

Whether it's the cops or rando freaks in Florida they keep failing at this basic notion.

So yes, this guy and so many like him should not have firearm ownership. Recklessness.

 

[squeekness]

You don't shoot at somebody unless maybe that somebody is armed and threatening.

Whether it's the cops or rando freaks in Florida they keep failing at this basic notion.

So yes, this guy and so many like him should not have firearm ownership. Recklessness.

Then they need to be fined, excluded from ever owning a weapon again,or jailed.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Daily Kos - Study: Young Americans who identify with gun culture are more likely to believe in male supremacy
“In places of economic instability, men are shifting from this attitude of man as provider to man as protector,” he said. “You may not be able to, as a man, be the primary breadwinner, but you can — through acquiring guns and the willingness to use guns for violence — reclaim your masculinity as a protector.” Dashtgard said that for many young men, developing a relationship with guns as a way to bolster their sense of male identity starts at a very young age, when young boys are often unwittingly exposed to “a lot of really toxic ideas and a lot of really potentially radicalizing content” through social media. He says while many parents dismiss concerns over what children are seeing—and the potential for radicalization—on social media as overblown “wokeness,” he said most parents would be shocked to find that their children are interacting with white supremacist recruiters while playing video games and watching Twitch streams.

 

[squeekness]

Nice.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

US Supreme Court restores Biden 'ghost guns' rules - BBC News

Illinois Supreme Court finds assault weapons ban constitutional

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Michigan Advance - Huron County woman charged with illegally purchasing guns for son who threatened Michigan officials

The mother of a man from Michigan’s Thumb region, who authorities say made numerous threats to kill FBI agents, members of the LGBTQ+ community, President Joe Biden and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, has been charged with illegally purchasing firearms for him.

Michelle Berka, 56, faces five counts of making a false statement during the purchase of a firearm. If convicted, the Sebewaing woman could face up to 10 years in prison.

Berka’s son, 30-year-old Randall Berka II, was charged in March with illegally possessing four firearms, three long guns and a pistol, after he had been committed to a mental institution and while he was a daily user of marijuana. He also was in possession of ammunition and body armor.

The FBI says Randall Berka came to their attention after Google reported to the agency that he was posting various threats on YouTube, including: “im going to kill these democrats biden deserves to die,” “im gonna kill lgbt freaks,” “you could be like me and get guns and threaten to kill politicians. Im more than willing tot kill whitmer and I do live in Michigan,” “I’ll assault her . . . with my bullets,” and “i buy guns though and plot to kill people.”

 

[squeekness]

Time to make the enablers pay, too.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Daily Kos - New study links concealed carry firearms and rising gun homicide rates

Suicide deaths reached a record high in the US in 2022, provisional data shows | CNN

A separate report, published in June by the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, found that gun-related suicides were the driving factor behind the recent rise in suicide rates overall. The rate of suicides involving guns rose 10% between 2019 and 2021, but the rate for those that did not involve guns actually dropped 8% in the same timeframe.

 

[squeekness]

Daily Kos - New study links concealed carry firearms and rising gun homicide rates

Suicide deaths reached a record high in the US in 2022, provisional data shows | CNN

I do think if a desperate person has the choice between pills or a gun, the gun would be first choice. It's more likely to work and they say you never even hear the bang. I'm just not sure that fewer guns would equal fewer suicides. Maybe in fretting over a method, there's more time for an opportunity for help......

 

[Mike5575]

Time to make the enablers pay, too.

What enablers are you referring to?

 

[squeekness]

What enablers are you referring to?

The ones who don't secure their weapons or buy them for people who shouldn't have them.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Deliberately skirting around laws that would flag somebody as someone who shouldn’t have a weapon and fail a background check.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

The Hill - Appeals court dismisses challenge to NJ gun liability law

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Scripps News - Preschool teacher finds gun in 3-year-old's backpack, dad arrested

 

[squeekness]

Scripps News - Preschool teacher finds gun in 3-year-old's backpack, dad arrested

Sick of this crap!

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[squeekness]

Good news!

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

 

[squeekness]

He needs to go.

 

[Iceman]

How can you have people like this making the rules?

 

[Iceman]

Scripps News - Preschool teacher finds gun in 3-year-old's backpack, dad arrested

Can’t be any possible excuse for this to be ok. Hard to believe.

 

[MagnarTheGreat]

Law and Crime - Killer pressed gun to 'scared' 4-year-olds chest, claimed it was 'safety' lesson: Prosecutors
A 25-year-old Tennessee woman faces murder and aggravated child abuse charges after she allegedly pressed a loaded firearm up against a “scared” 4-year-old girl’s chest and pulled the trigger during a purported gun safety lesson.

 

[squeekness]

Who does that to a kid?!

 

[squeekness]