Mass/Active shooters part 4

[NationalTitles18]

according to our new speaker, more people just need to give their lives to jesus and these shootings would stop, or something like that

Using religion as an excuse to do nothing gets some people giddy.

And using religion as an excuse to do nothing is exactly what he's doing.

 

[92tide]

Using religion as an excuse to do nothing gets some people giddy.

And using religion as an excuse to do nothing is exactly what he's doing.

i would argue that hiding behind jesus' robes is a form of taking the lord's name in vain, but like so much with these freaks, the rules are for thee not we

 

[Go Bama]

I encourage everyone to read the HCR post today.

 

[92tide]

Using religion as an excuse to do nothing gets some people giddy.

And using religion as an excuse to do nothing is exactly what he's doing.

turns out that jesus take the wheel and invisible hand take the wheel aren't drastically different governing philosophies

 

[NationalTitles18]

turns out that jesus take the wheel and invisible hand take the wheel aren't drastically different governing philosophies

 

[TIDE-HSV]

No reason to worry, people:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1717682933069238286

He needs Wonder Woman's magic bracelets instead...

 

[92tide]

‘How Much Blood Is Your Fun Worth?’

I saw the gun-violence epidemic—and my relationship to it as a gun owner—as an abstraction. Then a mass shooting happened in the little city where I work.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[TexasBama]

Reports are that the Maine shooter has been found dead

 

[JDCrimson]

So if your wife has it out for you, are you not going to hide the ice pick in the kitchen? Just asking the question to the gun nuts?

 

[TIDE-HSV]

So if your wife has it out for you, are you not going to hide the ice pick in the kitchen? Just asking the question to the gun nuts?

Oddly enough, I think I'd rather be attacked with an ice pick than a knife, and, Lord knows, every kitchen is packed with knives. An ice pick would pretty much have to hit the heart or a major artery like the carotid. Of course, neither is preferable...

 

[NationalTitles18]

Oddly enough, I think I'd rather be attacked with an ice pick than a knife, and, Lord knows, every kitchen is packed with knives. An ice pick would pretty much have to hit the heart or a major artery like the carotid. Of course, neither is preferable...

So what you're saying is you want to be stabbed with an ice pick.

 

[NationalTitles18]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/06/opinions/supreme-court-expansion-guns-domestic-violence-watts/index.html

Yet, as our nation grieves the loss of so much life, the US Supreme Court could be poised to make it even easier for troubled people to access guns. On November 7, justices will hear United States v. Rahimi, a case that will decide if governments can continue to prevent those accused of domestic violence from possessing firearms. The fact that there can be any question about how the Court would rule in a case on whether accused domestic abusers can arm themselves reveals just how broken the Court has become.



It’s also a clear sign that the gun safety movement needs to get to work reforming the Supreme Court.

Rahimi is a direct consequence of the Supreme Court’s radical decision last year inNew York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen to overturn a more than 100-year-old law and for the first time in American history, limit the rights of states to regulate guns in public. It was arguably the most expansive pro-guns decision ever, made possible by the supermajority of hardline conservative justices that the gun lobby advocated aggressively to create.

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Just within the past few days, the Supreme Court said it also plans to take up laws against bump stocks — measures that aim to reduce the lethality of semi-automatic weapons that are so frequently deployed by perpetrators of mass shootings. It also agreed to hear an appeal brought by the NRA in which the gun lobby group alleges that the former head of New York’s Department of Financial Services tried to persuade banks and insurance companies to sever ties with it.

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How long before they say the ban on fully automatic weapons is unconstitutional?

 

[crimsonaudio]

The political pressure to withhold this thing is more interesting to me than the "manifesto" itself.

Took a while for it to leak, but it's finally out. And it's as bat-crap crazy as one might expect.

Alleged Nashville manifesto shows killer targeted ‘little crackers’ with ‘white privileges’

The Nashville shooter whose rampage left six dead sought to kill “little crackers” with “white privileges,” according to excerpts from the perpetrator’s long-concealed journal reportedly obtained by a conservative media group.

www.washingtontimes.com

 

[NationalTitles18]

And here we go...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/07/politics/supreme-court-second-amendment-rahimi/index.html

Protective order issued after threatening girlfriend
The dispute before the court arose in December 2019 when Zackey Rahimi and his girlfriend, with whom he shares a child, had an argument in a parking lot. The government claimed that Rahimi threatened to take the child away and then dragged his girlfriend back to the car, retrieved a gun and fired at a nearby witness.

In February 2020, the girlfriend was granted a protective order finding that Rahimi had committed family violence. The order also suspended his handgun license and prohibited him from possessing a firearm.

Beginning that December, Rahimi took part in five shootings in Texas, culminating on January 7, 2021, when he fired shots in the air at a Whataburger restaurant after his friend’s credit card was declined.

When the police ultimately obtained a search warrant for his home, they found a rifle and a pistol and Rahimi admitted that he was subject to the protective order that had been entered in the civil proceeding.

A federal grand jury indicted him, and Rahimi moved to dismiss the indictment arguing that the law was unconstitutional. He lost his court effort.

But then the Supreme Court issued its Second Amendment decision in Bruen.

After reviewing the decision, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Rahimi, saying that Bruen “fundamentally changed our analysis of laws that implicate the Second Amendment, rendering our prior precedent obsolete.”

The judges pointed to the holding that the government must justify a gun regulation as consistent with the nation’s “historical tradition.”

The statute, the 5th Circuit wrote, is an “outlier that our ancestors would never have accepted.”

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So we today are confined only to what someone 250 years ago thought about the world and cannot decide for ourselves?

What a crock of something I can't say on TF.

 

[NationalTitles18]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/07/opinions/supreme-court-domestic-violence-guns-rahimi-bruen-filipovic/index.html

 

[AWRTR]

Took a while for it to leak, but it's finally out. And it's as bat-crap crazy as one might expect.

Alleged Nashville manifesto shows killer targeted ‘little crackers’ with ‘white privileges’

The Nashville shooter whose rampage left six dead sought to kill “little crackers” with “white privileges,” according to excerpts from the perpetrator’s long-concealed journal reportedly obtained by a conservative media group.

www.washingtontimes.com

I notice this isn’t being covered very widely.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

I notice this isn’t being covered very widely.

LOL, no it's not. I've also noticed that the trans-mayor who offed himself is now a non-story when it came out that his erotic fiction contained stuff about minors, murder and actual people from his town.

 

[AWRTR]

LOL, no it's not. I've also noticed that the trans-mayor who offed himself is now a non-story when it came out that his erotic fiction contained stuff about minors, murder and actual people from his town.

Yeah I read that about the mayor. The whole thing is sad.

 

[CrimsonJazz]

Yeah I read that about the mayor. The whole thing is sad.

Sad and utterly baffling. Look, everyone has a kink and I generally don't judge nor do I believe in "outing" people who want to live a lie. That's a personal decision, but I have to say, this thing didn't take long to get even weirder than it already was. Probably best to let this thing just go away.

 

[92tide]

google shows quite a few updated stories about the covenant school shooter.