That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange aeons bring us some web forums whereupon we can gather
http://www.octopusoverlords.com/forum/
Especially if you are all Black men.LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Sun Jul 04, 2021 11:11 am However, when you get out of the car for roadside assistance, probably not a good idea to strap on the long guns without consulting the lawbook.
If you want to be horrified at the details, read on.At least 150 people were killed by gun violence in more than 400 shootings across the country during the Fourth of July weekend as major cities nationwide confront a surge in violent crime, according to data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive.
The data, which includes the number of shooting incidents and gun violence victims nationally over a 72-hour period from Friday through Sunday, is still evolving and will be updated.
Smoove_B wrote: ↑Mon Jul 05, 2021 7:32 pm Happy birthday, America:
If you want to be horrified at the details, read on.At least 150 people were killed by gun violence in more than 400 shootings across the country during the Fourth of July weekend as major cities nationwide confront a surge in violent crime, according to data compiled by the Gun Violence Archive.
The data, which includes the number of shooting incidents and gun violence victims nationally over a 72-hour period from Friday through Sunday, is still evolving and will be updated.
Estimating tells me that that's good for ~10% of total killed and ~20% of shootings.In Chicago, after Police Superintendent David Brown raised concerns before the "most challenging weekend of the year" for police, 83 people were shot, including 14 killed, in shootings from 6 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Monday, according to a CNN review of preliminary Chicago Police Department data.
C'mon, man! Fritz is so pissed at you right now.
Thank the Lord. The 2nd Amendment is for everyone.All his life, Jabril Battle was anti-gun. Then came the pandemic, the lockdown, the shortages and a feeling that at any moment, things could blow. Battle bought a Beretta.
Drawn to last summer’s protests against police violence, Savannah Grace found herself face-to-face with a camo-clad officer’s long gun. She’d always hated guns, but went out and got a Glock 45.
In blue cities and red suburbs alike, firearms purchases soared last year — to the highest level in half a century, based on federal background checks. A striking portion of those sales went to first-time gun buyers — 40 percent, according to the firearms industry’s trade association. Other studies show first-timers accounting for more like a fifth of sales in 2020, but that’s still unusually high, retailers said.
Overall gun ownership nationwide jumped from 32 percent of Americans to 39 percent last year, according to University of Chicago survey data — well under the 50 percent level of half a century ago, but the biggest jump in recent decades.
“We wanted the second amendment to simply be too painful to tread on, so there was only one logical solution.”
A Utah company has stopped selling a kit that encases Glock handguns in Lego blocks, amid uproar and after the Danish toymaker demanded it cease and desist.
I really wish the Democrats could find a way to walk away from this issue. It does nothing but burn political capital for no perceivable gain. Fortunately, Biden hasn't invested too much into it from what I've seen.The narrative is familiar: Gun-control measures can never pass, because the NRA forbids it. The group buys off all the politicians with its incredible campaign spending. Then it owns their votes, and gets everything it wants. But the reality is starkly different.
In the 2020 election cycle, the NRA contributed less than $1 million directly to candidates. That made it the 996th-largest donor for the cycle, according to OpenSecrets. The group spent about $5.4 million on lobbying in that same time frame, which put it a bit higher, at 169th. Since 2012, the NRA’s highest contribution ranking has been 294th, and its highest lobbying ranking has been 85th.
Congressional staffers from both sides of the aisle, several of whom asked not to be named so they could speak candidly, told me the NRA’s campaign spending is not the reason restrictions on gun ownership or use haven’t passed at the federal level in decades.
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NRA membership hasn’t grown in eight years. In 2020, it mustered only about half of what it spent in 2016 to elect Donald Trump. Leaked financial documents indicate that its revenue dropped by more than $80 million over those same four years.
The group also just failed in its attempt to declare bankruptcy and faces a dissolution suit filed by New York’s attorney general, stemming from corruption accusations against its executives, including CEO Wayne LaPierre. The attorney general recently filed a 187-page amended complaint outlining dozens more allegations brought to light during the bankruptcy proceedings. The NRA has even started to argue in court filings that the allegations against LaPierre should not be held against the group at large if they are found to be true.
Even so, Democratic leaders can’t seem to pass the gun policies they want.
And it isn’t because of the filibuster, either. The Democrats can’t get bare majorities to support their top gun priorities. They haven’t passed an assault-weapons ban since retaking the House in 2018. They’re unlikely to pass one or even bring it up for a vote before the 2022 midterms. And even if it passed the House, it wouldn’t pass the Senate.
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The deadlock isn’t the result of the NRA paying off politicians to vote against the wishes of their constituents. It’s much simpler than that: Many people in this country own guns, and millions of them are dedicated voters. And they are what now stand in the way of new gun laws.
Number of people killed by Guns in Norway:
2012 — 3
2013 — 1
2014 — 5
2015 — 4
2016 — 3
2017 — 0
2018 — 3
2019 — 3
2020 — 2
Number of people killed by Guns in America:
2020 — 43,598
Lauren Boebert
A man in Norway just killed a bunch of people with a bow and arrow.
Norway has some of the strictest gun laws around, yet mass killings still occur.
Liberals need to understand it is not the gun - it is the criminal who commits the act!
Guinn says Carruth holds a valid defense under the Castle Doctrine, “to defend himself, others or his property,” and they are looking forward to the Attorney General’s Office investigating and presenting the case to a Lubbock grand jury. Guinn says a grand jury could still indict Carruth, but his hope is “upon careful review of the law, they will not,” but it doesn’t mean he can’t be arrested and charged or convicted later.
They guy went inside while the other guy waited outside for his kid. He got a rifle and came back out. It's unnecessary escalation.
I don't know if that was an explicit end goal but this is the outcome of a lack of guardrails. If you are told over and over that you have this nearly endless right to defend yourself well whatever tool is available is going to be used. And when people are this selfish this is just bad news. I saw extended clips of the guy after he shot. He clearly couldn't give one fuck about that guy. He instantly transitioned into what it meant for himself as he just defended his actions while the guy bled out on the ground. Utterly indefensible and reprehensible conduct but this is America.LawBeefaroni wrote: ↑Fri Nov 26, 2021 9:52 amIf you watch the full video, there was no indication that he was a threat to anyone. It certainly appears that they were trying bait him into getting shot.
The current wife of the deceased (not the ex-wife) who was filming from her car said she thought it was a paintball gun or similar because the shots were quiet. Not sure if it was integrally suppressed or what, looks like a Ruger PCC to me. She didn't realize what was happening until she she saw that her husband wasn't getting up. It explains her reaction but not the shooter. He knew what was going on.
https://lawandcrime.com/caught-on-video ... f-defense/In her affidavit, Jennifer says that she didn’t realize at the time that Carruth had been using an actual gun; she says thought it was a “some type of stun-gun or paintball gun” because the sound of the shots “was very muffled and not as loud as I know firearms to be.”
She's a judge in Lubbock, appointed by the Governor.
Gov. Greg Abbott appointed Anne-Marie Carruth judge of the 72nd Judicial District Court in Crosby and Lubbock Counties in January 2021 to take over the seat for a term set to expire at the end of 2022.
They're still married but estranged and have filed for divorce.
Carruth was identified in a Nov. 8 affidavit signed by Judge Anne-Marie Carruth, who wrote that she was "notified that my husband, William Kyle Carruth, is under investigation for the shooting and killing of his girlfriend's children's father after he attempted to pick up his children late Friday afternoon."
