people became weird shut-ins and fully immersed in some complex fantasy life well before the internet but i imagine it was much harder to find a whole ideological justification for your self-exclusion from society. there's a whole fantasized structure of resentment that's already there for them to buy into.
i mean, i was a weird shut-in throughout my early 20s but i just read books and felt sorry for myself, there were no violent urges. i dont think there's even anything unusual about people (usually men) going through that kind of stage, especially if they are introverted, but its the turn to explosive violence that's strange to me and maybe best explained by a combination of a poisonous ideology and some baseline impulsiveness or sociopathy.
― ryan, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
you're convinced we want to take your guns away. You know what? You're absolutely right, we DO want to take your guns away.
Small problem. The same people who are convinced that liberals want to confiscate all guns also fervently believe this is a threat to their very existence, so those who are willing to publically come out in favor of repeal of the second amendment and confiscation of guns should be prepared to become the targets of people who are very bit as violent as the Ku Klux Klan. That's a steep hill to climb.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 7 October 2015 18:27 (eight years ago) link
Well it seems the argument finally needs to be had, rather than ducked.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 19:46 (eight years ago) link
ben carson does not duck, he charges
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 20:36 (eight years ago) link
These people are children
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/us/oregon-roseburg-shooting-umpqua-community-college.html
this is a sickness
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 21:31 (eight years ago) link
sometimes i really wonder how it is that so many people in the world can be so stupid
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 21:32 (eight years ago) link
The article makes it sound like 50/50 why because it's intertsing but I firmly believe the people who are like "gotta go git me a gun now!!" are a small, childish, irresistibly quotable minority
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 21:36 (eight years ago) link
The reason I think it actually does have to be about actually taking people's guns away (though voluntarily, through buybacks) is just the sheer number of handguns and assault rifles etc that exist out there. Even if you banned all sales of those weapons tomorrow there are just hundreds and hundreds of thousands of them sloshing around, waiting to, you know, just, honorably defend someone against a heinous crime all of a sudden
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link
i believe i recently read that gun sales have significantly increased since obama took office (due to impending fascist takeover). i think it's actually a lot of people.
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― 1998 ball boy (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 21:45 (eight years ago) link
yes, there's been a massive increase in gun sales since obama was elected, but that doesn't mean that more people have guns.... it's more that the folks who already had guns have more of them. at least that's the impression i got from the various articles on the subject.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 21:49 (eight years ago) link
http://gawker.com/woman-with-concealed-carry-license-shoots-at-home-depot-1735284267
this is pretty fucked up.. I wasn't aware the 2nd amendment right extended to the right to summarily execute someone committing a crime..
apparently its legal to this to a felon, but stealing $1000 worth of crap from home depot isnt a god damn felony.
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 21:55 (eight years ago) link
is it really legal? it damn well shouldn't be. wtf. (that's aside from the fact that she could have easily hit somebody else.)
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 22:11 (eight years ago) link
also, people referencing the 2nd amendment here, and even if you think that amendment can be construed to mean that individuals have a right to carry a gun, it damn well doesn't give them any particular right to /use/ it under any circumstances.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Wednesday, 7 October 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
ahhhhhh ben carson you are a traet
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 October 2015 08:11 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/23/tennessee-state-university-three-shot-in-nashville
― schlep and back trio (anagram), Friday, 23 October 2015 07:39 (eight years ago) link
^ basically the opening scene of The Wire?
― Estonians from the future (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 23 October 2015 10:23 (eight years ago) link
A very sad sign that -- even though I live in Tennessee -- my first thought on seeing that headline was "Only three? That's not so many."
― something totally new, it’s the AOR of the twenty first century (tipsy mothra), Friday, 23 October 2015 12:34 (eight years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/31/us/colorado-springs-shooting/index.html
― nomar, Saturday, 31 October 2015 22:07 (eight years ago) link
How long before it'll have to be a famous person on one end of the gun or the other for a spree shooting story to make the news. This one already seems to have been relegated to tomorrow's (or even Monday's) "in case you missed it" spots.
― Devilock, Sunday, 1 November 2015 07:01 (eight years ago) link
Didn't happen, but still chilling IMOhttp://www.cnn.com/2015/11/03/us/minnesota-foiled-school-massacre-john-ladue/index.html
― Nhex, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 20:21 (eight years ago) link
― nomar, Saturday, October 31, 2015 6:07 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
So reports coming out now that someone called 911 to report this guy, saying he was carrying a gun and looked like he was in a bad way, and was told, "Hey, this is an open-carry state, we're not sending cops for that."
Compare and contrast, of course, Tamir Rice and John Crawford, who definitely did have cops sent to check it out in an open carry state, and who shot them on sight.
― Resting Bushface (Phil D.), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
fuck the USA
― a silly gif of awkward larping (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link
Bettis said she recognized the gunman as her neighbor — whom she didn't know by name — and that before the initial slaying she saw him roaming outside with a rifle. She called 911 to report the man, but a dispatcher explained that Colorado has an open carry law that allows public handling of firearms.
i'll hazard a guess that this might have been an overreach on the part of a dispatcher that maybe cares a lil too much about gun rights
like, if someone's calling to report that a guy is walking around with a gun, that means someone is concerned about it enough that it probably merits investigation. i'm not sure something with such a potential for a bad (awful, horrifying) outcome as "guy walking around with a gun" is the sort of thing that a dispatcher typically has the discretion to ignore completely
― jason waterfalls (gbx), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 23:22 (eight years ago) link
what's going on in paris?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34814203
― gabba cadaver (NickB), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:12 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/mathieuvonrohr/status/665275757569163264
Mathieu von Rohr Verified @mathieuvonrohr
#Paris shooting happened at a concert venue named "Le Bataclan" (11ème), eye witness tells @BFMTV "everybody was running"
― gabba cadaver (NickB), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:14 (eight years ago) link
fuck
yeah calling family to see if fine, 10ième/11ième is their neighborhood
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 November 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
I've been to Le Bataclan.
Conflicting reports of a shooting (ABC) and a shootout (AP) at the moment.
― Al Ain Delon (ShariVari), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
*rumours* of explosions at the stade de france wtf
― gabba cadaver (NickB), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
you know that type of person who is like 'i don't have a cellphone i don't need it cellphones are dumb', well i really wish he had a cellphone right now.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 November 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
i wonder what's up with the football game then
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 November 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
chances are he'll be fine VHS but that must be nervewracking all the same :( xp
― gabba cadaver (NickB), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:18 (eight years ago) link
Twitter is useless in these situations - half the people are talking about three separate grenade attacks near the stadium, half about one major explosion.
― Al Ain Delon (ShariVari), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:19 (eight years ago) link
Was about to post this on the Charlie Hebdo thread... but we'll wait to see what this is about.
― Caput Johannis in Disco (Tom D.), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:19 (eight years ago) link
eagles of death metal apparently playing at le bataclan tonight btw
― gabba cadaver (NickB), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:22 (eight years ago) link
The BBC report still says it was at a Cambodian (presumably) restaurant:
At least one man opened fire with an automatic gun at the Cambodge restaurant in the 11th district.
― Al Ain Delon (ShariVari), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:23 (eight years ago) link
The Associated Press @AP 38s39 seconds agoBREAKING: 2 explosions heard from Paris stadium during France-Germany football match.
― my harp and me (Eazy), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:25 (eight years ago) link
Camilla Schick @CamJourno 9m9 minutes agoA BBC journalist at the scene in #Paris says he can see 10 people on the road either dead or seriously injured.
― my harp and me (Eazy), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:26 (eight years ago) link
yeah none of the photos look like le bataclan xxp
― gabba cadaver (NickB), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:26 (eight years ago) link
everyone safe for me.
god i thought it would take longer than a few months to go through this again.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 November 2015 21:29 (eight years ago) link
French news are really on their toes and not saying much, I'm getting most of the stuff from UK/US and I am not certain I can trust it just yet.
That and why are websites like Mashable reporting on this, gtfo.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 November 2015 21:30 (eight years ago) link
very glad to hear it!
― gabba cadaver (NickB), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:31 (eight years ago) link
3 distinct shooting scenes reported, I have hard time believing this is not a terrorist attack.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 November 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link
So far the best coverage, if you can translate some french on your own: http://www.liberation.fr/france/2015/11/13/fusillade-dans-le-10e-arrondissement-de-paris_1413313
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 November 2015 21:34 (eight years ago) link
Seth Porges @sethporges 20 minutes agoIf in #Paris, stay the F away from canal side of La République area. A man w AK-47 just gunned down multiple people & on run. Yes I'm okay
― my harp and me (Eazy), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:37 (eight years ago) link
18 deaths already.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 November 2015 21:39 (eight years ago) link
hostage situation at the Bataclan
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 13 November 2015 21:40 (eight years ago) link
i'm in tears
fuck fuck fuck
― gabba cadaver (NickB), Friday, 13 November 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link